It's been a while...

A year in fact.

Let me get you up to speed on what's been going on. When last we talked I was a suffering from a little bit of seasonal effective disorder, or sad, for those in the know. Well, coincidentally, I am having that same problem now! Methinks a pattern I smell.

But I digress... in the past year I have done a whole lot of nothing. No crafts at all. This can almost entirely be attributed to our tiny apartment where my sewing machine is in it's case in the back of my closet along with everything else I own that's crafty.

I have decided to make a vow to do some crafting for the Holidays! Maybe it will get me out of my funk and crafts are a great personal (read cheap) way to tell loved ones that they are loved ones. Yay!

While Christmas crafting I will be no doubt watching our favorite Christmas films. Check it.

Christmas Vacation - I don't care what any snobby bastard says, this is the greatest ever.
It's a Wonderful Life
Santa's Slay - My husband's favorite and I have to say that I dig this one too.
Home Alone
Trading Places
White Christmas

Stay tuned for news of crafts!

Husband Less

I am less one husband for the next 48 hours. He's off in Los Angeles for work being very important and I am home with the dog and cats eating Totino's Party Pizzas and making button bouquets.

For the 4 of you who read this blog, you know that I made button bouquets at my wedding and encouraged you to take them home as favors. Well! Our good friend Adazoe owns Pop Up Shoppe on NW 23rd and wants to start selling my bouquets! So I've been hard at work filling her first order of 6 bouquets. When I bring them in we're going to talk price point. I have no idea what that means, but it makes me tingly in all the right places. How exciting!

I've been so inspired by this vote of confidence from Adazoe, that I've opened my own Etsy shop! There is nothing for sale in it yet, but I'll let you know once there is. I plan on selling the bouquets (obvs.) and also bookmarks, magnets, eyeglass sheaths, embroidered what nots and whatever the hell else I can make. I love being crafty but have pretty much run out of room for stuff in my house, so why not sell my craftiness to the masses?! Huh? Huh? I know, right? Genius.

Shauna's face in this picture says it all.

It's way too early to tell you what my Etsy shop name is and give you the URL, but trust me when I say that the name of my shop/business is super clever and Brad came up with it. He's a smarty.

Yay for stuff!

Halloween Fun!

For the second year in a row, Eric informed me on Wednesday that he found out that day that we were going to have to 'volunteer' our time for his school the following Saturday night... three short days away! Sweet! AND, said volunteering involves dressing up in a halloween costume and handing out Dum-Dums to kids at the Zoo. Although this is not generally how I like to spend my free time, it's for the kids ladies and gentlemen and therefore I would be a colossally bad person to say no.

So, this is the craftiest thing we could come up with in short notice...

Aside from the fact that my overalls were nice enough to make me look about 50 pounds heavier than I actually am, I was pleased with the result.

Happy Homemaking All!!!