Well, it's been a while since I blogged anything. I've been keeping pretty busy & I really shouldn't even be doing this now!
Thursday will be Amber's first birthday! I can't believe it's been almost a year! Sure, tons has happened & changed, but it still doesn't seem like that much time could have passed! And then, a couple days later, it'll be a new year! My new year's resolution will be to continue to organize & clean the house and hopefully get it functional enough that I can focus even more time on Amber, my crafts & selling online and spending more time with friends & family! I feel like I've neglected a lot of people (and my pet snake, for that matter) this past year. :/
To update... we had another swaperoo! I haven't heard from the lady receiving my package yet, but I'm sure everyone's busy with holiday stuff. I received my package from Kirsti, the lady who organizes the whole thing. She got me a framed picture that says "Unto us a child is born" and is just my shade of green, two bags of goodies for me & my hubby (though I've been eating a lot of his Reeses!) and she made little Christmas trees with fabric and mini ornaments on top. :) Very cute! :)
We went to my mom's for Christmas. All three of my step-brothers were there, along with their grandparents & my grandpa, my half-sister &, of course, our parents, Paul, Amber & me. Oh, & my one step-brother's fiance, so we were an even dozen & a half. ;) My grandpa's not doing well. This will probably be his last Christmas outside of the nursing home. :/
Yesterday, Amber was being extra-cute. Here's the scene... Amber's in her high chair. She's been eating Cheerios. I'm here at my computer nearby. She starts yelling. I look over and see she's eaten/thrown all the Cheerios she had. So I get up and ask her, what do you want? She looks at me and opens her mouth "Ah" and then points at the box of Cheerios. "Ok, what do you say?" I prompt as I pull out a handful of Cheerios. She grins really big. "That's cute, but what do you say?" & she signs "please." so I give her the handful of Cheerios. She pops some in her mouth & says "Num!"
I just love that she's starting to communicate useful information & she's just so darn cute doing it!
I might add some pictures later, but I need to go get some lunch & get ready for Amber to finish her nap!
Monday, December 27, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Crunch time
Well, plans for the craft show I was supposed to be in tomorrow fell through. I'm actually a bit relieved, since I feel so unprepared & have so many other things to do!
Hopefully, I'll get some of my new pieces listed soon... I did make quite a few!
Hopefully, I'll get some of my new pieces listed soon... I did make quite a few!
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Avail Couture Feature!
Hooray! My friend Rachel featured me & Paul as her first "real wedding" story on her company's blog!
Click here to see the story!
If you hadn't already seen, our wedding was featured once before on the OffBeatBride website back in January: Click here to see that story!
In other news, we've been trying to figure out what to dress Amber up as for Halloween... the main contenders are a strawberry ( Like so ) or a monster, using the hat Naomi made for her! :)
Early on we had considered dressing her up as Gir or an Ewok, but those seem unlikely now...
Click here to see the story!
If you hadn't already seen, our wedding was featured once before on the OffBeatBride website back in January: Click here to see that story!
In other news, we've been trying to figure out what to dress Amber up as for Halloween... the main contenders are a strawberry ( Like so ) or a monster, using the hat Naomi made for her! :)
Early on we had considered dressing her up as Gir or an Ewok, but those seem unlikely now...
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Wishes and rainbows
How do I have so much to do and so little time, when other than taking care of Amber, all I have is time?
Well, lately it hasn't helped that my heal1th1 has taken a tu0rn for the worse. I'm losing weight when I don't need to, my blood sugar and iron levels keep dropping... so I have little energy. It's no medical mystery, this is all explained, so it's just annoying and I have to take care of things.
That's enough whining.0 though. When I get back on top of things and caught up a little, I have so many good craft plans and project ideas and items to list at my poo0r neglected Etsy shop! The success tips e-mails are just depressing me lately since I've made little to no effort on it in so long!
Well, I do need to get my house, and particularly my crafting area, in order before I can devote too much time to actually crafting. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
I'm going to be lazy though & leave the extra numbers and such strewn throughout my post because my daughter was "helping..." ;)
Well, lately it hasn't helped that my heal1th1 has taken a tu0rn for the worse. I'm losing weight when I don't need to, my blood sugar and iron levels keep dropping... so I have little energy. It's no medical mystery, this is all explained, so it's just annoying and I have to take care of things.
That's enough whining.0 though. When I get back on top of things and caught up a little, I have so many good craft plans and project ideas and items to list at my poo0r neglected Etsy shop! The success tips e-mails are just depressing me lately since I've made little to no effort on it in so long!
Well, I do need to get my house, and particularly my crafting area, in order before I can devote too much time to actually crafting. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
I'm going to be lazy though & leave the extra numbers and such strewn throughout my post because my daughter was "helping..." ;)
Friday, October 1, 2010
Thanks Naomi!
Got my fall swap gifts today! Yay!
My favorite thing is the hat! Is that not the cutest, funnest thing ever?!
I was a little worried/confused when I first saw the bandanna, but then I read the accompanying letter that explained that it was a bib! :P I may need to work on how to get it on better so it doesn't block her mouth, lol!
I do as little of the cooking in the house as possible, so I'll have to figure out how to personalize the apron for my hubby... it'll have to be awesome! 'cause he's so awesome!
Obviously, the cats think the apron strings were for them! :P
...and the buttons (which Amber seems to really like!) round out a very fun swap gift! ^_^ Now to wait & see what Savannah thinks of all the stuff I sent her! :)
My favorite thing is the hat! Is that not the cutest, funnest thing ever?!
