All My Sunbeams

I know–its hard to believe. 

Yarn

Now, don’t get too excited–and no fighting!

FREE ITEMS–don’t make me drag this all to enrichment next month.  That’s right–time for the annual swap.

2.5 pkg photo greeting cards w/envelopes & stickers

2 sizzix storage towers

a scrapbooking crop tote–big satchel perfect for taking things to scrapbook friday!

Have I ever mentioned that I’m allergic to dust–we’re talking REALLY allergic.  Well, all this stuff is just gathering dust.

Popularity: 1% [?]

I love Heidi–she’s not afraid to post things like this:

http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=23323&id=1438115808&ref=mf

Popularity: 1% [?]

I had a feeling this day would come….eventually.  I’m purging my stash.  Don’t laugh!!  I MEAN it this time! 

We’re planning to finish the basement next year, and some other stuff.  As a result, the boys will all have their own room.  Which means that my craft room is bye-bye.  Super sad–especially after Carli helped me organize it all so nicely.  But its time for me to be a big girl and get rid of all this.  I painfully pulled over 300 pages out of my scrapbook paper, and emptied out my rubber stamp collection.  The fabric is…well its not all GONE but I’ve reduced by 1/2.  I did this a few months ago too–so fabric keeps shrinking.  I’m giving the fabric away, but everything else I purge is going up on eBay for whatever it will bring.  As I wrote this I decided to pull out the beading supplies too…they’re up too now. It’s kinda scary, but I’m going to be strong.  I can survive!! 

This doesn’t mean that I don’t still love crafting and creating, etc.  I just will get supplies on an “As Needed” basis. 

I have a few bags I need to get rid of too if anyone wants to make an offer:notch handle clutch

  blue jacks bag

 pistachio stripe tote w/matching coin purse laptop sleeve

yellow flower handbag

watermelon stripe bag w/o magazine–still has everything else though

light blue bag w/everything still in it & matching coin purse.

I also have an embossed suede-type shaving-kit bag, a 12m size onesie-twirly dress, a sparkly blue sheer bag.  This one is hard to describe–if you remember the bag Christine Breen was carrying her scriptures around in–its like that, but pale blue.

Wow–that was more than I thought.  Honestly I’m not looking to get rich off of all this stuff–just assuage my guilt of having bough all the supplies and spending so much time doing it all.  They make great gifts if you’re not looking for yourself. 

Have a great weekend. 

Popularity: 1% [?]

Clearly I’ve been very busy w/important work ALL day long. 

Not!!

Jeff clued me in about the new version of Picasa–and guess what??  You can make movies in it!  I chose these pictures of my neighbor’s daughter as my first movie. http://picasaweb.google.com/alison6love/Movies#5241908967705432690

I think I’ll have to make more movies for sure. 

Popularity: 2% [?]

Its funny how kids change in small subtle ways.  Suddenly you’re realize that they’ve grown or changed.  A few instances of this came to me this past week:

1.  Loading up little girls into the car after Kindergarten–we were having a play-date w/2 of K’s friends from school.  They were all buckling up and suddenly one girl says “You have pink nail polish too!!”  They were soon squealing with joy over the fact that they ALL had pink nail polish on.  I literally could see the teenager in my daughter trying to come out.  Lord help me!  I’m not ready for that!!  LOL.  But it was funny.

2.  Getting dressed for pictures w/Becky (which was a LOT of fun, despite our frustration that the kids were just interested in ‘goofy’ poses).  I noticed that my son’s pants are getting to be a bit short on him.  When did that happen???  Thankfully we have a few pair of jeans ready for him to grow into–but seriously I don’t know how he can grow so much when he eats so little. 

3.  This one really makes me sad.  Upon the dentist’s orders, little monster is no longer a thumb-sucker.  My baby, my sweet fluffy boy was my ONLY thumb-sucker, and yes I know its for his own good.  And no, it wasn’t traumatic–we used Mavala *thanks Heidi for the tip* and it worked beautifully!!  But that’s not the tough part.  Now that he’s not sucking his thumb, he apparently doesn’t need to snuggle Bunny anymore to go to sleep.  How did I discover that??  I was doing laundry and pulled Bunny out of the dryer.  little monster had already been asleep for an hour.  first he turns 3 and then he grows out of his bunny??  So of course I had to console bunny with a hug before I put him in the appropriate laundry basket w/the rest of the clean stuff.  Poor bunny…all alone.

**update**  this morning J told me that little monster woke up asking for his bunny:

“Hiding in blankets??  Where bunny??”

Popularity: 3% [?]