Secret Of the Wings

This is one of Lily's new favorite movies.  She was sad to see this ornament leave the house last week. (Periwinkle was a special request.)  Looks like I will be making more for Lily and her cousins to add to their collection.  When they get older and move out, their own trees are going to be filled with clay ornaments made by me.   :D

Outtakes

Here are some outtakes from the photos I shared yesterday.

Ian photo bombing me...

 This is what happens when my husband picks up my camera...

Wordful Wednesday

It's sad, I was looking through my photos and I just realized that have not taken any new regular photos of my family since Halloween.  This time of year it seems all I do is take photos of my clay creations. I really need to fix that.

So I started to look back through my archives and stumbled upon these.  The day before we left on or trip to Disney we went to visit my grandparents. We do not get to see them that often.  While they are from this area, they live close to my parents now.

I absolutely LOVE that last one! 

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What I did Tuesday...

I am still really sick.  :(

I did manage to package these.

Quick note on the above tray...this is only about 11 finished orders and a couple partial orders.

Time for a nap.

Dear So & So Friday

Dear Jeff,
Thank you so much for being such an awesome husband!  I am grateful for everything you do for me and our family.  
LOVE you!  Your sickly wife.

Dear Bob & Kris,
Thank you for a wonderful Thanksgiving feast.  We had a great time.
Love - Melanie, Jeff, Ian & Lily

Dear Mom, Dad, Heidi, Vincent & the girls,
Miss you guys!  Hope you all had a good holiday.  
Love your WNY family

Dear Lily & Ian,
Thank you for sharing your cold with me.  :(
Your mommy coughing up a lung.

Dear body,
You have no time to be sick!
Get better quicker!
Me blowing my nose for the millionth time.

Dear Cold,
Good BYE!  
Melanie's exhausted body

Dear Kara,
Your cousins don't like eating the 'fancy' food either.  ;)
Love you to bits!

Dear Mia,
Sorry to hear you are feeling yucky.  Hope you feel better soon!
Love you to bits, too!!

Dear Neighbor,
Sorry the chairs you put by the bushes didn't work, your dog still got in our yard. The 10piles of dog crap we picked up last Saturday + stepping in 2 piles + $50 of netting we bought and put in the bushes because you can not put your dogs on a leash = really MAD neighbors. Grrr!

Dear Customers,
I am thankful for being so blessed with awesome customers like you.  
Thank you so much!

And because I really like photos in my posts, here is a photo of a custom ornament I made this week.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours.

What I Did Wednesday

Yep, I know it's Thursday.  I just thought I would share what I did Wednesday though.

I spent yesterday sorting, photographing, packaging & mailing all of this.  All while listening to Lily repeat, "mom, can you help me blow my nose?"  My little one is sick and stayed home from school yesterday.  Ian started this cold last week and now Lily has it.  Hopefully Jeff & I will be spared.

PS...the photo above was all made after I mailed this batch on Saturday...

Wordful Wednesday - Brrr

{Penguin Ornaments made by me}

It was very warm here over the weekend.  Having 70 degree weather in Buffalo during November is very unusual.  Taking advantage of the beautiful weather I raked the leaves and pulled out the shovels, snow-blower and sleds.  Monday night the temps plunged and it is very chilly out now.  Winter will be here before we know it.  The kids are excited to see snow...me, not so much.

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Sunday Citar - Happiness

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Smile

I was looking through my photos this morning trying to figure out what I should blog about and I realized I really need to post photos from our summer Disney trip.  They truly make me smile. 

Wordful Wednesday - Gobble

Only a couple more weeks until turkey day.

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Halloween 2012

We were glad that we could go out and trick or treat on Halloween.  It was cold and rained most of the day.  I guess I would rather have rain than snow.  As usual in this part of the country, you have to choose your costume large enough so you can put many many layers under it.  You never know what the weather is going to bring.  ;)

Lily decided to be Frankie Stein from Monsters High and Ian was "Dr Derpinstein" (think cross between derpy (his new favorite word, google it) and Dr. Frankenstein).  He changed his costume last minute and came up with this.  It was actually kind of funny because they coordinated without trying and Ian realized that right before we all left.

While putting together this look, he wanted me to let him wear his headphones and I nixed that idea.

He thought he looked super cool.  (Love the posing he did in these photos.  Cracks me up.  He wanted me to take them so he could upload them to his facebook page.)

We grabbed our umbrellas and did our annual tradition of trick or treating with friends.  Ian decided again this year to go with his friend instead of with us.  

And we went with our friends (we have been going with them since Ian was 3yrs old).

Everyone had a great time and now I have way too much candy in my house. ;)

Sunday Citar - Birthday

"Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love."  ~ Gabriel Byrne 

Today is my 39th Birthday.  As I look back and reflect, I thought this quote fit how I feel about birthday's perfectly. 

(My sister, Aunt Peggy (my mom's Aunt) and myself)

As a child, just like my kids, I wondered what gifts I would receive for my birthday.

(me, my mom, my sister & my dad, circa my 7th birthday 1980)

As I got older, the ideas of birthdays and presents changed.  I grew up and learned that I should cherish memories more than objects.  I do not wish for anything but a nice day with my family on my birthday.  While I can not spend this special day with the rest of my family (in this photo) because they do not live near, I love them more than words.  This day is as much about them as it is about me. 

Ok, so on a funny note....I just realized that my mom is younger in this photo (she is 27) than I was when I had Ian.

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