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If I do say so myself. I told you guys I was feeling kind of uninspired lately. But then, a wonderful thing happened. Stay with me here.

Crafty Papa comes home from work last night and I begin a pity party. Holes in the ceiling, a birthday, and short camping trip have left the house a disaster. Add to that needing to work out, grocery shop, do some shipping, blah, blah, blah, and I start crying. My awesome husband sends me to take a hot bubble bath and then off to a movie by myself. I come home to a totally clean kitchen and livingroom (are you jealous? I'm considering renting him out for extra money-or offering some kind of awesome husband seminar) and then somehow got inspired to make a bag using only scraps. And thus, this funky, kind of wonky strippy bag was born.

My assistant

I think I'm going to have to fire her. Today I caught her sitting in my drawer of scraps and then using them for peek-a-boo. She's gotten by on her good looks for long enough now.

My latest and greatest

I only have a few minutes to post because my toddler is on a biting rampage today and my preschooler is the victim.

I'm really thinking I need some new fabric. I've been feeling kind of uninspired in the last week or so even though sales have been great. I don't know, maybe it's the tree through the house/holes in the ceiling situation. I'm trying to hold off on buying fabric until my friend, Jona, opens her shop but I don't know if I can wait. Must-have-new-fabric-now! So, any color combos or patterns my loyal public is looking for? More birdies? Less brown? More funky? More shabby chic floral?

Just sayin'

I seem to have hit a hot streak with my bags lately. Sales typically go in waves for me but I've been riding the "almost a bag sold a day" wave for a few weeks now. Anyway, besides sharing how awesome that makes me feel, I'm telling you this so you'll realize now is not the time to be waiting around to see whether a bag goes on sale. Go ahead and buy that bag you have in your favorites. You'll just be sad when someone else buys it and since you pay via Paypal, it's not like it's "real" money, right?

Lovin' the new camera

I know this picture isn't anything too special but it's proof that reading the manual and playing around long enough, a stay at home mom whose brain has turned to mush, can still learn a new trick or two.

I really wanted to get the hang of getting one item as the focus of the pic (literally) and everything else blurred. Messed with the aperture setting and distance and finally figured it out.

I'll be back to sewing soon and will hopefully have some new listings on Sunday or Monday. Today was Bella's birthday so we spent the afternoon hanging out and tomorrow we'll be partying it up. She has a fabulous dress to wear tomorrow that we were lucky enough to buy from my cyber friend, Jona. On top of creating some fabulous dresses for little girls, she's just as nice as can be.

Told you

It's an addiction. I absolutely cannot get away from the birdie. Actually, I was planning to complete this bag without any birds but it just looked too plain and unfinished to me once I had it together. To top it off, I had a scrap of the birdie fabric sitting in a bin next to me and I think it was tweeting at me....or was that the breeze hissing through one of the new holes in my ceiling? Hmmm, I guess we'll never know.

I used the last of the birdie fabric and coordinating circle on this bag so if you likes it, you needs to buy it.

Lastly, I feel like I have to share this...I used Christmas money from my grandma to splurge on Bare Escentuals makeup for myself. It arrived yesterday and I LOVE it! I had actually just done my face 15 minutes before the UPS man dropped it off, but I washed all my make up off so I could play with the new stuff. Then, after my shower last night, I put it on again. Mostly because I wanted to play with the application a little more but I think partly because I love the way it looks. And the brushes are awesome. I've never owned an expensive makeup brush and these feel so nice on my face. I'd like to brush my whole body with them but I believe that would cause some nasty cross contamination issues. TMI?

Even my husband noticed a difference and agreed that it looks wonderful. I just bought this basic kit from Sephora along with some blush/all over color and lipstick. Now I really want some of their glittery eye shadows but first I have to find a place to wear it. And the money. And somehow getting new makeup has made me think about growing out my hair just a little. Still keeping a short cut, but more like a short shag. Anyone have some good short shag pics to share?

Sneak peek for Kristi

Or is it peak? I don't really care. What do you think this item is?

Oooooo, and yes, that is a metal stud eye that I set with the Bedazzler my mom gave me for Christmas. Thank you for noticing.