I was reading through some great articles on the etsy blog, and I came to this article about needlework. It's a great article, but that's not why I'm excited about it. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and look at the selection of "related items". Go ahead. I'll wait.
That's me! Right there with the little acorn-embroidered bag! I don't know how they pick related items, but I'm honored to be part of the game. Thanks, etsy!!
I checked the date of sale on that little guy, and I found out that it sold five days after the article came out. I guess it pays to get noticed.
Sometimes I feel like I've fallen down a rabbit hole and into Wonderland. Actually I feel like that a lot of the time. There are so many things that I want to do with my time, that a daily routine often doesn't allow for them all. So, for weeks at a time, I'll do 4 out of 6 of my regular activity, and then I have to switch them up and do a different 4 out of the 6. I don't know if that makes sense, but it does explain why there are occasional unexplained absences from Blogging. I get distracted.
Well, here's one of the activities that has been keeping me busy:
A birthday outfit for a 5-year-old who loves tea parties. This is actually the shirt I made for her little sister. I'll show the birthday girl's outfit later. I got this assignment in the same week that my mom commissioned the aprons, so it was a busy couple of weeks!
Donnie gives really great gifts.
He knows how much I love NPR and all public radio, so for Christmas he surprised me with tickets to a taping of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me in Chicago. We live about 3 hours away, so we got someone to watch the kids overnight while we were gone, but we came back home the same night instead of trying to find a hotel. I was so fun! At one point the panel got completely carried away with the joke-making, so we got to see about 15 minutes of un-airable material. It was so fun, and so totally out of the ordinary for a date experience. And waking up in my own bed without one of the kids in my face was incredible. It had been over a year since we'd spent a night away from them. We really need to do that more often. I told him that all I wanted was to sleep straight through until 9 o'clock. I woke up at eleven!
This isn't the first time he's given me a public-radio-type gift. For our first anniversary he gave me tickets to see Ira Glass, the host of This American Life, who was on tour and coming through Dallas. I'm a huge fan of that show, but none of my friends are, so it was a huge deal to be in the same room with hundreds of people who loved it as much as I do. They were calling out their favorite episodes, and I was like, "hey, I love that one, too!" After the show I actually got to talk to Ira Glass himself. I even gave him a show idea that I'd been thinking of, but he didn't go for it. The premise was to do a show on people who are obsessed with his show. Of course, modesty would prevent him from actually doing that one. Over all, if you get a chance to be in a public radio audience, take it! A really cool experience.
I just wanted to take a minute and look back at some of the fun stuff that came through my little basement studio this year. I have lots of plans for 2009, but I think the best way to motivate yourself to move forward is to take a look at what has been accomplished so far. It was a great year, and I can't wait to share this next year with you, too.
