TV Sitcoms

Some days I feel like my life is a sitcom. Or maybe there are moments that if my life were a sitcom would be really funny. Today I had one of those moments. I had an interview with a mom who has a 19 month old girl. A year ago I had an interview with that same exact mom and a then 7 month old baby. If this were my hometown it wouldn’t be so crazy. My hometown although growing only has like 16,000 people not 700,000 so running into someone isn’t abnormal. I’m going Friday for a test day to see how I do with the little girl. It’s a full time position and the mom didn’t give me a crazy look when I said I preferred to be paid over the table. Seriously 7/10 families I interview with look at me like I have a third eye when I say that. I don’t get it.

I’ve given myself a deadline for a shop update. I will have it stocked by October 1^st so stay tuned. That should give me plenty of time to make more cards since I depleted my stock at the craft boutique and I need to finish some order’s . So excited to finally being doing this.

Bridal Shower

I went to a bridal shower last week and keeping up with my goal of making all gifts, here's what I came up with. A little wedding cake card and a kitchen set with hot pads and dish towels. I had a lot of fun making them.

Happy Cheery Flowers

I'm out of town this weekend. My husband realized he had a ton of vacation hours saved up and me being unemployed makes leaving town easy

I do have 2 interviews lined up for Monday, that makes me feel a little better. One for 10 month old twins, that's kinds of exciting and nerve racking all at once.

When I was babysitting as a teenager I had 3 regular families with twins I babysat for. My cousin has twins and was part of a mother of multiples club, she gave my number out. The hard part wasn't necessarily the twins, it was the fact that they all had at least one other child. So I was always babysitting for at least 3 or 4 kids. At the time though it seemed like no big deal, looking back on it , it's something crazy only my 16 year old self would do. Fun times.

The crazy thing now is my cousin's twins are now 15 and I think they were younger than the other twins I watched which means those kids are now all 16-18 years old.

This weekend is my 10 year high school reunion. We're just happening to be in our hometown at the same time. I have 0 desire to go to the actual reunion but I'm going to try and see some of the people that will be in town for it.

Ok I think that's enough rambling.

Purple Hedge Hog

Almost all of my prototypes for cards are done in purple. I figure if I'm not happy with the result or if no one else particularly likes it, I will. Or if it turns out really cute it's already done in my favorite color :-)

Success

The craft boutique was a success. I'm so glad I did it. I sold a bunch of cards and all my headbands. On top of that I got 2 orders for napkins and an order for a set of owl cards

Here's my half of a table I shared with a friend. I'm thankful I didn't have a whole table to myself or I'm sure it would have looked empty.

Now I just need to fill the orders and keep up the momentum.

By the numbers

Items for tomorrows craft boutique

31 Cards-

5 tea cups

5 Elephant

5 Owls

5 Crosses

5 Christmas

6 easter eggs I had left over

4 headbands

1 alligator clip

16 napkins-4 sets of 4

and

1 very,very messy apartment

Insecurities

I've been dragging my feet for months. On many things.

The big one though? Lilac Barries.My dreams.

All because of insecurities.

Last week I was alerted to an opportunity to be part of a craft boutique at my church. This just the opportunity I need to get my act together. Coupled with the fact that I'm currently unemployed I have the time and the motivation to go through with it.

So I've been diligently working this week. My apartment looks like a fabric tornado went through it. Everything is almost done. I just have a few more stitches to do, gather everything together and figure out how I'm going to display.

The old fears are coming back. It's not even about how much money I will or will not make. It's whether or not anyone will like what I create. Each thing I make has a little bit of me in it and I've said this before but it's scary putting yourself out there.

So tomorrow 11:00, craft boutique and an awesome speaker. Hopefully it goes ok.

Elephant Parade

Tea Time

on a roll

on a card making roll, 2 more to do then I'm on to other things for the boutique

Hoo Hoo

A little sneak peek of some cards I making for a craft boutique I'm participating in on Saturday

Harvest Time

I'm in the mood for fall.

I took down my summer-ish decorations yesterday and put up my fall decorations.

It made me happy, makes me feel like it's almost Thanksgiving, which I love.

I like how the book shelf turned out but I'm thinking I need to iron the lace collar I got for a buck at the dollar a yard store I was at when I went on the quilt retreat at the beginning of the year.

The shelf needs some help, its looking sad. I have blue poster mount putty stuck on my walls from when I had the tea cups and saucers up there. It's not coming off as easy as it's supposed to. maybe I just stick some fake leaves I have on them and call it good?

We went to our neighborhood farmers market yesterday towards the end of the day and one of the vendors whats packing up mixed bags of produce for $5. We had gotten a couple of other veggies but we said why not?

Here's the bag we got

This is how much it weighs w/o the bell pepper. with it,it was just too much for our 11lb kitchen scale.

Here's everything we got. in the back there if you can't tell there's a handful of brussel sprouts and in front of the cabbage are cucumbers. We also have 4 more zuchinni and 2 more cucumbers we had already bought along with some baby spinach left over from last week.

I now have no idea what to do with it all besides soup, which is just boring. I'm especially stumped by the peppers as I don't generally cook with them a whole lot. I made guacamole with one of them last night and not even the whole thing. I'll use rest of it in the tortilla soup that I'll probably make tonight or tomorrow.

Anyone have any ideas?

I really would love to use all of them. I don't even think we got this much or this much a variety when we were getting boxes delivered from our local CSA.