My Dog Blog

Time Flies When You're having Fun

2008-10-14T10:46:00.005-06:00

I can't believe Edyee is 7 months old already! She has started Army crawling now so long gone are the days of leaving her to play in one spot on the floor while I quickly rotated laundry or sent an email. I think we'll be gate shopping this weekend to block the stairs. Her favorite thing is to chase after the dogs. Boy oh boy does she think the dogs are hilarious, thay always make her giggle and squeel!

My 6 Month old Little Person

2008-09-30T11:56:00.003-06:00

I can't beleive it's been 6 months since this lil' gal was born. She is SUCH a little girl too. She giggles and squeels all the time, she makes me giddy with excitement just looking at the dogs or out the window, we sure our re-discovering the world from a whole new view point. Thank God this little blessing is in our lives every day.

Speaking of little person I have to share my absolute excitement (I'm a little late on the news) about a local Amendment on the ballot here in Colorado. It's Amendment 48 and a YES vote will make sure that the Colorado state constitution is amended to include pre-born from the moment of fertilization as having their "personhood" clearly established, so that they may enjoy equal protection under the law. Yeah, this is so huge and wonderful I'm simply giddy!

Ok enough politics I just had to get that off my chest, I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the crisp (well 80 degrees here) Fall air.

Cheers. m

A month later and ugly penmanship

2008-07-18T17:22:00.007-06:00

I'm obviously a blogging slacker as I am here with 4 month old pictures of Edyee now to post. We have been busy cutting 2 teeth already. I'm trying my hand at a little bit of scrapbooking, I have no clue what I'm doing but I need a creative outlet as I haven't sewn anything in well, 4 months to be exact, and I'd like the lil' gal to have some sweet photo albums of her childhood too. I've only completed one page so far and I'd say it turned out ok, but my biggest complaint is how not pretty my handwriting is. I wish I had girly pretty handwriting like some that I know ( Carole, Wannabe, Jessica) you ladies have the prettiest penmanship, can I take a class or something?

I've posted some tunes over on the side bar that the little lady and I have been listening too, I'm craving more Mel Torme but Playlist.com doesn't have a great selection, that I've found anyway, of his tunes. Remember the show Night Court? The judge Harry had a picture up in his office of Mel Torme, I think that's how I learned about him. Weird huh?

3 Months Old

2008-06-22T11:03:00.003-06:00

Hi all! I can't believe Edyee is already 3 months old. It feels like she has always been here, hard to believe she was still in my belly a little more than 3 months ago.

Shs has discovered how fun her hands can be and enjoys sucking them, especially during the night. I'm all for "self soothing" and really don't mind that she seems to reject the Pacifier.

She has also found her voice and loves to "chat" to the ceiling fan and most of the time on her changing table. She is also rolling now over onto her side, she especially loves to do this when I'm trying to put her diaper on! ;)

Hope you are all doing well! I'll post some pics of the doggies soon too (they LOVE Edyee and have taken to sleeping in her room sometimes) people might start to wonder as to the name of my Blog and all!!
Cheers!

Happy Baby!

2008-06-02T13:14:00.004-06:00

Someone has discovered they have a voice, a very sweet girly voice.

That even giggles now.

And coo's and blows bubbles.

And melts Mommy's and Daddy's hearts.

Happy Mother's Day

2008-05-08T20:11:00.005-06:00

Us girls were playing dress up with some goodies made by the lovely and talented Amanda! Thank you Amanda!

All is well here in new Mommy land, we're starting to get on a bit of a schedule now... i think. I can't beleive she is 8 weeks old today.

I want to wish all you Mommies a happy Mother's Day, boy do you deserve it!! I have such a humble and admiring respect as a rookie for all Moms, it truly is the most selfless, difficult and important job you can do.

Have a wonderful weekend and a very Happy Mother's Day Ladies!!

Oh Baby!

2008-04-07T19:26:00.005-06:00

Hi. Sleep? Who needs it when you can spend every waking minute with a cutie like this!! ;)

Mom, Dad and baby are adjusting to our new world. Thanks to all of you who have sent us the sweetest well wishes and girlie goodies, you are all too kind. I will send you each a note when Edyee decides to give me a few moments to do so. So far I think being a parent feels like an elite club membership that you don't "get" till you're already a member.

Here's my current To Do List:

Nurse

Diaper

Kiss & Coo

Nurse

Cuddle

Sleep, a little
Repeat

And I'm learning to Love it.

Hope you're all doing well!

Welcome Edyee Claire Mockus

2008-03-15T21:04:00.002-06:00

Ready For Baby

2008-02-20T10:30:00.007-07:00

The nursery is finally finished. My husband was the brains and brawn behind all this, I love the portrait rail with the chair rail, he picked the paint too as I was SO indecisive. I will take credit for most of the pink though, and thanks to all our family and friends who have helped out with all the newborn necessities from our shower.

New floors, new base molding, crown molding, fresh paint, some paintings made with love by Grandma Mimi (yes all the paintings were done by her). A closet with plenty of pink to wear the first few months of life, I hope she likes pink like I do!

A few cozy blankets to snuggle in, one that matches the room perfectly knitted by her other Grandma.

A dresser with a few drawers full of newborn diapers (Thanks Robinson's) and the diaper changing necessities, we think.

