Runaway October

Today is Mother’s Day in the USA. Other coun­tries have dif­fer­ent dates to appre­ci­ate mothers.

It’s really all about the ties of fam­ily, the strength of love and appre­ci­a­tion for the lead­ers in our life.

What bet­ter way to show you love your mom then by post­ing old pic­tures?

There’s Dad in the back.

Uncle Dar­rin, Grandma Betty, Mom hold­ing Cody.

Bon­nie and I front and cen­ter. This was 1989.

Hence those glasses. No, kid­ding. They’re lovely Mom.

Also 1989.

Grandma Betty and Bon­nie, Mom and Cody, Grandma List and Char­lie, then me.

Nice Bar­bie.

1991.

Grandma Betty, Mom hold­ing Erin, Grandma List and Cody.

Pretty Mama.

And just to prove I haven’t always been goofy looking:

Aug ’85. Almost three years old.

So make sure today that you give your mom a hug, tell her that she means every­thing to you, and be thank­ful for what you have.

And that she got rid of those glasses.

KIDDING! <3

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bot­tom of which you will always find forgiveness.

~Hon­oré de Balzac

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“Phew!” with a dra­matic swipe across his forehead.

I’ve actu­ally been pretty busy of late. Remem­ber those 17 loads of laun­dry stuffed on the couch that I men­tioned? ALL folded, hung, sorted, orga­nized and put away!! After 3 weeks it was hard to come up with excuses for why it was still there. But I’ve also com­pleted 2 more aprons — one for Grandma Betty’s birth­day, along with match­ing place­mats and one for Nicky’s birth­day. I finally got a new iron­ing board cover made. It’s super sim­ple but took a day because of the nooblets… I mean the kidlets. (Does any­one remem­ber Sixlets? Those were awe­some!) I started a third apron for Ann today. Next up is my bag for the Mar­ket Tote Swap. I have the idea all worked out in my head, I just hope I can trans­fer it to real­ity easily.

So after all that’s done I’m going to start work­ing on some smock­ing and shirring and post­ing items to my Etsy shop. I promise. No more swaps or birth­days and what­not. I’ve found some gor­geous designer prints mixed in with the cheapy cot­tons at JoAnns and have totally scored bolts of them with 50% off coupons. I’m afraid to cut some of them up.

I’ve also been comtem­plat­ing get­ting a cot­tage license to sell the aprons that I’ve been mak­ing. The thing is it’s $100 for a year but I’m not sure if I could cover the cost with any profit I make, ya know? The license gives me the right to make and sell any­thing by Sew Lib­er­ated, for­mally Montes­sori by Hand, where as now I can only make and give such as all that I’ve made so far. It takes me about a week of fid­dling to make an apron because of… interup­tions. The hard­est part is choos­ing the fab­rics — I always worry that some­one will get their apron and go “WTH was she think­ing? This isn’t me at all!” I’m debat­ing on just going it alone, or using some­one else’s pat­terns. Any thoughts?

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Here’s Grandma’s Apron. The reverse is a very pretty white Poppy print.