I knew he was being too quiet...

Dad and Conni kept Chloe and cousin Olivia last night so they could have a slumber party then had church and donuts this morning. When they brought Chloe home they brought in leftover donuts. I come into the living room to see Chloe after they left for 2 seconds and realised just how quiet it was in here and just knew...



He scaled right up there and somehow got the lid off the box. What a little stinker...

It's been awhile...

I guess I haven't been all that motivated lately. I've made a few beads, put together a pair of earrings for Chloe's teacher for an end of the year gift but that's about it...I actually can't reach my torch very well these days since my belly makes me sit too far away and I've had to adjust how I hold my arms and it's honestly a big pain in the rear (well, shoulders-lol)

Soooooo-I've decided to just chill out and not worry about making anything right now and when I think of something cute I just jot it in my notebook for later days. I"ve had tons of contractions lately so I've gone ahead and set my etsy shop on a temporary close down til I'm up and at em again-Maybe a couple weeks/month?

Other than trying to get ready for baby I've been just trying to organise what we'll be doing this summer. It's time to start planning Chloe's 7th (dang I cannot believe it!) birthday party, Trav's aunt and uncle from Fla coming up to visit at the end of June, trying to come up w/ a long weekend trip (so far it sounds like hiking at Starved Rock by our friends Tim and Jolene) and scheduling vacation bible school, swimming lessons and art camp for Chloe...

I'll check back in here soon and hopefully have more exciting stuff to talk about and maybe some pictures...:)

Featured in more ways than one...

I woke up one morning last week and saw that my little pink earrings in my shops views had jumped over 400 views overnight...what on earth?????? After digging around I found that I had been featured on etsy's front page! :) woohoo-pretty cool!

I then received a nice email from Blossoming Tree Bodycare that she'd like to feature me on her blog and sent a little interview to fill out. Of coarse I did it and she's got it posted up today...

I think that's a really neat thing to do-feature other artists and get some exposure for them-maybe one of these days I'll get organised enough to try that out. :)

In other news-I've been taking it pretty easy. Been trying to figure out what I want to make for Chloe's teacher for her end of the year gift and making some disks for earrings...Nothing too exciting. With only about 3 weeks left until the baby comes (or less??) I'm trying not to dive into anything new or time consuming projects right now.




Speaking of time consuming projects! Trav has been rebuilding our front porch for the last few weeks...Looks like I may have a porch to actually sit on this summer!!! I am so excited. It's ready for the flooring to be put down-he's ordering it today. I feel like I've got the ugliest house right now-1/2 of the siding on the porch is gone w/ just that black paper exposed, nasty brick columns have been torn out and the whole thing is being supported by 2x's-scary thing is he put those supports in the day before that earthquake-so of coarse when that hit the first thing he did was run for the window to see if the porch had fallen down-lol. This whole project has been a pain in my rear for at least 2 yrs now. He started it when I was on maternity leave w/ Gabe---this house was so messed up-the original wrap around porch had been all enclosed so what we did was take the side porch area and make it into a sunroom where my studio is now and knock back the front enclosed area to turn it back into a porch. The first shot is what the house looked like when we bought it-Yikes-( it was in foreclosure) and the next one is with the support walls in place so he could tear out those columns-that wall is now gone as is that column and is being supported w/ what looks like toothpicks (to me) lol. Hopefully in about a month or so I'll have a prettier picture to show :)

New bracelet

Here's the toggle bracelet that I listed today. It was pretty hard to photograph to show the colors well...

Just made a few sets of disks and droplets to hopefully whip up a couple pair of earrings tomorrow. I just didn't have the patience to sit in there any longer today-I was so hot and uncomfortable! It's so muggy and humid and gross out today-turning on the ceiling fan doesn't help since it just blows my flame all over...er. I'm glad though that we haven't been hit with the severe storms they've been calling for all day-large hail,damaging winds,etc...although I don't think we're in the clear yet.

So my house smells like a brewery-sigh. Trav made and bottled his own beer and it was in the basement-well,it's literally all OVER the basement. They started exploding 2 nights ago (that was interesting-him running downstairs trying to figure out where someone was breaking in at-lol) we found the broken beer bottles the next morning-what a mess!!! With all hardwood floors that smell just comes right up through them...I wonder how long it will take to air that smell out? He's cleaned it all but...may take a little time-agh!