Intentions for the Week
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
http://www.plueys.com
oh my cuteness! this new store just opened pluey's !! i need this don't i? of course i do. i neeeeeed them...
me & the mister
we had a little send off bbq for me; of course there was skating involved! just a little sample of some of the norfolk peeps who came 'round! i'm feeling more ready to get back to SF; a building bbq is in the works to catch up with everybody in cali - & i'm ready to see my pup and take a short trip down south (yes, candykid, "down south") & make some art trip runs; there is a ton to see!
on the sprout studio front; all pics uploaded of new products, they just need to be inputted - but we got sidetracked with the mister wrapping up his first semester of teaching and me saying my goodbye's to everyone (there are so many people to see off!) & now we gotta git to packin' - i've secured my pick up from the airport so i'll be safe and sound and in my west coast bed by thursday night!
xxx.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
5 days until i leave virginia...i'm feeling UN-accomplished...
...& i'm in a bit of a quandry about this. there has been this nagging little buzz in my thoughts for a week or so now - i didn't get near enough accomplished in the last 2 months -- i didn't get any sewing done (although, admittedly, my mother was going to buy a new machine in the beginning of the summer and we never got around to it; so i've had nothing to sew ON!), i didn't design loads of new sprout studio product for the fall, i did not learn how to surf, nor even make it down to the banks of carolina to hot dog around in the sand, i didn't get my gocco directions squared away to experiment, nor did we have massive print night runs over at the university where the mister is teaching...hell, we didn't even get to our trusty iron on adventures; where we make a tee shirt or something a day that has some piece of art or whatnot ironed onto it that we've responded to, we didn't make it back up to nyc for another art fix, we did not make it over for a photo adventure and wander on the eastern shore, we didn't make it out to see one lick of live music, my bike - as awesome as it is, sat idle while i was so sick and then in the inferno of heat-ey hell we've been having i could not possibly ride around on a black bicycle.
although, lord knows, i'll probably need to acquire 3 more suitcases to get all my thrifted goodies back to the west coast. (sheesh; i can cross that one off the list - entirely new wardrobe from the thrift stores? check, done, on top of that one! just yesterday i scored 2 little vintage red train cases that are so awesome and sprouty they are unbelieveable; as well as one handmade ruffle shirt that is ultra 50's-80's chic!)
so, you see, i feel like every summer amounts to a mountain of grandiose plans that we never actually get to the top of...& then i try to assuage that feeling this summer, with the thought of, oh yeah, i was sick for the better part of 4 weeks...really sick. & i'm just now starting to feel levelled out with my IBS a little...so i've decidied i think i need a do-over! but maybe that's what my summer's all come down to - especially since i've taught now for the last 5 years and have had them "off" (& "off" being a relative term since i also own a small business!)...ultimately i need the restorative time more than i need a to do list...
but all this has left me feeling like:
a) i'm not ready to go back to SF
b) i cannot wait to get back and actually accomplish some of these things
c) sad to leave so soon
d) a little nervous about transitioning back into my full time gig w/o my mister around and all my IBS junk...eeep...
e) excited to see my dixie loo doggie as i've missed her sooo & whilst phone pics from the dog sitter are awesome, they are making me miss her more!
f) i'm going to miss this view out the massive picture window every morning at the trees and the birds & the herrons and the squirrels and the bunnies as i type away at my computer or drink my tea...
g) i've gotten so used to seeing my nephew every coupla days that now i think i might boo hoo when i see him for the last time; he's 14 months and the cutest thing right now; and he knows who i am now toooooooo...booooo hoooooo
h) i miss all my neighbors back at the ole 900 tennessee and i'm so excited to sit in lovely weather and have our sunday morning bench chill'n sessions & have our bbq & movie nights, and let allllll the dogs run crazy in the hall together...
i) i am loving the idea of sleeping in my own bed.
j) ready for cooler weather and to sport all my thrifty fashion fun finds
k) it is never fun to wave goodbye to the parentals from the airport (sniffle)
l) excited to test out the new-old car i might be purchasing; the vw convertible cabriolet of my neighbors...i even have amazing vintage scarves now to tie around my head with my big fatty sunglasses all jackie o style as i cruise down the coast of my beloved cali!!
m) i don't want to leave the old gray frankie dog that's been sleeping in my room every day since i got here...
bitter.
sweet.
