I can't believe the weekend is almost over...Really?

Tomorrow I am going to the most delicious brunch EVER. A hotel in town has the best buffet brunch ever with desserts to die over. I am so excited!

I joined a new group on Etsy. It's called EtsyBABY and they seem like a great group of artisans! I am super excited to really get involved and get to know some of these wonderdful ladies! This group caters towards babies and young toddlers. They are a very talented group of crafters who specialize in high end boutique quality items.Just search " etsyBABY team" (without the qoutation marks) and you will get a wide variety of great items for baby!

Ah school. What to say about school. I just have to finish this one paper, and my stress level will hopefully plummet. I am so burnt out, I need a long vacation. Thank goodness my dad is coming to visit in a few weeks, maybe then I can get some breathing time. Brooke will love having Grandpa Tom here, for he is one crazy, funloving Grandpa!

And now for some ADORABLE pictures of my daughter. Hard to resist, isn't she?

This is my monkey wearing some of my unsellable creations. She loves mommy's castoffs!

My daughter is a strange cookie. She's sitting in an empty laundry basket watching Sunday morning cartoon...haha.

One of her pretty face.

Going down the huge inflatable slide at one of friend's birthday party. Love the face!

She insisted that she needed her legwarmers on. (Purchased from Fategoddess from etsyBABY!!!)

And one of her beautiful, crooked, toddler smiles.

The end of spring break...

It came way too soon. I have had so much fun this week hanging out with my daughters and spending time with my friends. I haven not done my homework and am kicking my self because now I have to cram it all in the next couple of days. My daycare had the sickies on Thursday, so I had to keep Brooke home. There went six good hours of homework time. :(

Last night I went to a wonderful get together with some friends. It was a pajama party full of toddlers, food and Rock Band on Wii. I tried the drums and really stunk. Its hard! Tomorrow I'm doing a brunch with the same friends at iHop. It should be a good time.

I've been on a bootie kick lately. I am trying to build inventory for the upcoming craft shows this spring, summer, and fall. I am listing them on Artfire and Etsy and if they don't sell, I'll suspend them to take to the craft shows and if they don't sell at the shows, then I'll relist them. I don't know how many I should whip up, but the double strap booties (below) are a lot faster to make. The loafers are super cute, but I have three other patterns like this that require you make two soles, then sew them together and make the body of the bootie from there. It's really time consuming and you have to match the size of the soles perfectly or else they don't sit right. Maybe if I get faster they won't seem so time consuming. For now I'm just going to play around with different color combinations for the double strap. I need to make up some boy booties next.




I am now contributing to the Artfire Cafemom Team Blog. I wrote the last post on St Patrick's Day. There are a lot of talented crafters in our guild on Artfire. To check out the variety of items, go to Artfire and search for "Artfire Cafemom Team." There are pages and pages of listings from our guild crafters.

I really like Artfire and would eventually like to completely switch everything over to their site, but it just doesn't have the same traffic as Etsy does. I have so many sales on Etsy as well so my reputation and feedback is lost as well. Maybe once the traffic picks up I'll be able to redirect everyone over to my Artfire shop.

That's my new Artfire banner, do you like it? I love it because it matches my Etsy banners so they look great in my Cafemom signature.

Brooke and I got to talk to Eric on web cam the other day. It was really nice to see him for those few minutes. Brooke was all about talking to daddy and she didn't seem too confused on why daddy was on the computer. She kept pointing to things on his face and naming them. It was too cute. It was good to see his face after three weeks and to see for myself he was ok. I haven't heard from him in a couple of days, I'm guess their internet is down. Their phone lines have been down so I haven't been able to hear his voice. It's been hard. I've had a couple of those days where I just feel blah. But then I get a hug from my daughter and I'm strong once more.

Sick toddlers are so pathetic :(

Brooke has a cold. Another one. It seems like she just got over one and now her nose is runny, she's sneezing and coughing. Poor baby. She didn't nap very well today at daycare, so she's uber cranky and that means early bedtime.

Brooke HATES my baths. I don't know why my baths aren't fun, maybe she's just used too used daddy baths. :( I feel bad. She has so much hair, and I'm kind of a good hygene freak so I really scrub her down. She really hates it.

I have TWO big papers to write this weekend. Both are 6 pages and one is due Monday and the other is due Tuesday. It's hard to get back into the groove and try and whip out two papers when your mind just isn't there. Yikes.

This weekend it's muh birfday! SO, for my birthday, I am going to be offering 15% off everything in my store!!! AND free shipping on orders over $20! I can't believe I'm going to be 26. I know I've beaten this dead horse once before, but I'm getting so old. And it seems like I'm getting older faster because Brooke makes the time go buy so quick. Next year, right after Eric gets home, I'll be 27!!!!! Damn.

I read a post by other Cafe Etsy Mom who is also a hair bow. She had found these Sesame Street hair binders in the dollar section of Target. By accident the little sesame street heads started coming off, so she had the idea to attach them to clips and sell them! I know I'm bad, I but I had to "borrow" her idea. I searched Etsy to see if she was the only one, but she wasn't so I didn't fel so bad. I hope she doesn't get mad at me. One of the liners ended up being the same color as hers, and I didn't mean to do that. I couldn't remember what colors she had used so one ended up like hers. Ooops. Sorry!

Alright. I should get going!!!! Lots to do tonight!