The goings on...

Once upon a time, there was a kitchen table. Every so often, for about 20 to 30 minutes a week, it comes back to remind us that it exists under all the things we place on it. The rest of the time...

Meanwhile, I have been scouring the web for a tool that will allow me to enter all the Spring Cleaning tasks and allow me to go to sleep and wake up with the tasks all done. So far I have only found links to coffee (sometimes speed if you are into that sort of thing), pretty little checklists (there are about 5 of them in my printer right now. Will serve as scrap paper by 5pm) and sites that I can pay $25 a month to and will get an email telling me all the shit I should be doing ($50 later...). Maybe the list will get written. Maybe I will do some of it. Maybe this time it will be different. As you can see, spring is lingering...

 Once spring is here, truth be told, my white ass will be sitting on the front steps pretending to watch my children while I read my book. Why bother making a list?

The lovely ladies turned 4 a couple weeks ago. There are no words to express how grateful I am to get the opportunity to hang with these beauties every day. Here are some pics of the birthday festivities...

Kids Party at Gleason's Gymnastics School. Awesomeness.

 At home. The girls picked the menu; Pancakes, cupcakes and Pumpkin pie.

Sounds familiar...

Tips on Getting Motivation to Blog - Tips I have found, but refuse to utilize

I have been spending a redonculous amount of time focusing my energy on getting my business and blog life up an running. The methods I am utilizing include sitting on my "idea" chair, looking online at celebrity gossip, stalking my favorite stores on Etsy, and reviewing the various projects I am going to start to work on tomorrow. So far, working out great. Have not written a blog for over a month, have not sold anything on Etsy for, well, ever, made something worthwhile in a while...Maybe I should try some of these strategies.

1. Review old blog posts to see if you can expand on anything. Lets see, want to know more about my plans that I have not actually started? Cause I could go on and on and on...
2. Look at idea journal to create a new topic. My idea journal consistes random words written on the back of a piece of junk mail or a list beautifully created in one of the 129 iPhone or iPad Apps I got convinced it would actually help me organize my thoughts. 
3. Get Out of the House. Um, yeah. Can I get ideas from driving my mini-van from one side of town to the other 3 times a day? Or at Target or Costco? How about the 25 minutes it take to walk the 50 feet from my door to the garage? I will totally use that time to think of the next great blog idea.
4. Ask your readers what they want to hear. Want to hear me bitch some more? If not, find somewhere else to go. Ok, now that I am back to 3 readers, my self esteem prohibits me from getting constructive criticism. Sorry.

Next post, pictures of my wonderfully organized sewing room.
Oh, and it is Tuesday Food Day. So....it is snowing, again, so cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner? K. Sounds good.

Friday Kids Day

I am so over being a mom. Well, I am over being called mom. I would rather be B, Bitch, Lazy Ass, Cook...I could go on. That being said, the girls did start calling me Salon Maker. Sometimes the only way to get them to brush their hair or teeth is to pretend out bathroom is a Salon. Trust me. It is the only thing some days.
The Baby is on the warpath. No crafts today. I never thought I would say this, but I am kind of over holding my baby. Sad.
Over night with BFF. Here they are waiting for her. Without pants on.

And I am watching Weeds, so I am not paying attention.

Wednesday Link Love

It is official, I am a craft blog stalker.
I think I have OCD. I have an order to the sites I check; Gmail then Storeenvy then Facebook then One Pretty Thing then Etsy then, in a new tab, people.com, People of Walmart and Regretsy. Once I have satiated my daily character assassination, I pop back to One Pretty Thing and can waste 3 episodes of The Wire (or whatever current series obsession I am having) just going through blogs. In the end, I am over inspired that I slap my computer shut and forget all about them. Until about 4am, when I wake up and it all comes flooding in. At 4am, in my mind, I have a stenciled ceiling, a homemade chandelier in my bedroom, my bathroom is redecorated, sewing room is organized, I made about 7 outfits per child, designed a wedding dress, and solved the random stitching problem I had in a bag from earlier in the day. By 4:15, I am sound sleep dreaming about how I met JK Rolling and told her how she changed my life (which was really my dream last night. I had no idea Harry Potter had such an impact in my life).
Dinner tonight you ask? Roast chicken from Costco and instant Miso Soup. Picked one hell of a week to start being productive.

Tuesday Food Day. Really?

How good does that look? Yeah. I totally made it. No. No I didn't. My most favorite food porn site, Smitten Kitchen,  made this dousy. I may just try it. But today (and by today I mean yesterday, because I am just getting to it now) I made my good old standard; Chicken, Quinoa and sweet potatoes. And, lucky me, I got to eat it, mixed up in a Tupperware bowl racing to my pattern class.
I made an executive decision today to bypass the whole going-grocery-shopping thing and joined my kiddos at an amazing Children's Theater performance of Babe. Would much rather do that then food shop any day.

Monday Projects

And we are off! And my sewing machine broke. again. So, Monday Work Day turned into Monday wash-car-seats-and-spend-money-I-don't-have Day! Whoop Whoop!

First, if anyone is thinking of having children, consider the cleaning car seat process birth control. Pain. In. The. Ass.

Second, I hate computers. That's totally not true. Sorry. But, I do love my new sewing machine. It is not a computer. And that actually makes me happy.

The name and flowers on the other hand, um, not so much.
Needless to say, not much sewing done today. Maybe later...