The Glitter Workshop Dish

The Shirt Says It All…

Ms. Bean has turned into quite the goofy lady. She is very tempermental however, and requires her needs be met IMMEDIATELY. Thank goodness this guy is much more laid back…

I also snapped a few pictures of Zoe and Darby for a project I am working on. They both complained that they didn’t like the pictures, but I think they look adorable as well!

Zoe got her ears pierced too! It’s going to be her golden birthday next week (11 on the 11th) so her dad agreed that we could get her ears pierced a year early (Darby had to wait until she was twelve…). She was incredibly brave and has already picked out about a zillion pairs of earrings!

Beside taking care of the kiddos, I think I have finally started to get out from under the black cloud. This black cloud bout has lasted longer than any others I can remember and has been hard on all of us, but thanks to my family and especially my mother in law and father in law, everyone has been very well cared for while I recover. I have also become a little OCD from one of my new medications and have gutted every room in my house and cleaned, organized, painted and alphabetized anything I can get my hands on. No, seriously. Come look at my spices…

I have leave you will a few more Luna pics. She’s the smallest, so it means she gets the most pictures. That’s just the way it is. Just like how we have to have pizza night once a week… (tonight)… That is just the way it is….

Craftacular Recap and Monkey Business

Wow, I can’t believe it has taken me a week to recap the Valentine Craftacular! It was the best Valentine show yet and so much fun.

The amazing goodie bags were gone in about ten minutes and I didn’t even sneak one for myself, which was hard!

I managed to get a few good pictures of some of the booths. It was a little tricky because of the lighting though.

So, now I guess it’s on to planning a summer show? Hmmm…..

I did finally catch up with my friend Suzy too. She was Zoe’s kindergarten and first grade teacher, is mother to one of Violet’s close friends, and an all around amazing woman. When Henri was born she knit him a Totoro hat and this time around she made an incredible monkey hat for Luna!

I LOVE it!

Luna is taking silliness lessons from Henri I think…. Thank goodness she is starting to sleep more and only sleeps in her bassinet now so I don’t have to craddle her in my arms while we sleep!

She did have a naughty influence on me the other night though at the craft store. She convinced me to get all of these (well, actually about five times that many….)

Oh FINE. She just sat in the cart and giggled and cooed… but, she didn’t STOP me from getting them! I have some fun project ideas up my sleeve though and I was rewarding myself for working a whole week on organizing and cleaning the house. I still have some of the basement and studio to finish up and then I will get pics up. I have decided though to do the most I can with our tiny castle and turn it into a magical place for all of use. First on the magical agenda is to get rid of clutter and to ‘have nothing in our home that we do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful’ - William Morris.

I did work on our room too and finally organized my jewelry so I can start wearing it again!

I did get a chance to list of my goods on Etsy this morning too including these.

Oh! And, in the midst of all this craziness it was my sister’s birthday so I finally got a chance to catch up with her and give her the birthday gifts I made for her. I included these (some of her favorite things)

and also a gift certificate for NetFlix. I am an addict and thought she may like to become addicted as well.

Well, it’s time to start some soup for dinner, finish the last load of laundry (it’s truly phenomenal how much laundry six people go through…) and run errands. Then the girls and I have to do some shopping for Darby since evidentally she has outgrown almost everything she owns! She will be taller than me very shortly here…

Have a glorious week everyone and hopefully it won’t take me another week to check in!

Craftacular Time!

Otherwise known as, ‘I guess this is as ready as I’m going to get’ time. I actually have more products done than I thought, which is good, but I really feel that all of January was just lost to the post-partum haze. It came later this time (Luna was 3 mths), but hit me twice as hard as it did with Henri. I’m getting there though…

So, onto Craftacular info! The show is TOMORROW at the High Noon Saloon. Also, remember that the first 25 shoppers get amazing goodie bags. I mean seriously, I have so many great donations that they almost didn’t all fit in the bags! The doors open at 10 a.m. and the show runs until 4 p.m.

