Sorry for my absents!

I am so happy to have a minute to hop on here and let every one know I'm alive... we have been so sick since November that I was sure we wouldn't make it out of winter alive but alas here I am! So I have tagged so many great project my bloggy buddies have been doing that my spring should be filled with crafty greatness! So let me fill you in a little about what I have been doing (beside have a family that has brought home the stomach flu 3 times, 4 positive RSV test and a new kid on a permanent inhaler...) I opened my Etsy store right before the big vomit fest happened in out home.. and although not selling anything yet has been disappointing im going to take it as a sign that I needed to focus on my REAL life. ;) I managed to clean out my office and completely fill it again. I have actually been pretty busy with my photo studio which has been great, after having such long stretches and babies it has been great to get back to real work. As for babies... Danger (which is Carsons new name) is pulling himself up on everything and getting ready to run.. talk about a child that keeps me on my toes. He is into everything, and he has no fear. He has to be swung so high on the swings, he climbs up and slides down our play house slide face first and he has tumbled off the end out our bed on 4 separate occasions.... he is going to be giving our bigger kids a run for their money.. which leads me to a My other little man Colton (Coco with love) just turned 3!! I say that but its also me saying I can not believe he is only 3 and was just 2... he and my 4 year old are the same size and he seems so much older.. so I threw him a super fun Toy Story 3 party (how perfect that he was turning 3) I wished I would have gotten more pictures of all the millions of cute things I made for it but i will post those in my next post!

Happy heart day!

For valentines day this year I came across this while shopping... and decided it would make the best breakfast... so that is what we had! If you know me you know I have a crazy love for thin mints (honestly who doesn't?) so when I saw this in the freezer section I about climbed through the glass to get it... and it is as good as it sounds!! If you want to give yourself a gift this day of love... give your self a carton (or 4 cause that was all they had left) Love you all!
Katie

Look at me look at me!!

Ok so I know I have been neglecting my blog abit but life has been crazyer then normal lately and guess what I did... come on guess... i will give you a hint I have talked about it on like my last five-ish post... ok good guess ... and incase you guessed wrong I opened an Etsy store!! Its full of my novle idea kid PJS. Here is a quick blurb about it

"If your little bed bugs are anything like mine then you know what you put them in today might not fit tomorrow. Little bed bugs offers a one of a kind solution for this problem by simply removing a stitch in the PJ's pants cuff giving you a whole two inches of growing room (Which means that size 4 of today will be a size 5 for tomorrow) We might not be able to keep them small forever but at least we can keep them dressed just a little bit longer."





I sewed in a loose stright stitch at the bottom of my pants so when they get to short... whic if you have kids you know happens as soon as you give in and buy cute PJs... you just snip the stitch and pull and BAM!! another 2 inches of growing room! Novle idea I think anyways so if you have a min take a look and pass my lovelyness around to all your friends who have kids waith high water PJS!!
Thanks
Katie

take a gander at this!!

SO I hope on every morning after breakfast flip down my list of blogs I love to fallow and this morning I saw something I really wanted to pass along. Over at Obsessively stitching She posted about her cousins new web site they are putting together. Its where us crafty people swap our crafty goodness for other crafters gold. Its genius! No money involved please take a look here To read about it on OS's blog (Ps if you don't fallow her, check her wonderfullness out while you are there) then you can hop on over to whoopdwhoop (Cleaver name too!) and start whooping around!

And just because I have been not posting for awhile because im working on a stock pile to open my Etsy store here is what I got to see yesterday, we got sun in the afternoon so I dragged all five kids to the park. This is Carsons first time on a swing and he LOVESSSSSSS it!

Sewed it on sunday!

Unfortunately I have nothing to show you today... unless you would like to see my sink of dirty dishes, the mounds of laundry that sit in front of my washer or my 4 sick kids and 1 sick husband. My husband had Friday off and since our little guys had been sick off and on all week and my patient was suffering I took the morning off to hit the fabric store and enjoy the sale all alone ... I got a text 2 hours into that my husband wasn't feeling very well. I got home an hour later... mind you that I had a whole whopping 3 hours to myself... and I walk into a house full of fluness... that's right all 5 of those jerk bags got the flu at the same time (Thank God in heaven above it isn't the stomach flu because I think I would have to check into the loony bin given my current lack of sleep and permanent IV drip of coffee, which yes I gave up for the news years but if it wernt for the coffee we might be out a few kids)We have 3 cases of a bacterial eye infection to top it off and baby has decided nursing takes to much of his crawling time up so im full of milk and have a cranky baby and have not slept.... but on a positive note last night I started my business plan to move forwards with an Etsy store so stay tuned for that one! Hope this post find you healthy!

hoooo I am

Here is another hooo are you from Night Owl Crafting (Its a fun little thing to play along with if you dont already)

1. Do you use an alarm clock or some device to wake you up, or do you wake up on your own? I use my cell phone alarm, it goes off at 6 but I snooze it untill 625 then i drag out of bed (that is to say unless my 2 year old hasnt already woken me up for cartoons at 5)

2. If you could go on any game show, which won would you choose? Hummm I would secreatly love to go on that wipeout show cause it cracks me up but I think the price is right would be a kick in the pants too... or maybe wheel of fourtune im pretty good at that one

3. Do you prefer the weather to be hot or cold? If its not snowing and sticking then I want it hot hot hot

4.What color of clothing do you wear the most?Gray... im not sure why since I really do like color

5. What is your favorite color?Its a toss up I love red but I have a giant place for purple in my heart


So come play along over at

Sewed on a Sunday #2

So here is what I sewed today on Sunday, its a jumper/dress/shirt (She wearing things in a many different kinda ways) for my miss Brooklyn for February. Unfortunately when she tried it on it wasn't loose enough for her to wear a long sleeved shirt on underneath so I had to add some panels under the arms (a lesson well learned, measure and add extra length for the unexpected) This is the first time I have ever made a inner lining and I like it so so so much better then the other dresses I made her. Since we are out of school Monday we are going to make a trip to the craft store and see if we can find some big chunky red heart buttons to go on it!



(Look to the upper right side of the picture and you can see the toy story party stuff comming along very well!)

OH im learning how the whole link up thing works I liked up here at craft-o-maniac and Keeping it Simple so be sure to cheack over there for some great inspiration
(PS can any give me a quick lesson on how to add buttons)