Crafting Envy

   Well, we had a moderately productive weekend here. I made some fabulous blueberry muffins and I got my honey-bunny to build me a squirrel-proof plant box for the deck. Now I can put all my plants outside without fear that the devil squirrels from hell will destroy them. Got a nice collection of kitchen herbs going.


   Looks like it's good for other things too....hehe






   In other news, we are about to embark on a serious potty-training mission. Failure will not be accepted. By the end of 3 days my son will be doing number two in the potty. Wish us good luck and god speed (we're going to need it)


   Nice weather has precipitated a decline in sewing projects. Hard to make yourself sit at the sewing machine when it's 70 and sunny outside. None the less there are some May birthdays and Mother's Day coming up so I'm going to have to get going on it soon.


   I've had a bit of thrifting luck and I think I'll be setting up an Etsy so I can share my bounty. Anyone have any tips on that? I'm hoping I'll be able to support my crafting habit with the proceeds....it may be slim crafting days ahead ;)

    Whew! We had a crazy busy week. I promised to post pics of what we had been up to so here they are...













   So what do you think? It only took 5 days of constant work to get it done. It does look much better now, especially with a 3 year old chef stirring up some dandelion gumbo on it :)
   Got a few more things I'm working on, hopefully have them done soon for sharing. Toodles!

The crafty supplies haven't taken me hostage...yet. I think I may have even beaten them into submission. I'll have to see about posting what we've been up to here soon.

There isn't much I dislike more than cleaning my house. It's really hard to round up the energy to do it. Blah......

I'm struggling with storage solutions for my crafty supplies, they tend to multiply and take over every open surface. Aaaah! Attack of the crafting stuff!








On the plus side, I was at my mom's last weekend and found a stash of blankets we used when we were children. I'm going to clean up the photos and post em. Some of these are 30+ years old! Woohoo for handmade! Have a good weekend!

     Well, I finally finished my niece's fairy dress. I'm pretty happy with it, I hope she likes it. I had to remake the shift because the first one just didn't match the rest of it.




   Here are the pictures of my front flower-less beds, all clean and ready for some green.





    And this is my sweety in his dress Blues. We have a wedding next month and one this summer, both military so he had to get his dress uniform. This pic didn't turn out very well for some reason, I'll get more at the weddings.

    I have a confession of personal weirdness to make. I find that when I'm close to finishing a project (doesn't matter what it is) I start to put it off and put it off till it's nearly overdue.
    It's like I just don't want to let go of it, it's one of my creative children and I can't bear to let it leave the nest or be finished. Maybe it's that if it is unfinished then it still has unlimited potential but once it is finished I find all the flaws in it (and myself).
    Does anyone else experience this weird reluctance or is it just my crazy self :)?

 : : :Our temperatures have finally climbed back into spring territory, thank goodness, so I spent the afternoon with Elliott planting some tomato seeds and weeding the front flower beds. They're about half done right now so no pics yet but when they are looking all pretty I'll put some up.

 : : :I'm only doing some herbs, sunflowers, and a few annuals this year. I did way too much last year and didn't use half of what was produced :(. So I scaled back and aim to really get some use out of what I plant.


 : : : Anyone else out there preparing their bit of earth for seedlings?