but maybe, in reality, i just don't want to get to the point of spending the entire fall semester in SF by my lonesome and have my mister out here...i'm a big ole sap and like to have him around a lot - i never understood marrying someone and then working all the crazy time and at some point looking over at that person and going....who are you? we like to take as much time as we can and just hang out together and road trip together and meander and wander around together...so this is gonna be kinda stinky for us...productive, but stinky.
well...more thoughts later.......phew.... thanks for sticking with me through this typhoon of a post.
xxx.
although, lord knows, i'll probably need to acquire 3 more suitcases to get all my thrifted goodies back to the west coast. (sheesh; i can cross that one off the list - entirely new wardrobe from the thrift stores? check, done, on top of that one! just yesterday i scored 2 little vintage red train cases that are so awesome and sprouty they are unbelieveable; as well as one handmade ruffle shirt that is ultra 50's-80's chic!)
so, you see, i feel like every summer amounts to a mountain of grandiose plans that we never actually get to the top of...& then i try to assuage that feeling this summer, with the thought of, oh yeah, i was sick for the better part of 4 weeks...really sick. & i'm just now starting to feel levelled out with my IBS a little...so i've decidied i think i need a do-over! but maybe that's what my summer's all come down to - especially since i've taught now for the last 5 years and have had them "off" (& "off" being a relative term since i also own a small business!)...ultimately i need the restorative time more than i need a to do list...
but all this has left me feeling like:
a) i'm not ready to go back to SF
b) i cannot wait to get back and actually accomplish some of these things
c) sad to leave so soon
d) a little nervous about transitioning back into my full time gig w/o my mister around and all my IBS junk...eeep...
e) excited to see my dixie loo doggie as i've missed her sooo & whilst phone pics from the dog sitter are awesome, they are making me miss her more!
f) i'm going to miss this view out the massive picture window every morning at the trees and the birds & the herrons and the squirrels and the bunnies as i type away at my computer or drink my tea...
g) i've gotten so used to seeing my nephew every coupla days that now i think i might boo hoo when i see him for the last time; he's 14 months and the cutest thing right now; and he knows who i am now toooooooo...booooo hoooooo
h) i miss all my neighbors back at the ole 900 tennessee and i'm so excited to sit in lovely weather and have our sunday morning bench chill'n sessions & have our bbq & movie nights, and let allllll the dogs run crazy in the hall together...
i) i am loving the idea of sleeping in my own bed.
j) ready for cooler weather and to sport all my thrifty fashion fun finds
k) it is never fun to wave goodbye to the parentals from the airport (sniffle)
l) excited to test out the new-old car i might be purchasing; the vw convertible cabriolet of my neighbors...i even have amazing vintage scarves now to tie around my head with my big fatty sunglasses all jackie o style as i cruise down the coast of my beloved cali!!
m) i don't want to leave the old gray frankie dog that's been sleeping in my room every day since i got here...
bitter.
sweet.
but maybe, in reality, i just don't want to get to the point of spending the entire fall semester in SF by my lonesome and have my mister out here...i'm a big ole sap and like to have him around a lot - i never understood marrying someone and then working all the crazy time and at some point looking over at that person and going....who are you? we like to take as much time as we can and just hang out together and road trip together and meander and wander around together...so this is gonna be kinda stinky for us...productive, but stinky.
well...more thoughts later.......phew.... thanks for sticking with me through this typhoon of a post.
xxx.
Friday, August 04, 2006
new cutie logo!
so even though my brain has been ultra fried for the last week because of this insane heat wave, i managed to get up with my graphic designer friend extraordinaire to knock out the new-set-brand logo for my site. and since what my problem was all along was that i would get bored with what i had, & then continually change it and probably confuse loads of customers, we solved it by having a square of solid color that now can be switched out whenever i so please. so what's pink right now might just become a lovely olive-y green or light blue or orangey sherbet...(you get the idea) thus allowing non boredom on my part, but still keeping the key brand-ey necessary business logo deal going...hoorah!! she's also going to do some banners for me too, but that will be later in the fall when both of us have more brain cells and she's ready to trade again!
Thursday, August 03, 2006
heat stroke.
111 degrees when i walked out of the thrift store. i don't even have energy to try and activate my brain to say anything remotely intelligent or witty or exciting. ugh.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
check this out!
here is a very hip, new, fun, stylish online zine about the crafty world and some of its' crafty diy participants!
what you make it!
go take a look-see ;)
& this: disconnect the dots
a collaboration of artists; and their works...really great visuals!
what you make it!
go take a look-see ;)
& this: disconnect the dots
a collaboration of artists; and their works...really great visuals!
