Photobooth Friday: A first

His first time and maybe his last. He refused to look at the camera. A few days later he told me he had been scared. at the time when we asked all he did was shake his little fists nd scream "I don't wanna!" Now, he says he's fine. Hopefully we didn't traumatize him too much. This is from a boy who wouldn't ride Peter Pan at Disneyland but went on the spinning rockets four times. FOUR TIMES! He also has a penchant for hanging upside down and for his birthday he really wanted a purple alarmclock. Go figure. Happy Birthday little man, Happy Birthday!

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how about a cuppa?

Thankfully, it is not as cold this morning as it has been and I am no longer feeling all sickish and cold-like. Whoo-hoo! Perhaps today will be more productive than yesterday. Though, I have to admit that I was decently productive. I listed new items in the shop and sold all but one of the lurve monkey sets. I baked up a batch o' gingerbread and stitched up half of my Lurve Monkey Dollies. I also watched War Games. That was fun! Today I need to open up the giant garbage can full of fiberfill and hope that I don't get swallowed by the massive snake of fluff as it is wont to creep out quite suddenly and then I am unable to cram it all back in to get the lid back on. I will then stuff the remaining dollies, take pictures and list them in the shop. I will also hit the post office and mail off goodies and I will retrun videos to the library, stich up another birthday crown and clean off at least one surface...one surface is an attainable goal. I hope.

This morning for breakfast I delighted in a cinnamon coffee and a slice of confetti-d gingerbread. What did you delight in?

lurve monkeys

I admit it. I make monkeys. There are 9 sets of Lurve Monkey postcards available in my etsy shop. There ere 10 but one has sold already, whoo-hoo! Stay tuned for dashboard dollies. They won't disappoint, I promise. The card sets inclue 8 blank postcards, no printing on the back at all so you can mail them or do whatever you like to them. They need love, they need lurve, they need monkey lurve...

a not so crafty day

But I did find Pretty in Pink at he library! Hooray for free movies!

I officially, finally have a full blown cold. It has been an almost cold for months now but today, it has announced itself. I feel ick and I feel blah and all I want to do is lie on the couch and watch chick flicks but I really need to work on my Valentine's Day goodies for the etsy shop. Bah! Do you think you folks would purchase an 8 pack of gocco'd valentines that are printed on postcard sized cardstock with no printing on the back? I had wanted to gocco the back with a postcard template so you folks could mail the cards that way but my local shop is out of screens and the screen that was supposed to be for the back ended up going to the dollie as the first dollie screen only fused half the image...double drats! I had wanted to get everything in the shop on Saturday but what we want and what we do doesn't always meet up..

Mr. A-go-go & I went to a 3 year old's birthday this past weekend. There was a bouncy house but not much bouncing done by me as it was a freezing cold day and I couldn't muster up the energy to remove my shoes and freeze my toes off. You may roll yer eyes and think oh sure, the girl who lives in the land of sunshine is all whiny about the cold but I'm tellin' ya, it was so cold we lost a bunch of our sage to ice...the plants exploded at their bases and there was ice cold freezing icey ice just hanging out...there was even frost all over the bacopa which sadly also died as did our snap peas. Oddly enough, the lettuce is fine. Who knows? anywhoo, we made the birthday boy a quilty birthday crown featuring his favorite color, pink and then whipped up a mix cd of songs inspired by the color. Cotton Candy by The Sylvers and Fat Bottomed Girls (heehee) by Queen were featured. We love a pink mix, we do indeed! Has anyone out there found any Valentine's Day candy? I've been looking left & right and can only find the valentine card and candy packs and what I want are gumdrops, m&ms, red hots, etc...good old Target has let me down...pooh!

Time now for some tea and some girlie flicks...have a happy Tuesday!

The Week in Review: January 8-14

This was a fairly creative week. Super creative actually. While I may not have finished all the projects I started, I did start many that are almost done. Go me! I also did a bit of visiting with old friends, new friends and family and as always, there were sweets. Lots and lots of sweets. Homemade sweets and purchased. The best ever chocolate cookie I have ever experienced was experienced last week. It was a large chocolate brownie cookie. The cookie itself was beautiful and the flavor was so perfect, I kept walking around exclaiming about the cookie. I had only picked up the one and luckily it is a far enough drive that I won't venture out just for a cookie but it is near my school so watch put February...watch out! If you are in the Los Angeles area or anywhere near Pasadena. Check out Europane on Colorado and Mentor...soooooo good! For you foodies, the loverly proprietor, Sumi Chang once did her art at our very onw La Brea Bakery. So, head on over, you won't be disappointed!

Today is Hat Day so hopefully I can get my tail in gear to post about the hatmaking activities that will be going on today at the casa. To tide y'all over, you can check out my Kaboodle page and try some of the links I gathered. Today we will be a boothing it up with an almost birthday boy and of course, finishing up a whole slew of crafty projects! Happy Hat Day folks! Have a good one!

friday, thank mawd

I cleaned off my kitchen table, I did, I swear it, but somehow magazines, colored pasta, cardboard suitcases, ribbon and mail moved in...sheesh! Every surface in this tiny home is covered with stuff. My stuff to be more precise. Mr. A-go-go is an organized person who does not acquire stuff and when he does he throws something else out and has a place especially for whatever it is he has acquired. He is an organized person, a linear thinker. Me? I'm all over the place both in my organization and my thinking. We can be driving in the car listenin' to the radio and the program could be Car Talk and somehow it will remind me of the man in the orange shoes I saw smoking a pipe by the bus stop. I can also hold four conversations at once, work on three zillion projects, write in three blogs, bake a batch of banana bread, hit the grocery store and do two loads of laundry all in the course of three hours. The husbandman will garden. It calms him. Pulling weeds and whacking off grasshoppers keeps his stress level low. I have a feeling that walking in the casa raises it. So I try. I try to clean. Sometimes it is in tiny bits and when I do, I make sure to point it out, thinking the clean table will gloss over all the other piles here and there and everywhere. If I don't manage to clear off one surface for the day, I do manage to make dinner and a batch of gingerbread. Gingerbread is his favorite. I'm sneaky like that.

Don't forget to check out scrumdilly-do! for some soupy fun and stay tuned for Monday when I celebrate Hat Day!