Keeping busy this week, and a snowstorm!

Well I have to say this week has flown by for me.
As I've mentioned in my last couple of posts, I have discovered the wild exciting world of DIY.
This week I have made 3 trips to "Fabricland". I have made my daughter a fleece scarf and mittens, a pillowcase, and hair scrunches, and a couple of days ago, I spray painted(yes I did) an ugly little black, cheap bookshelf I had sitting in a closet. I did it, in this pretty blue color, it really does look great.

I am in the process now, of *trying to make my daughter(she has became my guinea pig), fleece slippers. These are very difficult, I'm finding, much harder then the mittens. I have one done already, but I am hoping the second one will be easier, and quicker now that I kinda know what I am doing. I learn more by jumping in and just doing it, and I could not find a tutorial so I had no choice. By the way, I do not have a sewing machine, no reason to before now, lol, but I wish I did, and know there is so much more I could do, and much quicker, if I did.
Speaking of more, the last week, I have realized, there is so much I can fix and brighten up, around my apartment. I am learning, you don't need to have a few hundred, to buy, a brand new, boring beige chair, that my mother would like. What I mean by that is, I spent all my years seeing my mothers, blah, boring, version of "decorating"(I use that term lightly), that I never developed my own sense of applying what I like, in my own surroundings. I am learning you do these things, for yourself, not other people. And I cannot not afford to throw a few hundred away on a brand new anything, in fact! (I will not buy furniture at a second hand store either, for fear of bedbugs getting in my house either). So, there is an alternative, rather then starving, lol. I guess that means, getting creative.

We're getting quite the snowstorm, as I speak. It started late yesterday afternoon, and is still going strong. School buses were cancelled today, as well. This is probably our 5th or 6th long weekend this year, due to a snowstorm (or PA day). They always happen on a Friday or a Monday.
I'm not complaining really, it's a great excuse to stay inside, and you really can't get around in this weather too well, anyway. In fact the public was told to stay off the roads altogether today! It didn't stop them, I seen 3 cars in the time I am making this post, stuck on the road outside my window. I guess some people need to learn first hand, before they will believe things are said for their own good. So for you who are experiencing this storm, listen to the reports about staying home and off the roads, really, no job, or kids' dance class, is worth, what could happen to you, if you venture out in this mess.

I took this photo at noon today, hard to see but much worse today.

Hope you all have a great night.