30 Days of Truth. Day 2

Day 2: Something you love about yourself.

Oh, that is so easy! My craftiness! Once I can envision what I want to do, and I set my mind to do it, it will be done!

I've posted some pictures as examples but these are just barely scratching the surface of what I'm capable of doing. Sometimes it is hard deciding what to do when I go back to work. Too many options. I'd love to work in a bakery! I've made every single birthday cake for my family and some extended family since we were diagnosed with our food allergies. The Hello Kitty cupcakes were for my sister-in-law's birthday.

My husband has also joked about one of us making our clothing. He said it'd fit better :) I ended up making this dress for Keely on a whim. I used all the leftover material from our bus curtains and she loved it! I always enjoyed sewing, but it is very hard to do with little ones around.

 For several years I have been making all Halloween costumes. I like to do themes. One year we were all characters from Alice in Wonderland. To the left is a picture of Rory's makeup the year he was a lion. I did his makeup myself and then did my own, meow, I was a kitty cat! All I did for the makeup was look at a few face painting books and I was set. I love reading! Books are great for inspiration! This year our theme was anime characters so Jared was Lupin the III (and I'll tell ya that red suit coat and gold tie were really hard to find, but I was prepared to make them from scratch if I had to.) and I was Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service. I was sad tho, my costume wasn't technically finished. I was going to make a black cat that looked like her cat Jiji using felt and pipe cleaners for his whiskers. Needless to say mom always comes last. Luckily I had a spare black cat that I used :)

So many other things I have done such as making cards, (I even sold a few!) screen printing shirts, and I made a pop art poster of my sister-in-law as a gift. Future plans are painting murals on my kid's walls and my bathroom, sewing more clothes and curtains, and my kids's birthday's are coming up, I've got to whip up some awesome gluten free cakes!!

I get complimented a lot on my craftiness and I amaze my family and friends. I really take pride in being able to create so many things.

There are a few things I'd like to get better at and they are drawing, crocheting, and woodworking.

30 Days of Truth. Day 1

Day 1: Something you hate about yourself.


Well I think that would be pretty obvious. My weight.... the constant reminder of fluffiness from my kiddo's. I love my three beautiful kids. I wish I could ditch the weight. I've actually lost quite a bit since I've had Keely but I seem to plateau and can't get past a certain point. I have tried going to the court club, running on the treadmill at home, and using netflix streaming for a work out video. I'm just lacking in motivation. I watch The Biggest Loser and wish I could get skinnier, but with three kids it's hard to get time! I need to make more effort, this is all on me.

30 Days of Truth

My friend over at ...Create Yourself.... is doing the 30 Days of Truth and I figured, why the hell not. SO.... I'm doing it too. I think it will be fun because my hubby is doing Nano Writing Month and I think he'd be proud of me for doing some type of writing. Here is the 30 questions for 30 days...

Day 1: Something you hate about yourself.
Day 2: Something you love about yourself.
Day 3: Something you have to forgive yourself for.
Day 4: Something you have to forgive someone for.
Day 5: Something you hope to do in your life.
Day 6: Something you hope you never have to do.
Day 7: Someone who has made your life worth living for.
Day 8: Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit.
Day 9: Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted.
Day 10: Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn’t know.
Day 11: Something people seem to compliment you the most on.
Day 12: Something you never get compliments on.
Day 13: A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter.)
Day 14: A hero that has let you down. (letter)
Day 15: Something or someone you couldn’t live without, because you’ve tried living without it.
Day 16: Someone or something you definitely could live without.
Day 17: A book you’ve read that changed your views on something.
Day 18: Your views on gay marriage.
Day 19: What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics?
Day 20: Your views on drugs and alcohol.
Day 21: (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?
Day 22: Something you wish you hadn’t done in your life.
Day 23: Something you wish you had done in your life.
Day 24: Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)
Day 25: The reason you believe you’re still alive today.
Day 26: Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why?
Day 27: What’s the best thing going for you right now?
Day 28: What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do?
Day 29: Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.
Day 30: A letter to yourself: tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself.