Sunday, July 30, 2006
& this is why...
the description for a daisy:
"You are just a sweet person. When a friend needs a shoulder to cry on, you are happy to offer yours with a box of tissues as well. Once in awhile, you wish you could be a little more dramatic but then sensibility sets back in and you know that you are perfect the way you are."
:) see that? "perfect!" how lovely!! (tee hee!)
"You are just a sweet person. When a friend needs a shoulder to cry on, you are happy to offer yours with a box of tissues as well. Once in awhile, you wish you could be a little more dramatic but then sensibility sets back in and you know that you are perfect the way you are."
:) see that? "perfect!" how lovely!! (tee hee!)
thrifty goodness! (& other thoughts of course)
since the camera debacle (see previous) i have nothing to actually visually show you; however, i've been doing some major thrifting lately! mostly to clothe my wardrobe when i go back out west. i seem to have better thrifting luck out here. i have always loved to go thrift store shopping - i was that jr high and high school girl that liked to actually look different from everyone else; not the same. i was that crazy girl that tried to sew a lot of her clothes too - thus some kinda odd clothing choices, but you would not mix me up with those popular girls, oh no! i had my fair share of girlfriends that were "in" the popular crowd, because we all played soccer together; but give me my vintage thrifted clothes any day rather than all that esprit, guess, tretorns, gitano crap (am i dating myself yet?!)
especially now that i've seen "the corporation" twice (if you have not seen this, you must watch it!), i watched it quite awhile ago, i have been utterly convicted to avoid all those big box shops as much as i possibly can. not that i shopped at the gap and old navy and whatnot a lot before, because i'd much rather wear something vintage or thrifted/recycled or all cute and hip and sewn up by an indie designer, however; i have ceased to support those businesses AT ALL - and i've even found myself 'preaching' to my other girlfriends about avoiding them, $12.99 sale or not!!! i absolutely cannot justify anything made by those companies that is coming out of el salvador, and pakistan, and china. nope. not gonna do it anymore. so let me tell you this - what i will do, is buy those things at thrift stores (because they are recycled and i did not buy them first) and there is such an *overabundance* of clothing and merchandise at thrift stores; it's almost (well, not almost, it is!) appalling to buy all your things new. (well let me rephrase, hello, i like new, clean panties and bras just like the rest of us!)
i have purchased over the last few weeks, garments from the gap, j crew, free people, h&m, forever 21, american eagle, levi's, keds, lee, deisel, victoria's secret (jammie pants folks), luella, lucky brand, and many, many cute-as-can-be vintage shirts and skirts and other great goodies (fabric! trim! baby clothes for the girlfriends!) at our local thrift stores. nothing more than $6.50 a piece - nothing! most are in the couple dollar range...now, i'll have lots of weeding to do out of my own closet when i get back to SF, but ya know what? i'll put them out in my hallway and someone will scoop them up and they will be recycled again - and i love that. so peeps, go shop those thrift stores and do a little boycotting! help the planet! help those underpaid workers! be a responsible citizen! (speech done now!)
today i am on my way up to my grandparents (now my parents) cabin. it's about 2 hours away and on a lake; nothing fancy schmancy - it's a down and dirty cabin with a wood stove for heating; although there are flushable toilets! just for the day - we'll take my nephew and let my parents doggies run crazy and if we are lucky, pick ticks off of us when we get back! (ugh) but, with no camera, i'm not going to be able to show you the pretty view off the point or the turtles sunning themselves or the fishing pier at the bottom of our little hill - or the rad old old old cemetary that used to scare the bejeezus out of us when we took our midnight ghostie walks when we were little! but maybe you can just visualize it all on your own!
have a great sunday yourselves and i hope to have some sort of recording device soon to show some of my world again. (maybe i'll try to get my parents camera, but lord knows, i don't know how to work it!)
xxx.
especially now that i've seen "the corporation" twice (if you have not seen this, you must watch it!), i watched it quite awhile ago, i have been utterly convicted to avoid all those big box shops as much as i possibly can. not that i shopped at the gap and old navy and whatnot a lot before, because i'd much rather wear something vintage or thrifted/recycled or all cute and hip and sewn up by an indie designer, however; i have ceased to support those businesses AT ALL - and i've even found myself 'preaching' to my other girlfriends about avoiding them, $12.99 sale or not!!! i absolutely cannot justify anything made by those companies that is coming out of el salvador, and pakistan, and china. nope. not gonna do it anymore. so let me tell you this - what i will do, is buy those things at thrift stores (because they are recycled and i did not buy them first) and there is such an *overabundance* of clothing and merchandise at thrift stores; it's almost (well, not almost, it is!) appalling to buy all your things new. (well let me rephrase, hello, i like new, clean panties and bras just like the rest of us!)
