Heidi Has An Etsy Shop!

So yesterday I decided to get my butt in gear. I went and bought a bunch of supplies for making these earrings figuring I would put them on etsy and hadn’t done it yet. So I got it together, figured out shipping and posted some things for people to order. It’s a small shop still, and I’m not sure how well it is put together, but I wanted to get to started, and since it is started I now have to advertise that it is started. So go! Check it out!

I feel pretty pleased, even though it is rather small still. I have a half a dozen more earrings sitting here and yesterday got more supplies and today should get more too. I just need to work on them. Sadly it’s overcast today, so picture taking isn’t really an option. And on that note, can I get some feedback? What do you think of the pictures? Is it good or should I make myself a light box and take pictures of them that way? Should the earrings be modeled? It wouldn’t be a problem to make a pair for myself and a pair for the shop. I’m just curious what others think.

Thanks for help and in put from anyone and everyone. This is the first time I have really tried to sell anything and am relying (sp?) a lot on other peoples experience and info.

On Homeschooling and Life

Recently DD’s favorite thing to say to me is, “I’m as bored as a bumble bee mom!”  I usually inform her about how bumble bees are generally to busy to be bored to which she informs me that is is bored as a bumble bee at night time.  To quote The Princess Bride, “Yeah, your very smart kid, shut up.”  Lol!  Well, maybe not that harsh but usually at that point I’m pretty annoyed.  So I started thinking I should look into some “school” work of sorts for her.  Just so she’s not so bored.  Your bored, you can learn your letters/numbers/fill-in-the-blank.  I went through a few moments of contemplating sending her to school, not locally, but seeing where the closest Montessori or Waldorf school was.  But they are all over an hour away so forget that.  So then I started checking out homeschooling curriculum.  I know in my heart and gut, that I don’t really need curriculum and that the two of us, or our family together could come up with things for her to do.  But with the pregnancy I am wiped and my brain seems to fail at the times when I need it most.  So I thought some curriculum would help both her and I to be a little more organized and hopefully keep her out of her bored slumps.  Maybe it will help to boost my creativity a little too.  Kick me in the butt and remind me of what it’s like to be a kid.  Really I am very excited and I think this is going to be good.

We’re getting the Oak Meadow curriculum for Kindergarten.  It’s Waldorf based and DH used it when he was homeschooling as a kid.  I liked what I had seen of the sample courses, and I just love that  in the higher grades they use Saxon for the math books.  I used Saxon as a kid, and it just gives such a great variety of math skills all the time.  So your learning algebra, geometry and trig for a long time before you actually have to learn it.  So once you get there, you have a basic understanding of how those math skills work.  Very smart if you ask me.  So yeah, I’m impressed.  We’re planning on getting this in the next couple of months, but who knows.

Life in general has been ok.  Nausea, sleep and food rule my life right now.  I am trying to keep myself a little busy, cleaning up the floors and washing dishes and laundry when I can.  but I have been pretty slow the last couple of days.  Today specifically has been a slow and crappy one.  Even though I feel good for what I did accomplish, I also sat in front of the computer playing games and checking out romances and obsessively checking facebook and my email.  I think I didn’t eat enough today so that kept me in a funk, but it was frustrating.  Fortunately the kids stayed out of my way for the most part.  I’ll admit I turned on Barney for them and they played outside by themselves for a long time.  But really they seemed fine today.  Just my funk.

Now I am off to inform DH that he can make me some caramel popcorn (mwah hahahaha) and then we’ll probably watch Star Trek and enjoy the evening.

Naps and Cravings and Earrings

Dear Lord! I Love Naps! I have been so exhausted with this pregnancy. I’m sure I was with my others, but really, I don’t much remember. And this time I am nursing still too, so there is a double drain on my body. I occasionally toy with the idea of nursing through the pregnancy. I do love it and I hate the idea of weaning DS. But there are just so many things I can see getting in the way, a big belly being one of them. It’s not like he’s nursing much. Maybe three times during the day and three at night. Possibly more if I nap because I’m asleep and just want him to be quiet so I can stay asleep. I can feel that nursing is pretty draining though. So we’ll see. If nothing else I have to night wean because laying down and nursing has been very uncomfortable and draining even before I was pregnant.

DH was so good to me yesterday. Because we live so far away from town I haven’t had the same luxury of being able to acquire thing I crave immediately. Really that doesn’t bother me much because with all my pregnancies I have been at least a half hour drive away from a decent store or restaurant to sooth my savage cravings. Anyways, DH went to town yesterday and bought me cantaloupe and eggrolls. Oh I am such a happy little pregnant lady. Especially since the eggroll craving hit night before last. It was almost instant gratification when I got them 14 hours later.:)

