lack of time

Ah 2 glasses of wine down and I am beginning to feel tired. Oh how I remember the days of staying up to watch the sun come up in a drunken’ haze. Now hubby and I can barely pass 11 pm without worrying about the lack of sleep we will have the next day.
Anyways….with the lack of sleep my toddler has decided that he no longer needs naps..He’s only 2 for God’s sake! Don’t they nap in pre-school?!?!? Well I refuse to be apart of this madness so I still send him to his room for 2 hours every day in hopes that he will actually sleep but if he doesn’t I tell him he can read his books. Something quiet. Now the naps are totally on baby Zane’s Q’s…he starts rubbing his eyes we all head up stairs to get ready for naptime…whatever time that may be. The key for me to be able to actually get any sewing done during naps is to get Baby Zane down and asleep and Logan can sleep/read /whatever for 2 hours in his room. So far I think I am on track for my shows in November. I am concentrating on bibs and burps cloths. I want to get a print made of Zane on the burp cloth…I’ll post a picture here

So I want to get this pix blown up to about 20x30 so it catches people’s eyes when they walk by hoping that it will draw them in.
Let’s hope my theory will work.

dumb people

I find it pretty funny that I posted last night about hating SPAM on my blob and then I wake up this morning and someone has already commented on my blog with spam.
So maybe I need to be more clear....

If you post a comment with a link and you are NOT a craft person...it's getting deleted.

It's that simple...I'm not going to be a billboard for every Tom, Dick and Harry's website.

back to my coffee....

SPAM SUCKS!!!

SPAM SUCKS!!! So if you ever click on the comments on my blog and you see that it has been removed by me that is because it’s a SPAM. Which totally sucks! I mean come on…don’t you people have anything better to do with your time? And it’s not like my Blog is updated all that frequently…I don’t know if anyone ever reads this thing. Yet I will continue to write.
My daily TO-DO list is so long it amazes me when I’m able to cross off even 3 things. With 2 kids I never thought it would be this hard. But when people say being a SAHM is the hardest job, they aren’t lying. With being a SAHM you then feel like you should be the one who does everything that involves the house…grocery shopping, laundry, daily cleaning, writing the thank you notes for gifts, organizing play dates for your kids so they can interact with other kids and you can actually talk to someone older than the age of 2. The stuff I never knew I would have to do….the list is forever growing…and we haven’t even touched on the fact that I own my own biz and making the products I sell. Hubby and I are talking about moving back east. I’m anxious to move closer to my family but mourn the loss of the wonderful women I have met during the stages of motherhood out here on the left coast. Of course I will always remain friends with them but once we move it will be different….for one I won’t see them every week. But on the other hand I truly miss the friends we left behind on the east coast. And I worry that those relationships will never be the same since we have had kids. I mean I can’t meet up with a girlfriend at DoJo’s for steamed veggies over brown rice with carrot dressing and a cocktail in the middle of the day. Well I could but it wouldn’t be as much fun. Kids in tow at a restaurant is not the relaxing environment it once was. But yet…if it weren’t for the kids my business wouldn’t be what it is today. I started this business before having kids and once I found out I was pregnant with Logan I dove into Aunt Art head first thinking this will be perfect way to make money while staying at home. So in a way if it wasn’t for them (the kiddos) I wouldn’t have had the courage to put this company in the driver’s seat….it would have always remained this “little thing I do on the side”. Count your blessings where you have them I guess, right?

Where is the time going???

I spend so much time with my ass attached to this computer chair. I have been researching online boutiques that I can submit my burp cloths and bibs to. The list grows every time I look away. I am still tweaking my site but all in all I am pleased with how it is turning out. I’ve made so many bibs in the past week. Poor baby Zane is tired of smiling for the camera. I keep telling him that this will pay for his college education but he isn’t buying it. On the home front we’ve been dealing with Zane’s reflux issues and have decided to switch to soy formula since he is able to keep it down. I think if this was my first kid I would try harder breastfeeding but you can just see how much pain the poor babe is in and it breaks your heart. Now that he is on the soy he’s a happy camper.
My first craft show is the first weekend in November and I am so stoked about it. I need to find another table to have for my display. Hopefully I’ll be able to find one like the one I already have that folds in half and is super portable. If you have a recommendation email me! I just bought these awesome display holders for my bibs from Hold Everything. They were dirt-cheap and they honestly look fantastic! I read an online article that said the selling market at a show is from the head to the waist…that is the “window” on a person’s body for selling. So all of my tables are hitting at my waist and the new bib holders stand on top of that and actually are taller than me and I’m 5’3”. Now for my burp cloth display I am thinking about talking a picture of Zane on someone’s shoulder using the burp cloth and having it blown up to a extremely large print on that sturdy poster board material and having that on an easel on top of the table and then having the burp cloths also on the table. So much thought has to be put into this so that the environment is attractive for buyers and also it has to be portable in my Chevy cavalier. And did I mention I have to set up and take down the whole thing too. Hubby will have kid duty whenever I have shows. J Lucky him! Ideally, now that I am done being a baby factory, I would like to do the summer markets here in Seattle next year. I love the environments of summer markets. I use to do them in NYC with a good friend of mine, Nikki. Looking back on those days I can hardly believe we made it work. I traveled from Brooklyn on the subway to the upper east side of Manhattan with this backpacking type backpack on and carrying a folding clothing rack…. Nikki had a shorter distance to travel so she was in charge of the table. Together we would sit and sell our hats and scarves in all kinds of weather. The other sellers we met there will always remain in fondness in my mind…the sense of community amongst the sellers was amazing. I am hoping to experience it again this summer in Seattle.