When you have one of these lovely treats!
**disclaimer.. no.. I am not PMSing... I made these for uh.. the kids.. yeah.. hmm...**
My mom is coming by tomorrow to pick my brother and Autumn up.. I am sending her with at least a dozen.
Devils food cupcakes with an Oreo in the middle... and vanilla frosting with crumbled Oreos. AKA- Heaven.
Austin is getting not 4.. not 6.. not even 8.. but TEN.. TEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! teeth! I really wish I was joking.. but I am not. He is getting 4 back teeth.. one is almost out already. Then he is getting those top pointy teeth on the side (sorry, I'm no dentist over here and not sure what they're really called lol).. then he is getting the teeth right under the top pointy ones.. and then he is getting two more bottom teeth. His mouth has been bleeding and everything. :( It's all swollen and him gums looks like crap.
I feel so bad for him.. who the heck gets 10 teeth at once??? ack! To say he is moody is an understatement. I have Ebay to do this week.. orders to sew.. I need to pack up Alannah's room and I need to edit my SIL's maternity pics.. ahhhhhh! lol. I need a vacation.
Oh.. and over the 4th of July weekend I got sunburned... and it sucks. I always burn so bad too. Well, last night I was up sewing until about midnight.. I go crawl in bed dead tired and my skin on my chest streches weird.. soooo.. my sunburn starts getting all prickly.. and itches.. and burns. :( I got up and rubbed aloe on and I think it made it worse because then it felt like I have a million tiny needles jabbing into my skin. Youch! It was already creeping on 1:30 I was practically in tears last night because the pricklyness (is that even a word? lol) would not go away. I finally found a comfortable spot and thuoght of whatever I could to get my mind of the pain of it. I did my best not to move and finally it stopped hurting and I could go to sleep..
Ryan went to bed before me.. does he gets up early and take care of kiddos so I can rest? Of course not! I went to bed after him.. and got up before him. I am exhausted. I need a break. I love how he lays in bed until he knows I have all the kiddos fed and sitting down and then comes strolling out and plops on the couch and gets on Facebook.. it's getting old now lol. *sigh* And yes, he will probably read this.. but he already knows what he does lol. But I am especially irritated today because I was stuck home with crazy kiddos all day yesterday and he went out to see a movie... he got a break yesterday and I wanted one today. Psssh!
Okie dokie.. enough rambling from me. I am gonna go work on the last of my Ebay picture taking and then go sew. I want to get 2 orders done today. I also told the kiddos I would bake cupcakes and clean off the slip-in-slide for them. Crap.. I better get busy!
While I am here.. I will share some recent things I've done.
This is called Pretty in Paradise.
This is my new Anabelle top.
And this is the Libby dress-
I can not believe how far I've come with my sewing already.. I have not even been sewing for a year yet (well.. I fiddled with a sewing machine awhile back.. but I couldn't even thread the dang thing! LOL!)
Just too look back and laugh.. here is the very first thing I ever made.. In October 2008.
:) lol...
Anyhow.. wanna see some Ebay pictures? I dress up my mannequins.. dressing mannequins over.. and over.. and over gets tiring lol. Hopefully I will get a great return on my items! My auctions launch on Sunday!
Whew! I broke a sweat just looking at those Ebay pics! LOL
OK.. enough wasting time for me. Adios!
Gosh, Ebay sucks! Why do I choose to put myself through this torture 2x's a year? lol.
It's no secret I like to dress my girls in cute clothing. I buy a lot of Gap for them because the resale is great! I can almost always get back what I paid, sometimes more!! Yes, for used clothes! :)
I always list on Ebay in January for spring/summer and July for fall and some winter. Welp, July is a few days away and I plan to get the auctions up soon. I recently started going through the mounds of clothes and am at almost 150 auctions.. whew!
I have everything layed out and as I lay them out I inspect them in good lighting to see any marks or stains on them. Then I need to write up all my auctions.. all 150 of them. That's not so bad.. but it becomes pure torture taking all those photos, editing and loading them all up. It is a PAIN!
I have been slacking bad on writting up auctions. I write a few.. browse around online.. write a couple more.. eh.
The money at the end is great! Then I use that to buy the new clothes.. it's like recycling lol.
