I-spy {novelty} Quilt

LOTS of pictures.

I once again referred to Care's tutorial that can be found HERE

It's crazy crooked but it's for G and he doesn't know any better.

 The novelty prints were collected through shopping and swaps. Swaps are fun because it's a surprise and you get some unique prints.

I did semi straight line stitching to quilt it. with semi free motion around the border. It's just crazy stitching.

This one took a long time because I just got to a point and stopped. And couldn't get started again.

I have already started another one am really SUPER excited about it. It's my biggest quilt yet.

Family Pictures 2011

I miss y'all.

We finally got our family pictures done after some rescheduling issues.

I did not take a valium because I wasted it on a night out with the nana. So I had to suffer through pictures in the cold without a medicinal aid. dammit.

I often think of just carrying a flask around with me. I know some moms use that glass of wine at the end of the night to undwind.

Do you know when I need to unwind? In the middle of Target - when G is wanting to "take this home" and just puts random stuff in the cart. Or is riding the random tricycle he found in toys around the whole store.

Just a nip would help.

Ahem. Pictures - Sneak Peek.

I took this self portrait at a stop light on the way to the picture shoot just so you could see how awesome professionals make me look.

However on the self portrait - I don't have too many chins.

I'm on vacation

So I'm doing a lot of this





And this





Yay for vacation

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This past year

I just spent TOO much time going through the last year of my blog posts.

I'm working on my calendar for this year's Christmas present.

Here is Last Year's - it will not be that fancy. Who has time for fancy?

We actually did a whole bunch of things this past year.

And my child went from a baby/toddler to a TOTAL little boy.

WHEN did that happen?! When did I blink?

2011-01

I keep getting all this junk mail and emails. SALE SALE SALE. 20% off! 50% off! BOGO!

Screw you. I'm poor. My car repairs cost $400. G has a birthday coming. And a christmas. My nephew has a birthday coming. and a Christmas.

Money is SO dumb.

Oh pictures are rescheduled for today. It's gonna be interesting.

Why are you here? Like as a reader - what do you want from me?

How lame am I? Let us count the ways.

I'm way behind on blogs and just CAN'T. CATCH. UP.

I try and try.

I had the best cupcake party ever and took no pictures.

I stole some though.

I let G wear this to school yesterday morning.

I finished a quilt over a week ago and haven't taken pictures or blogged about it.

Our family pictures are being rescheduled (not my fault) but I still don't have a date/time and would like to order Christmas cards! I won a shutterfly giveaway from Lovely (WOOT)

I missed FAF 2 weeks in a row!

I started a new quilt and no pictures.

I put more fancy pictures up in G's room and in my office/craft room and NO PICTURES!

I'm having freak me out scheduling issuses because of a birthday party, christmas activities, and a certain OU/OSU game.

I did order a HUGE personalized party pack for G's cowboy party. For $20! Holla! Etsy shop here

I have nothing clever to add.

Oh the cupcake party gave me a monster zit! before party - no zit. After party - HUGE zit with horns.

There ain't no party like a cupcake party.

This weekend I had a cupcake / scentsy party. Sheila is a new Scentsy consultant and I was her first party.

We had a cupcake decorating bar. My sister cooked ALLLLLLL these cupcakes while I cleaned.

Want motivation to do that super cleaning? Have a party.

Toppings

icing and sprinkles

Kerri and I

I have mad cupcake skillz

some of my creations

G had the best time decorating and then not eating them.

 It was lots of fun.

Favorite cupcake recipes - banana cupcake with dark chocolate fudge icing and nuts
french vanilla with cream cheese icing and peanut butter chips
strawberry with lemon icing

I stole all these pictures from Kerri.
And Scentsy is awesome.

Toddler Negotiations

I'm really bad at getting G to do what I want. He basically wants to do EXACTLY what he wants at all times and that is usually the opposite of my idea.

I mean EVERYTHING.

I bought him super cute rainboots at Target sometime ago. I was thinking "cute! He can play in them"

He was thinking "These are the best boots EVER and I will wear them FOREVER"

He wears them everywhere with everything. ALWAYS.

I took him to Stride Rite last night and had him fitted for new shoes. I let him pick out super obnoxious Spiderman shoes. That are so red. and blue. But they are SHOES!

I'm like ya baby - no more stinky boots.

He wore his boots to school today.

Totally Random Update

Grayson was sick last week all the way through the weekend. He had croup and a sinus infection. He couldn't go to school. So me and him hung around for 4 straight days.

It just reinforces that I am not SAHM material. Kudos to you.

He got exactly this far from me at all times.

At one point we did manage to go out to eat and he pulled gum out from under the table.

I took it away from him as soon as I noticed.

But then had to cut this gum out of his hair.

He also managed to rip $17 in half. When I asked him why - he said "I do like the man on TV" I have no idea.

It has been taped and spent.

I picked out this shirt (I almost typed shit) for family pictures.

Which are Thursday.

I bought this shirt for G

I'm a little worried about getting him to wear it. Because he has boycotted long sleeves.

And I need to get him shoes because I refuse to let him wear his rain boots.

And I'm already trying to think of bribing tools for good pictures. Advice?

Does this post feel completely scatterbrained?

More additions to G's room

I'm in full FINISH GRAYSON'S ROOM mode. I bought shelves. and fabric for curtains.

I got some plain clipboards and mod podged some scrappy paper on. They are to display his artwork.

I also got a chalkboard and spraypainted it.

Chalk and erasers is in the yellow bucket.

I bought a black organizer for his coloring books. and hate.

In my head - I want something that goes on the wall. PLEASE HELP!

I saw this SUPER CUTE idea to put READ above his bookshelves.

See - in that big blank spot above his shelves.

Yarn-wrapped letters that look like this. Orignally seen HERE

However mine looks like this piece of shit. Can it even be fixed? or should I move on?

And let tell you something right now. It takes forEVAH to wrap yarn around a letter. FOR REAL, YO!

Trick or Treat

It's a treat for you. Because I actually got out my good camera and took decent pictures.

We did a carnival friday night, a campy cute 'n' spooky saturday night, and trick or treating last night.

I'm totally over Halloween.

Bouncy House - Friday

Pony Ride - Saturday

Petting Zoo

Trick or Treating - Monday

It took G exactly 1 house to get the hang of "Trick or Treating"

He wanted to open the candy and eat it after every single house.

And him and Angelina would argue over who would ring the doorbell. They were still arguing at one house while the person was trying to give them candy.

Towards the end - he was getting tired and sitting everywhere. Like on people's porches - while waiting for them to bring him candy.

He would only wear his mane for pictures.

We had a great Halloween Weekend.

I love looking at all your celebrations too. SO FUN!