what a mess!

so, between bow-making and getting a's old clothes ready for the as they grow consignment sale, this is the disaster that has eaten my dining room. my husband is a total neat freak, so many thanks to him for being nice enough to turn the other cheek and not say anything about this. seriously, i haven't seen my tabletop in a couple of weeks! in good news, the facebook page for two sweet boutique has 49 fans now. i already did my first giveaway and got a few orders from it. yay! if you're on facebook, look it up and check out all of the cute new bows i've been putting together for a craft sale next month. i'm not posting them on etsy until after the sale because i don't want anyone to order anything that i don't have ready to ship. not that anyone has ordered anything from me yet on etsy, but one never knows!

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Are you ready for some football?

Today marked the opening of the season for NCAA football and my husband was ecstatic. We had friends over and I made a Crock Pot full of turkey chili, because chili and football go hand-in-hand, in spite of the fact that it was 108 degrees outside. :) A good time was had by all. As the guys parked themselves in front of the big screen, each with a beer in hand, and talked trash about each other's favorite teams, the ladies sat around chatting and watching the older kids (a term I use loosely, since the older ones are still only 1, 2, and 3) splash around and play in the back yard. Once everyone left, I decided to make a few bows to post on Etsy tomorrow. I haven't sold anything yet, but I have a boatload of ribbon on hand and I figured I might as well do something with some of it. Besides, maybe adding some more variety in my boutique will help draw attention to it, right? Anyhoo, I'll post pics tomorrow. Nitey nite!

Picasa

OK, so I need some kind of editing software to shrink my pics down for Etsy use. Here's one I played around with in Picasa. It has a "blog it" feature to instantly upload the pics here, which is kind of cool, so I'm trying it out. :)

OK, here we go!

Hello, blog world! My name is Brandi and I'm a stay-at-home mom to two beautiful children, ages 3 months and 2 years. I'm a proud military wife and a former teacher (so I'm really, really bossy! haha!). As if my life didn't have enough going on already with my kids, my husband, and getting ready to start grad school again, I've decided to open an Etsy store and try to sell some of the cute stuff I make for my daughter. Let me start by saying that I have no idea how to run a business, but at least I'm good with bookkeeping so I'll know how much money I'm not making! LOL. Anyway, this blog is part of my little crafty project and I'll be journaling my progress. Here's hoping it goes well!

My Etsy shop is called Two Sweet Boutique and you can check it out at www.etsy.com/shop/brandilocks1029.