Thanksgiving fun!!

Happy Monday everyone!!! WOW!! This has been a really FAST day!! I know that it has been awhile since I have been on here-I hope everyone is doing great. Alittle less than 2 weeks and then it will be Christmas break-Something seriously GREAT for me to look forward to :)

I figured that it was way past time to post my pics from sewing with sis. I wanted to make a reversible messenger bag. I found the top wild fabric on sale at Hobby Lobby a few months ago and fell in love with it. I wasn't sure what I wanted to make out of it but I knew that I had to have it. So after staring at it non-stop I finally decided that I would use it to make my bag. My sister and I have the worst habit of getting together and then not doing really anything-We always say that we are going to do something FUN and GREAT but then it never happens. So we decided weeks in advance that we would have a plan of action and actually follow through and the bag idea was born.
I had a vision in my head-Unfortunately it didn't end up being as easy as I had hoped it would be. The getting it together was fine. Alittle too big so I will have to alter it one day-Knowing me 10 years from now :)

The strap is what I had a time with and I truely HATE it-So needless to say the bag has been hanging in my closet since. Fingers crossed over Christmas Break I will fix it into something that I will really LOVE and start to use.

Here is my sis hard at work. She put quite a bit more into hers-Which totally explains why hers turned out so great. I ended up getting frustrated and quiting before I was completely done with mine.

Ahhh-My pretty Christmas tree :) I have lived in a really small house for the last few years so I bought a small tree a few years ago. I was really excited that this year I actually have room for my big tree and my small tree. Yes-I put up both :) The picture of the small one didn't turn out. I know this picture isn't the greatest (It looks way better in person) But you get the idea. I will try again later. (Maybe)

Only Two weeks left of my class-YIPPEEE!!! This has felt like forever-Fingers crossed that I make atleast a C :)

Until next time-I am out!! Happy week to everyone :)

Sewing with Sis

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope you all did too. My sis and I sewed all day on Saturday (as per our pre-arranged plans). It was supposed to be a boy free weekend, but my sis's husband didn't leave. It ended up working out okay in the end. The picture doesn't show it, but my bag is HUGE. It fits all the yarn I have and the afghan project I have been working on and there is still room for more. If I make this bag again then I will definitely adjust the size a bit. In the picture the color looks a little more neon than it really is. It is a green striped with a white and tan fabric.

I have also included a picture of my afghan progress. This project is quickly loosing steam since it is taking forever to finish.

Good afternoon

Hey everyone. Sorry I don't have pictures or anything good to share but, I wanted to tell you that I have still been working on my afghany thing. I have gotten quite a bit done but I keep forgetting to take a picture to share. I apologize. I will be sure to take a picture soon since I haven't done anything else. I have some days off coming up so I hope to be a bit more productive soon. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

I bought some cinnamon scented pine cones to get me in the Christmas spirit. Now I cannot wait until Thanksgiving so I can start decorating. I don't care what anyone else says.. You are not supposed to decorate for Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving. My neighbors have had their decorations out for over a week now. We can't just skip over the great day of thanks. It is my favorite holiday after all. No commercialization or greedy gift receiving. Just families sitting around the dinner table to eat and give thanks. What could be more peaceful than that?

I hope you all have a good week.

So starts another week

Happy day everyone! I don't really have a bunch to share today-Just wanted to say Hello. I have been off of work for the last 4 days. It was a nice break but at the same time it didn't feel like I really had any time off. I spent the first two days doing school work and the last two days just flew by.
I did win my first video game this weekend-that was very exciting :) I have three boys so I have had many years of video game playing and well I totally suck. So usually anytime that I actually do play they spend the whole time giving me a pep talk. I think that they are scared that I will quit playing if they actually come out and say how bad I really am-Like I don't already know- I mean come on I lose everytime. Anyways-we were playing Wii sports on Saturday night and we were bowling. It took me alittle while-But I did it :) Only once but still. They were all shocked and I think alittle scared :) They way they all reacted you would think that I had found the cure for cancer or something else truely amazing.
Anywho-Have a great week!

