pinkcherrymama

a little late night post...

sitting here in my little office, i am feeling guilty, as i dread the day in store for me tomorrow... my wonderful hubby was given 4 tickets to an oakland a's game for tomorrow night by a customer yesterday. oh joy...is my fist reaction; go ahead, call me a spoiled brat, it is the truth. if you could see the pure, boyish joy, exuding from his eyes, you would understand why i just cannot bring myself to tell him that i have no interest or desire to go to said game. he is soooo excited. all i can think about is the hideous drive ahead and dealing with elijah in the car for 8+ hours. anywhoooo, i know i will be glad i shared the experience with my hubby and son and my daddy, but for now, i am wallowing in my hole of self pitty at what lies ahead...

ok, i have pulled my head out now....

i am working on some new projects for my etsy store. there is nothing there yet, so i have not posted a link, but God willing, i will be getting some items listed before the week is over and i will be putting up a short "how-to" video as well. i have to admit, i am a little excited about my new direction with the shop. paper, ribbon, buttons, glitter...it is all just so exciting! much more exciting than any silly ol' baseball game, psh! i will post pictures and sneek peeks of my new stuff on wednesday...i know you will be on the edge of your seat until then! ;

 

slowing down...for now!

i have been sooo busy lately, that i feel as though i can't catch my breath! life sure does sneek up up on me sometimes... here is some of what i have been up to, and hopefully, i really will be slowing down for a bit!

the next few pix are of "spirit fest", an event put on by 12 churches in our area. jimmie and i volunteered in the teen/youth areas for the weekend. there were so many kids! we had a pro skateboarding demo at our local skatepark as part of the event as well. the first picture shows only half of the park and all the kids with their legs hanging over the edge of the bowl...

daddy and elijah selling t-shirts and candy...

elijahs first time in a jump house...(to his germophobe mommy's dismay!)

and finally...some little cuties i've been working on...

the kids are settled in to their new school schedules, dance and extracurricular activities pretty well now...as always, our house is a busling hub of activity and i look forward to my evenings, when i can lie in bed and crochet or read, although, most of the time, i just crash as soon as my behind hits the sheets! oh, and i can't forget dancing with the stars and greys anatomy (starts tonight!). that is the best...sitting in bed with my little grommets (some not so little anymore) with a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream with mini chocolate chips on top, watching dancing with the stars and listening to my teenagers comentary..."he is sooo hot!", "omg, she doesn't have any clothes on!", "ooh, she missed a step. i hope he/she gets voted off!" it is pretty entertaining.

i just love the fall so much...i feel a sense of calm as the trees start to change and days get cooler and shorter...as if God gave us this season to slow us down...the anticipation of finding the "perfect,imperfect" pumpkins to decorate the front stoop, that will also be adequit enough to please "ms. ocd" (aka, myself) to use as serving bowls for Thanksgiving dinner...i have so much to be thankful for, and fall has arrived just in time to slow me down to give thanks for all i have been blessed with..

i am going back to blogging daily again (hopefully) and i am going to try to get back to doing one creative thing a day and posting pix...it is sooooo good for the soul to create something, EVERYDAY... whether it is the dinner you create for your family each evening or an actual project...take pride in what you do and treat it as a special creation!

blah, blah, blah  :)..........

luv, hugs and raspberries!

~r

more new stuff

here's a peek at what i have been doing since last night...

i am so excited to have my sewing machine back, that i think i ran it for about 5 hours straight! these are the new designs for my door signs...i will have them up on etsy as soon as i finish! and...i have more fabric on the way from heather bailey, can't wait to make some fun stuff with that!

my step-daughter left today...it is bitter sweet, actually. i have been pondering the notion that she REALLY does not want to be here, when she is here. this is reality. no matter how much WE know that we can provide a better, more loving home for her, SHE does not realize it. as much as i would like to ignore it, i know that it will probably only get worse. she turned 13 this july...and i'm thinking that next summer, is going to be a real challenge, because, lets be honest, what 14 year old wants to leave their friends for the entire summer? i will hold on to my faith that the life she lives when she is here, will somehow stick with her through the times she is not here and that some little bit of us will influence her when she is away. i sometimes confuse myself with this situation though, because, although i am taking a sigh of relief that she is gone, at the same time, i wish she could stay....okay, enough sob stories and ramblings of a wicked step-mother!

and...some more random outbursts...

so, donna downey started selling these really neato journals on her website a couple weeks ago...i think, maybe a week, anyway...i am always 1 step behind, i swear! i have been designing some fabric albums for some months now, but since i can never get my act together, someone beat me to the punch. so for any of you scrapbookers out there who know who dd is... i did not copy her, when you see my albums... so my inspiration for the fabric albums/books/journals/ whatever you want to call them, was a set of fabric children's books i had made for kalie and britt when they were babies. i got them out for elijah about a year ago and thought, hey, good idea for a scrapbooking type thing...so i have sketched, cut, sketched again, dreamed...for the past year or so, and then i saw dd's. they are beautiful, i have to say, and i love dd, so everything she does is super cool. so what is my problem with the procrastination? i think i figured it out...i never feel like it will be good enough, so i put off making it so i don't have to feel like it's not good enough...how's that for some self diagnosis! well, my friends, i will work on it, no more procrastination, well, sometimes. i will get my butt in gear and try to bring my ideas to fruition as they come, or shortly thereafter...we will see...

okay, is is a full moon or something? why am i spilling my guts to a computer?

hmmm....well, i need to get back to my wonderful, beautiful, shiny, old, sewing machine and make some more stuff :)

have a wonderfull, non- procrastinating, non-deep-thinking day.......and enjoy the flowers...

dazed and confused..........

hello to my two readers, anthony (my big cousin) and mom!

today i am having one of those "head-in-the-clouds" kind of days. it feels like it's going to be a full moon, only, i know that has already past, so what the heck is up with my head today?

i want to be creative and i have a million ideas in my head, but i can't seem to get started. maybe it's all the smoke in the air. there is a fire near by, but i'm not sure where. i can't even see the huge mountains out my back windows anymore.

this week has been challenging and its not even wednesday yet! taylor is having a rough few days and has been pouting for about 3 days now......you know i can't stand pouting......argh!!!!!!!!! this, along with me not being able to shake this funk, is driving me insane. oh the challenges of an evil step-mother...

hmmm, i gave kalie a new haircut on sunday, the girls made ribbon belts with sequins this morning...what else, they are now on a hunt for rocks to make more "rock creatures". oh, i finished a sample baby beanie for the baby boutique in town- cross your fingers that the owner will place an order...oh yeah, and the biggest news of all, diesel went down .10 in one day..whoopie, now we can all jump in the truck and take a road trip....i wish.

i had hoped to have some items up for sale on etsy by the end of last week, but i didn't get it done. maybe by next week, i hope.......

well, as you can see, i am in an awful, crappy mood today so send me some love and i hope to get some more pix and video up soon...really!

roberta