Remember when I sketched a lot of plant stand configurations trying to optimize my plant storage?
As of today, construction has begun.
It took no joke eons to get someone to cut this 12ft plank down to the lengths I needed.
Then I took the rest of the day off.
It was actually my second but I didn’t take a picture of my first because I didn’t want to neg myself like that.
All in all, not bad for two hours of work and hand tools only. Stay tuned for the final update when I finish!
My heart of silk
is filled with lights,
with lost bells,
with lilies and bees.
I will go very far,
farther than those hills,
farther than the seas,
close to the stars,
To beg Christ the Lord
to give back the soul I had,
of old, when I was a child,
ripened with legends,
with a feathered cap,
and a wooden sword.
1. Buy tickets as soon as they’re announced from the band’s website. If you wait until the last minute like I did, tickets can be 4x their retail price on websites like Ticketmaster and Stubhub.
2. Go early! Go as early as possible if you aren’t VIP because people line up before the venue opens. By the time we arrived, an hour before the show, the line was at least 8 blocks long.
3. Use the bathroom before. If you leave during the show you’ll lose your spot.
4. Don’t be afraid to get closer. Scoot your way to the front. If you’re in the back or off to the side and can’t see well, just push (or gently nudge) your way through. When we came in we could barely see on our tiptoes but by the fourth song we had moved our way up to the front five rows.
5. Bring water! If you’re going to be jumping around for 2 hours you have to stay hydrated.
6. Go with a friend! It’s much more exciting going with a friend to see an artist you both like. It’s a great way to have fun together. My friend lifted me up just so I could see during the show.
7. Dress up but stay comfy. Jumping around in heels and constantly having to pull your shirt up or down is not fun. My friend and I wore vans with jeans.
8. Don’t record the entire time! There’s no point in looking through your phone camera if you’re there in real life! During one of the songs the singer asked us to put our phones down and just share the moment.
9. Bring ear plugs just in case. If you’re really close to the stage the music might get distorted and damage your eardrums. The earplugs will filter the music and make it quieter.
10. Most importantly, have fun! Enjoy the live music and dance, Dance, DANCE!
I hope these tips and tricks helped you to be prepared for your next concert! Thanks for reading.
…inspired by a wardrobe rack that my cousin Corinne built herself years ago (see her guest post on her trip to Italy here!), and it’s hecking hard!
The entire piece is 5 feet long by 1 foot deep and 6 feet tall. I’m excited to purchase materials and begin construction soon.
Although now I wonder if I should change the top of the small structure (on left) so that it would match the top of the right. Would that look better?
As you might already know, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You recently came out on Netflix. I thought I’d never say this, but, I’m officially team John Ambrose and if you’re not, hopefully I can sway your opinion.
SPOILER ALERT
Peter Kavinsky and Lara Jean are complete opposites! Lara Jean is a very poetic person. She enjoys reading romance novels and is wise beyond her age. Peter, on the other hand, is a popular jock who is a little too competitive. Peter “writes” Lara Jean a poem that we discover is Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabell Lee.
Peter and Lara fight so much during the movie! That’s not to say that couples can’t fight but Lara Jean doesn’t stick up for herself enough! Peter is extremely competitive with John and can be rude. In the treehouse when Lara, John, Peter, Gen, Trevor, and Christine dig up their time capsule, Peter rudely commented to John: “Remember when you had that stutter? No I just noticed you don’t have it anymore…” John graciously takes this as a compliment and thanks Peter in turn.
John is perfect! He’s charming, witty, and intelligent.. He’s amazing at the piano. He’s had a crush on her since the 6th grade… And he had everyone called him John Ambrose just because that’s what Lara Jean called him and he “thought it was cool” that they shared something in common.
Lara thought about John, even if she didn’t want to. She says “I couldn’t stop replaying the conversation I had with John Ambrose in my head.” “I didn’t want to be thinking about what might have been if he’d gotten that letter in middle school instead of now, but I was.” She talks about overthinking everything she does with Peter because he’s done it before with Gen. She says “it’s just like the stuff I was telling you about, the overthinking, that doesn’t happen when I’m with John Ambrose.”
When John Ambrose sees that Lara’s upset he immediately takes her outside for some air. Later, even when he kissed Lara and she didn’t kiss him back, he was so understanding.
Everything considered, John Ambrose is a total heartthrob, try and convince me otherwise.