I still have about a months worth of stuff to squeeze in to one night, so I will keep this short and leave you with a few pictures of some of the goods that I will have at the Glitter booth.

Hope to see all of you tomorrow! (ok Mom, you’re off the hook since you wouldn’t make it in time, even if you left right now ; )

Sweet Stuff

The other day I had a little time to kill (I know.. pretty unbelievable right?) so I was at the bookstore before picking up Zoe from school and found this great magazine called Romantic Homes. I know, sounds really cheesy, but it was so inspiring! It reminded me of how much I would love to go to Paris and roam around or how much I enjoyed sitting in SoHo sipping coffee in a cafe, writing in a beautiful journal while waiting between modeling appointments when I was eighteen. Basically, it reminded me of beauty. So, I dropped the $6 for one issue (!) and have looked at it every day since. I do believe a subscription is in order…

It also inspired me to start creating for the Craftacular which I abruptly remembered is ONE WEEK FROM TOMORROW! yikes….

So, here are a few things I have done.

Then of course, there are always the ’sweet things’ at home. Well, lets just say the little two have been very sweet lately and the older two have been a bit sweet and sour!

I love watching this guy learning to feed himself. Gotta love the two fisted eating! Of course, with Jerome and myself as parents, what did I expect?

Oh, I have an amazing picture to show!

What is so amazing about that picture of Zoe you may be asking? Well, for anyone that knows her, she started dressing like a skater in about the second grade and her clothes have gotten progressively baggier as the years have gone on, but yesterday her and I were having a special alone night shopping and she asked if she could look at skinny jeans! I told her hell yeah! Don’t get me wrong, some ’skinny jeans’ are just ridiculous, but that girl can pull them off perfect. She was soooo excited! A new page perhaps? I did learn, however, not to ask her to watch her sister for too long. This is what happens when she does..

Poor, poor Luna…

Well, time to get ready to pick up Darby from a sleep over (no school for middle school… no idea why…) and back to working! Perhaps I too have turned a new page? The postpartum depression hit me like a brick wall this time and I have been pretty much trying to get through day to day. Today I see a light at the end of that tunnel. Keep your fingers crossed for me…..
xxoo

Catching up, Again

Wow have I gotten behind! I have been in a kind of haze the past few weeks. Taking two weeks off from life really gets you behind! Then just when I think I’m inching back into life Henri gets a cold and decides to be up most of the night. Ugh. Of course once he finally went to sleep Luna was up!

Anyway,what have we been up to besides that?

Well, let me share! First off, I have been crocheting like a mad woman. For some reason this is the only thing I can focus on. Well, that and catching up on Dexter DVD’s…. Anyway, I have a few cute goodies to show for it.

I have also been getting some fun goodies in the mail for the Craftacular bags. Be one of the first 25 shoppers and one can be yours!

And, there is never any shortness of cuteness around here! First, Darby had her orchestra concert last week. They sounded great and I couldn’t have been more proud of her. When she’s not talking back, on the phone (when she’s not supposed to be) or being overly dramatic, she really is a sweet girl.

However, I did have these two monkeys to deal with during the concert. For some reason Zoe and Violet are either best friends or trying to kill each other! You would think they were sisters..

As for the little packages of cuteness? Well, this lady is getting quite the personality. Let’s just say I think her sisters are giving her sassiness lessons.

And last, but certainly not least, thank the goddess for this little guy (well, all of my kids, you know what I mean, but seriously, he is a charmer…). When he is not trying to vomit on my lap or play at 1 a.m., or going around making farting and burping noises (another lesson from the sisters.. the kid doesn’t talk, but he knows how to fake burp!), he really is just the sweetest thing. Here he’s showing me where his teeth are. He’s obsessed with brushing them.

Time to go sneak some lunch in! I am soooo hungry for greasy, junk but I guess I will settle for my slightly nasty Jenny Craig meal. Oh well. At least their desserts are good!

signing off..