About Me

I'm Stephi.

Stephi Leeson.

I became a Leeson on June 18th, 2016 when I married the love of my life. The story behind the title of my blog 'Lessons by Leeson' came from the fact that I commonly misspelled my last name for a few months after getting married. I am an elementary educator and I use the word 'lesson' often so I'm sure you can see why I was having some issues. I began blogging at the beginning of summer 2017; my blog was previously name BO & Daisy, after my puppies. However, it was tough for me to have a blog that strictly focused on the pups when I do so many other awesomish things. I spend a decent amount of my time on Pinterest and probably try about a twelfth of the things I have pinned. I would say about 90% of the time something goes wrong, mainly because I'm to impatient to do anything the proper way. Oh well! Hopefully you can learn from a few of my mistakes and not go through a gazillion steps to paint a wine bottle. BO & Daisy will still play a major roll in the new and improved blog, I pretty much just took the title away from them and gave it to me :). In August of 2017 Jeffrey and I received a wonderful surprise, we are expecting a little girl in April! Please be prepared for my blog to not be as up to date as I would like this summer as I will be busy learning how to be a mommy to my little girl.

P.S I love making lists, so be prepared for many

10 Things To Know About Me

1) I grew up on a farm in rural North Dakota.

2) I married into the United States Air Force and am currently living on an Air Base in Minot, North Dakota.

3) I have two rescue beagles, BO & Daisy, they are biological siblings. Both of them had health issues when we adopted them, but with love and care they have been healed.

4) I graduated from MSU with a bachelors degree in education and a concentration in remedial reading.

5) My mother has been battling breast and skin cancer for over ten years.

6) My family means EVERYTHING to me. I am so excited to be growing my immediate family little by little.

7) I love to travel.

8) My hobbies include camping, kayaking, crafting, reading, organizing, and cleaning.

9) I collect smashed pennies (from penny machines), and giraffe things.

10) I don't know how to blog.

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Lesson #5 The Erratic Escape

Back in May my parents purchased us an outdoor kennel (size 5 x 10; plenty of room for two little beagles) as a graduation present for me. We were super excited to use it since the dogs wouldn't have to be caged up when we were gone for long periods of time. Not to long after we installed it BO had surgery to get his manly hood taken away (this is important later). One beautiful Saturday, four days after his surgery, my husband agreed to go to town and do errands with me; which he absolutely hates doing on weekends. Before we left we put BO in his cage inside the house with his little plastic cone on his head to prevent him from licking his incisions. We didn't want him together with Daisy because we didn't want her licking him; so she went in the outside kennel. We just had one last stop to make at home of economy to look at a dog igloo to go in their kennel for extra shelter and privacy. While walking into the store we notice the sky was quickly getting dark an...

Lesson #2 Independence Day Decorating

I love holidays and decorating for holidays; be that as it may, I am to much of a procrastinator to actually get decorations up before the holiday gets here. Unless it's Christmas, since I normally decorate for that around Thanksgiving. My plans for the 4th of July this year were big - for every decoration I was making for myself I was going to make another one to sell. Hmmm well since the fourth is only six days away I would say I'm not doing very good. I did get one project complete and I started another one yesterday My complete project is my holiday coasters. I made these last year for Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day; last years coasters were not good quality at all so I tried something different this year and I like them a lot more. Materials: Plain white kitchen/bathroom tiles. I got mine at home depot because of the military discount. There are like fifty cents a piece Mod Podge (Glossy or Matte) Something to smooth the Mod Podge with (old c...

Pinterest Fail #1 - Wine Bottle Painting

I mentioned in my last post that I was working on another Independence Day decoration. I still haven't completely finished it, but I'm close enough. The idea with this project is to paint wine bottles (or sparkling grape juice bottles in my case), to resemble the American flag. Pinterest Idea: Of course, I couldn't find a blog or website that actually told me how they made this; so I took it into my own hands. I already had the bottles and was feeling confident that painting them wasn't going to be an issue. I don't have a picture of the bottle before painting, but I'm just going to assume you have seen a glass bottle. Okay, moving on. While I was at my dad's house this weekend I grabbed some wooden dowels (pictured above), this made painting the bottles fairly easy; you get better coverage and you don't have to be careful where you set it while it's drying. Speaking of the paint, I used regular white spray paint that I got from Menard...

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