Lemonade & Lightning Bugs

Us girls at Limevine are having our very first guest launch! It started on May 1st and lots of gorgeous auctions are currently running with more to come :) This has been the funnest group of ladies that joined in to party on the Vine! Not to mention the mass amounts of talent and creativity...and FUNNY! Oh my. Ok so here is my design, the skirt is mad full! I couldn't get a decent twirling shot though cause one time Taya fell down when I told her to twirl and now she is just so sure that she is going to fall again. I tell her she won't fall and she makes herself fall down on purpose just to prove me wrong. The words of Rafiki come to mind here.... It starts. Anyhoo, the launch, every listing just looks amazing! Presentation and designs both, these gals are top notch! All my favs in one place, gotta love it!!! So please do check out the launch here. And you can check out my own listing, Sand & Sea, right here! Thanks so much lovely people! Hope you are having a great weekend :)

Verify this...

So I finally figured out why I'm such a lurker on other people's blogs and hardly comment. It's cause of those stupid word verification things. Like there is even a "word" to verify. It's a bunch of stupid jumbled up letters, and sometimes numbers, that are for the most part fairly obvious and non-distorted....yet still they don't work. I'm not dumb, I know I typed it in right. YOU are dumb you word verifier, it's alllll you!

new shoes...

Ya know I'm really not one for wearing converse myself, but when I saw these little beauties sitting in the shop, I just HAD to have them. I even waited 6 whole months to get them too! Finally last week they became mine :) HOW cute is that Little Red Ridinghood?!?! And those little mushrooms!!! And the turquoise/red combo!!! Oh my word I love it!!!! I mean this is probably the only pair of converse I will ever own, but totally the best pair ever :) They are part of the 1hund(red) Artists thing that Converse is doing. These ones are by Camilla Engman. Anyhoo, that's all I got! Back to sewing for me!

The sun is shining...

...and I feel good and I'm listening to this :)



You likey? I likey :) I watched a Justin Timberlake concert on TV last night. What a fun show that looks like!!! I would love to go. the only thing that weirded me out and un-sexyed JT was his insanely sweaty knees! Eiww....and weird!

Lollipop Twirls!

Get ready for a whole new line from Sugar Sweet Boutique! Here's a sneek peek :) Starts tomorrow on eBay and continues on Etsy ;)

Ok there ya be it's all listed up! Come check it out :)

And the winner is...

Lucky number 17 - Erika Cass!!!! Yay for you!!!! I'll check out your blog and shoot you an email in a little bit! Congrats to you and thank you to everyone who entered!!! I will be having another contest shortly, probably not the 'post and enter' kind, but something similar :)

And you know what? My third favorite number is 17 :) Here is why:

'17' - smashing pumpkins

17 seconds of compassion
17 seconds of peace
17 seconds to remember love is the energy behind witch all is created
17 seconds to remember all that is good
17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain
17 seconds of faith
17 seconds to trust you again
17 seconds of radiance
17 seconds to send a prayer up
17 seconds is all that you need

And since that song is an instrumental, and only 17 seconds long exactly, I will post my second favorite number as a song. Thirty-three :) And sorry, I don't know how to stop it from playing automatically! I find that annoying, but I can't stop the madness!! (I took it off, it was ticking me off too much)

My Etsy Shop and a little sumthin FREE for you!

Good evening everyone! I have had my Etsy Shop open for over a year now and have never listed anything in there. How silly!!! I finally listed up 3 things and one is a brand new design just added this evening and it's a custom!!! I wanted to celebrate my Etsy grand opening by offering a little something free from me :) Not sure what it will be, big or small..who knows. I will let the winner inspire me :) So just leave a comment and I will do one of them ther random number picker thingamajiggers ;) It will be open until you see me announce the winner. Thank you all for being so awesome, supporting my business and allowing me to stay home with my little pumpkin :) Oh and please sign up for my mailing list over there -----> to receive notification of new listings and specials!

I need help!

