Farmer's Market

I am so excited for the Poulsbo Farmer's Market to open!  For all of you local people the market will open April 7th, and be open each Saturday (with the exception of Viking Fest Weekend) from 9am-1pm.  My first day will be April 28th and the second day will be May 12th.  Also on May 12 KMPS will be out there, so we'll have some good music that day!

Here's some of what I've been working on lately for selling at the market

Smudge's Boo-Boo Friends (smudge is my son's bunny)

 

Infant Girl Hat

Infant Girl Hat

Baby Girl Bear Hat

Pig Tail Hat

 

Striped Baby Girl Hat

Baby boy hat

Catepillar (This is for a lady that takes pictures of babies - I will be selling the hat at the farmer's market, but not the body part)

It's been a busy week!  I also finished the first couple of Menu boards.  I'll put up some pictures as soon as I take some.  I think I need to actually pull out the "real" camera to use for pictures, the ones from the cell are a little fuzzy.

Handmade From the Heart

Those that know me know I am on Facebook a lot!  While it may look like I am constantly on there, it's really just on in the background of whatever else I'm working on (ok looking at on Pinterest).  Today I realized that facebook hasn't been giving me notifications when people look at my other pages.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had people "like" my page who I didn't even know!  And what's even better I had someone requesting hats.  Yes that's right HATS, as in more than one!!

I know all of you are excited to see what I've been up to with my little business.  By the way my first day at the Poulsbo Farmer's Market will be April 28th!

Here's a couple things I've been working on:

Burp Rag Babies

 

Baby Girl Beanies

Hello Kitty, Sock monkey, and Car hats (Imaging little car buttons on the road)

 

Found one of the finished Car hats

 

Viking hats

I'm also going to be making this hat.  Everyone should check out her site, she has some really cute stuff!

Hope to see you all at the Market!

Week 3 update

Made it through week three!!  So far I've lost 6 pounds and 6 inches, yea me!  Today I decided to time how fast I can walk a mile.  Started out just wanting to walk a mile then go sit in the hot tub, I wasn't feeling too motivated this morning.  But once I got started and finished my mile I wasn't ready to stop.  I know crazy huh!  So I decided to keep going and finished a second mile.  Altogether my two miles took 30 minutes and 33 seconds.  Not too shabby for walking.  Then I was going to go sit in the hot tub, but figured why stop I was on a roll.  So 10 minutes of jogging in the lazy river and 10 minutes of crunches in the lazy river (trust me it's harder than it sounds!) and then a 15 minute soak in the hot tub, no sauna for me today.  I think exercising must be addicting, I'm actually kind of sad I don't have time to go tomorrow morning.  Such a change from the old me.  Guess I just needed 36 years to grow up and realize exercising was something fun!  I think I've even convinced Justin to go with me on Saturday to walk on the track (have to get him ready for the color run too).

Love a good deal

I'm sure everyone loves a good deal, I know I do!

Here's my latest deal I've found

Joann Fabrics

Did you know you can stack coupons there???  I didn't!  You can stack the following coupons all in the same purchase as long as you have 1 item for each coupon:

Joann's internet coupon

Joann's newspaper coupon

Joann's mailer coupon

Joann's e-mail coupon

Joann's app coupon

Michael's coupon

AND on top of that.................you can put a X% off entire purchase coupon!

I think Joann's may be my new favorite store!

Happy Shopping

Leap Day = aka Justin's Birthday!

Happy Leap Day to everyone!

But more importantly

Happy 16th Birthday to my son Justin!!!

We have already had the family birthday party for him, and we will be going to Seaside at the end of March to celebrate his birthday.  He doesn't care much for the birthday party with friends so I usually take him on a long weekend trip instead.  Usually we do it the weekend around his birthday, but thought we'd push it out a month this year in the hopes of better weather and more shops being open at the ocean since it will be spring break.  We're going to do a little mini road trip as part of the vacation so stay tuned for all our fun shenanigans!

change of plans........

Everyone already knows that I like love to plan vacations.  So this may not come as a shock to some of you, but I am thinking of changing our vacation plans for next year.  *gasp* I know, putting off Disneyland once again.  While I would love to be able to go next year, I don't know if I will be able to.  I still don't have  a job yet and while I hope to have one in the next couple months, I don't know if they would be willing to give me that week off (we have to book 13 months out to get the condo).  So........we are now looking at a road trip across Washington State.  I LOVE road trips!!!!!  We would still get to go to a theme park of sorts, Silverwood.  We are probably going to stay in a combination of hotels and camping.  This will probably be the end of June 2013.

So my question is:

• What should we do on our road trip?
• Where in Washington have you been that was fun and unique?
• We love going to see oddities, like the HUGE frying pan in long beach.

30 pound challenge

I've decided to give myself a goal/challenge of loosing 30 pounds by June 23.  Why June 23?  The answer to that is simple............I'm going on vacation, why else do girls want to loose weight!  Overall goal/challenge is 60 pounds by the end of the year.

We're still in the beginning days of this challenge, but I'll let you know how I've done so far (we won't talk about the brownie I just ate though).   Sunday was two weeks since my challenge began.  As of yesterday (2 weeks 1 day) I've lost 5 pounds, 1 inch off my chest, 2 1/4 off my waist, 1 inch off my hips.

What does 5 pound of fat look like????

(this isn't me, but it does show a lovely picture of a 5 pound lump of fat)

Only 5 more of these lumps and I've met my first challenge!!


***on a side note I just learned how to move pictures and have text next to the picture, not just on top or below the picture.  Pretty cool trick!  I figured it out by accident when I was trying to center the picture.

Back to the challenge.
How are you going to loose all that weight you ask?
Why changing the way I eat silly!  I've already cut out soda (oh how I miss you Coke) and cut by salt intake in half.  I am trying to make sure I drink at least 6 12 ounce glasses of water each day and going to the Y 3 times a week.  So far I've made it two weeks and they say after three weeks of doing something it becomes a habit.......we'll see.

Oh almost forgot!  I've decided to do a 5k in May.  This one looks like so much fun!!  I actually found it on Pinterest of all places.  It's called the Color Run.  Never heard of it?  Well let me fill you in on something that looks absolutely amazing to participate in!  You have to wear a mostly white shirt to participate.  Along the route they throw different colors at you, I know sounds a little weird but stay with me here.  After each k you get a different color thrown at you  -   5k=5 colors, with me so far?  At the end of the race everyone throws up their little packet of color and you get even more colors all over you. Watch the video below and you'll see what I mean.  And best of all the entry fee goes to help a charity.  So I get to have fun and a charity gets some help.  Win win situation!

Here's that link
color run video


If you want to check out their site
the color run

If anyone would like to join in the fun, the race in Seattle will be on May 13th.  They haven't opened up registration, but I will post on here when they do and the name of our team.  I kind of like 'paint by numbers' for a team name.  What do you guys think????