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Another year has begun….
Of school that is.
School started up this week and we are slowly getting into a new schedule. The youngest is very excited to finally be in school except for one small issue. She hates getting up. The last two mornings we have been greeted by her complaint of, ‘You are waking me up, I’m trying to sleep.’ Sorry pumpkin, part of going to school is getting up in the morning. 
Her sisters though are quite happy to get up and go to school. In fact Katy has been up bright and early both days so far.
I got my first kid free morning today and it was very nice, got more done in half hour then I usually get done most days.
Here’s hoping the girls continue to smile at the thought of school(even the youngest who may groan about waking but is all smiles by the time we get to school) and that I can get a good schedule going to optimize my few hours of freedom.
-Kim
One More Week….
One more week and the house goes quiet for several hours a day. One more week all three kids will start back to school. They are all VERY excited.
Katy is literally bouncing at the possibility of getting her Teacher letter today. Anna keeps wanting to try on her first day of school outfit and today wants to see how it looks with her boots. At 6 she is my budding fashionista! I have no idea where she gets it from. Tara the youngest is just thrilled to finally be able to go to school like her sisters. She’s a big kid now!
One more week of calm to prepare before the whirlwind of school, activities, work and home begins again.
-Kim
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Shipping times back to normal!
I am a bit late in updating here, but international shipping times are back to normal.
-Kim
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Change in international shipping times.
Due to unexpected issues with my vehicle I will not be able to ship international orders on Wednesdays. At this time international orders will only be able to ship on Saturdays. My sincere apologies for any inconvenience this might cause.
-Kim
New Tags, New Shop.
I’ve recently opened up a new shop under the name Pumpkin Tree Lane on Etsy.
I’ve just started stocking it, but over the next few weeks you will find an assortment of gift tags/cards using my hand carved stamp designs as well as magnets and other items made from polymer clay.
-Kim
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Catching up.
Well, my attempt at posting once a week so far has not panned out. Life has been a bit hectic these last few weeks.
When I last posted I was off to Puerto Rico for my first ever trip with Mike. My parents took on the huge task of taking care of our three girls and while the weather wasn’t ideal, and I managed to be sick for large portions of the trip, we had a lovely time.
Came back in time to spend several weekends devoted to selling Girl Scout Cookies. With two girls in scouts we find most of our weekends involve trips with the troop. Now that Cookie season is over things are starting to slow down on that end.
Add in an attempt at Spring Cleaning, Spring Break, a fender bender, a trip to the Vet for our poor Zoe girl and an illness I hope I am finally seeing the end off very soon and it has been a very hectic time. I leave this update with a picture of the middle girl at her Kindergarten performance last night. They put on the short musical ‘EIEI-Opps’ to the great enjoyment of family and friends. It was one of the most adorable performances we’ve been too so far for the girls. She was a ‘cute’ baby chick!
-Kim
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Store going offline this week……..
Just a heads up that I’ll be putting my Etsy shops in vacation mode starting Wednesday night, March 3rd, around 11pm or so. Getting a rare chance to get away this coming weekend, but will be back up and running no later then the evening of March 9th!
-Kim
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Sick Day Diaroma
A couple weeks ago our oldest was home sick with a bad cold. I admit I’m pretty lax in what they can do when they are home sick. (Well, as long as the reason they are home is true illness and not of the ‘I have a tummy ache’ variety which we have not had so far in our school career.) So she could have spent the day vegging with cartoons. Instead she spent quite some time gathering materials together to make this diaroma.
(The blue is a frozen lake, the brown is an inuit with sled team. The pink is an igloo made out of polymer clay with a penguin on one side and a polar bear on the other. The background is a old sweater box from Christmas.)
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Dusted off and ready to use again.
I took a break from reorganizing my workroom this week to pull out my old sewing machine to see if I could finally figure out what happened to it to make it not work properly.
Over a year ago I put it away in frustration as I could just not figure out what was wrong. I had been using it with great success, and then one day I plugged it in and the stitches were just a mess. I read the manual over and over, looked online for advice and had rethreaded the machine, gone over the tension, checked the bobbin a dozen or more times til I was ready to pull my hair out. I finally just took the needle out for safe keeping, put the thread away and tucked it into a corner of my room in defeat. I didn’t at that time have the money to pay someone to look at it and since I generally only sew for a hobby and not for profit I figured I’ll just do everything by hand which is my preferred method.
Unfortunately, hand sewing takes quite a bit of time. Time that is in very short supply and after a year of promising my oldest a new quilt to replace her well worn and too small quilt I decided to pull it out for one last try.
So I dusted her off, replaced the needle, rethreaded and made sure the bobbin was in position. First try, stitches off, adjusted the tension a smidge higher and perfect. Huh? You telling me after sitting for a year, after hours of beating my head against a table trying to figure out why the machine wouldn’t work, it works flawlessly now.
Let’s hope our new found relationship continues to be one of cooperation. I have plans for her that involve more then the pretty purple fabric squares my oldest is impatiently waiting to become her quilt.