Her name in fabric letters from Anthropologie, blurred for now since her name is Top Secret till D-Day! ;)

A Rocker for nursing and cuddling.

A soon to be friend to watch over her. Less than 4 weeks till we finally get to meet her.

33 Weeks and 4 Days...but who's counting

2008-02-01T10:43:00.000-07:00

I feel huge, but good. I'm getting some actual swelling now...hello cankles! I get kicked in the ribs fairly regularly now too but other than that I have no complaints. I actually enjoy being pregnant. Our due date has been updated to the 17th of March so we might have a St. Patty's Day baby!

We've Been Showered

2008-01-29T09:16:00.000-07:00

Our lovely friend Cassie threw us a fabulous shindig last Saturday night with all our friends and family, yes it was a coed evening even for a baby shower. Everything was pink and green (like the nursery which I'm getting close to sharing pictures of - I LOVE that room!) and we had around 45 people. It was great to catch up with some and just chat like usual with others. Our friends new baby girl was there (7 weeks old) and my cousins daughter Amara whom she just adopted from Ethiopia was there for us to meet for the first time. We had a great time and received many wonderful gifts.

Isn't that diaper cake adorable? It was filled with pacifiers and soft bite spoons and thermometers and books etc. Not to mention 2 drawers worth of diapers!

My friend Marissa and I, she had her baby 2 days after our shower, Welcome Daphne!

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-18T17:57:00.000-07:00

From the 5 of us to you and yours have a very Merry Christmas!!

The Business about Bellies

2007-12-13T17:05:00.000-07:00

25 weeks

Ok, ok, so I've been getting the busines from a few people (you know who you are) about posting some pictures of my growing belly. Now I only have a few at the moment but I will post another recent one the next time I'm not in sweats and getting ready to workout -k-
The picture above is me at 25 weeks and I'm 27 weeks now, so it's a few weeks old. I'll post a new one in the next few days.
Thanks for the shop love with the update I made yesterday. All orders will be going out tomorrow morning. I wanted to have more to add but I only have so much time lately with trying to finish the nursery etc. Hopefully I can make some more goodies in the next few weeks and have an 'after Christmas buy for yourself or the person your forgot' sale! ;)

Update Coming Soon

2007-12-10T18:39:00.000-07:00

2007-11-21T15:59:00.001-07:00

New Goodies!

2007-11-14T19:13:00.000-07:00

The shop has been updated, go check it out!

I'm hoping to make another shop update the end of November too - maybe with some Christmas goodies!

Cheers!

Funky Finds

2007-11-13T12:44:00.000-07:00

Hey there, you should take a look over at Jessica's blog, she just got back from Stitch in Austin and has the whole recap of all the great Indie designers she met and got goodies from. Two lucky Funky Finds readers will win Stitch swag bags full of cool items too!!

Girly Updates

2007-11-09T00:02:00.000-07:00

Well, first off it's been a very exciting time around the "Mo" house as we learned on Halloween at our big ultrasound that not only does the baby look healthy and happy at the 21 week mark but we learned that the little bundle of joy coming into our lives will be a daughter! We are so elated and thrilled! We were initially quite shocked as we had convinced ourselves that we were having a boy, no scientific reason of course just boy heavy families, and we just figured it would be a boy. We would be equally please either way of course but I guess Mamma will get to make some pink baby goodies now!

Speaking of goodies, I will be updating the shop on the 14th, I'm not exactly sure what time yet but whatever new goodies I have made will go in the shop on Wednesday! I have more ideas than time however with a fairly busy weekend in front of me but whatever doesn't make it from my head to the sewing table then to the shop by Wed will most definitely make it in the shop before December!

I hope everyone is having a nice November so far, I can't believe Thanksgiving is less than 2 weeks away. BTW, I've been craving stuffing since like August! This babe is gonna LOVE turkey day! ;)

A Shop Update Coming Soon

2007-10-23T15:55:00.000-06:00

I'm not exactly sure when yet but I'll announce it here before I post some new goodies in the shop. I'm working on a few other items too. I hope you're all doing well and having a lovely Fall!

Some songs to "Ad"

2007-10-01T12:08:00.000-06:00

Have you seen the new Old Navy Commercial? The one where they are wearing the cute Fair Isle sweaters and the girl is singing "If you are chilly, here take my sweater" - Well I always love that song when it does come on. I found out who sings it, it's Ingrid Michaelson.

You can check her out here playing the whole song on Carson Daly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5roINIWhVj0 -btw, Carson Daly totally irritates me, don't know why but he just seems like a weenie to me. ;)

The other cool song in a commercial that I dig lately is Regina Spektor, a fav already, It's called "Music box".

Here's the whole thing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-aH0qfU6bo8

Crafty for a Baby Shower

2007-09-05T09:52:00.000-06:00

So I know I've been totally MIA as far as the shop has been concerned this Summer, we've been putting all our energy (which is lacking a little anyway lately with BabyMo using it up) toward finishing the remodel of our bedroom & bathroom.
I did do something crafty this past weekend though and figured I should share it with my Blog friends!
This was a gift for a girlfriends Baby shower, I got the set of suitcases at The Land of Nod - Love that store!
Then I made each suitcase for one of the family members, one for Mom, one for Dad and one for Baby. The Baby suitcase had a blanket I made with the babies last initial on it, this was my 1st attempt at using Wonder Under and I LOVED it!

