Score!!!

Look what I just found in my inbox!!!!Thanks to a very talented friend named AMBER, I now have this awesome desk top calender! Isn't it adorable!!!Thanks Amber! I love love love it!!!!

So I survived my first tent sale today! Just barely! I have never seen so many woman going crazy over stockings and ripped up linens! Down East had a tent sale and that means all the crazies in the Valley came with their games faces on!!!I too was prepared to throw an elbow or hold on a little tighter then socially accepted just to snag an item I had my eye on! I wasn't afraid to hold my own and to be honest it took all I had not to leap inside a huge box trying to reach a baby onsie! At one point I took my keys out, and started breaking down the box so I could get to the good stuff!!! Madness I tell ya!!!

The funny part is I have no idea what I actually bought!!! It was fill a bag so you just started throwing things in and hopefully when you get home your "WOW that was so worth it" pile is bigger then your "What the crap was I grabbing" pile!

Have you ever seen those news clips of crazy woman waiting at the door of a bridal shop in a mob and then being let lose to ravage the contents of a sale? That's basically the idea!




Don't worry... No child was harmed in the making of this journey to the TENT sale!!! My neighbor was kind enough to protect the children from the evils of women and baby sat for me!!!Thank goodness! Car seats were covered and I wasn't worried about kids wondering the parking lot or being covered in tossed and discarded bedding!

So I have a lot of sorting ahead of me! Now don't any of you go and report me to OPRAH as a hoarder! I buy all this stuff to resale on eBay! It's my part time job I needed to support my Sonic habit and addiction to expensive fabric!

A Little Vaca!!!

Ahhh yes!! Nothing like having a hubby gone and letting your house go to pot! With Mike in Provo all week I am taking full advantage of the situation and loving it! Cereal for dinner anyone!?

The girls are hankering down with me each night in my big bed so nights aren't too bad! I sew, do my ebay thing and sew some more! I love not putting my sewing machine away each night or doing my mad dash to clean the house at 5:15 each day! Theses are the days!

And talk about a great day yesterday!!After play group I barely made it to Subway with out eating my left arm, I was so hungry! I love the $5 foot long!!! I'm a veggie girl but when I see a veggie sub for the same price as a meat sub I start evaluating the value!!! So lately I've been indulging in a BLT!!! You're lying if you can say you don't love Bacon!!!

THEN!!!! I called my fav fabric store and got the news I've been waiting for all summer! HEATHER BAILY fabric was in!!!!!! POP Garden is her new collection and it's breathtaking! Better then SEX I tell ya!!! I'm a little more obsessed with Fabric then the next gal but I just love it! It's way pricey but oh so yummy! I made an adorable childrens apron with it last night! Sadly I can't buy it as often as I'd like...I spent $30 on 2 cuts! Ouch!!!!!



Here's the fabric in action!! I have enough to make one more adult sized apron with the Pop Garden fab(Flower fab) So if any of you want to claim it it will go to the first one to let me know! Other wise I'll just sew it and sell it on my blog and etsy shop!!!

I'm working hard all week to get enough inventory to launch my etsy shop! I'm not having much luck selling my baby cloths on ebay! I think it needs a site like etsy! My goal is to have 10 aprons and 15 baby outfits by Friday!

So I'm busy busy busy! I can only be this productive when I leave my responsibilities on the back burner!Don't worry!My kids both still got a bath last night and breakfast this morning! I do most of my work at night!

So I will warn you... If you come to my house this week I won't let you in...it's a wreck!

I love a good vacation!

Tiggidy tagged!!!!

Three Joys

1- my candy stash on days I really need it and/ or finding it after I thought it had been long gone!

2-fabric!!!!!FABRIC!!!!! fabric!!!!!

3-my sister! ( I guess I should say family in general but you all gotta love some sista love!!!!)

Three fears
1-my family getting sick and dying

2-that all my neighbors have seen me naked at least once and then having them tell me about it!!!Just keep it to yourself will ya!!! !!FOR SURE this has happened!

