Baby Crawford book

This book turned out so cute I don't want to give it up. I have been working on this off and on for about a month. I would work till I hit a creativity wall and then worked on something else. Sarah said she is seventeen weeks now and isn't feeling that whole "love being pregnant" thing. She isn't getting as sick as she first was but still has her moments. She is eating almost normally, for her, again which is good. She is still adjusting to the "alien-esque" baby movements in her body and loves the elastic waistband pants she is now wearing. Who knew that you had to get pregnant to wear "really" comfortable clothes and shoes? Her blog is hysterical. At times it is all I can do to continue reading without my sides hurting from laughing so much. We are off to Party Depot tomorrow for bridal shower stuff, which is only two weeks away. Ahhh.....

ETA: Here are a few of the pictures of the book I made for Sarah.

One down, one to go...

My class went well last night. One of my students didn't show but that happens sometimes. But the other ladies were as usual lots of fun. It was really neat to see the layouts come together so quickly too. Maybe it was my students. I know it didn't take me and hour and a half to do the store sample! My card class is next Friday from 1-3 in the afternoon. I will be scrapbooking at the store all day too, so the whole day should be lots of fun. We are on the home stretch with wedding things. Lisa and Buck picked out the tuxes. And it looks like she may have decided to have a cake topper after all...

Whew...

All my kits are done!! Yippee!! Part of the reason it has taken me so long is that I haven't been feeling all that great. I thought it was my allergies but I now have a low grade fever and I just feel "poopy" as my friend Julie says. So I think I will dig up a book and sit on the couch and do some reading. Speaking of which, Janet Evanovich's latest "Fearless Fourteen" goes on sale Tuesday. I will be at Borders first thing that morning.

Busy, busy, busy...

I spent last night finishing the book I have been making for Sarah and her baby. It turned out real cute. I will take a picture and post it before I give it to her. Today I spent all day putting together my kits for my Thursday class. There were a lot of pieces to put in the kit thus the reason it took me all day to do. I usually put the finishing touches on the instructions at the same time and that is what takes awhile. If I don't do this I land up finding errors while giving my class, not a thing an instructor wants to have happen. So it means I put the project together and measure and do handwritten notes at the same time followed by making typing the instructions. I usually wait to take the sample in till I have done this part but I didn't this time and now I will have to go in tomorrow and measure a couple of things on the sample to make sure my measurements are correct on my instruction sheet. I need figure a way to do this design stuff and get the instructions done while I am designing or I land up spending more time on the class kits than I need to. Here are pictures of the class layout we will be doing. This coincides with our up and coming Oregon strawberry season...

When??

It seems to be the question that is asked of me lately. Anything from when am I going to the store to have you heard from the flower lady? I don't seem to have the answers my family wants but oh well. We are just ten weeks away from Lisa's wedding and I am starting to feel the crunch. I haven't gotten my dress yet, Steve still has to get a suit, I need to do the alterations on Sarah's dress and possibly hem Lisa's too. I am hoping to be able to get someone else to do this. I have two classes to teach this month and then I will only do my card class next month so I have plenty of time to do wedding stuff. We are doing low key on birthdays this year. With Sarah expecting there was no alcohol for her 21st, Lisa will be thirty and my mother-in-law Norma will be seventy and we are looking at going out to dinner to celebrate those. So much to do and yet so little time; just sounds like life in general...

My baby is twenty-one!!

Sarah turned twenty-one today. Something is wrong here, as it can't possibly be twenty-one years since I gave birth to my baby. I know she is going to hate all this mushy stuff but too bad it's my blog not hers. Steve has been waiting to complete his mission as a dad and carry on tradition by buying her first legal drink. Sarah doesn't get the tradition thing but I think it is because she doesn't know about Grandpa doing this for all his boys and Steve's desire to do this for his daughters. Though till the baby is born she will still be the "designated" driver for those of us who choose to drink...

My choice...

This is the picture I think should go into the paper but then if I don't pay for it I don't get a choice. Mmmm... Anyway, today we had dinner with the girls and Nate as Buck was finishing up at the swap meet in Rickreal and didn't get done in time to meet us. It was the best day to go to dinner with them for Sarah's birthday. Her birthday is tomorrow but with everyone's work schedules it is easier to do this on the weekend. She loved her gifts we gave her; the recipe box by Elsie Flannigan and the cherry denim purse by Betsy Johnson. She needs to post a picture of her purse so everyone can see how cute it is!!