Magic Box

Just wanted to share this pic I took last week. Some new editing techniques I am trying out and I think I likey!!! Kinda looks like she is peering into some kind of magical box with light beaming out. Oh and she picked out her own "hairdoos". Made me cut that elastic and make it onto a headband. Pretty good taste I'd say!

The middle name game...

Ok, thanks for the tag Michelle! Heres my thing, I had to take my middle name and put something about me for each letter. Luck me, I have two freaking middle names lol. Emily Jane Alina, yes that is me and here is some stuff you may not have known:


Now for the tagging. I'm not tagging 9 people, it's too much work and thinking, so i'm tagging 3 - Eva, Nic, and Amie

It's called a Kleenex!

Oh FFFRIGGG. Get this one. I went to the drugstore to grab something and Taya was a rotter the wholeeee time. She was being so bad and I kept saying I was gonna pinch her if she didn't start being good. So she goes "no your not" in one of those sing songey types of cheeky-arse manners(first time she has ever done that) So I pinch her cheek and she starts crying SOOOOOO loud and won't stop. That is pretty usual...that is not the bad part yet, ok, it happens, crying happens in the store sometimes. K THHEENNNNNN, we are in the check out line, she freaking picks her nose and then tries to get rid of it on the magazine rack!!!!! Believe it or not that is NOT the worst part yet :( The guy behind her is like "Ohhh nooo that is not the right place for that, a tissue is the right place, if you put it there, then other people get your boogers" OHHH MYYY GGGGGOODNESS I WAS MMMOOORRTTIIFFIIEEDDD!!!!!! I was soooo embarrassed!!! HELLOOO ever heard of whispering "Pssstttt mom bla bla bla" instead of pretty much ANNOUNCING it SO loudly that everyone in the friggin store can hear??? Phhhtt What a douche!

What to say today...

Hmmmm I am long overdue for a postaroo! Time goes by so fast, next thing you know it's winter! Ok sooooo, What have I been up to. Well we went to the Saanich fair here on the weekend, It was awesome, horses, sheep, giant geese, the whole bit. I'll do another post on that cause I don't really feel like it right now. Anyhow I listed some stuff on eBay, lots of my favorite jeans that I have been procrastinating on listing. They are so cute! Check out my stuff. There is also a SSB resell up as well. More to come for sure, I have TONS to list! Another topic, my Daughter continues to crack me up more and more each day. She is getting smart on me. when the drink I give her is not the specific flavor she wanted it mysteriously goes missing, I say, where did it go? And she replies with, "I dunno...it just almost appears I guess" That is her version of "It disappeared" followed by "Ohhh well...just hafta get a new one I guess" with an innocent little sigh and shoulder shrug. Typical kid behavior right?

I'm tired today. Like REALLY tired. I just got new pillows and they are soooo soft and snuggly so my bed is calling me even more. I had to get the new pillows cause I wached Oprah on Monday and they were doing the whole microscopic thing with the pillows and the beds and *shudder* uck! I had to get new pillows. It was time for new pillows....I wish I could go to bed early...but Tornado Taya always leaves me something to do after she retreats to dreamland...or should I say, song singing blanket tossing care bear playing with land. Oh well at least the tornado comes to a halt at night long enough for me to make her a clean floor on which to empty the toybox on. But you know, I like the mess...I'm glad there is a little someone making a mess for me to clean :) I love it :)

Hook line and Tinker...

Ohhhh cheeze fest on that title or what? Sorry I sometimes can't help myself! Just wanted to share this picture I took on the weekend. We went to my cousin's house on the weekend and she got 2 baby bunnies! The grey one is 'Tinkerbell', the black and white one that you can't really see only has 3 legs and the other one is a stub! Apparently his mama ate it, Talk about a bad mother! So he is aptly named 'Hook'. That's all for now, I have some more that I might share later :)

Urban Oasis

Finally a new design from the studios of moi! This is really on of my favorites ever. I was inspired by my hometown but more specifically Market Square. It's my first destination when we spend the day downtown. You think it's because of the delicious fudge shop don't you? Well you are correct hehehe, I am a sucker for maple fudge and you know I picked some up down there :) But it's not just the fudge. If you take a peek at my auction you will see why I love it so much. It's absolutely gorgeous!!! I can't get enough :) Anyhoo, I won't go on forever, I need to get sewing for the Indelible launch!!! Lets hope for some nice weather for photos cause right now it's raining...again...surprise surprise! Thanks for peeking :)

I remember when...

