Mom & I both currently carry a “Birdie Sling” bag, and it’s my favorite purse of all time.  It is so roomy… I can carry my huge camera, planner, bible, journal, and a hoodie in it. 

Check out our etsy store to buy one!

I just added a new item to my etsy shop:  A custom, frameable keepsake of your wedding vows in a 5×7 or 8×10. 

I joined a knitting/crotcheting group at church that is working on making baby items for a crisis pregnancy center.  Pretty neat.

I’ve had a good weekend.. I got to see my dad for a long lunch over Tammy’s Pizza on Thursday, watched Anne of Green Gables Friday night with Debbie and Danielle, spent the most of my afternoon yesterday working on my neverending book project, and worked on etsy stuff and the apartment today.

I haven’t gotten to see much of Funnel lately, but his next break starts Tuesday.  (How did we make it when we were dating and only saw each other on the weekends?).  I miss him.

We have started watching BBC’s “The Office” and it’s so weird & surreal to me.  We watched the first episode yesterday and we were trying to figure out who the corresponding American characters are. (I love the Dwight character.)

I am looking forward to:
+ spring (dresses! frolf! going for walks!)
+ photographing my first wedding in April.
+ visiting the new ikea.

http://lovelettertypewriter.etsy.com/

Funnel and I started dating in October 2004, in the heat of the Presidential race. The first time I met his family was at an election party they were throwing on election day evening to watch the results come in. I was super super nervous because we had just been dating about a week, and I was absolutely in love with him and I really wanted his family to like me.

“Don’t tell them I voted for John Kerry” I told him. I had the full intention of pretending I voted for Bush because I knew everyone there had voted for Bush. I didn’t want to make a bad impression.

And then when we got to his house, there was a friendly little sign taped to the door that said something about “This is a bi-partisan election party ” and I thought, “Oh no, he told them!” But it was very sweet of Debbie to put that sign up, and I am happy to say that they accepted me despite my choice in presidential candidates.

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This past weekend I went to Massillon to visit with my mom. Dad had to work at a golf show in Pittsburgh, so it was just us girls.

Massillon is near Amish country, so we drove out there to buy some cheese. You can not beat the cheese made at the little cheese shops in Amish country – it is so fresh and they have some delicious varieties (bacon cheddar… with little bits of bacon in it.. mmm). I bought five kinds of cheese (smoked swiss, taco cheese, parmesan, colby jack, and jumpin’ jack (with jalapenos)).

The bulk of our weekend was spent making aprons. They are really cute and I would love to keep them all, but we are going to try to sell them on etsy.  We almost finished them, but not quite, so mom is going to work on them this week and drop them off at my apartment on Friday, on their way to Indianapolis, and I will post them on etsy sometime this weekend.

We also watched most of  Anne of Green Gables (my favorite movie!) but its so long that we didn’t finish it. Growing up, my mom and I watched that movie so many times. We even went to Prince Edward Island the summer of my 9th grade year and got to visit the real Green Gables, and “The White Sands Hotel” (its the hotel in the background when all of Anne’s pages are blowing around… we got to stay there!), and so many of the places from the films and books. It was lovely… I especially loved the red roads and cliffs that were everywhere and maybe it was just the time of year we went (June) but there were lupines everywhere! Sometime I will scan and post the photos of it. I would love to go there sometime with Funnel.

I was telling one of my co-workers today that I feel like I was born in the wrong decade. Maybe even the wrong century. Or maybe I should have been Amish. Do you ever feel like that?

((an attempt at taking a photo of me and Pete, but he was set on trying to give me a kiss.  yuck!)) .

I also enjoy rainbow designs (and the airbrush tool!)

And lastly, there is broccoli/tree man (again, the airbrush tool rocks!).

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Now I have my own little corner of our spare bedroom that is my crafting area!  My mom is letting me borrow her antique sewing chest to house my new sewing machine that I got for Christmas and all of my random fabric and ribbons.  I am working on some vintage-style aprons with the new fabric I bought, and I am trying to finish up my batch of birds & ‘bots that I started a long time ago.   I would love to launch my etsy website before the end of the month, so we’ll see….

I don’t have to work tommorow, so here’s to a productive, crafty day!

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((*** ornaments I made with my new sewing machine!))