April Flowers Bring May Showers
Home sweet Home
Home sweet home in beautiful Soldotna!
I am so excited to start making some serious sewing magic in my new sewing room.
Stay posted! I should be getting all my things for sale posted with prices hopefully by this weekend 🙂 I am trying to juggle school, work, part time job at the quilt shop, my business, and my family.
Cats in the Hats where do I begin!
Its been a busy busy few months since I last blogged! But I have been a crafting fool!
Its been bags, bags, and more bags. I have been the crazy bag lady and it has been FUN! Some of these have been spoken for but some are ready to go to new homes!
Its been a busy December
Lets just say it was a busy busy December with sewing, sewing and more sewing!
Because homemade gifts are the best it was a busy sewing month. Frozen quilts. Christmas qaspeq vests. And just call me the crazy bag lady it was a busy month of bag making.
I have decided to move forward and start my own sewing business. Coming up with the business name was tough but I nailed it down to Sew Yup’ik.
Lets just say its been a busy month. With the new year approaching I am so thankful for my amazing supportive family and my obsessive personality to never sit down and rest and to always keep busy.Â
May your new year bring on happiness, good cheer, and all smiles!
Holy HUT damn.
Lets just holy, frigging canolly.
Lets just say I was a sewing mean machine and no one was getting in my way.
You ready…
This was one weekend of some serious sewing! I joined a sewing guild here in my hometown and I think it has released a beast in me! But I love it!
I cant wait to whip out more things! The owl heating pads are going to make great gifts, and those owl organizers are great for sewers!
BUT!
How the heck can one get excited for Christmas when its 40 degrees and raining?! UGH! Small world problems, I guess I should just be grateful, right….
Anyways! Enjoy! Its November 13th and we are nearing to a new year, a new leaf, and a new sewing machine maybe! 🙂
Happy Thirsty Thursday for those of YOU that celebrate 😉
Healthy start to Movember
November is off to a great start!
Halloween was a hit! We had a great halloween gathering with our friends and it was ahhhhmazing!
We had costume winners! We had scary treats! Bobbing for beer! Nothing better than to start November off to a BANG!
Had to whip out this quick qaspeq vest for a welcome to Bethel gift. But it didnt fit so its up for grabs its about a size small for $65.
Im trying this whole meal planning and hopefull it will kick me off to a great start. SO far so good, although it might be TOO much food. who would have thunk that.
Lunch:
I roasted all the vegetables at 425 degrees with a little bit of oil, salt and pepper.
Asparagus, broccoli, sweet potatoes, and cauliflower.
I cooked up some brown rice in the rice cooker and put a cup in each dish.
For the chicken I cooked them on stovetop and seasoned with cumin, paprika, garlic salt, and pepper. They are delicious!
And of course hard boiled eggs for a snack here and there, great protein!
These breakfast burritos are very hearty and filling! Probably should have kept them light.
Breakfast burritos:
Eggs
Potatoes
Peppers
Spinach
Chesee
Voila!
Let them freeze and then wrap then in foil. When you are ready to heat up wrap in a wet paper towel for about 2 minutes.
Of course I had to add some humor to my scary meatloaf fellows. 🙂
I was googling couples costumes and found this great idea to be crown and coke! These took me about an hour and they turned out awesome! I cant wait to start brewing up ideas for next year!
Here are the few decorations we decided to put up last minute. We scared many kids and adults and had children crying even before getting to the door. We were also blasting scary music in the entryway which freaked me out a little.
October as a busy bee
Another busy bee.
Who says 13 credits, full time job, part time job, teenager, husband, pupper-do and sewing wasnt possible?
I guess you can say I like to stay busy as a bee, and do a very good job of that.
We are half-way thru October, which is insane! Where has summer gone? Where has fall gone?
As winter nears I get excited but sad because of how quickly time passes us, and sometimes I dont stop to enjoy the moments.
I enjoy what I do.
I enjoy my full time job.
My part time job working with the political frenzy is coming to an end. Only 12 more days and then the big boom of rush to the polls. So vote early, and just flat right vote.
