Mama's Mumblings

Hey y'all! 

It's another Monday.  Why do they always seem to come so fast?  I mean, I swear it was just Wednesday, and I blinked my eyes and it's Monday again.  Time, PLEASE SLOW DOWN!  Do you realize that Christmas is only a few weeks away?  How did that happen?  I think I'm just going to stick my head under my pillow and pretend Christmas is still a L-O-N-G way away!

(You think that will work?)

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I've been busy, busy with "the business" again this week.  I've managed to knock a TON of orders and gifts out this week!

 

The next 4 pictures are for an order for a very special friend.  Her son is graduating Army Boot Camp on Halloween and the onesies are for his precious baby girl to wear.

Mommy needed a special shirt, too!

 

I made a TON of these for friends, family and co-workers:

 

For my niece:

 

Also for my niece:

 

And these invitations for a very special little girl:

 

 I can't believe little Miss Mallory is almost TWO!  I am SO SAD!  She is growing up WAY too fast!

(There's that "flying time" thing again!)

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I'm pretty sure I'm going to participate in a local craft fair in a couple of weeks.  I am TERRIFIED!  I've been trying to come up with some cute ideas of things to make.  I will take orders for t-shirts and my monograms, but I'd like to have a lot of things that people can take with them.  I'd also like to see how much of my craft hoard I could use to make things.  If I only did frames I could fill up a whole table, I'm afraid.  LOL  I just don't want to make a bunch of stuff and not be able to sell it.  Do any of you have any great ideas of things that may sell well?  I'm open to suggestions!

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This year at Jameson's school, the library is having a pumpkin parade.  Kid's pick out their favorite characters from a book and make a pumpkin to match.  Well, being my kid, this is what Jameson decided to make:

 

That would be a vampire worm, in case you didn't know!

So, we worked ALLLL weekend making our own version of a vampire worm.

 

We had a lot of fun fixing him up. It was really neat for all of us to try to come up with ways to do each different part of the worm.  The "ears" are melted/painted baby spoons, stuck into styrofoam that is hot glued to the pumpkin.  The eyes are screw-top caps from Coke bottles, the skin is a painted garbage bag, and the teeth are made of fun foam.

  We just hope it survives until he makes it to school.  The first pumpkin we had ROTTED before we even had it a day, so we had to get another one.  We hope the coat of black paint will keep this pumpkin alive for a few days.  Then, the cat decided she wanted to use the "ears" as a chew toy...AND WOULD NOT STOP!  So, after some touch-up paint, we had to take it out to Marty's truck so she couldn't get to it!

Jameson is so excited to bring it to school!  I just hope he's not too disappointed if he doesn't win.  There are a lot of really awesome pumpkins in the parade!  I definitely think that he would win for "most unusual", however!  LOL

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I've got my yearly "I'm going to screw up your favorite time of year again" sinus/cold junk.  I felt the first little tickle Tuesday night and it's been all downhill from there.  My friend Julie has the same mess and she's taking off work today to go to the doctor. She is hoping to get a shot to get rid of it.  I asked her if it was wrong of me to be jealous of her for getting to take off work, even if it is to get a shot. She did invite me to come along and get shots together.  I'm seriously thinking it would be worth it.  LOL

I remember when I was a kid, I would have to miss Trick-or-Treating almost every, single year because I would be sick.  I would just love to be able to make it through October - December without feeling like my head and chest were going to explode.

 

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Chelsea's current crush, Scotty McCreery, has just released a new Christmas album.  So, in the past week, she's gotten an autographed copy from the Scotty McCreery fan club, an "exclusive edition" complete with booklet and calendar from Wal-Mart, and has downloaded the album on iTunes. 

Sorry for the bad cell phone picture.

I think she may be just a tad bit obessed, don't you?  

 

(She is also wearing a North Carolina State t-shirt because that's Scotty's favorite team.)

I guess it could be worse....she could be this obsessed with some hormone-ravaged teenage boy that lives locally.  We would be locking her in the house for sure!

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Well my friends, I hope you all have a wonderful and fantastic week!

Mama's Mumblings

Hey Friends!

I hope that you all are having a great week so far!

It is still HOT, HOT, HOT here, as it is all over the place.  I don't like summer weather....never have.  I am a fall/winter weather gal, all the way.  I guess it has a little to do with my size.  Fat doesn't get along with hot very well.  HAHA!  I can't wait until that first breeze of fall comes blowing through!

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I am really tired today.  So, I decided to declare it "Not-leaving-this-house-for-anything-and-staying-in-my-comfy-clothes-all-day-today" day!  I did manage to change out of my PJ's and throw a load of clothes in the washing machine, but that's about it for the day.  I need to throw something in the crock pot so we can at least have something good for supper.  LOL  Maybe tomorrow will be a little more productive.

