Moving Right Along In Life

 

This is my business! A real, Sole Proprietor, my own.... business!

I've done personalized embroidery for years, 6 to be exact.

I called it, The Pink Blueberry.

 

Cute stuff!!

 

In the meantime, my oldest son deals with eczema. Really bad eczema.

And I had the bright idea to make him homemade soap.

 

Then friends tried it..

Then a store wanted to buy it..

 

 

and now, I sell it!

Well, soon. on Etsy

 

I'm working on photos and shipping and logos,

you know, all that business stuff.

I'm a one man, sole proprietor show! LOL!

Exciting!

 

 

 

 

 

online again!

I am online again!

Look what you can do when your not surfing the web.

Happy Friday everyone :) it's good to be back.....

check it out...

I'm changing the Embroidery blog into more of a crafty blog with tutorials of sewing and crafts.
Here's the first tutorial......don't laugh o.k. :)
http://thepinkblueberry.blogspot.com/2011/03/simple-craft.html

The Pink Blueberry

visit The Pink Blueberry here......

http://thepinkblueberry.blogspot.com/

Stop by my embroidery blog to see the newest stuff!

http://thepinkblueberry.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-model.html

the goal...

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! I have 1 more day to make these hats for a mother/daughter conference this week end. My goal is 20 hats. I think I can make it!

what's going on...

The weeks seem to just pass by so quickly. I need to get my blogging schedule back in action.


If you have been following my other blog, you would have known most of my spare time this last week was going into making these hats for a girls conference next week. I am hoping every girl is going to want a Pink Blueberry Hat! We'll see how that goes. :)








I have pulled out the 'Ol bread machine a few months ahead of schedule. I usually get the warm bread cravings in October but we have been having fun with a flaxseed bread recipe that is really good! It all started when we were reading a book for school called, "How To Make An Apple Pie And See The World". It takes you to different places to get your ingredients. I thought it would be fun to get some grain at the health food store and have my friend mill it for me. (which she did, cuz she's so cool like that;) ) There is nothing like taking home some fresh milled wheat and making some bread. The kids think I'm supermom.

My goal this week is to take some nice pictures of the kids. I haven't had a nice header for my blog in a long time. I want some updated pictures for that. I'll have to throw that in between school, swimming, haircuts, and a baby shower. :) Love my life.....

My Etsy

It's been a year ( almost) that I opened an "Etsy" store. I always said, "I'm going to put my stuff on there" . Etsy, is a place online that is for handmade items that you can sell. It's kinda like Ebay, but you don't bid.
Well, the other day I spent all morning getting my pictures together and uploading to my little cyberspace store. I did it! The Pink Blueberry is finally on Etsy!
Let me tell you what motivated me to do so.....
My boys love electronics. And the newer model gameboy has been out and they wanted it pretty bad. I suggested they get their toys together and we'd have a yard sale. They pulled out 3 matchbox cars and a book. Needless to say, that wasn't going to be enough to get what they wanted. I wasn't too upset, I really didn't want to have a garage sale anyway. :)
A couple of months go by and now they have a great idea. There is a store called Gamestop that will give you money for your old games and consoles......They loaded up a bag and off we went. It didn't take the guy 2 seconds to offer them $5.00 for all of it. Tears fell that day. No Deal!
That brings us to last week. The boys said they wanted to sell their stuff on Ebay.
Here we go again.
I have had an Ebay account since 2004 and have only bought 2 home school books from it.
I said,....." you guys have to figure it out without me"
They took the pictures, uploaded them, typed out the description, put a price on it and waited for 7 days till the auction ended.
They ended up making $150.00! They were thrilled!

If they can do it, I can do it right?!

So, you will notice on the side of the page there is a widget of my Etsy store. I have other stuff I'm going to put on, but this was the ice breaker for me. I finally did it. ( Yay me)

sewing stuff :)

http://thepinkblueberry.blogspot.com/2010/06/cute-little-boutique-pants-with-that.html

check this out!
http://thepinkblueberry.blogspot.com/2010/03/lights-camera-action-look-at-how.html

Pretty outfits

I'm finally getting to sew for Caitlin! I'm not done but had to post pictures of these cute outfits. I'm happy how they turn out. I have just enough of the material to make 1 more skirt.