The summer was a summer. A real SUMMER. This year we have had maybe 2-3 weeks worth of NICE weather combined here in Victoria. I remember the long summer days when I was little. Full of home made slip'n'slides and blue raspberry pop. And the long summer nights when I was a teenager, full of...well driving around, just cause we could lol! Even last year, although it was a scorcher, summer came very early and seemed to drag on forever! this year though, very disappointing! Taya is old enough now to do alot more things and we are sitting here doing nothing very summer-like at all because it is raining!!! Now September is less than 2 weeks away and we will be into fall. The whole year seems to be FALL around here! I know I know, pacific north west, rain rain rain, but COME ON! Throw me a bone here...or an umbrella or something!!!! I had big plans for this summer. Sheesh this post has turned into quite the whine fest and for that I am sorry, and I am sure that plenty of you live in the hot hot heat all year around and would love a little rain, but seriously, you KNOW how I hate wearing socks and shoes, I just don't wanna be soggy anymore!!! Frig, I can't even believe we are in 2007. I remember laughing in 2000 at everyone getting so excited for the winter Olympics here in Whistler in 2010 thinking bahhh that will NEVER come! And NOW that is only 2 years away! Ahhhhh somebody help I'm tripping out and feeling old LOL

Ok onto more important things. I will have a new listing up tomorrow!!! Weeeee!!! I'm really excited because it has been quite some time since I listed and I really enjoyed every step of this one, from the inspiration of the design conception to the photo shoot to the putting together of the auction template :) i am starting on my set tonight for the Joel Dewberry "Indelible" launch this Thursday the 23rd as well. There is a link over on the sidebar there that will take you to the auctions once it starts. I have seen some sneak peeks and so far everything is looking super fab!!! There are some unbelievably talented ladies involved and with Joel's fabrics it's going to be a treat for the eyes for sure! sorry no interesting photos today, I have a replacement monitor but no time to find anything related to my post :) Have a great day!!! Check back tomorrow for my new design...orrrrr sign up for my mailing list (also located in the sidebar over there---->) and I will just email you when it's up and running. Have an awesome day!!!

Hey there...

Ohhhh let me share my new favorite song :) Although it's 2 years old, it's still my new favorite song. This is just one of those songs that is so perfect that you think you have loved it for years but just didn't know what it was called, know what I mean? Like a new friend you meed that you feel like you've known forever! You know I love it so much I *may* even bust out the old guitar and try to learn how to play it :) Woooooo excitinggg!!! hehehe :) Anyhow, you listen here, you will just love it...

really

I'm really loving the quote of the day over there. "We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop." Couldn't be more perfect for me on this day...

The Daily Grey...

Ok so I should be sewing but my contacts were shriveling up in my eyes so I am doing a quick soak so they will last till this pair of pants is done :) So While they are soaking I was looking around on Facebook a little and just had to add this Daily Grey's Anatomy Quote thingie! And I'm gonna bring it over here for fun :) So Lookie over there somehwere ---> and you will find a little something hopefully daily :) If the quote is less than interesting I probably will just skip that day. This will get us addicts through until the season starts up again. Ok... so it will in no way be a substitute for an episode, but it's like a small morsel of something when you are starving, better than nothing! Am I the only one who says "Seriously" in my head alot? Cause seriously, I think it all the time. Seriously.

Complaints

I have some pictures to share but I can't! My monitor is broken so I really can't edit pictures if I want the rest of the world to think they look right. The screen is very dark and has a redish pinkish cast over it. Tick me off a little bit more why don't you....

How can a monitor break? Seriously....all it does is SIT there!!!! How annoying. Anyhow I'm going to have to borrow some other monitor in the house so I can edit my pictures for my groups launch coming up this week :) I'm almost done my set and I think I'm in love :) Ugg.. off to the store to but something else that will probably break. Three things I have bought there in the past 2 years and they are ALL broken. My mouse - jitting out and shooting off in all sorts of directions suddenly...not good when editing. The aforementioned monitor, piece of junk. And my Camera...don't even get me started on the camera! I'm going to go now before I find something else to complain about ;)...

sundown...

