Runaway October

It’s rain­ing again. While it’s so amaz­ing to have this much rain in Ari­zona, it kinda ruins plans… like my plan to get Declan dressed and let him roam the back­yard with Fable all day. Yeah, that didn’t hap­pen. We did all go to the gro­cery store today. I had the boys in their match­ing Skullys and we were approached and told that I should sell them. Do you think any­one would buy a “recy­cled” hat? Maybe they’ll sell bet­ter because they are recycled?

Matt and I talked about get­ting some things posted to my Etsy store, but this is where I must make a heart­felt plea. If any of you are con­sid­er­ing pur­chas­ing any­thing for us, please let it be a new dig­i­tal cam­era. There’s no way I could sell any­thing with the low qual­ity pic­tures that my mom’s cam­era takes. Well, I could try I guess. You can find our “cho­sen” cam­eras in this post or view My Wists in the side­bar (but any­thing that takes crisp pic­tures will do), or if you have any artis­tic ideas to make my cur­rent pho­tos work please let me know! I’d greatly appre­ci­ate it.

Oh yes!! I must post about my Valentine’s. We’re tight on money, so we decided to make all of our gifts, some­thing we really should strive to do any­way. Matt got his favorite din­ner and an IOU for his favorite cook­ies — Oat­meal Choco­late Chip Cook­ies. I got a beau­ti­ful card and a pro­gram. Yep, a pro­gram from my in-house lov­able Linux guru/nerd. See?

Isn’t that just the sweet­est thing!?

If there are any fel­low nerds out there who’d like the source code for the pro­gram, lemme know. You should be able to fig­ure it out your­self though.

We’re sup­posed to get our taxes done soon, and we’re already day­dream­ing about what to do with the return money. Real­ity is telling us that we need to keep it and just use it to live off of but we can always dream big right?

In all hon­esty though I am hop­ing that both Matt and I can splurge a lit­tle on our­selves. I really really really would like to get my hair done again. I was secretly hop­ing that Matt had some how found a hair­styl­ist and befriended them before Valen­tines in hopes of finagling a free cut and color out of it. Alas, it did not hap­pen and my mane of bi-color curly locks still hangs sadly from my head. I’m afraid to chop it myself. :S

I also have a run­ning list of projects I’d like to com­plete, includ­ing but not lim­ited to:

• New Iron­ing Board Cover
• Clothes Pin Bag
• Some­thing for my nephew that his mom wont tear up or throw away. His birth­day is soon
• Some more “recy­cled” items
• Duct-Tape dress­ing form
• Apron (or two)
• Try out some of the Bur­daStyle pat­terns, as well as some vin­tage pat­terns, I’ve acquired. I think I’m on a jumper ben­der. I’m afraid to find out if Jumpers will work with my body shape or not.
• Don’t tell any­one, but I also am slowly piec­ing together ideas for a quilt. Get it… piec­ing? Ha!

Don’t hold your breathe though, things take time in this house.

On my final note, I’d like to leave you with this link. Have fun!

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