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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Five sur­geons from big cities are dis­cussing who makes the Best patients to oper­ate on. The first sur­geon, from New York, says, “I like to see accoun­tants on my oper­at­ing table because when you open them up, every­thing inside is num­bered.”

The sec­ond, from Chicago, responds, “Yeah, but you should try elec­tri­cians! Every­thing inside them is color coded.”

The third sur­geon, from Dal­las, says, “No, I really think librar­i­ans are the best, every­thing inside them is in alpha­bet­i­cal order”

The fourth sur­geon, from Los Ange­les, chimes in: “You know, I like con­struc­tion work­ers. Those guys always under­stand when you have a few parts left over.”

But the fifth sur­geon, from Wash­ing­ton, DC, shut them all up when he observed: “You’re all wrong. Politi­cians are the eas­i­est to oper­ate on.. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the rear end are interchangeable.

Okay, so, things have been quite busy here. Some good things, some bad things. Lots of pictures.

Where to start.…

Rowan now has two teeth and judg­ing by his level of irritibil­ity it seems he may be pop­ping out a few more. The first one was super easy and I didn’t even know it was hap­pen­ing. What a trooper huh? He’s been wear­ing his Amber Teething Neck­lace and just looks so cute in it! We call this his pirate face.

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We recently spent a morn­ing at Agri­topia with Grandma Ann and were blessed with an over­cast sky. Sadly it was humid enough to induce a full body sweat film, but we still had a good time. The food was won­der­ful as well. Rowan just adored the grass.  We don’t have a sin­gle blade at our house, because it’s a crappy rental. Declan loved being able to run wild while we sat and ate — Oh, to be a two year old again. Notice the shorts D is wear­ing? Made ‘em. Yep. I actu­ally made some­thing for a boy. Not as easy as you think.

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I com­pleted my Chromium Star Afghan for a very preggo friend, though it didn’t come out as expected. I don’t have the time, or the heart, to frog it and start over. It ruf­fles in cer­tain sec­tions, as you can kinda tell here. Before it ruf­fled so bad it wouldn’t lay flat. This is after wash­ing and block­ing. The points also curve but I kinda like it that way. I asked the pat­tern cre­ator for help a cou­ple times, but have got­ten no reply. If you break the star into sec­tions — you should see ten here — the sec­tion that goes from the val­ley to the peak ruf­fles up, like there’s way too many stitches. I’ve gone over the pat­tern time and time again and can’t fig­ure out what I did wrong. Any ideas?

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I opened an apple for the kids the other day and the seeds had started to sprout. How cool is that? We popped them in a lit­tle pot and look what we have now. One is a marigold and the leafier one is the apple. Funny how they start out the same size. The apple was organic and local grown so I’m hop­ing that it’ll will actu­ally grow since it’s most likely not some funky kind of com­mer­cial hybrid.

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My biggest news is that Matt has fully given me his bless­ing to really move on an Etsy bou­tique. I’d like to make some income from it, but Matt will be happy if I just cover the cost of all my fab­ric. I cre­ated a pat­tern for a sim­ple lit­tle jumper and match­ing dia­per cover and used one of my favorite girly fab­rics. It came out awe­some. I even made some labels that will make do for now. But then dis­as­ter struck! The reverse but­ton on my machine just kinda popped out in my hand while try­ing to do the last two but­ton­holes. I would have been fin­ished. But no! Matt’s mom had given me her old machine, so I can use that for straight sewing, but I can’t get the but­ton holer to work.

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Stu­pid me, I marked the but­ton place­ment on the out­side of the dress with an indeli­ble marker not think­ing I’d have an issue. Grr. Now I have a cute lit­tle jumper set that I can’t sell until I fig­ure out the but­ton­hole idea. I was so so so happy to be get­ting some­thing rolling. It’s cute though, no? Would you buy it? Well, if it was finished?

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I think I’m going to have my labels made by Spoon­flower. The ones I made myself were on muslin with fab­ric paint and I really like the soft­ness. No one wants those itchy pokey tags. Now I just need to come up with a logo and make all the ban­ners and avatars for my bou­tique. Any one want to help? I’ll make you cook­ies and water­mel­on­ade!

I’m think­ing of pay­ing some­one to do it for me. Maybe I should look into busi­ness grants? Any­one want to help fund my ende­vour? Or buy a new sewing machine!?!

Com­ments guys! I live for com­ments!! Seriously.

April 27^th, 10am — 4pm @ The Paper Studio

I’m super excited about this. Most likely I wont be able to go for one rea­son or another, but I’m gonna give it 110%

“We thought it would be a swell idea to hold an event at The Paper Stu­dio on Sun­day, April 27^th where you can meet local Etsy artists and shop to your heart’s con­tent.” [more]