books

Ok I will just take up a little space here to mention a friends books. William Thomas McLeod
Check out the link.
http://www.cosmicque.com/McLeod/

Decortions by the Lady Beetles

It looks like the Asian Beetles decided to decorate my pumpkins and porch. these look like Lady Bugs but are an Asian Beetle they are a lighter color then Lady bugs they also bite and secrete a yellow smelly liquid when they feel threatened that makes them taste bad and smell bad to predators. They often have one or two lady bugs with them. these are looking for shelter from the rain and cold we have been having. the spots on the cement around the pumpkins are more.
Here we have bugs that look like l

Banner time 1

As you know I am an Active member of the SCA
I am working on 3 banners for the my Baron. I just took this art work and drew it larger to use on a flag. I will keep you up dated as I do each step.

Chocolate

To say I love chocolate is not true because I do so much more then love chocolate. There are times when If I don't have it that people don't want to be around me. The funny thing is that I don't gorge out on it. I will buy a bar and it will last a week. Which is good because they aren't cheep Hersey's that I buy Hersey's is ok-ish. I buy Scharffen Berger, My favorit are these mini bars that have nibs in them. I buy them for $1.99 each at the health food store. I even keep a tube of thier Chocolate covered Cacao Nibs on my desk at all times. they have coco powder for baking or making your own hot coco recipes too. I put the minis squares in my DD bento for school. I was surfing my favorite Blogs today and found out that one of my Bento blogs was having a contest to win some. If you have kids in school or want to bring your lunch to work with you check out this web site. Bento's are awesome and so is Scharffen Berger Chocolate.
http://notexactlybento.com/?p=2065
Coming up I will do a small bit on my DD sets of Bentos again. And More on Chocolate. Yum.

head band

this is a head band I made with some sparkley yarn I found. I was looking for it is a blue but I couldn't find any. I finally found this at Joann fabrics in the section that has the pompoms. It was only 99 cents. which isn't that cheep if you think about how little yarn you get. but for a spakley head band it is a good price. It is made by crochet in a circle till I ran out of yarn. It is the closest I get to a halo. (:

Lunch Bag

This is a reversible lunch bag I made for my DD, last year.
She wanted it to have a pocket for a book and also be big enough that if she had a hard cover book it would fit inside too. she also wanted a long strap like a messenger bag. one of the fabrics is a thermal style knit and the other is a woven.

Etsy and me

I have re opened my Etsy shop. There my shop name is StrawberrySands. I was Just about to start working out side of the house I had a great job lined up and my DD got sick again. So my DH and I had a sit down and realized I need to not be working out of the house. Well this doesn't sit well with me. I have had enough of being a house wife. I don't like house work. and I end up never being done. So we had another sit down and came up with a who cooks when because I don't want to be in charge of cooking all week then get stuck doing it on the weekends too. So I will do Mon, Tue Thu and Sat. he gets the other days. I still buy the food but I like food shopping and my DH doesn't have allergies so he hates shopping for the family. And My DD will be doing the dishes on Thur nights. My DH and I haven't hammered out the dish schedule but I think the rule will be that the person not cooking will do the dishes. Also the person cooking should put away the left overs I think but that will have to wait to be seen.
But the Etsy shop gives me a chance to sell some of the things I make. I have bulk food cloth bags and Angel jewelry there right now. I will be adding a whole lunch collection of reusable bags and wraps. some of which you have seen hear already.