And I love sewing. I love when winter nears because that means it times to bust out the fur and get fuzzy.
If I could just sew and go to school I dont know if that would be busy enough for me hence the two other jobs and all the other hats at home.
BUT enough rambling.
Heres the latest and greatest and I should have more projects to share before the end of the year!
Enjoy!
Do what makes you happy.Â
Do it often and with joy because life is all about being happy and finding joy in the little things such as sewing or beading.
A whirlwind of business…
5:30 morning phone calls that boil my blood
sewing
sewing
and more sewing
I will elaborate on my fun 5:30 am phone call. Everyone wants that phone call. You want that phone tell, let me tell you. It starts your morning out with a bang.
6 Qaspeqs
in
6 days! Was fun and fun! Tiring but fun!
They turned out amazing!
Miss Megan Leary is representing our Kuskokwim region as I type!
Check out my handy dandy work! These qaspeqs were beautiful and I had a good time sewing them!
Hope you enjoy my work!
5:30 phone calls cant bring me down as long as I keep pushing.
5:30 comes and goes everyday twice a day and I remind myself I am better than that. I am better than her. I am a stronger person. I dont deserve to be rudely awakened at 5:30 am to be cussed out and called all sorts of nasty names at such an early hour. I am a better and stronger person.
Ring, ring
Its 5:30 wake up.
Ring, ring
Hurry its 5:30 wake up
Oh, must be important.
5:30 wake up calls are unusual.
Oh, wait am I 7 again? or 10? or 14?
I remember those awful calls.
Dad unplugging the phone.
Me unplugging the phone.
Who else would be waking me at an ungodly hour.
Ring, ring.
Maybe if I ignore it she will hang up.
Nope
On comes the answering machine
and there it is
that
dreadful
awful
voice
its her…Â
My blood is boiling, the tears are swelling, and the assholes, bitches, mother effer’s come out
its 5:30 why not
lets start the morning off right.
Nothing but F you’s and you stupid B’s and all that jazz.
5:30
Oh how I hate you
I hate those memories
those horrible tired mornings
You stupid B just rot in hell please and leave me be
Because 5:30 comes and goes
but her
shes always there
waiting for the next morning to
call
harrass
and
ruin
my
life
one
day
at
a
time.
Thanks mom!
Did I mention that I hate you.. Yup, sure do.
So bring it on 5:30 I’ll be ready.
Its nights like…
Its nights like these where,
I wonder if anything is ever going to get better…
Its nights like these where,
I wonder if I am ever going to be able to move forward with my life…
Its nights like these where,
I wonder when its going to stop, the calls, the texts, the anger, the hatred…
Angerness fills my soul in moments like these,
Its moments like these where I want to just want to run away…
Run away from her.
Run away from the anger, and the sadness.
Tiring.
Tiring to have these feelings and emotions day after day, night after night.
I feel like I am breaking into a million pieces, and never have the chance to be put together.
Hatred text messages dont solve the problem.
Telling someone you hate them over, and over again doesnt solve the problem.
Telling yourself you are over her and dont need her wont solve the problem.
Nothing will ever solve the problem,
until
she
is
gone
for
good
Until then, I guess I can be fine.
Just fine.
Lets just say…
Lets just say its been a busy couple of months for me…
I have somewhat become addicted to sewing…. Its been a busy few months for me on the sewing machine, in the office, and at home dealing with home life.
My mother never fails to pop into my life when I least expect it, and when I welcome it the least. She has the worst timing. She manages to step into my life and stomp me further into the ground. Her drunken voice boils my blood. Her laughter makes me want to strangle her soul. Its amazing what one phone call can do to my well being. It brings me back to a damn spiral of anger and disgust. And in the moments what I wouldnt do to hurt her with all my might. But then I realize shes nothing to me. Shes been dead to me for years and I just need to let it go like a dead fly. Moments like those rotten phone calls remind me that I will never heal until she has left this earth for good.
Until then I just keep on kicking. Keep on breathing. Keep on moving.
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