i have purchased over the last few weeks, garments from the gap, j crew, free people, h&m, forever 21, american eagle, levi's, keds, lee, deisel, victoria's secret (jammie pants folks), luella, lucky brand, and many, many cute-as-can-be vintage shirts and skirts and other great goodies (fabric! trim! baby clothes for the girlfriends!) at our local thrift stores. nothing more than $6.50 a piece - nothing! most are in the couple dollar range...now, i'll have lots of weeding to do out of my own closet when i get back to SF, but ya know what? i'll put them out in my hallway and someone will scoop them up and they will be recycled again - and i love that. so peeps, go shop those thrift stores and do a little boycotting! help the planet! help those underpaid workers! be a responsible citizen! (speech done now!)
today i am on my way up to my grandparents (now my parents) cabin. it's about 2 hours away and on a lake; nothing fancy schmancy - it's a down and dirty cabin with a wood stove for heating; although there are flushable toilets! just for the day - we'll take my nephew and let my parents doggies run crazy and if we are lucky, pick ticks off of us when we get back! (ugh) but, with no camera, i'm not going to be able to show you the pretty view off the point or the turtles sunning themselves or the fishing pier at the bottom of our little hill - or the rad old old old cemetary that used to scare the bejeezus out of us when we took our midnight ghostie walks when we were little! but maybe you can just visualize it all on your own!
have a great sunday yourselves and i hope to have some sort of recording device soon to show some of my world again. (maybe i'll try to get my parents camera, but lord knows, i don't know how to work it!)
xxx.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
AND NOW...
(evil face, evil face) the mister just washed and DRIED a load of laundry with a BLACK INK PEN in there which EXPLODED onto at least 4 of my shirts - black spots *everywhere* -- any tips on how to get any of that ever?????
wahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
wahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
birdie peek-a-boos
so here are a couple more peeks for ya. i've got about 20 more of these little birdie-bye's here to get posting up on the ole sprout studio site.
beep beep, be-beep-beep: & here is the latest news in:
one - it looks like we aren't going to have this update done until next week. ::sigh:: the mister is going back to SF all weekend for a quick shoot and he doesn't have loads of time right now to be correcting and sizing my photos. (besides the fact we just spent an hour and a half fixing up some real nice photos for ads i'm going to be in this coming fall/winter holiday season - eeep! yes i did say "holiday" in july)...
and two - it looks like my crappy camera that someone picked up for me (found) that i was starting to use for some of this blogging (read: the good pics are with the mister's camera, the bad pics are with my piece of doo-doo camera)...well, it looks like it just bit the dust after the mister put someone else's card into it..."system error 10" when i open it up. ::double sigh::
i'm going now...i'm a mopey moped. and i even had a coupla thrifty scores to share; but not now with no dang camera...poo.
beep beep, be-beep-beep: & here is the latest news in:
one - it looks like we aren't going to have this update done until next week. ::sigh:: the mister is going back to SF all weekend for a quick shoot and he doesn't have loads of time right now to be correcting and sizing my photos. (besides the fact we just spent an hour and a half fixing up some real nice photos for ads i'm going to be in this coming fall/winter holiday season - eeep! yes i did say "holiday" in july)...
and two - it looks like my crappy camera that someone picked up for me (found) that i was starting to use for some of this blogging (read: the good pics are with the mister's camera, the bad pics are with my piece of doo-doo camera)...well, it looks like it just bit the dust after the mister put someone else's card into it..."system error 10" when i open it up. ::double sigh::
i'm going now...i'm a mopey moped. and i even had a coupla thrifty scores to share; but not now with no dang camera...poo.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
more peeks...
the business of taking photos...some of the goodies...i'll post up some good luck birds tomorrow...just some sneaks though!
where does the time go?!
each day flies past and i never get near as much done on my darn list as i'd like to. maybe because like yesterday, i spent half the day reading "the devil wears prada" - now lest you think i seriously read drivel-ey stuff like that all the time, i'm also reading a book by mark helprin, "freddy and fredericka", and i just finished "the history of love" -- a little bit more of a mind expanding experience. but sometimes fluff summer reading has to be on the agenda! the mind truly gets to relax; and with an iced tea and some snackies by your side -- that is the kind of relaxation i'm talking about.
