Posted by SewPixie on April 13th, 2008 in Baking, Daily Life, Sewing, Sewing Room
So the house is a mess…again. You would think after thirty *mumble* years I would be able to keep a house picked up. This weekend I managed to get the kitchen and the dining room cleaned up. The living room isn’t terrible so I will get to that this week.
The sewing room however….was terrible. I couldn’t work anymore in there without a cleanup. Now I have to admit, normally that is stuffing things into boxes ‘to go through later’. But no, today I did a real cleaning. Which meant folding up a truckload of fabric.
I really have a problem! Sheesh I have a lot of fabric. I did pick up some new baskets to hold some of it so I hope that helps with tidiness. Of course I could always stop buying more fabric at a faster rate than I use it. Naw…that would make sense.
I also manged to get some more bags into the shop. I am happy to report that they all sold! The domestic items I will ship out tomorrow and I will send the International either on Saturday or during the week if I can get to the post. Also on the finished pile is a custom doll bag that I made for the Blythe Rescue Mission. It is a collaborative piece that will be belong to a custom Blythe doll. I’m psyched!
As you can see, Napoleon was no help with any of of crafting or cleaning activities. KoKo and Pixel generally spent the weekend lounging around also. Must be nice to not have to lift a paw yet get fed and have a nice place to sleep.
To wind up the weekend I baked some strawberry cupcakes for work. I was going to do a cake but saw some regular size muffin cups at the store today that you don’t have to use a pan for. The only pan I have is for mini cupcakes and I didn’t want to ice a billion little cupcakes. This of course reminds me that I have to go to work tomorrow. Yuck. It isn’t so much that I hate work and fear it is stealing my soul, it is just that I hate how busy I am. I have a ton of things I need to do and problems that need fixed. That just gets me all flustered as I don’t have time to do them all and wind up in a funk where I barely get anything done at all. What needs to be done is I need to get back into the habit of using 7-habits type planning and get those big rocks the hell outta the way.
Posted by SewPixie on April 11th, 2008 in Daily Life
Well huzzah and happy Friday! Guess what! Not only did I find out from Jen today that she started a blog but I found out that Karen already had one. How spiffy is that?
Now other than Jen, Karen, and my sister Kathy (who needs a blog but can be found here) the rest of you are asking yourselves…just who are Jen and Karen?!
Well, Jen I have known since what 4th or 5th grade? We spent many an afternoon drinking Diet Coke (Pepsi for me), eating Chex Mix and watching Heathers like a billion times. We also developed a driving test entirely using the word ‘dude’. Her mother’s closet chock full of clothing also helped out in a desperate time of needing something to wear to a school dance.
Jen met Karen later on in High School and she also worked at the theater with us. I then later also went to High School with Karen as I escaped the ‘ghetto school’. Many thanks to Jen for the fake address idea and to my sister for helping out with that (seriously…we drew up papers that made it look like my sister was my guardian and we were renting a house in the district…my other high school was getting too scary) Poor Karen had to live with me in a dorm room for two years in college and a year in a house. We rearranged our room like twice a month, it was crazy but so awesome. We totally had the best dorm room ever. I had a bunch of stuffed cows and she had a bunch of bears. We would randomly set up each others bears or cows in funny places.
Both these great gals put up with me and my serious lack of self esteem for ages upon ages (oh sheesh I don’t even want to think of how annoying that would have been….I’m so sorry girls!! 
). But as life sometimes goes, we lost touch for a number of years. Thanks to the Internet we have happily made contact again. The flip side to that is it makes me awfully homesick for Indiana and my youth. I do wish that I had appreciated the things I had back then rather than lament so often the things I didn’t think I had. So much time wasted that can never be recovered. But such is life, so now to press onward and make the most of it!
Posted by SewPixie on April 8th, 2008 in Blythe, Daily Life
So…this is the box that arrived on the driveway Monday afternoon. Wowzers!
Much unpacking ensued in the Arizona Spring heat to reveal the patio furniture I bought from Target.com and got free shipping. Wahoo that is like getting a ride to the store but not having to bug someone!
And now…ta-da! Somewhere to site in the backyard, although there isn’t much to look at back there yet. I do need to get around to ordering some trees for back there.
Other than that excitement, I worked the overnight maintenance window at work on Friday night and that went well. Sunday morning I moseyed on over to The Farm at South Mountain to meet up with some lovely Blythe pals. A good time was had by all that is for certain. I went home afterwards and slept until Sunday morning. 
Sylvia brought her little ones and they are just so darling! Vickie brought her husband and he is just so awesome about the dolls! Shannon was in town from New Mexico and it was really cool to meet her as well. Candace worked the window also but luckily her work ended early so she got to go home and get some sleep so she came too. Hurray!
Vickie brought two of her Dal’s to the meet…and well…I love them. Pamela had one up for adoption so I bought it. It should be here tomorrow. And Sylvia is lending me a Momoko and a Dolly Dolly book to see if I can make clothes for them. Oh yes! And there will soon be more dolly bags in the This is Blythe shop!
Posted by SewPixie on April 3rd, 2008 in Daily Life
So I just now totally thought of an April Fool’s blog post. I should have wrote up this big long epic about how I got over my fear of driving and bought a Smart Car! Alas, I did did neither of those things.
But I am going to a Blythe Meet on Saturday to hang out with the awesome Vickie, Shannon, and Sylvia! Woo!
Other than that I have started on some new Blythe Dolly Body Bags and have been fighting work issues all week with little sleep. And boy do I love sleep. So really…I probably have been getting enough for normal people, but for super sleepers lie me it hasn’t been enough. Oh yes and I must post about my new furniture. I got a dining set as well as a patio set off Target.com with free shipping! The dining set is here but the patio stuff won’t come until Monday.