On being a slacker...

Hello... My name is April... I'm a slacker. I really don't mean to be, but sadly I am. I've got 3 Etsy shops that REALLY need some attention (here, here and here), this blog and my food blog, co-leader Girl Scout duties twice a month, and I signed up for NaNoWriMo. Oh yeah.. and I'm a stay-at-home mom and wife. I have such good intentions of getting things done, but I just can't seem to make it happen. I think it's been months since I've made any jewelry and I'm having a hard time cranking out the paper stuff, no new photos (besides food) recently, and I've got a bunch of vintage stuff that needs to be photographed. Most days I can't even figure out where all the time goes. I'm thinking I might be able to keep everything if I just quit sleeping. I really need to get my butt in gear. I'm taking the girls to visit my buddy Marisa in about a week and a half, and I'm hoping that being around her creativity and seeing our girls play will somehow flip a switch. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I really hate posting with a picture, but sadly... I've got nuthin.


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Flashback Friday

While digging through my old photos, I came across these sweet pictures of my Mom and I at the park. We're sweater clad, so I'm assuming it was cooler weather. It's interesting that in most of my childhood photos I can see my oldest daughter. When she's sees a photo of me at age 5 or so, she always thinks it's her (I'll get to those eventually). These particular photos, I see my youngest.





Ahhhh, the hair of the early 80's! Love ya mom!

Head on over here for more flashbacks!

The Invasion

We've been invaded... No, not by little green men or rat eating visitors (yes, I DID record the "V" marathon of ScyFy and will be recording ABC's remake, thank you very much), my parents flew in for a visit on Friday. They're staying through Saturday, so I probably won't be around much. I'm hoping to get lots of photos to share tough! We've made it to the Alamo, a nice Mexican restaurant and my favorite thrift store so far. We're headed back downtown to the Riverwalk today. Thank goodness we're having such great weather!


San Antonio Riverwalk (photo taken in the Spring)

On another note, Nov 1 marked the beginning of NaNoWriMo (I talked about signing up here). I didn't realize that the day had arrived until it was practically over. I did manage to get around 100 words typed up though. I've got a LOOOOOOOOOOONG way to go (50,000 words), but I'm hoping at the very least to make a valiant effort. This is my very frist time participating so I'm gonna try and go easy on myself. I'm really liking the idea I have for the story. I've decided to go with a mix of witches and ancient Egypt. The title is "Mistress of Heaven", which is one of the many names given to the goddess Isis. I'm hoping it will be interesting! I'll being posting progress updates now and then.

Flashback Friday

I found this meme, hosted by Christopher and Tia by way of my buddy Marisa at Elegant Bloggery. I thought this would be great fun to participate in! It's so much fun to look back at yourself and laugh your butt off!!! I was hoping to find a halloween photo to use, but all I could find in my photo stash (there must be more somewhere at my parents house) are pictures from me as a baby up to about age 3. Then it jumps to like late elementary and middle school (maybe I was scary looking at that time ad broke a few cameras). So here's what I came up with...


It would seem that I had aspirations of becoming a trucker! Isn't that rust colored carpet stunning?


Why? Why would you put the large, frizzy wig on the small child?

I've got a bunch of crazy old pics to choose from, so I'm going to enjoy this! If you need more flashback, click on the link for Christopher and Tia above!

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Random finds - creepy

Etsy has a plethora of... well... weird stuff. I think when Halloween rolls around the weirdness is amplified by about 10,000! Since it's only a couple days away , I thought I would do a Halloween based search. I was hoping for optimum weirdness so I chose creepy for my search terms and here's what I found...


Creepy Dolls
Ummmm, yeah, ok... That's gonna give me nightmares!


Buppins
Not sure I'd get my kids to use these, but they'd be fun if you wanted to give somebody the finger (I crack me up)


Jah Lovely
Oh, now that's just gross...


Stinky Bomb Soap
Perfect for your guest bathroom? If you live in a haunted house, maybe.


Loopy Boopy
Nothing says, "I love you" like zombies on top of a wedding cake.

Well, there you have it. This is just a small (very small) sampling of the creepiness on Etsy. I hope everybody has a safe and happy Halloween! Keep it weird Etsy!

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