I guess we won't be using the diningroom table for awhile.
To switch rooms around... and it's work!
After some thinking we decided to have the girls share a room. It just makes sense. The girls play together pretty much 24/7 (unless Autumn is gone) and they only really sleep in their rooms... and even then soemtimes they wanna sleep in the same room. Soooo.. Alannah is moving in with Autumn! They are both excited about it.
Austin's room is a box.. so he will have a LOT more space now that he will be going into Alannah's old room. We plan to get him a bed and whatnot soon and I just could not imagine a twin bed, dresser, etc. in his box of a room... plus his little train track and all his other toys.
So, what will be done with Austin's room? Well, folks.. I am going to make it my sewing/craft room. I REALLY need my own space. Right now I am tucked away next to the kitchen in our breakfast nook. I think having my workspace in the kitchen is making me fatter.. LOL. I am really excited to get my own space. Plus I will have a door to close to keep kiddos out.. well, Austin. With my fabric being out where he can grab it once in awhile he starts pulling some off the shelves and makes me bonkers.
So yeah.. I have to pack up 4 rooms.. (Autumn and Alannah's room will be repainted so I need to pack up Autumn's as well) No fun. It will probably take me all of July to get done. I will post some pics once we're all setup over here!
I know.. I keep saying I am going to keep up with this blog...so shoot me! LOL.
I got a kick in the butt from Ryan's family about not updating my blog. I was amazed these people actually pay attention to my blog LOL! I felt so special.. not to mention everyone I talked to went on and on about my greatness.. lol j/k.
Anyhow.. what the heck have we been up to?
I already came on here to whine about my poor foot. Thankfully it's much better now. Every once in awhile if I move it weird or press too hard on it it will hurt. I am glad it healed pretty quickly.. I guess the sprain was not as bad as I thought.
I am 'thisclose' to getting my Etsy orders out.. yay! Then I will be 100% caught up and that is a great feeling! Time to par-tay! LOL! No.. time to get ready for fall clothes. I am very excited!
Ryan has been working a lot... overtime check is super nice... but I miss him and sure wish he wasen't gone all day. He leaves at 7am (I am still asleep) and he gets home at 11:45pm. Usually 2-3 days a week. When he gets home he goes right to bed and I only get a short 10 minute conversation with him.
The kiddos are doing great. I suppose. LOL. School is out for summer.. AKA, the gates of hell have been opened. Autumn is soooo sassy. I wanna rip my hair out sometimes. She is growing before my eyes and SO fast. Her sweet baby girl innocence is gone and now she is an independent, smart mouth mini teenager. Unfourtunatly, Alannah is picking up this icky behaviour... I am not thrilled about it.
Austin is teething. It seems like I always say that.. but it's true! You would think he sprouts teeth like a shark or something. He is teething BAD right now though. It's been a very, very rough week with him.
Me?.. oh.. eh.. I am alright. I haven't locked myself in a box yet, so that's great news! LOL! I recently made Vanessa's (my sister-in-law) baby shower goodies. I wasen't thrilled with it but everyone loved it and said it tasted good.. do I am happy.
It was difficult. The feet are hand drawn by royal icing and then flooded with royal icing.. I had fun with it though!
Man, I sure wish I had a cupcake right now.. crud.
Anyhow... One more month and I will be an auntie!!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee.. I am so excited to meet Vanessa and Jason's little man!
That's right people.. I started smoking..
Ehhh. lol..
We got some KITTIES!!
Meet Max and Purrdance!
Austin loves them! The girls are at my moms house FOR A WEEK!!! (yahoo! lol) so I have been spending some quality time with Austin. He loves to throw the kitties their balls and then chase after them. It's really cute how excited he gets playing with them.
Purrdance.. he purrs if you even look at him LOL! and he is LOUD! lol He is huge too. He is my favorite ebcause he is super cuddly and lovey! Oh, and that is not dirt by the baseboard.. it's grout lol.
This is Max... he is a jerk sometimes lol. He is a little more hyper then his brother is. He is super cute though! He favors Autumn.. this is her little pal!
"Come on over here, Purrdance! I wanna throw this ball at your noggin'"
Cute kid, eh? :)
And one last one.. poor Austin looks so sad in that chair... but cute lol.