3-birds...all birds!
Current Obsessions
1-ebay

2-fabric

3-sewing
Three facts
1-I'm a self proclaimed lazy person... actually many have called me lazy so it's proclaimed by many not just the one and only!

2-I'd do about anything for Fiesta Grill right now and most days!

3-I love almost more then anything finding old friends and keeping in touch with people from my past!!! I recently found my very first Best Friend from my childhood on Face book!!! I'm a total "KIT" kind of gal!

I tag anyone who has an upper case letter or vowel in their first name! HA HA!!

One Memory!!!

Something fun to do!!!!!! Thanks Steph!

1. Leave one memory that you and I had together, as a comment on my blog. Anything goes.

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll check to see if you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

Apron time!

Here is sneak peak at some of the aprons I have finished!!!I am so proud of them! I really have gotten this pattern down and love seeing each one done! I'll be selling them on my blog and soon to open etsy shop!

These make darling aprons and I wear mine as a shirt as well over a white T.

Again!!!

Toilet Papered again!!!Yep!!! I got home last night at 11 only to find billowing trails of white toilet paper dancing in the wind from my tree tops. UGGG!!!! Seriously folks!!!Do theses culprits realize I don't yet have my personal team of teenagers to clean up this crap! It's ME who cleans up every last piece of wet toilet paper! ME!!!!

And my house is so boring to TP!!!I have like two trees and some hedges!!! If they really want to do some Damage they should do Angie's house!!!Way more things to get your roll stuck in! And for real!!!The first thing that comes to mind when I see my house is an internal cringe!!! All I can think about it how wasteful it is!As a green freak it just makes my skin crawl!!!! And HELLO!!! TP isn't cheap people!!!! This is so a sign of my age! Never before as a teenager would I ever have thought about the huge wastefulness toilet papering was or the sad trees having to be dressed in a coat of their former self!

So any of you who have us on your "To TP list" please cross our name off!!! I'm so over it!!!!!

Well I know one thing! It wasn't Tara, Jennifer, Shelley or Carol Ann who did it!!! We were all celebrating Jennifer and Carol Ann's Birthday at Marble Slab!!! Yeah for girl time! Happy Birthday you two!!!! It was a well needed get together and a worthy event to celebrate!

"Here's my Card!"

Oh yeah baby!I feel a little more legit now that I have business cards! I had written them off when I vowed to stop crafting but my intentions were still to do a few things like my ribbon boxes for example. I found a local store to use and display one of my boxes but she didn't want to display it until I had business cards she could hand out. So there you have it!





Those of you who may need cards printed, Vista Prints is very affordable! I ordered 500 of these suckers and had them shipped all for $21. That's a huge savings from the local bids I got for like $80

Ooh!Ooh! Ooh!!!!! I came home yesterday and found the funnest little package on my door step waiting for me!!! I had signed up to take part in a "Favorite things "Swap on a blog and I received my little box of treasures from my new friend Holly!!!!Thanks Holly!!! Look how she spoiled me!


It been so fun seeing how much alike I am with my new friend!!! Don;t you love how the universe works!!!! Put your self out the re and look what can happen!

Keeping busy!

So I know what you all are going to say! " I thought she gave up crafting!" Well I did!!! At least the stuff that was harder to sell. I have found a few new things to keep me busy and can be marketed better! The problem with my other stuff was that it required Boutiques and small venues in order to sell and I wasn't willing to devote all that time away from my family to sell it!

I now sell all fo my new inventory on ebay and it makes it convienient and easy to manage which was what I needed! And I still get to be creative and make the small "pocket change!" I need.

So I'd like to introduce you all to my new stuff! I now carry and make Pottery Barn Clothing for kids! I buy the Brand New Pottery Barn apparel and add custom designed appliques to cover the existing Monograms! The clothing is all in perfect New condition but becasue of the monograms they have been deamed unsaleable...that is until I get my hands on them!!! I have come up with adorable, perfessional and wearable solutions to not lettign a high quality garment go to waste!

