Twas the day before school started…

August 17th, 2010 Shelly

The kids are all SO excited for school to start tomorrow!  I get serious déjà vu this time of year too.  The first day of school was one of my favorite days of the year, even in high school and college…I always loved the first day of school.  The boys have their clothes all picked out and laying out ready to go in the morning.  I don’t think I will have any problems with bed time tonight!  I did tell them that they had to clean their rooms today though, so we’ll see how well that goes.

I don’t really have a to do list today.  All my laundry is done…I need to clean bathrooms, but that’s about it here in the house.  I do have a lot of work to get done, but it’s not really worthy of a to do list.

I don’t know if I have mentioned how much I absolutely LOVE my Kindle!!  Oh wait, I think I have!  Seriously, it’s the best thing I have bought in ages…I don’t know how I lived so long without it.  I don’t miss books at all.  It turns out it’s what is in the book, not the actual book that matters!  I have discovered a couple of new authors that I would never have found if not for the Kindle and Amazon’s amazingly cheap (sometimes free) prices.  I just read 4 books by Amanda Hocking, actually all of her books, in just a few days.  I am not so patiently waiting for the 4th book in the first series and the 2nd in the other one.  They will both be coming out very soon.  I also just started reading a series by S.L. Naeole last night.  I haven’t gotten far yet, but it sucked me in right away and promises to be very good.  They are are all YA urban fantasy or paranormal series, but lately those have been my favorite to read.  I have a pretty good wish list started on Amazon, but I am going to try to read all the ones I have on my Kindle before getting any new ones!

I have been getting a lot of work done lately and then a little sewing for fun.  I made my first project for my {Urban} Home Goods Swap the other day.  It’s a pin cushion caddy from the new Seams to Me book by Anna Maria Horner that I bought the other day.

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Well, I suppose I should get started on something new today!  I finished up 3 orders yesterday, but they were all smaller ones, I need to do a bigger bag today.  Hopefully once school gets going I can get adjusted to a regular schedule again.

Have a great day!

Busy Weekend

August 14th, 2010 Shelly

It’s not necessarily because I am doing anything fun though…just working.  I am going to try to get enough done today that I can take it easy and just read and sleep tomorrow.  I did finish Bailey’s Messenger Bag today, so now she has a bag to take all her stuff to school it.  That was my number one priority this weekend and it’s done!

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I think this is one of my favorite bags ever!  I love the colors and prints in it.  Do you like it too?  If you do and you want to buy one for your child just click on the link up there…they are on sale for the rest of this weekend too!

I still have a DSLR bag to finish up today and about 5 loads of laundry to wash, dry, fold and put away, 2 bathrooms to clean, and floors to sweep and vacuum…I guess I better get back to work then!

Flickr Friday #2

August 13th, 2010 Shelly

hmmm, I wonder what the theme for this week is!!

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1. Flea Market Fancy – giveaway!, 2. MMmmm.. Orla Kiely, 3. Fabrics, 4. Fabric storage, 5. Sunday Stash #55, 6. sunday stash #10, 7. New Kaffe Fabrics, 8. Sunday Stash # 3, 9. Sunday Stash #52, 10. 37.365 (Sunday Stash), 11. New Stash for a New Year, 12. I admit it…., 13. a fabric lead!, 14. Blog Give-A-Way… I’m turning One!, 15. mystery quilt retreat fabric!

 

The theme this week is fabric, stacks and stacks of beautiful bright fabric.  I just love fabric and I love to see it all stacked up in piles like in these photos.  I am especially loving that bright blue room up there in photo #4.  That cabinet with all the bins, and tins and boxes is just incredible.  If I ever am lucky enough to have a really awesome sewing room all to myself I am definitely painting it that color!  I love that color combo too, you see those colors in alot of the photos that I favorite on flickr.  I take pictures of my fabrics when I get them, but in most cases they aren’t as pretty as these, but only because they are for so many different projects so they are fabrics that don’t really go together.  It I were buying for a quilt they would be just this pretty!  I only wish I had time for a quilt….

I have errands to run today and I don’t really want to go anywhere at all…if I could send Jake to get the stuff I need I totally would.  I don’t want to even go to the fabric store!  I also have to drop off some fabric to be embroidered.  I think Jake is going to take the kids swimming for one last time before school starts next week.  We have a birthday party tonight for my niece Sydney who turns 6 today, then tomorrow night is a 60th wedding anniversary party for Jakes Grandparents.  Lots going on this weekend.  I have a camera bag to do today and then I MUST get Bailey’s messenger bag done tomorrow or I am going to be behind again…

I am having a sale at Pink Punk Boutique this weekend…a Back To School Sale!  Everything in the store is 15% off until Midnight(CST) on Sunday.  If you have been wanting to order something, do it now while it’s on sale!!!

