I finally did it!

I opened an Etsy store!

My newly made tennis friend Suzanne just started her jewlery shop on Etsy and I thought- that's it - I gotta put one together! So check out both our shops and add to your favs! I am so excited to finally have a place to put all the random things that I decide to make (and hopefully sell)! Right now I have these little gems inspired by a scrapper on Scrap in Style tv.

My mind is swimming with all kinds of little cute things to make. So stay tuned! In the works are some knitted items, some altered jean items....and anything else that I can think of!

Matt was selling at Alameda last Sunday so me and the boys actually got to go this time which is SO rare. This is one of the BEST outdoor antique fairs and if you like Shabby Chic, Whimsy type items this is the place for you. I had so much fun walking around even though it was SO hot.

Here are some of my fav things:

If I had a huge house I would decorate with all the the stuff I love. In the mean time I think I am going to start a collage on the wall with all different styles of the letter "N". I wanted to buy so many of these letters!! They were so cool but I ended up with two of them. I also got a chess set and a lucite ring that has a bug in it. I know - weird but it is cool. I just can't seem to take a good picture of it.

If you want to go - it is always the 1st Sunday of the month. Check out www.antiquesbythebay.com!

I was tagged by Rocio.


Here we go...Each player answers the questions themselves. At the end of the post the player then tags 4 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment letting them know that they've been tagged and ask them to read your blog. Then you let the person who tagged you know when you posted your answers.

Ten Years Ago: July, 1998 My First son Timmy would have been turning 1 year old. We were living in our first condo in San Jose. Matt was running his independent record label. I was working part time at Harman Management in Los Altos. I think at this point in my life I had dyed platinum blonde hair that was cut in an A line bob!

Five things on today's to-do list:
1. Go sew quilts for quilt ministry at my church (Wow! lucky me I happen to have a charitable item on my to - do list :-P).
2. Set my timer for one hour so I am forced to work on organizing our apartment.
3. Go to Michael's and finish getting supplies for a centerpiece I am working on.
4. Spend time on my business - Events by Kent.
5. Do laundry!

Snack I Enjoy:Monkey Much - my cousin in law just made our family some and I ate the whole bag and didn't share!

Things I would do if I was a millionaire:
1. Travel with the family
2. Buy a great house!
3. Go whale watching as much as I want and shark watching

Places I have lived:
San Jose, CA (19 years)
Bethesda, MD (10 years)
Lauringburg, NC (5 years)
Redwood city, CA (2years)

4 People I am tagging:

1. Stephanie (because she is a good sport about this kind of stuff)
2. Michelle (because she is also a good sport)
3. Hannah (my neice who only blogs like 4 times a year but I'll see if she notices this)
4. Nikki (trying to think who is left at PMP that Rocio didn't already tag)

A real life good samaritan!

So 4th of July, Matt has to work which means he had to sleep during fireworks so he could get up at 11pm to leave for work. The boys and I were deciding whether we should go see fireworks or not since we would be missing a member of our family.

At the last minute we decided to go so I sped over to Church on the Hill and caught the last bus up the hill (first mistake). We saw the show and it was great because not only could we see theirs but we could also see downtown SJ's and a couple of other ones at the same time. They said there were 10,00 people where we were so when it ended there was a mob going back down the hill to find their cars. We stayed with the mob (2nd mistake).

So we are walking...and walking...and walking and the crowd is thinning out and I am thinking any minute now we are going to hit the street I parked on. So after about 1/2 hour of walking with me clutching my boy's hands I realize we are TOTALLY lost!! I am totally waking in the dark, in a neighborhood I don't know and I am never going to hit the street that I parked on! So I try to play it off to the boys that I know what I am doing thinking what the heck am I going to do?!

I start asking people who are hanging out on their lawns where the particular street is that I parked on. The first group is all from Arkansas and look at me like I speak a foreign language (and this is no diss to the state of Arkansas - one man informed me this was where he was from so I guessed that means he had no idea where he was either). The next group I ask included two men who take great joy in telling me how freaking far I am from where I parked (yeah I know that). I had walked clear down the wrong side of the hill (due to mistake #1 not watching where the bus was going and mistake #2 thinking the mob of people are all parked where I was parked). They then tell me in excrutiating detail that I have to cross over a freeway, avoid a bad neighborhood etc all at 11pm at night with two boys with me. I stay calm and brave and head off. Thank GOD, one of the men's wives has sense enough to have them stop me as I am walking away and offer to drive me to my car. Thank you kind, smart lady that knows men are not so quick to pick up on the obvious. So I finally end up home with Timmy telling me that he knew I didn't know what I was doing all along - thanks son! And Tyler telling his Dad that we had an adventure when we got home just in time for him to leave for work!

My husband Matt had an estate sale about a month ago and he had all this great vintage clothes and other textiles and he didn't even know how popular all that stuff is now! I was drooling over all the stuff! So I scooped it all up and took it home!

I would like to sell the items and clothing but I am not sure what the best way is to do that. I thought I might start with putting some items on eBay. Come take a look! If you have other suggestions please let me know. There are some vintage consignment shops in the Bay Area but I am not sure what I should sell them for.


The link will show all of Matt's other items but mine are the vintage potholders and apron. I will be listing clothes soon! Here's a sneak peek of some of the items!

So here's some random stuff!

I do not consider myself at sewer by any means but got roped into helping make a quilt for a lady in my tennis group last October. Then I got a request from someone in that same group who was under the impression I was a sewer to make an apron (which for some reason I can't find the pic I took of that). So now here is my latest sewing creation again for someone in my tennis group that is moving away. I made the bag entirely myself and have been lately printing photos on transfer paper and ironing them onto fabric. I did this for the apron and for the quilt. I am thinking I should try this with some of my scrapbook layouts.
to continue with the randomness:

*sigh* the Anthropologic catalog came in the mail today. LOVE their whole look, clothing, decor etc. Wish I could afford it ALL! So my husband buys and sells antiques and brought this lovely bracelet home the other day. Doesn't it look so Anthro? (Hubby culd have taken a better pic of it though). But it is way old and way expensive. I considered keeping it but then he told me how much he could sell it for and I opted for a tank of gas rather than an unusual bracelet.

Summer watching!

So some of you may know I am a tv junkie! This is what I am excited about watching this summer:

Wipeout (so silly that it's funny)
I survived a Japanese gameshow (have to see if this keeps my attention)
Flipping Out (by far my favorite show - gotta check this one out - it's on Bravo)
Next Design Star (great interior design reality show on HGTV - great ideas on this one)
Next Food Network Star (on the Food Network - again not sure how long it will hold my interest)
American Gladiator (fun family show)
The Mole (drives our family crazy trying to guess who it is)

What are you all watching?