busy week ending with cold hard cash

This week has ben super busy. Along with day to day household life, 4 kids and planning for Ashton's upcoming 1st birthday, I have been crafting like crazy. I found out a litttle over a week ago about the McDowell Home and School craft fair and wanted to have a table there to promote some of the items I have been working on. In retrospect I wish I had been better prepared and had a more polished looking display but I think I pulled quite a bit together in quite a short time. I didn't sell everything I brought, and I was told by 2 different customers that I had priced my stuff too low, but the way I figure it is I price the items at a price I would want to pay. Sure I would love to make oodles of money but I would rather sell lots of items at a decent price than a few at a high price.
The strange thing is that the items I thought would sell didn't and the items I made last minute just because I wanted some for myself almost sold out! hmmmm
So hopefully in the next couple of days I get my remaining items photographed and my website up and running for ordering. I also am looking into any other craft/vendor fair going on in the next few weeks. So if you hear of any, please let me know.
And a big thanks to anyone who actually reads this blog who came out and who bought an item from me.

mom? entrepreneur? *mompreneur*

Lately I have been embracing my creativity. When I get a few free moments that is. In other words, instead of putting away the folded laundry or emptying and reloading the dishwasher I have been dabbling in the dining room with trinkets from my cabinet of craft goodies.

Some of the items I have attmpted have been boutique (or bowtique) hair clippies, wooden beaded pacifier clips and reuseable sandwich/snack bags.

I am in the midst of creating a web site for online shopping. Since this is all new and I'm still "testing the water", I am giving it a go with a free web hosting site. The name of the *business* (and I use the term quite loosely, is Cassabella Bowtique. The website is going to be http://cassabellabowtique.webs.com/. I've started it but who knows how log it will take me to really get it up and functional.

Here is a preview of some of the items I have been working on:

                                         
                                        

I am SuperWoman!!!

Ok so I'm totally not. But I accomplished something today that I am very proud of. It involved plumbing.

Well, not quite plumbing. Ok, not plumbing at all but there was a faucet and water involved.
Recently, we bought a second hand portable dishwasher I found on a facebook *yard sale* group. It matches our current appliances and for $180 NOT having to rip apart the kitchen cabinets was a big selling feature.

So this great buy of mine became somewhat of a headache when we first brought it home. When we bought this house this summer we changed the kitchen taps to a set I found at a discount price, brand new, online. I paid $35 plus shipping to a canadian retailer (bonus) for a set that was retailing at a big box store for $179. Only problem was that the adapter piece for the dishwasher was too big for the end of the faucet. After searching every possible store I conceded that my stylish taps had to go. This meant buying new unimpressive taps. But hey, the dishwasher works well, so that makes it more than worth it in my mind.

Ok, so, back to what I did. This adapter piece leaked like a mother____ you know whater. And if it was left on the faucet, when you ran the water  it sprayed out these little slits in the sides ALL OVER the kitchen. So every time I ran the dishwasher I had to switch end pieces. Sounds simple. Surprisingly not. Anyways, to get to the point, somehow, I fixed it. See, last night I tried to take off the adapter and it came off in 2 pieces (not so good) so this morning I had to put a bunch of inner workings back into the bottom half and I guess I did it right (which meant it had been wrong) because now it can stay on the end of the faucet for good. No more pain in the ass switching ends just to use my damn sink!! Yay Me!!

Ohhh Rob....

My husband has been coming out with the oddest things lately. Or maybe I'm just paying attention to him. Who knows?

First funny/interesting convo went something like this...

I was walking up the stairs behind Rob carrying a laundry basket (I was carrying it, he wasn't)

Me: ......something...something...something.....you don't even lift a finger around here, ...blah, blah, blah

Rob: (turning around) see, I lift a finger! (as he flips me the bird)

At this point I am laughing uncontrollably, not because of what he did, but the giddyness in his voice and the look on his face. Priceless! (maybe one of those "you had to be there" moments)

Today, though, my dear hubby was sent into the grocery store to get apples and a loaf of bread. I told him this was ALL we needed. He comes out, his pocket $47 lighter, and with the apples, bread, 2 bricks of cheese and A CASE OF TUNA. Not just a couple of cans. An entire flipping case. I usually buy a few cans a week because it's one sandwich both my school aged kids can agree on and Rob makes the sandwiches for them when he makes them for his lunch.  He said, and I quote, "ehh, I get tired of only having a few in the cupboard, now i can see that I'm not going to run out. My husband has a problem. He is a canned food hoarder. He doesn't necessarily even eat the stuff in the cans but if it's on sale and even remotely interests him he will stock up on it. He is a sale junkie! Nothing makes his day more than walking out of the grocery store with a cart (or 2) full of sale priced goodies he won't have to re-buy for the next 6 months (if not longer). Ask him how much toilet paper we have! Or ask him what happened with all the canned soup we bought over a year ago. I gave it away just before it expired. That and a bunch of jars of spaghetti sauce.

Ahhh but how cute is he right now? He is camping out on the living room floor with Cohen, Literally, In a sleeping bag. I guess I'll keep him.