I just want to stop and say thank you to my sweet friends and customers who constantly encourage me. I am always amazed by the kindness that is shown me, even by people I have never met. The fact that people take the time to call me just to say something nice blows me away. So thank you, thank you, thank you. It never goes unnoticed or taken for granted, each of you, you know who you are. THANK YOU!!
Monkey’s Big Boy Room April 23, 2008
This one’s for you mom. What do you think?
Monkey is pretty proud. He shows everyone who visits the house his “new room”. Bless him, he looks so little in there. I think it’s pretty cool he’s sleeping in the same bed I slept in at his age, and even cooler that generations before both of us slept there. Of course that fact creeps Henry out–he already wants to know if anyone might have died in it. Yeesh. He says he misses his twig bed. I tell him he can sleep out on the porch any time he wants to. Ha.
Kat in the Hat’s Mascot April 22, 2008
Okay. So it wasn’t hubby’s brightest moment. When I asked him to build me a pick-up/drop-off box, he sweetly obliged. But he also made the thing double as a birdhouse. Well, the birds around here know the bird taj mahal when they see it. So now when you go to put something in, or worse, take it out…you get an angry mama bird in the face. Yep, she’s in there sittin’ on her eggs…so we will soon welcome a whole FAMILY of mascots. Quaint right? Until it happens to you. I need to install a camera…smile! You’re on the Kat in the Hat camera!
Ho Hum April 17, 2008
I know, I know. I’m a slacker. On the blog front anyway. I wrote THE longest run-on missive in bloggin’ history the other day and somehow lost it before it was published. I couldn’t bring myself to start over. So here I am, freshly rested, with coffee in hand to tell you…that happily, life has been rocking along as usual.
The new job is GREAT. I’m getting used to a bit of an unpredictable schedule (and calls on the weekend about a story, or clothing for a shoot) but when I’m out collecting props or straightening a models hemline, I’m in hog heaven–doing what I love and feel I’m best at. Plus, now I have more time to devote to Kat in the Hat and we’re growing here too. I’m in the process of deciding “where to next”…meaning, what is the next level and how best to get there. A little daunting to be sure but exciting too.
In the midst of all this change, I’m at home more…which, for those of you who know me well, means I’m looking around for projects CONSTANTLY. Like the worst form of OCD. Sooo, I have redecorated the living room (new chair on order), rearranged, moved, taken out, added to…and it’s looking pretty good if I do say so. Moved Monkey’s twig bed out onto the screened in porch, among other things (now a “sleeping porch”) Ha. For the dog. Moved the antique bed I slept in as a child into his room (it’s official…he’s a big boy…in a full-sized haystack), and reconfigured the bowels of the basement to accomodate my ever-growing t-shirt factory and stock. That means ripping out all of the gnarly old shelving (in what we call the underneath- part- of- the- basement–not the finished- part–not that you care) and getting the handyman, aka hubby, to build nice little wall-to-wall cubbys. That also means that half the junk that was in there is now on the “sleeping porch” waiting for a yard sale next weekend. Yes, I have lost my mind.
A bit of a bummer, The Beautiful Room, the shop that carrried my things, has closed its doors. Libby, the shops owner, will still be doing flowers and event planning from her home though, so don’t count her out! Just contact me directly if you are a local and want to swing by and pick up a gift. I am not far from the shops location.
Oh…and I have updated the sample sale category on the site, AND finally photographed the knit apparel line which is slowing making it’s way online too AND I am about to stick some stuff on ebay…some Hannah Kate stuff…so check that out in a few days, under kgage.
OOOO. Best of all…when I was cleaning out the basement, I uncovered all 34 journals, each representing a year of my oh-so-exciting life, since the third grade, plus a few diaries, a gigantic bag of notes from highschool friends and other misc. and sundry (and most certainly incriminating) tomes about moi. So, guess what folks? I am therefore obligated to add to my list of to-dos, a memoir. Except I will be forced to use an assumed name as I do have a reputation to protect. Ha.
Kiddos are fine…Sassy Pants getting sassier (and SILLIER) by the day. She has some form of standup comedy in her future, I’m afraid. And Monkey had THREE games in ONE day on Saturday. NEVER again will we double up on the sports…soccer and baseball simultaneously.
And, I DO have to go into work today, after I cart a ka-zillion dollars worth of FABULOUS clothing back to Lola B (I covet), so I best be getting my hitch upstairs and dressed. Later folks, and I promise (don’t hold me to it) more interesting chatter next time.
Princess Prunella is 4! April 7, 2008
Poor baby…woke up feeling a little under the weather…not the way the birthday princess ought to feel. But she rallied (just barely) and took it all in. Of course now she can only walk on her tippy toes but at the party couldn’t so much as smile and speaking was out of the question. Oh well…we have pictures…she could still end up thinking it was pretty cool to have a real true live ballerina dancing just for her.
(okay…this blogsite apparently had a birthday too and made some changes of which I CANNOT FIGURE OUT. UGH. Please excuse all the oddities this post might contain like the underlined blue type above that I can’t fix.
Anyway…the ballerina planned to do some creative movement with the girlies so I made these ribbon thingies for them to flail around with that attach to their hands with little bracelets.
That lasted all of 4 seconds…oh well.
Snacks on hand for the grownup girls…virtually untouched. I, on the other hand had a FEAST when everyone left, being the cheese freak that I am.
This is Caitie, our lovely ballerina preparing her music.
She was so beautiful to watch and danced to the music from Enchanted. The little girls were awestruck.
none more so than Sassy Pants.
Next we assembled ballerina paperdolls. I had pre-made little tutus, yarn pigtails, leotards etc.
and we put them together.
Now it was time for some of that chocolate cake. YUM.
After cake, we played “pin the tutu on the ballerina” aka, Maggie, my Spittin’ Images Mannequin…named Maggie because I based her appearance on a college project I did where we created a store–logos, packaging, ads etc., and mine was named Maggie Singleton’s. The little girlies didn’t especially enjoy being blindfolded but we got through it with no major malfunctions.
NOTHING makes our girl happy like a new dolly. Aunt E wins for this years most prized present. Sassy Pants was pleased as punch, and declared this her favorite part of the whole shindig.
and a happy, newly minted four-year old, makes for a happy mommy. Phew!
(and a special thanks to Nana who came in town from Charleston, just for the occasion. We love you!)
