How time flies.....and then u cant remember what happened.

I know I know, its been a long time since I posted, hey life gets you. With having moved into my rents house, having a kid drop out of preschool, husband finally find a job, and summer break starting a lot has happened.

On the home front, we have not finished moving the house in Midlo, but have started taking crap to a storage unit. Its a long process and with JB only off Sun and Mon it makes it a lil harder. Cant have the my dad watch the girls on Mon bc its too hard for him. So we have to try and do it on Sundays, but it was fathers day and who wants to spend all that time moving.

Also just a thought on June 17th that would have been Amelia's birthday if she had decided or I decided to keep her in my tummy. But who knows she could have been 10lbs by then.  Since her days of dropping out, she has since decided she wants to return to school for Kindergarten.  When it was time for Elizabeth's last days she realize that she would not graduate with her friends and that she would not be able to go to KG, I reassured her that is not the case, but it gave the kick in the ass that she missed school. So that is good thing. We also got a uniform from JB's cousin, bc they have taken their kids out of the school.

And I completely understand why, but I am going to at least get Amelia thru KG and then decide after that. I am hoping that maybe dumb ass principle has figured it out why people are leaving. But I am going to make a strong effort to call the Archdioce and Public Health this year. It was just a horrible epidemic of health concerns last year, and I learned all to late about them. Because trust me I know what exactly to say to Public Health to get them to go in rapidly.

On JB getting a job its awesome, but at the same time sucky, no benifits, long hours and only gets paid to deliver the packages not load them on the truck. But its nice having some income.

I also just had to make a birthday hat for JBs cousins kid for his 1st birthday. I hope they like it. It is my biggest fear and reason I do not sell my crap, who is going to like it.

Thats really all I have right now, but I am sure something stupid or crazy will happen soon, so I will get back to you on that.

Trying to find the inspiration per say

I am having a hard time finding the inspiration or guts to start and Etsy page. I am so damn afraid, basically bc why would anyone want to buy my items. OR for that fact of the matter how do I price it so that people will BUY it.

I have a couple of wreaths that I have completed and have looked at others on Etsy, and I do not think I am over pricing but what the heck why would anyone want my stuff.

We have been both been working on things together. Jeff is very good at jewelry design. It all started was when he got laid off and had the girls for the summer, so he took them to the craft store and got some beads to make necklaces.

I am working on sewing, I am currently in the process of several projects.
1. Sports quilt  for my cousin in FL
2. Amelia's Rapunzel Costume ( she told me the other day she wants to be a vampire instead. Not going to happen)
3. Retro fit my Snow White costume from 1987 for Elizabeth. And just for the bragging of it. My mom made that costume for me and I won the costume contest that year.

Here are some pics of my wreaths that I have recently completed.

Another nite of insomnia

Well as the title implies, I cannot sleep. It happens about once a week, sometimes it is accompanied by migraines other times it is just my worries that lead to migraines. It all seems to fade together.

The good news is that tonite I made my second pattern. My first was for a bird cage, it works but it can be improved. The second one is for a Burp cloth/Bib.  I wanted to have something that versitale. I have only cut it out us a Fabric Quarter that my girls are obsessed with getting at the stores. So i guess I owe them one.

But i think they will work. I have a bunch of fabric, now just to lay them out on them and see how many I can make. I have the dilema of deciding if I want to use batting between the layers, I am not sure, bc I think maybe it is rather unnecassary. I will see.

SO I have been looking Etsy.com to start selling my goods, but I did find a some craft fairs that are going on in Burbank coming up in Sept and Oct. I wonder if I have to have a business lic. Or can I get a way with using Suze and Kenny's? 

Here are some of my past projects that I have completed.

 

Baby gifts and what else can go wrong....

Well lets start this post in order of incidents:
1 Jeff hurts his back at work
2. Amelia has a high fever and we take her to hospital
3. Jeff cannot work our doctor gave in incapacitated orders
4. Girls graduate from Preschool
5. Elizabeth fractures her ankle at a party
6. We get MRI on Jeffs back - herniated disks
7. Appt with Neurosurgeon in 3 wks
8. Worker Comp is dening claims, so no Pay
9. Neuro surgeon says no surgery buy PT 3x a week for a month,
10 Still no approval from W.C.
11 Jeffs cousin has baby way early at 31wks.

Not sure it could get any crazier that this. But I am unable to find a job, he cant work. Bills are not getting paid. And all in this I have been tryin to be crafty.

I have made a diaper bag, that Jeff now does not like...so what should I do. I still have not finished it because we are in a battle over the handles.

Started on some burp clothes that I got the idea from Holly in which she go it from;
http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2008/01/burp-cloth-tutorial.html

Also some baby fleece blankets.  I will have pic of these as soon as my phone stops Sync after 2 hrs. Really i do not want the pic of CNN logo on my cpu.