Wednesday!!! YAAA!!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!! This week is moving by so slow it is about to make me crazy :) How was everyones halloween? Ours was a lot of fun. Just thought that I would share a few pics with everyone.

My oldest loves Halloween and everything Halloween related. He was the only one that wanted to get all dressed up. I was really impressed with his choice and how he put everything together. The wig is a bit crazy but I love the face paint. He was Gene Simmons last year and this year I think this is Ace Freley so I wonder which one he will pick next year?

I was really disappointed that my 9 year old didn't get all excited like he normally does. Usually he has decided on a costume months before Halloween but not this year. So his brother painted his face so he would have something halloween related. Next year I will have to try harder to get him all excited :) He is my youngest I should still get atleast a few more good years.

The middle one is always in his own world :). He did not want to dress up at all. His big costume was to have his hair straightened and to wear some sunglasses. We had a bunch of people over

that night and he was grabbing whatever he could find from other people and came up with this. This is silly enough-But the poses were seriously priceless and freakin hilarious-Sorry didn't get any pics of the really awesome ones.

Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween. Enjoy the rest of your week-I am seriously trying to :)

Take care.

Blah!!

Happy Halloween-2 days early :) !! We have made it to Friday-YAAAA!!!! I must really be a glutten for punishment or I am just a big oh whimp. I decided for some crazy reason that I wanted to go back to school and so I started back this week. I have no idea what I was thinking-Yes, education is great and it would be awesome to make more money but I am starting to feel alittle overwhelmed. I do not know why I thought I could handle a full time job, 3 kids, teaching one of them driver's ed and take a course. Ok maybe I am just wanting to whine a bit. I do feel like I have a lot going on right now and I may go crazy trying but I know that I can handle it. After all I am not a quiter-Atleast that is what I am trying to tell myself :)
Anyways-Enough of my whining:)
I love Halloween-It is always so exciting to me to see all of the creative costumes that people come up with. This year my oldest is the only one that has really mentioned a costume idea, and that kind of makes me sad :( My youngest said that he will dress up in whatever I want him to-So maybe we can get alittle creative with it. We shall see-I will take some pictures of what we end up with. We usually go to the town's get together so the kids can hang out and see their friends. When they were younger (and I was a stay at home mom) I used to plan a sort of family party and that would be our halloween. We would carve pumpkins, eat junk food and watch scary movies. They would get all dressed up and run between our house and their grandparents. Sometimes I really miss days like that-we didn't have to leave the house and we would have a blast.
Have a great weekend-and a happy and safe HALLOWEEN!!!!

I crocheted!

Good morning everyone! I had a wonderful weekend and I hope you all did too. I had absolutely no plans so I was able to do whatever I wanted. I chose to work on my afghan or blanket or whatever you would call it. It may not look like much, but considering it is 90" long, I made some pretty good progress. My stripes are going to run lengthwise instead of width wise. I am also doing a lot of color changes, but in another couple of rows my pattern will become clear. If you look closely, I also worked in a new stitch I learned. The white stripe is a half double crochet. YouTube is awesome for new beginners. Thank you sis for pointing that out to me!



One thing I did do this weekend was go horseback riding with my awesome friend from the UK. I haven't rode in a long time and it is nice getting back up on the horse again (ha ha! Pun intended). I hope you guys have a great week and I will post again when I get a bit further on by afghan blanket.

