Friday, November 21, 2008

Yay for MOMMY

My mom is in town....she is helping me with some of the food designs that I couldn't figure out. We are trekking to San Fran today..my lil bro's bday is today so we will be lunching with him. Looking forward to the visit and to the city. Opposed to many I LOVE going to the city. Gotta bring my camera....maybe some good shots to find today! Happy Friday!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Busy lil Mama

I am working. Well, sorta unofficially. I am my own boss. Not that I mean I am doing those work from home programs. I have been using my craft skills for good. Been making things, and selling things. It all started in August....



My mom was on the organizing team for a quilt show where she lives. We decided to run a booth. Jose was to do his booth for the food vending and I would put some crafty shiz together for sale. I got this brilliant idea to make I Spy bags. I had read about them online and wanted to try it out. So for the show I set out to make 22 bags (11 girl based and 11 boys based). THEN we were rained out. UGH....what to do...I shared them with the owner of our learning store in town. She bought 10. Then I shared with my previous principal. She bought 2. HMMM a concept became real! I sent the remaining with my friend to a few craft fairs. She sold 6. Then I had to make more, and a few orders later (yes! people are ordering them from me! Amazing!) I have made to date, 40 bags.

Now, I have a new venue. I am making felt foods! These are so addicting. I am making inventory for a small holiday craft boutique in a few weeks. I have made, breakfast foods (bacon, pancakes with butter and eggs), fruit (lemons, limes, oranges, watermelon) veggies (snow peas, green beans, carrots --working on more), cookies, and pizza.

I hope to have pics up to share...but in the meantime I am just explaining another absence from my blog world. Apparently with my limited free time, I can only have 1 hobby in the limelight. At the moment, my crafty stuff takes 1st place. As I juggle life around to accomodate holidays and family visits, and my list of porjects I hope to complete, I intend to make space for the blog.

TTFN!

Monday, November 10, 2008

The Number 1 Hit

When I was born, this was the Number 1 hit in pop music. When Jose was born, this was Number 1. When Elly was born, this was the hit and for Bri it was this.

Enjoy the musical programing for the evening!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Halloween Candy....

...has been put away. I really don't need to act as clean up person for the girls. Between their bags and our "didn't get passed out" candy, I have been eating wayyyyy to much. So: the Hershey's, Reese's and M & M's have been frozen for future baking, and the hard sugary candies in the trash. I told Elly that Daddy took it all to kids who don't have candy. It works as a reason, since we have done some fundraisers in the past for children in need. She accepted it. She did say though "Don't worry Mommy, there is more at the store!" Ahhhh yes, she has a good concept of commercialism. I am raising a future shopper for the world.

I already know I will be making fondue with teh Hershey's and cookies with M's (as Elly calls them). However, I am open for suggestions regarding the peanut butter cups. They are mostly the single regular sized candies. Any ideas?

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Ecstatic!

That is my overall feeling from the Presidential Election 2008. I am thrilled that our country will have a new direction to work towards at the hands of the man I believe will be wonderful for our country. I originally believed Hillary to be the better candidate...but no regrets baby. Not now. I have watched his debates and public forums. I feel very confident in him. He is solid. He is real. He is not cocky or egotistical or condescending. He comes from a place where I do-no silver spoon in his mouth. Barack Obama also represents a slice of America's melting pot. For my daughters, also of mixed heritage, this is huge. My daughters are half Mexican and 1/2 me (little bits of everything with Italian as 25%). They will not see a white man running our country. For their futures, they will see that race does not keep you from being the President of the United States. (Next I hope to see women break in...Hillary or some other equally capale and remarkable woman!)

Watching people's eyes and faces as they listened to the acceptance speech last night was awesome. I felt the unity of hope. I am excited to bid farewell to GW and his horrible legacy. I realize that we have a tough climb ahead of us. However, we would have been seening the same difficulties with McCain. At least now, I feel that there will be positives in exchange for the negatives, and not more drudgery.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Halloween Fun!

Whew! Halloween is over and I am thankful. It was super fun, but we started "Doing Halloween" just into October. By last night, my kids where nuts and I had no defenses lol. We have been to pumpkin patches, halloween parties, created crafts, dressed up 6 different days in 4 different costumes, watched parades, carved pumpkins, and ate lots of candy (admittedly I have demolished a few bags on my lonesome....). Since we all know how wordy I can get, I will allow pictures to speak for themselves.