Gah!  I was going going to say “Hi”, but “Gah!” came out, so be it.  Life as a working mom is insanity as usual.  Loving the podcast “Manic Mommies” right now.  Been listening to a lot of podcasts on my way to and from my new job.

So, the short-short version of my life right now:

• New job as information architect at major hospitality company.  Love it!
• Ben is now 2.  He’s wonderful, of course.  He’s also very “me do it” right now which is driving me a little batty.  I’m finding patience where I never knew I had some.
• Matt starting a “new” job as a consultant at the same place he was at last week.  Much better deal.
• Mother-in-law out of meds.  God help me.

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Digtal Scrap #2 - Ben in Swing

Originally uploaded by blueskyday

Hi there! I needed a little cheering up tonight, so I put on my digital scrapbooking hat. I’ll have to find the source of the kit and post here soon.

Take care!
Jen

It’s my first scrapbook page, and it’s a digital one. All these years, so many unused scrapbook supplies, and my perfect medium was right in front of me.

Used:
Photoshop CS2
Dali font (free)
Japanese Foliage Photoshop Brushes from Jason Gaylor at Designfruit. (free - and check out more cool free brushes at his other site a different site alltogether, brusheezy.com!)
Background paper from Mary Mary, Quite Contrary free digital kit at Two Peas in a Bucket. I changed the color using the hue/saturation controls.

It only took about 30 minutes, and most of that time was spent finding the brushes. It’s 300 dpi, 8 in. x 8 in. so I can print it out on 81/2×11″ photo paper, trim it, and put it in an 8×8″ album.

I’m lovin’ the world of digital scrapbooking! Nothing like having total creative freedom to brush up on your Photoshop skills.

I get the whole afternoon to myself for Mother’s Day!  And you know what I’m gonna do?  I mean after I post to this blog?  I’m not cleaning, that’s for sure.  I’m going to SEW my little heart out!  I DREAM about sewing all day long and now I finally get some time to do it!  Yay!

And when I’m tired of sewing, I’m going to post to my other blog.
In the meantime, Ben will be leading Daddy and Grandma around the National Portrait Gallery.

Just posted some new photos of the pumpkin here: http://flickr.com/photos/blueskyday/

Happy Mother’s Day to all you wonderful mothers.
And Happy Mother’s Day to my mom.  She passed away in December of 2005, only a few weeks after Ben was born.  How bittersweet that after she’s gone, I finally understand what kind of patience it takes to be a mother and I appreciate her now more than ever.  I love you mom.

Our 17 month old, Benjamin, has been busy learning his words.  Some things he repeats for weeks before we realize it’s a word in his vocabulary.  We’re still working on figuring out what “put put” means, but it roughly seems to translate to “ooh, I see something cool and wanna get it.”

Here’s the toddler-speak we’ve learned from Ben so far.  Some is close to normal English, some is from another planet.

• Bite = I want some of what you have.  Asked as a question and sometimes pronounced with a silent “t”.
• Cooka = cookie
• Cracka = cracker
• Powel = towel
• Baba = bath
• Ninny = bottle of milk
• Bobble = bottle, as in shampoo bottle, or any other sort of bottle not shaped like a Ninny
• Neh = No thanks.
• Flobber = Flower, bush, or any other plant within reach.
• Ska = Sky, outside
• Tank Ew = Thank You.  Also said when handing something to you.
• Take It = Here, you hold this.
• Baw = ball
• Wa Wa = water
• Shoes = shoes
• Sckock = sock
• Phoap = soap
• Phoup = soup
• Tee Tee = I’m about to wet my pants
• Tinky = stinky, I’m about to poop, I need a diaper change.
• Qwa Qwa = what a duck says
• Yewow = yellow
• Boo = blue
• Dada = dad
• Mama = mom
• Manmaw = grandma
• BeBe = Baby

There are more but I can’t think of them right now - I’ll add them as they come to me.

Ben in new duds.

Matt in the St. Patties 8k!

