NEW WINDOWS AND A TUTORIAL

Time is moving by so fast!  It's already March, I completely lost February.  Someone mentioned missing an annual event to me on Monday.  I said "That doesn't even happen until February, did they do it early this year?"  To which she replied with a smile,  "That's right it happens in February, it's March today." In my head at that moment I think I was still in November.  We are nearly to the second quarter of 2010!

Anywho..... Another sign that time is passing by.... I installed the new window displays at Heartland.  Nearly 2 weeks ago. (nobody is counting though, right?)  These were done with the Lucy Bird line from Imaginisce.  This line is so bright and fun.  I love it!

I've had several requests for instructions for the Lolli-flowers. If you are interested in making one (or two or  three or a dozen) I've added a link to a PDF instruction sheet on the right sidebar.  Have a great weekend!

I have a lot to say but no time right now to say it. I really wanted to pop in here and say hi.

I haven't been sharing very much of my work here lately, a lot of what I am doing I can't talk about just yet.  Anyway, I thought you might enjoy seeing an album I designed for My Mind's Eye with one of their newest releases, Lush - Pink.    

VALENTINES ALREADY?

I finished up the windows at Heartland last weekend and realized that I haven't shared them here on my blog for a while. It was fun to feel the store get happier because explosion of bright color from these papers.  These are all from the Love Me Do line from My Mind's Eye, just in case you were wondering.   I've been doing the windows for just over three years now and I it amazes me that I can still come up with something new each time.  I've got six weeks until this set comes down and a new one goes up.  So far I have no idea what I am going to do next.  Good times. :)

IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!

It only took about 150 shots but we got one.  A family picture.  Thanks KaDee!

IMPERFECT, THAT'S ME.

So I was talking with Amber today and I asked her if she thought I should try to be a better blogger or just give up all together.  I told her that I just wasn't sure if I could get away with being myself in such a public forum.  You see I am a shy extrovert.  I really am a shiny happy person most of the time.  But I am also a far from perfect person trying my best but often falling short.  There are definitely days where where the only "shiny" thing about me is the slimy, slick smear of boogers on my shoulder left behind by a sick child.  I am ok with this.  It is who I am.

Some days I feel like wonder woman.  I manage to wrangle my big kids to all of their various drop off points, get something done in our home, play with my little kids, make something crafty, remember to pick up the big kids, and make a dinner.   But there are other days too.  The ones where it takes all my strength to get the bigs out the door, driving in my polkadotted jammie bottoms and a sweater, hair slicked back in a pony tail.  When I get home I am met with dishes, and messy floors, and piles of things begging to be gotten around to.  Crying whining little ones who want nothing but to be held and no time to stop and hold them.  Deadlines looming and feeling as if there is simply not enough of me to go around.  Ending the day in the same pair of jammies that it started in.

As I wander the internet looking for inspiration I am sometimes overwhelmed at what seem to be perfect women, leading perfect lives.  I walk away feeling like I just don't measure up and there is so much more I should be doing.  Instead of feeling inspired, I feel defeated.  I am sure this is not the intended result.  I think this is just something that women are susceptible to.

I don't want to leave the impression that I have a perfect life and that I am somehow more put together than anyone else.  It simply isn't true!  I do however have a pretty great life.  A messy, non-stop, noisy life.  I love what I do,  I love who I do it for.  And I want to be able to share that.  But for me I need to be real.  So mixed in with the good will be the ugly.  Reports of the super woman days as well as those oh so crappy others.

And for the record, I managed to make it out of my jammies today but now that I think about it they do sound rather inviting.