Its up yall!

after a photo shoot with a few fabulous friends,

a trip to my sisters visiting her babies and my dad,

a late night working on her mac (much newer and faster than my oldie),

my shop is up and running and I am really excited about it!

please tell all your friends about it! and if you read my blog but dont "follow" please follow!

Yes, I craft because I love to do it and have so much fun coming up with things to do, but I am also doing it as a little income for our family:) So check it out. I can knit most anything, so custom orders I can do. I can sew too, check out the "Made!" link under my blog title. If you want custom orders let me know!

Enjoy your monday!

MY SHOP!!

Sometimes you just gotta get away...

I will preface this post with the fact that I love my boys "third best" in the world:) Jesus and Davon come first, which I think is so important for them to know. But after five days straight of not leaving the house and being with them from 7am ish to 8pm ish all.day.long. I was ready to get away:)
So I called my mom up this morning and said lets go on an adventure!
First stop was a great shop called whipstitch fabrics. I have been following great crafty DIY blogs all over the US and so many of them have bought great fabric from this store. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon the fact that they are located in downtown Atlanta! Yay! They have all kinds of sewing classes if you are in atlanta, but they also have online classes! So as most of you that "follow" my blog dont live here, if you want to sew you can do it! And order some rad fabric! Here are some that I picked up for my "go green" sandwich bags!

Yep. I know its more boyish than girl.
But most reg fabric stores have great girl selections, but not boys!

After that we drove through atlanta and went to a yarn shop and a great little book store. Which sightly reminded me of The Shop Around the Corner (You've Got Mail, come on, classic). Mom bought three books for the boys, shes a sucker for buying books for my boys and I love it! She bought Pete the Cat Rocking in His School Shoes. Y'all. Pete the Cat is a fave in our house. Both of my boys have it memorized. So the second addition was a must! Here is a pic of it the original! If you have young kiddos, get it, they will love! 

*She also bought a childrens book for the future about our nations history of racism called "This is Our Dream." It made both of us cry. I am excited and sad to have to teach them about our past, and really proud that they are mixed and won't ever have to experience the extent of racism that was years ago. *
I found a great book called "A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of A Misspent Life" by Mary Randolph Carter. AMEN Sorry to my mother-in-law, who has a perfectly kept house, but I heart my mess:) -and even if I don't I cant keep it under control!

of course a trip to goodwill was in store. I got these fab rain shoes!

When we got home the boys were too excited about the books from Noni!

 Sometimes the best thing to do for a stay at home mom's sanity is to get out, enjoy the tree lined roads and the sunshine, without kids chatting, singing, yelling, whatever, in the back seat:)

a pinterest kinda day...

and oh what a great one!
The boys and I woke up and decided to bake some divine pumpkin biscuits, which of course included our homemade apple butter and a whole lotta fun!

Then we watched Home Alone 2 while Jay hid out of fear of Marve and Harry, Miles remained dry pants, I knit a slouchy hat, and Davon played Angry Birds and Family Fued on his IPhone. It was such quality family time:)

The boys had soup for lunch, which they thought was to spicy, so I simply gave them milk so they could wash it down. Such a good mother.

Then while the boys had a nap, I attempted to do so, but then explored pinterest and got antsy.

Sooo 

I got up and...

tried the pin "mug brownie"
...probably wouldnt do it again unless I was desperate for chocolate.
The taste was so good, the texture was like brownie batter. Not sure I could eat a full cup!

Worked on this pin of a braided tshirt scarf. Love it.
Want to do it in so many colors!

Took these cutie pies out to play!

Miles and Jayson have been itching to play outside. Its been almost of full week of staying in the house all day everyday. I have gotten out, but Davon stays in, but Miles has not. So we decided to let him go outside in his undies (and some sweats, said in the voice of Nacho Libre). He was doing so great. But, my little boy is a tree hugging pooper. He loves to go outside, hug a tree, and do his biz. So I knew this was dangerous, seeing since he is still fearful of doing it in the potty. I'm not going to say its the hub's fault, but I went inside for two minutes and I hear Miles saying uh oh. Yep, didnt hug a tree, but still became one with nature:) So we are still working on that.
I am making home made stockings, a pin too, but havent finish. I will post those tomorrow. So cute! and getting super excited about Christmas! I love it!
The night ended with a trip to The Cheesecake Factory with two of my best friends from high school.
It was perfect....

ignore the lighting! I promise Meredith is not a zombie.