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Happy Friday! I hope we all have had a great week. I can not believe how fast this week has been. I was expecting a very long week since my last weekend went by sooo FAST. Last Friday my oldest got his Learner's Permit to drive-so we have spent the week learning to drive. He is currently in driver's ed, which I volunteered to do the parent taught version. When deciding it seemed that this would be easy and not a big deal. Do you know how hard it is to be in the car with your child learning how to drive? It is a very scary thing-Not because they are doing bad but because they are your kid and we as parents try to do everything we can to keep them safe and out of harms way. The first few days we stayed in our neighborhood which doesn't have a lot of traffic so that was easy. There is a highway that runs past my house that is busy at certain times of the day but for the rest of the day pretty calm and quiet-so I decide what the heck lets give it a shot. He is doing great until a car comes up behind us-He gets nervous and I get nervous. I tell him that it is ok, just let them pass so he starts to move out of the way and I realize that his steering isn't all that great and I just see us heading off of the road and I panic-which totally caused him to panic. I don't think that I have ever seen him so scared in all of his 15 years-I felt horrible. We pull over all is well, except he is terrified and never wants to drive again. So we head home and call it a day. He texted all of his friends and told them about how he almost died :) He's alittle overdramatic. The next day I decide to take him to a back road out by our house. He did amazing. He felt so good about it that he decided he wanted to try the highway again-So I gave him a few pointers and on the highway we go-He was wonderful, alert and careful. He still got nervous when cars were behind us, but he would take deep breath and slow down so they could go around us. As much as the previous experience scared the crap out of both of us-I seriously think that it ended up really helping him. When we got home he told me that he was proud of himself because he didn't almost kill us again-see overdramatic :) Keep your fingers crossed for me this weekend-We are getting out again. Good Luck to all of you that are in my same situation :) It does get better.
I have a few projects that I plan on working on this weekend. I am going to get my magazine purse done (hopefully), fix the hem on a few pairs of pants, crochet another hat and hopefully get a chance to go thru all of my photos and memory cards and get that totally organized. Other than that I have no plans-YIPPEE!!!! No leaving the house and no one coming over :)
One last thing-(I know totally random) I LOVE the way that Damon pulled Mason's heart out of his chest last night on Vampire Diaries and I almost liked Stephan at the end when he was teary eyed :)
Anyways-Ta Ta for now!
Have a great weekend-I totally plan on it.

Life as a part-time creator

I am sure many of you have noticed that I have not been posting like I should. What can I say? I have been incredibly lazy lately and not feeling the creative bug. I always go through dry spells and this one seems to be a long one. I am hopeful that I will pick back up soon and start crafting and creating again.

That being said...

I was at my sis's house this past weekend and she has been learning to crochet. Now, I know one crochet stitch and I am proud of her for learning something new (and to be honest, a little jealous). While we were talking crochet she showed me an awesome pumpkin a friend of hers made that is so soft and vibrant. That little pumpkin made me want to find that yarn and crochet the one stitch I know. My thanks goes out to the friend cause I did find the yarn and last night I started working on my own afghan (is that right??). I think the stitch I know is called the double crochet, but I am not sure. Anywhos, here is a photo of what I have so far. I am using two yarns because I love soft blues and pinky reds together. I hope you enjoy and sorry for my absence.

hey, hey, HEY!!!

Ugh-The beginning of a new week. This was a FAST weekend. Friday we went to the in-laws and stayed the night, which was pretty nice. Saturday we got up and went to the Renaissance Festival. This year we decided to bring the kids. I think they had fun maybe the first 2 hours that we were there. We spent the whole time trying to entertain them and spent a fortune in the process. After awhile it was just too hot and miserable so we ended up leaving.
Last year we left the kids at my moms and things just seemed to flow better, and we went in November so it was nowhere near as hot. Hopefully we will remember all of this if we plan for next year.

I think this was the boys favorite part of the day :)

Thombo agreed to get his face painted only if I agreed to get mine painted too. Poor kid when he tried washing it off later he scrubbed way too hard and ended up all red and puffy.

We decided to dress-up this year-It was a lot of FUN but it was miserable HOT. I think jeans would have been more comfortable.

