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It's a winner!

2010-07-02T11:54:00.000-07:00

Finally, weeks overdue, we had a girl, and her name is Nova. Since we didn't end up using any of the suggested names, I turned to random.org for some help. And the winner is: Poster #7 LethargicLass !

let's celebrate with a contest!

2010-06-04T07:14:00.000-07:00

If you are interested in winning a nice slice of postcard cake straight from my etsy shop, then please leave a post in my call for names contest that I've made to gather some more ideas for naming our impending arrival.

call for names!

2010-06-03T20:58:00.000-07:00

Well, with my due date just on the other side of this weekend, I figured it's time to get some more name suggestions for baby number three. We don't know if it's a boy or a girl, so feel free to suggest one name for each gender within one post, and please only post once. If I end up using one of the names, I'll send the first person to suggest that name a slice of celebratory post card cake! yay! If I don't end up using any name suggested, I'll just assign each suggester a number and then use the random number generator from random.org to pick a winner.
Fun huh?
Let the name slinging begin!

whatever is lovely....

2010-04-22T07:44:00.000-07:00

I made my first treasury at Treasury East yesterday, and I admit, it's a little addictive, but at the same time, entirely therapeutic. Looking through all of Etsy's loveliness with a definite goal is a good start to my renewed mission to dwell on good things and live life instead of merely existing and just barely surviving it.

I haven't seen me lately.

2010-04-15T11:14:00.000-07:00

Around this time last year, I heard an acquaintance describe something that heavily influenced everything I wanted to be and think for the rest of my life. About that same time, I started exploding with renewed creative plans for my toddlers' development, started making sales in my Etsy shop, started showing at unconventional craft shows, started getting out and meeting local artists and creative people. I guess I just started to think of life in terms of how lovely and rich it could be, I started to breathe easier and felt like life and its difficulties weren't all that heavy.

Well, I sustained this feeling for a few months, which was really a long time for me. I am not sure when it started to corrode, but I cannot believe where I am now in relation to where I thought I was going to be. Now that description made by that acquaintance seems to exactly reflect my life and my attitude. She was a single mother describing the difficulties of living an already troubled life, but now with the additional challenges that come with a baby's transition into toddlerhood; she stated that she was confident and content to be able to "just survive" this part of life. I felt a sinking feeling when that was said, I felt that people were suppose to live not just survive, especially the oh-so-important child rearing years. Everything was going so well at that time, so I thought, but apparently, I was not immune to falling into such a pattern, becuase now everything is stagnant, I've withdrawn, not entirely by my choice, from almost everything I was joyfully active in. I've lost site of what living is. A lot has happened, a LOT of life has happened since last summer, but how could I have let myself fail to live it? I feel like I just barely survived it. I haven't even seen me lately, and at this moment, I certainly don't know how to find me again.

I am going to do it!

2009-11-23T17:16:00.000-08:00

I have decided that despite my difficulties, I am going to do this show. Initially I was really excited about it, but thought there was no chance after the onset of some nasty morning sickness and the depletion of my inventory and energy on a freak Etsy selling spree. So I am going to do it, I am going to focus everything I can on getting myself together and having a great day!

vendors and more info!

hold my mail (while I vomit, please).

2009-11-22T14:13:00.000-08:00

Well, I have decided I need a break from Cake Mail postcards for a while. We're expecting the arrival of a new member to our family, and the chemical smells are exacerbating my already difficult to manage morning-noon-and-night sickness. So, until then, I am taking cake mail out of the etsy shop until I can function again.

Indie Garage Sale

2009-04-08T13:32:00.000-07:00

My first physical show was really fun! It was the spring version of the Indie Garage Sale, a alternative type craft show that is held four or five times per year in Utica. The highlight was selling 8 cakes: a few post card cakes, a few gift card cakes and all but one of my regular sized gift box cakes that I brought there! Neither of the huge mailer cakes sold, maybe they are just a little too far over the top, maybe too expensive? I'll make smaller versions for next time.
My husband, Mr.Od, brought the babes to visit and since BabyJ still had the dollar I gave her to buy a marble at the toy shop I suggested she buy something at the IGS instead. There weren't too many things in her price range that interested her, but one thing she fancied was a cracker and cheese soap from DAS, she liked it because she thought it was real, but as soon as I told her it was soap, she informed me that she NEEDED to wash her hands. While I admit it is a little unusual smelling and seeing food on my bathroom sink, it is rather entertaining and she loves it.

my friend, and occasional muse.

2009-02-27T20:48:00.000-08:00

I have this one friend who rubs all my other friends the wrong way. It's mutual actually, he doesn't appreciate their company either. I however, cherish all the rudeness, pushiness, arrogance, entitlement and similar sorts of cheer he's brought me all these years since we were in high school. There was that one time he and his family moved around the block from me when I lived in north-middle-of-nowhere and he just he inexplicably stopped talking to me for that whole year until after I moved away into my own apartment. But other than that, I've learned to appreciate him for his unconventionality and even occasionally take inspiration from the high level of maintenance required to keep our friendship interesting. We have fun, as a wedding gift I gave him a big brown bag full of faux groceries packed with odd secret surprises, warmly welcoming him and his new wife to domesticity. He's also the friend whose existence led to me think up sending a piece of fake cake through the mail as a stale birthday greeting. And one time, he gave me an ulcer when he intentionally left a scary, vague dying sound on my voice mail and had his wife call hours later wondering if I had heard from him that night because he was hours late returning home from work. It's the little things that make such friendships special. The odd little things.

the new shop.

2009-02-08T17:51:00.001-08:00

Hello there! I just started selling on etsy which I admit, I didn't ever think I'd do. I have been staying home with my two toddling tots since they were born, but just recently, creativity has been bursting from my head in quantities far too great for them to absorb, so I have been spending some free time, while everyone is sleeping, working on some wacky stuff to trade for money so I can resume paying down my student loans. Interested?

Tell me what you think!

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