Finally discovered ETSY.COM!!!

For anyone who makes anything homemade, you MUST visit Etsy.com. It's like Ebay but for the crafting community. You can buy or sell anything hand made or even supplies like yarn or fabric. They also have a lot of other things like chats, blogs, tools to help you promote your Etsy Store, etc. After visiting Etsy, it finally has given me the good kick in the butt I needed to finish all those projects I started but never quite finished. So, my New Year's resolution is to finish my projects BEFORE I start a new one. I currently have at least 3 unfinished projects in my storage cube in my living room. AND I will spend less time online searching for new patterns and yarn or supplies if I have unfinished projects. Remember one of my first blogs was the green and red placemats I was making with a loom? Well, I made one and never went back to make the other 3...lol.

After seeing what a huge hit my scarves were at Justin's Holiday Bazaar (they sold out in about 3 minutes as soon as it opened and I had Mom's telling me to start making them now for next year) I want to maybe start selling items on Etsy. Of course, I need to get busy and make a bunch of items for my stock.... BUT first I need to finish the forgotten projects that are half done.

I hope everyone has a Happy and Healthy New Year!!!

Sugar Cookie Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

Sugar Cookie Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

This is so adorable!!

Introducing Coco...

We found out a few weeks ago that our African Grey is a girl and after going thru countless names with the kids (I can't possibly have a bird named Hearts or Rainbow for the next 50+ years), we decided on Coco. Here are some pics of her from last week.

Everything works out in the end...

Just when you think things won't get better, you get a great opportunity thrown right in your lap. I have my real estate license and I've had it since Madison was only a few months old (so for about 4 years). I have been practicing real estate VERY part time. I wasn't happy with the office I was working at but didn't think any other office would want a part timer so I stayed. Plus, it's a small office that gets little to no traffic so you really need to find your own clients (by the way it doesn't help when certain family members say they will go through you and you find out they went through a random person to buy a place to live... but that's ANOTHER story...).

So, I was going to give up my license because it was getting too expensive to keep up with it and I wasn't really getting clients. Well, about a week ago my Mom told me the top agent in our area and county (plus she is in the top 100 agents nation wide) was looking for people to join her team. This agent/broker is very well known and her face is on billboards. I met with the agent and found out that a dream job for a part time realtor, like myself, was just thrown in my lap. I'll get clients, make money, and be part of a great team with lots of support.

So... isn't it funny how things work out? So by early next week I will officially be part of the Prudential Marie Ferraro Team.

Holiday Bazaar

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!! I was going to go shopping on Black Friday, but decided I would rather sleep. Plus, I'm done shopping for the kids so there was nothing I really needed.

The Holiday Bazaar at Justin's school starts on Thursday and I made 4 scarves and 4 little placemats with a loom (I think this size can be either for hot plates or as a coaster). I wanted to make more items, but I just ran out of time. Plus, I don't get paid for these items... the money they make goes to the school.

Here are the pictures of the items:

The multi-color scarf is just like one I made for Madison and posted on here. The other is a thin scarf made with fun-fur.

Here are two ruffle scarves.

And this last picture I just took last night. I just put clean sheets on Madison's bed and the kids said they would put her dolls back on her bed for me (she normally keeps her Care Bears along the wall). Well, I went back to the room later and found that they had put EVERY doll back on her bed... lol. There wasn't any room for her sleep.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I just wanted to tell everyone to have a Great Thanksgiving!!! And for those going shopping on Black Friday, I hope you score some good bargains!!

Madison's Thanksgiving Feast

The preschool where Madison goes (and Justin went to last year) does a Thanksgiving Feast the week of Thanksgiving. The children make costumes and are either Pilgrims or Indians.... Madison's class were Indians. The children come in one at a time with their teacher and get to cut a piece of turkey (with the help of their teacher, of course) then they get to sit down and eat. Then they all sing songs once they are done eating. Here are two pics of Madison.

Our New Bird!!

Some of you may already know we pre-ordered a Congo African Grey bird back in September. The bird hadn't even been hatched yet and the bird store (actually the owner's son goes to school with Madison) would call us when they got birds in. Well, today we got the call that they got 4 African Grey birds in and to come pick ours out. We went to the bird store and picked out our bird and we find out Monday if it's a boy or a girl. Here's a picture of the bird. Its only 4 weeks old.

Once we find out the sex, we can start thinking of names. So far the kids have come up with: Princess, Cutie Pie, Thomas (Justin thought of this, but we already have a cockatiel named Thomas), and Chica.

Justin Lost His FIRST TOOTH!!!

Justin has had a 'wiggly' tooth since his last denist visit in September, but the past few days he's really been playing around with it and trying to loosen it so it would fall out. Today, during Karate, I kept seeing Justin with his hand in his mouth and at first I thought he was biting his nails.... later he told me his tooth was REALLY wiggly. I checked and it was literally hanging by a thread. When Bryan got home, I helped Justin get the tooth out. Justin was so happy that he was jumping up and down and clapping and he kept saying that he was a big boy now. So, I took a picture of him showing his new space in his mouth and of the tooth itself.

What have I been up to lately? Well, I volunteered to make some things for Justin's Holiday Bazaar. So far I have 3 scarves done and I'm on my 4th which is actually going to be a ruffle scarf. Speaking of which, I made a ruffle scarf for my Mom's Birthday (which is today). She saw a ruffle scarf in the Target flyer a few weeks ago and I was able to find a crochet pattern online. So, I made one in red (of course since it's her favorite color) and black. Here are pics of the scarf.

Once I get some more things done, I start posting pictures.

Oh and Justin had school today after being off for a week, and he got on the bus just fine. Actually, he ran to be the first one on the bus.