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Finally, I’ve added the Mia Ruffle Booty Bloomers pattern to my shop! I started on the pattern almost two months ago and just got around to finishing it. I’ve been dying to use these gorgeous photos that Kristy Lane took for me of her darling little girl. Thanks again Kristy!
I’m working on a logo for my husband’s cousin who has just started her photography business. This is the first design I’ve come up with for her so far.
Man, I haven’t set much time aside lately to work on new premade logos. It takes alot of time to get a design from my head onto the computer but I really enjoy it. I like to work on them when it’s totally silent…obviously that’s not often unless I want to stay up till two in the morning! 
Meet Zoey, my niece. She is little miss thang, the queen of 20 questions…miss independent. She is equally, if not more crazy than Julz. They are only a few months apart in age and just can not get along. It’s funny how Julz asks everyday to see her but once they’re together all they do is fight. I did get a totally sweet shot of them together though.
This is one of my most favorite pics! Niko is such a goof, he was walking around with these goggles on and a blue hose hanging out of his mouth. It must be nice to be entertained so easily.
Don’t laugh, but I had a few pics printed off at Meijer…I know, my home printer could have done just well. Learned my lesson there. So when I went the pick them up the guy said that I needed to fill out a copyright release form. Really? I took those myself…he didn’t believe me. Which of course I took as a total compliment! I showed him that I actually had one of the pics on the front screen of my Blackberry. He still seemed skeptic but he tore up the form and told me that I did a really nice job. I’m not going to lie, it made my day!
Man, this kid is such a stinker! He’s constantly into something, always argues with everything I say, loves to pick fights with his brothers & is the messiest kid I know. But when he looks up to me with them big ol eyes and curly curls and says with his poofy lips “Mom, you so pretty” I’m reminded that my sweet little baby is still in there…even if the insane three year old has taken control of his body! LOL!
Ok, so I know it was getting long…it was past his shoulders. But I really wasn’t ready to let go of it yet. Look at how shiny and luxurious those locks were. He practically had to beg me to cut it off. Yeah, I myself cut it! It took me about an hour because there was no way I could just hack it off. I started slowly and took off about an inch at a time…constantly asking him if that was enough. “No, I want it short like Daddy’s”, he would say every time. When I was just about done he looked at me and said “Don’t cry mom, my hair will grow back long again.” Sooooo cute! He melts my heart!
Why is it that you could receive a hundred compliments and the one complaint you get is what you remember and sticks with you? Personally, it eats at me. I dwell it. I’m working on this though, I’m trying not to let someone’s harsh, unsolicited words bring me down. After all I AM my own boss. Not everyone has the guts to start their own business, small or large. I need to give myself more credit. I am the only one running this business. I am the designer, the accountant, the customer service rep…the boss! I know that I put my whole heart into whatever I do. I’m going to take the harsh words, put them in a box and throw them in the river. The compliments are going to hang on my wall in my office so I can see them every day!
So why does someone feel the need to tear someone else down? Jealousy, that’s my guess. Isn’t that why girls are mean to each other in school? So dumb. And quite often I try to remind Paige of this. I know that 7th grade can be tough. She seems to handle it well. She tells me that she doesn’t understand why anyone would be jealous of the deaf girl. I tell her “You are so much more than that. You are an awesome person, smart, funny and beautiful.” She shines, she really does. Sometimes out of no where she will repeat some of the words of wisdom that I pass onto her and it reminds me what a good job I’m doing as a mother.
Oh yeah, that's my girl!
Ok, so I had a garage sale this weekend with my sister. Geeze, why are they so much work? It was like the most exhausting weekend I’ve had in a while. I’m still trying to get the house back in order, cause you know you tear it apart looking for everything you can make a buck on! Man, and I understand times are tough and people want a deal but seriously…people are cheap! It just cracks me up when someone would say “how much is this?”. Me, “fifty cents” and they get that disappointed face and put it back. For real? Fifty cents is too much to ask for something I paid $20 and kept in good shape? Oh and the people that asked 12 times if I’d go down to $12 from $25…please don’t come to my next garage sale, I don’t need your money THAT bad! LOL! Sorry, just had to get that out, I’m good now.
I just can’t seem to get myself to bed at a decent hour lately. I have work on the brain like constantly. Do you ever feel like there is a million things you want to do and can barely accomplish one? I’ve started making lists of what I want to do so I’m not constantly thinking about everything I need to do…but of course I loose the list! I’m a thinker, a constant thinker, I can’t turn it off. It’s always been hard for me to fall asleep because of this. Makes me wonder if my husband has much going through his head since he can fall asleep in thirty seconds flat…hmmm.
Since I redid my blog it’s inspired me to revamp all of my patterns. Give them a gorgeous new look too. I’ve finished a few of them and when I look at the older ones they just look so terrible to me now. And redoing them is ALOT of work so I need to make them good so I don’t grow out of their look too quickly. Did I mention it’s alot of work?! Uhhh, so tired! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sorry, I think I fell asleep on the keyboard!
