This Professional Maxxionista Freezes Her Shoes...

I just put my shoes in the freezer.

I just got back from the TjMaxx and can I just say? I AM a Maxxionista! I wheeled my clothing laden shopping cart over to the fitting rooms and watched the lady's eyebrows hit her hairline. "You're going to try on ALL of those clothes?" she asked.

"Yep, what's the limit, six?" I asked.

"No, it's ten," she replied.

"Sweet! It'll only take me about five trips then!"

So I run into the room with my first batch of ten items and do some jedi-quick clothing try on's. I come back out to get the next batch of ten and the checker lady says,

"You have got to be the FASTEST clothing try on customer I've ever seen!" she exclaimed.

"I'm a PROFESSIONAL" I replied.

Except that I'm not sponsored to shop...yet.

Anywho, I noticed while zipping through the first batch of ten items that my feet had an, um...interesting scent. Meaning my feet were stinky. Upon further investigation I discovered that my SHOES were super yucky smelling. Blech.

Not cool. These are my uber-cute newish shoes that I'm wearing ALL.THE.TIME. This has to be fixed.

I googled and found this advice to freeze your shoes (each wrapped in a plastic bag) overnight and then let thaw out in the sunshine to remove the stink. Apparently the cold temperature kills the odor-causing bacteria and you have perfectly smelling shoes.

So, I did it. They're in my garage freezer in between a bag of last-years garden green beans and a package of eggos.

I'm thinking of submitting this stinky shoe remedy to the goofy guys over at 'Mythbusters'. Maybe they'll ask me to do a cameo on that episode. I don't care that the world will know that I have a stinky pair of shoes, I'll just make sure I get my hair and makeup done and get a new outfit before the cameras start rolling.

I'll keep you posted on the freezing the stinky shoes results soon. Any of you tried this before? Off to hang up my shopping treasures...

A

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Outdoorable Chair ReVamps...

I purchased these two disgusto reject dining room chairs at the Goodwill last October. Yep, It's only taken me EIGHT MONTHS to finish these...and remember to post them.

They were 7 bucks each. Not too bad:



Isn't that stained fabric hideous?



Blech! Off it came and into the trash.

Next up a good ole sanding and priming:



Next up: I spray painted it black. However, despite a good sanding and priming the paint bubbled, crackled and in general ticked me off.

So much so that I ignored them for a good LOOOONNG time with the hope that they would miraculously refinish themselves in the back of my garage.

Didn't happen.

So I changed my mindset on these babies and decided that they will be proudly sportin' the distressed on purpose look and residing on my porch.

What to do to protect the new cute fabric that was purchased to cover the seat cushions that is NOT outdoor fabric?

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.

Haul your batookie over to Jo-Anns and purchase some clear Vinyl. It is sold by the yard in the way back behind the home decor fabrics. I think it cost me under $3.00 for a 56 inch or wider yard. Plenty.

Stapled the vinyl right over my chairs seat pads and perfecto! Outdoorable goodness:



See the sheen? That's the vinyl. It kinda puffs a bit when I sit down but that keeps me humble. It's rainproof and ready to go.

Ah yes, such an improvement from beige and disgusting:



A perfect place to sit and have some coffee with a friend:



Love these chairs.

I'm still working on my porch redecorating project. I finally finished planting my flower pots and baskets and am now brainstorming for more outdoorableness for my porch.

I'll keep you posted...

A

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A Sassy Garden?

They are dirt cheap (pun completely intended) and serve a useful purpose. You need to know what things you planted where.

Yep, I'm talking about garden stakes.

But not your average garden stakes. Why NOT paint them? I DID have extra teal paint lying around feeling all lonely so paint them I did:


(Yes, I DO realize my garden stakes are freakishly tall. I have yet to wander out there with a rubber mallet to pound them deeper into the ground.)

Who says green beans can't be sassy?



Or the corn?


(OY, pitiful corn. Pretty sure we won't be hitting 'Knee-high by 4th of July')

What about a radish? I mean, it's kind of a zippy vegetable so it NEEDS a punchy color:



Now my sassy garden needs only one more thing.

SUNSHINE!!!

Which we have been greatly deprived of so far this "summer". It's overcast and cloudy again today. Boo. Not what I ordered.

But hey, at least I can look out my window at my sassy garden...

A

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