I just have three little words for you....

ROLL

TIDE

ROLL!

Awesome wreath made by my sister-in-law, Penny!

Team Bryson!

The March of Dimes has been near and dear to my heart since the triplets were born 20 years ago.  Without their research and funding, my precious Chelsea would not be here!  Neither would Jameson!  So when my friend Nicole asked me to speak at her March of Dimes fundraiser, named for her own precious preemie son, Bryson, I didn't even hesitate to say yes!

Tonight Nicole posted this photo on Facebook.  I guess this means there is no backing out now!  LOL  I will be speaking about Chelsea's beautiful life story.

If you live in our area and would like to attend, or if you don't live in our area and would like to donate a little something to the March of Dimes and Team Bryson, contact me at robinandmarty1@yahoo.com.

I hope to see some (or a lot) of you there!

Mama's Mumblings (and Grumblings)

Hey everybody!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

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I've been off work for the past 12 days and it was wonderful!  I took off so I could be there for Jameson for his first week of school.  I am so thankful I was able to be here with him.  He was really nervous about starting school this year.  But after a week, he's doing great!  He seems to really like his teacher and loves it that they get to change classes.  His favorite thing, however, is that he gets to have science class every single day.  I don't think I ever was excited about having science class, much less having it every single day.  LOL.  I'm praying this will be a fantastic year for him!

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Wal-Mart is at it again:

I'm telling you, these "sales" are going to put me right into the poor house!

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I'm glad this package wasn't marked "DO NOT BEND!":

Oh wait.....

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I've still been very busy with "the business".  Here are a couple of things I've finished this weekend:

Shirts for proud band parents:

The glare from the flash hides the details in the paw print.

And more onesies for a very special baby girl!

  I have one huge order for shirts that I've really been stressed about.  I've finally figured out the details (spacing, sizes, etc..), only to discover I won't have enough of one item to complete them.  So, I had to order more supplies just to finish them.  I have made a lot of progress with them, however.

I've also just had several things happen with "the business" over the past several days that have really seemed to take the wind out of my sails.  I love what I do and I hope to be able to be able to help supplement our family's income, but it just seems like I've just been hemorrhaging money lately.  I have more supplies than I think I will ever need, but yet I still don't have enough supplies to complete orders without buying something extra.  I guess it's just a never ending cycle.  LOL

So, if any of you locals need a monograms, family names, single initials, in a frame....any kind of frame....I've got tons in stock and ready for vinyl!

Look for me on an upcoming episode of "Crafting Hoarders".  LOL

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Finally, many thoughts and prayers go out to all of those in the path of Isaac (including our area)!   Y'ALL BE SAFE!!!!

Who knew an anniversary/birthday gift could be so useful?

Twenty-four years ago, when Marty and I decided to get married 5 days before my birthday, I really didn't think anything about it.  Of course, now I realize having an anniversary around the same time as your birthday is almost the same as having a birthday near Christmas.  You may as well combine them both together, right?

Ummmm, yeah, right.

Anyway, this year my anniversary/birthday present didn't come in a cute little box....it came in a big, giant, Fed-Ex delivered box!  This is my gift:

For those of you who don't know what it is, this is a heat press.  A heat press is basically a huge panini press or steam press, without the steam.  In my case, it will be used to apply vinyl to t-shirts (and possibly will now be my go-to iron when I need to get wrinkles out).  It came last week, but I've been just too intimidated to try it out.  Well last night I decided it was time to plug her up and try her out!

I don't know why I was so worried!  Once I figured out the super-simple controls, it was easy!  I already cut the vinyl for several shirts earlier in the day.  Once the heat press was hot enough, I went to work!

I made this Alabama houndstooth elephant shirt for my sister.  Her birthday was Tuesday and I wanted to make her something a little extra to go with her gift!  It is a couple of days late, but I hope she will like it!

This is a Creeper from the game Minecraft.  Jameson is obsessed with Minecraft, so I thought he might like this shirt.  Thank goodness he did.

 

Now this is my absolute favorite shirt.  When I first started talking about making shirts, Jameson he said he wanted me to make him one.  He kept trying to describe what he wanted, and finally I told him to just draw it for me.  I took his drawing and turned it into a pattern.

Everything in Minecraft is made of squares.  LOL

I am SO upset because once I finally finished the shirt, I couldn't find his drawing.  I had it sitting on the table right next to my computer and now it's gone. I am afraid that it fell off the table, into the trash basket sitting right next to the table.  :(  I have checked every single slip of paper in the living room, kitchen, and dining/craft room and it's not there.  I really wanted to be able to keep the shirt and drawing together after Jameson is done wearing the shirt.  I've got to get better organized!

Anyway, Jameson loved the shirt and even likes it enough to wear it to school today!  I guess I did something right!  LOL

I also made a couple of really cute political shirts, but since I don't like controversy, I won't post those here.  LOL 

Earlier in the week, I got an order for FIFTEEN shirts for an Air Force basic training graduation.  I am so glad I've got the heat press up and running because this job is going to take a while to complete!

Who knew an anniversary/birthday gift could be so useful?