Wordy Wednesday and a Picture

"Everyday may not be a good day, but there's something good in every day!" Author Unknown

This is a crazy week and I need this quote to remind myself that although it seems like life is crazy there is something good even when I think may day is going bad.

My friend took the following picture and I played with it in Photoshop Elements. Love my sweet(although she got in trouble at school today for not finishing her work and drawing on the floor) girl.

Make it Monday

So I totally missed this last week and am pretty shocked I'm doing it this week.

Most of my stuff for this week is going to involve school projects.
50 cards for PTA, to thank people for coming to our meeting
Get through week and Stampede(fall festival, this is going to take most of my energy this week)
Some Christmas photo card samples.
Edit pictures(took a break for a while and reconnected with PSE and realized how much I love it)
3 sets of Christmas cards
photo of Halloween card set and post on etsy
Make more Halloween card sets
Halloween tags
Halloween banner
Get out Halloween decorations.

What are you making or doing this week?

Take some time to enjoy the weather, hopefully it will be as gorgeous as what ours is supposed to be.

7 on Sunday

Okay, it's really going to be 9 on Sunday in honor of this guy:

My sweet boy is 9 today, so I'm going to do 9 things about him.

1. LOVES baseball more than most anything in the world.

2. Loves and is extremely good at Math. So much it scares me.

3. Is covered in scrapes and bumps and bruises. Including the ones on his face. He decided to kiss the sidewalk.

4. Misses his sister Dakota every single day of his life and is not shy about talking about her.

5. Thinks his Uncle Jake and Bubba Byron are the greatest people in the world.

6. Is really a good brother to his sister Audrey. Although she drives him crazy most of the time, he will protect her like crazy if needed(and it's going to be needed as she gets older).

7. Has a major sweet tooth. There is not a day that goes by that he does not want dessert.

8. Is EXTREMELY competitive. Is constantly setting goals and doing whatever he has to, to reach those goals. He sets goals for pretty much everything in his life.

9. Has NO FEAR of getting up in front of the entire school and speaking. Thanks in part to "The Leader in Me" which is a program his school started doing last year. It is a school based version of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."

Dart, no matter how big you get you will always be my baby boy. Hope you had the best birthday ever! Enjoy every piece of your pumpkin roll cake you eat.

In other news I finally got some more items added to my etsy shop. If you are looking for handmade cards especially please take a look. Pink Owl Crafts and Design

If I can make it through this week I will be happy. This Saturday is the Stallion Stampede at Dart and Audrey's school. It is our biggest fundraiser of the year. I'm hoping to get all my volunteers set in the next day or so. Wish me luck!!

Must get through....

This coming week. October 2nd is the BIG fundraiser at Dart and Audrey's school and I am co-chair of the committee as well as volunteer coordinator for it. Working like crazy to get volunteers arranged. Also working on getting volunteers for teachers to help with folders, copies, etc, and also working on room parent coordinating. Good thing I love coordinating.

Working on a few things in between for fun. Got a ton of stuff ready to go in my etsy shop, just need to get the pictures edited and descriptions done.

Kids had no school today and I had grand plans of getting a lot of this done, but we went and picked apples for the Buddy Packs at their school and then had to go handle the Sam's Club card for PTA also. By the time we got all that done and got stuff for dinner all I've done is work on room parent stuff.

Dart took a face first dive into the sidewalk earlier tonight. He's sporting a nice fat lip. Wonder how it will look for his birthday on Sunday. Can't believe my baby boy is going to be 9 in just a couple of days.

I am hoping to be back tomorrow for a few things, but if not I'm under a pile of papers I'm sure. Posting next week will be very scarce I'm sure, but maybe I can find a few minutes this weekend to pre-write some posts and schedule them to go up. Off to get caught up on all my tv shows I've missed this week with PTA and baseball. Glee is first on my list!

7 on Sunday

Owls! I love owls. Not so much the realistic looking owls, but the cuter ones. I love them so much in fact I named my business after them...Pink Owl Crafts and Designs. So my 7 on Sunday this week is all about owls, mostly owl products I would love to own.

1. This stamp set by Hero Arts

found at scrapbook.com

2. This fabric

found in a google search

3. This reusable bag would be so awesome to have:

found here

4. I'm not a big necklace kind of girl, but I would so wear this pendant:

found here

5. This hat! I would so wear this hat while doing the Walking School Bus.

found here

6. No clue what I would make with this fabric, but it is cute:

found here

7. This pendant. Maybe I'm becoming a necklace girl.

found here

So not only do I have an obsession with owls, I also have an obsession with etsy.com, where most of these were found. I love etsy. All handmade stuff. Thinking I will be doing lots of Christmas shopping from etsy this year.

What I'm doing at Midnight!

photo by ricstigh found on photobucket

At midnight tonight I will be checking in volunteers at the Mid-Missouri Race for the Cure. Because MU has a night game tonight and because the race route is areas in which people will be tailgating before and after the game there will be volunteers out all night picking up trash. I will be spending my time checking in these volunteers and other volunteers who are getting stuff ready.

I'm excited about doing this. Even though sleep sounds good and it may be raining on us, I'm more than happy to donate a little of my time to such a worthy cause. Good luck to all those that are running/walking tomorrow!

Going Ons

So I last updated this in June, hard to believe it's been that long. Our summer was insanely busy to say the least. We spent all but 2 weeks of our summer at the baseball fields. I love baseball so it wasn't all that bad, but wow! We are still spending at least 3 days a week at the baseball fields.

I have some very exciting stuff getting ready to happen with Pink Owl. I have been working like crazy on cards. Hard to believe it's almost the holiday season! I'm so excited about all the different ideas, now if I could just find an extra 24 hours in each day.

I just finished designing my business cards and am in the process of printing them as I type this. That is if my printer decides it wants to work correctly. UGH! They are pretty simple but I LOVE them.

Speaking of simple, part of the delay in updating this was because I was spending my time thinking about my style and how I wanted to brand my company. It's been exciting and is still an ongoing process, but I am having a blast. I was struggling when I would sit down to create and finally decided that the reason I was struggling was because I was trying to create something that was not me. I was trying to create something that was way to cluttered and complex for my style. Once I started really exploring what I loved and what inspired me creating has been so much easier.

Just a few things I've created recently:

These are 3x3 cards. Will be in my Etsy shop by Tuesday.

Made this for a girl in Dart's class. Love finding new ways to incorporate the money into the design. Behind the money is a black ribbon so it will still be pretty to look at even after she spends the money.

Will be back tomorrow to share more. Need to take a nap as I'm volunteering at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure tonight from midnight to at least 3am. Will be checking in other volunteers that are coming to clean the race area after all the MU tailgaters are gone.