Violaceous

Thank you

I just wanted to say thanks for your caring comments regarding my miscarriage. We are doing much better and are healing. Things seem to get better every day. I couldn't have gotten through it without so much loving support from all our family and friends, especially my mom.

This little girl is just the best medicine ever. I am so thankful to have Lucy.

I am excited to start blogging again, but don't feel like I can just jump into "Oh, look what I made" after how introspective I've been lately. Inspired by Bluebirdbaby, I'm going to start a "30 days of happiness" blog project, only documenting things that make me happy for the next 30 days in a row. I need to focus on the positive right now. Granola Girl and Liesl Made have been involved in this project too over the last few days and I have really been enjoying their inspiring posts.

Anyways, thanks for being there! Thanks for reading and for caring about what happens in my little life. :)

Playing

With my camera. From my backyard this evening:

Love this girl.

Color Week Links!

A very big thank you is in order to Elizabeth at My Crafty Mess for hosting color week! I've had so much fun taking pictures and it was such a nice challenge!

Here are some of my favorites:

Red jam at My Crafty Mess
Orange dress at Liesl Made
Yellow umbrellas at Photographee by Mindee
Green wool necklace at Vintage Fern
Blue ruffles at Photographee by Mindee
Purple spools at Liesl Made

Hope you enjoyed seeing my color photos from the past week as much as I enjoyed taking them!

Rainbow!

One favorite from each day, plus some new ones with all the colors!

Candy!

Sequins

Watercolors

Embroidery thread

Purple

Vintage pillowcase piece that came in the mail today

Glitter!

Flower in the backyard. I like their curly little stamen things. Oddly, I think Elizabeth has these too!

There's some purple in my sugar skull necklace

Vintage button

Bitsy velvet millinery flowers

Purple rhinestone in my broken costume jewelry collection

Treats

Have you ever been to an old fashioned soda fountain? I've grown up with a wonderful place nearby, Goody's, which I've always taken for granted! It's been around since before I was a little kid, I remember riding my bike there and getting a vanilla coke with cream for 50 cents and getting 50 cents worth of gummy bears or something as well. Little pleasures on a tiny budget!

Dustin, Lucy and I still go there to get vanilla cokes with cream and candy from the jar. Their ice cream is to die for, too. Their Oreo cookie ice cream is filled with the biggest Oreo cookie chunks ever!

They have ice cream sodas, handmade chocolates, egg creams and all kinds of yummy drinks too.

And lots of old fashioned candies! We went there yesterday evening to get a couple quarts of ice cream for the fridge as a treat. A few candies jumped in our basket too. And homemade caramel corn for Dustin.

Darn wrappers! They just hinder the whole candy to mouth process.

If you're ever in Central Oregon, definitely put Goody's on your list of places to stop by. Are there any good soda fountains where you live that I should put on my list?

Summer Goodness

Just a couple of things from today.

I was able to pull my short hair into a ponytail for the first time in 2 years!! Yay! You will, however, notice all the bobby pins and hairs that have escaped. Still! I'm happy.

Also, I made this yummy ice cream pie!

It's called a Lemonade Stand Pie, yum! It took all of about 10 minutes, which is my kind of pie. Here's the recipe. I'm still waiting for it to freeze but the filling I sampled was delicious! Sweet and just a little tangy.

Want.

*drool* Gorgeous glasses, from Sundance. I can't in good conscience pay $68 for 6 glasses but they're so. pretty.

Beautiful necklace from alusciousthing on Etsy

Kitty! I love her face and the colors of the embroidery! From StitchyWooWoo on Etsy

On a side note: I found these labels the other day that you can download for free at Mer Mag. I thought someone else might love them like I do. I've been using them to label all kinds of things lately! Check out her blog while you're there - it's gorgeous.

Photo from http://mermag.blogspot.com

Right Now

(Randomly)

Adding to my Etsy shop:

Loving:
That today is almost 90 degrees!

Hating:
Trying to balance my job, my online shops, having time to myself and being a good wife and mother

On my nightstand:

Fridas!

Feeling:
Creative, and a bit smothered by Lucy today

Wishing:
For a whole day to do nothing but play around in my craft room

Proud of:
That when Lucy wants something now, most of the time she says "Can I have _ please?" instead of whining. This is after lots and lots of working with her.

Listening to:
Pandora Radio - Portishead

Working on:
Trying to find balance, and feeling like it's okay to just relax sometimes.

Vintage shop update!

I did a fun vintage shop update today - it's taken me all afternoon! Luckily Luce took a long nap today and then Dustin was kind enough when he got home to take her for a while (she's been wanting me to entertain her all the time lately). I've been coming across a lot of good finds lately! I have a big, big stack of orders that will be shipped out tomorrow. Seriously, it's going to take me 2-3 hours to package and address everything tonight. I can't believe how many orders my vintage shop gets! I'm so pleased.



Fun vintage jewelry!



Yummy vintage baby clothes!

I'm also going to start offering vintage crafting collections, which I'm very excited about! They combine my love of little vintage craft supplies and assemblage!


So check out my shop if you have time, it's nice and full, stocked with new goodies!