Holding the spot!

So this blog is just a holding spot for the time being. I have big plans for more posting and getting out in the blogging world in the very near future! I have been steadily looking for new crafts to make! Most are gifts. But they are truly gifts from the heart! We have a lot of changes coming up in the near futue. My little family will be moving into a house. We are not buying but this does give us more room. There is still lots of preparations for the move even though it will not take place until the fall.

The latest project. Sorry for the aweful picture. It was taken by the cell phone camera and the subject is a very rowdy and excited 2 year old.

A Super Hero Cape for my Super Lillie!

A long lost love has returned!

Many years ago I went to a Christian Rock concert in a little church with my youth group. I cannot even remember the main act and reason I went now. Opening for this band I cannot recall was a new artist at the time who sung a genre of music I had not really heard. Folk Rock?? Her name is Jennifer Knapp! From the first song I was HOOKED! I loved her music and her message. I loved looking forward to new albums until one year she practically fell off the planet! 

Every now and again I would google her to see if there was any news. It has been quite a long time since I last googled my FAVORITE artist.... thanks to the wonders of Facebook I have come up to speed and realized that 1. she is doing concerts near me next week.....wish I could go 2. A new album is to be released May 2010! 

It totally made my day to know a new.....a really new( not a live or a collection) album is coming out soon. Kind of makes me feel like this WILL be  a good year!!

Thoughtful Thursday

Today is Thougthful Thursday. Something new I have been trying to do this new year. I got the idea from a radio show that started Make a difference Monday.... well I liked the flow of Thougthful Thursday better.
So every Thursday I try to do a little something for someone. This week Lillian and I made Valentine goodies for my coworkers. She had a blast pouring and mixing with mommy on mommy's unexpected home early due to snow day!


I send out a challenge for you to pick up Thoughtful Thursday in your house. Things to do could include secret notes to your spouse or kid's lunch. A special note to a coworker, dinner for a friend. Or if you really want to try to make a difference do something nice to someone you do not get a long with very well! I think you will see that things may begin to change in your relationship with anyone your share this with.

Proud Mama of a 2 year old!

This weekend my princess, Lillian, turned two years old. The weekend was filled much celebrating. A birthday party at Airheads with lots of friends and family on Saturday! A family celebration on Sunday! Lots of singing Happy Birthday, opening gifts, and eating cake! My friend Christina made Lillian her very own Elmo cake. That was the best looking cake I have ever seen in my life! OH and it was OH SO YUMMY!!! I am looking forward to what this new year and stage will bring us! She is changing and maturing everyday!

Finally Friday!

What a loooooooooooong Week! It has been super slow but has given my much time to think about my next craft project. A Sewing Project! To go along with my wish to go gree this year, I am attempting to make fabric sandwich baggies. I have thought long and hard about a pattern that I am creating myself. Maybe it will be prosperous too! I have the fabric picked out and ready to be cut....oh that saddens me more times than not. I get scared I will not like the outcome and waste my favorite (of the moment) fabric. Well, time to get out of that attitude or nothing will ever get made.
Here is the chosen fabric for this project. Just some fabric I picked up at JoAnne's one day. The combination is so not what I am use to. Two prints, unheard of!

Not a Monday?

Are you sure this was not a Monday? My goodness it was a bad start to the day! First, I get stuck in the mud while on E(mpty). I mean EMPTY. I was surrounded by water and could not get out of the car. I called my dad and Clyde to help me out! I got out and zoomed down the drive, trying to avoid getting stuck again. Get to the end of the road....right across from the gas station and traffice PICKED UP! It took me forever to cross the road. Finally get some gas in my car and am off! Much, much later that I had hoped for. I was on my way to being at work early today! Ride into work was pretty uneventful, thank goodness. I walk inot my building and straight to the Fed Ex drop box. On the way my shoes breaks. FOR REAL?!? Luckily it is still wearable but I am very sad. This is one of my new favorite pairs of shoes. I will be taking this in for repair if I cannot fix it myself! 
Thankfully the rest of the day has been much better. Still a bit weary. I have to get BACK down the driveway tonight!

New name?

Hear ya, hear ye......I am taking suggestions for what to really call this blog. I want it to include all the things that have started to interest me( crafts, green/natural living, cooking/recipes) as well as my family. Any thoughts?

Happy New Year

I know, I know I am so late at this. I decided this year I was going to journal but I figured I could post a lot of what I write here.

I made a few New year's Resolutions(if you want to call them that) It is mostly things I want to focus on this year or accomplish. If I call them a resolution I probably will fail!

So here is the list!

Loose weight(Will outline this on a later date)

Find a place to call a home of our own

Do atleast TWO crafty projects this year

Pay down on our debt ( goal is two credit cards paid off this year shooting for over the top of three) Will most likely blog about this at a later date

Do not Waste- trying to be a little greener

Start writing letters to my daughter- more to come

So that is what I am focusing on this year. And since it has been a little while.....