we *still* haven't downloaded the new product pictures. i have to rely on that lovely man of mine to help me and he's been super sooooper busy...so...i can only nag so much! patience *is* a virtue...(that's my little mantra a lot in life!) he's been teaching at a university this summer and will be in the fall as well, out here in virginia (which means yes, if you deduced that we'll be separated for about 5 months, you are right - but we just aren't talking or thinking about that too much now...shhh...i'll be mopey soon enough).
we watched "ammores perros" (i might not have spelled that right) -- last night and can i just tell you, i was not that impressed; i was super frustrated watching it and ultimately, rather depressed. now, many people recommended this movie and it received lots of accolades...so...what exactly did i miss? normally, art/independant films are mostly what i watch, but this one just did not do it for me...
i also drug out my gocco yesterday that i bought from a friend and realized there were really no directions with it; thus prompting a meandering search over the internet for good directions. i belong to a yahoo site for gocco fans but, i'm such a visual learner that i need directions that i can see, not read. so i'm trying to dig up the readymade issue #12 which is supposed to have good visual pictures in it. as soon as i do that, then i'm off experimenting with gocco world!
the agenda today looks like this: make and drink yummy tea. maybe have a coddled egg and an english muffin. check mail, check blogs, check stat counter - drop off the mister to teach and hit a coupla thrift stores. make some sort of yummy dinner (veggie pizza with not too much cheese or tofu tacos with fresh black bean and tomato salsa...hmmm...) and then try to get down to business with the sprout studio site. we'll see how it goes!
have a great day!
xxx.
we *still* haven't downloaded the new product pictures. i have to rely on that lovely man of mine to help me and he's been super sooooper busy...so...i can only nag so much! patience *is* a virtue...(that's my little mantra a lot in life!) he's been teaching at a university this summer and will be in the fall as well, out here in virginia (which means yes, if you deduced that we'll be separated for about 5 months, you are right - but we just aren't talking or thinking about that too much now...shhh...i'll be mopey soon enough).
we watched "ammores perros" (i might not have spelled that right) -- last night and can i just tell you, i was not that impressed; i was super frustrated watching it and ultimately, rather depressed. now, many people recommended this movie and it received lots of accolades...so...what exactly did i miss? normally, art/independant films are mostly what i watch, but this one just did not do it for me...
i also drug out my gocco yesterday that i bought from a friend and realized there were really no directions with it; thus prompting a meandering search over the internet for good directions. i belong to a yahoo site for gocco fans but, i'm such a visual learner that i need directions that i can see, not read. so i'm trying to dig up the readymade issue #12 which is supposed to have good visual pictures in it. as soon as i do that, then i'm off experimenting with gocco world!
the agenda today looks like this: make and drink yummy tea. maybe have a coddled egg and an english muffin. check mail, check blogs, check stat counter - drop off the mister to teach and hit a coupla thrift stores. make some sort of yummy dinner (veggie pizza with not too much cheese or tofu tacos with fresh black bean and tomato salsa...hmmm...) and then try to get down to business with the sprout studio site. we'll see how it goes!
have a great day!
xxx.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
how much for that girlie in the window?
self portrait saturday. via reflection.
we shot loads of stuff today; just in before the rain is supposed to come! birdies, necklaces, bracelets, rings, hairpins, o my!
expect a nice sprout studio update forthcoming in the next coupla days; we gotta do color correcting and tweaking first - then posting and description writing. do folks that not own a small business have any idea how much work goes into updating? at least for us it is; maybe we are super meticulous. i've seen sites that are *not* housing meticulous owners behind them for sure...however, there are some sites that rock out and i know they spend lots of time making their site look gooooood.
which, tangent time, makes me crazy when i hear sniveling comments about how expensive handmade goods are. these people have utterly no concept of the time, energy, and effort put lovingly forth into most handmade items. so once again peeps, support those indie companies! (steps off mini soapbox to go make garden tomato sandwich - yum.) (feeling somewhat better; probiotices and calcium carbonate in the mix trying to level the intestine playing field...we'll see how it goes)
xxx.
we shot loads of stuff today; just in before the rain is supposed to come! birdies, necklaces, bracelets, rings, hairpins, o my!
expect a nice sprout studio update forthcoming in the next coupla days; we gotta do color correcting and tweaking first - then posting and description writing. do folks that not own a small business have any idea how much work goes into updating? at least for us it is; maybe we are super meticulous. i've seen sites that are *not* housing meticulous owners behind them for sure...however, there are some sites that rock out and i know they spend lots of time making their site look gooooood.
which, tangent time, makes me crazy when i hear sniveling comments about how expensive handmade goods are. these people have utterly no concept of the time, energy, and effort put lovingly forth into most handmade items. so once again peeps, support those indie companies! (steps off mini soapbox to go make garden tomato sandwich - yum.) (feeling somewhat better; probiotices and calcium carbonate in the mix trying to level the intestine playing field...we'll see how it goes)
xxx.
