Another project crossed off the list

Last night Jillian and I crossed another project off our house duties list. We put cushions on our rad stools that hang out around the bench. I know you are saying to yourself man what heck would he post about cushions. Come on cushions really. Ha. But ours are rad. We wanted to add some color to the living room and kitchen area so we decided to do it with the cushions. We thought about bright fabrics, crazy patterns and even screening our own fabric. But what we decided to do is cover the cushions in old tshirts with rad graphics. Here is what they turned out like.
















matty3stars

Newest, biggest and best piece or art work I have ever done.

I have been wanting to show Jillian want she means to me for a while now and I wanted to be able to show her everyday.

So I came up with is idea to paint a mural on the back wall of our garage so she would see it everyday.

The story behind it is Jillian and I used to listen to Ben Harper a lot and he had a song called "You look like gold to me" But Jillian would sing it as "you look like home to me". Because Jillian rarely gets the words wrong in any song I pounced on this opportunity to tease her. Which I did a lot. From that time on it kind of became our anthem for when we were apart from each other. So it was only fitting that I created this.

Also I want to acknowledge one of the people I got some of my inspiration from. There is a artist called Espo aka Steve Powers who has a great art series in Philly called A love Letter For You or check him out on the documentary Beautiful Losers or on this site firstandfifthteenth. Anyway is work is very inspiring check it out if you get a chance.

I hope you guys like it.
But really I don't care if you do or don't as long as Jillian loves it. Which she does!!

Getting wired

Oh what busy but great weekend. On Friday night Jillian and I took her dad out to dinner and a special movie (some french that was way to old and long for my taste) as his Christmas present. It was a fun time.
Saturday my friend kenny came over and we hung out, played music and I worked on a project with the tv wall.




Jillian had a fun Saturday as she chopped off more than 10inches of her hair charity. Her new haircut looks wonderful.

Sat night was quite busy as well. A family friend was in town and it was her birthday so we had dinner with her and most of the family. Straight after that we headed into Seattle to go to a dual bday party for our friends Noah and Vaneeta. That was super fun catching up with quite a few friends we had not seen in a while.
Sunday was a bit more relaxed, jillatron and I ran some errands
I finished up the project I was working on Sat, skating at a real
Skatepark cause for once it was not raining and relaxed a bit.

Even though Jillian was not feeling well she still manage to go to the florist with her friend Hillary for Hilary's wedding. Run errands with me and put together some new shelving we got for the dinning room.


We hung out on the couch for the rest of Sunday night.
matty3stars

Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie

Oi oi oi

Every Sunday Jillian and I's American family get together to for a good old fashioned Sunday dinner. We chat about our weeks happenings, debate topics, laugh, hang out and celebrate bdays, holidays and so. Which brings to my point on this past Sunday dinner we celebrated Australia day. We did so by having bangers and mash with veggi's and with my sister inlaw Amy baking cookies with Ozzie flag on it. It was such delight.



matty3stars

Odd Jobs jobs jobs

As most people know when you buy a house the odd job list is long times that by 7 when you add a remodel, times it by another 12 when you have to creatives minds who have an urge to move forward at all times and add a few more for the heck of it.
Well Jillian and I have been more than just chipping away at this odd job list. We have been taking it down like a lumber jack.
We have painted a wall completely in black chalk board paint, put a picture of Fremantle, a black keys poster, an old painting, a cork board that we made out of an old burlap sack, put in a new light fixture and all this was in one weekend or so.





































Well much love to all.
matty3stars

My micro mini ramp

It's been a while since my last confession. Cough . Ah I mean post.

Jillian and I had a very Merry Xmas and a very Happy New
Year. We were once again spoilt with many greatly thoughtful gifts. Jillian and I did splurged on each by getting an elliptical (a low impact running machine ) . We are now living the high life with our own work out room.



Over the Xmas holidays Jillian and I both had 10 days off. My work is so great it gives us those days off and Jillian had vacation built up on a use it or lose it by the end of the year type deal. So we had it off together. We our time we got to share a lot of family and friend time while also doing some personal projects.
Since moving into the new house I have been wanting to build a mini ramp and over the Xmas break I got to do just that.
I built it 4 foot wide so we can still fit the car in garage and that size also made materials easier to work with 1 3/4 foot tall because of and length restrictions and roughly 11 foot in length.
Other than a few helping hands from mate Mikey G, Big Poppa (Jillian's dad) and Jillian herself I made it myself.
Here is picture of the finished product.



I think is a long enough post for now.
Peace
Matty

matty3stars

Holiday Parties and Holiday fun

As I sit here writing this Seattle is holding true to it's name wet, rainy and cold. But that has not dampened Jillian and I's Holiday spirits.

With Thanksgiving always falling on a Thursday both Jillian and I were lucky enough to have both Thursday and Friday off, making it a 4 day weekend for us. With these four days off Jillian and I stayed very busy with Thanks giving Dinner, xmas tree shopping (even though we didn't get a real one we went up to enjoy the experience with the family), some live theater for Jillian, a few house projects and a whole bunch of rad family time. It was a really rad weekend.

With Thanksgiving kick starting the holiday season off with a bang. Jillian and I were excited. Our next Holiday season date was a friends of ours festive party called Chrismakwanzikah a blend of Christmas, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah. It was quite a fun night.

The next night Jillian's grandmother took the whole family out for a beautiful x-mas dinner. It was a delicious meal with great company.

Just a few days later than that on December 9th Jillian and I hosted my work Holiday party.

Oh Man, were we excited for this. Not only were we excited to be showing off our newly remodeled house. I had made t-shirts for all my fellow co-workers. Each shirt and a co-workers face on it but I didn't give the everyone a shirt with their face on it. Where is the fun in that? I gave everyone a shirt with a different co-workers face on it. See the picture below. Everyone had a good laugh. 

All the employees received some great gifts from Jay and Dave (Bosses).It was great night,

We still have a few holiday parties to attend and are looking forward to them all.

Hope you all are are enjoying the holiday season.

Matty