And.. and this.. so handsome!!!
This post is a big ol' whine fest.. just a warning LOL.
Man.. everything is just getting to me right now.. I need to get to a dang doctor and get myself fixed. :(
I have a hiatal hernia that has been killing me. I have had it for a few years and it is getting worse. Now it hurts every morning when I get moving (lots of bending over, etc) I just have to sit and rest for a bit... makes my back hurt and all that crap.. Can't hiatal hernias kill you?.. yeah.. I think it is time to get to a doctor.
Then I have these lovely heart palpitations. Some days they are worse then others. Today happens to be a bad day and I have been having them like crazy all morning. They take my breath away... and yes, I need to get to a doctor before I friggin' die.. egh. I am sure a lot of it has to do with stress.
And that's where my newly sprained foot comes in. I am flipping out that I can not sew right now. I dunno what to do. I actually tried to sew yesterday.. I was doing good for a bit (enough to shirr a dress and some sleeves) and then BAM my foot swelled up even worse and was throbbing like crazy. Anytime I put my foot down it just throbs and it gets very uncomfortable. Everyone keeps saying I need to rest or I will make it worse.. and all I think is people mad at me for late orders. :( Egh. When I sew I need to get up often to cut and iron/press. So it's not working. I haven't even posted on my Dancing Dandelion blog about my foot.. I probably should so people have a heads up. I amjust hoping that this foot gets better soon. I am so tired of sitting on the couch with my foot propped up.
I also need some anxiety meds I think. It's getting bad. All this stress is building up and is keeping me up at night.. my mind does not rest.. I am always stressing out about what I need to do. I have about 20 more orders to get out and I am DONE!!! I am going to take a little break and then I am going to sell very little each week (5-7 orders max). I do not care if I have to close up shop each week.. I will lol. I enjoy sewing and I feel like that is being taken away. What is lame is I WAS ahead by a few days.. I was rockin and was even able to make some new stuff and stay on schedule.. then next thing I know.. drama after drama I am behind.. it happens so fast! Ack! I feel so bad. I didn't want to be one of "those" sellers and that is why I closed my shop to get every last order out and rework how I do things. I swear.. I had such a slow paced simple life.. I open an Etsy shop and then all of a sudden all this stuff starts going on.. lol.. crazy.
Anyhow... enough whining from me. I am going to go take some medicine and poke around online.
Life would be SO much easier!
I have a strained ligament or a sprained foot.. either way this hurts BAD. It was hurting yesterday.. but only when I would walk on it.. and not THAT bad. Then last night I felt it getting worse (I walked to the bus stop) and now today I literally was in tears this morning trying to walk on it. Not good at all. I need to wrap it and keep it elevated for it to heal.. it can take a week or longer.. though I do not think it is that bad to take over a week... at least I hope not.
It just sucks. I am beyond stressed out. I need to get these last orders out... and I got behind.. so now I will be more behind. Then on top of that I was supose to do Vanessas maternity pictures tomorrow.
This just sucks. I swear.. I should just not sew anymore. I have never had so many things go wrong in such a short time. I just want to catch up and then I am taking limited orders each week to never go over a 3 week wait.. ok..cool.. if I can actually get all my other orders done.
I just wanna cry. Seriously...
Autumn is learning to sew!!!
OK.. so I am totally kidding about the sweatshop stuff. But.. my little girl wants to be like mama and I decided to spend some time with her making a tooth pillow since she lost ANOTHER tooth (she just lost one a week ago... this is #4 already)
Anyhow... check her out! She did all the work except closing the pillow after it was stuffed. I have a digital machine that can go very slow so it was perfect for her... no foot pedal to worry about.
Pinning the fabric...
We stuffed it with fleece.. LOL I didn't have any pillow stuffing.
A perfect pocket for her tooth. She was SO proud of herself! Now she wants to make more pillows and some blankies for her dolls. I might need to get her a sewing machine lol. I told her I will let her do one little project a week. :)
Or maybe 3 1/2?
