Yes, that’s me. I have been a big time slacker these last four months. I don’t think I could even really tell you what I’ve done. I don’t remember having done anything! Hopefully things will speed up a bit here. So here is some of what you missed while I was busy avoiding things. (Sorry if you’ve already seen some of these on my fb)

If anything photo worthy happened in March I must have missed it…

April

red velvet cake and ice cream… need I say more?

just some spring time hopping

have you ever played reverse hide and seek? me either, but I watched them and it looked fun!

Oh! I did paint some onesies for a friends baby shower

this adorable little bird paid us a visit

May

Caiden’s 2nd birthday

nothing fancy just some cupcakes and dinner with Nani and Papa

see how much he enjoyed them?

Arianna’s end of the year play. she was Goldilocks’s mother

June

Arianna too excited to wait for the pool to fill up (it was her birthday present)

every time someone let go of the helmet he stumbled and fell over

barn swallow nestlings! nesting on my parents porch

my gorgeous little girl

I know I should be sewing right now. I want to put more in the shop, but instead I’m sitting here. Not doing much of anything. I know the kids are in the other room making a mess. I’m hiding. Now doors are slamming. I should probably stop hiding and go check on them before they break something….

30 minutes later. Nothing broke. A towel got soaked a baby got clean and the house filled up with teenagers! I’m over at my Mom’s. I’m supposed to be making dinner, but since she brought home 5 teenagers I opted just to help.

I have been a slacker this week. Very little sewing got done in my home even though I set 3 days aside for it I probably sewed less than 30 minutes in 3 days. I did however vacuum my apartment (move the fridge and stove vacuuming) scrub my bathroom, scrub my stove and pick up the clutter. That was day 1. Day 3 you can’t tell I did anything. So sad. But life.

Now you are wondering what that 30 minutes of sewing amounted to. Don’t be shy it’s okay to be curious. I patched some holes in a friends purse. I made a quickie shawl (for that same friend) to go with her dress for Echoes (a dance at the high school). And then I made some uber simple ties for Caiden! Wanna see? Of course you do!

So Wednesday was my 25th birthday. Can we all say hooray!! for lower insurance rates! Yes I know it is kind of sad that’s why I was looking forward to my birthday, but well it was…

Anyway it was a rather nice birthday. I spent a few hours hanging out with a very good friend while our kiddos played together AND she made me a cake! Technically she made me two cakes, but she refused to give the first one because it wasn’t her best work. In fact initially she wouldn’t even let me see it! After our play-date I had dinner with Mom and Dad, green pepper steak one of my favorite dishes. Then it was just a quiet evening in with my monkeys. It was nice.

Thursday another lovely friend came out and made me dinner! And again the kids played while we chatted and I watched her cook

Friday night Danielle and I went to a Dance aerobics class that I guess is kind of like Zumba. I dunno what zumba is though so ya… I was terrified. TERRIFIED. Why? Because I only dance in front of my children and I never exercise in front of anyone else. NEVER. The class was great! I have terrible coordination! But we laughed a lot worked up a sweat and I felt GREAT afterwards and that’s the important thing. Right? Right. The instructor was awesome too. Please forgive me for not remembering your name. I was too busy being nervous to catch it. Sorry.

Oh and I stocked the shop! Go have a look around! Who knows you might like something you see! (And don’t forget I love to do custom work and I’ll special order fabric!)

Technically this is last night and yesterdays news but we are sharing it today…

Caiden got his first real hair cut! Not a trim to keep it out of his eyes but a REAL haircut and now I miss my baby! Oh well it’ll grow back!

Have you ever heard of the toy society?

Company Overview:

The Toy Society is a small street art project spreading the love throughout the streets. Nothing to it really just a bunch of handmade toys looking for a nice home.

What started as a small street art project in Australia is slowly spreading around the world.

Should you come across a member of The Toy Society on your travels collect them up and take them home with you! But don’t forget to let The Toy Society know your toy is safe and sound by emailing thetoysociety@gmail.com!

Mission:

Sharing the love

Products:

No ‘products’ here, just handmade toys made with love and traveling the world looking for a new home.

*Taken from their site

These are my current contributions… I thought that they had a really neat idea and it’s a good excuse to practice some of my softies (and other people’s too!) Why don’t you give it a try?

Okay so I’m going Tuesday to get my hair cut and then sometime next month I’ll get it colored. This is the part I struggle with though. I have such a hard time choosing what style I want to go with! So I thought I’d enlist some help!! So ya help. Give me your opinions! They’d be highly appreciated!

Okay so the one above is what I have now (or what I had before it grew out)

This and the one below are the two I’m leaning towards the most

I don’t want these bangs. They would not work for me. but I like the bulk of the style.

My daughter has been whining for… oh… a month at least because there has been no snow. We didn’t necessarily want snow, but Grama and Papa bought her a new sled for Christmas so we were hoping for at least some snow. Well last night it started and it took a few breaks, but not long ones and this morning when we woke up…

She was so excited and I had a hard time keeping her inside long enough to eat and get dressed!

We had a lovely Christmas Eve yesterday. Today has been mainly spent watching the kids in the snow and huddled under blankets on the couch. Best way to spend Christmas if you ask me! Here are a few photos and hopefully I’ll get my lazy butt in gear and start blogging regularly again!

Have a wonderful and

blessed Christmas!

I know Thanksgiving hasn’t even gotten here yet, but things like making gifts for people take time!