Check them out by clicking here! More items to come! I plan on getting new inventory weekly!

I also have a collection of Personalized Pottery Barn Beach Towels with specific names on them! The odds are you won't all have a daughter named Hailey but you may know someone who does!!! Check out the NEW Pluse PB Towels Here !

Soon I will be adding my fun Apron Shirts to the Blog!!! You will all love 'em!! They are too cute to get dirty in the kitchen so I wear mine as a shirt!!!

Just wanted to share the fun new items!!!

Don't forget that my sale on existing inventory ends at the end of July so buy quickly and spread the word! Thansk again for all of you who have linked my blog or told others of my sale!!! Take care!

Bloggy blog up date!

You know I'm having fun when I don't take the time to blog!!!! Boopers and Emmy got here on Tuesday and it's been great!!! Shopping, eating and Boo and I just doing what we do best!!!

So the crafting hiatus is impossible when we get together. I took her to my favorite fabric store turns out it's now her favorite fabric store!!!Boo loaded up on Amy Butler fabric for some fun projects! I picked up an amazing new apron pattern and successfully completed my very first attempt at following a pattern! I will admit it was a preschool degree difficulty but I was proud non the less!I learned some new things! I wear it over a white t shirt rather then as an apron!!!It's just to cute to get dirty!!! I'll take a picture next time I wear it!

Emmy was a doll! I was so captivated by this tiny little version of my sister with big blue eyes and blond hair!!! I'm so used to my dark babies and chub it was a definite change! The girls loved her...well Blue was a little possessive of her space, mom and anything else that Em seemed to involve herself in!!! Blue was defiantly not her best. Man she was a whiner this whole week!!!

It was great having them here and we miss them already!!

We had our ward service auction on Thursday and I think/hope it went really well!!I seemed that people were having a good time! I was the auctioneer and about lost my voice at the end of the night!!!There were some really great things being auctioned off!I ended up winning a yummy lemon cake and cinnamon roll lessons!!!SCORE!!!

Mike and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary on Sunday!!!YEAH for us!!! We paid our very first babysitter and headed off to dinner on Saturday!!! It was amazing!!! I loved the time together and dinner was the best!We got Thai food and then went grocery shopping before we headed home!!!Now I know what you're thinking!!!Grocery shopping for your anniversary!!!! Does anything sound better then being able to shop with out kids fighting or whining or begging for this and that!!!??? I think not!!! It was great!!!


Ok... that's the wrap up!!! I am off to do some treage on my house!!It's seen better days!!!

T minus...

30 minutes till I go pick up Boo from the airport!!!!!! Baby Emmy is an added bonus...or is Boopers the bonus these days!!! I can't wait to see them both!!!! The girls are so ready for some Aunt Boopers and baby Emmy!!!!!


Ahhhh sister time!!!IS there any better time!

Playing catch up!!!

I feel like I have never been so busy!!! In all of my efforts to simplify my life and ease up on my crafting here I am still up late thinking of random craft ideas and selling my crap!

Thankfully business has picked up and I am selling a few things! Crazy me though I have to keep it on some sort of crazy level. I sold a set of felt food only to find out as I went to package it up to mail that I no longer had a PB & J to send!So there I was whipping up a felt sandwich last night so I could get it in the mail today!

Thanks again for helping me get the word out! My sale will continue on all of this month.

Do you ever just have times in your life when you feel more in love then ever!! So for what ever reason I am so into my husband! Ok... that sounded so weird!!!Not as if I'm not usually but I am just so in love with him! I think I take him for granted too much and I'm just seeing how wonderful he is with new eyes!We are the kind of family that does everything together!We rarely separate on the weekends to get errands done. We are just always together! That might annoy some couples but I love it! He even sat with me in my craft room last night while I frosted some glass just to talk!!! He's a pretty awesome guy! I'm going to miss all our time together when he starts school in a few weeks!

ok... Off to get something done!!!Still projects flood my mind and pile up down stairs. Luckily I have my house work done so no guilt here !!!

