what i've been up to.

heeeyyyy. so i've been kiiinda busy for the last month with etsy! pretty exciting and fun. i like that i'm getting paid for my new found obsession!:) here are the things i've sold!

good ol caroline david from safford ordered 6[!] for people for christmas. i only have pictures of 4 of them.

their wedding date is over "together forever"

not the greatest picture but whatevs.

it's also purple and cream.

hard to tell.

i made this one for my ma for christmas.

inside family saying i guess you could say.

my mom loves this quote and my mom showed her the sign i have at my house so i made one for her!

the wood was already chippy and wonderful and made the distressing awesome.

k, funny story about this one [below]. if you notice it looks the same as a sign a few pix u [brown instead of red] weeeelll, a girl had ordered it for her mom and gave me the list of dates. so i made it and sent it to her. a few days after christmas i get an email from a lady saying her daughter ordered a sign but one of the dates was wrong. the daughter had her dad verify the dates and verified his own birthday wrong! it cracked me up. men;) so i made a new sign and she paid full price--i said she could just send back the sign and pay for shipping but she was willing and happy to pay for a whole new sign.

awesome.

people on etsy are nice:)

the girl who ordered these is a repeat customer:) i made her a bigger juniper street sign and she sells jewelry which are now at 2 stores and she asked for these so she could put them next to her jewelry. i had to redo one of them a couple times because i got a little crazy with the sanding and took off a bit too much.

v*day!!!

i made a few signs just to sell on etsy hoping someone will want them for vday day-core in their casa.

no takers yet.

i was kinda dreading this one because, i mean, look at it. all those words and alternating colors. geeeze. it wasn't so bad. kinda tricky but turned out to be just fine. the girl likes it, yay, and i will ship it asap.

busy lil b!:) oh yeah, layla has been keepin me busy too. wanting all kinds of attention and junk. whatevs. i can handle it.

check out my junk!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/iCraftee

just pictures.

here are some pictures of lil miss layla! enjoy katie;)

[2 months]

[just reading the very hungry caterpillar]

[watching us decorate the tree]

[christmas photoshoot. get ready.]

creative SOUL

so i was just on pinterest [of course, what else would i be doing?!] and i got distracted by a blog that i repinned a pic from [It's A Shabby Thing]. as i was reading she said something that is defintely so true--it's hard for a creative soul to sit still. i agree! well, besides all the hours i spend on pinterest...but that's where i've been getting all my ideas lately. there is so much i want to make but a certain little person is taking up most of my time these days:) i want to make everything! i think once i get a routine down i will be able to make more things.

side note: yesterday greg and i went to the tour de fat [a fun lil bike "race", people dress up and ride cool bikes] anyhoo, a girl working at the recycling stand asked how old layla was and she said she was a nanny and the parents did sleep training...i think i wanna do that. i need to hit up barnes & noble.

so here is something i made the other day, it took 2 days...but got it from pinterest. i like it. i got a little crazy with sanding [that happens a lot...] but it looks oldish which is what i was going for...

it says: chocolate doesn't ask silly questions chocolate understands:)

hopefully more to come sometime...

more pictures...

here are some pix of baby layla. mostly for those of you who don't have facebook [katie;)]

one week old

i want to try to do this every month to keep track of how much she grows! i think it's cool. there are a lot of ideas on pinterest too:) here she is 1 week and 2 days old.

i thought her feet looked funny...

this is what happens when you go out of town without the vibrating bouncy chair...you get creative.

i found a vibrating back massager and it worked like a charm:)

everyone has to take one of these pix i feel.

got it.

this face cracks me up! i'm not sure what she was doing, perhaps about to have an explosion.

stella keepin layla company.

i kinda feel like stella scares layla tho sometimes...stella gets all up in her business, of course.

so this day i gave up on clothes. i think i changed them like 2 or 3 times because diapers kept leakin and so i just wrapped her up in a blanket and called it good.

thank goodness we live in phoenix az where this is somewhat acceptable...only in the house. not at the grocery store, people!

tummy time! not a fun time at all. if pictures could have sound with them you would hear layla screaming her bloody head off.

she hates it.

but there lays stella, patiently doing her job of supervising.

parental supervision is required for tummy time, you know.

she does some weird things while she sleeps:)

that's all for now!

let's see if i can get a shower in today sometime.

doubt it.