Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!! My husband doesn't get home till late so we dressed the baby out and went to the pumpkin patch along Jude's auntie em on Sunday.

all ready to go

Baby Giraffe eating high up leaves

Overwhelming love

One of the few pictures of Jude looking up. High was pretty into the straw.

Hope your weekend was full of tasty treats and fun costumes.

8 months

My baby is 8 months old this week. It seems like every day now more unique personality comes. He is happy and curious.

Everything he sees goes right in the mouth. He was particularly pleased with this handful of dirt.

He has always been fascinated with watching the leaves blow in the wind.

In case you cant tell, he is teething some more. We have started putting bibs on him throughout the day to save ourselves multiple outfit changes due to excessive drooling

Happy 8 months Jude!

fall shop

We are gearing up for the holidays out our shop. We have been buying supplies and scheming ideas. We are in the process of making baby winter booties, Santa clause beards for pacifiers, some new wraps and both Christmas and fall hats. We are so excited not only to have new fall/holiday items on our etsy shop but also to be preparing for another queen bee market. The market will be at the Del mar Hilton on November 18th-19th. If you come to the market you will also get entry in the Mindy Gledhill show right after the Friday night market! Here are a few of the things that we have completed so far:

Fall acorn hat

Baby Wrap

Holiday green - soon to have an option for a holiday aplique

Wednsday Wishes!

This last week I have felt a bit overwhelmed. A little over emotional. When Tyler comes home at night i can hardly keep from weeping, both out of happiness to see him and relief to have help with the baby.

I have always been the kind of person that NEEDS to eat fairly often or I turn into an emotional/grumpy wreck. One of challenges I face being a mom is that I often get so busy taking care of the baby that I forget to take care of myself, even forget to eat. This is ironic since 'what are you doing to take care of YOU?' is one of my most used statements as a counselor. When i lead groups i am constantly reminding clients about the importance of self care and 'me' time. Now if only I could get through to myself with this message. In an effort to practice better self care, here are a few things that I am wishing for this week (Some obtainable, some not) :

To spend some quality time with husband and celebrate his birthday!!!

I would love to have a hammock like this in our nursery! Who wouldn't?

Source: houzz.com via Sara on Pinterest

To sleep in (a mom can dream right?)

Source: brunchatsaks.blogspot.com via Haley on Pinterest

To see more of this

And Less of this

To go to the farmers market and/or trader Joe's. To eat 3 meals a day and snacks made with fresh, healthy food

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I'm hoping to fulfil some of my wishes (like celebrating birthdays and eating enough food) and keep dreaming of those that can yet be fulfilled.

Autumn

Autumn! Its finally here. The last few days we have been cuddled up inside watching the rain and drinking warm tea and it has been wonderful. I have to admit, I think I am a little Autumn crazy. I wanted to make the house feel 'fally' without spending much/any money so I have been trying to do some crafts using materials I already had around the house.

Before I got started on the decorations, I made up some pumpkin spice syrup to make this lovely looking coffee drink from foodpulwords. It was as good as it looks!

Source: foodpluswords.com via Sara on Pinterest

I move the electric fireplace (don't judge, it makes me happy) to the living room where I could stare out at the rain and pretend we had a real fire burning.

And I made this wreath using a wreath we had lying around and a few squares of felt turned into flowers using this tutorial from jonesdesigncompany. What I really wanted to make was one of those cute yarn wrapped wreathes I have been seeing eveywhere, but since the foam wreath cost a min. of 5 dollars I decided to go with this free route instead. I put all the flowers on pin backs first so if after I'm done with the wreath I can use them to spruce up a sweater or headband!

Even the baby was getting in the fall spirit with his cute little acorn pants!

This is the look i get when I am doing something confusing to him.

I even bought stuff to make pumpkin pie tonight. What I really wanted was to buy chestnuts for roasting but i couldnt find them anywhere. Hope your enjoying fall as much as we are!

bargain hunting

A few times a year the retirement community where my grandmother lives has a community wide yard sale. We have gone once a year for the past several years and always found great deals. I have always gone with my mom and it has been fun to spend time with both my mom and my gradmother as we drive around looking for deals. This year was especially fruitful, here is what I found:

Total purchase included set of 4 pyrex bowls-$2, set of 7 milk glass bowls 50cents, china bowl-50 cents, glass urn-$2, vintage table runner-50cents, vintage typewriter with orig. manual-$3, set of 2 milk glass soup bowls-50 cents, and (not pictured) 2 gold chains at a dollar a piece! Total spent = $11.00

the case on the typewriter is not in great condition, but with a little help i think this could be super cute, and for only $3!!!

who does nott love pyrex mixing bowls?-$2 for the whole set

perfect size for serving baby food!

As if all of these great deals weren't enough, the two small gold chains i bought, the ones not pictured that i bought for a total of $2, I took them to a jewelery store and sold them for $80.00!!! Needless to say I was pretty excited about the whole experience. Not only did I get a handful of fun vintage finds, but I ended the day with more money than I started with! If only all my shopping trips went this well.