Moments with the Montano's

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Songs from the Vault Saturday #8

Welcome to week 8 of

Songs from the Vault Saturday!

If you missed last week's song, check it out HERE

In honor of my *gulp* 20th High School Reunion tonight.

I've chosen the Class of 1992's Senior Prom song.

I remember slow dancing with my date at
Dugan's Catering Hall to this song.

I also remember my big hair, but that is another post...

Saved The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams

My observations from this video:

She's so pretty!
It's an odd mix of scenes
Boy, it's a sappy song. :)

Ok, ok, I'll buckle. Feel free to laugh at my senior portrait:

XOXO,

You can't see me.

* DISCLAIMER *

I want to apologize to anyone who is weirded out by feet.

I'm sorry you have to look and my goofy ones.

I don't mean to offend.

Feel free to run away screaming.

I wanted to share my solution to a small problem I have.

I have 2 different sized feet.

Like a size and a half difference!

As you can imagine, it makes for interesting shoe shopping.

Some of my shoe problems:

Going broke buying 2 sets of sizes for every pair of shoes I'd want to wear.
Always having one tight shoe and one loose shoe.
Always having to wear shoes with straps; Mary Janes, T-Strap, Ankle Strap, blah blah.
Longingly gazing upon Peep Toes, Wedges and slip on Sandals.

Then I had an A HA moment one night while watching Dancing with the Stars.

No, it wasn't how those fringe pants would look awesomely fantastic on me.

I noticed that the female dancers had something on their shoes

to make sure they didn't fall off.

Invisible Straps!

Immediately, I googled and found you could purchase one pair of "Dance Shoe Straps"

for approximately $10.

Dude, I have a lot of shoes.

So, considering the straps were made of clear elastic, I got to googling again.

I found you can buy clear elastic for pretty cheap.

I got 3 packets of 3/8" Lightweight Clear Elastic (each 5 yards long)

for $10 shipped!

I could make makes lots o' straps and buy more shoes!

When my shipment arrived I got to messing around with the elastic.

Glue didn't work.

I didn't want to sew it.

So I came up with the below process that has worked beautifully.

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Learning the ropes.

Rope Trellis that is.

I had a small issue in my extremely small and basic garden.

How to I support my pea and clematis plants.

How can I make something fun and colorful.

So I started searching the internet saw so many fun ways to build a trellis.

Horizontal

Vertical

Circular

Conical

I figured I would try a fun design on the fence.

This way I could hopefully support the plants AND get some fence coverage.

So, to start I had to finished the second half of the 12 foot flower bed.

It had been raining the day before so the ground was damp.

It made digging up the remaining grass a snap.

Thanks to Jaime for the manpower.

Then we had to adding gardening soil and top off with mulch.

Michael doesn't use the wagon much anymore, so I snagged it for my project.

So much easier on the back.

All set for a trellis and plants.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Songs from the Vault Saturday #7

Welcome to week 7 of

Songs from the Vault Saturday!

If you missed last week's song, check it out HERE

In honor of Memorial Day

I've chosen a patriotic song for the week.

I remember watching this performance live on TV and thinking

WOW!!!!!!

I never knew this song could sound so cool and amazing.

I mean, I was 16 at the time.

The Star Spangled Banner - Whitney Houston

My observations from this video:

LOVE the track suit and matching headband.
I still get chills when I hear how she belts it out.
Whitney made it seem easy and continues to put many of the people who attempt this song to shame. ((cough, cough, Christina Aguilera))