1. See if I can resize this cloth baby shoe pattern to an 18 month old size.
1. If yes, dig through sewing stash for elastic and interfacing. Find fabric at store. DONE
2. Saturday morning craft and farbric store extravaganza with my Mother-in-Law. She’s been holed up in the house for 2 weeks because it snowed last weekend. She can’t drive during the week due to the blindness-in-one-eye thing. She has a pretty crazed look in her eyes one eye, and there’s a sale at Joann, so we’re headed out to 7 corners or Bailey’s Crossroads or whatever it’s called.
1. Joann - look up McCalls patterns I want tonight on the internet. Buy tomorrow for $1.99 each. I know I want this shirt. DONE
2. Michaels is right next door, so what the heck. I’ll use my 40% A.C. Moore coupon on a magazine, hopefully the new Knit Simple. DONE except for the Knit Simple - this Michaels barely had any magazines!
3. Go to the biggest fabric store I’ve ever seen, G Street Fabrics, and try to find something to focus on. Last time I just stumbled around in a drooling stupor and wasted 45 minutes. DONE
4. Maybe pop into Barnes and Noble for my coffee and magazine addiction. DONE
3. Try to finish crocheting a little teddy bear for Benjamin. The body is done. Post photos on blog.
4. Sketch out redesign ideas for bigcrafty.com. I’m glad I didn’t let me perfectionism keep my from starting the blog - I sort of just threw the graphics up there. Now that it’s up and running I want to make it a little fresher looking, wider, and add some navigation at the top.
5. Take back ill-fitting baby gate to Babies R Us.
6. Take back ill-fitting toddler pajamas to Old Navy.
7. Get clothes for Ben and I ready for Matt’s graduation from his government training stuff on Monday. Yay, day off on Monday! DONE
8. Wash salt and muck off car along with everyone else in D.C.
9. Drink wine. DONE
10. Eat steak tonight. DONE
11. Play with baby. DONE
12. Get some rest.

Whenever I pulled Benjamin out of the bath tub as a baby, I had to hang on to a towel between my teeth or I’d end up with a wet shirt.  Even as a toddler, he wants to be picked up immediately upon exiting the bath tub.  So I thought it would be great to make a towel you could wear!  But I don’t have much free time and I survived with the towel-in-the-teeth thing.
Enter the Coocoose - “The Baby Bath Towel you Wear”

I swear, the only thing different about my idea was the hoodie part for the baby.  I didn’t have that.  That’s a nice touch.

Lesson learned - I need to act on my ideas.  Those ladies will probably end up wealthier than I.

bigcrafty.com lives, Hooray! I finally started my blog about plus-size knitting, crochet and sewing patterns and other stuff. And people are reading it! Wow! I have to get up at 6 a.m. to edit it but I don’t care. I love it. And it’s SO tricked out - Feedster, Google Analytics, MyBlogLog stats…oh, that reminds me, I need to install Crazy Egg! The graphics aren’t perfect but they’ll do for now.

I’ll work on this for a few weeks to get it going and THEN it’s on to my BIG project, popcrafty.com. And after that, the world. Muuhahahaha.

If you are a child of the ’80s you probably watched Crocodile Dundee and sequels. My favorite scene of them all - a mugger comes up to our hero and whips out a fancy butterfly knife with flare. Dundee says “That’s not a knife.” Then he pulls out a gigantic outback knife. “THIS is a knife.” And the mugger runs away. (My apologies if I mangled the dialog.) Point being - if you wrangle crocodiles often enough, you learn to carry a big knife.

I’ve really gone somewhere strange with this simile just to use an interesting posting title, haven’t I?

Anyway, in Atlanta, an ice scraper is your Blockbuster card and a snow broom is your (hopefully) gloved hand. If you’re really prepared or your insurance agent gives out nice freebies, you might have one of these:

Not so in D.C. If you move here from a warmer climate, you’d better get one of these 4′-6′ telescoping ice scraper / snow brush combo things. ‘Cause that credit card ain’t gonna get an inch of ice off your windshield.

Also, snow driving etiquette calls for brushing ALL of the snow and ice off of your vehicle lest you become a snowy comet streaking down the highway blinding everyone behind you. This is especially true if you drive a mini-van. Though I’ve never heard of it happening, I’m sure it’s possible for a sheet of ice to slide off the top of a fast moving mini-van and seriously hurt someone. And I don’t care how cute that little snowman is on your trunk, it’s not very cute on someone else’s windshield.