Well, I gotta go make a list of the zippers I need to get today!  FUN!!  Have a good weekend!

BTT: Evolution

August 12th, 2010 Shelly

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Have your reading choices changed over the years? Or pretty much stayed the same? (And yes, from childhood to adulthood we usually read different things, but some people stick to basically the same kind of book their entire lives, so…)

My reading choices have changed quite a bit over the years.  I have always liked a good romantic story, even when I was younger.  When I was in my twenties, all the way through, I would read only historic romance novels.  Like really, that’s all I would read unless it was something for a class in college.  I didn’t like anything that was set in modern times.  I eventually started reading some of Nora Robert’s fantasy trilogies, set in modern times but with a twist of fantasy, still romance though.  About 3 and a half years ago I kept seeing Stephanie Meyer’s name everywhere.  All my on-line friends were reading the Twilight series so I caved and bought the 1st book, within a week I had read the first 3 and was left waiting 8 months for the last one to be released.  By that time, I had discovered a genre that I had never given a second thought.  Since that time I have read at least 300 books, probably no less that 25 different series and the majority of them have been in the genre of fantasy/horror/sci-fi.  I will not say that my tastes have “evolved”, but I can’t stomach a historic romance anymore unless it has some element of fantasy thrown in like the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon.  And I do like to read some more recent bestsellers like the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, I did really enjoy those.  I am starting to branch out a bit!

Wordless Wednesday: School Supplies for 3!

August 11th, 2010 Shelly

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No to do list today!

August 10th, 2010 Shelly

I am not doing a list today.  I got most of my stuff around the house done yesterday.  Today I just need to get caught up on work stuff.  I had to take the 2 oldest kids to the dentist this morning. Neither of them had any cavities, so that was good news!  The bad news is that Bailey has to see an orthodontist pretty soon.  She has a lot of crowding (like my whole family does) and some of her permanent teeth aren’t going to come it with out having some orthodontic work done.  I am not looking forward to the expense that comes with this.  We have dental insurance that does cover orthodontics, but I don’t know how much.  I guess that’s something I need to start checking in to.

I started working on something with my hex swap goodies the other day, but I only got as far as stitching the hexes together!

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I just haven’t had a chance to work on it anymore.  I have too many orders that I really need to get done and shipped.  I have to finish a camera strap for one and it’s ready to go, and I have the next one almost cut out.  My goal for today is to get these 2 done today and shipped tomorrow.  I also have a tote bag to make for my niece for her birthday on Friday…I still need to pre-wash the fabric for that one!  I guess I need to get on the ball!

I guess my pictures that I posted yesterday helped make everything better…especially the one of Alcide (Joe Manganiello).  I had a really nice dream about him last night and I woke up in a much better mood today!  I think that deserves another picture!  I will give you a more polished picture this time.

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I am not one to like a full beard, but you can’t deny that he wears it well.  I am so glad he got picked up as a regular character, I can’t wait to see what they do with him in future seasons, hopefully he will have a bigger part than he does in the books.

Well, I have work that must be done…have a great day!

Just one of those days…

August 9th, 2010 Shelly

I am having one of those all around crappy days.  You know the kind where you wake up because you have to get up…not because you want to.  Then everything is annoying.  I don’t feel like doing anything.   ANYTHING.AT.ALL  Like I want to go back to bed and sleep the rest of the day.  I have work that has to be done and I have kids that wouldn’t let me sleep anyway.  I don’t want to be online, I don’t want to answer emails, I don’t want to sew, I don’t want to do anything, but I am.  I have answered messages, I have made lunch and a tuna casserole so that Jake has something to take for dinner tonight (no one else in this house will touch tuna with a 10 foot pole!), I have made a pot of coffee for my frappucinos, I have cut out and started on a zippy wristlet and key fob for an order that I am finishing up, I put away all the clean laundry, and I just started my 2nd washer load today… I am drinking a RockStar Energy Drink, but even that’s not helping!  I am just a pathetic mess today…seriously, I have no business being around anyone until I feel better!  I really think I am working too hard and not getting enough sleep.  I don’t know…

I hope tomorrow will be better, but an 8am visit to the dentist with 2 kids, one of whom absolutely hates going to the dentist, may not be the best way to start the day!

I don’t even have a good picture of my own today…maybe these will make me feel better!

