Catching up and moving on :)

First off, if you're in a reader of any kind, click out to see the blog in all its new design glory!  Kate from 17th Avenue designs did something that I love love love love and hope you all love it too!

Second, I'm so sorry I went MIA again.  I needed to recharge, regroup, and basically figure some things out.  Thankfully, I'm on the right track again.  Not so thankfully, I'm going full steam into festival season and while I'm only doing two this summer (so far...), they are my first ones and they're both very very very local so I need to be on the top of my game.  I could quickly become fodder for the gossips if I make one tiny misstep.  Sometimes I really hate living in the back woods, small town filled O down the road, ya know? 

Now, here are some pictures from the last week or so.... 

This is me when I was about three or four?  It was taken at our baby sitter's, Mrs. Cline's, house.  I loved that house!  I remember sitting at her table snapping beans on a regular basis.  :)  This is also my current facebook profile pic haha  (yes, I still stand like that sometimes.  And I still have that smile.  And those lips.)

Playing with some new hair pieces for the shop.  This one is one that Camille requested - hey, ldb, I have this still!  I will ship it soon!  haha

Salem says: Give me my dinner lady!

The girls at work asked me to make them key fobs, I did a bunch and the leftovers will make their way to the store, if there is something you like let me know and I can get a special listing set up for you!

I cut my hair!  She cut over three inches off!  That's a lot for me to let someone cut off!!!  I love love love it though.  Of course, I can't get it to look like this anymore, someday I'm going to be so rich that I will have someone blow dry my hair for me every single day.

I was feeling extra summer-y so I cracked out the hot pink nail polish. :)

Another summer pastime?  Sitting out in the swing in the back yard reading! 

KITTY PILE!

It isn't a holiday until something catches on fire.  Yep.  Memorial Day 2012 will forever be remembered as the day the mower caught on fire and almost burned down the little barn.  Good gracious! 

 

Sometimes I Just Want to Scream.

Today was....odd.  It started out great, with the exception of waking up at like 4 and the inability to go back to sleep until a decent hour.  I went out to the Farmer's Market - they have a craft fair on the first Saturday of the month and I'm thinking about submitting to have a booth at one of the months later in the summer.  Anyway, I perused the farmer's market and then ran over to JoAnn's until the mini flea'n'tique market opened.  All morning that I was out running around, I only spent some money to get a Wandering Jew plant and some fabrics from JoAnn's.  Not bad for me at all!  haha

This afternoon?  Well, I finally got a mini nap, but then as I was awake but still laying down my phone rang a bunch & I got a couple of texts.  It was J.  We haven't really talked for weeks - WEEKS - but all of a sudden he is calling and telling me that he is a few miles down the road and wants to come visit me.  We talked about a bunch of stuff.  A bunch.  Then he proceeded to let me know that he is pretty much ready to settle down, but that he doesn't want to quite yet.  Um.  Ok.  We, he and I, have a very good way of talking circles around each other.  We will say one thing about wanting to settle down or find someone to love, and then we will totally contradict that by saying something about how much we love being single.  Then, right before he left, he said something about how he could tell I was sad....how I seemed lonely.  This was after he stated earlier that he was lonely and was surprised he had been single for as long as he had been.  I just wanted to scream, "what the hell are we doing?"  But, I didn't.  Now I just want to text it to him....

But I won't.

I'm a bad blogger.

I know.  I missed Bookworm Wednesday.  Again.  I'm scheduling them this weekend.  I promise! 

I've just been dealing with a lot of "real life" stuff.  Depression is funny monster with me, but I will get into that and all the changes going on later. 

How about I share some pictures from the shoot I did with my pregnant-but-all-belly sister?

Let's get real.

Life isn't always book reviews & cute farm animals.  This week was an intense reminder of that fact.

Hay days are HELL on a farm.  You spend the first day running around fields opening and closing gates and making sure the grass is dry enough to not mold when it is cut, and making sure the ground is hard enough around the ponds so that the tractors don't sink and get stuck.  Hopefully you will have a four wheeler or some other vehicle to get you around when you live on 17 acres.  That is, unless you break that four wheeler.  Then you spend an hour trying to fix it before your dad gets home.  And you try to fix it while you're crying from stress & anxiety about life in general and this four wheeler has some how become the manifestation of all your issues that you're trying to deal with at the time. 

That week when your work schedule changes FOUR times.  Yeah, that isn't a fun week.

That same week you get called to house sit the day before you're due to be there.  That weekend away will be your third weekend away....you haven't spent longer than four nights in a row in your bed in almost a month.  (don't take your bed for granted people!!)

Those days when all you want is to work on your store or shop but you spend days, evenings, and nights working on items for everyone else under the sun.  Gifts are great until they become a chore, then you should step away from them.  Oh, and that fun store stuff that you want to work on....make sure that doesn't feel like the chore. 

I just kinda hit a wall today.  Well, this whole damn week.  I'm just kind of done with a lot of things. 

Bookworm Wednesday!

So, there isn't a shortage of love for Sunflower Yarns on my end.  It is by far my favorite yarn, like ever!  Well, I'm a part of the Sunflower Yarns group on Ravelry and we started a book club this month!

Our first book is Pride & Prejudice!  I know I've started this at some point, but I don't ever remember finishing it.  I'm excited to get into Elizabeth's story and Mr. Darcy's dashing tales!  That's about all the I know so far about the book haha, have you read it?  What did you think?  Do you ever reread the classics like this? 

Such is life.....

So, I wake up, reach for my glasses and they are not where I left the night before.  I don't get out of bed, I crawl around the edge looking over to see where they are so I don't step on them....I finally find them and put them on, but the world is still blurry.  I seriously was freaking out!  I thought something was wrong with my eye!!  Nope, Elroy has some how lost one of the lenses and I CAN'T find it!  I have torn my room apart and it is no where that I can see.  UGH!  I was already planning on putting my contacts in today but still!  If anyone would like to come help me search some more, that's be great!  haha

Yesterday I worked on a new product for the shop.  A sunglass case!  I'm tweaking it all a bit, the cover will be attached differently, the closure will be - well - centered haha, and I'm re-doing the fleece on the inside so things aren't quite as bulky but it is still safe for glasses.

Fabrics I'm currently playing with.  These will be adult double-sided headbands :)

Random funny picture....what happens when you're trying to get in the house carrying a ton of bags full of wickedly heavy fabric, your purse, your lunch (with a drink!) and your phone?  A totally random phone picture that you don't remember taking! 

Kittehhhhhhs!

Why, yes, it is spring at the farm....