Today I feel like a teapot, I had this awesome idea, actually I had a few awesome ideas for this…. They included tea smoked chicken and earl grey flavoured dessert balls/ truffles. Google had my brains going “You can do that?” I even planned to schedule this post, because I was going to finish everything so far in advance and then… as per Murphy’s Law… yeah Murphy is my friend in case you hadn’t already realised that.
Hubby had some unforeseen circumstances and had to leave town and then of course – everything went wrong, this happens often. And mostly (I say mostly because well I did kinda remember), I had forgotten about this challenge or had thought that I had more time or would have more time and put off and put off… and then today I woke up and thought – I’m a little teapot – CRAP! I don’t have anything… I haven’t made anything and this post has to go up today.
JOR! And then I started seeing these awesome crafts…you have to see it to believe the pressure I was under today:
JustEllaBella, was first around 7:30 because she is efficient like that – she made this beautiful body/hair butter with coconut oil and rooibos tea (which she thought out on her own), the beauty of it? It’s simple – easy to make and even though you know me and lotion… I could totally do this! Check it out here! This post made me a little afraid… I was like oh… why didn’t I think of that – I have all these things at home. Really now! (which is half the beauty of this totes cool post!)
Then Ruth came along with …. Coasters – with your personalised pictures on them… oh em gee, they make for great gifts, something awesome and fun to do with your kids… and they look super stylish.. want to … wait a minute NEED to try this. Check it out! By the end of that post I was hyperventilating…
And then I hadn’t seen anything from Luchae, so I clicked on the link in Ruth’s post half hoping and wishing that she would like me have not yet posted anything. Can you guess what happens here??????????
Luchae from My Spreadsheet Brain – the person I claim to be so much like, had teapot finger nails… teapots – on her fingers… it’s so cool and complicated (eish) she says its not but you know how modest people can be sometimes. And then when you sit with nail polish all over your person or furniture, they are like… how did that possibly happen? LOL just kidding Luchae isn’t like that. But how cool is it that she made teabags out of a ziplock bag? #awesome check it out here!
By now I am singing I’m a little teapot, drinking tea, and feeling short and stout. I’m trying to think of origami teapots, cups, dressing up as a teapot and maybe singing the song? How do teapots dress? Putting a kettle on my head?
I was that desperate ok?????
My awesome friendlies at work came up with some awesome ideas too (thank you guys!) which I will definitely be using in future posts, tea-shirts…planting tea plants in tea cups, making tea puppets, taking pictures of teapots drawn everywhere… inspiring…all the while everyone was singing… “I’m a little teapot, short and stout… this is my handle and this is my spout…”… Shame thanks guys… we gonna brain storm earlier for next week’s post ne?
So what did I end up doing you may ask?
Something to help me out of future situations like this:
I MADE A MONTHLY PLANNER!!
A teapot inspired monthly planner – nice and boring right? I know! Not my most creative moment!
I asked Emilie to trace and draw a few teapots for me for the calendar. Drew up a really simple easy table with 31 days and a space for a month and year. So it’s pretty versatile for when you want to use it. I left big spaces for planning :), printed on A3 paper and voila! I then added some colour, with different sized teapots and a teabag, compliments of Emilie and me!…
Added a tea /day inspired quote: “A woman is like a tea bag, you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water!” Laminated it, populated… and Bob’s your uncle!
I also added a few labels that I can use all the time eg. birthdays, school holiday starts, nail appointment, wax, hair and obviously you can make some that suit your own needs.
Now to top off my supermom day – because right now that all this is complete… I have a concert to attend! One where I will most definitely cry!
More on that tomorrow!
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