So today….

 I have started my planning for my October daily for this year and my December daily as well. I have a couple of things planned as surprises for my littles, my sister let me know about the ICE show at the Gaylord hotel this year and I very much need to get the tickets for that. 

Kids actually weren’t too bad for once even with the heat today which is unusual, but could be because we tried some new recipes for lunch and dinner. Both were a hit with all children, and we will be making them again later this week as well for dinner again. 

Hadestown in theatres

Earlier this year, my sister took my daughter and I to see Hadestown when the tour was in Denver for the second time. This was the first Broadway show that my sister and I had gone to together and was the start of our annual tradition of a show for our birthdays. Today, I payed for us to see the theatrical movie release of the London show. I was surprised at how well it went. I would love to go again better prepared for that much sitting, I didn’t think through the fact that there would be no intermission break since the actors were not performing live. And as a result my legs were not happy. 

After which we did stop at Starbucks and target to get some things, some plans for school supplies. I think I might have some ideas for Everett and Nalani and what they need. I also cannot wait for the first day of school. 

Wow, so much has changed…

 So much has changed in 6 years and 2 months. We now have 2 toddlers entering elementary school, one preteen entering her final year of elementary school. I have picked up several new hobbies as well, we’ve picked up quilting by hand and hand sewing. A wee bit of embroidery and mending as well. Munchkin has picked up gardening and has become a Girl Scout as well. This is a foreign concept for me but hubby has been a good sounding board for that. She has also found that she enjoys rock climbing. 

Quilt wise in the last year I have completed 4. An owl for a former colleague at my job. And one for each of my children. I’m also currently working on binding another and have a couple in the planning stages. 

Work has been intense as well, shipments of Christmas merchandise has been coming in hot for the last month or so and I’m always excited to unbox and get it out onto the sales floor. 

Well I know... I know

Well just a quick life update, with the lovely pandemic going on things have been insane for me and our family. I am still waiting to go back to work even after being told that I would be able to start back in July. Little has been back at daycare since I was informed that just before her birthday. Which she is officially a preschooler this year, not just a preschool 3-4 yrs she is actually in pre-kindergarten classes at her daycare. I am so proud of her. 

Crafting wise I have completed several projects and started a few as well. I have finished the strawberry cardigan for the littles Easter dress, and am currently working on the steggie sweater for this fall for her. I’m trying really hard to open her color horizons as she only wants to wear pink.  I did get her to agree that stegosaurus’ were not pink in color fully so she could have pink for the spikes but not for the whole body of the sweater. Crochet wise I did just complete a stuffed unicorn and started the Sophie’s universe CAL blanket. I love the difficulty of this pattern so far it’s pretty easy and it’s showing me all sorts of new stitches. 

Late spring 2020 update

Ok so the last few months have flown by in quite the blur. The little has been home with me since April 17th and I have been furloughed from work since March 21st this covid thing is insane although I have finished quite a few projects scrapbooking wise and knitting wise. I plan to share some of them with you all here.

October daily week one and two

On a side note I was actually able to start my October daily album for this year, I have completed a few pages with photos but no journaling at this time. I’m also going to wait until I have the album pages complete before decorating the cover. I really do love this time of year. This first photo is with my daughter and husband, the little loves the filters on Snapchat and Instagram and really likes to get into character when the seasons change. 

 

These are just a couple of the pages I have completed, for the first two weeks of October. I have about 6 others done, however I don’t feel super comfortable posting the pictures as they are pretty easily recognized for the region we live. But anyway about these pages I printed a photo of the little in 8x10 size and cropped it to fit into the. 6x8 page protector this was one of the first days that the leaves really started to change over to reds and oranges. And before the first snow of the season. 

This last one is one of the most recent pages I competed it is of I believe day 11 this day actually goes across 3 pages with two flip out pages as well. It snowed on day 10 so we couldn’t go to my friends wedding, but Friday when we did drive up to my aunt’s house the little had plenty of snow to create the seasons first snowmen and we even got a little bit of swimming in, gotta love Colorado. In any case this project is turning out to be so much fun and I am glad I decided to tackle it. 

October daily 2019 preparation

Well so far I have gotten a little bit prepped but not really... I’m thinking I may still want to purchase a specific binder for the album from scrapbook.com. I know which one the black and white buffalo plaid from echo park would be the album of choice if I were to order one online. The other option could be an 8x8 burlap album from hobby lobby. 

I think honestly that I might go with the 8x8 burlap album because I could customize it a fair bit more than the other. With a little bit of ink and stitching, which to be honest I think might be a little more fun. It would also mean that I could start the album with my photos from this Friday the 13th... I mean even though I did not watch any horror movies this year which kinda stinks. But what can you do right. 

I am also currently still working on last year’s December Daily album, I haven’t decided yet if I should add the photos from the north pole and Santa from the little’s birthday to last years or this year’s album. I’m leaning more towards last year’s simply because we plan on doing another visit to Santa during the season this year. Here are a couple shots of last year’s album. 

Well anyway that is all that I have for an update here I guess. Talk to you hopefully sooner than a year