Diana's Delectable Chocolates

At the last craft fair I did, I was approached by a shop owner who wanted to have my cards in her store. Her shop is in Louisville and the name of it is Diana's Delectable Chocolates, bet you thought I was talking about my baby from the title didn't you!

She makes yummy chocolates and has crafts in her store. I'm very excited about this, mostly just for the fun of it. I went on Friday to pick up my first "paycheck". I sold a whopping 4 cards for a grand total of $9.60. I'm positive sales will pick up once people know that they're there, if not, it's fun anyway! Right now I just have my smaller card rack there, but I might move my big one out too.




I've been working on a ton of projects, mostly sewing projects. I'm taking pictures of my progress and I will be posting pictures soon, well, as long as my Etsy shop slows down... Yes, you heard that right! For the first time since I open my shop I'm selling stuff as fast as my amazingly talented sister. I'm attributing it to the fact that she just had the most adorable baby boy that she's too in love with him to sell stuff. I'm sure once he gets a little older people will buy her stuff again and my glory day will be over, but it's been fun while it's lasted.

Cinderella

Karilyn recently played the part of mouse number 14 in "Cinderella" for the little theatre troupe through the stark county library. There were 23 mice total and Karilyn knew most of them by their number. She told me after one of the performances that "mouse number 13 had a bloody nose"-apparently a major event. Karilyn's good friend from church, Aiden, was mouse number 19. He was also her dance partner, which you can see in one of the pictures. They would only dance with each other. When another little mouse tried to dance with Aiden, he told her he had to dance with Karilyn. This happened at every performance, apparently Aiden is a very popular little boy, but he would only dance with Karilyn. So cute!

Karilyn's line was "Maybe we can cheer her up." She said it very well, but a bit quietly. She was in awe of Cinderella. During the song at the end she'd always forget to sing, instead, she would turn around and stare at Cinderella.

Karilyn made a lot of friends there, he favorite new friend though was Caroline, also known as mouse number 22. She's the teeny tiny one with blond hair sitting next to Karilyn in one of the pictures. Her and her two sisters are triplets. Caroline's sister, Emily(mouse number 21), fell off the stage during the last performance, poor little mouse! She's okay, just a little traumatized!


























And I'll leave you for now with this picture we took before church on Sunday:

Winter Wonderland!

We got some pretty serious snow! It started to fell yesterday evening and we woke up to a beautiful blanket of snow! Yesterday there was no snow on the ground at all.




This huge snow drift was on our deck:

Diana's Room

When I was a little girl my mom did my room in yellow and green. I had a canopy bed and she made me a yellow bedspread with two girls braiding hair. She designed my room around this wallpaper:

She made me lots of things to match! I wish I had a picture to show you. I had matching lamps, a chair pad, and wall hangings. Well, she saved a bunch of it. There was half a roll of wallpaper that she saved along with the bedspread, and a few other items. So I got this idea to redo it while adding a new artistic touch for Diana's room. Here is how it turned out:






I'll add that the whole project was really cheap! The paint was $25.00, my mom made the curtain for Diana's gift, the curtain rod was from our old house, the chair rail we already had for a project that we didn't end up needing it for, the wallpaper paste was $10, and the shelf was free.

I plan on painting the ceiling fan blades to match the wall and make some hanging from the small pieces of left over wall paper, but it could be a while until I get these finished.

Don't let a little rain spoil your fun...

Heidi has a knack for sneaking out of the house. At random times of the day she'll just pick up and leave. Like yesterday, she saw our neighbor mowing his lawn so she thought she'd go out and have a chat with him.

So today it was pouring down rain and I thought, "oh good, I won't have to worry about Heidi leaving the house". I was wrong, she disappeared and I asked Karilyn, "where's Heidi?" She said, "oh, she went outside."

Sure enough, I look outside and she's there, playing in the sand box with her little umbrella.





She played outside for a long while before she came in all dripping wet and happy as a clam! And don't think I'm exaggerating, it WAS pouring!

Dear, Oh Deer

Last night we discovered that deer have been feasting on our garden! Here's my proof:

Pictures of the hoof prints and my beets that have been eaten:


And my awesome purple beans that the deer also enjoyed:

Hum, deer must like purple foods!

Oh well!

Here is a shot of my onions which I have tons of, but deer don't like onions! Thanks Dad for getting me lots of onion sets! They are really yummy.

Here are my Lilies that I'm proud of, they smell soooo good. Every time I walk out onto my deck I can smell them.

Right now I've got some new potatoes cooking in the crock pot for dinner, I can't wait to eat them! The deer apparently didn't want to get it's paws dirty digging up potatoes because those weren't harmed! My Dad and I sure had fun digging them up though, it was so cool to pull the soil away and see fresh potatoes!

Summer Stuff

I'm putting the contents of several posts into one post because I've been having a hard time finding the time to blog lately. So this is sort of like an "all in one special", you get more for your money that way anyway.

A few weeks ago we went to the Cleveland Zoo, mainly to see the dinosaurs. Karilyn loved them!

Heidi was absolutely terrified of them. She kept saying "Go back, go back!" But then when we were done she kept asking to see them again. Hum...two year olds...?


We couldn't resist pretending to feed Diana to one of the dinosaurs, please don't call CPS.

Our sweet little Diana Rose turned 1 month old! We're enjoying her so much, right down to her cute little toes and button nose.

Last week we went to Tuscora Park in New Philly. We had a blast riding the rides and pretty much had the place to ourselves.

It was Heidi's first time to miniature golf, although I'm not really sure she understood the concept. It's a wonder none of us got hurt the way she was golfing...



Our sweeties on the 4Th

Karilyn has reached two major milestones!

She has learned to tie her shoes and...

She can swim on her very own. I'm very excited about this and so proud. Heidi is excited about it too, so excited if fact, that she wanted to take swim lessons too.

This is the before picture...

She did manage to get her toes a little bit wet, but that's about it. She wanted nothing to do with the teachers. Perhaps we'll try when she's a bit older.

And finally, here is a picture of Karilyn at her tennis class, which she loves.