Not much to say, but wanted to share

Saw this today when I was looking through my comics, thought it really deserved a share. Especially since I've been in such a craft mood lately.
Things are going well for me right now, had a wonderful weekend with my family, Husband got to have a nice relaxing nerding out at Wizard's Asylum talking about Battletech.

 

Ber and I decided to go crafty while at mom's and took a used oatmeal container and spray painted it. Now it will be used to wrap headbands on the outside and hair brushes and hair ties/barrettes will be stored on the inside. 

(It was my fist experiment with spray painting anything....I have a lot to learn evidently)

While Ber and I were goofing off with the spray paint, Mom was watching the baby (and us) and rocked Loki to sleep.

 Loki hanging out while we made peach crisp (which was delicious!) 

organization!

I've been slowly organizing my 'craft closet' and my WIP's so I can get them finished and taken care of. (some of them are insanely old and only need a couple hours tops to finish.)

And holding with one of the internet's sayings - pics or it didn't happen!

before pics of closet

Still kind of before, I got on ravelry and updated all the hooks and needles I had and took advantage of some of the empty Pringles cans I had laying around. (I thought that was quite smart actually)

This is an example of what is inside of a 'project bag' now. The paper has:

Started-

Project-

Yarn-

Needle-

Pattern- (and where I have it stored if it's on a phone/website/book)

Notes-

A couple of hanging project bags. 

I'm quite looking forward to getting this all organized and squared away. Plus it would be nice to close the closet door, although with that big blue tote and the bookshelf in there I dunno if that will ever happen.

backsliding

I haven't been posting much, which is naughty on my part. But I just get distracted, and forget to update. I think it's because I've started letting chaos take over my house again. I need to get back to my lists, I'll start feeling better and more productive, but I just don't really want to put the effort into it sometimes. I'm backsliding so bad right now, I'm kinda disappointed in myself to be honest.

But tomorrow is another day, and I still need to take a shower before bed. So off I go, and hope Loki sleeps late in the morning.

Had fun with my parents and sister today

Went and hung out with my family today, and Loki had such a great time.

Loki and Midnight the cat hanging out on Gram's front porch

Loki and Ber

We were playing on Gram's tractor. It looks like Loki got my habit of closing my eyes while someone is taking a picture.

Her first bite of 'puffs' (they're kinda like Cheerios, but made for babies) 

She liked them after the first couple bites, but good lord she did NOT like that first bite. 

She still isn't sure what to think of her Gramps....most of the time she just stares at him. 

they were making 'hooting' noises at each other, it was adorable. 

*All but the last three pictures were taken by my mom*

Ugh. I hate frogging a project, especially one that I've spent so much time on!

Getting back in the swing of things

It's hard once you've let your schedule go all to hell to get back into getting everything done. Especially with this new class, it goes till midnight, and as soon as class is done I take Loki from Husband (if she hasn't gone to sleep yet) because he has to be up at 4:30 most mornings, and then Loki and I try to get ready for bed. And after she's asleep I do my pre-work for the next day's class and normally when that's finished I'm so tired I just go crawl into bed.
But today I (mostly) took back my kitchen from the clutter of evil encroaching dishes. Next is to get the counters and stove nice and sparkly again.
And tomorrow .....I had forgotten what I was going to type now..... So I think I'll log off for now, because evidently I'm losing my mind.

I'm still alive!

Lots going on lately, working hard on keeping up with all my homework for my certification class to contract out from Arise. Only done with two weeks, and it last till the end of September! But I am looking forward to going back to work, I think it'll be easier because I'll be able to work from home.

Loki and I are feeling a little better, although Loki's going through a "I want mommy" phase, make me feel rather loved when she's clinging with those tiny hands to my arm rather than go play with her daddy. Oh! We've learned a new trick!

Loki has mastered pulling herself up to stand. Now she's trying to figure out how to move once she's standing. It's quite adorable, but the poor child has my horrible balance! Husband was watching her while I was in class and I heard her start crying. Later he tells me that Loki had been up standing with the couch and the chair, perfect balance no wavering, then plopped down and crawled around the living room for a bit, and then sat up and looked around for a minute and then she had just fell over while sitting up and bumped her head. Evidently her sudden lack of balance surprised her and she started crying.
He started chuckling at this point saying "the poor child has you lack of balance" 

I replied with "let's not say things you can't take back, we don't want to curse the poor thing"

I know it's a rather brief update, but I will come back with a longer update soon, I need to take a shower and go to bed, so I can get up bright and early with Loki in the morning.