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Marty came in from the garden last night and told me we have two more pumpkins ready from our "mystery plant".  I guess I really need to try to do something with them.  I don't like pumpkin pie at all.  I don't think it's the pumpkin I don't like, I think it's all the spices used in the pie.  So, does anybody have any recipes that use fresh pumpkin that doesn't taste like pumpkin pie?

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I'm really kind-of bummed that my kids start back to school in a few short weeks.  I love it when my kids are out of school for breaks.  I have already managed to buy all their school supplies, uniforms (for Chelsea), clothes (for Jameson), shoes, and backpacks.  I am trying to be more prepared than I have been in previous years!  LOL  I was also very pleasantly surprised that Jameson's school list only had a few items on it.  That is a HUGE change from years past.

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Speaking of school clothes, Jameson picked out his shoes this year....and they are black.

100% Black.

Not a single other color on them.  We looked at other "black" shoes and he didn't like them because the stitching was not black.

What am I going to do with him?  I see visions of this in my future:

From here

**shudder**

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Oh, some fantastic news....

My legs came!!!

I can't wait until Halloween!

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I hope you all have a fantastic last week of July!  Hopefully, you all can be more productive than I have been!

Mama's Mumblings

Hey Y'all!  I hope you are all having a very happy Friday!

My Internet service has been very sporadic over the past few days, so I have been going through withdrawals!  What did I do before the Internet?  You would think I would have gotten a lot done with it down, but no....I just wasted my time trying to figure out how to get onto the Internet.  

Addicted much? HAHA!

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Speaking of Internet problems, we had a serviceman from the cable company to come out and check out our connections since our service had been acting weird for months.  I waited ALL.DAY.LONG. for him to get here, only for him to tell me that the problems were with the cable and not with the connections in our house.  

Or actually, what he really said was:

"The problems are all the rednecks who live on _______ Road who like to dove hunt.  The doves rest on the cable lines, and the hunters shoot the doves right off the lines, making little breaks in the cables.  When we go through that area with our sensors,  the Internet signal is leaking through the breaks.  We just found the problem earlier in the week, so we are going to try to get somebody out here at some point to try to fix the problems."

Oh, OK, you are going to try to get somebody out here to fix the problems....in the mean time we are paying a FORTUNE for Internet service that may or may not work.

Wonderful.

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Marty picked the fruit (?) off our our "mystery plant".

She's tiny, but perfectly shaped....but really, really early.  

I decided she needed a little decoration, however:

Heh, heh, heh...

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I just finished my first paying banner order!

I hope Kate loves it! ;o)

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I have well documented my obsession with Pinterest over the past week.   To show you how bad it's gotten, this is just some of the things I have bought this week to make some of the crafts I've found:

Ummm, yeah.  I think my checking account appreciated my Internet being out for a few days....

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Oh yeah, imagine my embarrassment when I realized I had misspelled "Pinterest" on both of my blog posts.   It's PintErest, not PintRest.

**face-palm**

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It's nice to see that I'm not alone:

From here

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And I want to dedicate this next picture to my precious, although severely ADD, son:

From here

And that's why his room literally looks like something exploded in it!

(I would post a picture, but I don't want DHR to come knock on my door!)

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I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Fall...oh wait....HUH?

Over the past few months, my husband and my son have become gardening machines.  Every single day, several times a day, you can find both of them tending to the garden.  Watering, weeding, admiring...

The garden is technically three years old, but this is only the second year anything has been planted.  Marty's carpel tunnel surgeries last summer put a big halt to anything that required daily care using his hands.  The first year was kind-of a bust, with most of the crops dying, rotting or just not growing.  We did manage to get about a thousand jalapeno peppers (which I am allergic to), a few squash, and a few carrots....but that's about it.

This year, we've already harvested (and eaten most of) all of the potatoes and onions.  We are waiting to harvest squash, tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, okra, beans, strawberries (if the rabbits will leave them alone...grrrrr), and watermelon.

And we've got one little surprise waiting for us too....

When Marty was planting the squash, he noticed this plant coming up.  It looked like a squash plant, so he just assumed that's what it was.  Over the weeks, it kept getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger.  The leaves were HUGE! So huge, Marty ended up cutting out over half of the plant so the rest of the squash in the area could actually get some sun.

Here is the huge plant after 1/2 of it had already been cut out!

He then noticed a little bud:

Well, it sort-of looks like a squash plant.

Then, it turned into this:

Uhhhh, that doesn't look like a squash.

Then it grew into this:

And lo and behold, this is what it is:

A PUMPKIN!  In JULY!  In 100 degree heat!

Don't get me wrong, I am THRILLED that we are able to grow pumpkins.  Do you have any idea how much money that is going to save me on Fall decorating?  LOL  But, I was kinda hoping we could have pumpkins sometime around time that I can actually USE them?  You know, like in OCTOBER?

Do you think I could keep these fresh looking until then?

Can you freeze whole pumpkins?  LOL

Oh well, I guess I will have to decorate for Fall in July!

Happy Fall, Y'all!