I got some sewing done, finally!
My first quilt, which is... um, not so great, but pretty fabric! LOL
My second quilt, I'm in LOVE with it!
A yellow and white dress for Fayth with button accents.
The quilts are baby-sized, but I love them! I’m going to have to buy some fabric to make a full-sized quilt this weekend… maybe make some Christmas gifts. Who wouldn’t love a home-made quilt?? I’ve had to take a hiatus on my knitting, since my hands have started hurting so bad from it. I want to make a few more car-sized quilts for the kids when we’re on road trips, maybe with little pillows. I’ve already got plans for backseat organizers, but I want some thicker fabric like tweed or canvas.
I need to make myself a new purse, too, but need that thicker fabric again… I made mine 6 months ago out of pillowcases (like the quilts!) and it’s great, but very flimsy.
Just waiting to get more fabric, so I can get started on the next one!!
We’ve had a wonderful weekend :)
So I’ve been in a baking, sewing, knitting, all around crafty mood the past couple of days. I’ve made three dresses for Fayth out of some vintage pillow cases I had laying around, I’ve knit a swiffer mop cover that works WAY better than the pads you buy for the mop, and I’ve made two cobblers. (Very yummy, I might add! The one for desert tonight was a peach and pear cobbler with crumble topping, and the one for Matt and Stacy’s BBQ was plain ole’ peach.)
We all had an amazingly wonderful time at Matt and Stacy’s! The food was great, there was laughter all night, and there were kids everywhere, including itty-bitties. I made new friends, and so did the kids. It was really, really nice.
I think that I might try to find the quilt squares I have cut out for Brennan’s blanket and get going on that again, since I found my batting and bias tape. He’s two months old already, but I think she’ll like the colors and fabric.
I also want to make a camera strap cover for my Nikon band and maybe a cover for Jake’s collar, since I found a tutorial online for those two things.
Jake is actually being good for once, not jumping on anyone or peeing on anything! (that I’ve noticed yet!!) I love my dog, but sometimes he drives me crazy! He’s playing catch with me while Jack is watching Hunter play Guitar Hero as I blog.
Hollie is out trying to figure out why so many nodes are down, and it’s supposed to get very stormy soon. It rained earlier, and got pretty nasty for a few minutes before just stopping and clearing up again.
Some eye candy for you, because this is the stuff that I want to remember forever. :)
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- love these moments :)
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- We know you’re thinking about us…
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- dresses for Fayth
Nuclear war, anyone?
Has anyone read this?
Apparently the leaders of North Korea have gone completely bat-shit crazy.
I’m sick of this shit. I barely remember the Gulf War, but the “War Against Terror” has been going on for most of my adult life. We’ve been in Iraq for nearly 8 years, and Afghanistan for longer. I can’t say that I’ve experienced the horror of war first-hand, but I’ve seen the aftermath of losing a loved one to war. My best friend lost a very close friend of hers to an IED. Travis Buford was on his way to help another soldier that had been hit by an IED. That was two years ago, and the hurt is just as fresh today as it was the day they got the news. I’ve seen her go through hell, and she was just a friend. God only knows what his family is going through.
I don’t want my kids to ever experience that. I don’t want our family to go through what Travis’ family goes through on a daily basis.
Now this bullshit with North Korea needs to stop. I will never understand what makes war so appealing to some people. Death and destruction and heartache and pain just don’t do it for me, I guess.
One thing stands between us and our dream.
I’m sure that most of you know by now that Stacey and I are trying to start up our own photography buisiness. We’ve got a modest portfolio going, I’m working on a website, and we’ve got a name. All we need is our DBA license, and we’ll be set! The only problem with that is that it’s going to cost roughly $130-$150, and we just don’t have that right now. So, we wait. We can’t legally use our name when taking photos, so we’re “building our portfolio” with scattered appointments.