Friday, July 21, 2006
some more sneaky peekies
these are some of the goodies that my professional photographer, the mister, is going to photograph for me tomorrow. if all goes well, i'll have some new goodies posting this coming week. long overdue, i know!
but to hold you over until then...sprout studio goodies are coming, promise!
but to hold you over until then...sprout studio goodies are coming, promise!
for a little giggle...
...on your friday afternoon:
lucha workshop blog
;)
& i actually went out into the big wide world today and headed to the post office! hoorah!
lucha workshop blog
;)
& i actually went out into the big wide world today and headed to the post office! hoorah!
Thursday, July 20, 2006
things that are making me feel better/get better...
*cutest little flowers from my friend patty (out of her yard!)
*my summer bike came back painted; with a bell, safety lamp, and red spoke decorations
*all the comments from you sweetest gals wishing me better health! -- ya'll have no idea how lovely those wishes were making me feel; thank you so very much. the online community can be so amazing!
*emailed information on my stinky ibs from some of you (thank you lb!)
*this post i love from mati rose's blog about living life...
*my antibiotics!
*my momma sending me health articles from dr. weil on the importance of acidopholus/probiotics while taking antibiotics (the mr. got them, i'm taking them, thanks momma!)
*i got all my packages together despite feeling not so up to par still. (yes, followed by a hug nappie) (does codeine wig anyone else out - it makes me feel crazy loopy...)
*being able to sit on the pier last night and watch the sunset, the baby heron's feed, the muskrat's do their muskrat thang, and seeing the jellies again; this time floating back out with the tide.
*watching a big ole lady spider, whom we affectionately named mirabella, spin an entire web last night; amazing.
*having the luxury of sleeping in until 10am knowing i don't need to be anywhere or do anything but heal myself. that is so comforting to know.
so thank you to everyone for helping me get better!
xxx.
(& c from maine - those are my fave flip flops *evah*! i love those reefs - good to hear from you - email me sometime soon. i want to hear more about your house!)
*my summer bike came back painted; with a bell, safety lamp, and red spoke decorations
*all the comments from you sweetest gals wishing me better health! -- ya'll have no idea how lovely those wishes were making me feel; thank you so very much. the online community can be so amazing!
*emailed information on my stinky ibs from some of you (thank you lb!)
*this post i love from mati rose's blog about living life...
*my antibiotics!
*my momma sending me health articles from dr. weil on the importance of acidopholus/probiotics while taking antibiotics (the mr. got them, i'm taking them, thanks momma!)
*i got all my packages together despite feeling not so up to par still. (yes, followed by a hug nappie) (does codeine wig anyone else out - it makes me feel crazy loopy...)
*being able to sit on the pier last night and watch the sunset, the baby heron's feed, the muskrat's do their muskrat thang, and seeing the jellies again; this time floating back out with the tide.
*watching a big ole lady spider, whom we affectionately named mirabella, spin an entire web last night; amazing.
*having the luxury of sleeping in until 10am knowing i don't need to be anywhere or do anything but heal myself. that is so comforting to know.
so thank you to everyone for helping me get better!
xxx.
(& c from maine - those are my fave flip flops *evah*! i love those reefs - good to hear from you - email me sometime soon. i want to hear more about your house!)
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
road to raleigh through ER patient update.
so i travel on down to raleigh, n.c. to do the rock & shop market...all is well, we do some back roads - see cool backroad visuals (ie: devil dog dungaree signage). we are suckers for back roads. love em. will always drive them granted there is time and we aren't doing the coast to coast scramble in 3 days drive (believe me, we've done that several times). make it into raleigh to my uncle and aunt's - & are greeted by the bosco doggie - amazing rescue dog that was tied to a post, attacked by 8 (yes, 8) other dogs and ripped to shreds. people brought him in to the vet to put him to sleep and this amazing vet operated for hours and days and here we have mr. bosco. the sweetest, most amazing tank of a dog - scars and all hanging out with my uncle and aunt. they have 2 other dogs too that are their "kiddo's" - another amazing rescue boxer that is just the sweetest dumpling of a pup, tater and then the matriarch of the family, plum. very cool that they have them. anyways, onto the next day and thus, the beginning of my downfall into sickdom.