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My very favorite werewolf. Alcide!

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My favorite Vampire, Eric!

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My 2nd favorite Vampire, Edward!

Maybe I do feel a bit better….

Flickr Friday!

August 6th, 2010 Shelly

Can you guess what my theme is today?!  It’s really not that hard!

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1. Pink Petals, 2. pink room, 3. pretty in pink 1950s kitchen, 4. ~Love Wrap In A Bubble~, 5. Standing on a Pink stool, wearing pink shoes, pink socks, a pink tutu, in front of a pink house… This is a true story! HBM, 6. Pink Easter twig, 7. H O N E Y C H I L D, 8. The other side of my sewing/craft room, 9. Georgia’s Quilt, 10. spring is coming…….., 11. Matt pink and red Lamborghini Murciélago LP670-4 Super Velocé!!!, 12. Pink Magic…., 13. stinkin’ pink, 14. Sewing Corner, 15. Princess in pink

Did you figure it out?!  I don’t know when I started liking pink, I don’t think that I always have, it’s something that’s developed as I have gotten older.  Now if you give me a choice of anything and there is something pink there…that’s what I will choose nearly every time.  Looking at Elsie’s pink hair up there in photo 10 really makes me want to do all my hair pink.  Maybe if I was skinny and cute like she is I would…!

I decided last night what I am going to do with my Swap hexes and I started stitching the big ones together.  I may work on it a little this weekend, if I have time.  I have a camera bag I need to get done this weekend too.  This particular order has a camera strap and Zippy Wristlet as well and I had to re-order the little clips for the wristlet and more webbing for my camera strap ends, so I can’t finish the order completely, but if I get the camera bag done and everything else cut out and sewn to the point where I need the hardware it will be an easy thing to finish up.

This weekend is tax free weekend here in Missouri.  I know that I can’t be the only one out there who waits until the last minute to get the kids school supplies.  We have not got anything of their lists yet.  Every year we wait until the last minute and end up scrambling around to find everything only to get to school the first week and find out that half the stuff on the list they didn’t even need!  I know we are going to get them some school clothes this weekend…I don’t even want to think of all the school supplies we need to buy!  Now I am really wishing we had pre-ordered the school supply kits at the end of last year.

I finished Linger last night.  I have had if for a week, but I had a book from the library that was a 7 day loan so I had to read it first!  I like in the Kindle that I can see the % of the book that I have read.  When I started last night I was at 47% and I was up until 12:30 finishing it!  Now I have to decide what to read next.  I have a nice little list to choose from though!  I spent WAY too much time yesterday going through all the books that I have read in the past few years and finding out when the new books to each series are coming out.  So much time that I decided to make a list and add it to my blog!  You can see my book lists here, or from the Books link that up up at the very top.  You can also see a list of all the books I have read in the past almost 2 years.

Well, I have things that need to be done…have a great Friday!

Another quick post

August 5th, 2010 Shelly

As you can see I updated my blog template, I wanted something a little more me…I am not sure I am quite there, but I do have the pink so I am at least halfway there!  I have been trying out the blog memes because I want to try to post more and this gives me a quick post even on those days I have nothing to talk about.  I know that I did a Flickr mosaic for my WW post, but I think I am going to do a Flickr Friday from now on.  I don’t know that I will do a mosaic each time, but I will be sharing some of my faves and maybe doing some themes.  I will have to think about what I want to do tomorrow.

The reason I came back to post is because I got my Round 2 Hexie Swap in the mail today.  It is awesome!!  I love Heather Ross prints and I tell you they are VERY hard to get a hold of these days.  I have a few pieces of these prints, but I tell you I am loving these hexes!  I am going to think of something extra special to do with them so stay tuned to see what I come up with.

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They are bigger than the ones I have been making too…so that will be fun!

Ok, I have work to get done and I have played around enough today!

BTT (Booking Through Thursday): First Love

August 5th, 2010 Shelly

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What is the first book you remember reading? What about the first that made you really love reading?

Honestly I don’t remember the first book that I read on my own…the one that made me love reading.  I remember my mother reading The Little House Series to my sister and I when we were small and I loved those.  I do remember reading those on my own the first time and I loved them just as much then.  I remember my Grandma taking all of us grandkids that were old enough to the library and letting us check out books.  Some of the ones I remember loving were, Little Women, A Little Princess, The Little Match Girl, The Secret Garden, and so many more.  I moved on to Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden in no time and I would pretty much devour any book I could get my hands on.  I still do!  I love to lose myself in a book, in the fantasy of the story, that’s why I love to read.

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