update
since it has been so long.
i have really been swamped with things these past few weeks. Last week especially though. I was getting ready for a vendor booth i was having at the Greaserama car show this weekend. I was going to try my hand at selling things to the general public. I decided that i was going to make a bunch of baby carriers to sell b/c at every car show, I see people getting so tired b/c they are lugging their baby around. Car shows are a really fun family event, so I was hoping that there would be enough families to warrant me spending a lot of time sewing baby carriers. I ended up selling 3 so that was really good! I wanted to make more carriers but I ran out of time, so I decided to bring some of my diapering things and mama coth, and see how they would do. I ended up selling 3 pads, a set of nursing bra pads, 2 "I Spy" games, a one-size fitted diaper, a prefold and 4 snappis. Yay! I am really surprised at how well everything did. I used my earnings to buy 2 sweet old bikes, one for me and one for ben. If i figure out how to hide the pictures, I can post those later.
Man, I just have so much to update on, it would take me years. I suppose I should try and break things up a bit. I figured out how to check my email from my phone...now if I just had the internet on my phone and I could post to livejournal too.
I miss you. Yes, you. we havn't talked in forever.
The kids got a new bed, so we have all been sleeping better. Ben was soooo ready to get katie out of the bed. I felt really bad b/c he was so tired every morning from getting kicked in the side and scratched in the face. So my great friend wendee found us a bunk bed on craigslist, and her rad husband went and got it and brought it over and set it up. Presley loves his top bunk! Ben loves his adult-only bed and Katie is doing great on the bottom bunk. I have a moniter by my head so if she cries in the night I can go lay with her and nurse her back to sleep. Sometimes I wake up and go back to my bed, but a lot of the time i just stay in there. Co-sleeping is great, just not in mom and dad's bed! lol I stay up waaaaay too late so usually when I hear her stir, I am still up sewing and crafing.
I had a really productive night last night though. I stayed up until almost 2 drafting patterns for things and figuring how many things I can get out of a 2-yard cut. So far I have cut out a mama pad bag, 2 regular pads, 2 heavy pads, 1 pantyliner, 2 overnight/postpartum pad, 2 wipes, 1 pair of nursing pads, and 3 fitteds, one med, large and XL. I still have at least 1/2 a yard of the fabric left so I'd like to get a large wetbag and a mei tai body peice, but i doubt that is going to happen. If i had another 1/2 yard, I could probably get those, plus some diaper cuts for some covers. So let's say to get all the things I want out of a length of fabric, I need to get 2.5 yards and that's only if it is girly fabric. I wouldn't need to make mama pads out of anything boyish.
I would really like to move back to KC. I am just afraid that Topeka is never going to catch on to the cloth diapering experience. I have become an "affiliate" of the Learning for Life center, which is the place where people go for yoga, herb lessons, natural healing, that kind of thing. I have to pay them a small monthly fee, and they do some advertising for me, which includes a monthly email (which i write fresh each month), a monthly open-house for people to come look/try/buy and a discounted rate if I decide to rent the yoga room to have some cloth diapering/baby wearing classes. The owner of the center, already lets my AP group meet there every monday for sewing group, free of charge. I think they like all the young energy we bring. All of us really help to liven up the place :) And after we leave, they teach yoga and all the people are kind of buzzed. It's interesteing. I'm not sure how much of that kind of thing I believe in...how much of it is Biblical, but I can say that it feels good to be around certain people. Call it energy or whatever...
Ben's parents are some of those people I really like to be around. I just love going to their house, or when they come over. Kay really inspires me to be a better wife, and....yeah, I am kind of at a loss for words to describe how much I love those people. I am really blessed to have great in-laws, and someday I am going to tel them just how much I appreciate the way they raised their son. My husband is such a wonderful man....i'm at a loss for words again. But they truly raised a wonderful man who I love so much. I feel so bad for some of my friends who get talked down to by their husbands because my husband never does that. We have really great communication and I always feel good when I am around him. He makes me feel like a lady.
Well I guess that is enough for now.. I have kind of maxed out my brain, and I have a lot i need to get done today. I got pulled over last night while driving my 59 fury, b/c I had one headlight out. I also didn't have turn signals, brake lights, seat belts (for me...we installed them for the kids' car seats) proof of insurance, or a drivers lisence in the state of kansas. I have lived here for 2 years and have never gotten my new lisence. Would you take two little kids into the DMV??? Well I guess i have to today. Gotta' get that done so that I can take it to the court house and get my ticket taken care of. Oh, BTW, the only thing i got a ticket for was the DL, all the rest of the stuff got warnings. That's not even mentioning when Ben pulled over to help me and the cop went ahead and inspected his vehicle, seeing that he didn't have signals or brake lights either. Sigh. I would really rather that cops were out busting the meth-cooking criminals rather than the families who have a headlight out.