i wake up on saturday ready to do the market and eat my banana and oatmeal and then start to feel sicky. now, i have recently been diagnosed with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) - sometimes i think this is way too much info for anyone to want to know while reading a blog so i haven't shared this on here. well, now i'm gonna. sorry if it is tmi but...here ya go. it affects my business and while this is my semi-quasi business and personal blog - here ya have it. so i start to get sick (as in in the bathroom a whole bunch - sorry...) and i crawl into bed with lots of immodium. i gather at this point when i start to get sick i self perpetuate this and get stressed that i'm getting sick...and then get more sick b/c stress excacerbates it...i'm definitely in need of some techniques to calm myself down b/c i hate how i feel when i get like this. and it lays me out for a good part of the day normally. so i'm in bed, and worried about the show and maybe not doing the show and worry worry worry, stress stress stress, i feel like poo. so, god bless that man, my husband goes and does the whole show for me. sets up, sells, breaks down, the whole nine yards. (my uncle went and helped out too for a while.) so i didn't get to meet up with and of the richmond crew that was there, or my friends charles and ileana with india*romeo. now i'm feeling mopey and we decide to head back to virginia that night since we don't have a/c in the bus and god knows we seem to be having a heat wave in most of the country.
bringing me to sunday. still feeling off but not terrible - so i decide to continue with plans to meet up with a friend at a bbq she is having and my parents go with me. start to feel worse mid day. really start to feel bad by the evening. go home to parents and crash hard core for 2 hours of sleep with the bad stomach crampies and nausea. ick. my momma takes me home after trying to take care of me (your always a momma even to your 32 yr. old daughter eh?!) and i fall into bed and continue to feel like total sh*!. my mister comes home with maalox and i down that and crash out. i still have an earache from that cold i told you about 2 weeks ago - so still can't hear, ear hurts, belly hurts, intestines hurt, chest hurts from coughing, nose hurts from blowing...you get the picture. bad news bears baby. monday i wake up, more immodium, trying not to cry, off to the ER the mister takes me. spend allllllllllllllllllllllllllll day in the ER. people that came in after me are going before me. i still feel like crying. i'm trying to slump over in a chair b/c there is no where to lay down. sad pitiful jenifer. they finally call me in and i give them my spiel - so i get an antibiotic and the 'keep fluids in me' lecture and some codeine for the cough. but nothing for the IBS. it's a hot potato - no one knows how to deal with this. anyways, home i go. crash again and now it's tuesday. still in bubble land and cannot hear but at least my belly is starting to feel better; enough so that i can actually lay here and post in my blog. so that was a long story no? so my postings might be a little errant this week as i'll be in and out of the land of the living! hope everyone else is fairing better than moi.
xxx.
i wake up on saturday ready to do the market and eat my banana and oatmeal and then start to feel sicky. now, i have recently been diagnosed with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) - sometimes i think this is way too much info for anyone to want to know while reading a blog so i haven't shared this on here. well, now i'm gonna. sorry if it is tmi but...here ya go. it affects my business and while this is my semi-quasi business and personal blog - here ya have it. so i start to get sick (as in in the bathroom a whole bunch - sorry...) and i crawl into bed with lots of immodium. i gather at this point when i start to get sick i self perpetuate this and get stressed that i'm getting sick...and then get more sick b/c stress excacerbates it...i'm definitely in need of some techniques to calm myself down b/c i hate how i feel when i get like this. and it lays me out for a good part of the day normally. so i'm in bed, and worried about the show and maybe not doing the show and worry worry worry, stress stress stress, i feel like poo. so, god bless that man, my husband goes and does the whole show for me. sets up, sells, breaks down, the whole nine yards. (my uncle went and helped out too for a while.) so i didn't get to meet up with and of the richmond crew that was there, or my friends charles and ileana with india*romeo. now i'm feeling mopey and we decide to head back to virginia that night since we don't have a/c in the bus and god knows we seem to be having a heat wave in most of the country.
