Spring, try again. Saturday, March 23, 2013
Yeah, so it's Finally spring!
Whooooo! *High 5! *
Oh, p.s. it's only 29 degrees and it's supposed to snow {again} on Monday.
{photo from TheMetaPicture.com}
{thanks Michelle for posting this photo 1st, lol.....}
Spring, I think you need to try harder.
A lot harder.
{This is the one of the hardest times of the year for me to deal with, I am winter weary and just in need of sunshine and warmth. Or we need to be able to hibernate. I would happily sleep through winter and wake up signaficantly thinner!}
I hope you all are surviving this lovely Spring weather.
At least I have plenty of sewing to keep me warm indoors!
Any tips to tide me over until summer? Leave a comment below!
Stay Positive and Love Your Life!
~Diana
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Hey Mommy? Oh, nevermind..... Saturday, February 23, 2013
{Scene: me in bed, presumably still asleep, this morning, 6 a.m.}
Second son: {knocks, comes in} Hey.... Mommy? Mommy? Mommy? Mommy?...... Mommy??
Me: mmmohhgjfjdummmm...huh?
Second son: Mommy? Mommy? Hey, uh, Mommy? Mommy? you're awake, right? Mommy?
Me: uuugghhhhh?!
Second Son: oh, nevermind...... {exits}
Me : gah! {now awake, no turning back, I get up to start coffee}
{Scene: kitchen, I am struggling to remember how to operate the one button necessary to start the coffee brewing, second son arrives in kitchen}
Second Son: Mommy? Mommy?
Me: I'm trying to make coffee, I need coffee, I don't want to talk right now. Please go back to your room for a while, ok?
Second Son: Well, I just wanted to ask you, but I guess I won't, because then if I ask, well I can ask at 8:30, but then I won't know, so I wanted to ask you, but now.... oh never mind! {exits}
{Scene: I am sitting in bed, trying to consume life giving coffee, second son enters my room..... again}
Second Son: Oh, I see you have your coffee. {pause} I was gonna ask you, but then, well I guess I will wait to ask you later, since if I ask too soon, well is daddy awake? I could go ask him instead, or I could wait to ask him at 8:30. I was waiting to ask, since yesterday when I wanted to ask you, but maybe I should ask later, or I could go ask Daddy....
Me: Daddy is asleep, leave him alone. What are you trying to ask me?!
Second son: Oh, never mind! {exits in a huff}
Me: ??????? {I hurriedly drink more coffee, maybe that will help this all make sense}
{end scene 1}
This exchange happened 3 more times before I finally, in a rather short tempered manner, said, "listen man, just ask already! What do you want?!?!"
Soooo I found myself online at about 6:30 this morning, searching out Ninnjini, a new Skylander
{don't ask! no really, don't! He will never stop telling you every detail, every stat of every guy....}
that has not been released to the populace yet.
They did, annoyingly enough, release some of these for free in NYC a couple weeks ago.
So, of course, uhhh, some "enterprising" people have them listed on Ebay for $200 and up {MSRP $14.99}.
Um, yeah, no. Nope. Uh Uh.
Cue massive disappointment when I explain no WAY is that even remotely going to happen, even if we could afford that, it would not happen, nope.
Hope you guys got to sleep in today!
{anyone who has a kid - or patient teen - into Skylanders, want a penpal? lol....}
What is the most nonsensical thing your kiddos have done lately?
leave me a comment :)
Stay Positive and Love Your Life!
~Diana
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I Just Want to Thank You {falettinme be mice elf agin} Saturday, February 9, 2013
My tiny little Mom-run business is chugging along, I think I can.... I think I can.... I think I can......
I must thank all of these ladies {*some who are also Mommies} whose businesses help keep my business running. Knowing I have their shops to count on to helps keep me sane!
{image from snapcreativity.com, thank you, too!}
{*I have to admit I don't really like the term "mom-trepreneur" ... but I'm sure it means well}
My Etsy shop {and website} need their Etsy shops to keep going.
