i am trying to get new items up at my etsy shop but have to confess that it’s not happening at anything near a respectable pace. i’ve got a few things ready for sale but haven’t had the time to photograph or list them. i hope to get to that tomorrow afternoon – in between loads of laundry.

all living happens between loads of laundry.

the thing i am most excited about, handmaking-wise – is lip balm! i’m ordering my ingredients this week and will start creating as soon as able. i hope to add some bath and body product to my store before too long. i’m going to sit down on tuesday to order a ton of supplies and i just can’t wait! anticipate a luscious pink grapefruit lip balm and a creamy eucalyptus and mint bar soap.  yum!

today i’d love to be card making but we’re going to dinner at dan’s sister’s to celebrate his parents 60th anniversary. well worth the outing! i should be leaps ahead on laundry but i spent all afternoon on the phone trying to get my text messaging working. still not sure that it is, though. blah.

also, grape! lip balm! i think so!

Every morning I wish I could get some stuff done but I can’t. Madison only goes to school afternoons and if you’ve ever had a five year old you know that they work at breakneck pace to keep you from finishing even the simplest task. Mothers don’t complain that they can’t even go to the bathroom without interruption for no reason. There’s a reason. It’s called: children under 10.

Now you’d think that once I’ve dropped her off at school and can come home to a house free of needy little monsters (cute needy little cute monsters, to be sure) I’d be all about the business of doing them thangs I was so anxious about doing earlier.  

YOU’D THINK and YOU’D BE WRONG.

No, No, dear internet stranger! I am not about the doing once I am alone. I am about the sitting on my ass still thinking about the doing! Ha! And I am smart enough to deduce that it is perhaps not Madison who gets in my way in the mornings. It is perhaps my predisposition to be a LAZY FARTHEAD causing all the problems.

Farthead is funny because you could read it as fart head OR farth ead. And then you would say, what’s a farth ead? I don’t know what that is. honesty*rain is lazy and stupid.

Sadly, you would be on the money there.

I mean well, I really do. But don’t they all? Haven’t you heard it a million times, mostly from teenagers and grown men? I was going to do it, Mom, honest, but [insert random blurbly nonsense excuse here]. God, shouldn’t I be above that? I’m forty. I had a party about it and everything. I should have my act together, or something. But to have my act together I’d have to stop scanning Etsy and I honesty don’t see that happening. People are out there making beautiful things. I cannot pretend not to know! It’s like a car accident on the side of the road – I CANNOT LOOK AWAY! Not even to go make a car accident of my own! Dammit!

check out one of my faves – i made my first etsy purchase at my little sunshine the other day. Rachel is a lovely seller with a beautiful shop. Please go have a look.