Girls can save the world

I noticed this saying on a shirt the other day while at one of our many play dates through the week, the little girl who wore it, was bright eyed and had a real spark for life – much like I like to think of myself as. It really made me think – girls, boys, women, men – us – we can save the world from all this drama that fills ours lives daily, hourly, every second.

How do we do it – I am not sure yet, but a quote from Mahatma Gandhi has been hovering in my mind lately, “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” To me this means – if we want peace, love and joy for the world, we have to be peace, love and joy. We have to live peaceful, loving, joyful lives for life itself, for human kind, for everything living – for us, for our children, for our grandchildren and so on. That means, loving people who we don't really like or agree with, giving a helping hand anytime we can, even just smiling at a stranger - we never know what his/her day has been like.

Anyway, I am not really sure where to go with this, except that we all need to know that yes, we all can save the world and more than likely it will take helping one person at a time, but we have to start somewhere – right?
With that, I am putting together a card making night for a group called Cards 4 Cancer. Here is their blog: http://cards4cancer.wordpress.com/

I won’t be able to be a part of the delivery of the cards because Eric and I will be out of town celebrating our 5th anniversary; however, I want to pour love into hand-made cards for my team to be able to deliver. It is stuff like this that I believe if we all did little tid bits here and there, this world would change, the world would grow to love one another and hate would have no choice but to be taken over by love. Eh – and the shirt would be true: GIRLS CAN SAVE THE WORLD

New Customer Update

She sent me DOUBLE my asking price for the payment because she loved the work and told me I didn't charge near enough! I am slowly gaining confidence in myself and my work to charge more - it is very scary though. What if people laugh at my prices? I don't know how true artist/musicians do it - being critiques all the time has to be on one's self.

Random Rants

I try not to bitch about random things because I honestly do feel that the more someone bitches, the more “stuff” happens to them to bitch about; however, with that said, I have few items I need to get out there – for no other reason than to get them off my chest!
- To the person at all play places: WATCH YOUR CHILD. I am there to play with my child, not your child, I am not there to police your child, to tell him to stop being a little brat, to share, not to push – GET OFF YOUR ASS AND WATCH YOUR CHILD.
- My g key on my keyboard doesn’t work well AT ALL. I have to hit it at least 5 times to make it work and it is like this from Ian popping all the keys off my keyboard more than once: note to myself: WATCH YOUR CHILD!! 
- Going to a meeting that is not well organized drives me a little crazy. If I am there, tell me what I need to know/do and get on with it.
- When people post a “looking for” ad on craigslist in the for sale section – flippin’ do a search already to look for what you are looking for.
Okay, I am done. YES, I realize these are all SO SMALL in the grand scheme of life and yes I realize I probably do 10 times as many things to piss people off…..

A REAL customer!

I had my first real customer – not that my friends are my customers, but I do still feel like y’all use me out of obligation (yes, I am working on that – confidence and belief in my work and how to talk about it and not just write about it.) Anyway, a girl who receives my newsletter recommended me to her friend who needed save the date postcards designed – it was great fun to do. Here is the final product:

Projects, reviews, houses, oh my!

So, here it is – I am going to start using my blog as a project list for me, with hopes of putting it out there will mean – wait for it – that I will finish – WITH HOPES!!

This week’s projects: paint goldfish house (yes, we now refer to our houses as goldfish or Endicott house); card class Tuesday night, follow up card class to advertise at Tuesday’s class; get this d*mn kitchen wrapped up (yes, that is really out of my hands, but I am trying here!); get pictures hung on walls here.

January in review: January started out with a bang for my family and unfortunately, it hasn’t really slowed down – but does it ever? I was in California for New Year’s Day for my Uncle Bob’s funeral. The decision was made to put grandma in a nursing home which still sucks and hurts so much to think about. She is doing ok, but she keeps asking mom if they are mad at her and that is why she is there. We moved into the Endicott house on a whim – we were going to wait until the kitchen was done, then we got excited and decided we could live through the remodel, THEN we came to our senses and thought, not that is silly, THEN our realtor wanted to show the house and I decided it would be easier to just go ahead and move out and live through the kitchen, SO we did, we are in the new house and love it – expect the not having a kitchen part!  There is still some things I want to fix up here; however, we have to save up a bit again being as I blew a lot more of the budget on custom cabinets than I thought – hey, they are gorgeous and we will be here for years to come! Ian and I went to Fort Worth while Eric stayed here to move us – what a great husband! We moved Ian to big boy bed and he loves it and still stays in bed after he wakes up – that is all I really wanted out of the whole deal!

Having two houses is a big pain in the butt, but it will all be worth it once we get gold fish leased out. We still have a lot of little stuff over there but if we were to just buckle down and work on it, it would be done in a few hours – the problem is, we don’t have a few hours without Ian. I don’t want to take him back over there because that would really confuse him as to why we can’t live there anymore.

I go to the oncologist tomorrow. I hope we can schedule my appointment with the specialist to discuss baby #2 (that will be a whole other post), but I will update everyone as soon as I know something.