mad skillz

While at the Craft Fair a couple of weeks ago, Kaedo decided he wanted to do some paintball war games pictures. I have a fondness for stick people so I just love these drawings. These are simulation paintball wars and he has added in all the extra landmines etc for effect. Innocent fun for a Sunday afternoon. These are definitely going in his school years book.

week 10

Week 10 and they are posing in the rain. Thankfully that part of the porch is covered or I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to get them outside. Special treat this week - that cute dog of ours just had to get in the picture. We had a couple of outtakes on this one - trying to stop it from looking like Ketchup had eaten Kaedo's head! We finally got a good one and when I looked at it, Gnomee wasn't even in the picture! Needless to say, we had to take another. Kaedo's hair looks brutal but they are both so cute that it doesn't matter.

We are slowly getting organized for Christmas. My desk downstairs has quite a collection of gifts. Many of them small, but all purchased with care. I am looking forward to having a wrapping party with the boys as they have to wrap their own. May use bags for the adults, but the girlies will all get paper. Ripping it off is almost as fun as receiving the gift.

As of now, all our Secret Santa gifts have been bought and the boys have bought for each other and Kaedo has shopped for Craig. It is amazing what even a year does. The boys weren't so panicked this year about staying right to the "mandatory" limit. In all cases they went over and were happy to do so. For those who don't know - the boys spend $20 on each other, completely of their own money money. They also out of their own money spend $10 each on Craig and I and $5 for their Secret Santa gift. Many years we match the $10 and they go in together but this year they seem to have things well in hand. They start counting their pennies in Sept/Oct to make sure they have enough spending money and shopping money.

I know people say Christmas is for little kids but I must say I enjoy it very much with my teenagers. They are involved, fun, excited and don't get up at 5am.

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Yup - that's how many posts I have written. Yikes!

All is well here. Yesterday went really well and I was happy with my success and Craig was happy with football, and Kaedo with soccer. Sterling was just bored.

Today has been filled with calls from afar, Christmas shopping, watching football, playing video games and reading books.

The week is shaping up to be another busy one. I have 5 customs to do, a group on Monday, two on Tuesday and one on Thursday. I`ll be grouped out by Friday.

Craig is in the kitchen on a little bit of a tangent about the kids and chores. I totally agree with him but there is no speaking to him right now.

Kaedo is dreading going back to school tomorrow where he must face his nemesis - his science teacher.

Sterling is back talking his dad so he has been invited to go to bed.

As you can see, all is normal in our world.

Calm before the.....

..... hopefully storm. Another show tomorrow. I am participating in a Customer Appreciation event and am hoping to sell some hats. I made 16 this week, so hopefully most will go. Like my mom said - "at least you'll know which ones people don't like". She's absolutely right, if I have hats from last week still left over tomorrow night then I'll know what not to make again.

So, just a few shots of this weeks hats. I promise - not too many more of these posts.

Special thanks to Jessica and Kelly who both passed my Facebook page along to friends and I got some custom orders due to that. You guys rock.

the weekend

The weekend went great. I sold all but 6 of my hats so Kaedo and I were really happy. These pictures are from set-up night on Friday and show the selection of hats I had for sale. As you can imagine, the table looked quite sparse with only six hats left on it. I tried on a lot of hats for people so they could see what they looked like on. We also had mirrors available so people could try them on themselves. I was surprised at how many did that. It was cool to see my hats on other people. All is all it was a lot of fun and definitely something I would do again. Now back to the grind for this weekend.

Sorry the blogging has been sparse but I have been so busy. Thanks for sticking around.

week 9

The weather is beautiful and the sun is shining. We're not missing any of that Alberta wind. The boys are doing well. Sterling had a classmate here yesterday until 8pm working on a project and I think Kaedo is still recovering from his weekend. Back on schedule this week which includes a return to soccer. He is looking forward to that. The weather is still nice enough to be biking so we'll see if Sterling gets his tire pumped up and gets out there. Craig is playing in the "toilet bowl" for the crummy teams in football, on Saturday and I'm doing another craft event. I am furiously crocheting trying to get enough done for the weekend. All my custom orders from the show are complete and sent or delivered, so now it is actual product to sell that needs to be completed. Wish me luck. My hips hurt from sitting so much!

First Day Jitters

Well, day one is over and I can't thank Kaedo enough for all his hard work. He was awesome. After barely sleeping last night, I was up early ready to go. Too early, if truth be told. It was a fun day. It started off slow and that was scary but it picked up and we sold 14 hats and got 2 custom orders and some other possibles. All in all I was happy with our day and hope to do as well tomorrow. Totally bagged now so I will keep this short. Thanks everyone for your kind words and wonderful encouragement.