The suitcase for Mom had a bunch of girly bath goodies, some oganic soap, a silky eye mask, bath pillow and don't forget the chocolate!

Dad's suitcase had the Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance, this book is so funny, totally reads like a car manual! A bottle of Crown Royal accompanied the Dad's gift too.

The shower was great and I think the gift went over well!

BabyMo is growing strong these days, I'm just about done with my 1st Trimester, it's flying by! We got to hear the baby's heartbeat again last week and my belly is starting to take on a gradual new shape these days. I'm totally avoiding maternity shopping for as long as possible but that is a whole other post entirely! ;)

Cheers!

...and Baby Makes Three

2007-08-08T17:30:00.001-06:00

Yep, that's right - I'm going to be a Mommy! BabyMo is now about 9 weeks in the making! We're VERY excited! No morning sickness yet, just tired. I feel really good actually!

25th Anniversary of the Langstaff-Brown Urgent Care Center

2007-08-04T12:26:00.000-06:00

Flight for Life Helicopter at the anniversary. This center is in Woodland Park CO and named after my uncle who helped to start the program and train the medics on Flight For Life. Flight for Life was started in 1972, my uncle sadly passed away in '83 in a climbing accident on Capital Peak. Please don't go mountain climbing alone.

2007-08-03T14:41:00.001-06:00

Lunch in the pouring rain

Hello

2007-07-30T12:56:00.001-06:00

Sorry I've been MIA for a while. Here's a picture of the hubster and I in Vegas on the 4th of July!

2007-07-03T22:51:00.001-06:00

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2007-07-03T22:51:00.000-06:00

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Who Would have Thought...

2007-06-21T09:24:00.000-06:00

That Lil' ol' me would have sold Seven Hundred Items? I sure didn't. Thank you to all my great customers who make me feel special every time you don one of my handmade items into your Etsy shopping cart. So many of you are pals now too which I love!

Hope you're all having a great Spring, Happy First Day of Summer to you all! ;)

2007-06-06T18:36:00.000-06:00

Keep Smiling!

2007-06-04T18:50:00.000-06:00

We were at a party this weekend at a friend's house, it had a Mexican theme. Here's a clip of my husband's "photography" skills at work. Rated PG-13 for language. ;)

2007-05-18T16:42:00.000-06:00

Somebody loves their sticks

2007-05-18T13:17:00.001-06:00

Atleast im gettin some sun come on over carole lets drink beer

2007-05-18T07:46:00.000-06:00

Can i offer anyone some junk?

Impromptu lunch at Rio on the way to Costco

2007-05-09T13:44:00.000-06:00

Spring Cleaning SALE Tomorrow!

2007-05-02T19:46:00.000-06:00

I'm doing some Spring Cleaning and I've starting by cutting up the fabric that's still got life in it

and will be posting some cute little stacks of Fat Quarter-ish (18" x 22"-ish) sized pieces in the shop tomorrow May 3rd! I'll probably start posting them around noon MDT.

See you tomorrow!

2007-04-19T20:03:00.000-06:00

Sunset

2007-04-19T18:14:00.001-06:00

Fly me Away

2007-04-18T13:09:00.000-06:00

Well, I'm off tomorrow to San Diego/La Jolla for a long weekend and to go to a beach wedding. Looking forward to some nice dinners, wine and walking around with my hubby. We'll be staying here, I think we've become hotel room snobs a little lately, but this was the most reasonable that suited us. For as little as we travel I think it's ok though. ;)

I'll be making more Pastiche Petal Pins upon my return next week, I think they're super Mother's Day Gifts! The one in the pic here is in the shop now though.

Ciao!

I haven't disappeared...yet.

2007-04-12T17:09:00.000-06:00

Sorry I've been so distant, just been busy. Mother nature teased us here in Denver with warm Spring like weather for a few weeks, but now it's 35 degrees and we're expecting up to 12 inches of snow in the next day and a half. Well, I'll be in San Diego next weekend so I should get some warm weather there atleast.

I'll be hopefully getting to this idea in the picture above soon, isn't it a great way to feature your fav fabrics in your house? I saw it originally here, and then again here. I have the hoops I just need to nail down what fabrics to use. If you want to do it the tutorial is here.

OK better get back to work but I just wanted to say hey! I have some custom order handbags I'm working on for a few new customers and I have to finish up a display for selling my ponies and clips at the hair salon where I get my do done. I'll post pics once it's done.

Ciao for now!

Watching the Sunset with Carlotta

2007-03-28T19:20:00.000-06:00

I made this new Carlotta to post in the shop prior to my showcase on Thursday, tomorrow. I'm having problems letting her go though. As I was photographing her this evening in the last few moments of daylight, I started realizing just how ME this bag is. Oh my pretty, I'll hang her up right here so I can see her and ponder posting her in ye' old shop. Whoever you are out there who may end up purchasing my sweet Carlotta from the shop...take care of her -k-! ;)

Extra! Extra!

2007-03-21T15:32:00.000-06:00

Gretel made the homepage today! Yeah! Love the apple theme!
BTW, I have some earrings in the shop, more coming soon!
Cheers!