Ok I just wanted to share this picture but I keep procrastinating cause I can't really think of anything interesting to say other than this is Taya and my best friend Shanna. Shanna and I have known each other since before we were born and she is awesome :) It's good to have at least one friend you have had your whole life and knows you, really knows YOU....y'know?

Could my face BE and redder?

A little Bing for ya ;) Seriously though, we were in a boutique today and she was playing with the kitchen toy while I was shopping and then I heard the crying. And it wasn't just whimpering and blubbering, it was FULL ON hysterics. I run over like what the heck is going on? And I can't understand a WORD she is saying. Anyhow you don't really need the play by play, but bottom line here is that she totally peed on the floor. I guess they were pretty used to it cause they didn't really care that much, just said they would clean it up. Now, they don't have a bathroom and I was smack dab in the middle of downtown. So I had to traipse the poor little wet monster all the way into the mall and to The Bay where I figured there would be something inexpensive and perhaps somewhere to change her. $20 later I wish I had remembered about that pull-up in the car! I got her a cute jean skirt with some white eyelet sticking out, but I didn't really want it, she already has 2 jean skirts she doesn't wear. Anyhoo, I guess she needs to still wear diapers on long public trips, she never pees in THOSE! What sense that makes I don't know. Ugg anyhow, theres my embarrassing gripe for the day. I promise the next post will be a positive one :) BUT I will say that I did feel better later cause another little girl peed on the floor of another store LOL. Not funny but you know...

Wow

Time just goes by so fast in the summer!!! Busy busy! I'm just going to make this quick cause it's almost 2am and it's hot and I'm tired. So is there anyone who actually ENJOYS going for a walk with their 3 year old in a stroller? Cause I gotta be honest here, I find it to be a pain in the dang but. I really feel like I'm doing something good, going for a walk, I'm getting some great excersize and the kid is getting some delicious fresh air right? WRONG - rather than getting fresh air, she's getting on my nerves, and instead of excersize all I'm getting is a freaking headache. Seriously folks, why can't she just sit up and keep her fingers and shoes out of the spokes? Does she HAVE to have every leaf and pinecone that she sees? And you KNOW if you pick up that stick she wants its going right in those spokes which will cause you to stop YET again. I doubt I get any shred of excersize at all. Pshhhh WHATEVERRRRR. I love her to death...but come on kid, throw me a bone here...or even a stick would be good...so long as it's not in the spokes...

"stuff"

Oh my word how I LOVE "new stuff". I was a little stressed so I needed some retail therapy, I don't care what anyone says, it does SO work! If feel better don't I? ;) I found this stinking adorable little tin, who knows what I will put in it, probably some sewing stuff since it matches my sewing room perfectly. It's so cute with that little bird nest and eggies and flailing feathers! Mmmm I love it!!! I also found this really neato wire mannequin type thingie, I'm gonna sew a cute little outfit for it! Obviously this is also for my sewing room, If I can find a proper place, cause otherwise I don't know where the heck to put it. There will be some changes happening in my sewing room, I'm going to start working on that cutting table I have been "going to start on" for like 6 months. Well now I REALLY AM going to start on it....right after the kitchen and my bedroom. OK, maybe before my bedroom. But that kitchen I tell you, some moron thought it was necessary to SLATHER the wall in blue wallpaper glue before putting up the self gluing wallpaper. WHATEVER, now I'm on the hunt for my Mouse "briefcase" type thing with all my accessories in it, I need the scrubbing one cause I started doing it by and and....ummmm NO. WAY too much work. Then I thought of my handy dandy Mouse. That briefcase type container thingie is in the.....*dun dunn duuunnnnnn*....storage room.....ohhhh the dreaded storage room. It WAS clean....it really was....but that was a few months and more than a few house cleans ago....it's piled about 4/6 of the way up to the roof, and that doesn't count the perimeter which IS piled up the the roof. *Sigh* I guess skipping the spring cleaning didn't help much to prepare me for summer renovations.....

Anyways, I hope you like my "new stuff"...oh I also got a freaking unbelievably gorgeous mirror, but that is another post...at a later date....And I know I promised to show you some studio pix...and I will, but the ones I was going to show you are old now, and some things got broken so I need to replace them....After that I will show you :) Have an awesome day!!!!!

