I am now a member of The Toy Society. I made my first toy drop. It is so fun to handmake a toy and leave it soemwhere hoping that someone will notice it and give it a home. I left my first drop at a park! #618.

This is where I made the drop

I sure hope it finds a good home! I left it in the little blue tube, to the left there.

Well today I’m running on 4 hours sleep, ugh I’m tired. I had to get up early to go list a house for sale, then run accross town to let clients into their home to be, then home to relax for an hour and then off we go to my neices birthday. I wanted to make her something for her birthday, but since we just made her a bit of whimsy boo bear, we decided to give here a gift card for clothes. School is starting soon and I’m sure she’d appreciate being able to pick some things out for herself, it’s her first year in highschool!! Wow, they grow up so fast. We are so proud of her, she will be going to an awesome Magnet High School. She doesn’t want to go there, but yay for her, she is so lucky since our schools here are so horrible. Someday she will appreciate it!

Sometime last week I got some new brushes from my favorite design resource. Then the other day I came up with a color swatch that inspired me to make a new header for ScrapbooksGoneDigital.com, one of the shops I sell product at. I had an inkling to give our store an updated ‘FRESH’ look and just couldn’t help myself!

Today I surprised the owner of ScrapbooksGoneDigital with a new store banner for the shop! I wasn’t sure if she would like it, you know, everyone has different styles…but it turns out she absolutely LOVED it! And her many thanks made me feel so good and totally made my day – I was SO happy I had made it for her.

I just love how it turned out and wanted to share with you all! Take a peak at our new look!! And be sure to let me know what you think!

Morning all. Today I woke up to my little girls laying next to me – looking at books. WOW…What a wonderful way to wake up. But I stayed up till 2 am, urgh, stupid me! Now I have to make tea and breakfast with my eyes half closed 🙂 hmmmm… what to make, what to make….

DigitalArts-cafe.com has closed down totally now. It was the first store I ever designed for and Melo was the best lead ever! She taught me so much and was always doing something for the site, it’s hard to imagine puting so much work into somthing for her to have to let it go. I do miss our conversations, but she has been busy. Anyway, I’ve said my farewell to her for now, but I hope to keep in touch!

Remember when Grandma use to wear that old apron and you would think..I’d never wear that – but it looked just fine on her? Well, here is a site I ran across while web surfing – you gotta check it out, not your average apron!

http://aprongoddesses.blogspot.com/

And then of course there’s this very interesting blog that makes me happy! My Mom would love it too!

http://apronthriftgirl.typepad.com/apron_thrift_girl/

Also, as I am discovering Waldorf schooling and education, I would like to introduce it to you – so that you can discover with me. Here are some links for more information:

http://www.waldorfmama.typepad.com/
http://www.waldorfanswers.org/
http://www.whywaldorfworks.org/07_Community/articles.asp

and a great pay it forward website:

http://thetoysociety.blogspot.com/

Finally, I found this website, but haven’t yet reached the point of making the pledge:

http://www.buyhandmade.org/

Already been swimming for the day with the girls, baby has been sleeping all morning, sewed a blankie, got a freebie ready to release today on my blog, uploaded tons of pics to flickr left descriptions, need to connect it to my blog, ate breakfast with my family, ironed a little and now blogged… busy busy busy, but I always feel like I’m chasing my tail! lol.

Wasted the morning on CE for real estate, ugh! Trying to get escrow closed on a short sale and started a baby blankie today. Gotta get back to photoshop soon, have tons of ideas running thru my head and a new brush set to play with, can’t wait to see what I come up with!

It is with much sadness that I must inform you – DigitalArts-Cafe.com has decided to close it’s doors for good… AND SO my store will be on sale for 35% off.

Hope you all are doing well, I am enjoying my time off with my kids. I will be back soon 🙂 
Blessings,

Vivayne