The Potty Diaries...

Well sort of.
Since tuesday I have been locked in my house with my two boys. A (almost) four year old and a 2 year old. We usually spend most of our days at home, but we are outside. We dont have cable and the boys watch one show a day on the bunny ears so we try to get out and be active. Well, let be honest, they play and I watch. I am all about independent play! But since we are stuck in the house with "dry pants Miles." We have to think of fun things to do so that I dont lose it. We made "sweet" popcorn. Its just popcorn covered with brown sugar, butter, marshmallows and peanut butter.

Stop It. This is so divine.

 The way that my mom potty trained all of us, and tons more kids, is give them salty stuff so they will drink drink drink! So Miles has been eating so much JUNK! But, its fun:) He is doing so well on the potty, not at fast as his brother, but I think I am more of a patient momma this time. And come on....

Look at how cute his little butt looks in his undies:)

This was when he woke up! Yay!
(I'm sure you all wanted to see that, but be thankful I didnt post the picture of the poop on the floor:)

 Yesterday my wonderful mom came for reinforcements! She watched Miles and helped him so I could make dinner and get stuff done! We sat, knit, and played with the boys. It was perfect.
I also opened up my shop on etsy finally! It has a new name. I just havent figured out what I am going to sell. I make such random stuff that it all doesnt flow together? So by this weekend you'll see it! Thanks to ramblingsofalovesickmommy.com who continues to be one of my number #1 cheerleaders! I will link it up Saturday with my blog so you can see it in all its glory!
Today I have been doing another WIP (a knitters work in progress) and playing inside with the boys. I have about 5 loads of laundry waiting on the bed for me to fold. But we had to have something fabulous to do today. So....

Shaving cream with food dye!

After this I had to stop taking pictures:) This shaving cream was all over them, and the floor. Miles was of course clapping with it, Jay was encouraging him to get it all over (Jay himself didnt do it for fear he would get in trouble, but he just loves to instigate his brother doing things:) They took baths and turned the water green and loved every minute of it! Jay said to me "Mommy, this is such a fun day."
I love those boys...

Do something fun with your kiddos today! I had a wonderful mom who did all this messy fun stuff with us, but if you cant think of anything then go on Pinterest! There are so many great DIY stuff for kids! Enjoy them!

be productive, be be productive!!

This past month has been cahrazy! But I have missed blogging so much! So I plan to get some great bloggin done today. But we all know there's a plan, and then there's children:) I tried to revamp the look of my blog with this new "dynamic" design, but it didnt show the option to share on fb or show friends blogs, and I love the option for my friends to see other friends blogs! Its a great way to help out other bloggin friends:) So same ol same ol!
This past weekend we celebrated the life of Davon's beautiful grandmother, who was almost 101 years old! She was born in 1910. Can you believe that? To experience all the things that she had been through in her life, what an amazing woman she was. She had 12 children, 46 grandchildren, 90 great-grandchildren, and 59 great-great grandchildren. What a beast of a woman. To think of just having 12 kids? I remember her telling me that she even took in some of her nieces and nephews. She was such a hard worker and awesome caregiver. I would love to leave the type of legacy that she did. She is the type of woman I think Proverbs 31 describes and what I aspire to be like:) So today I decided to be productive! As Proverbs 31 says "she looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness"; and as Dr Phil would say, "How's that working for ya?" Eek. I have washed and dried two loads of laundry (not folded out pull away), I have loaded pictures onto facebook (important household stuff ya know!), made oatmeal for breakfast, and avacado, crackers and pepperoni for lunch (super healthy:), I have followed Miles around cheering him on to go pee pee on the potty (which he held for 4 hours and then begged to go nigh nights), I've made my bed!, brushed my teeth,  and cleaned snot from Miles' nose about 20 times. Pretty productive right?! I have a huge list of things that I am working on that need to get done! 1. being to take a shower:) I have been wanting to take a picture of my craft room to show you all, but I've wanted to clean it, then take a picture. Well, everytime I clean it I forget to take a picture, and because of it being the playroom too, everyday it gets messy! So I said screw it! Here's a picture of the craftroom while its at work! (and btw its also the laundry room;) hence the laundry basket!) oh-and I guess the bathroom as well:)

Ok so enough blogging, the boys are in bed and quiet, time for a shower and finish up that Candyland baby mobile for a sweet friend of mine:) Enjoy your day, and take a shower, if not for yourself, for the people around you!