Too tired...

I have numerous posts to get to about our busy summer.  I am currently too tired to attempt it.  I am saving them for September.  I will have an extra day home kid but for some reason it just feels like September will be slower.  Here's to hoping.

A look into my office

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE my office?  Well I LOVE my office!  It was important for us (me) to buy a house with enough rooms so that I could have an office/craft room without having to put everything away all the time.  Who wants to create when you have to pull things out, get organized and clean up... all to make a little project?  Not me.  Our house has 5 bedrooms.  Our master, Hailey's room, a guest room, a completed empty room and my office.  It is in the basement but is rather large.  I have plenty of room to spare, even with my supply drawers, work table, file cabinet, large corner desk, vinyl cutter and storage shelf. 

My supply drawers at the end have every possible school supply you could need (I'm a teacher - it is an addiction).  My file shelves I use for my vinyl business paperwork.  Then there is my ribbon box which I LOVE as well.  Keeps every ribbon tidy and organized along with my snaps, clips and other paraphernalia.  My Olfa cutting mat which is handy for whatever I am doing (mainly sewing/vinyl work).  A few containers that used to hold mini-donuts from the fair last year.  Super handy, like a small ice cream pail.  Mmmmm, mini-donuts.  Now they have hooks and nails for my board making.  My sewing  machine which is plugged in and ready to use if I get a hankering to make another soother clip, or perhaps some curtains (those are the only sewing projects I have done lately).  Also I have a few old formula containers that hold my thread and vinyl tools.  They are very handy as well... though sharp I have learned with a cut to the hand.

The file cabinet has become a clutter location (on top and in).  It also has files (crazy I know)

My desk is also a clutter location.  Love my baskets that house the majority of my stamp collection and also function as hook holders to hang some vinyl.  The shelves are also stacked with ridiculous amounts of school supplies.

My vinyl cutter and favourite toy.  I'm still working on my own house projects.  Look to my other blog to see what I create (when I get around to it).

My corner of complete vinyl boards that I have for sale (in the boxes) and my awesome wardrobe that holds all my vinyl colours, sewing fabric... and a host of other things.  (honestly this post is getting too long already so I will quit the details).

A last close up of my work table with my button jars that are colour coordinated....

The only draw back to my office is that it is SO COLD.  Winter/summer, anytime.  It is freezing.  I have to layer up to work in there and my hands are always freezing afterwards.  Oh... and another draw back is that it ISN'T childproof (at all).  So the only time I get in here is when Hailey is sleeping or under the watchful eye of another.  Even though my time in here is limited, I love it.  I am relishing in the fact that I get to keep my office until child #4 comes along... so I've got awhile!!!!!

Leave a post if you want to see a closer look inside ;)

Boo to rainy days!

Why does a cloudy day always instill a deep NEED to sleep?  No matter how much sleep I had gotten the night before I am ALWAYS tired on a cloudy day.  Hailey seems to be feeling it too as she was only up for 1.5 hrs before she needed a nap again.  Ideally I would hit the sack for a fabulous nap but I have things to do that are easier done without Hailey following me around.  So of course I am sitting here blogging instead of doing those things I need to do.

Jen get off your butt and get things done!

Together at last!!!!

It has been a whirlwind these past 3 weeks.  So much has happened which means, a lot to blog about.  Here is the beginning of our Summer 2010 adventures!

I finally got to meet my nieces and see my sister a few weeks ago.  I haven't seen Steph in a yr and a half and the twins are already 8 mths old.  I love those girls.  They are so cute and it is so neat to see their unique personalities.  Speaking on Skype just isn't the same.  It has been such a joy to see our girls playing together (AKA - stealing toys and poking each other).  Ella has learned to crawl since coming to Canada and Liora is a bit jealous of her sisters ability ;)  It was great to spend most of 2 weeks together but everything was CRAZY with a house full of Laycock's.  I look forward to a few days of 'quiet' with a smaller group here.

Liora enjoying her butternut squash

Hailey and Eleanor watching Nerak (Janelle's dog)

Liora, Hailey and Eleanor playing together

Me, my Hailey and sweet Eleanor

Ella and her crazy Mommy ;)

Liora enjoying the play bouncer

(I am just now realizing that I haven't got a picture of Steph, myself and the 3 girls.  Good thing she is still here and we can remedy that when she come to Lloyd next week to visit.)

It has been so hard to have my closest sister so far away.  Especially with both of us becoming Mommies in the same year.  I always dreamed that we would live just down the street from each other.  We would visit everyday and our children would be best friends.  Right now it cannot happen... I am hopeful that someday maybe the Radzik's will move to Canada so that we can experience the joy of parenting together.

I am not ready to think about goodbyes yet.  I am just enjoying the time we have together.  I love being an auntie and I know Hailey loves to be with her cousins.  She tries to hug and kiss them all the time.  Too bad she is a bit aggressive and it freaks the twins out :)

Who decided this?

(he he he, NOT our bedroom!  Wish it was... just an example pic from the net)

When you see a nicely decorated room, how are the blankets arranged?  Could be like this one with the edges a good distance over the side of the mattress or possibly neatly tucked in (which, in fact, is ridiculous because nobody sleeps with the sides tucked in).  I would like to know WHY every blanket/comforter/duvet I buy barely covers the mattress?!?!?!?  Who decided what sizes the sheets/blankets should be?

It creates a totally ridiculous necessity to purchase bedding that is larger than your mattress size.  Now of course the fitted sheet must be the same size as your mattress or it just won't stay on.  But the top sheet must be a size larger (for a queen you need to purchase a king top sheet).  This is also the same for blankets/comforters and duvets.  Why do they make them so narrow?  If both sides just reach the bottom of the mattress when it is made (with no one in it) than what is going to happen when you add 2 people to the bed?  The increased surface area makes the blankets even shorter.  Are you tired of wrestling the bedding from your husband, even though he really doesn't have enough for himself?  I AM!

To make this pet peeve of mine EVEN WORSE we have a duvet that doesn't fit it's cover properly.  Yes I did buy them both in king size but for some reason the duvet is ridiculously smaller than the cover.  This means I have to re-adjust it EVERYDAY so that I don't have a foot of cover only at the top of the bed.  It is making me CRAZY!  Yes I know there are solutions to this... I can sew the cover smaller but this requires sewing skill and I didn't purchase items just to have to alter them anyways.

Just thought I would share with you this massive pet peeve I have with my troublesome bedding.

What do we do when we get a king?!?!?!?!

Why do we do this to ourselves?

This is the WORST kind of self inflicted torture!  I am not new to waxing.  I just haven't done it since before I was pregnant with Hailey.  So it has been awhile.  IT HURTS (and I only did half of my legs)!

 

It was a necessity however as Hailey has swimming lessons everyday for the next 2 weeks.

Royall you better appreciate my speckled hairlessness.  It was too painful to do a thorough job!

Another blog

I have started another blog to write about the things I create.  It could be my vinyl work, sewing, cooking, painting... or anything else I happen to make.


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