Goofy Fun!

2007-03-16T14:33:00.000-06:00

Oh man, this is so much fun I want to make one for every person I know! I saw it here first and had to try it.
If you want to make your own Southpark version of yourself HERE, go do it, I dare you not to have a blast!!

It's 7pm..Still Light Out..And I'm playing with my Widget

2007-03-11T18:59:00.000-06:00

I am SO in love with daylight savings time! It means Spring is just around the corner, there is what feels like a little more time in every day now, especially more time to squeeze in product pictures for new items in the shop.

Another one of my favorite things is the new supa cool Etsy widget, Etsy Mini.

It's customizable and allows you to post a neat little block of Etsy item images onto your own Web pages. I have my featured items from the shop over there to the left. It's oh so fun to play with, you can show off your goods, your friends goods or just your recent hearted items. So if you have a blog or your own web site I'd highly recommend playing with your Widget, lol (that joke is not getting old yet).
The above widget I made with the items I most recently heart.

Laila is now, um Larger... Ok, Voluptuous.

2007-02-27T14:26:00.000-07:00

Laila has packed on a few, but in the nicest way possible. Marymo's original design has grown. Laila is still the same cute gal we've come to love but she is now 2.5" deep from front to back. I'll be posting her along with a pink & green (my new fav color combo lately) friend later this afternoon. When I thought up Laila's design one night while trying to fall asleep I wasn't sure if the round design would be a hit or not but so far I've had good feedback on her. I wish I had more time in the day to create, I can't sleep sometimes because I get all these thoughts about bag colors and designs and combinations...need more time. Cheers.

New Stuff

2007-02-23T11:08:00.000-07:00

There's a new Zoe bag in the shop and a new Tutorial for anyone who wants to learn how to make ponies and clips the Marymo way!

I hope everyone had a super week and I hope everyone has an even more super weekend! I think we're suppossed to get snow on Saturday, oh well it may have to be a stay in, do laundry and sew kind of day! I'm SO ok with that! cheers blog friends!

Say Hello to my Little Friend

2007-02-13T19:18:00.000-07:00

I'm loving my new friend I got from projectgrabbag, Shannon's shop is so much fun. Her and I recently did a trade and I got myslef some delicious vintage buttons. Which then meant I had to buy some cute glass jars with perfect little red lids to put the buttons in. I'll post pics of those later. ;)
I see a wee collection starting, this is gnome #3 in my office/sewing room now, #2 was a generous gift. Well back to sewing with my sleepy friend.

2007-02-10T20:23:00.000-07:00

Onion volcano

2007-02-10T19:25:00.001-07:00

Griswold's New Trick

2007-02-05T19:07:00.000-07:00

He can even get the Heavy Sunday Paper for us!!

If I were Queen

2007-02-01T17:24:00.000-07:00

This would be my throne! Ahhh, swoon.

Leisl Bag in Damsels & Doilies

2007-01-29T12:52:00.001-07:00

Laila Bag in Damsels & Doilies
Originally uploaded by MaryMo.biz & LuLuSparkles.com.

Making poms is a lot of fun, I'll be adding some more bags soon to the shop with poms, I raided moms yarn this weekend!
I'm just wrapping up a new Laila too, should be in the shop by tomorrow!
Have a good week everyone!
~m

Laila wants to be wined and dined!

2007-01-25T14:50:00.000-07:00

Here's a new bag that's in the shop. I was laying in bed not sleeping as I should have been the other night and I had the feeling I had to make a round-ish inspired bag. And what better color for a round-ish bag...red...cherry red.

Tagged!

2007-01-23T16:20:00.000-07:00

Well, it seems that Six Weird Things has caught on like wildfire. I was actually tagged a while back, but I forgot to tag others - duh, that's the fun part!!I was recently tagged again by Becki and Jessica.
So to be a good sport and tag my own bloggers here it is, 6 MORE weird/odd things about Mrs. Mary.

These I might not have originally shared with you all however my husband helped compile this list. ;)
1. I vacuum a LOT, see list #1 but deserved 2 spots for it's obvious husband annoyance.
2. "If I want to I can burp louder than most construction workers" - per my Husband.
3. I obsessively clean my glasses about 5 times a day.
4. I crack my knuckles, not constantly but a couple times a day.
5. I can't keep a hairstyle, I perpetually change color and cuts.
6. I let my dogs sleep in the bed every morning. Yes the obsessive vacuumer let's her dogs in her bed. Go figure.

OK, phew, glad that's over!! Now I tag, Jennifer, Amanda, Megan, Yvonne, Sara, and Carole so she has to start a blog!

xo ~m

Zzzzzzz

2007-01-17T20:49:00.000-07:00

That's what a nap should look like!!

Hello friends, didnt' mean to leave you all with a that glass of frosty brew for so long. Hubby and I went to Elephant Bar and ejoyed some beer and calamari late Monday afternoon. Their calamari is really delicious, a little ginger flavor and the dipping sauce, oh so good. I'm anticipating a delicious new batch of fabrics this hopefully Friday, anyone thinking Spring yet? Yea, me either but I promise some pretty new fabrics in the shop very soon.
Ciao! ~m

2007-01-15T15:10:00.000-07:00

Nice frosty glass of brew

A Lil' Bit of Cute

2007-01-11T12:16:00.000-07:00

On my monitor I have this little Ballerina girl from Carole. Isn't she great?