Yummy

She loves her some icecream!


I love these :) The top is by Angie, pretty*me, love it too :)

Just love lillies

Not much point to this post other than I love lillies! Specifically Stargazers, the hybrids just have no scent at all! What's the point of that? I didn't know that when I got these ones. Now I know :) Did you know if you eat a pink wintergreen mint at the same time as a red Mike'n'Ike it tastes like a lily smells? Well it does kinda :) Today I'm just peeling the dreadful faux tile puffy wallpaper off our kitchen walls. It's totally the ugliest crap I have ever seen!!! Luckily it replaced some wallpaper that was on their since the house was built so the walls are in perfect shape :) Gotta love that!!! Later I'll prime my closet walls. Bits and pieces at a time :) I can't stay on one project for too long or I'll abandon it. That's just me so I'll work with it instead of trying to fight it :) Welp, that was a nice little break! Back to it...

.com

Woo Hoo! I finally got something useful running on sugarsweetboutique.com !!! I'm so excited! It obviously is not finished and will pretty much be a site with all my links, but I can't exactly put my eBay URL on my business cards for local customers y'know? I'm also getting my Etsy store up and running. I will be selling appliqued tanks and T's and long sleeves probably. Hopefully some other "stuff" too. Pin cushions or something. Who knows, I'm just looking to expand a little, although I LOVE designing and sewing clothing, sometimes it gets a little monotonous. I recently made a quilt and stuffie for a friends baby shower(sorry I was in a rush and didn't get any good pix) and I quite enjoyed it!!! So who knows what I will sew up(heaven knows I have a LOT of fabric), but I will keep you posted and let you know when I have the store stocked :) Anyways just wanted to share what I have been doing while I'm slacking off in the sewing department :) Oh also I'm starting the makeover on my bedroom, so stay tuned for that, I think it's going to come out pretty cool :) Pretty GREEN and pretty cool :)

Could it be?

Have I actually found something that will keep little Taya entertained for more than a nanosecond? Could the girl with the attention span of a FLY really play with this thing for hours? It seems that way!!! Now lets hope the novelty doesn't wear off too soon, cause I like me some sewing time that is not interrupted by a whining "I want" every 2 minutes. So it's this, Playful Penguins Racing game! WOWEEE!!! I LOVE this little thing. I just think it is the COOLEST toy ever and when I walked into the toy store in the mall today and heard that all to familiar "squeak click squeak click" I felt a wave of nostalgic joy come over me and just KNEW I had struck GOLD! I actually hollerd out "Woweeeee look at that!!" Yah...total dork. We had one of these when my little brother was a toddler and I haven't found one since! I couldn't get one on eBay cause I had no clue what it was called. Anyhow, if you can find one, seriously GET one, they are freaking cool and Taya sat in front of this thing for 2 hours straight today!!! Hey at least it's not TV. Mama needs a little break to....well all I did was watch TV...but wherever, like I ever get to watch TV, HELLO Bob's last day today and we had an Islander on the show!!! That was awesome!!! He totally bailed and it was the funniest freaking thing I have ever seen on Price is Right. But he won a car and he was a cool guy:) How Fun for him!!! Something about us, you just know a west coast Canadian when you see one :) If you watched today, he is a pretty good representation of what west coast Canadians are like. I will miss good ole Bob though! Price is Right is the BEST show ever. OK now I need to do something productive that does not involve the computer. My friend just emailed and said "Let's do lunch"....but I read "Let's do a launch". Time to get off the computer I'd say ;) Laters!!!

Prepare to be disgusted...

If you're not on a diet now, you may be soon....or at least be skipping KFC. I for one don't think I can go there again after seeing this. I was tagged by Michelle to post a song that is a story of my life or something of that sort. So while reminiscing and listening to some of my old fav's from years past I come across a new Silverchair song. Digging deeper and roaming around the Silverchair videos on youtube, I come across this. At first I thought it was a joke, being now 2:30 in the morning-I am feeling a tad delusional, but apparently not! It is so disgusting...SO disgusting that I simply CANNOT stomach, or justify eating there ever again! Bleach. Have a look:

Yukkers. Still looking for that song that says "me". I have ALOT of favorite music. It just happens to have gotten lost in my mind, buried deep in crying babies and potty training woes ;)