NERVOUS!!!

...so today is the big day for the craft show. I'm up earlier today than I am during the week for work. I'm so flippin' nervous...I think I'm more nervous this morning than I was on my wedding day!?! I just hope we sell $40! My personal goal is to sell 2 personalized picture frames and 2 diaper cakes. If I sell that then I'll be happy.

Anyways, the craft show is at Child of God High School in St. Peters, MO from 9-3 today. It is off Salt Lick Road. Stop by and see me if you're in the area and tell your friends about it too.

Our New Tree...It's Just Not the Same...

...remember back in June when I posted about the City hiring a company to fix our sewers without telling us? Then in July they said they would replace our tree that the company killed? The tree that was our first Christmas tree together....well, November 5 they finally came to fix it.

Here is a picture of Matt planting our first Christmas tree in our front yard March 15 of this year.


Here it is today...

Here is the new one...

I know I should be excited because it is fixed and even better than the one we had but...it had sentimental value. It was a tree that we planted so every time we looked at it, we remembered our first Christmas together as a married couple, a tree so that when we moved there was still a part of us and memory for the new family that moved in. Since Matt is a landscaper, he's going to try to save the other tree and put it in the backyard but we both have little hope for it. So while we got the new tree, it's bittersweet because that means good bye to our first Christmas tree together.

My Poor PBJ Sandwich...

...so Wednesday morning, I woke up to "La Vida Loca" on the radio so I knew it had to be a good day, right? It was good until about 5 minutes later when I realized it was only Wednesday and not Thurday, such a let down. Then I go to the kitchen and I have the fridge door open while I’m packing Matt's lunch when I realize, “Hey! Where’s my lunch at? I swore I made it last night!” Sure enough, Matt had taken my lunch OUT of the fridge to get the milk and left it sitting out all night. Luckily, it was just PBJ but according to a good friend, PBJ MUST be kept cool. I toughed it out though and still ate it and amazingly let it slide and didn’t make it a big deal to him (just to everyone in the office). So all in all, Ricky Martin didn't fail me too bad!

Thirty-One...

...have you all heard of the company Thirty-One? I never had until I went to a 4-n-1 party at a friend's house. Basically, she had four parties at one time instead of having one of each. She hosted PartyLite, Thirty-One, Uppercase Living and Tastefully Simple. It was a lot of fun and so overwhelming at the same time!?! I bought Christmas gifts and I'm very excited with how they all turned out.

This is a tri-fold that is about the width of a piece of paper. I'm going to fill it with a drawing pad, crayons, stickers, etc...and give to Haley for Christmas. I thought this would be a good thing to take to church.


This is a pic of all my purchases. If you spent over $31 then you could buy the white bag for $5!!! I'm debating whether to keep it for myself and add it on to a Christmas present for someone. The brown bag (sorry I didn't take it out of the package but I had taken it in and out like 5 times at work to show people and it was really hard to get it back in there!) is for my sister with her initials embroidered in hot pink.

Then here is the white polka dot bag up close and personal. It has lots of little side pockets to put things in but it's not super tall.

They had so much other stuff I could have bought but I had to restrain myself. After the party, I had one of their catalogs and I was showing my sister and Haley saw it. She grabbed my arm, "Lyssa, wouldn't it be crazy if one of those bags had an H on it???" It was pretty funny!!! Anyways, you should go check out their website for all sorts of bags. I thought of Kristal when I saw the diaper bags that they had. Enjoy browsing if you jump over there.

Mom's Part of the Craft Show...

...here is a picture of all the stuff that my mom is going to try to sale at the craft show! Our goal is to make $40 so we'll break even...I think we can with all the stuff she's providing!!! I just hope we have room for it all!?!

So What About This Craft Show???

...so growing up my grandma, aunt and mom ALWAYS did craft shows! I loved working them with them and as I grew up, I loved seeing what everyone else had to offer. So for about the last 4 years, I've been wanting to do a craft show but I really didn't have any crafts that I could make in large quanitities and mass produce. Well, a fellow blogger and she doesn't even know it, Heidi made a diaper cake and pointed her readers in the direction of YouTube to find directions on how to make them. They were so easy!!! So over Labor Day weekend when I was in Cape, my mom and I got all the supplies, made our first one and I decided I wanted to go into business. I came home, figured out costs and how much I would charge and got a little disappointed. They would cost anywhere from $20-$35 if I wanted to make any money and that was only with a small mark-up for my time and effort (I know this isn't the way to sell them BUT I'm being honest!). So I got discouraged but mom pushed me and said let's just do this craft show up there, it was only $40 to sign up and she would include all of her stuff. Alright, so we're back on track now...

So the Craft Show is this Saturday, November 7 from 9-3 at Child of God High School at 650 Salt Lick Road in St. Peters, MO. If you're in the area or have friends in the area, tell them to stop by and visit us!

I've been hard at work making fabric gift tags and note cards (below are note cards):

Here is a picture of a three tier diaper cake with gifts.

I'm also selling the little snowmen I put in our neighbors gift baskets last year and the personalized photo frames I made for Garet and Cody's birthday (post was end of August). My mom has knitted purses, snowmen stuff and so much more!!!

I've slowly been posting on another blog I'm trying to create for the diaper cakes called Aly's Baby Bakery. I've been hesitant to post about the diaper cakes and the craft show because of that fear of rejection but I figure we're all friends here so why not let the cat out of the bag. Plus my mom has already sold THREE of the diaper cakes at her school!?! And that my friends is the info on the craft show and my big, super secret I've been keeping since Labor Day!!!

Happy Birthday Grandmas!!!

...Saturday was Grandma Groeteke's birthday. We missed the big family outing on Friday evening so Matt and I took her lunch and visited with her on Saturday. We figured that way she would have visitors on her actual birthday and we wouldn't have to share her with everyone else!!! Here is a picture of Grandma G with Matt (no hats in Grandma's house so please excuse the hat hair).


Then on Sunday it was Grandma Holyfield's birthday! Two great women shared a birthday weekend! Here is a pic of my Grandma H at our wedding.

Happy birthday Grandmas!