Oh look what I got today at Michaels, not only were the ribbons cute but look at the cute wooden spools they come one, I'm a sucker!

I took off the icky cellophane, and added these cute white pearl pins instead - shelf ready I'd say!

xo,

Pouches and Potables

2007-01-08T18:21:00.000-07:00

A belated (because of delivery not procrastination) Christmas gift from my hubby came today. The CD is Tea and Revenge by a group that's new to me called Dirty Martini. The band is local to Oregon and made up 3 women who used to all do the solo gig. I'm listening to them for the first time right now and so far #7 Enough of Empty is my fav, I'm really liking their style.

I added a new Leisl Pouch to the shop this evening, I added a couple Paige Pockets too but they sold already. ;) I'll be making more to add very soon.

xo

Thanks from Little ol' Me!

2007-01-04T16:54:00.000-07:00

Well, well all my lovely blog friends, Happy New Year to you all. I hope you all had a Christmas or Hanukkah filled with sugar plums, loved ones and fun filled memories.
I really do cherish all of my blog readers and I feel I have some great new friendships because of all of you. We may have never met in person but I think some of you are my Blog and crafty soulmates! Wow, can you get nerdy-er than that?

I've been MIA for a while with an icky head cold, wonderful way to ring in the New year huh? Those New Year's resolutions to crank the workouts up a notch will just have to wait.

I took a few weeks off of sewing but I finally got a shipment off today to The Little Pink Dress in Hyannis Mass. (Cape Cod), so now I can start making some new things for the online shop!

Meanwhile we are in the January '07 Issue of Dance Teacher Magazine, I know you all read it right? Not an obscure publication at all, right? Well, they are fans of the Estelle bag in Carnival blossom:

Thank you all for reading my little ol' blog in 2006, I hope to have lots of fun new products for you all in 2007 in the shop, maybe I'll figure out how to make my own masthead for this little blog this year. Well I must start the New Year off on a nice note and go write some Thank You's. Hugs! xoxo ~m

2 Years

2006-12-30T13:30:00.000-07:00

Today is our Anniversary, we were married 5 years after we started dating, 12.30.04. We were BFF's for about 2 years prior to dating. We have a solid 9 years under our belts together as best friends. He makes everyday wonderful in ways I never would have dreamed on my own.

Still Recovering and it's Here Again

2006-12-28T12:32:00.000-07:00

So we are still not back to normal yet after the blizzard that hit last week. We just received mail for the 1st time today since the 19th, and only some mail we know of packages that have still yet to arrive. The guy at the UPS store yesterday said that UPS and the PO are at least a few days behind still.

Most our grocery stores aren't stocked the way they usually are, yesterday the dairy section and bread sections were virtually empty, same with the meats. All our neighborhood roads are basically like 4 wheeling in a car everywhere, I have a huge sigh of relief when I get out on the main road relatively unscathed by the neighborhood. There is huge crevasses of ice, slush and snow still.

Well, we must have done something to piss off Mother Nature cause Round 2 is on the way now, here is the beginning view from my front porch. The giant heap of snow in front of our neighbors house is about 4 feet deep for perspective.

2006-12-25T19:50:00.001-07:00

Christmas dinner

2006-12-25T18:26:00.000-07:00

My husband knows me well this is one of the gifts he gave me

2006-12-22T18:05:00.001-07:00

Making chocolate chip pumpkin cookies for the neighbors and me!

Before

2006-12-22T10:39:00.000-07:00

This Picture is what our house looked like this time last year. I just came accross this photo of when we were having our floors done mid DIY remodel. For obvious reasons we didn't put up a tree last year and we were locked to the upstairs of our house for about 3 weeks. This year we're much more into the Christmas spirit, tree and all.

OK, now onto 6 Weird Things about me,in no particular order, thanks to being tagged by Amanda!

1. I'm an obsessive hand washer

2. If I don't workout atleast every few days I turn into a total bitch and feel grumpy till I do.

3. I like to smell my dogs feet, I think you all know this one already.

4. I hate pickles. I'll eat anything else though.

5. Vacuuming the house makes the world feel like a better place in 99% of situations.

6. I had 8 Wisdom Teeth removed.

Winter, Yes! Wonderland?

2006-12-21T09:58:00.000-07:00

It snowed all night. The news is saying that here in Parker we have got 25.5 inches of snow. The wind had slowed way down and the snow heavier now. I measured 21 inches on our deck this morning and that's after my husband snow blowed atleast that much off of it yesterday afternoon.

Everything is still closed, we have drifts that go up to 6 feet high. No one can leave their houses becuase the side roads are buried.

This picture is of our back deck, between where the benches are we have a 2 step drop down into the lawn. You can't see where the steps are, everything looks level becuase it's so buried in snow.

This picture is looking out our window into my neighbors yard.

I dont' think we;ll be able to get out of the house until Saturday. The airport which is 20 minutes East of where we are isn't going to try to open until Noon tomorrow. There are cars stranded everywhere on the news, lots of shelters setup, the National Guard is assisting in clean up. Last night we took the dogs out front to go potty cause the back was too deep and we saw a plow get stuck a couple streets over.