Well, I have no idea what I'm doing and I need some help. I want to start selling locally but the locals are not interested in paying the kind of money I'm used to getting online KWIM? So I need to sell simpler things. The only problem is that I need to buy fabric wholesale and I don't know how to go about doing that. If anyone can lend me a little hand and help me out I would be forever and ever grateful!!!! I have a source for wholesale AA gear, just need the fabric :) You can email me at tayasmama@shaw.ca if you are able to help. Thank you!!!

It's a real shame you know...

It's a shame that I like my hair best about 12 hours after it's been washed and done. Which is usually when I'm on my way to bed or just laying around on the couch, and usually about 4-6 hours too late. When it's freshly washed, its frizzy, when I straighten it, it's flat. I use a root....fluffer upper, whatever that's called...and it does work...but like I said, it still looks best 12 hours later when I've run my hands through enough times to calm the frizz and it's straightened itself and the ends have curled themselves under. Ah well, maybe someday there will be someone else around to enjoy my good hair at that time of the evening :) Anyhoo, just sharing that little bit that was on my mind and also I have this little number ending in the morning. So far no action on it, but it's one of my favs (do I really say that ever time?). And I have this here adorable dress available on Fleurlenfant.com And last but not least I have these two resells available and ending in a day and a bit. Welp, that's all for now I suppose. I'm headed for a teensy trip up Island tomorrow for lunch with family. I used to live there for two years and it sucked a butt. Just a visit should be ok though ;) alrighty, laters!!!

Tap tap...is this thing on?

Little Taya has added Tap to the dance roster! She loves ballet too so I picked a class that is half ballet then half tap. These dang shoes cost a fortune!!! And she said they were too slippery and took them off. Harassed for MONTHS I have been, a jillion dollars I spend....and she takes them OFF. Jerk! But I think it would help if the teacher didn't have them running from one end of the room to the other in them? Plus there are mirrors on the wall and most of the kids just stare at themselves the whole time, so now they are watching themselves run with the slippery shoes...it's not good. Hopefully next week will be better. Those are my baby's striped leggies there :) Can't get enough of these striped knee socks!!! Ballet tights suck! First off-they don't match ANY bodysuit I could ever find. Secondly-they snag and pill real easy. Third-they stain real easy. Fourth-they cost too much. Fifth-you can only use them one place. Sixth-they get that little old man wrinkly loose skin look right at the ankle and that really drives me crazy. And seventh-people love striped knee socks! I suppose the fifth reason could go for the bodysuit, tutu and footwear too... but whatever. Anyhoo, just wanted to share that little pickie! It's so hard to get a good shot...them there 3 yer olds is wiggley!

Thanks kid!

So Taya keeps sitting on the toilet without putting her kid seat on there. And she falls in every time. It's at the point where this is now ticking me off. I have given her the lecture about putting on her seat so many times it's not even funny. So tonight I'm givingher the lecture, because once again she has fallen into the toilet, "You HAVE to put on your seat Taya, the seat is for girls with little bums like yours so they don't fall in! You have a little bum so you need a little seat! " and she replies "Yah, only mama has a big bum" .......ok ummmm.. totally not my point but whateveeeerrrr! "Yah...that's right..."

Woooahhhh we're half way there..

Wooooaahhhhhh livin' on a prayer! Sorryyyy couldn't help it, this is my 50th post, so I'm half way to 100 :)

Today is also my sweet group Limevine's 1st year anniversary!!! Yay for us woo hoo!!! And we are Celebrating with a good ole' fashioned Jubilee. Click the pic too see all of our listings :) Have a good night :)

