I did it – I started my own etsy shop. It’s one of those things that have been on my “list”. I’ve had a few friends that have tried it and it just didn’t work out for them. So I’m realistic that it might not work out. BUT, what if it does? What if I could make a quilt a week or so and sell them? That would be awesome! I’ve got my first quilt posted and my fingers crossed that someone will see it and fall in love with it.
I love {LOVE} love this aqua color!
Hey! My picture posted! That means I can start writing on my blog again! There’s been soo many things I’ve done that I wanted to post but for some reason wordpress was being wierd and I couldn’t get pictures to upload. A post without pictures is just boring.
I made swimming suit cover-ups for the girls after I saw some at Costco. I can’t remember what the price was on them but I thought, really, for a little tiny piece of terry cloth it costs that much?! I had this ugly old beach towel in the linen closet that I didn’t like at all so I cut it up and sewed some velcro on it and there you go, {FREE} swimsuit cover-ups. The girls are little enough I was able to get two out of one towel. They don’t look too cute, but at the end of the season I’ll buy a new beach towel when they go on sale and make nice ones for next year. Lucky for me the girls don’t really care what they look like, but I have a feeling that’s going to change pretty quick.
The towels are still a little wet because we just got back from the splash pad, so please excuse the water spots! My older girl is 5 years old and the length that worked good for her is 24 inches long. The width is just the width of the towel. The straps are 11 inches long (you could shorten this by and inch or two to bring it up higher) and 1.5 inches wide on both the cover-ups. My little girl is two years old and hers is 18 inches long and the width was just what was left over after the straps were cut out of the towel. The raw edges were folded over and zig-zagged, if I had a serger I would have serged them. Let me know if you have any questions! I’m happy to be back posting again!
Linking to: Craft-O-Maniac
For our activity the other leader had the idea of teaching the girls how to finger weave. She said her nieces had done it at their activity days and thought it was the best activity ever. Sister “J” didn’t know how to do it so we “youtubed” it and taught ourselves. It’s really easy – there was only one girl in our group (the youngest) and she just could not wrap her brain around the idea of finger weaving. The other girls in the group thought it was soo fun!
{Imagine some really cute pictures of the girls with their awesome finger woven scarves here. WordPress isn’t letting me upload any of them. How awesome.}
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Hi everyone! I haven’t posted in awhile because wordpress was being funky and I couldn’t post pictures. Posts are no fun to read without pictures (if your a visual person like I am). so I just haven’t bothered to post. So, what have I been up to the past few weeks? Working on my goals of course! I have some fun ones – the first one – I’ve mentioned it before, but I really want to learn how to take good pictures. Here’s a picture I did by myself with a remote.
Anyhow, I’m determined to figure out this whole f-stop, ISO, aperture business.
Another goal for this year is to find some good tasting healthy recipes. By the end of the year I want a whole binder full of healthy recipes that I can make without a ton of effort. I made black beans and rice with chicken and apple salsa last week and ohmygoodgravy is was soo dang good!
And lastly, become a scripture scriptorian. The excuse about not having enough time to study isn’t valid. The gospel and my family is where my mental focus should be, so I need to spend a little more time studying the scriptures. I’ve been doing this in the afternoon when the girls are playing or watching tv and I’ve learned a lot more than when I just try to read a chapter before going to bed.
Anyhow, all those goals leave me with not much time to think about crafting. That’s all right by me. I don’t miss it. I haven’t looked at a craft blog in a long time – it’s just not what I’m interested in anymore. (I still make the occasional hair bow for my girls though.) I think my new goals have replaced making “things” with much more important, more time worthy things. Only problem is, what do I post about now?
I can’t believe it’s been so long since I blogged last. Christmas is a busy time. Time for stomach bugs, present wrapping, cookie baking. Who has time to blog? Here’s my last installment of “what has elf on the shelf Snowflake been up to”, I promise. Maybe my blog will get a life and blog about more interesting stuff after Christmas, or not.
Happy Elfing!
Linking to: Craft-O-Maniac Elf Party
I have felt so blah lately. Darn sinus cold! But the elf is still elfin’ at our house. This was what she was doing Sunday morning. I wish I was laying on a warm beach too!
Do you like her skirt? Call me a grinch but I wasn’t going to buy one off the website and Macey kept talking about her coming back from the north pole with a cute skirt. So I made one with what I had on hand. Seriously, that’s all the red felt I had. Haha, Snowflake’s a little immodest!
One morning Snowflake was sitting by a bowl of muddy buddy’s (snowballs) with a cute note for the girls. I wish I would have got a picture of it but it was pretty much gone by lunchtime.
Happy elfin’ to ya!
I think the elf Santa sent is a little crazy in the head.
This one got a big “oh my goodness!!” out of Macey.
The elf turned around my Merry Christmas blocks to spell Miss Macey. Too bad there’s no d’s in Merry Christmas to spell Maddy.
Snowflake was tired and just needed a soft place to land for the day.
And I didn’t get a picture of the day Snowflake turned the milk green – but I’m sure you can picture that one in your mind. 🙂
Happy Elfing!
Our silly elf Snowflake was found lounging on top of a picture yesterday. She kind of looks like she’s contemplating the meaning of it. Ok, maybe not, but it’s a funny pose.
This morning Snowflake left a note. Macey was soo excited she had to come wake me up to tell me about it. Lucky me. But seriously, this elf on the shelf thing is soo fun. Justin has fun figuring out where to put it. Last night I think he spent 20 minutes putting it in different places before settling on top of the cupboards. Even Maddy thinks it’s fun. She points and tells me “Up there! Up there!”. I guess this is a tradition that will continue next year too since the whole fam is enjoying it. I hope I don’t run out of places to put it before Christmas though!
This morning when we went running it was thirty stinkin’ seven degrees outside! Brrr! Maddy looks soo cute all bundled up like a eskimo baby. I just started a 30 week training plan for a marathon. We’ll see how that goes. It starts off easy with 2-3 mile runs. No prob. But the next phase is 12- 18 mile runs. That makes me nervous. Maybe I’ll try for a half marathon, I dunno. Any runners out there? Any advice?
I just had to show off my little gingerbread bows I made for Macey yesterday. I for sure won’t be doing a tutorial for these! It was kind of make-it-up as you go. I’m sure anyone could figure it out from looking at the pictures though.
She was all excited to wear them to school today!
Our Elf on the Shelf was dropped off by Santa last night. I was going to do it Friday night but decided to wait until Justin was home so he could help me out with the drop-off. Did anyone see that Elf on the Shelf movie that was on TV Friday night? It was soo dang cute. Right after it was over I called Santa Claus and asked if we could have a elf come to our house. Macey was soo excited she was giggling like crazy. So last night we got our elf, gave her a name (Snowflake), and read the book. She spent the night in her box on top of the piano.
But when the girls got up this morning she had magically landed on top of the temple picture. I know, not really creative, but we decided to start out small and then get to the creative ideas. 🙂 Happy elfing!