We have a pretty small church 90 people on a good day. But we have a lot of kids that attend and their parents don’t. A lot of kids that come from very poor homes and every year they (meaning the Angels in Training) put up a tree with the kids names and a mini Christmas list on it.

This year I want to make the kids some gifts. Why? Because I think it will mean a lot more than someone going out and just buying them something. Of course the kids love and appreciate anything they get. But I think they’d really like some gifts that people really put some time and thought into also. So I’m starting this week on dolls and such. I haven’t decided what to do for the boys yet though.

I thought that I’d see if any of you crafty mama’s out there wanted to donate anything?

Or maybe you’d like to do this for some of the kids in your life! If so tell me about it! Write a blog post and comment here or just tell me in a comment. I love when people do stuff like this for kids!

I know I’ve been very bad at the blogging lately. But with the move and still no internet down there and well it’s hard to blog without internet you know? So here we are…

I held my second Cloth Diapers 101 class earlier this month. Sadly no one showed up. Not even the people who called. But that is okay it takes time for things like this to take off in places like this. Next class November 7th! I was told that a local daycare provider made copies of my flier in the local coffee shop so maybe we will have some people this next class.

It is October 23 and I have not finished Ari’s costume and I’ve not even started Caiden’s… Sometimes I’m a terrible procrastinator!

Today was dress as your favorite character day at school… She wanted to be a ballerina. Mrs. Jones seemed to know which book it was from but I didn’t. I think she just wanted to wear her ballet stuff to school.

And since I have 52 million things to get done before the youth group gets here for their sleepover I’m going to make this a short short post and leave you with a funny faced Caiden.

Thank you all for reading my little blog here!

Oh Oh I almost forgot. I’d like to do some instructional cloth diaper videos… so ask some questions that I can answer on the videos and post to the blog!!!

Some of you already know that this week I was told I get to move out of my parents home and back into my apartment (which was previously being rented). It’s been a little bit of work and we aren’t all moved in yet, but we are getting there. People… I now have calluses on my hands. That’s what painting for hours will do to you. You know what the sad part is? I only painted one room! but it took 3 coats of white and 2 of each of the colors. We also re-caulked all the base board and I patched 100+ holes in the walls. No I’m not exaggerating at all.

Okay so here are the promised photos:

Kid’s room before

The only room that had and color changes was the kid’s room:

I love it!

The room had been purple with Dora and Nemo everywhere… (Thanks Dad)

I may show some more when we are all situated… but don’t hold your breath…

Caiden spent 95% of his time the first day climbing the ladder.

In other news. My rough and tough little hunter is afraid of farm raised turkeys. How did we find this out? Well we went to the store to get some fried chicken for dinner and outside was a turkey. Yup a turkey. It was drinking water were the A/C unit drips… rather gross.

Anyway she was Terrified. I mean crazy scared. It was rather funny.

Meet the creepy turkey:

He followed us to the car and wouldn’t go away. She was crying and on top of her brother trying to stay away from the turkey. She was still scared after I shooed the thing away and shut my door. As you can see a closed door did not detour this rather persistent bird.

I asked her:

Me: How are you gonna hunt with Papa if you are afraid of that turkey? It’s just a pet.

Ari: They won’t be close and that one is weird looking.

I don’t know about you, but I think all turkeys are pretty weird/creepy looking. But I might just be that way from childhood trauma. We had a babysitter when I was a kid who had turkeys and when we went outback to swim the mail would chase me. It was not fun people I was terrified! The really weird thing about her having a turkey is that we lived in Boynton Beach Florida. Not really the kind of place you’d expect to come upon a turkey.

Okay so maybe it hasn’t really been that long, but it feels like forever!

It’s been pretty slow here. I’ve had some customs and made some birthday presents.

I met Emi from The Cloth Diaper Report on Saturday she was giving a cloth diaper class, hosted by Rebecca of Sprouting Up (which is located in Rolla Missouri). It went really well! They had lots of mama’s show up and there was lots of discussion. I’m excited for my next class! After Emi‘s class was a baby wearing workshop that I’m sad I missed, but we had a long drive home and the little guy needed to take a nap. He was asleep before we had gone 100 feet!

Other big news in my little world…

I’m getting my apartment back! For those of you who don’t know I’ve been living with my parents since my separation with Kyle (Caiden’s dad). There has been someone living in the apartment since I moved back and the latest renter has moved out and I get my own space again! It’s only like 50 feet away from the house, but still I need my own space again.

Want to see my latest creations? To bad you are going to anyway.

Caiden got 2 new diapers (more are in the works!)

I made some pumpkins for mom’s fireplace

This one is a custom sling for a little boy’s birthday

My first mei tai. Can’t wait to make another with some minor tweaking!

1 of 3 up-cycled men’s button-up shirts

We celebrated fall early this year with some candy apples

So I was in the mud room putting laundry in the dryer and I look over and this is what I see:

scary isn’t it?!

My little boy is getting too big! I can’t keep him off those stools now. Thankfully there won’t be any stools in the apartment!

The guy who was renting our apartment asked if he could hang some things up on the wall and mom said yes. What a mistake that was. Okay so maybe it only bothers me. But seriously who needs 75 nails 16 screws and 2 tacks in an apartment that is probably 900sq. ft or less. It’s utterly ridiculous. Okay so now I’m going to go tweet the # of nails, screws and tacks and also complain on twitter and then hopefully I’ll have it out of my system.

Have a lovely evening anyone who actually reads this!

Oh and did you know you can leave comments on the blog? They don’t need to be tweeted or posted on my facebook wall… It’d be awesome if it looked like people actually read all this stuff! kthx!