Reader Survey!!

So....BlogHer is doing a survey about their bloggers and if you fill one out, you are entered in a contest to win a free pass to a BlogHer event. They are who run the ads on my blog over on the left <-----. I like them because they are very picky for who they take on as advertisers. So... if you love me...wanna take it for me? Just click the picture above and it will take you to their survey. Thanks!!

I'm still obsessed

I don't know why but I am totally in love with this song - Let Go by Frou Frou. I listen to it all the time on my iPod and I even burned it from iTunes so I can listen to it in the car. I listen to it all the time and surprisingly it's not driving my children crazy, they love it too. It's this weird strange muse for me that makes my creativity explode, and ideas just start running out my head like water.

I know, I know, I talked about the song before, but I love, love this video. It's a trailer for a japanese drama called Nodame Cantabile with the song Let Go. I used to watch it every few days when I needed a break from working, but they deleted it from YouTube for copyright violation or something, so I luckily found it somewhere else and downloaded it so I can watch it anytime I want. Weird I know, but I thought I'd share.




P.S. If you know of a good PERMANENT hot pink hair dye, let me know. I am loving my pink hair!!...But it is fading fast and I want it back to its original bright self, darn it, so I need to find a permanent dye that will last about 4-5 weeks between retouches. Is there some brand I can tell my stylist to purchase? I just brought her manic panic, but I need something better.

Lookie! Lookie!

I happened across this site called One Good Bumblebee and I definitely have to order. It looks so neat!! Check out this pile of paper. It's a collection of all kinds of ephemera and vintage paper. And I love these jars of Whimies. They are full of vintage trinkets and sewing notions, etc. I'm gonna have to order when I get my next pay check. So cute!!

Since I've had so many people email on where to find Baby Nay fabrics -- just an FYI for all you Baby Nay fabric lovers - Sewzanne's has new Baby Nay fabrics. Just check out the New Fabric section.

Free Sewing Patterns

I found this link to TONS of free sewing patterns...but they are in japanese. There is all kinds of stuff, clothing for kids and ladies and aprons and bags and even shoes. If you are a beginner seamstress, these might be a little scary, but, if you are pretty good at sewing by looking at diagram layouts and measurements, then they should be easy peasy for you.

Enjoy!!

What the Pink?

My husband thinks I'm crazy, and I wonder what they'll think at my children's private school, but...Tomorrow morning I am getting Cotton Candy pink highlights in my hair. I'm so excited!! I've been on baited breath since I made the appointment to get my hair colored pink at my last hair appointment. I don't know if I'll have the nerve to post a pic on my blog. I hate seeing pictures of myself, lol, plus that whole ex-girlfriend stalker thing of my husband's makes me hesitant to post pics and stuff anyway -- who knows where she's hiding these days. Did I tell you THAT story? Heck, I can't remember.

Ok first things first, freaky ex-girlfriend of my husband will be known as FEG in this story, which is short for -- if you couldn't figure it out, ;) -- freaky ex-girlfriend.

Ok well short version is....FEG bought something from me on eBay, sees a link on my ME page on eBay to a mom forum I used to frequent and then begins stalking me over there for several months, which was not just my opinion, others on the site found her behavior towards me very odd as well. So the crap hits the fan when FEG spends time doing detective work to find my husband's personal work number, and my husband works at a very secure defense company that specializes in secret government black programs. He can't even have a cell phone there. We can't quite figure out how FEG even determined where he worked, but she called to apologize for breaking up with him....20 freaking years ago. He didn't know about the whole stalking thing, but he got the distinct impression that she was looking for "more" than just an apology with him, if you know what I mean. Plus, FEG knew personal details about our family that she told him that just plain scared the crap out of me.

So...he told FEG to go to hell and my online friends confronted her on that site. Then, she up and disappeared. I think one of her lasts posts said something about her husband discovering what she had been up to and was not letting her on the internet anymore. Back when my husband knew her husband (she left my husband for him) my hubby said hers was a real nasty kind of guy, you know the my wife is below me and must submit kinda bullcrap.

Did I mention I was about 9 months pregnant and ready to pop with Mr. E when the whole thing went down in the end? After that, I got really concerned about putting identifying information about myself and my children out there since she disappeared, who knows if she'll ever resurface.

Back from OK

We returned in what looked like a blizzard last night from Oklahoma back home to Texas from the funeral. All the way home is snowed, but the roads were fine...so no snow day. So my kidlets played before school in the snow this morning.

I am so busy. I took yesterday off from work, to get on this morning and realize the chick who normally fills in for me did not finish all of last night's jobs, so...I have a hell of a lot of crap to do today. And my child missed school and has a stupid report due this Friday on Cuba....along with everyone having to bring a food sample for their country for International Day on Friday. I'm sorry, but I hate all these reports. Who ends up doing most of the work anyway? Why don't they just assign projects for parents instead? Sheesh. And the last basketball game is this weekend for Miss Em, and if they win, they are in the playoffs. Woohoo!!

So I have school work due on Friday. I have a costume to make by the end of the month, and Mr E is dying for some Robot pants as well as Pig pants from some cool Japanese fabrics I got in the mail the last couple of weeks....so hopefully after this fun-filled week I can put up some new fun cool projects here next week when I can breathe. I'm aiming to get my waldorf fairy thing up here asap.