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The Name Game

I saw this on The Happy Zombie's blog and it looked like so much fun.  So I had to copy her and do it too.  If you are reading this, then I am tagging you so go do it on your blog and then comment here so I can read your list of fun names! :)  Oh and when you reference me on your blog you can just call me K-Van or Gardenia Snickers! LOL

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car),
Brownie Taurus

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie),
Nothing Chocolate Chip (I *hate* and I mean HATE ice cream so this one really isn’t working for me.)

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name),
K-Van

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal),
It is a toss up between Green Zebra and Green Giraffe.

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born),
Denise Lubbock

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first),
Vanke

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink),
The Turquoise Diet Coke (?? That one is just stupid)

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers),
Charlie Jack

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy),
Gardenia Snickers

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ),
Janice White

And a few more…

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter),
Cosgrove Charleston

12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower).
Summer Daisy

13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Apple Shirtie

14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree),
Cheerios Bradford Pear

15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”),
The Sewing Sunshine Tour

I bet you didn't know . . .

I'M ON OVERLOAD!

Apparently I am supposed to be able to

• keep a perfectly clean house
• sew a new handcrafted purse
• make dinner
• balance the bank account and pay the bills
• take care of a fussy baby

and this should all be done every single day!  Oh and I am supposed to take care of said fussy baby the mama's way instead of the way I KNOW will work.  Additionally I should not interrupt the mother of the baby while she is eating one of her 3 well-balanced meals or during her 1.5 hour showers.  During all this I am supposed to drive the mother of the baby around while she fills out applications and interviews for a job.  Also I think during the driving around is when I am supposed to eat that quick snack I was hoping to get instead of breakfast or lunch.

ARGHH!!!  If I would have known all this I would have I would have given up before I even started!

Frustration is my middle name right now.  I really do want to have the baby and her mom here and I do think little mama should get a job.  But something is going to have to give.  Hopefully I can express this a little bit better tonight at our family meeting that I am calling.

I *love* how this one turned out!

I have all of this great fabric from the Heather Bailey Freshcut line that I have been hoarding forever.  I totally didn't want to cut into it.  I was afraid to mess it up.  But I finally busted it out and got to sewing.  I am in LOVE with this purse.  It is a bucket style bag and it closes with a zipper.  I am getting this zipper thing down.  It is listed in my shop and is just waiting for a new home.  I am trying to get my work into the hands of people outside of my family and close friends.  I came across an opportunity to get my product out there but I will need to donate 100 items!(where is that smiley with the bugged out eyes!)  I am thinking of donating my cute key fobs because I can get into assembly line mode and mass produce them pretty quickly.  Just gotta find the time to sit down and do it.  Think good thoughts for me and my sewing machine!

They are naming the new design star tonight!

 

Tonight, Sunday night, at 8pm CST Design Star comes on HGTV.  I just love this show. Well really I love all reality TV.  Even the stupid stuff.  I like it.  I like watching mind numbing stupid shows sometimes.  After I have spent the day wrangling fabric and drafting patterns and calculating measurements, etc., I find watching some mindless TV makes me feel better. 

So tonight is the Design Star finale.  It is down to Todd and Kim.  I like Todd's personality and I like Kim's designs.  So I am cool with whichever one wins.  I watched last year and I didn't care who won then either.  I liked both of last year's final contestants so it didn't matter to me who won.  Now last year's winner, David, has the show Color Splash on HGTV and I really enjoy watching it.  It will be fun to find out who wins and what kind of show they end up having.

We're rich!

Money Money Money.
Originally uploaded by hamoozie.

Well not really rich BUT . . . we have more money this paycheck than we have had in the last few weeks. That makes me a happy happy girl! :)

Everyone that knows me knows that I am strict with our budget. I am aware of every penny that comes into or out of our bank accounts. When my husband's paycheck comes in I sit down immediately and pay everything and figure out where we are money-wise. Same thing with my business account. After I have a few sales, I sit down and figure out what supplies I need to order and what I can afford.

So these last few paychecks we have been SOOOOO broke. I couldn't figure out where the money was going. I knew we were spending a bit extra on the grandbaby but not THAT much extra. By the time my husband got paid again, we were always just scrimping to make it. We haven't been like that in a couple of years so I just couldn't figure it out. We hadn't taken on any new bills so I just couldn't figure it out.

Well hubby got paid yesterday so I sat down this morning to pay the bills. I was going over the bank account online and I noticed a debit to the account. It was exactly one half of our house payment. What?! . . .hmmmm . . . what was going on? So I got to poking around online and figured out that I had set up an automatic withdrawal for each time my husband got paid. It was set up to take one half of our house payment out of our checking account and put it into our savings account.

OMG!!!! We've been double dipping to put money in savings. That a totally good thing but so hard on the rest of the month. So yeah, we've got a couple of extra house payments saved up. It is a great cushion to have and I love it. But now I am just going to go back to paying the bills like regular and enjoy that little extra breathing room we have. :)

Sewing is the word

Just doing some sewing here.  I'm enjoying my new studio more than ever.  Jacy is getting into more of a routine so I am able to slip away more & more during the day to the studio.  Here are just a few things that I have sewn lately.

I really like the brown & tan one.  I have not sewn many bags of this style and I do not really know why.  I love sewing the quilted purses.  I do not sell nearly as many as I would like to make.  I think I would sew one every day if I could sell them that fast.  I have another purse cut out and ready to be sewn but I am going to hit the hay for the evening.  You can check out my shop and see it when I have finished it.  I am tired now.  This being a grandmother and a business owner is hard work I tell ya! :)