Monday.......

Today started a little bit earlier then usual for me, 6:11am, it stared with a dog whining in my face that he needed to go out, and because he just had surgery on his eyelid a few days ago he is not allowed to just wander around outside by himself, he has to be on a leash and I have to take him for a walk, so up I got......

Jake

So, by 6:50am I had walked the dog, made lunches, loaded the dishwasher, & helped with hair (it's picture day for 2 of my kids). So, now it's 8:30am...all 3 kids have left for school, I've drank 2 cups of coffee, blogged, facebooked, now for the rest of the day, which will probably be cleaning......oh the fun.

This morning I thought I'd share a new video from Kings of Leon - Radioactive, their new song from their new album that comes out in October. Enjoy!!

Have a wonderful Monday!!!!

Oh Baby!!!!

My beautiful sister in law (I have a few beautiful sister in laws), but I'm talking about Desiree, she and her husband Sam are going to have their first baby near the end of the month (Sept.).

Photo by Belinda Fontes

I'm sooooo excited, I've been in Des's life since she was 10 years old....kinda crazy that she is now going to have a baby, I know we all grow up....but like I always say, it's crazy how quickly time flies! Anyways, she is having a boy (another nephew for me)...I love my niece and nephews so much, they are like my own kids but I get to give them back when they cry or poop!!!! All this baby talk has made me reminisce about my own babies, births, etc. I'm so happy for her, life will never be the same, but in the best way possible. This lil' guy isn't born yet, but I'm already buying him things, thinking of buying him things, ordering things online for him,  knitting (actually crocheting) for him......I can hardly wait till he is born, I just want to snuggle and smell him (oh new baby smell) and tell him how much I love him already!!!!

made with love from Auntie Kim

A Marriage Moment with a touch o' Craft...

ChrisTopher got home from work yesterday and went straight out to cut firewood. Me, being the Best Wife in the Whole World went out to help him.

I grabbed my work gloves and skipped out to the woodshed.

"Hi!" I chirped at him. Pulling on my gloves and slapping them together, my hands, in the gloves, that is. They made a fun thwap sound, so I did it again.

Topher looked at me narrowly. "What are you doing?"

"I've come to help!" Being the Best Wife in the Whole World makes me really happy, so I practically sang the words and enthusiastically waved my gloved hands at him.

C-Toph bought me the gloves for Christmas a few years back. (What's that you're saying? No? No, yes, yes he did buy me work gloves for a present. It's because I'm such a hard worker...)

He frowned at them as if he's not sure what they're doing on my hands. "No, that's alright, Liss. You can go sit down and...." he looked around helplessly, unsure of how to finish maybe.

See, he loves me soooo much he doesn't want me to have to work, at anything, ever. Really. He loves it when I do nothing at all. He doesn't look confused at all because seeing me in work gloves, attempting to stack wood, is just about the equivalent of Jesus making his Second Coming for the soul purpose of stacking firewood with him.

Nope.

Helping with the firewood, I do it all the time. All. The. Time.

"Shut up, Toph. Why would I sit down when I can stack firewood?" I rolled my eyes at him and scoffed, "Seriously, I'm awesome at this. I love it."

"Just... don't hurt yourself," he said after a pause.

Again, I scoffed.

30 minutes later, I was pretty sure I was going to die. Why did I think that helping was a good idea? Oh right, being the Best Wife in the Whole World. Well...

I'm pretty sure I'm still the Best Wife in the Whole World while sitting on my ass drinking tea.

"Are we... almost... done?" I panted at Topher.

He scrunched his eyebrows at me in that considering sorta way and looked at me for a moment. "Yeah. You go ahead, I'll be in shortly."

I refrain from shouting, "Thank you sweet Baby Jesus" and just said like the BWWW I am, "Great! I'll make you a cuppa!" and pranced away to the house, where I drowned my trauma of "helping" with tea and knitting.

Wanna see what I made? Of course you do. Keep in mind, it's not finished...