Travel log...

I'm trying to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative in life so I'll just barely scratch the surface of what made my trip less then perfect!!! Basically I was unaware my license was expired and didn't find out until I was trying to pick up my rental car! Valid drivers licenses are must apparently!!! Who'd a thunk it!

There was way more fun then folly so lets just dive into all that was wonderful in AZ!!!

First of all Step was more then willing and happy to pick up her disheveled friend at the airport! I meet my nephew for the first time ever and fell in love fast! What a hunk of a perfect baby!!!So cute! I can't tell you how fun it was to spend time with my niece and nephews without my own kids vying for my attention. It was a blast to play with them! Rob and Steph are always a high light!! I have to tell you all...if you can swing it some how get your brother or brother in laws to marry one of your best friends!!! It makes for wonderful family gatherings and vaca's!!! Love you Steph!!!! And she has done so many things to her beautiful home!!!! POST PICS lady!!!

Thanks to the generosity of Rob and Steph I was able to borrow a car and still keep my plans with some good friends!

Michelle is a must see when ever I can swing it!!! A much needed girls day!!! Sarah her adorable daughter and the two of us headed to Down Town Mesa to a hot spot with all the shops a girl could want that I affectionatly named "The Lane!" Domestic Bliss is a store I blog stalk and it was even better in person! Dripping with style and vibrant colors and oodles of goodies. Sadly I still have to pay for my "unrented" rental car so that weighed on my mind and unfortunately kept my wallet in my purse most of the day!

WE had the best lunch ever! Tia Rosa may have had a lack of combos but no more complaining from me!!!I have never before had a better shrimp taco!I'm still dreaming of it!!! and the green salsa was HEAVENLY!!!Hope you liked it Steph! Thanks again Michelle for a wonderful meal!We ended our visit just visiting with the family and relaxing!!! A perfect visit!!!!

Off to one of my best friends on bed rest!!!Shireen is one of those people who I just love and will love forever! We were fast friends in a college ward and close ever since. I can't tell you how fun it was to see her with her belly!!!She only has a few more weeks left and we all can't wait to see little miss!!! It was just like old times, as if no time had passed between our last visit!!! The only thing that would have made that visit more nostalgic was is we would have started to quilt while watching Gilmore Girls!!! Ah the good old days!!

Bryn was just around the corner from Shireen and it was my last stop for the day!!! Note to self.... never pass through AZ without stopping at Bryns house if you can help it!!!!! Talk a bout a good time!!!She was the cutest thing ever!!! Looking as beautiful as ever and I swear she's taller!Maybe I'm shrinking!!! Just as I remember her from college!!!Fun, beautiful and ready for a good laugh!!! The good laughs came the moment she whipped out her box of college photos!!!Let's just say we both had a good laugh at our outfits and hair!!!Were short-all's really in in 1999?!!???? come on now!!! story after story and embarrassing moment after embarrassing moment!!! Ricks College really was a time in my life I will always love!!! Roommates like Bryn made it all the more perfect!!!

Bryn and her family are too cute and she made the best dinner for me that is already on my menu for this week!! Thanks Austin for getting me unlost!! Good thing Dax went to bed that night because I was this close to taking him home with me!!!! Oh that kid!!!!

All in all the trip was a great!!! Those of you who know what else I went through understand my new found love of staying right where I am!

Thanks everyone for a wonderful trip!I am so glad that all my closest friends seem to be doing so well!!!! Love ya all!

Mike had a great time with the girls!!! Everyday was a fun filled Daddy daughter day that he and the girls still talk about!!! I have the best husband ever!It was so great to see them when I got home!I didn't know how much I missed them until I saw them again!!!