another.happy.customer

I've got another happy customer.
In other news...I'm engaged! Brian asked me to marry him on Wednesday and of course I said yes. I'm already stressed out about a guest list and reception location and blah blah blah. Mark your calendars for sometime September of 09.

featured.in.blog

My record coasters were featured in this blog today. Many thanks go out to Moesewco.

sale.sale.sale

In honor of Record Store day on Saturday, I'm offering FREE shipping via USPS parcel post to anywhere in the continental United States. This deal will last through Saturday.

In other news, I bought the BEST lampshade on Etsy. It's made out of old slides of state "welcome signs." I bought it from here. And here's a photo of my lampshade:

Give.Me.More

I'm really bad about updating this thing. I'm going to attempt to be better, but that's not a promise.

I sold four items in 24 hours, and I was really excited. So far my best-selling item is my vinyl record coasters, which are pictured above. For some reason my shop has been getting a lot of traffic over the past week. I'm not complaining. Of course, any money I made went right back into the "business," as I call it, buying more supplies, so hopefully the attention doesn't wear off.

In other exciting news, my items are now available at ZZZ Records, and hopefully soon will be available at another shop in Kansas City that may or may not be named at a later date.

In the meantime, I'm off to work on my next line of items. If there is something you'd like to see, let me know!

April.Fools?

This has *got* to be an April Fool's joke. At least I hope it is.

take.me.away

I had a "how the hell did I get here" moment on Sunday night. It's not that I don't think about what my life has become, but sometimes I just have this moment of realization that my life has become something so foreign to me. And I don't mean in a bad way. I just never saw myself having the life I have now. Never - at least not at this age. On Sunday it hit me as I was wandering around the kitchen. I had Stella on my hip and Bickley in the other room watching cartoons. And I was attempting to juggle a wiggly baby not content perched on my hip while moving things in and out of the microwave for Bickley's dinner - all the while trying not to burn me or the baby. And I had it again later that night while I was laying on the couch trying to lull Stella to sleep (because she's having trouble doing it on her own) only to have a squeeling 6-year-old burst into the room laughing at something she'd seen on Cartoon Network and totally thwarting all of my efforts. I'm a mom to one and a stepmom to another and I had to step back and take a good, hard look at myself - and laugh. And then, of course, it was back to reality - and lulling Stella.

Rock me gently

Craft Saturday went well. It was a learning experience, just like Jen and I thought it would be. Hopefully we'll be able to do it again in June, though it sounds like they're revamping the application process.
I just got done rocking Stella to sleep. She used to be so good about putting herself to sleep, but lately it's been really hit or miss. Unfortunately Brian and I are not the "cry it out" type of parents. She makes one little noise and we're cribside putting her "plug" back in her mouth. Maybe someday we'll learn to back off, but right now we just don't feel like we're ready.
She's so much fun at this age, though. Her little personality is growing bigger everyday. She's learned to roll from her back to her stomach, so now she's a rolling machine. She'll only roll one way, though, so I keep having to "reset" her back to her original position every few minutes. She's also started to do an excercise that resembles ab crunches. When she's on her back she'll try real hard to lift up her head, like she's trying to sit up. It seems like it's only a matter of time now that she'll be more mobile. I'm both looking forward to and dreading that day.