Sorry, I know I’ve been slacking on the blog. You would think that since I’m not working right now I would have tons of free time but it hasn’t worked out that way. I neglected cleaning the house for a month or so while I sewed Christmas gifts so I am working on catching up with that. The upstairs and bathrooms and cleaned and I’ve moved on to the downstairs. We re-arranged some furniture to give me a sewing corner, but it’s not very organized so I have some re-arranging to do. I completely moved the Barkaholics stuff out of Ken’s office because I was totally bugging him going in there even if I was quiet. His office seems huge now! We also filled about 10 plastic storage bins with “extra” stuff when we put the house on the market, but since we haven’t had a showing in a while and we are going to stick it out until the market improves, I decided it was time to stop living in a museum so I have 10 boxes in my dining room to sort through before I can even think of cleaning the floor and dusting. I also ran into Year-End so I spent 4 days dealing with Quickbooks and Inventory. I’m not done, but I’m at a point where I can stop and clean the house. Finally when I finish all of that I have a HUGE list of bookmarked patterns and tutorials and a list of sewing projects to tackle. On top of all of this, Sammy hurt her back (doing a flying leap that turned into a spin and a back flip) so she is on restricted activity. I spent 3 days cuddling her while she was in pain (luckily that corresponded to my data entry in QB so I didn’t lose a lot of time) but now that she is feeling better it’s even harder to keep her quiet. It’s too cold to go on walks and the dogs are extremely bored. I just dumped the camera pictures from Dec 24-today so here is what we got!

First some of my last few sewing projects!
Business Card Wallets I sent to AZ (Keyka Lou Pattern)

Bag I made for Danielle (Camille’s Bag Pattern):

Erickson Christmas
Ken and I made mom a Minion 2009 Calendar

Chris got Sammy & Loki a bag full of “fishies” and some frogs and chicks too (they bubble, ribbit and chirp!) “Fishy” is Sammy’s favorite toy. She sleeps with it and if it ever falls behind the bed she goes into panic mode. When it starts to fall apart we have to replace it in the middle of the night when she is sleeping.

Mom tied a rope to fishy so Sam could play tug:

What’s that? Can I have the paper???

Are we done yet? This is exhausting!

Loki was trying so hard to just take a nap

Sammy really liked Sarah

Cutie! Sammy’s shirt says “Dear Santa… I can explain!”

Ken and Loki

Wiesner Christmas
Ken’s little cousin with the crayon roll I made

Someone gave Ken’s sister Laura a box of disposable containers. She is the queen of leftovers. Too funny!

I made Ken’s mom an apron. It turned out just OK so I bought her one at Williams Sonoma too.

Ken’s Aunt Marcia and Uncle Wally

Random
Sam & Loki taking turns on the princess blanket

Their new bed at Grandma’s. Yes it’s more than big enough for the two of them but they still fight over it.

Sam not feeling so great but still being super cute!

And finally, my new slippers! I ordered these like 2 weeks ago from LL Bean and Fed Ex lost them! They finally turned up in Arizona and then sent them back here. They finally came yesterday. Thank goodness they fit!

OK, does that get me off the hook for not updating for 2 weeks? Also, Ken and I are using Facebook a lot more now so if you don’t have Facebook, sign up, and if you do, friend us! I never thought I would use it but it’s a neat way to share pictures and stuff. The new iWork/iLife from Apple is going to have a direct link from iPhoto to Facebook so I have no excuse not to upload pictures. I also will have no excuse to put off organizing my photos… I tend to take 50 pictures just to get ONE good one of Sammy looking at the camera. I probably have 3GB of Sammy not looking at the camera. That can be my next project! Also, I realize there are like no pictures of me but that’s because I usually have the camera. I also need to lose like 30 pounds. Loki and I are going to be workout buddies!

That’s it for today!!!