Showing posts with label crowns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crowns. Show all posts

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Sunshine!!!!!



Oh, what an amazingly fabulous day it was today!! The sun was out all day. The kids played outside for the majority of the daylight hours. I managed to complete AND post the newest crown. I sold a windchime! We made ginger snaps with our homemade butter.



We did foot print paintings and removed all the hearts from our tree and started with our new seasonal theme.



We have decided that decorating our window tree with the birds that we have seen throughout the Winter at the feeder and the newly arriving birds would be appropriate for this 'in-between' season. I wasn't sure how to show root babies, etc. with the tree so we've gone with a more avian theme. So far, we have the red-winged blackbird, the fox sparrow, house finch, rufous-sided towhee, red-breasted robin and the common flicker. Tomorrow, we'll add the dark-eyed junco and the black-capped chickadee. I think the swans, Canadian geese and the ducks may be too big fo our little tree....also, I have never, ever seen any of the larger birds in a tree...the thought of it makes me giggle, in fact...kind of like a monkey wearing glasses or a fish on a bicycle....Okay, maybe it's just lack of sleep.....



I had to include this photo of Briar pretending to breastfeed the cat. My sweet, sweet little boy.




Monday, February 11, 2008

I did it!!!!

I finally managed to list everything on Etsy! I stayed up until 1 am changing phto sizes and listing each item. It took much longer than I had anticipated, but I am SO pleased that I'm done for a bit.

I've used my mom's account and have listed my things with her sweaters. I'll have to do some tinkering to make it geared towards both of us. Thanks Mom!
I am a bit insecure about listing my 'things'...I'm not sure why that is. Fear of failure? Fear of people's opinions? I don't know. I wish that those feelings of inadequacy would go away as I got older! I guess it's one of those things that I need to work on...
I LOVE this sweater that my Mom just knit. It has this soft ethereal feel to it. Krista totally helped me out by taking the photos for me for the sweaters! I was having a heck of a time doing very well it myself. I think the photo quality for Mom's sweaters went way up with Krista's shots. She takes such amazing photos!


Thursday, January 17, 2008

Crowns aplenty.....

Okay, the pictures are in the wrong order....Damn. How do I always seem to do that. The rest of the post is way.....
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down...... Not the greatest photo, but it made me laugh. I love cows noses. So smooth. So damp. So firm. Did you know they have REALLY long tongues? Maggie nearly licked the camera right out of my hands....literally.
Maggie and April hangin'....
Miss Braveheart, the guard horse....
Baby Madeline....Yes, I know the picture is a bit psychedelic.....I think quite cool....or groovy?
This is the crown that I sold today. Yay!!!!! Briar has been messing with the tension on my sewing machine (ARGH!) so there were two of those bloody snaggy rats nests on the back. DAMN. Anyhow, I sold it for less than I would have to account for the extra thread....Maybe I should have charged more since I used more?????

Olivia's very own crown. I don't seem to have a close up.



I've been working away on my crafts with the plan of selling them on Etsy. Today, I was doing a felting workshop at Marylou's and ended up selling one of the crowns that I've been working on. Wow! I felt awful taking money from someone I knew, I must admit, but it was so neat to sell something!!! My head is BRIMMING with ideas....