Today I started making cards to display my earrings on. A while back I crocheted some earrings for my SIL. She loved them, but what totally shocked me is that she said a lot of other people loved them as well. She said she had more people asking about that pair then any of her other earrings. She has this gorgeously long neck and a great attitude, so she can pull of wearing just about anything (including cloves of garlic). When I made the earrings I knew they weren’t for me but I know she would love them. Well surprise, surprise, big and unique earrings are a fashion and people are longing them. She told me a friend of hers wanted to buy a pair, my MIL wanted to buy a pair for herself and DH’s Aunt, and on the other side an Aunt and cousin wanted to buy a pair. DH’s grandma even bought a pair! So I started making a bunch of pairs out of yarn I happen to have laying around. Then SIL got the brilliant idea of putting them in our Christmas shop which we’re opening up for a few days for Christmas In July. I haven’t heard if anything has sold there, but then I know it’s been slow cause it’s the middle of the week. Today I made cards to hang the earrings on. I also bought backs for them so they stay on the cards. I have slowed down on production, but I like playing with different styles and colors and as soon as I get some decent pictures, I will be placing them on etsy. I’m kinda excited. The hot water bottle cozies have taken and extreme back seat to the earrings. The return is just that much bigger, and it takes so much less time to make. I’ll still probably see if I can sell the cozies, seeing as that is what I got all that stuff for, but I think earrings are a new future for me.

So now I’m starving again (and so are my children apparently) so I must go and see what I can dig up.

The Long Awaited Update

I have tried twice now to write this post, and both times it has become so epic halfway through the story  that I give up.  I can’t expect anyone to read three pages worth of Heidi drama when I myself wont read that much on any given blog.  So I’m going to try and give you the Cliff Notes to the last three weeks.

It all started way back when, that day I got the chicks, and my Mom arrived and I found out I was pregnant.  Oh yeah!  You guys only heard about the first two things, huh?  Yep, that’s right.  We’re expecting, and suddenly the dizziness and exhaustion I had been feeling for a few weeks all made sense.  We’re excited.  I’ll admit I’m a bit nervous.  I hadn’t planned this and a new baby just adds more stuff on top of Dad’s death that I have to deal with right now.  Kinda pushes him further away.  We’re due the beginning of March.  Our first baby not born in the summer, and as there aren’t 30 days in February so I guess we broke that trend too.  I feel like this is going by so slowly, but I am really glad as we’re not going to be trying to get pregnant again after this.

Mom’s visit was good, though a bit weird as I was trying to get over the shock of being pregnant all while dealing with the nausea and fatigue all at once.  But it was great to have her here.  Midway through Mom’s visit my SIL arrived from the east coast.  Mom left after her two weeks were up.  It was so good to have her, and it seemed so long and short all at the same time.  SIL’s visit was crowded with 4th get-togethers and family and fun.  We spent lots of time at different lakes swimming and getting burnt.  Watched some fireworks and I ate a ton, which was fun.:)

In the last couple of weeks I have done so much, I can hardly believe it, and am now completely exhausted now that everyone has gone home and the holidays are over.  My house is a mess, but DH is going to help me with that later today and hopefully I can keep it up a little better now that we wont be leaving everyday.  Here’s a list of some of the highlights not covered in the above rant:

• I taught my SIL to knit and helped her make a felted purse.  It was so cool!
• I knit a pare of baby socks (pictures to come, someday)
• Started knitting a baby blanket
• Got lots of fresh strawberries to eat (but I didn’t go picking o I could get a nap)
• Started making and selling crocheted earrings.  Who knew people would get so into them!  Weird!
• Had to deal with a faulty fridge that keeps getting warm (twice now)
• Got a tan (finally)
• Watched “Sprinkle”…um, er…”Sparkle?”…no…Oh!  Right!  “Twilight” with my SIL and DH.  Yeah, we laughed ourselves silly.  I just don’t get the fasination behind this story.  The best part of the movie was the black vampire with dreads.  Everyone else sucked! (Bud-um bum!)
• All of my three dozen chicks are alive and well.  All but to of my faverolle’s are female.  We have one chick with a crooked beak and I’m not sure she’ll live (a female faverolle), but I figured I’ll just leave her and see what happens.  No use killing her now if she may live to be a decent layer, or at least big enough to eat someday.

And that’s the news from Lake Cora.  Now I have to drag my butt outside and watch the kids play so they don’t drive me to crazy indoors.  Thankfully I just got a new Lisa Kleypas book so that should keep me entertained out there for a while.

A Statement

HeidiLogic would just like to say, that her head has not really been screwed on straight lately, thus the reason for my lack of interesting posts.  I’m sure no one out there is holding this against me as I did warn you before my Mom arrived that I might now be around much.  It just feels weird on my part.  I miss writing and I miss having the mental capacity to write something interesting and intelligent.  Or even just an update would be cool, but as I am so busy living the update, I can hardly breathe let alone collect all of those things that I would put into an update.

Mom will be leaving on Thursday.  Not that life will slow down from there at all.  SIL is still here and we plan on having her come stay a night or two maybe, and I just groan every time I think about the fourth.  It’s extremely interesting to me that the fourth seems almost like a bigger and more stressful deal them Christmas even.  Very interesting.

So I love you Dear Blog!  Blog Readers, Friends, People, World!  I’m just a little disconnected these days.

Love,

HeidiLogic