Home again Home again, jiggity Jig...

to market, to market, to buy a fat pig

Or perhaps, to the in-laws and back with a rather fat and pig-like beagle. We went to visit the in-laws to help with random tech support. I slept for over 12 hours, which I really needed because when I'm home I don't sleep. Instead I run around doing laundry, cleaning, and doing random projects. I used to spend hours playing on Yoville and chatting with "imaginary friends" online. One of my new year resolutions was to not spend so much time online. I'm doing pretty good, but I do miss my imaginary friends. I hope they're doing well.

When we got home I immediately started doing laundry and cleaning up my studio. I can now use it! I'm still working on the sewing room, but I've decided to call it quits until after the Inaugurock party. Marshall installed two new light fixtures in the basement so now it's not quite the death trap it used to be. Go him! Ok, now to get my thoughts together.

Tomorrow is Grace day, I'm going to try to woo her to my house to do crafty things in order to get ready for the party, wish me luck!

Things I want to do for party:
Silver origami crane garland
Gift baggies
Banana cupcakes
Brown sugar poundcake cuppies
Roast beef (crockpot)
Milk punch
Salad?
Brie cheesy thing with fruit
Look up other fun nibblies
Re-arrange furniture for fun Rockband activities
Possibly break out dance dance revolution in the other room?

Things that need to get done to make house presentable:
Clean office!
Dust and vacuum
Tidy up Ex-sewing room
Tidy up guest bedroom
Make Emily tidy up her room
Take down tree
Tidy up "coat room"
Clean up vanity
Clean downstairs bathroom
Groceries

*sigh* I'm so disorganized. All I really want to do is shut myself up in my studio and make stuff. No such luck. Ugh and then, I realized that I'm making a complete shambles of my cross stitch January sampler. I think I don't know how to count. That's not so good when you're doing counted cross stitch. It looks ok when you just give it a cursory glance, but when you really give it the hairy eyeball and compare it to the chart...not so much. I'm off here and there by a few stitches. Too late to pick the stitches out (trust me, when I do catch a mistake, I do just that). I'm certainly not going to give up on it either, I'm almost half way through. I'm just going to brazen it out.

Oh yeah...here's a thought. Why is it that everyone (ok, not EVERYONE) is soooo very good at selling their stuff on etsy and I can't sell anything? What am I doing wrong? Perhaps I should rephrase. What was I doing wrong? I listed a whole mess of stuff, but I got no love. Maybe the stuff I make isn't so good. Maybe I'm just not meant to make money off the stuff I make. It's quite a blow to the ego though. People make such a fuss over the stuff I make when I wear it or gift it. Why don't they want to buy it? I dunno. I thought I'd accepted the fact that me and making things for money just weren't meant to go together. I lied. I want people to pay me for my stuff. I'm jinxed. I'll try again some other time. Right now, I need to finish what's on my plate.

g'night ya'll.