gotta get busy!
i have really been swamped with things these past few weeks. Last week especially though. I was getting ready for a vendor booth i was having at the Greaserama car show this weekend. I was going to try my hand at selling things to the general public. I decided that i was going to make a bunch of baby carriers to sell b/c at every car show, I see people getting so tired b/c they are lugging their baby around. Car shows are a really fun family event, so I was hoping that there would be enough families to warrant me spending a lot of time sewing baby carriers. I ended up selling 3 so that was really good! I wanted to make more carriers but I ran out of time, so I decided to bring some of my diapering things and mama coth, and see how they would do. I ended up selling 3 pads, a set of nursing bra pads, 2 "I Spy" games, a one-size fitted diaper, a prefold and 4 snappis. Yay! I am really surprised at how well everything did. I used my earnings to buy 2 sweet old bikes, one for me and one for ben. If i figure out how to hide the pictures, I can post those later.
Man, I just have so much to update on, it would take me years. I suppose I should try and break things up a bit. I figured out how to check my email from my phone...now if I just had the internet on my phone and I could post to livejournal too.
I miss you. Yes, you. we havn't talked in forever.
The kids got a new bed, so we have all been sleeping better. Ben was soooo ready to get katie out of the bed. I felt really bad b/c he was so tired every morning from getting kicked in the side and scratched in the face. So my great friend wendee found us a bunk bed on craigslist, and her rad husband went and got it and brought it over and set it up. Presley loves his top bunk! Ben loves his adult-only bed and Katie is doing great on the bottom bunk. I have a moniter by my head so if she cries in the night I can go lay with her and nurse her back to sleep. Sometimes I wake up and go back to my bed, but a lot of the time i just stay in there. Co-sleeping is great, just not in mom and dad's bed! lol I stay up waaaaay too late so usually when I hear her stir, I am still up sewing and crafing.
I had a really productive night last night though. I stayed up until almost 2 drafting patterns for things and figuring how many things I can get out of a 2-yard cut. So far I have cut out a mama pad bag, 2 regular pads, 2 heavy pads, 1 pantyliner, 2 overnight/postpartum pad, 2 wipes, 1 pair of nursing pads, and 3 fitteds, one med, large and XL. I still have at least 1/2 a yard of the fabric left so I'd like to get a large wetbag and a mei tai body peice, but i doubt that is going to happen. If i had another 1/2 yard, I could probably get those, plus some diaper cuts for some covers. So let's say to get all the things I want out of a length of fabric, I need to get 2.5 yards and that's only if it is girly fabric. I wouldn't need to make mama pads out of anything boyish.
I would really like to move back to KC. I am just afraid that Topeka is never going to catch on to the cloth diapering experience. I have become an "affiliate" of the Learning for Life center, which is the place where people go for yoga, herb lessons, natural healing, that kind of thing. I have to pay them a small monthly fee, and they do some advertising for me, which includes a monthly email (which i write fresh each month), a monthly open-house for people to come look/try/buy and a discounted rate if I decide to rent the yoga room to have some cloth diapering/baby wearing classes. The owner of the center, already lets my AP group meet there every monday for sewing group, free of charge. I think they like all the young energy we bring. All of us really help to liven up the place :) And after we leave, they teach yoga and all the people are kind of buzzed. It's interesteing. I'm not sure how much of that kind of thing I believe in...how much of it is Biblical, but I can say that it feels good to be around certain people. Call it energy or whatever...
Ben's parents are some of those people I really like to be around. I just love going to their house, or when they come over. Kay really inspires me to be a better wife, and....yeah, I am kind of at a loss for words to describe how much I love those people. I am really blessed to have great in-laws, and someday I am going to tel them just how much I appreciate the way they raised their son. My husband is such a wonderful man....i'm at a loss for words again. But they truly raised a wonderful man who I love so much. I feel so bad for some of my friends who get talked down to by their husbands because my husband never does that. We have really great communication and I always feel good when I am around him. He makes me feel like a lady.
Well I guess that is enough for now.. I have kind of maxed out my brain, and I have a lot i need to get done today. I got pulled over last night while driving my 59 fury, b/c I had one headlight out. I also didn't have turn signals, brake lights, seat belts (for me...we installed them for the kids' car seats) proof of insurance, or a drivers lisence in the state of kansas. I have lived here for 2 years and have never gotten my new lisence. Would you take two little kids into the DMV??? Well I guess i have to today. Gotta' get that done so that I can take it to the court house and get my ticket taken care of. Oh, BTW, the only thing i got a ticket for was the DL, all the rest of the stuff got warnings. That's not even mentioning when Ben pulled over to help me and the cop went ahead and inspected his vehicle, seeing that he didn't have signals or brake lights either. Sigh. I would really rather that cops were out busting the meth-cooking criminals rather than the families who have a headlight out.
gotta get busy!