I have a friend at church who is a photographer and she will be taking pictures of some of my outfits and hats this week end. A real live photo shoot! She has a sweet little girl, Madilyn, who is the same age as Caitlin. They will be our models. That should be a hoot! I can't wait!

the other side of me.....

I've been trying to spice up my other blog a little bit. what do you think?
http://thepinkblueberry.blogspot.com/

busy

Busy around here! School, work, life.

I've had a lot of embroidery orders the last few weeks and it came right on time! Last week while leaving church, I put the car in reverse and there it stayed. Urgh! I hate it when that happens! It's fixed now. But put a damper on the week end. ( remember it was our anniversary and we didn't know what to do......) That decision was made for us LOL!

It rained last week end so a lot of the painting projects didn't get done :(. When it was nice enough to paint, I had an order for 3 LOVE blocks to finish. I have an order for some more of these blocks that will say, LOVE, PEACE, JOY,and PATIENCE. Hope the weather cooperates!

Aren't these cute! I want some for me!

I had a last minute order for a friends baby's first birthday. How cute did this turn out?!?

oh, by the way, for my anniversary I got my electric staple gun that I asked for! Yay! you know what that means......upholstery!!! I actually asked for a paint sprayer that attached to Troy's compressor.....I think the answer went something like...."I don't think so".

I told him that a couple friends want me to cover their dining room chairs for them and they are waiting for me to get the stapler. It's so cool, I can't wait to try it out! Thanks Babe!

working on it....

I finally got around to doing some projects around here. They are not complete but thought it would give me incentive to finish them if I posted what they are.

My friend gave me an old baby doll crib the other day. It's really cute, but, there was some holes in the side and the bottom needs a board and cushion. I started sanding it down and painted the wood. I am going to shabby it up a bit and put it all back together. Caitlin is so excited :)

See the big hole in the side....I've cut new boards with my new jig saw I got for Christmas. :)

This was a thrift store find for a dollar......I've got something in mind for it......

I also bought a pretty frame for a dollar, but for some reason I didn't take a picture of it before I started working on it. I sewed a patchwork backing and monogrammed it. Now I'm trying to find some cork board to stick behind it and use it in Caitlin's room. I can also use it to hold her bows.

( I just sat the frame on the material so you get an idea of what it should look like )

I like the pink polka dots with the zebra print. I'm not usually that bold, trying to think out of the box....

I have a couple other things waiting in line to get finished. I have to put them on the back burner sometimes to finish things like this....

so worth it.....I love my job:)

Troys DIY

I tried earlier today to get this posted but blogger wasn't working.

I have to show you guys the table that Troy built this week end.

He found the wood on the top on craigslist for free. We had the 4x4 post in our back yard so all he had to buy was a few pieces of wood to hold it all together. I love the way it turned out.

It's 39 inches tall and 6 ft. long. Perfect for oysters or hanging out with chips and salsa! We are going to leave it out on the back patio. ( it weighs a ton!)

I didn't get much of my projects done. But I did get these valentine key chains finished...

I'm putting them on my Pink Blueberry site. I think they are adorable. If you like them say "I"!

Having fun modeling her new flower hat! Perfect day outside, the way winter should be here!

Look HOO was in our back yard soaking up the sunshine.......

Cool!

Updating the ol blog!

Thought I'd get up to date on here.

We put up our Christmas Tree. We are going to have to get 2 trees next year to hold all our ornaments. This tree is pretty packed solid!

We have our school room up to date and cleaned out for our second quarter. I made this cute calender with little pockets. I put a paper tucked inside, that has something fun to do as a family for each day leading up to Christmas.

Other than school and working on little bits for The Pink Blueberry, I have been watching Christmas shows with kids and playing games with them.

This is one of my new additions to TPB blog....

I had Dawson take a picture of Sam in his new "coat"

Now, before you roll your eyes, It got pretty cold here a few nights ago and this little guy was warm and cozy in his Christmas green crochet jacket! I made another one and gave it to my friends dog, they thought it was great. So many people have been telling me to open a pet collection. So here it is! You saw it first. :)

Fun stuff

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workin for a livin :)