P.S. I Love You

More like PS I love Jeffrey Dean Morgan! Oh man guys, you GOTTA see this movie! Love love loved it! Bring kleenexes cause you will definitely cry. I cried alot so that means you will probably cry at least half as much as I did. I'm really bad with the crying thing. I always imagine that whatever terrible thing is happening, is happening to me. Especially when people die. Ugg that is the WORST! But on the bright side, a nice...very nice bright and sunny side side...you get to see Denny naked. Yes, that's right ladies... naked Denny. And it's as good as it sounds :) And plus he sings, and plays guitar... and carries a bail of hay... a big heavy one:) Also there is Harry Connick Jr, and Gerard Butler. So pretty much it goes cry, drool, cry, drool, cry, drool... Well you get the idea. I love it, can you tell? I hope I get to marry one of those men that get better looking as they age, like George Clooney or Jeffrey here. I gotta give Hillary Swank props too, she was really good! Prolly why I cried so much. And this is definitely not a movie you go see with guys. Go with girls for sure! K, g'night!

Pale Force

YESSS!!! This is the best game ever LOL. If you are a faithful Conan watcher you will love this :) If you are not, in fact, a Conan fan, you'll prolly just think I'm a weeeeirdooo!!!! Which is totally fine, I'm ok with that :)

The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years was one of my fav shows. I was wondering why the heck haven't I seen it in so long? Oh, that's because they don't put it on tv, which is totally stupid, I would rather watch it than any of the other 50 shows in syndication in which Frasier once again plays Frasier. Anyhoo, The Wonder Years was on 3 times today, Christmas episodes. Desperate for more, I looked it up on youtube and found this. It's so funny! But so true. I didn't ever think what it would be like without the voice over.

Cozy...

Ohhh I love this vest :) When I saw it I just had to snaggle it away for us :) After I initially saw it, I went back and *gasp* they were totally all gone :( SO I had to eBay it up hehehe. I was actually able to get a few pix this afternoon before we jumped into the car. It's so dark and wet and yucky out and the skies are too bright and it stinks for me who's camera by the way is dying a slow death. The warranty ran out 2 months ago, of course it's started it's decent into nonworkingville. Whatev, hopefully I will find the time to get on the sewing train again and make me some 'new camera' dollars :) Anyhoo, here's the only shot that turned out.

Oh and P.S.- You can see that the self inflicted mullet is growing out now and quite easily camouflaged with a good ole fashioned combover!

Mmmm... samwiches...

Well, hello everyone! Not that much exciting things going on and the weather has been to crappy for any photo sharing really. But I did just get this totally awesome kitchen for Taya and she LOVES it to death!!! Sure, it came in 45,000 pieces... And yah, it did take 5 hours to put together. And mmm hmm, you do have to spend just as much on fake food and mini cooking paraphernalia as you do on the kitchen itself.... but it's definitely worth it :) The good news is that she didn't pee her pants when I dramatically unveiled it. She peed her pants a second time, the next visit to that same boutique when she was playing with that kitchen. Needless to say that I flew solo when picking up the pretend food from there. Anyways I have never eaten so many pretend samwiches in my life, and I think her baby doll is pretty full too. I love that she loves it so much :) Usually, you get them a new toy and it's old news the next day. I think this one will really last :) Well ta-ta for now!

Autumn

It's come, it's been and it's on it's way out! There were actually a few DRY days in the first parts of autumn! Luckily for me it was one of the days we ventured to Goldstream Park for a little nature walk. More pictures to come. This is just a quick post before I go to bed! Thankfully I was able to get some cute pics of Taya before she gave herself a freaking MULLET. Yah, that's right *vvvrrrtttt* chopped off the hair on the top/front of her head. WHAT....a goober.

Seriously???

Anyone watch Oprah??? These days all you need is that LG Fridge and your "cell phone". Seriously? Just throw the rest away, you got everything you need right there!!!! Come on people, Who needs a damn DVD player hooked up to their FRIDGE! It is for keeping FOOD cold!!! FOOD!!! And a slide show of your pictures? What ever happened to fridge magnets and real pictures? Oh that's right there is no room for them on account of the TEEVEE, Pshhhh. Unbelievable.

It's been a long time...

I shouldn't have left you without a dope beat to step to...step to, step to

K, I have been computerless for almost a month. GAHHHHH. Here I am, I'm back. I am not the most regular poster so I'm sure no one really noticed LOL