crafty christmas
Ok - we have our newly established budget... yes, I said budget. It's a doozie too, but it gets us where where we want to go a ton faster... a TON. So all you family memebers out there - fair warning... it's going to be a Crafty Christmas!
I'm so in love with some of the things I'm finding to make on the internet. Take this one for instance, it's classic -
making a tote bag out of those plastic grocery bags! The trick is going to be getting bags of a certain color to make the pattern rock out. This magainze, Ready Made, has a whole
forum on reusing items with some really great ideas, practical and fun ones. So we'll be investing lots of love and time into planning our Christmas Crafts. Hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoy finding fun cool things to make for you.
sorry about that
I was in the middle of writing my blog when our train died. We ended up transferring (i.e. jumping out of one and crawling up onto the other) from one train to another one. I didn't get home til 7:30 - but it was a nice half hour with the kids. Ri and I chatted while I ate dinner and we talked about her mobile project and read funny computer print ads out of Dan's computer mags. Took a 30 min. break on the couch, piled with laundry I need to fold, and then back to the computer to do 2 weeks worth of Copeland ads so Armin could see them this morning. Luckily 6 out of 9 were repeats and I just had to rename pdf files.
Tonight I fold the pile of laundry and straighten up the house. Mom's coming late tomorrow night, we're really looking forward to her visit. Marshall's doing his usual "Gradma's coming today?" ever single day, but it's cute so we bear it :)
Need to go shopping - laundry detergent, dishwasher soap and peanut butter... trying to remember!
stressin'
Life in general has been good this month. Dan surprised me with tickets to a
Sarah Kelly concert, the day after his birthday. His birthday mind you, not mine... though I really can't remember what we did for mine... clearly I'm getting too old. So Steve & Joanne came up from NJ and we went over to
LBC and it turned out that they hadn't sold enough tickets so the concert was free! Evidently they only sold 19 tickets so they re-did the whole thing and when they called Sarah Kelly to say they were going to have to cancel she said she'd come anyway. How cool is that!
So the concert turned out to be about 4 acts from the LBC student body/community with a very nice piano concert of Sarah Kelly all by herself. It was so nice - she had candelabras on stage and votive candles and a grand piano. It was pure music, her voice and the piano - if she had cd's out like this I'd buy a copy of both of her cd's done this way - in addition to the regular versions!
I have to admit that I was rather afraid how Joanne and Steve would react to the music. They're tastes are a bit more conservative - style wise - than ours. But because of the changes - everything worked out rather well and we all had a great time!
Do pray for Steve's mom though, she's in the hospital - in the ICU (I think). During the concert there was a little scare, it was resolved, but still ... ops got to go get on the other train
Rianne's cast will come off Tuesday Oct. 31st - she's dying for it to come off.
Thursday I'm going to NYC for an afternoon seminar