bringing me to sunday. still feeling off but not terrible - so i decide to continue with plans to meet up with a friend at a bbq she is having and my parents go with me. start to feel worse mid day. really start to feel bad by the evening. go home to parents and crash hard core for 2 hours of sleep with the bad stomach crampies and nausea. ick. my momma takes me home after trying to take care of me (your always a momma even to your 32 yr. old daughter eh?!) and i fall into bed and continue to feel like total sh*!. my mister comes home with maalox and i down that and crash out. i still have an earache from that cold i told you about 2 weeks ago - so still can't hear, ear hurts, belly hurts, intestines hurt, chest hurts from coughing, nose hurts from blowing...you get the picture. bad news bears baby. monday i wake up, more immodium, trying not to cry, off to the ER the mister takes me. spend allllllllllllllllllllllllllll day in the ER. people that came in after me are going before me. i still feel like crying. i'm trying to slump over in a chair b/c there is no where to lay down. sad pitiful jenifer. they finally call me in and i give them my spiel - so i get an antibiotic and the 'keep fluids in me' lecture and some codeine for the cough. but nothing for the IBS. it's a hot potato - no one knows how to deal with this. anyways, home i go. crash again and now it's tuesday. still in bubble land and cannot hear but at least my belly is starting to feel better; enough so that i can actually lay here and post in my blog. so that was a long story no? so my postings might be a little errant this week as i'll be in and out of the land of the living! hope everyone else is fairing better than moi.
xxx.
Friday, July 14, 2006
new business cards! hoorah!
i've been working with a really good friend of mine who is a fabulous designer to get new business cards and logos and banners and what not so i can have a more clean, cohesive, recognizable id system. so here is the first round of business: new cards for me!! i think i love them!! now these were printed on a little home computer and we'll have them sent out professionally, but what do you guys think? good right? great right?!
hoorah!!!
also, i'll be down in ole carolina for the rock and shop market this weekend and probably won't post in the next day or two! wish me luck at the show!
xxx.
hoorah!!!
also, i'll be down in ole carolina for the rock and shop market this weekend and probably won't post in the next day or two! wish me luck at the show!
xxx.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
sneak peeks; good luck birdies...
am getting ready to start shooting new products for the site. here's some of the first sneaky peekies. i'm going to have little ceramic good luck birdies up there soon! lots of other stuff too, but just a little teaser for ya! i don't think i'll get them all posted before my show this weekend down in raleigh, but maybe i'll have some more teasers for you before i leave for the weekend.
another thrift run today with a friend; no scores for me - but my girlfriend has 2 kiddos and scored major cute clothing for them - and that's always fun too!
another thrift run today with a friend; no scores for me - but my girlfriend has 2 kiddos and scored major cute clothing for them - and that's always fun too!
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
forgot to add again...
skirt by twospace & cuff (again) by fluffy co & lovely shirt by wendy of orange button...yay for indies! go support them!!
me & the smith girlies
the gang here in norfolk, all our friends from when we went to school here, decided to do this revolving house project deal where they all pitch in on each other's projects and get them done! we were included, however, we don't live here and thus, have no house projects! so we went to eat popsicles and hang out with the kiddos and do some kung fu fighting with the broomsticks instead...! what a better time to be had! (& i didn't have to scrape nary a paint chip from anything!)
Monday, July 10, 2006
thrift run...
i did okay on this run. fancy pants and all! i think i'm going to cut the birds out of that fabric and applique them onto sweatshirts...and the trims...? i'm not sure yet, but can you even believe the cuteness of that whale ribbon? ack! i love it! (even though the photo is a tad blurry, you can still see how adorable it is n'est pas?) when i get goodies like these, it's all i can do to not run right back out and scour these local cities out here for more more more!! so when i get back to sf town i'll have loads to play around with!
on the agenda for today: finish my new business cards! maybe i'll post the mock up later if we get there!
still not feeling so hot, but i threw down the gauntlet yesterday and went to the drug store for nasal spray, nighttime theraflu, daytime sudafed, more tissues, more cough drops and advil. i'm tired of this. i want to better now! and even though i hate how those drugs make me feel and i normally avoid them as much as i can, i have to hear! and i'm living in a fish bowl...so on the drugs i go...
more later...
xxx.
on the agenda for today: finish my new business cards! maybe i'll post the mock up later if we get there!
still not feeling so hot, but i threw down the gauntlet yesterday and went to the drug store for nasal spray, nighttime theraflu, daytime sudafed, more tissues, more cough drops and advil. i'm tired of this. i want to better now! and even though i hate how those drugs make me feel and i normally avoid them as much as i can, i have to hear! and i'm living in a fish bowl...so on the drugs i go...
more later...
xxx.
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