since we're talking about monkeys

Ok. one last weird post from me. {i say that so often} and because i find myself so amusing...

a joke for you:
A highway patrolman stops a man speeding. As he approaches his car, he is perplexed to see it full of monkeys.

"What's with all the monkeys?"

"I don't know! I just got in my car this morning and they were in here. I can't get them out either. And now I'm going to be late for work! I don't know what to do."

"Well, why don't you just take them to the zoo?"

"Ok. Thanks." and the man drove off.

The next day, the highway patrolman stopped the same man, again, with his car full of monkeys.

"I thought you were going to take those monkeys to the zoo?!!"

"I did. And they liked it so much, today we are going to circus."


ha ha ha ha

Is my notebook getting full yet?

whenever Caden does something naughty, which is everyday, I scold him and call him a monkey. {alright, I call him monkey turd but that makes me sound like a bad mother.} I was cleaning yogurt off the floor this afternoon and calling him a monkey... and I was reminded of this book from my childhood. so I looked it up on Amazon because the child will surely enjoy it. But then I found this:
Do you believe in kismet? I'm ordering both. perhaps I'll find party inspiration in their pages. I'm already loving the colors.

A recommended read, these books, even if you're not planning any parties.

gasp!

oh wait - can you see it? well you can see it bigger here.

add to the list...

a few more things on the summer agenda:
make a bridal headband sample for Stacy (not a big deal, but should I need inspiration...)
decorate bedroom
paint front door
finish a room in the basement for dream sewing room
re-do Parker's room and move in The Bug
stop neglecting my store/store's blog

Sadly, not on the agenda is DECORATE NURSERY.
especially not DECORATE THE MUCH DESIRED LITTLE GIRL'S NURSERY.

BUT i HAVE THOSE VERY MAGNETIC WALL FLOWERS COLLECTING DUST IN MY BASEMENT!!!
Don't even think about asking me for them. I'm not giving up on my girl till a doctor tells me it's physically impossible for me to conceive one.

and even then, I'll get a second opinion.

{see this room here}

and so it begins...

I saw these FREE invitations at iDIY. I'm diggin the orange. and with a circus font? Hello birthday invites!!!

chocolate chocolate chocolate...aack!

{I hope you all know what I'm quoting}

many things are coming to pass right now! man alive! I have thought traffic in my head! so right now my blog is going to be my notebook of sorts to collect them all and keep them so they don't get lost. {aren't blogs great?!}
Here's what's on the agenda this summer:

FAMILY PICTURES

I don't even know these people. But they look much happier than we ever could. We are having a mini session on Saturday with Kari Hennefer - a sort of trial run. I'm hoping to get the real deal soon after. I cut dan's hair this morning. One down - two to go. No time for me to get one before then :( {Stacy, you're the best set of shears in the West!} I shall be scheming what we'll wear and poses I like. My goal is to finally have one where I like the way I look, and my kids are smiling. Hey - it could happen!

ALTER WEDDING DRESS

This cutie is Eric Player. She's my friend Candis' baby sister. She bought herself a pretty wedding dress from Alyses for her wedding in June. {I think we all know how I feel about that place.} We'll see if I can't get this dress to go from 'pretty' to divine in the next few weeks before her bridals.

CRUISE TO THE BAHAMAS

We're getting the H out of dodge at the end of May. I'm going to need to drop a few lbs and find some seriously cute beach clothes till then. Woo Woo! Can't wait!

THIS

I applied for this for the beginning of June. I don't know if I'm accepted yet - baby accessories is a cut throat market! but if I am, I going to get my rear in gear sewing product, making newbies, and finding some cute ideas for booth set up.

MY BRO IS GETTING MARRIED

in the middle of June. I don't have to do anything for the wedding, but I'll be danged if my kids don't look absolutely adorable there! Plus I'll need a stellar dress. We'll see if I have time to make one.

THIS HANDSOME FELLOW IS TURNING 5!

I distinctly remember my 5th birthday. My parents threw me a circus party and I can still hear the John Phillips Sousa they played. He too shall have a circus/carnival party. It shall be my best work ever.

Plus there's planning the shower for my sister-in-law, Erin, helping plan the layout for my mother-in-law's booth at the Home Quilt Show in two weeks, bridal showers, home projects, and planting something, ANYTHING, in my dirt outside. Not forgetting all the birthdays, Hil is having a baby, Katie is having a baby. more goodies, more showers... my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Gilder to frame for it. I swamped!

So the real question is: Will my bathroom ever get cleaned? I don't know.

boycott winter

It's time to say "NO to snow"! Because you let it happen once, and then it hangs around all dang year!!
Dan looks like a little winter gnome with his hat back like that, yes? I asked him "why so dorky?" He replied, "If I wear my hat, my head gets warm."
Hmmmm. I didn't even bother to continue that discussion. After all, he does have a point.

All I do these days is sit around watching chick flicks and folding laundry in my 'me' time. I just can't be motivated in these conditions. And to top it off, Caden has the cold that wouldn't leave. {By the way, nothing is more unsettling than to hear your two year old sneeze while you're driving, turn back to see two channels of snot bridging his nostrils and upper lip, turn back to grab some tissue which you keep handy in the front seat for just such an occasion, only to turn back to said two year old and the snot has magically disappeared. nothing.}

but here's a little funsie tag, just for ... well, funsies.

If I was a month, I'd be May, or June. Whichever is nicer this year.
If I was a day of the week, I'd be Saturday Saturday.
If I was a time of day, I'd be Naptime.
If I was planet, I'd be Earth. blue and green.
If I was a sea animal, I'd be a crab in the morning and a whale at night.

If I was a direction, I'd be North. because I'm tall.
If I was a piece of furniture, I'd be a long, tufted chaise lounge. reupholstered in a fun print.
If I was a liquid, I'd be cold.
If I was a gemstone, I'd be a sapphire.
If I was a tree, I'd be green?! {inside joke for all you Drop Dead Gorgeous fans}

If I was a tool, I'd be a rotary cutter, or a staple gun.
If I was a flower, I'd be an orchid. because I really only need to be watered once a week.
If I was a kind of weather, I'd be fairweather.
If I was a musical instrument, I'd be a trumpet, I think.
If I was a color, I'd be a warm blue. A little moody, a little whimsical.

If I was an emotion, I'd be enthusiastic, most of the time.
If I was a fruit, I'd be a strawberry. which is technically not a fruit.
If I was a sound, I'd be whirr whirr.
If I was an element, I'd be water, but can I come in the form of summer rain?
If I was a car, I'd be a vintage jaguar convertible roadster. probably '39-'41. Painted a lovely hollandaise color. wait - is this the car we'd be, or the car we want?

Tag - you're it.