what we've been up to...

From Thanksgiving until now life has been a blur. My life these days has been a mix of running around being a mom and making jewelry at every available opportunity. This is my view on most days:

Thankfully this was taken on Friday, when hubby was off of work. He did everything extra that needed to be done that day: laundry, dropping off kids, playing with them, getting me Starbucks (all of the important things). I'm so thankful for him and his support of the business during this crazy time of the year.

But it hasn't been all work...we have made some time for other important things like...

decorating our ginormous tree

loving on some newborns at my MOPS table

making tissue paper flowers

(which got ruined in just a few hours...gotta love when my oldest 

wraps one around the dogs collar - her brother's - and the 

dog tears it up, resulting in tears from little brother)

and checking out the light show in the next neighborhood

(www.noblesvillelights.com)

I'm not going to lie, there have been tears and stress but I'm SO grateful that I was able to take the leap in June at become a WAHM. Because of this I've been working all day long, but I still have my evenings to relax with hubby and I'm home during the day for the kids needs, instead of working all day at my job and all night at jewelry. I'm so grateful for God's provision and faithfulness. 

Now that the Christmas deadline has passed and orders are getting out (even though they're still coming in, just not as many so I can breathe again)...I'm excited to start baking, crafting and working on the blog for next year. I'm still not sure of the direction of the blog for 2012. I want this to be a place where people will enjoy coming...learning new crafts, being inspired and learning a little bit about my life. If you have suggestions for the blog in 2012 - what you'd like to see/read, what you've enjoyed so far, etc - please let me know in a comment or email. I value all of you so much and want to make this an inspiring, life-giving, positive place to land. 

I don't know how much I'll be back before the end of the year, so have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

our day...

Today was a good day (minus hubby having to work).

I made this...

and this...

and this reversible tote using this tutorial...

and this double ruffle cash envelope system wristlet using this tutorial...

We decided to head to the park and have a quick impromptu picnic before the rain and cold weather blew in...

Then Big E and I made apple bars! Yum!

What an awesome day of just being together and making crafts. Did you all have a great Saturday?

(I'm linking up to Sew Chatty's Made With Love Monday!)

A Day in the Life...

Today we didn't have anything concrete planned which I love. Two of my favorite scrapbook bloggers are Ali Edwards and Becky Higgins. Becky is the designer of my Project Life album that I am doing for 2010. Ali is doing a "week in the life" scrapbook where she documents pretty much everything she does in one week of the year. It's super cool. I love seeing what she's capturing during the day.

So as an addition to my Project Life album I decided to put in an insert for today as my "Day in the Life". We did a lot today and I took a lot of pictures. It was fun to take a picture from each event and document it for my album. I'm going to put the pictures into a 9-section basketball card holder. The day is not over so I'll add a few more once Hubby gets home but this is our day so far. I think some of the text [color] is going to have to be changed, but I won't know that until I print it out.