Recovery...

Whew! We did it. Our first craft fair! YAY!!!!! Who is "we" you might wonder? Well, without giving away *real* names - I'll use those thought up by one of my crafty co-horts. *We* are "Dragonfly Artisans" and that consists of "soap", "paper" and, well - she's never given a pseudonym to herself - so I shall call her "the bag lady" until she comes up with better. heehee.

My main concern for the day was seeing my "Enchanted Musing" business get off to a start. I made a number of sales, not as many as I hoped, but it was a special crowd, and a small one. But good sales nonetheless! I learned alot about what 'that' crowd looks for and went away with lots of inspiration for what to do next. The best thing about the day for me (aside from hanging with my craft buddies "The Dragonfly Artisans" and their mini versions) was that I scored a "special order" for some of my tags (my FAVORITE tags!). The order has already come in and I will start on them ASAP. Yay me!! This is an early version of the design. I'll try to get better pictures as I make more.

Other than that - it's time to get life back to normal. Or whatever THAT is! LOL. It's always subject to interpretation for homeschoolers. This week, things look slow. Well, I take that day-by-day. Mini-me has complained about the lack of time she's gotten from me. She has been gypped lately. Time to make that up. We have many activities from her countdown book that we've yet to complete - so those things will get done. We did a bit of 'time-sharing' today by cooking up a batch of 'organic peppermint chocolate bars' and making marble magnets for some of her friends. Tomorrow *may* be spent working on applesauce/cinnamon ornaments. We will see. There is also a "Borrowers" house to work on, our fairy houses for Hogwarts school to complete and a myriad of other unfinished projects that need attending. I would also like to have a clean house so that it's ready for the Christmas tree. Ok - I'll just shoot for a clean space for it.

And then there's the laundry. There is ALWAYS the laundry...

But for now, I'm back to stamping, stickling and aging tags. And I'm happy to be doing so!

What is it today?

What to accomplish today? I've so much to do - you can't imagine! Hurricane girl-child has been thru this old house several times - and she's not even awake yet! I haven't the energy or will to deal with it right now. So what to do?

Well, we are in the process of clearing out our "extra" room (a term used LIGHTLY, as space of any kind around here is premium) to make a bedroom for said child. But between man-child's work schedule and girl-child and I running around the city doing 'school' - we are rarely home at the same time to finish clearing it out. Can't have man-child moving my stuff, I'd never find it again. So it waits...

I have MANY crafty things to work on. Journals, cards, tags all need to be made. I had great success last night when I started on a "Countdown" calendar for child to enjoy leading up to Christmas. I'm still glowing from it - but I don't want to work on any of that stuff right now.

There are always the requisite dishes in the sink, laundry overflowing and yard to work in (whoa! did I just say 'work in the yard'? LOL yeah - like I've EVER done that! Let's just say there is lots of house work to deal with. Yeah, that's better). I don't want to do ANY of that.

I'm going to Disneyland...

Getting Started...

i don't really know where to start. i'm learning. i'm a mom. a crafter. a 'jack of all trades' - i do - or at least try - a little of everything. today it's blogging.

my day was COLD. our heater isn't turned on yet and my blood is still set to a 'summer' thermostat. but no time to worry about that. i have journals and cards and paper crafts to work on. i'll post pics as i get them going. i really do LOVE paper stuff.

so join me on that journey...