I am talking glasses of wine, people! (see my post below)
It was bad.. LOL! We had 3 different bottles of wine the other night and just sat outside and sipped on wine and talked.. Ryan kept himself together because the kiddos were home (asleep.. it was late at night) but I found myself getting pretty tipsy.... eh... Ryan gave me one.. uh.. forgot what it was called.. but it was pinkish LOL. (I sound so educated, huh?) but it was yummy! If I wasen't such a light weight I could totally see myself sipping on a glass one night after a looooong day.. which seems to be everyday lately... but no.. not without hubby home to tend to the kiddos.
Anyhow.. Im'ma 'bout to break my neighbors legs... or smack him.. or his dog.. or just egg his house.
Our neighbors have this super... suuuuuper annoying rat-dog. It barks and barks all the time. It got over to our back yard.. the second part... lol We have two back yards.... yes, one is not good enough we have to have two. One is actually more like a kid jail and we lock them back there with all the toys. LOL j/k. Anyhow.. rat-dog got back there. Our neighbor... what does he do? Knock on our door? Oh hell no. Dude comes into our backyard.. yeah.. just roams on through our yard and grabs his rat. There is a gate between our yards.. which I obviously need to lock lol. I dunno.. we do not "know" our neighbors so to see Mr. rat-dog owner walking through our backyard like he owned the joint just got me all riled up. I was pretty sure he was about to go jump on the kiddos trampoline. I was telling Ryan to go help him out.. or uh.. tell him to get the hell outta our yard lol... but Ryan rather sit on the couch and ignore me.
Whatever.. what do we find yesterday? Their house is for sale. LOL.. annoying Rat-dog will hopefully be gone soon. Now watch.. some freaky cat lady with 50 cats.. and maybe 8 goats will move in... she might even have a few llamas. Who knows... birds perhaps? *shivers* birds are creeepy.
Oh.. and before I go.. just a little advice. Do not leave a container full of watermelon out on the counter for oh.. 3 days... why? because when you open it it might smell VERY bad.. be strange colors and be complete mush. How do I know?... hmmm. *shrugs* Just a guess.
No really.. I forgot the container had watermelon in it.. no joke. I went to put the container away and noticed it was heavy.. I opened it and my eyes watered. NOT COOL.
Here it is.. 3:00am and I am wide awake on the computer. I need to be up in about 4hrs. Not good.. not good at all.
UPDATE-
Hammer.. hammer.. anyone have a hammer? PLEASE knock me the heck out.. ahh crap! It's nearly 4am. If hubby doesn't get up with the kiddos in the morning I might just strangle him..
I need to go bang my head on a brick wall. LOL
I spent the last hour reading SHANNA'S BLOG.. pretty interesting posts... I likey.
UPDATE #2
4:30... You find that hammer yet?
Update #3
5:00am... yes, I think I am pulling an (unwanted) all nighter. SHIT! Whatever, I am gonna go sew.. this is some bullcrap right here. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I have never been a wine drinker. To me.. it tastes like vomit aftermath.. you know that nasty acid taste that is left in your mouth after you toss your cookies? Yeah.. THAT.
Ryan coaxed me into a drinking a glass tonight with dinner. He has always been such a wine pusher.. either he really wants me to enjoy wine with him.. or he just likes me better drunk.. either way.
Usually after the first sip I cough like someone kicked me in my gut and shake my head "no" at him. Well, he tried a new wine with me.. it wasen't too bad.. as in.. it didn't taste like vomit.. it tasted more like rotten grapes mixed with alcohol... LOL!
Much to Ryan's surprise I finish the W H O L E glass.. whaaaaa? Yay me! I am just that much closer to becoming an adult now and I do believe my husbands love for me grew a tad more.. just a tad... like.. a grain of salt worth..maybe less.. but it grew nonetheless.
And well.. I am a light weight. Always have been.. so I got a little buzz going which wasen't good because I had to finish an order up for someone.. but, I will just do it after American Idol...
Which brings me to now.. Ryan left to go get me a yummy drink (non-alcoholic LOL!!) and we're gonna chillax on our big comfy couch and watch American Idol together.. no, he doesn't really watch with me. He likes to make fun of them (the singers) and give them all dumb nicknames. By the way.. did you all see No Doubts performance last week? GAH, that was something awful. I could sing better then that with a wine bottle shoved down my throat.
