This guy

I've been crazy blessed with a certain man in my life who treats me not only like a queen, but more importantly as a partner. So, I will be thanking him via embarrassing him on this post because sometimes I like to be ironic like that.

Don't worry I thanked him in person too cause 

we kind of live together which made it easy

The past couple weeks especially it seems that he has gone above and beyond even the sometimes crazy and irrational demands I've made on him. I really shouldn't embarrass him too much, so I won't share all the details of all the things he's done for me and our little family especially as of late.

But just so the world knows...


Heaven's slice is my husband.

I don't eat worms

"The early bird gets the worm." Confessions of a non-morning person.

Gigantic Disclaimer : statements below are not based on any sort of factual scientific method; therefore most all claims are a general biased stereotypical rant from one's own mind and should be taken as a humorous read and not an educational one.

Kinda wish you knew the ridiculousness of effort it took to take this "post themed" photo of myself. 

It would have literally made you lol.

Facts:

• Non-morning people enviously admire morning people. They wish that they could have that vigour and ambition in the morning.
• Non-morning people can and will get up early regularly if they are obligated to (as in - others are depending on them to get up early)...Though that still doesn't mean that they enjoy it. I've had a good 24ish years of consistently waking up between 7-7:30am most everyday of the week... and yet I'm still a non-morning person.
• Non-morning people are as good of parents as morning people parents. My daughter wakes up generally between 9-11am so I'm kinda living the dream life right now, BUT if that changes I will of course wake up earlier with her.
• Non-morning people are really pretty... but this is especially true in the late afternoon/evenings.
• Non-morning people are very humble. They never boast about being a non-morning person, and even if they appear to be a morning person, they feel a deep sense of being dishonest and allow others to know the truth that they are in fact not morning people. They would hate it if a morning person felt bad for waking them up. They feel huge guilt over anyone having to be put out by their vice.
• Non-morning people have the strong-willed urge to stay up late. This is when their creative genius seems to come out and/or their senses of humour.
• Non-morning people have a better sleep than morning people. In fact, it's so good that that is why they cling to holding to it as long as possible. We're just better at sleeping than your average Joe.
• Non-morning people are not vain. They will always choose sleep over personal beauty/style.
• Non-morning people generally don't like to nap. They don't usually feel the urge to because they know they'll get a wonderful night sleep as they usually do and can wait it out till nightfall. Plus they wake up from naps badly because it's like a mock morning that's not even real - it messes with our minds and we lash out helplessly after getting up from said nap.
• Non-morning people eat less calories. Probably because on the days when there is no obligation to wake up early, breakfast replaces lunch... meal skippage.
• Non-morning people do try to put on a happy face in the morning, but if you're an adult and they feel super comfortable around you, they won't try at all.
• Non-morning people are overall very happy and successful in life, seeing as they most always get an adequate sleep that helps fuel them.

Myths:

• Non-morning people despise morning people.
• If non-morning people form a habit of getting up early for a long period of time they would become morning people.
• Non-morning people don't sleep well through the night so they compensate in the morning.
• Non-morning people are lazy.
• Non-morning people are depressive.
• Non-morning people are messy.
• Non-morning people have no ambition.
• Non-morning people are scary/mean in the mornings.
• Non-morning people sleep in coffins.
• Non-morning people are selfish.
• Non-morning people are non-successful in life.
• Non-morning people aren't very good parents.

Basically what you really need to know is that non-morning people are just like morning people except we have way better sleeps that make it hard to want to get up from. We can and we will get up, we just don't like it. Also, never feel bad for waking us up cause we'd hate that you were put out in any way by this; we harbour a lot of guilt from having a way better sleep life than you!



Heaven's slice is sleep.

Pillow Talk

Let's talk about the '50 Shades of Grey' movie coming out  Psych!!! Pretty sure you all can take one wild guess on where I stand on that...

No, this post is actually about pillows! Yay!

So I've been wanting to add colour to my front living area and found that really if I could just add some in with pillows to my chocolate brown couches that that would do the trick. 

Problem is... I'm kind of a cheap skate and had/have a vision in my head that I'm just not ready to fully commit to yet. Enter in my brilliance of using stuff I already had kicking around that was serving no purpose:

A cheap table cloth I bought at clearance that never looked good on my table, scraps from when I redid my dining room chairs, a scrap mustard yellow strip of fabric, a handed down odd shaped long cable knit cream zipper turtle-necked sweater (did I use enough adjectives?), and an arms too short with button's missing plaid coat.

I also had some pillows kicking around:

And if it failed... meh... I'm out nothing.

This took me a lot longer than I would have may be liked (I have a toddler), but thankfully because I'm not a perfectionist I was able to cut a lot of time-consuming corners. They all come off easily and there was no need to make any buttons or zippers for this as I just used what the coats already had and the others were envelope style. The rosette pillow was by far my favourite to make though, as I already had the plain pillow and just needed to glue gun those fabric strips on - easy peasy.

 I feel like my house just got a tad cozier...


I must say though I found out that I'm not quite in the phase of life to be getting into these sort of time-consuming daytime projects. Yes, I'm super happy with the final results, but the stress of my little one in my sewing room getting into everything, throwing tantrums because I wouldn't let her sit on my lap as I was measuring/pinning/sewing, and seeing her escalate into sadness for my neglecting her... ya I think I'll try passing on all that. I even tried plopping her in front of the TV(gasp!) while I finished up some of it, but she wouldn't and isn't the kind of kid that's into screens really... which I'm actually so grateful for. She wants to be wherever I am and this phase I'm in is so crazy awesome I feel like I should be dwelling in it a lot more. Truly a lot of my "projects" can wait... "the best things in life aren't things!" after all and there's nothing wrong with only doing the needful.



Heaven's slice is making use of what you have and embracing your current phase of life.

Little Stuff

I love it when...

My husband and I drive together anywhere. No phones, no distractions, nothing but time for some good visits to catch our lives up in its' entirety.

My daughter rushes to 'set up camp' wherever I go. Her blanket, bottle, book, and shopping bag of toys gets toted into the kitchen, my bedroom, on the couch, her bedroom, the office, etc. on a daily basis. 

I get to have a good long hot shower. (except when I'm preggers it has to be a shorter one cause I will faint)

My busy toddler runs up and gives me an aggressive long hug to my legs.

I find little kissy lip prints on my bedroom mirror about 2-3 feet high.

Heaven's slice is in the little stuff.