And I like to think that my purchases help keep their shops going.
The idea of the micro economy we create when we support each other makes me happy.
If I could have my own awards ceremony I would, and I'd give each of these ladies a hug. {and some coffee, I'm pretty sure we could all use another cup of coffee}
So, I am outing a lot of my "sources" today! ;)
I could not do what I do without these shops!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO:
{in random order}
Momgen's Corner , Gen always has all the sizes of cello shipping bags I need!
Thanks to Lisa from MommieMadeIt for my awesome custom sew in labels!
I love the zippers I get from Irina, her shop is kandcsupplies!
I get my package tags and baker's twine from California Craft, thanks Kristy!
El's shop tantalizingstitches and Natalie's shop BeingBags have snaps and clips and d-rings, oh my!
I get fabric everywhere {e v e r y w h e r e!}, but these ladies go above and beyond to get the fabric I need in record time!
A few of my favorite fabric shops, in random order:
Holland Fabric House has the most adorable crochet trimmed bias tapes,
and Ginger from fivemonkeyfabrics .
Thank you ladies! I'll be by to do some shopping soon.
Go check out these shops, and while you're there, give these ladies a high 5!
And of course, a HUGE MAJOR BIG-O THANK YOU to all my PrettyCool customers!!
:) I am so very grateful to be able to do what I love! Thanks!
Stay Positive and Love Your Life
~Diana
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Yes you are Saturday, January 19, 2013
I can't draw. I can't paint. I cannot take any sort of pencil, crayon, marker, chalk, pastels, paint, clay, or mashed potatoes and render any identifiable person, place or thing.
I never could.
My stick figure people, and more laughable, my stick figure "animals", are exactly the same {if not worse} as they were when I was 3 years old.
It took me many many years to accept that, despite this painfully obvious inability, I am still an artist.
You are an artist too.
Yes, you are.
Are too!
Seriously.
I create art with color and fabrics and ideas and thread.
Poetry and prose, symphonies and rock, pastries and pasta, dance and choreography are some expressions more commonly seen as art, but
whatever you do, it is art.
There is beauty in equations and formulas, solutions and configurational isomers, cabinetry, teaching, parenting, plumbing, potting, farming..... anything.
Your knowledge, your expertise, your experience, your abilities, your execution + YOU = ART.
True story.
Stay Positive and Love Your Life!
What is your art? I bet you have more than one!
Leave me a comment!!
~Diana
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resolutions now? Saturday, January 12, 2013
Happy New Year everyone!
Right?
I have never much cooperated with the whole happy new year/new year's resolutions thing.
I don't feel like sleep deprivation is necessary to "celebrate" hanging up a new calendar {even though I love me a new planner} .
December 31st feels {suspiciously enough} exactly like January 1st.
As far as making resolutions goes, the middle of winter {up here in the northern hemisphere} seems like the absolute worst time to plan big lifestyle changes. It's cold, it's dark, it's gloomy, the weather is crap, illness {hello flu season} is everywhere.... how can anyone be expected to do anything but crawl back into bed and wait for it all to be over?!
No wonder so many people "fail".
What if we decided to start resolutions in early spring? It gets warmer, lighter, and everywhere is evidence of "a new beginning" with plants and trees growing and greening up and blooming.
Would the success rate of resolutions go up?
{we have all seen the statistics of blah blah percent of resolutions "fail" within 6 weeks, nothing like some encouragement from the media, yeah?}
I am not bound by dates or seasons when I make changes. Tiny changes every day, any day, Tuesday, whatever. If something occurs to you, why wait? Start small, and start whenever the mood strikes you, and it will be so much easier to make them a permanent part of your life.
{Mr. and I quit smoking on July 20th.... 4 1/2 years ago! July 20th is just as good {if not better} than January 1st.}
What do you think? Do you make resolutions? Do they "stick"? Leave me a comment!