Hope all the mamas out there have a great one!
I am not going to stress about sewing today.. I am just going to hang out with the kiddos and hubby is gonna make me dinner. I got a card, roses, breakfast and all that good stuff. :)
I was the featured Etsy seller of the week by Fresno's Children's Fashion Examiner.. READ IT HERE
Pretty neat-o!
**DISCLAIMER.. this WILL be long.. I WILL ramble as always.. and it WILL have topys... (lol.. that me is trying to be funny and write typos with typos in it.. didn't work? dang.)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Holy crapola where on earth have I been? A month now? Eeeeek! I use to get props for updating my blog all the time.. now I hardly have time to shower (true story.. ask my hubby! lol... ummm.. j/k)
Awww man, I missed you all sooooo much!
OK.. what the hell have I been doing?
Sewing.
Yeah, that's about it! lol
No, really though.. I have been super busy. April was just a crazy month all together. I never do much.. and well, last month I did TOO much.
As most of you know I opened up my Etsy shop.. you don't know? where have you been??... shame, shame. Well, now is a perfect tiem for me to SPAM you all.. dancingdandelion.etsy.com
Etsy has been keeping me busy. I sold over 100 order my first month.. would I want to do that agin? hmmm.. probably not lol. While I am SO thankful for those orders.. that's just a bit much. Things were going good then I had some drama come along from some random Etsy whacko who thnks she owns Etsy and all those on it... and it is STILL going on. I am convinced she is in love with me so much she hates me... LOL. What-ev. Things are slowing down now so I will actually have time to keep up on this blog.. wahoooo! I love this blog... now I need to show it some lovin'! *kisses the blog... hugs the blog... kicks the blog...* what? we all kick things we love.. no? oh. hmmmm.
Anyhoot.. other then sewing until I have calluses (true story peeps) we celebrated a couple birthdays last month. We had a celebration for Autumn a couple weeks before her real birthday.. just had to jumble things around because of my schedule and whatnot. She wanted American Girl stuff and hell.. I delivered. Part of it was guilt for not having a big party for her.. and the other part.. because I love to spoil my little punks. (I say that with love)
Her cake I made.. yeah.. I rock. lol.. no, you nerd, it's SUPPOSE to be slanted. It was going to be a topsy turvy cake.. well, I got lazy.
She is SIX... siiiiiix. Ack! All of a sudden she thinks she is a grown up and asked to wear makeup to school. LOL.
She about died when she got Julie, her new American Girl doll. (icky quality picture.. ick)
Hey Autumn.. guess what.. the hat is too small for ya.
She got a load of Hannah Montana stuff too. Gotta love the flash glare in the TV.. egh.. I am embarrassed to say I took these pics lol.
This is Nana.. Ryan's mom.. "Hannah's" hair dresser.
Oh yeah.. and we went to Disneyland on Ryan's birthday! I didn't get very many pictres but we had fun. Ryan's dad came to stay with Austin.. yeah, yeah.. mean ol' mama left the baby at home.. and what? lol
Yes, Alannah's hair is naturally that gorgeous. No fair.
And yes, my girls are really THAT cute.. LOL.
We were spinning a bit fast LOL...
Let's see.. what else?
I've been SEWING lol.
Maybe I will update more in the next day or so. I am dead tired right now. *yawn*
I have a big ol' update with pics coming!! I am soooooo sorry. I was very busy but now things are slowly calming down over here. I hope I still have readers! LOL
On my boutique blog.. check it out!!
http://momentscherished.typepad.com/thedancingdandelion/
And yes, I have been slacking on this blog. I am so very sorry. My life has been consumed by sewing so I don;t have a whole lot to write about lol.
In the "I.Like.2.Shop" album! :) Enjoy!
For some reason anytime Austin see's me throw away a banana peel he goes right after it the second I turn my back. This time I had my camera handy.. lol
He's been caught (notice he was wearing a shirt with a monkey and a banana on it... LOL)
This is what happens when mommy takes it away..
Don't you feel sorry for him?
No? Not yet? How 'bout now!?
Then he realized he was not gonna win..
So then he got happy (mood swings much?)
Kissy fishy faces and all...
Byyyyeeeeeee!
