babybug

candy lei

tomorrow is babybug's preschool graduation.  i'm getting teary-eyed already.

 i bought these cute candies to make candy lei for her to give to her little friends.

 this afternoon i made two for the teachers.  i have eighteen more to go.  *sigh*

goodie bag

babybug got this cute goodie bag from a friend's party.  it was personlized with her name on the little white tag.

reindeers

we made these after opening presents.

   

merry christmas! 

a pushy and rude person

i'm smiling because i'm going to complain about a certain insurance salesmen named "willy".  i think willy is why insurance salesmen sometimes have bad generalizations about themselves.  a few weeks ago, my dad offered to cash in one of his insurance policies so i could pay off my student loan.  the result of a second degree that has turned out to be useless and costly.  it was my job to call the agent and ask for information on how to cash-out.  i got hold of willy who wasn't the original agent my dad bought the policies from.  i found out later that my father liked his old agent.  i got a story from him of how "old-time" business was done differently.  anyway, i explained to the overly gung-ho willy what we wanted to do.  i immediately got bombarded with questions...what's the money for?...what does husband do?...how many children do we have?...what was my major in college?...what does my father do?...what this?...why that?  he even asked what was my total (student loan) debt?  the kicker was when he asked our total mortgage amount and monthly payments!!!  let me say again that it was the first time i've ever spoke to this person.  i didn't need financial advice.  i didn't want to buy any type of insurance from him.  he's not our banker, friend or family.  so, why the heck should i tell him that stuff?  all i wanted was information.  of course, like an idiot i answered him up until the debt and mortgage questions.  he questioned me for a frustrating half-hour.  finally, he said the paperwork would be ready for me to pick-up the following week.  papers that were for my father to sign.  he also requested that i bring husband with me.  according to willy, husband and i should personally pick-up the papers.  he made no offer of sending the paperwork to me or directly to my father.  instead, husband would have to take off work while we lugged babybug to downtown.  it's irritating how our inconvenience was no concern of his?  his goal was to have us face-to-face to do a sales speech.  i have no problem with him trying gain a sales opportunity.  but, don't you think that's so wrong and annoying how he asked me so many personal questions during a first conversation?  it makes me just so mad thinking about it...and, my stupidity to answer his questions that are frankly none of his business.  i still feel so invaded with his nerve to be so nosy.  fyi willy, we already have insurance.  but, if we needed some, we sure wouldn't buy it from you!

i'll change to something crafty now.   i bought a rhinestone heat applicator yesterday.  it's made for the swarovski glue-back rhinestones.  it worked really well and was super easy.  much easier than using small globs of fabric glue and is supposed to have a stronger adhesive.  i put the rhinestones on a quick applique shirt i made for babybug.  the tiny rhinestones look so much more sparkly in person.  can't forget the fabric buttons for matching hair ties.

now, time for dinner.  pot roast, again.

fabric buttons equal instant gratification.  while babybug gone, i spent my day making these, watching soap operas and starting a new dress for her.  i was actually expecting her back around one in the afternoon.  gwanma gwen brought her home at 4:45 p.m.!  it was just so wonderful.  i think babybug had a good break from me, too!  ha!  she came home with lots of smiles and unfortunately mosquito bites.  those bites make the whole area and beyond swell.  the skin gets so red and hard.  i hate mosquitoes.

early this morning we went for a walk to the post office and ate breakfast at mcdonalds. 

my little cruiser who refused to take off her pajama shirt for the walk.

we came home and i let her play water.  no nice pictures.   she's been getting very temperamental with the camera lately.  she used to pose like crazy.  she only lets me take her picture when she is in the mood.  i wonder if it's her age, just turning two.  here she is trying to shu me away...

yipeee! a three day weekend!

p.s. i've been having a hard time coming up with titles.

official break

the weekend was so-so in productivity.  i was able to practice my serger and made a few things like this felt pen and color pencil roll.

i'm going to take a break for a few weeks to make a bunch of things.  hope to have lots to post and share when i'm back.  also, need to plan for the baby shower and set up our living room now that the painting is done.  until later...

quick!

a quick post for tonight.  i'm so tired.   i wanted to post pics of what i bought this weekend.  oh, and laura's meme and read some blogs.  at least i'll have topics for tomorrow night.

instead, here's a quick craft.  it's so quick i don't know if you could even consider it a craft. 

prewashed the tank top last night.  sorry about the crappy night-time picture.  this morning stuck the scrapbooking cloth sticker onto the shirt.  i used the zig zag stitch and went around edges.  all finished...how quick was that?  about five minutes!

goodnight.  going to bed early! hey sleep, that's pleasure number one!

a quickie

it was nap time and babybug went down without a fight :)  i used these things to make ...

hair clips!  sorry for the fuzzy picture.  click on picture for a close-up.  i used those metal grandma type pins and just glued the ribbon around.  quick and super easy.  they actually stayed on babybug's hair for rest of the afternoon and evening.   

yesterday's entry must have been quite depressing to read.  i've picked up from other people's blog that tuesday is self-portrait day.   there is no way i'm posting a picture of myself.  no, i'm not a hideous beast.  i'd bombard you with pictures if i looked like lucy liu or tia carrera.  sigh...so i figured every tuesday maybe i'd write something about myself.  not fluffy and cutsie, more real deeper stuff, i guess.

anyway, happy hump wednesday...you know what i mean!