Archive for the ‘Kids’ Category

**The gallery is now updated!**

Pretty much what I’ve been!

I went on a knitting kick, so haven’t been dyeing at all lately. However I have a couple new colorway ideas, and I need to get dyeing starting tonight. I am attending a craft show this Saturday at Southdown Plantation in Houma, Louisiana. If you can make it, be sure to seek out the Shirley’s (heirloom sewing) booth. I’ll be bringing my goods into my mother’s booth, and my wheel is also coming along. Should be fun!

I’m about to go get some yarn kettle-dyeing, and while that is cooking I’m going to update my galleries – the handspun gallery is really not showcasing my current spinning. Those yarns are older – looser plying and thicker slubby areas. Since that is not so much how I spin anymore, I’m going to take them down and put up my newer works. I’ll keep ya posted!

On the home front, work is still slow for my husband. We are just barely eeking by, but eeking by we are Things will get better for us, and no matter what happens, we will all be ok.

My mother gave us her older glider, and we set it out on the front deck. The weather has been so nice lately that I love to take my knitting and spinning out there! Now if I can only dress it up with some nice potted plants

My son has begun potty training as well! Today he started taking his diaper off every time he peed in it LOL! I just wish he’d figure it out before wetting it, so I could get him on the toilet! But it’s progress, and progress is good. I’m looking forward to being diaper free!

Firstly, our mortgage is now caught up!  And we’re hoping with good budgeting, we’ll be able to manage.  We may be late every month, but hopefully it’s only the one month.

Secondly, we’re going to keep the internet   I was going to let the business go, since I don’t really have any stock left.  I have a small amount of fiber that is undyed, and all of my personal stash.  What I’m hoping to do, is spin it all up, sell it, save the funds to be able to buy new stock.  Here’s hoping it will go well!

In other news, Abby started her first day of kindergarten last Friday.  She goes back tomorrow – Friday was ‘girls only’ and today is ‘boys only’.  And they all go back as normal starting tomorrow.

I’m not sure what happened Friday, but she has just been a wee bit of a nightmare this weekend.  Sassing us, talking back, throwing tantrums, bossing all of us around, just an all out brat.  She was telling me no straight out when she was told to pick up after herself.  She’d get sent to her room until she could calm down and politely apologize, but then it would just start all over again. *sigh*  So finally, at 6:30pm, I sent her to her room for the rest of the night.  She had her dinner in there, and was not allowed out at all.  I also made her get into her bed at 8pm (about an hour early).  It seems to have worked though, she’s been much better today.  I think the real problem is that she got used to being home all the time with Mommy, Daddy & Matthew, and the schedule change just threw her for a loop.

Or the birthday of a five year old anyway

In about 8 hours time, my little girl, my firstborn, will be five years old.  It’s so hard to believe.  It seems like she was just a baby, crawling, taking her first steps, turning into the little one we dubbed ‘Crabby Abby’, starting pre-k and learning manners and how to interact socially.  She is such a good little girl.  She has her tantrums, and her stubborn little attitude, but she is so good about listening and doing what we ask of her.  She has such a great laugh, and loves to tell you how much she loves you.  She has grown in leaps and bounds, and I woulnd’t have her any other way.

Newbie

Growing ....

I love my new baby brother

Five

As promised …

On the potty training front – I’m afraid Matthew has decided he didn’t like the constant reminder’s of ‘do you need to go potty?’

making myself some new business cards, and Matthew is watching The Wiggles the next room over.  He’s been pretty cranky all morning, so I found it really odd when I realized he’d been quiet for quite some time now.

Uh-oh.  That can only mean bad things …

Or not.

It was only 11AM!  He doesn’t normally nap until 1pm!  I guess, either he’s getting sick, or the new nap schedule is catching up to him!  I discovered several nights ago, that if he only naps for 30 minutes to an hour, he is so very easy to get to sleep at night!  It was taking me an hour at least, to put him to bed at 8pm.  He was napping around noon to 2pm.  Now?  He is out within 15 mins both at naptime and bedtime!

Hi y’all!

You may know me from my other 2 blogs (that I never keep up) neversatisfied & Cajun Cloth.  Neither of those names work for me anymore, and frankly I am tired of changing names!  So I figure ‘Cajun Crafting’ will cover all my bases

I am a momma of two youngn’s – Abby & Matthew.  Abby just started Pre-K this year and loves it, and is quite the chatterbox.  Matthew is your basic two year old boy – very active, very destructive, very loud.  But he is also so very sweet and loving.

I began my crafting journey when I started cloth diapering Abby at 11 months old.  Seeing the high price of a diaper (averaging $15) made me want to learn to make my own.  Little did I know how addicted I would become to making them and all the cute fabrics!  So it didn’t turn out any cheaper *laughs*

Learning all about cloth diapering (and there is alot to learn!) had me wanting to learn to knit.  A knit pair of longies would average $50!  Totally worth it, but at the time totally not in my price range for a single pair of pants.  So I began to knit, and again, little did I know how addicted I would become to yarn! (see a pattern yet?)

Learning to knit just eventually led to my newest love, spinning my own yarn and dyeing the fiber/yarn.  My heart was never really in sewing, no matter how badly I wanted it to be, it just wasn’t.  I just don’t have the inclination to sew like I do to knit and spin.  Which is a shame because I have some beautiful fabrics and wonderful patterns, but they just sit.

I can’t even tell you the last time I turned on one of my sewing machines.  I have three – you see when I start a hobby, or anything for that matter, I dive in headfirst and go all out.  I want it all!  So I have my basic machine that I started with (a gift from my mother and a lovely workhorse), a serger (finicky thing that she is, but sooo worth the time she saves!) and my newest, a combination sewing/embroidery machine.  I would like to upgrade her honestly, but I just can’t justify it when I might only use it a dozen times a year.

So here we are today.   Just call me a cajun momma with too many hobbies