This should be an interesting journey for me :)

Revamped

Do you like it? I certainly do!! I had a lot of help from my friend Dani, who has her own blog. Please click here to check her out.

So right now i'm trying to upload pics and tell stories and make my blog feel complete. I'm breezing through it pretty easily so far (luckily!) but need to get in the habit of actually posting on my blog as much as I can instead of just using facebook.

Just a few things we have done recently that was very fun!

 This month is Native American month! The RPL put on several fun activities and we went to the kid friendly ones. One of the activities was  Native American storytelling. The boys were fascinated, Keely was while I took the picture but ended up reading to the therapy dogs :)  The boys were bragging about what they knew and that they had moccasins and ribbon shirts for Sundance. Victor was too embarrassed to sing the Native American song he knew. The story teller was so nice and had awesome props and promised Keely he would find a pony story for her!

Another fun thing we did was learn how to make dream catchers from an awesome lady named Alice. She is from a local tribe. It took us forever to make just one but Victor, Rory and myself each completed one dream catcher each. This is the one I made. I love it! I was actually going to put this on my tree as a tree topper but decided to put it in my car. Funnily enough my nephew just asked me tonight why I had one in my car... anyways, I made another one for my tree topper, it's even more beautiful and bigger than the first one I made. I've gotten a few requests to make some for friends and will happily oblige. They are fun to make.

Also in the same week I made color burst  cupcakes. I've been saying that I was gonna make them for quite a while and I finally did it! Someone sent me the link to a blog where they were posted (which is here)and I knew I had to make them! Unfortunately for me it was not a gluten free recipe,  she used a regular cake mix, so I had to adapt, and ended up using a basic gluten free yellow cake recipe from 1000 gluten free recipes. (I love that cookbook!) The base is garbanzo bean flour, potato starch, and tapioca flour/starch. You can use whatever combo you prefer, I just use those cuz sorghum is impossible to find in large quantities and my daughter is allergic to rice. You can pick any colors and in any order. They turn out so pretty but spooning in the batter is time consuming!!  I decided to use green, pink, blue, and purple for the colors with bright yellow frosting. I'll have to change up the color scheme when I make these again for my brother-in-law's birthday.


I hear it is snowing right now... I hope so, it makes it feel more like the holidays. Already listening to Christmas music.

Coming soon: On Tuesday, we are butchering our Thanksgiving turkey!! If it's not too gross I'll post a video!

Holy Snikes!

Well I have certainly neglected you. I am sorry. It's been like 2 years!


Well it's SunDance time again. Mike's 3rd year. Norman is back this year. Didn't make it to the Ren Faire yet again this year, very sorry Duane...

Well in the meantime, Victor hasn't had anymore seizures!!! He's starting 6th grade in the fall. Rory is starting 1st grade in the fall and both have rabbits and are currently in 4-h. Last fair, Victor won 3 ribbons for his rabbit!

Keely is now 3 and we are thinking of putting her in school with some occ therapy. She can't ride a bike yet and wonder if she just doesn't like it or needs help....

I worked at Amazon.com for 4 months as a Digital CSA for kindle support :) then i got my end of assignment letter and we got ready for our trip to Mexico! So, that means I finally got a stamp in my passport (yay!!!) Awesome vacation plus we were surrounded by family.

Jared was laid off for 7 months but got a job right after Mexico, fate huh? Things are going well, plus the bus is done! Plus he also put in a new engine in my nova with fuel injection. It's sweet!!!

Still gluten free among other allergies, it gets easier with time :)

Well, I'll try not to neglect you again....

vows

so i talked to jared today about the vows and he said i can wear whatever, even my black dress.

I might surprise him with a different one.

We are going to repeat the same vows to each other but they will be different from our original vows when we got married. He wants to reput on the rings but not have any kind of paper signing. I'm debating the last one.

Mike will be officiating which will make it even more special.

I am really excited!!

addendum

i have to mention i got my first baby tomato on my plant.