Then the entertainment-Some more interesting than others. Yes the men are covered in mud-they ate it too-that was enough for me to decide it was time to move on to the next thing. YUCK!
Here we are in our face painted glory :)

On Sunday-I woke up at 7:30 and anyone that knows me-knows that is a rare and strange thing for me. I didn't feel good so I sat around until about 9:30 and then all of a sudden I got a serious energy boost. So we went on a cleaning/rearranging spree. I think that is why I am so tired and BLAH today.
Anyway-The shelf is up and my craft corner is now clean and organized (FINALLY)!!! So now no more excuses-I now know where everything is :)
Here is the before picture: ----------------------------And here is the after: Much Better :)
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While cleaning I came across this:
My two older boys made this when they were small-It is amazing to me how much imagination kids have-I wish some of it would rub off on me :) I love finding things from when they were small-It is nice to take a stroll down memory lane.
Have a great week :) And from the words of my 14 year old-Do Something CRAZY!!

Friday, I'm in love!!!

We have made it through yet another week. This has been a slow one for me. My 9 year old who is always wishing for Friday-came to me on Wednesday and was like wow mom this has been a really fast week it is already Wednesday and all I could think at that time was-UGH it's only Wednesday. Isn't it crazy how two people can look at the same exact thing and have total opposite feelings about it?
My oldest started drivers ed this week-I can not believe that he is even old enough for that already-or that I am old enough to have a son that is old enough :) (that was a mouthful) I realize that the older he gets, the older I get-But for some reason I still feel like a kid majority of the time.
We are going to The Renaissance Festival tomorrow. We went last year and had a blast. This year we are dressing up and bringing the kids so that should be for an interesting time. On Sunday I hope to get crafty like I did last weekend. I have found a lot of really cool things that I would really like to make.
Have a great weekend!!

The start of a new week :)

Happy Monday!!! I feel so much better today than I did last week. For some reason my allergies have been kicking my butt for the last two weeks. So I am enjoying the relief while it lasts :)
I had a great weekend!!! We had family in from out of state-Which was really great. I think it has been about 8 years since the last time that I had seen them.
I think the no challenge weekend-Really motivated me to get crafty :)
On Friday I went to a friends house and she taught me how to make this hat-
I finished it yesterday and I love the way that it turned out. So I am going to go find some more yarn and make another one.
I started making this a few weeks ago but never got around to finishing it-But I finally did yesterday :) He wanted a Haunted Camo Bunny with 5 legs-I think it turned out cute and he was very excited about it.

I wove this awhile back-I want to make a purse out of it but I can't decide exactly how I want it to be. I really like the way that it looks and I think that it would make an awesome bag-But I keep coming up with different ideas and can't decide on one. Maybe I will just weave another mat and make two-then I don't have to pick just one :)

I just finished the third book in The Mortal Instrument series-I enjoyed it very much and would highly recommend it to anyone-And great news I just read that there will be three more books added :) Totally gives me something to look forward to-UGH I hate waiting, I am not a very patient person :)
I hope everyone had as good of a weekend as I did-I got plenty of rest and relaxation. And I actually got all of my laundry done and hung :) Maybe that means that this will be a GREAT week. One can only hope-right?
Until next time :)

:) Hello :)

Happy Friday!!! Ok so we have decided to start doing things alittle bit different on here. We originally started this as a way for us to get motivated to be creative, but instead I think that we have blocked our creative juices from flowing. So now instead of a set challenge every week-lets face it life is busy, we will use this to talk and share about whatever we want. So instead of challenging each other we will start challenging ourselves. If we do something creative or awesome along the way we will definitely share. And every so often we will put in a challenge or two for each other to do.
I hope this doesn't completely bore and chase off the few readers that we do have. I promise we will still try to make it as interesting as possible and we will post atleast once a week for sure-sometimes more depending on what is going on with us.
I have been reading a few blogs that I thought I would share: www.newdressaday.com this girl is amazing! She sews/makes something everyday and only spends $1.00. WOW- I have a hard enough time trying to do something once a week (and I pick easy stuff) :( But I will use the excuse that I have 3 kids, a full time job and I am about to start back to school.
The other blog that I really like is: www.verityclothing.wordpress.com This one posts about once every week or two but she really puts a lot into what she does so it takes her more time to complete.
These two women really inspire me, the dedication that they have-maybe one day, that will be me as well.
Have a great weekend!! Do something FUN!! I will be hanging with the fam. I have an uncle visiting that I haven't seen in about 8 years and my sister and her hubby are coming to visit-So it should be great fun.
Talk to you all next week!!!