Yup, Bella style fingerless gloves... or glove rather. I took this picture and then decided that the post should probably have a "personal touch picture". Which obviously means gracing you all with a picture of myself. But it's too early for that sh*t. So I attempted to do a cute peakaboo picture and got this...

  

Which is much more me than a anything else I guess...

Hearts & Bubbles
L

A Crafty Sample...

So, I've got this friend. She's very demanding.

I grew up with her. And even though we sorta fell outta touch for the last... like... 16 years or so, and she lives...like... 18 hrs away, she feels she can demand things from me. Like entertaining blog posts.

I know, right? *eye roll* Demanding.

In her words, she's "expecting big things from (my) blog this fall!".Also, she's insisting on seeing my talent on here too.

I mean really, all you have to do is look in the general direction of Me to see my talent. It wafts off of me in giant glorious waves. If you are close enough, you can physically feel it upon your skin. Feel free to bask.

I suppose though, she can't really bask near me, since she's in a different province... so I'm giving in.

Fine, M. Fine. I said I would amp it up in the Fall, and I'm usually good at sticking to my word. So for you, a taste of what I've been creating of late...

3 pocket card wallets. Made from salvaged/scrap leather.The smaller ones fit ipod nano's and the large one fits an iphone or ipod touch, as well as cash and cards.

These are still in the experimental stage, hopefully they will be in our Etsy store when we open this fall.

H&B's 

L

!!!Back to School Joy!!!

Ok, so normally, I'm one of those mom's that doesn't want summer to end. Not because I love the weather, because I don't, I prefer the rain. And not because I love to be outside, because I don't, I feel the same way about that as I do about dieting, namely, I don't believe in it. I love it because I like having my kids around. I love the freedom to sleep in and then have the whole day to do whatever we feel like doing.

I hate the school routine (except for the bedtimes, I love the early bedtimes). The details of lunches. The mornings of rushing the kids, yelling at them to hurry up. Beating them when they don't do as I say when I say....

Well, maybe not that last part... I actually like that part. Erm... I mean... I don't do that. *cough*

No really, I don't love the fact that every school morning I do feel like beating my children. Every. Single. Morning. So summer, it's nice. I like my kids more in the summer.

Normally.

This summer my children pulled out a whole new level of evil that I had yet to see. I'm not going to get into details, because I'm nice like that, not because I'm embarrassed of my children's behavior, not at all. I'm sure you're children are much worse than mine are. In fact, I know they are. It's because I'm a superior parent...

Anywho, yesterday, I tied my monsters into the car, drove their asses across the island and delivered them to their home away from home, to their cage and trainers, to that lovely place we call elementary school. Yup! Yesterday was the first day of school! I dropped them off, and then went and did a happy dance at my car. Then I went right home and ate candy for breakfast. (Did you know it's not easy to eat candy for breakfast during the summer? If you do it, you have to be very very very sneaky. Kids, like me, have candy radar. A sixth sense for candy. It's not easy to fool, and if you get caught, you have to share. Do you know what that means for me? No candy for breakfast in the summer..! cuz I won't share.)

FREE!!!! I'm FREEEEEE!!!!

!!!!Yippee!!!!

Bring on the sh*tty mornings! Bring on the making of lunches! I'll do it all with a smile on my face if I only get a few hours a day away from my offspring and candy for breakfast!!!!

!!!!Yippee!!!!!

(MudMaskMonsters)

Hearts & Bubbles

L

Just a Thought......

90's trends....

I keep noticing myself saying, "oww, I like that" and then I think....wait, I've worn that before, but when?.....oh right, in the 90's. I always thought that I wouldn't repeat trends that I've already lived through and have worn, but there are 2 that I've noticed that I seem to be on the look for .......the perfect plaid shirt and Doc Martens.

Red seems to be a theme.....hmm I think something with red in it!

So, these are the exact ones I had in high school, 10 hole bright blue ones, I loved them, wore them with everything, I'd probably still wear them now, but they went missing a few years back :(

There are so many fun ones now......

but I think if I bought new ones I'd go for classic.....black

So, if there was a trend you'd do again.....what would it be???