Things that are FUN

Danny and I decided to take advantage of the Smithsonian Summer hours (open till 7:30pm instead of the normal 5:30pm) and have been trying to make it to some of the featured displays. The National Smithsonian of Air & Space have 2 new exhibits. The first was Visions of our Solar System where they have taken pictures of planets for the past 25 years. It's pretty crazy to think that they sent little satellites out into space and 10-20 years later they send pics to earth of different planets! The colors and detail was so vivid. It is a must see for anyone in the area.

The second exhibit we went to was the Moving Beyond Earth which teaches all about becoming an astronaut. We even got to try our hand at being in charge of a team at mission control. I completed my mission with 27 seconds to spare! Now that's skill. haha!! They also did a personality test to determine what job would fit best and emailed us badges... see pics below. I'm a Mission Control Commander and of course Danny will be an Astronaut. Maybe in our next lives right?! haha



Moving on to Craft Corner... Danny starts school in 2 weeks and so what am I going to do with no Hubby time?! CRAFT of course!! So I painted an accent wall in our livingroom, bought a desk from the thrift store and made my own little area. I re-painted the desk and put on new crystal knobs at the top. The bottom drawer handles made marks in the wood and so I just left them on. I also got a new kneeling chair.. Danny has always wanted one so we may switch chairs but for now that is the one that will be at my desk. What do you think? Too plain or just right? I can't decide if I need to add anything else or not. I also went a little crazy and hung all frames, pics, paintings that I hadn't done for the YEAR that we've lived here. So finally, a year later our home is feeling more and more complete :)
*Disregard the mess on the floor.. I didn't realize it was in the pic.. haha oops! Now you see how I really live!