Check out my store at etsy.com

Check out MY STORE at www.etsy.com. I will be posting items as they come available. If you want custom creations, feel free to contact me directly. Also, check out my OTHER blog to see what is happening with my boutique creations.

Wallhanging Top Finished...

I finished the top for this wall hanging this past week. I still have to do some appliqué stitching and quilt it, but this is the top so far. I did it as part of a pattern tester for the www.woodsandquilts.com website. It was so much fun to do as I was able to use only fabrics in my stash or scrap bin. I haven't done appliqué like this in a long time. Mostly it has been required fabrics and not ones that I can pick.

I have another Blog

I am in the process of creating a second blog to showcase my boutique, quilting and fiber art business. There isn't much there yet, but it is a work in progress. I am very excited about how well my quilt kits are selling on ebay. Today I talked with a local gallery owner, whose kids go to school with mine. She is looking for a fiber artist to demonstrate skills and possibly have items for sale at her gallery. I am very excited about this and will get some samples together in the next two months so I can present them to her. She is hoping to have things in place by fall for the Christmas season.

So check out my "other" blog at http://boutiquecreationsetc.blogspot.com/

Welcome to my store...

Yes, I am finally starting to do something I have always wanted to do. I love sewing and quilting and have always wanted to start a store, teach classes and create patterns. I started with the first... I am selling quilting kits on ebay. I just started and have cut block kits for now. Next step is to create some patterns and put them together as kits.

Go to www.ebay.com and search for brneyed. You can see what I currently have for sale. I also want to set up an online store and start marketing my items!!!

Boring...

This blog is nothing if not BORING... I need to liven up my life. I am like a cat but instead of sleep, eat, sleep.... it's work, work, work, eat junk, work, work, run, sleep, dream of work. UGHHHH... I need a life. Then I come home and play on this lap top all night. I think my girls think I live on this thing.


So I want to share some things happening with learning in our house. Emma was invited to participate in a literacy group. There are 3 meetings and we just finished out second one. The kids are broken into groups by age and go off with high school student teachers to read some books. Then the parents are told about ways to increase literacy in the house for the kids. This meeting focused on writing. There were so many cool things to do, but the one that stuck out was having a writing note journal. So Emma got a notebook and wrote me a note. I am supposed to check her notebook as often as I can and write her a note back. So it will be a back and forth thing. She is keeping it tucked under her pillow and is very excited. I think this is awesome because she has struggled with reading and writing last and is now catching up. I am very proud of her.

Happy Easter!!

Well, I was a bad mom this year. I didn't make the girls anything for Easter this year. At least last year I crocheted cute little flower purses. Nope, nothing this year. I even bought the dresses (but they were on sale and cute!!!). So I have to make it up to them by making other things this spring!

I think all my race training, crazy work issues, and just plain stressful life is now preventing me from doing things I like. Or maybe I just have so many things I want to do that I have run out of time in a day? Can't house cleaning and other chores go on a "wait" list?????

I did it...

Yes siree, on January 13, 2008 I completed my first full marathon. It was by far one of the hardest things I have ever done. I ran with Mel from my WISH running team and we were both dying by mile 17. Did we give up... Nope, we struggled with it, but both crossed that finish line and collected our Mickey Medal.




Now the struggle... I need to get the motivation to keep working out, especially run. I have done it a total of ONE time this week. Ok, yes I know I am on a down since the marathon, but I really need to get my butt in gear.

Cool note... I booked another trip to Disney to run the final ever Minnie Marathon. This will be the last Minnie race as it is being replaced with another race. I need a Minnie Medal. I am also planning to run either the Green Bay or Madison 1/2 marathon... or I could go NUTS and run both. Nah....

New Year, New Me

Yah, blah blah blah... doesn't everyone say that. Well, really 2008 couldn't be worse for me than 2007. I mean, yes some really drastic things could happen to me or my family. But with all the personal crappola I have gone through, it's gotta get better for me.

OK... so January 13 is the start of something new. On that day I will be running my first full marathon. 26.2 miles of pure agony and excitement all rolled into one!!! I swore that I would never do this to myself, but thank God I had my training this year. Running is about the only thing that has combated all the stress in my life last year. So on January 13 I will start something new. I will have a beautiful Mickey Medal around my neck, tears in my eyes and enough motivation to lose the last 30 pounds I need to!!!!

So what else for the New Year... Here is the start of my list....
Don't give up on running
Make more time for my crafts and projects
Blog more
Work on eliminating my debt
Give more love to my kids and DH

Hmmm, this is good for me. I think I need to write out my goals more often. OK... so I will work on these for now and add more as needed.