A place of our own...

I asked my nephew to draw a house for me once. This is what he drew. Looking at it fills me with hope that one day we really will own a home. I hope it's as cool as this one.

I hope it sits under a crazy rainbow and has at least one giant guard flower in the yard.

One day it will happen.

In the meantime, I have my picture.

Blue Skies...

After a long break from etsy, I have decided to go back. I have set up shop on a few alternative on-line marketplaces and although easy and friendly, these other venues haven't seemed to really bring in sales.

THIS time, I will not re-list items over and over in an attempt to get views. I will simply list an item once and if it expires before it sells, I will re-list it then.

At some point, I got it into my head (I'm sure I read it somewhere on etsy) that if I kept listing my items, the customers would flock to my shop and the big bucks would start rolling in. I learned the hard (and expensive) way that it doesn't work like that.

Whatever, it's all some big stupid mystery anyway. I will get back up, dust myself off and try again.

Aaliyah would be proud.

Strawberry Pie

Marked with a "T"

On Wednesday, I baked my husband a strawberry pie and it was good.

It was his birthday and he made a very specific request for strawberry pie. It felt good to bake. I still have left over good feelings from the whole experience. Maybe it's actually the leftover pie that I feel good about.

The recipe I used was for a double crusted pie. I chose this because the crust is always my favorite part. It has to be good crust though. It was good. My mother makes the yummiest pie crust in the world. At this point, I should confess that I had to recruit her for the project. Actually, to be honest, I think she did most of the work. How kind that she was willing to let me take all of the credit.

Happy Birthday.

Mom doing all the work