I was a little worried/confused when I first saw the bandanna, but then I read the accompanying letter that explained that it was a bib! :P I may need to work on how to get it on better so it doesn't block her mouth, lol!
I do as little of the cooking in the house as possible, so I'll have to figure out how to personalize the apron for my hubby... it'll have to be awesome! 'cause he's so awesome!
Obviously, the cats think the apron strings were for them! :P
...and the buttons (which Amber seems to really like!) round out a very fun swap gift! ^_^ Now to wait & see what Savannah thinks of all the stuff I sent her! :)
Thursday, September 30, 2010
La dee dah...
Finally got my fall swap package mailed off today! It was supposed to have gone out Monday! >_<
I wonder who has me... I haven't gotten a sneak peek or anything... ?
So, I keep thinking to myself that I have all this time as a stay-at-home mom now, I should be able to do more crafting... but I don't. Amber's part of it, just when I think we've got a bit of a routine & I'll have some time I can do something, she grows & things change. I used to be able to do stuff while she nursed, but now she grabs at everything and/or kicks!
Then, I finally got her to take a longer nap in the afternoon; I'd have at least a half-hour to myself! The last few days, though, she hasn't been as good about it. We drove down to Grandma's yesterday though and ended up spending the whole day there, so that may have thrown things off further than what they were. Amber got to visit my grandpa, her great-grandpa. He was thrilled to see her, but kept forgetting she was a girl, or what her name was & once, even what her relationship to me was! *sigh* Dementia is such a horrible thing to watch someone suffer from!
But I digress... I think the main thing eating up my time, after Amber, is the house. It's not just the usual house cleaning... I have some of the tendencies of a hoarder. My main saving grace is that I don't buy too much, and, for the most part, I don't acquire too much for free (gifts are my only real weakness here)... but when my dad passed away, I inherited all of his Earthly possessions. He, too, had the hoarding tendencies... so his worldly possessions were quite numerous!
To make matters worse, when he passed away, he was going through his second divorce & I had to settle it (I think if you go into my old entries you can find more on that)... but part of that was that I had to clear everything out of his house in a hurry! My family, friends & I got everything out in two weeks flat! The result of that, unfortunately, is that there's not much rhyme or reason to the packing... and so, three years later, I'm still slowly sorting through everything.
I've been making much more progress since I quit my job, with the help of a new therapist, but it's tough... a long process... and it's driving Paul nuts. :(
I wish I could be on one of those clean house TV shows where, for the low price of being potentially publicly humiliated by revealing your mess on national TV, you get free help sorting and organizing your possessions!
A girl can dream...
I wonder who has me... I haven't gotten a sneak peek or anything... ?
So, I keep thinking to myself that I have all this time as a stay-at-home mom now, I should be able to do more crafting... but I don't. Amber's part of it, just when I think we've got a bit of a routine & I'll have some time I can do something, she grows & things change. I used to be able to do stuff while she nursed, but now she grabs at everything and/or kicks!
Then, I finally got her to take a longer nap in the afternoon; I'd have at least a half-hour to myself! The last few days, though, she hasn't been as good about it. We drove down to Grandma's yesterday though and ended up spending the whole day there, so that may have thrown things off further than what they were. Amber got to visit my grandpa, her great-grandpa. He was thrilled to see her, but kept forgetting she was a girl, or what her name was & once, even what her relationship to me was! *sigh* Dementia is such a horrible thing to watch someone suffer from!
But I digress... I think the main thing eating up my time, after Amber, is the house. It's not just the usual house cleaning... I have some of the tendencies of a hoarder. My main saving grace is that I don't buy too much, and, for the most part, I don't acquire too much for free (gifts are my only real weakness here)... but when my dad passed away, I inherited all of his Earthly possessions. He, too, had the hoarding tendencies... so his worldly possessions were quite numerous!
To make matters worse, when he passed away, he was going through his second divorce & I had to settle it (I think if you go into my old entries you can find more on that)... but part of that was that I had to clear everything out of his house in a hurry! My family, friends & I got everything out in two weeks flat! The result of that, unfortunately, is that there's not much rhyme or reason to the packing... and so, three years later, I'm still slowly sorting through everything.
I've been making much more progress since I quit my job, with the help of a new therapist, but it's tough... a long process... and it's driving Paul nuts. :(
I wish I could be on one of those clean house TV shows where, for the low price of being potentially publicly humiliated by revealing your mess on national TV, you get free help sorting and organizing your possessions!
A girl can dream...
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Being a bride again... sorta
It's not our anniversary, we're not renewing our vows & we're certainly not leaving the relation ship or anything... no, I get to re-live being a bride as I reminisce for my friend Rachel on her new blog about her dress-making business. She made my bridal gown, my bridesmaids' dresses and one of my prom gowns! She's also made dresses for some of my friends' weddings, proms, etc. as I recommend her to everyone in the area!
I was already featured a while back for OffBeatBride in this article. That was exciting too. :)
So, I have to figure out what I'm going to say.
In other news, I'm already almost done with my package for the Fall Swaperoo (see below) and excited about sending that off!
Here's the sneak peek I gave my recipient:
Amber started crawling on my birthday! (8/27) and she's all over the place now! She certainly keeps me busy!
There are about a zillion other things I could write about, but I'll stop here for now... ;)
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