I think that we have the prices worked out finally and we’ve done lots of comparing and searching of photographers in our area to stay fair and competitive. I don’t want to undercut the people who’ve been around for a while, and I certainly don’t want to overcharge people. Portrait photography is expensive no matter where you go, and if it isn’t, (think Wal*Mart) they lure you in with the $7.99 package but talk you into spending $50 anyways. Even then, you get at the most two poses, and if the first pose that they take didn’t get a smile, then oh well!
We don’t do that. We snap away until we have the perfect shots. I took 178 pictures of Brennan to make sure that I got a handfull of great photos. We did different poses, different angles, different clothing. Sure, it took a lot longer, since we aren’t in a studio and don’t have a cut-and-paste system, but the portraits turned out SO much nicer than anything I could ever expect to get of my kids in a studio. Some good sunlight and a cute face are all that we need to capture those perfect moments.
We also don’t just do babies and children, although that will probably be our main customer base. People love portraits of their kids. But husbands also like the boudoir-style photos of thier wives. Wives love family portraits. Pets look great behind the lense, also! The possibilities in this business are endless. We might wind up doing wedding photography, or being commissioned by the county or city to take photos of events as freelance photographers. Or, it could all bust and we’ll have some awesome memories. You never know.
I guess that I’m just super excited about this. Opportunities like this don’t come often for most people, and I want to make the most of it. This might be our one chance!
I miss this…
This is one of the only pictures of me and my baby brother together… I’ll find the other one tonight and post it.
I miss you Bud.
Ta-Da!
Jackson got a $250 stimulus payment from his SSI benefits. He got his bedroom done up right,
a bunch of clothes, some shoes, some new toys, and a V-Smile gaming system!
Daddy put the letter border up so he'd have something on his walls.
Painting... he had a BLAST!
It is a HUGE difference!
There are also glow-in-the-dark stars and planets on the ceiling, but you can’t see them here. They aren’t sticking
very well, so I’m going to have to figure something out. We’re also going to get some
model airplanes and hellicoptors to hang from the ceiling, and I want to eventually find a
fan that looks like propellers. Maybe Uncle Caleb can help us out with that! :)
We couldn’t find any artwork that would go in his room, and found the cloud stickers on accident in the paint
department of WalMart… I drew the Snoopy VS. The Red Baron picture from a picture online, painted it and framed it.
I think it turned out really, really cute, and he LOVES his rug!
I’m a little upset about the little cabinet, though… I was going to paint the doors the same color blue from the walls to
make it pop a little, but the paint wouldn’t stick to the finish. Oh well! His clothes and shoes are inside on the shelves.
What do you think??
:)
Fun with body parts
So, on Monday I looked like this… only a little redder, the picture is a bit brighter.
Today, I look like this…. only, with less skin…
And finally, because I’m nothing if not completely and utterly inappropriate…
This is Skinney.
Who’s an adorable, horrifyingly large piece of dried up human flesh?
You are, that’s who!
better, sortof
not mad at the world anymore really…
just needed a fucking cigarette. My WONDERFUL, LOVING, GENEROUS husband helped me dig up enough change and went and bought me a pack :)
He would TOTALLY get some nookie tonight if there were a way to do it without having to actually touch…
The thought of my skin coming off by the handfuls completely nullifies any passionate thoughts. Sorry, baby!
fucker…
I’ve just had one of those days. Everything was shitty… Jack was being an all out brat, I’ve been worried about Stacey driving home from San Antonio alone, and I ran out of cigs this morning, with no moolah to go get more. Now my sunburn is blistering up and I have thousands of tiny white blisters on my chest and shoulders that the skin is sloughing off of and it HURTS LIKE A BITCH… I can’t take a bath or put anything on it without it burning like the devil’s kissing it. Then some people are being asswipes, and I’m sick of dealing with it. Hollie is pissed off at me, I’m mad at myself, and I just want to crawl under a rock somewhere and hide for a week.
