It's a winner!

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!

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!

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....

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.

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!

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).

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.