Taking some time out…

Well, this will be short because I have a ton of stuff to do today… We’re leaving for San Diego tomorrow (sigh!) We have our friend Rudy watching the house, dogs and cat. I hope it goes well- I’m such a worrier when it comes to those fur balls. I hope they don’t miss us too much, and I hope that they are good to Rudy (and that Milo doesn’t wake him up to go outside at 5:41 am on the dot like he does me! :) Rudy is a good kid, and works for the Union Pacific Railroad, but is unfortunately laid off at the moment…

The last five or so days have be so weird. Scott and I both wondered if there was a full moon that we didn’t know about because everything in our house kept breaking… Ahhh! Scott’s AC in his van finally gave up (probably in protest of the 5000 miles we drove this summer!) Because of that, we decided to rent a little car to drive to San Diego with. We won’t have the dogs, so the van isn’t needed, and the gas mileage will be way better (and cheaper!)

Then on Friday we realized that our cable was out. Which totally sucked because… well… let’s just say that Scott paid the bill for the cable… it was $50 bucks… 10 years ago. That’s all I’ll say about that. But it being off meant that we finally had to sign up for Direct TV. It’s a considerably larger expense then what we had (ha ha) but oh well. I told Scott he had a good run… :) Unfortunately they are not able to hook it up until we get back from San Diego- which sucks for Rudy. I hooked up the rabbit ears, though… Hopefully he can survive on six channels of PBS and Telemundo. :)

Then we decided to buy a new faucet for the kitchen sink because the old one was leaking down behind the fittings and ruining the floor. This turned into a 2 day test of stress management (the first one we bought was missing an O ring so it leaked almost as bad as the old one.) But Scott finally got a really nice faucet installed… with a side sprayer- which I have to admit is one of those luxuries that I never really thought I wanted- but it’s nice!

Well… I will definitely update on how our trip goes… if we can ever bring ourselves to leave the beach!!! :)

Two for one day...

And in the spirit of all of the hard work we have been doing, Scott and I are running away to San Diego next weekend. I'm hopeful about finding someone to watch the "kids" while we are gone because we both agree the dogs had the run of our trip in June. But here is where we are planning on staying: (no dogs allowed, anyway! :)

The Pearl. Woo-hoo. It's a hotel built in the 1960s and decorated in Mid-Century Modern... I hope it looks as good in person! It's a little more expensive than what we're used to, but I think we've earned it!! I'll let you know...

Busy busy busy...

Well, Scott and I have both been pretty busy lately. Scott has been working none stop on a side project for our friend Tommy's sister. His sister and brother-in-law bought a wonderful condo for their two daughters to live in when they start classes at the U of A. Scott was asked to build the custom cabinets for the kitchen. Classes start on August 24, and they wanted to get the girls in before then, so it didn't give Scott much time to build and install the cabinets. For the past two weeks, he has been working 7 days a week on the job, putting in extra hours after work and on the weekends. I even spent last Saturday and Sunday with him helping out with the sanding and filling nail holes! On Saturday, Scott and his friend from work went to the condo to do the install, which spilled into yesterday. I came at the end of the job and helped him clean up. And they're wonderful! He is really talented- and has such a great eye for detail that all of the cabinets came out just perfect! I think (despite the exhaustion and long hours of work) Scott is really impressed and proud of the job he did. In the coming months he is also supposed to redo the two bathrooms in the condo. I'm pretty impressed!
I love the upper cabinets with the lights! I wish we had those in our house! :)
His part is done, but they showed us the granite countertops that are going to go in-Beautiful!
Go Scott!!!!!

I've also been working on getting my etsy.com shop going again. Last fall I was actually making a (although very very small) profit off of my shop. It just got to the point where I couldn't keep up with the demand versus the time I had available to actually make stuff (mostly because of school.) So I kind of let the shop fall to the wayside. My goal for this summer was to tackle some of the many lists of things I that I wanted to make and to get them in the shop. Sadly it took me almost to the end of the summer to do that... but oh well! :) I've been making these toddler A-line dresses that are fully lined (that took an entire afternoon to figure out how to do! ugh!) I'm still a little bit unsure of the sizing; it would be easier if there was a little rug rat running around here that could try them on! Because of the buttons on the straps and the forgiving nature of the A-line I think the dresses could actually grow with the child. It could be a dress when they're younger and perhaps a tunic when they're older. I'm going to bring the finished ones over to my friend's house this weekend to have her 20 month old try on... we shall see!

Most of them aren't completely finished yet- I still need to sew some buttons (which my new sewing machine does lickity-split! Thanks Scott! :) and finish some hems.The red fabric is polka-dot. It's not to obvious in this pic! :)