Party Time

Prunes and an enema... What more could a girl need?

My mom's birthday was in July, but since she was out of the state, I decided to throw her a party now. She didn't have a clue! Everyone (almost) dressed "old", we played Bingo, and ate our food off of divided "nursing home" trays. There were "Pill Cups" for everyone to take home (full of Smarties and Good N' Plenty's) and we had a food processor set up at the end of the buffet for those who no longer had enough teeth to chew their food. It was an awesome time! 

We definitely had a full house, and a really good time.  Happy Birthday again, Mom!  I love you!

I don't know what to do today...

There's always laundry, you know, but I'm having a BRAND NEW washer and dryer delivered tomorrow, so I'm putting that off...  I'm starting to get stir crazy at home, though.  Jim's not sure whether or not he'll be able to come home this weekend, so I'm not sure whether or not I need to drive up there.  My parents are leaving SD today to come home for the winter. YAY!  Six months without my mom is a long time.  Sheesh.
So...  I may load up the kids and take them to Monkey Bizness, which is an indoor playground... I may bake cookies or something else yummy, I may go shopping, but I DO need to get out of the house.
Jay (my oldest) just started taking Taekwondo, and he looks so tough in his little uniform.  And, I gotta tell you, nothing beats watching a four year old do jumping jacks.  :D  Here's some pictures I took of him before his class yesterday.

It's been a while

Yes, I know... and I know you're supposed to write in your blog at least a couple of times a week, but, I've gotta tell ya, these last few weeks have been beyond crazy.  Jim ended up working 60 hours a week, and so in order to see him at all, I packed the kids up and went up there.  Hotels with 3 kids under 5 are... interesting.  It worked out, though, and I'm so thankful that we were at least able to spend a little bit of time together.  He did have a long weekend this weekend, and I just said "goodbye" again...
I have been able to make a few more bows, and got some really pretty designed ribbon for fall.  I also found some more butterflies, and these ones are glittery.  SO cute!
Little Haven's hair is finally getting long enough to put in little pigtails, (although they look more like horns at this point.) and I'm really having a ball with that.  I'm brainstorming on how to make itty bitty bows to clip on her little pigtails.
Football season's almost in full swing, and I'm hoping that more of my BSU and Vandals bows will start selling.  I've also got my eye out for other college themed ribbon.  NFL's hopeless, though.  They don't sell it anywhere... And I've looked everywhere.

So.... Here are my new additions:  First, the glittery butterflies:

Aren't they pretty?  And they come in two sizes, the large, seen here, and small, which I'm selling as sets of two.  Here's picture of the small green ones:

Next are the bows that I've made.  Purple with green flowers and a green center, and brown satin with pink cherry blossoms.  SO CUTE!

It's picking up!

Last Friday I sold a whopping THIRTEEN clips.  Awesome.  I'm still excited about it when I think about it.  Some of my newest creations are my multicolor daisy clips.  I've posted the pink one before, but I've since made brown and white, black and white, and a couple of other combinations.


 Here's a picture of the brown and white ones.  If you look closely, you can see an initial button.  CUSTOM clips, ya'll!  Put your little girl's initial on her hair clips.  Pretty cute, eh?

I'm having SO much fun with these ones.  I'll keep posting more pictures!  Let me know if you have any ideas!

Gotta go make lunch for the kiddos.  Have a stupendous day!

It's been a few days...

But I'm back.  I've had a lonely couple of weeks.  I'm really disliking the fact that I only see my husband on the weekends.  We're looking for a house where he's at, though, so hopefully we'll all be together soon.

I've had a pretty productive day today, though.  I made a few clips, and helped my house recover from the weekend.  I think these turned out rather well!
This is another of my flower clips.  It's got one of those adorable ladybug buttons in the center, along with a couple of other buttons.

Here's a picture of the back of it, which gives you a pretty good idea of how I line my clips.  They're all lined, and it makes them easier to stay in fine hair.

These ones are pigtail bows that I made for my niece, Olivia.  She's absolutely adorable, and I know these'll be super cute on her.

The lighting's not best on these because they were taken with my phone, but you get the idea of how cute they are.  The center is pink and green polka dot ribbon, and it really adds to them, I think.  SO cute!

On our way

Back home!  I really had a good time this trip, and I have bow orders to fill when I get home!  Good stuff!
We got Jim "settled" in the camper that he and his dad are staying in during the week and then the kids and I drove an extra hour and a half up to Moses Lake, WA.  My aunt and uncle live there, and opened their home up to us.
They have gigantic backyard and toys and things that little boys love, so there's been no boredom whatsoever!  Yesterday we went to the aquatic center and the kids really had an awesome time there, too.  Jay told me a little while ago that he doesn't want to go home.  I guess that's the sign of a successful trip, eh?
Anyway, we're anxious to get back home and this mommy's ready to get my kids back to their routine.  I hope you all had as wonderful of a week as I did!

Florida!

My good friend Kelly asked me to make her some bows the other day for a friend of hers who had just had a baby and lives in Florida.  Supposedly this friend is a big football fan...  So, the clips I made are football themed.  Well, football team themed at least.  A couple of them are Tampa Bay Buccaneers colors and the other is one of the Universities in Southern Florida.  I think they turned out pretty well.

This one is the University bow.  I can't remember the name... Sorry about that... I'd hate to name the wrong school.  The bottom ribbon is organza,, and I think it made a really pretty backdrop for the satin gold ribbon on top.  It'll look pretty cute attached to a headband on that baby's head.

The flower is red, black and white layered on a clip.  They're sewed and glued together, so they're not coming apart anytime soon.  There's a football button and rhinestones that make up the center.  I think it turned out pretty cute.

And now for the Buccaneers bow.  It's just their team colors, but this is actually more difficult to make than it looks.  The ribbon is satin, and it's a little slippery and hard to work with, but I really like how it turned out.  It's about 4 inches wide, so it's definitely a good size.  I plan on getting more team colors and making more bows for football season..


This may be my last post for a few days.  I'm heading out of town again on Saturday.  I may get the urge to blog while I'm away, though.  Who knows?  I'll be heading up to Moses Lake, Washington to visit a very special aunt and uncle of mine.  I'm pretty excited about it.  I'm sure we'll have an awesome time, and I know my kids will really enjoy "Great-Uncle Weirdo and Aunt Katie."