I think I'll finished wrapping gifts today, maybe make some Christmas gifts too. No one is going anywhere for a while.

It's most Definitely Going to be a White Christmas

2006-12-20T18:10:00.000-07:00

It's hard to figure out just how much snow we have, there are spots where you can see grass or pavement and then right next to it a 6 Foot snow drift. Everything including the PO has closed today and even the airport says they won't attempt to move any flights in or out till tomorrow night. Here is a few pics this evening.

Our garage door has been closed all day, this has just blown in from the small gap between the driveway and the door. Nice huh?

Brrrr! I concur Carole, perfect night for a movie, fire and a few glasses of wine! you know me well!

Blizzard Numero Dos

2006-12-20T10:39:00.000-07:00

Well it's the beginning but they say it's going to be a doozy! We're suppossed to get 3 feet by tomorrow morning. Everything is cancelled, the grocery stores were swamped this morning, the roads are dangerous and travel is not recommended. Glad I got my few Christmas errands I had left to do done yesterday. Here's what it looks like so far. Lot's of drifts in the roads I guess, I'll post more pics later.

Christmas Time Outing

2006-12-18T15:34:00.000-07:00

Last night we went to the Botanic Gardens with my family, we had cinnamon roasted almonds which were so magical and hot apple cider. Ummmm, so good and they kept my hands warm while walking around in the 20 degree weather looking at the lights. It was a lot of fun, Britton my little nephew was really good and he got to see Santa for the 1st time ever. What is up with tha beard huh?

Well I got most of my CHristmas packages out today, I went to the PO at 2:20 and was out by 3. I still have a few more to get out but I'm still waiting for them to come in the mail, that's what I get for last minute online shopping. I still have everything to wrap for all my local friends and family, you should see my office right now, it looks likes Santa's workshop blew up in here! The dogs like it though I can tell.

2006-12-17T00:32:00.001-07:00

Amazing gift basket from friends

Sweet Mail Day

2006-12-16T16:43:00.000-07:00

Yesterday afternoon I received this awesome little gnome from Amanda! You sweetie! Thank you so much, I've been coveting one of these gnomes for a while over at Simple Sandy's Etsy shop! I love it! He's sitting next to a fresh batch of cranberry, walnut, oatmeal cookies that i took over to the MIL's house for Hanukkah festivities. We had a blast, I ate my weight in Latkes, oh man they are so good! We also broke in a new Hannukkah gift one of the kids got, a gorgeous Scrabble board! My team lost, yes that's right we played in team's due to the difficult nature of the game. Unfortunately, no one else thought "Knitin" was a word. COme on it's slang for, "I am sitting here being crafty and knitin". Oh well.

Hey, I also received my fabric package I've been waiting for a while now.....My Haeather Bailey Fabrics!! Yes they are here!

2006-12-15T18:56:00.000-07:00

2006-12-14T21:00:00.001-07:00

A Case of the Mondays

2006-12-11T21:34:00.000-07:00

New Leisl bag in the shop tonight,
Feeling very tired the last 2 days,
Ready for a holiday vacation from work things but
must get through this week,
3 Parties this weekend, and I can can start to relax next week
Going to go make something unhealthy for dinner and watch an Alias and go to bed. Now that's a run-on sentence if I ever saw one! ;)

2006-12-09T19:19:00.001-07:00

Tis the time of year for Yule Fuel

St. Nick and Pandora

2006-12-06T13:30:00.000-07:00

Happy St. Nicholas Day! For a history if your not familiar with the jolly old Saint you can read about him here, a very fun and endearing read. My hubby and I are starting the tradition with our nephew/Godson tonight!

Also, if you don't know about this site run don't walk to check it out:: Pandora is an awesome site where you can have your personal streaming radio station. Just type in an artist or fav song and it will play similiar artists and music, if you like give it a thumbs up and they'll use it to pick new music or give it a thumbs down and they won't play it again. I have about 6 stations now and I'm totally addicted. Oh yeah you can send the stations to others to - Ahhh, kinda like a modern mix tape! It's free if you don't mind the ads on the page, but really it just goes in the backround while you're doing other things so who cares right? Enjoy!

P.S. Lot's of Paige Pockets coming soon to the shop!!

Front Page News

2006-12-03T16:30:00.000-07:00

Yeah Emilie!!
Oh yeah! Psssst...big shop update Sunday night and Monday::
2 new Kimberly clutches, a bunch of patchwork tissue holders,
a messnger bag, a ruffle scarf, new ornaments, a new Zoe & ponies too!
Wheewww!

2006-12-02T19:24:00.001-07:00

Thanksgiving with Family and Mail from Friends

2006-11-27T10:57:00.000-07:00

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with 11 at our house for fried Turkey, baked ham with all the fixin's. The long weekend was a perfect mix of productivity(sewing) and relaxing. I'm thankful that most of my family lives close enough that we can spend Turkey day together.

My nephew bathed/washed the measuring cup very well in the sink after dinner, then we all watched the Broncos lose to our rivals KC.

I also received some pretty amazing and surprising mail over the weekend. I got 2 incredibly thoughtful Birthday packages from Jessica and Carole. I apologize for the poor lighting in the pictures but it was dark out when I checked the mail and I just could not wait to open these packages.

