Whew! What a month!

If you want to know where I've been the last few weeks, just check out the store blog: Patch Crafts. It was Halloween Costume Contest, followed by Art and Espresso, followed by the annual Photography Contest, followed by administrative stuff with my credit card, an award's ceremony today, and a tour of the store on Monday. I'm beat. I'll be taking some time off next week so if you don't see me around here it means I'm sleeping or at Ikea! :)

School Pictures

To family: you should be able to click on the photo and save the file in a resolution suitable for printing.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Technically my mom's birthday isn't until Tuesday, but I don't want to forget to post! :)

OH MY GOODNESS

OH MY GOODNESS!!! I totally don't deserve this, but look what Jennifer made me as a gift for watching her kids!!! There are a few more pictures on her blog. (I was too excited to take the time to take pictures myself and upload them!) This is the most awesome bag and I LOVE Russian dolls so it's just SO cool!

Just a reminder to my family members: if you are inclined to send a gift to me (and please do not feel obligated in any way) keep in mind that I took the "handmade pledge" which means please send something handmade that you bought or that you made yourself. Thanks!

Kids Costumes

I finally finished Haven's peacock costume just in time for Halloween. The mask has peacock feathers on one side and is covered with green and teal feathers. The beak is made out of a really pretty scrapbook paper and has little swirls coming off the sides. I also covered it with sparkle glue to make it pretty. :)

The dress was kind of whipped together out of this weird fabric Haven got from school. It's a green cheetah print. Whatever. But it worked pretty well. A little clash with the mask, but she LOVES it!

Ethan was Anakin. He has been wanting to be someone from Star Wars all along but it's gone from Darth Maul to Luke to Anakin. It was too cold for him to trick or treat without his jacket and he didn't want to carry his lightsaber! But that's ok.

We also took Emily along with us for a little while. She was like my little Leia fashion accessory! Since no one could see what Ethan was wearing I just kept hearing "oh what a cute little Leia!" We had a lot of fun!

After trick or treating I tagged along with Jennifer and Jon to a Costume Party at the Patriot. It was fun to see what everyone else was dressed as and see some of our customers and some of my colleagues in a social setting. And Jennifer totally won first place in the costume contest! She deserved it since she worked so hard on that dress!!! Click here for pictures from our store contest.

Conversations with Kids

So it snowed Wednesday morning. I'm so not ready for cold weather. Ethan woke up and saw the snow and was SO excited! He came running in saying "Let's go skiing!!!!" Skiing??? How does he know about skiing??? I told him he'd have to go talk to daddy cause momma doesn't ski! Then he told me "Come on... you just put your feet in the skis like this and go!" Saying this as he mimics putting his feet on skis and crouching down. He is unbelievable.

Then today Haven made me laugh so hard. Many of you know the ongoing saga with my car and my husband's hospitalization. So I JUST got the car out of the shop on Thursday and Fri morning and tonight it was STILL dying. Haven said why would they give us the car back when it wasn't fixed? I said it was because they just couldn't figure out what was wrong. And she said, "Oh, so the mechanics are kind of like Daddy's doctors?" HAHAHAHAHA!!! So I'm praying for a car that runs and my husband to be well!!!