It's the Weekend!!!!!!!!!

Happy Friday!!! Hope everyone had a GREAT week!!! Mine was ok-I feel as if I am coming down with something-Hopefully it is just allergies and will pass very soon. Well-we made it to the weekend-YAAAA!!! I have absolutely positively NO plans this weekend. I take that back I have a small plan-I promised my nine year that we would make a stuffed monster pillow this weekend-which should be quick and easy.
As for our weekend challenge-Be creative!! It doesn't matter what it is-Sewing, cooking, crocheting, painting, organizing etc.... Whatever enters the mind just do it and have atleast alittle FUN while doing it.
We are currently talking about opening a store on Etsy, there are a few things that we need to figure out 1. What are we going to name it? and 2. What in the heck are we going to make and sell? I have a few ideas but have yet to come up with a full blown plan. So if anyone has any ideas that they care to share we would love to hear them. As everyone knows we are serious slackers-So keep reading and watching to see if we can actually make this happen :)
Have a great weekend!!! Talk to you all later

Sorry I suck so bad

Hey guys. I know I haven't posted in a very long time. I haven't really been feeling the photo bug. I have been on the go for several weeks now and when I am super busy I don't like to bring my camera. I know that is a crappy excuse, but when I am busy I just feel more strained when I add the task of taking pictures to the mix.

In an effort to make it up to you I took a couple of pictures on my way home yesterday. I am also going to post a couple of KISS photos. Mine could never come close to my sis's pictures so I am only posting two of my favorites.

The drive home... I really like this first picture. I would love it if the houses weren't there. Stupid houses! I took a second shot after the houses were out of the frame, but the cloud cover was different and less impressive. The last shot is my cemetery picture. I pass by this lonely cross every day on my way home from work. Usually the grass is all grown up around it but they just cut it a couple of days ago.

Now the KISS pictures. As I stated above, my sis's pics of the actual concert are way better than mine. I didn't have my camera so I was stuck using my camera phone. My absolute fav is the first pic. Sorry it is grainy but it was pretty dark at the concert. I love that you can see how crowded the pavilion was and the excitement of the kid in front of me is priceless. The second picture is the cover over the stage while they setup.

Sorry I have been so delayed in posting. I will try to do better.

Blah, Blah! It is Monday.

Happy Monday-How is everyone's day so far? It has taken me awhile to get going today. But here I am. I hope everyone had a great weekend.
We went to see KISS and it was a great show.
Opening for them was The Envy-I had never heard of this band before but I really liked them a lot. Enough in fact that I am going to go and download some tunes from them.

Also opening for them was-The Academy Is...

Then it was time for KISS. It was really hot and muggy-typical Texas weather and these guys came out in FULL KISS dress, these guys put on a great show for some old dudes. They performed for like 2 hours, constantly moving and constantly entertaining. I personally could have done without all of the drool that Gene Simmons had everytime he stuck his tongue out. I found it really gross-But I am sure there were plenty of people there that found it totally HOT and I say good for them. Through majority of the performance they kept spitting-About halfway thru I was really starting to feel sorry for the people that were up front by the stage. I guess like my sister pointed out they could just swab the spit and sell it on ebay or something-Which I guess would make the shower worth while. Other than that it was really an AWESOME show and I am very happy that I went. As an added bonus it gave me extra points in the my mom rocks department-And trust me you can NEVER have too many of those points :) I hope everyone enjoys the pictures and I am truely sorry-But I did not get any pictures of Gene Simmons breathing fire or spitting blood-I know I totally suck :(
On a positive note, they said that $1.00 of every ticket sold was given to The Wounded Warrior program and towards the end they came out with a big check for $405,308.00 (I think that is what the total was-If not it was close to this) and I think that is AWESOME!!!



Anyways-Everyone have a great week!!
Until next time, I am out!! :)