happy birthday to many.

Today is my youngest's birthday. He is 4 today. He chose to stay home and watch TV and play on the iPad and overall have a very relaxed day.  I liked it.

In May I will be turning 38! One step closer to my senior discount! For my birthday I have decided to take the plunge and run a booth at the craft show on Joint Base Pearl Harbor- Hickam.  I am nervous. I am worried it will be loud, and I will want to run away screaming. I am worried that no one will buy anything from me. I am worried that everyone will buy everything, and I won't have enough stock on hand. I am worried that I will forget to put my etsy shop on vacation, and I will over sell. I am thinking about the business cards I ordered and what will I do if they are printed wrong. Or what if no one wants to take a card from me, and I am stuck with a box of cards. So you can see, I am a bit of a mess. I am not used to being so far out of my comfort zone, and I am weirding out.... when I think about it.

But TODAY is my youngest's birthday. And so I am working hard on playing balloon, and icing a chocolate cake. I am working hard on what iffing I have a second piece of that cake, or what if I have tea instead of milk tonight.  These are much easier to work on. And really, these what ifs are more important.

Happy birthday, Henry.

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More things I've been working on.

A bias cut dress and belt combo. The zipper killed me a bit since I am horrible at zippers but I'll take it as learning. 

A quick bow that I'm going to use as a template to make some bows with cute hello kitty fabric I have. 

And some more little pouches for my etsy shop. I'm thinking of doing a craft show in February. Just a small one to get my feet wet. So the next few weeks I should be amping up the baby sheets and blankets and burp cloths. 

11 +15 = 26/200

Sometimes when the air is just right and breezy, and I hear the doves cooing, and the shade is dappled as the leaves dance, I can feel the calmness that I knew as a kid at my Grandparents house. It is a welcome feeling even thought it reminds me that I am no longer a child, and that my grandparents are dead. Because the love and warmth of those memories will never grow old, will never die. 

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Some smallish things I've done this last week.

5 tsumtsum coin purses for my etsy store. 

5 fruit salad Mickey coin purses for my etsy. 

A wee baby hat. 

And I fixed my light box. 

It's been a fun week and I'm happy to say that I made another sale. If you have a chance, have a gander...

11 + 4 = 15/200

Today I worked on covering a bench. Henry used a pair of scissors to make the wee little hole more noticeable. (Thanks Honey)

It consisted of removing a million staples...

And then adding extra batting.

Then I used the old cover to measure for a new one. I made sure to mess up the French seams, once, for good measure. 

All in all I think it came out well. There was minimal cursing and sweating. 

4/200

Pink lady baby.

I finished a baby hat today. I wanted to take a pic to show scale but it came out horrible. 

So I tried something else... An apple. 

But then I was just a sad faceless apple wearing a hat. So I fixed it. 

Poor little apple headed baby. I hope my hat keeps you warm. 

3/200

Two new twirly skirts for Miss K. 

2/200 crafts.