Jessica sent me a beautiful vintage hankie with apple and pears and birds on it - so great it will get framed not cut-ever!!

Then she sent me the sweetest handmade birthday scrapbook, a beautiful needlepointed bookmark (Queen Mary will be glad it's saving her place in my current read), and a gorgeous pair of earrings made by a local artist near her.

Carole sent me a few sweet goodies from Emily at the Black Apple, a gorgeous lavender sachet ornament with a sweet little bird printed on the front, a wonderful necklace made by the talented Carole herself, a bookplate

2 of the cutest tape measures for myself and my mom and some of the most appropriate cards! ;)

Both of you wow me with your kind and unexpected generosity, you know me well and I couldn't have picked out treasures for myself that are so well suited to my personality as you both did - Thank You!

A Proper english breakfast

2006-11-19T10:09:00.000-07:00

Oh yea we did it. we put up our tree already!

2006-11-18T22:39:00.001-07:00

2006-11-17T23:12:00.001-07:00

Public transportation comes to Suburbia

A weekend of Sleeping Dogs, Ponies, and Beer

2006-11-06T16:39:00.000-07:00

Man Griswold looks how I feel today! I just had my final visit (every other week for 8 weeks) at the dentist. I pride myself on having nice teeth and taking good care of them. Now that all my "old school" fillings are new white nano technology it is pretty exciting.

There is a new Pumpkin Harvest Clutch in the shop and a new set of Ponies!
Thanks for the good feedback on the Ponies by the way. I'll be adding a new bobbies theme soon too.

Tomorrow I'll be going to vote, like I hope everyone is - I've always been so good about voting early but not this year, I'll be going on Election Day.

By the way, The picture in the previous post was taken at Sonic at about 11pm on Saturday night. My hubby and I went to a nice Irish bar a couple of blocks away for our neighborhood's Adult party. It was a great time, we met some like minded neighbors we had never previously met. I really like our neighborhood! Anyway, we drank a little too much Irish beer and a Sonic Breakfast Burrito was oh so necessary after the bar. horrible huh? LoL

2006-11-04T23:05:00.001-07:00

Meet Penny...

2006-11-02T17:18:00.000-07:00

Here's the newest product addition to the shop, of course you can find this set there already, 3 more sets will be going up the rest of the evening. I hope all my lovely Blog readers love Penny as much as I am! I'm loving the 'Ponytail Gal' (coined by the great Carole) at the top of the cards!

Oh check my new hair color in the picture at the shop in this listing, it's way darker than what i normally have! Red and Brown with a little blonde left!

More later darlings...Thanks for reading btw!!

The New Oven

2006-10-30T16:49:00.000-07:00

Well we baked french fries (we're obviously not in hibernation mode here) in the new oven this weekend. They turned out perfect. We used garlic oil, salt pepper and a bit of Thyme. Tonight I'm making corn chowder after I workout of course because once it gets cold outside here at our house we feel like eating comfort food way too much!
I hope you all had a pleasant weekend.

A wee blizzard

2006-10-26T12:11:00.000-06:00

It's very windy and we have lots of heavy snow. The pooches and I attempted fetch but we lost both tennis balls. My hubby bought a snow thrower yesterday which we've been discussing for quite a while and we'll be testing it our shortly! Lot's of coffee drinking and soup eating here today!
I'll be adding an Adeline & matching Paige set to the shop later. Brrrrr, need more wool socks!

Cozy & Cold

2006-10-25T15:22:00.000-06:00

Here's a new bag that's in the shop. I think I'm going to have to make more of these, I'm loving the circles and the suede which was a little weird to work with since I haven't previously is very soft.
We have a Winter storm warning here in southeast suburbia of Denver and we're expecting a blizzard tonight. Right now it's sunny, 65 degrees and a beautiful calm Fall day. Maybe it's the calm before the storm?

Meet my new friends

2006-10-20T15:26:00.000-06:00

Not the best quality picture but here's 3 of the 4 I carved while the Husband was at Toastmasters last night. I'm hoping they'll add a little ambiance to the Chili party. Let's hope it doesn't snow so we can have a campfire and not have to sit on wet seats! I just got a fabric order in the mail, I now have the bird & forest fabric in gold and in pink too!

Let it snow Already?

2006-10-18T09:58:00.000-06:00

Well, I guess this makes it official, I was loving Fall so much too. It just doesn't last here in Denver goes strait from Fall to Winter. Out trees still have a lot of leaves, so I'm hoping that it all melts today and the trees keep their leaves a little longer. That's the other weird thing about Denver weather, snow today and 75 the next. Let's hope this weekend is nice because we're having a party!
Today you'll see a new clutch and a few tissue holder going into the shop. I have a new bag close to being finished too.

A few new Tissue Holders

2006-10-15T11:58:00.000-06:00

A few new tissue covers
are in the shop of course. ;)

Bags, Boobs & Teeth

2006-10-10T10:14:00.000-06:00

Ok, so I've been a little absent from the blog lately and I hope to catch up all my blog sweethearts with my redcent doings, I have a big fresh cup of coffee sitting here with me. Here's a picture of a new bag that's of course here I struggled with a name and then went searching for most popular names in the 1930's and Doris just popped out at me. I plan on making more of these in a few variations. I have some red suede and some black boucle fabric that I'm looking forward to using. I don't know why all of a sudden I felt like making a bag with no patterned fabric, it's so unlike me! Maybe I needed an eye cleansing palette for this one.

