daydreaming & such.

I wrote this really long entry yesterday at matt’s moms…and even took pictures. But, I’m too lazy to fix it up right now sooo, later? Maybe?

Right now I’m sipping coffee and stalking the window for the mail man to arrive. He’s bringing TWO of my crafty orders to me today and I’m sooo anxious to get my hands on them.  Also, we get paid tomorrow…and I have some money left over from the last paycheck and I’m SO itching to buy more craft things. I also made a list of all the giveaways for my National Scrapbook Day celebration and I need to start shopping for those. The beauty of it is…..if I can’t generate enough interest for them, it’s all stuff I won’t mind keeping!

I’ve been really on edge about that lately. Trying to make my blog something. Sometimes I wonder if it’s the right avenue because there are so many successful people out there already who won the big sponsors and I don’t know if I can compete with that. Sometimes I wonder if I should try another avenue. Maybe book reviewing? That’s the next idea on my list……but I just, don’t know. Lynne and I are planning to share a booth at a craft show this year, and I’m hoping that MAYBE I can not only generate a tiny bit of revenue but maybe some interest in following my blog & etsy shop and then maybe I’ll have enough drive to keep going? I don’t know. I feel like I just have to keep doing what I do and eventually my niche will present itself. I’m just having a struggle with patience, lately. I blame it on cabin fever.

I’m completely overly obsessed with housing right now. I want a house, like, yesterday. I want to use MY pretty things again, and I want to organize like a fool. I want to decorate. I want to mess around in my OWN kitchen. I want to groom myself into a Domestic Goddess. I want to plan rooms and paint and fill them with cute things. I’m ridiculously daydreaming about a Home Office/Craft Room combo, to the extent that I’m googling images of examples and I plan to make a collage one of these days – when I feel like I’ve sufficiently stalked the web for inspiration. Right now, though…I’m thinking smokey grey walls (in a bold, almost blue-ish hue…if that makes sense?), with white & black furniture, and liiiiitle adorable splashes of pink. I just haven’t decided if that pink will be a magenta-y hot pink, or a soft girly pink. Or both. But I do know….that all of the details….from fabric, to lamp shades, to the labels on my perfectly organized bins, will all be lovely lovely damask.

The beauty of it is…it’s ME enough to just, completely loooove spending time in there, but it’s not like HIPINKWALLS enough to scare matt from wanting to enter to use the computer. My vision, as it stands now, is to assemble some black tables in a long L shape, creating a work space for my crafts, and room for my cricut and cuttlebug (and all of their accessories), as well as a printer & docking station for my laptop. And in another part of the room, our computer desk with our desktop, and all other sorts of organized home-officey things, like a desk calandar that I use my mad paper crafting skillz on, and ways to organize our mail (ooh maybe even a file cabinet). I want it so bad I can TASTE IT. 

Of course, in order for this to happen I need to get a 4 bedroom home because bedroom #3 will most likely be filled with another squishy offspring before too long. And, since I don’t have any plans to stop at 2 at the moment, the office/craft space will probably have a short life span. But……I can have it for a little while at least, right? 

Ugh. I want a house. WANT WANT WANT!

(omg omg omg fedex is driving by. poo. it’s not for me.)

Well. I’m going to shut up now, because I need to finish this post on my family blog before I turn 80. And I’m pretty sure I’m hearing little man wake up. I think, simply because we have been bored out of our minds lately with no car, I might take him outside today. It snowed quite a bit last night, so there’s a nice, pretty, clean layer out there. The last time I took him out to play in it was…..hmm, 2.5 months ago? And he was not a fan. But his awareness of everything is improving daily I feel like….so I want to try it again and see what he thinks. It will kill 15 minutes. And I guess since Spring doesn’t seem to be coming any time soon we might as well embrace this, right?

http://www.scrapaholicstudio.com – new baby layouts today, some tips from yesterday, and a blogger interview from monday!
http://www.rychlicki.blogspot.com – 13 month letter & pics posted, and i’m working on 2 videos and some pictures right now!