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~Diana
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Buh-bye 2012 Saturday, December 29, 2012
Well, we are almost all done with 2012!
I'm feeling a little boastful about some of the 'trends' that I managed to avoid {again} this year.
1. Kardashianything
2. Angry Birds with Friends
3. Honey Boo Boo
4. Uggs
5. Any Real Housewives of anywhere
6. jeggings, and it's cousins "hey! leggings are not pants", and "yoga pants are for yoga, you are not doing yoga!"
7. Never ever ever, Adele, Goyte, or Call Me Maybe
8. dance moms {the horrifying "flashdance" commercial has been hard to avoid, though <shudder>}
9. gluing {?} feathers in my hair
10. I don't care how many Shades of Grey there are, and Hunger Games are what we play when the kids complain about dinner
What awful trend did you hide from this year? Leave me a comment!
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Stay Positive and Love Your Life!!
See ya next year ;)
~Diana
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Saturday of silence Saturday, December 15, 2012
In light of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I am observing a day of silence here on the blog.
I can't yet talk about this event, and to talk about anything else would be inane.
If you pray, please pray.
Hug your children {or children in your life}.
~Diana
and the 2013 color of the year goes to.... Saturday, December 8, 2012
.... emerald!
?
I have wondered before what is up with "color of the year".
Who are these people?!
Why do they get to tell us what color will be popular next year?!
So I asked the Google and Wikipedia:
"Pantone LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, is the world-renowned authority on color and provider of color systems and leading technology for the selection and accurate communication of color across a variety of industries. The PANTONE® name is known worldwide as the standard language for color communication from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer." {pantone.com about us}
"Annually Pantone declares a particular color "Color of the Year". Twice a year the company hosts, in a European capital, a secret meeting of representatives from various nations' color standards groups. After two days of presentations and debate, they choose a color for the following year; for example, the color for summer 2013 was chosen in London in the spring of 2012.[16] The color purportedly connects with the zeitgeist" {from Wikipedia}
Wait, what?
Secret meetings?
Color chosen almost a year in advance?
And what the heck is zeitgeist?! {you can click the link above, or here are the Cliff notes: "zeitgeist (spirit of the age or spirit of the time) is the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought which typifies and influences the culture of a period"
Oooohkay then.
Well, now we know, and knowing is half the battle.
What do you think of emerald? Does it embody the zeitgeist?
Leave me a comment!
{I asked about this on PrettyCoolShops Facebook too.}
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~Diana
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wow, wait, December? Saturday, December 1, 2012
Hi there!
Saturday totally snuck up on me this week! {not a bad thing to happen, unlike wretched sneaky Mondays...}
Then I noticed that December just snuck in too.
Wait, what? Where, when?!
Reminds me of a quote from The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, "The days are long, but the years are short."
{I highly recommend this book, by the way. It's an easy read, and helpful without being condescending.}
Hope you have a fabulous week!
{watch out for Monday, it's a sneaky bugger!!}
Stay positive and love your life!
~Diana
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Small Business Saturday Saturday, November 24, 2012
Happy Small Business Saturday!
"Small Business Saturday is the day we celebrate the Shop Small movement to drive shoppers to local merchants across the U.S."
I love the idea of supporting your local economy! Whether in person or online, small businesses provide personalized service to every customer. We truly care about each and every customer.
As I type this, the news is showing all of the "Black Friday" mobs and fighting and lines... and someone was even shot over a parking space!
What?!?!
That really bothers me. {I'm keeping my opinion G rated and very very brief here, lol}
What does this say about people's values? I am going to avoid a big long diatribe on this subject, but it is something I encourage people to think about.
I am grateful for each and every one of you, thank you thank you!
If you can, shop local today or shop a small online business, the shop owners will be grateful!
Stay Positive and Love Your Life!
~Diana
What do you value?
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