Well there you go.  Not one sale & to be super honest I am tired of waiting for anything to happen, checking my inbox 16 times a day & worrying about it all.  I am not the kind of person who is good at business as far as pushing product, advertising & all that, just not interested.  So I am closing it up & I am going to re-group.  :)  Maybe I will get some more stuff made & just sell thru Etsy...... whatever, right now, I just want to relax & not worry about any of it!  So there you go! :)

In other news:
P is back in school... 6th grade!  I have managed to crawl out of the sobbing depressed mess I was in the first week of school & we got her schedule all straightened out & she is doing really well & loving school :)  I will recover I am sure, but I was really NOT ready for her to be in middle school yet!
My Hubs got a new job & is loving it!  YAY for new-better-nicer jobs!
My parents got a pool this summer,Thank goodness!  Or we might have melted! P is swimming like a fish, she wants to dive all the time... she used to be terrified to put her face in the water. 
I am going to try yet again to Blog more...... I am SO bad at it!  If there was a prize for the most pathetic blogger ever.... I would SO own it!

Okay so here is a pic of my newest creation, (I have been quilting a lot lately since I belong to the Tucson Modern Quilt Guild)..... Two of my good sewing friends & I went fabric shopping & we all bought the Ghastlies fabric from our quilt guild home, Bellas Quiltworks.  This is how mine turned out, I love it. 

I DID it!!!

Sorry I have been away for so very long, I am just terrible at keeping up a blog. I did manage to update my Paypal settings & get my shop running! Well, part of it anyway! :) Tootsie Marie

The Carey Jane water bottle carrier & hardware kits are now available! $6 each + tax in AZ & shipping. I have many colors of the hardware kits available, but not enough space to put them all up on the shop, so please message me if you want a certain color. (see picture)

I am going to be making custom water bottle carriers for $16.50 each + tax in AZ & shipping, email me if interested & I will get right back with you with the details. I can make them from any fabric (quilting cotton) you see over at Above All Fabric (Melanie has the best fabrics!).

Thanks so much for sticking with me while I got this all in order!

I am SO bad at this.

Well, I think it is pretty obvious, I am terrible at blogging. I can't remember to write it. I have little notes all over with ideas for postings, I have pictures ready to post & it just won't write itself! :( I am going to change the format a bit.... less talk, more picture... maybe this will help make it more manageable for me.

I have been working on the water bottle carrier & it should be for sale soon! Thanks for your patience!

This picture is of my cat, his name is Chewbacca, he is one year old. He weighs more than 12 lbs. He thinks it is fun to bite. I call him bad names. :) Isn't he cute lounging on the back of the sofa? :/

busy!

I am at a quilt/fabric/sewing show with my friend Melanie of www.aboveallfabric.com.

We are tired but having a great time!

I will update the blog after it is over! :)

can it get any better than this?

I am working on lots of projects & still cleaning up the mess from the yard sale & the mess from our storage room... blech!

I went to the laundry room a minute ago, because I realized with all the time I have been spending on sewing & cleaning, I have nothing clean to wear! I mean nothing! So, I am standing in the laundry room throwing clothes into the washer & it is running water & loud, but I thought I heard something, so I turned & there was my sweet 10 year old daughter.
She had a question for me.......

"Mommy, can I please do the dishes?"

hmmmmmm.... let me think about it......... YES!

What a great kid, or a very strange kid, or probably more likely, a combination of both.... all I know, is that I love her! She is AMAZING! :)

slow to update & Patty Young!

I never wanted to have a blog that is not updated at least every week! I hate that when I have a friend, or a sister :)- who will update a lot & then all of a sudden, they are gone for like two weeks! What is up with that? Are they on vacation? Did they think no one was reading? Did they forget? Or perhaps.... life go SO busy, they could not get everything done & the blog was on the cut list! I understand now... sometimes there is just too much going on. So, sorry if I have ever been upset with you for not updating on a regular basis... & sorry for not updating as often as I think I should!!! :)

My reasons for not updating as often as I think I should are many... it has been a crazy time at my house! The ceiling in my storage room (see post below) is almost half gone now... I am living with boxes all around me :( the termite man has come & gone & has to come out again, after we take a hammer to the affected boards & make all the termite poo fall out.... awesome.



So, since we have sorted all of this stuff out, we had a monster yard sale, I mean HUGE!!! Completely filled the garage with stuff & it spilled out onto the driveway all the way to the street, it was amazing. :) It took me most of a week to get it all, sorted, priced set up. My friend Stacey & her daughter came & helped. I got tables from two other great friends, my hubby & daughter helped with SO much!

As I was working on all of this, our cat had a seizure or concussion or something & had to be rushed to the e-vet in the middle of the night. The dog needed her rabies shot & the day I had to get to the bank for change, my car would not start! I try not to whine, but MAN! I could use a break! :)-



So the yard sale went really well! Phoebe & her friend Emily had a lemonade stand, all the money going to their school library & they made $19!!! Good food (thanks to Stacey!) cute kids, a good cause & generous people! Amazing!

Have I mentioned that my life is normally a very quite time? I mean, nothing goes on here! SOOOO quiet. So, imagine my surprise when I got into the car that would not start last week & it started up! I drove it part way to the bus stop, thinking how lucky I was that it was working again & the power steering failed. Yep...... one more thing.

All of these negative things were starting to build up & get me down... the yard sale was a great success, but I still had so much other stuff that was not in the positive column, I was starting to be a real bummer... & then it happened, the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me personally... besides my daughter & husband & all that gushy stuff, I mean in an accomplishment sort of way..... I was mentioned in Patty Young's blog!!!! Yes, I almost died, and or wet my pants! It is so AMAZING!!!!!


Now, if I could find enough time in the day to get my shop open, I would be all set! :)

slow going............

I was at Melanie's house on Saturday working on the cool scarves for one of her Caring Communities projects, it was really fun & I got to hold a baby! :)

Anyway, after I got back home my husband mentioned that the back room had a place where the drywall tape was getting lose... strange, I thought. We walked to the room, opened the door & discovered it was SO much worse. The drywall had come lose & there was water pouring in. awesome.

It quickly became apparent that we will have to open up the whole ceiling to find the leak from the inside & remove the wet drywall. Did I mention this is my storage room & it is full?

My back has not hurt this much since we moved in a year ago. We decided it was a good opportunity to clean out! I have been sorting stuff this whole week. Everything has to come out of the room so we can tear out the old & put up new drywall.

(Monster yard sale, coming soon!)

Several Christmas storage bins came out of there with some strange sand like stuff on them....... & we found a termite tube on the ceiling in another spot. We have had a constant termite problem at this house, but we have really great bug guys & they come right out & fix it each time. So, I called & they came out.... the one termite tube, no problem. The sand like pellets? Dry Wood Termites. We have to take down even more of the ceiling & worse case scenario..... replace the roof. Have I said 'awesome' yet?

I am so happy that nothing had been ruined when the leak happened & I am pleased we are sorting through all our junk & getting rid of stuff. I am trying to stay positive! I know it could be OH so much worse, I know this is all trivial... but could I catch a break already? SO, my shop is not up yet & though I am working on it all this is more important at the moment. On the plus side, I fixed my sewing machine (by myself!) & it is working great. My car is being fixed & I should have it back soon.

Have I mentioned I love that this thing has a spell checker? If only there was a grammar checker! :) I am struggling with the html stuff & other formatting, but I am learning & working on it...... I swear it will get better! Thanks for bearing with me. :)