So as promised here a few pics from the very successful Race For the Cure on Sunday, there were 65,395 participants and we had a pretty large group ourselves. This year we walked the coed race, in previous years my friend Cassie and I have run the early race and then joined our RFTC group to walk. This year we just did the walk and Cassie's mom and grandma who are both breast cancer survivors joined as they usually do. Here in interesting pic I took on the on ramp to Auraria Pkwy, you can see everyone above the bridge and below, shows you just how many people patricipated.

So the reason for not posting these pics yesterday is because I wen to the dentist yesterday and then wasn't much in a blogging mood when I returned. This new dentist I'm going to is so great(well as great as a dentist can be)! ;) He uses nano technology for fillings and does some crazy stuff with lasers, he is so passionate about his work and uses so much technology I can't even wrap my brain around it all. Anyway, we are in the process of re-doing every filling I have in my mouth with his super crazy nano technology fillings. Aparantly old school filling don't attach themselves to the tooths surface very well and therefore allow for decay between your tooth and old fillings, when this dentist does a new filling he doesn't have to give you Novocaine because it's all done with lasers. Of course since he's replacing all my old ones I had 4 shots of numbing goodness yesterday. After going to this Dr. every other dentist seems like a witch doctor.
Amazingly enough even with a crazy numb face yesterday and speaking like I had a mouth full of Jello or something I went to fabric store and a few new goodies.

Anyway, I've rambled long enough - like any of you really wanted to know that much about my mouth, right?

Anyway, keep an eye out for the most BEAUTIFUL orange knitted cap my mother brought over yesterday - it's so gorgeous I don't know if pictures will portray the glisten of the yarn! Also, another black & tan Muse cuff.

Thans for listening to my ramblings - cheers!

Etsy Treasury

2006-10-09T09:53:00.000-06:00

The Etsy Treasury is so much fun, if you haven't checked it out yet I would recommend looking around. You can make your own list of favorites that resemble that of the lists that end up on the front page of Etsy daily. We're in 3 Treasury lists right now with a lot of other great Etsy sellers. Take a look at the shop for links to all 3.

I'll be posting some pictures from a very successful Race for The Cure later today.

2006-10-08T09:32:00.001-06:00

Olivia

2006-10-07T11:59:00.000-06:00

New bag in ths shop today!
Hope you're all having a lovely weekend!

The Gang

2006-10-01T20:18:00.000-06:00

The whole gang minus the Bride & Groom at a friends wedding this weekend. From Left to Right:
Alex, Matt, Stacey, Ryan, Dre, Nick, Bill, Leanne, Mike, Me & Trevor down in front. What a fun night, everyone had their party hats on big time, we all had the hangovers to prove it! Congratulations Will & Marissa, have fun in Fiji!

2006-09-30T22:30:00.000-06:00

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I love Anthropologie

2006-09-29T09:58:00.000-06:00

Of all the times I've been in this store I always only buy a candle or a towel, I have like 1 shirt that was burried in the sale room. Well last week I finally went in and splurged a little, ok a lot actually. I bought a pair of black pinstriped pants that feel like pj's, a blouse, a sweater vest a tee and a few drinking glasses with fancy "M"s on them. It was fun and of course initial guilt set in because I spent too much, then I came home and told the hubby, showed him everything and he was so sweet and didn't really care. Now that's great husband- thanks honey! Look at all the yellow & gold in that picture, I'm so not a yellow person usually!

Eureka, It's a Good Cause

2006-09-20T16:24:00.000-06:00

These are 30 or so fabric buttons I made last night while watching Eureka, more on that in a sec - that will go on hair bobbies for Amanda's new endeavor, The Little Pink Box. It's kind of like the Sampler but half the proceeds go the Breast Cancer Research. Subscriptions go on sale in October, it's a great way advertise for small business and what's better than getting a cute pink box in the mail full of special surprises from lots of cool Indie Artist!

Ok, now on to Eureka, I'm not usually one to watch the SciFi Channel-really I swear. But I LOVE this show, it's about a town full of geniuses (which I just realized I can't even spell) there's a great underlying romance and lot's of funny mishaps! The really freaky thing is that the star of the show and Sheriff of the town looks EXACTLY like one of my best friends! No kidding, total spittin' image! Even has the same mannerisms! Trevor how do you do it, being a pilot and an actor! You amaze me! LOL ;)

Doggy Feet

2006-09-13T16:01:00.000-06:00

This is Griswold and his feet, he loves to dangle them off of the stairs. He also loves to put them in my face when it's time for me to wake up. My hubby thinks i'm a little crazy but I must say how much I love the smell of my doggies feet. The vet's assistant once told me that they do sweat a little out of their pads on their feet and that she likes to smell her dogs feet too! I know you all may think I'm a total whacko now but really, they smell sweet and look how cute they are!

me & my new necklace!

2006-09-09T17:56:00.000-06:00

My Nerdy Self portrait and my new favorite necklace that i bought from Guava Lava on Etsy. I love how it's asymetrical!