A few last days. . .

Hi everyone, I'm still here! I had intentions of posting more this week but here we are Thursday already and I haven't done anything since Sunday night!!  This week seems to be a little crazier than usual, today even more so. It was piano lesson this morning (for Kristen) and we got finished there I headed to Walmart, thought they might have some sneakers we could pick up for school, but they didn't have much of a selection. We'll have to head out again tomorrow to hunt for some!

We're just home and having lunch. Later this afternoon we can head up to the school for 'meet the teacher' night, and to take up our school supplies. After that I'm headed straight out to book club. Our meeting is a little different this month, we didn't read a book but we're having a fun movie night instead. We picked something most of us had already seen (so we can still chat too without missing what the movie is about) - Mama Mia, starring Meryl Streep :-)  We're having a pot luck too so it should be a lot of fun.

I'm also busy this week knitting baby hats for a local photographer! I've teamed up with someone that will use my hats as baby photo props and in exchange for the hats I can use her photos on my Etsy store to sell more. I'm excited about it as the professional photos I've seen on Etsy really do help sell the hats - and goodness knows my photographs leave a lot to be desired!!! For instance, here's a little pear hat I knit ready to sell for the Fall . . .  (I took the photo, lighting is terrible!)

and here's one I found on Etsy with a professional photo. . . .

HUGE difference right! So, that's what's keeping me busy this week. I'll be back in a few days and hopefully next week once school starts I'll have even more time to get organized on here and post more.

Photo Fun ~ day 7

Day 7 – High Angle

I may have gotten mixed up with this picture? When I see others it looks like they took their photo while they were ‘high up’, but when I read ‘high angle’ I just assumed I would point the camera up high! Oh well, this is all I could think of for this pic. That’s Kiki looking over the top of the ‘landing’ (as I call it) upstairs.

Tomorrow’s photo is ‘sunset’, I will try to remember to take the picture tonight.

The days are passing quickly and I’m enjoying the relaxing feel of them, although it would be nicer if hubs was home with us too. Yesterday I took Kristen and her friend Emily to the pool. It’s rather boring going round there on your own when all you see is other mommies with their ‘mommy friends’, and I just sit there on my own watching the girls play! Still, it gets us out of the house for an hour or so!

Today, Kristen and I went to Barnes and Noble, Walmart and McDonalds :-) Kiki looked super cute in her little blue hat and carrying her purse (remember we bought them when we had a girly day shopping in Justice) . . . .

She didn’t buy the top and leggings but she looked cute today with some denim leggings and a Justin Bieber T-shirt :-)

We bought some Brain Quest cards in B&N. Kiki wanted some Math ones, but there wasn’t any for 5th grade, I looked on Amazon when we came home and I can’t see that they even do a set for 5th grade. We bought the 5th grade set that has lots of different questions in it instead. We also might try and start learning Spanish this summer! My friend Cheryl ordered some dvd’s called Spanish Immersion which is supposed to be just as good as Rosetta Stone for a fraction of the price. Kristen has said she’d like to start learning so I’ve ordered the pack too. I’d love to speak Spanish, but I didn’t even take it in school so hardly know the basics. I’m hoping I can learn something as Kristen starts to pick it up. I’ll let you know how we do throughout the summer :-)

Tomorrow is piano practice, so today we’re just gonna have a relaxing afternoon, I need to do a little housework then I’ll probably knit a little too. I’m wanting to get some summer baby knits in my Etsy store, it won’t happen unless I pick up those needles!

Have a great afternoon.