I had a cleaning day today
, and you certainly don’t want to see those kind of photos or hear those stories. We have house guests coming to the cottage again. I swear, if I never had visitors, we’d live in filth, I only clean when someone is coming to stay, and luckily that is pretty regular around here!
I managed to sneak a snippet of time to make up some packages of vintage scrapping goods to sell on Etsy.
These have an aqua theme, with a hint of rose, more blues, and purple. I even had some purple print sheet music to include.
I had a good time picking the pretties out. After doing all that mopping and dusting, I needed a fun break. I can’t stand a day that goes by without some sort of creative activity, even if it is just playing with pretty papers!
I have a vast selection of supplies and know I’ll never get through them all, so thought I’d share a bit of it. 
I made up some pink themed ones yesterday and listed them, at $12 each and sold one today. Its always nice to sell something, even if it isn’t a lot of money, it is kind of a confirmation that you were right about the merchandise and someone agrees with your taste!
Oh, that sounds silly, doesn’t it? Maybe the reason I am not a good business person is that very reason, "it isn’t about the money!!"
Yesterday, we went out on the lake for the 4th, and I think that the rest of the town was there, it was the most crowded I have ever seen our sweet little lake.
It was starting to cloud up, but storms weren’t predicted till later. We decided to call it an early day since we had Sugarwings and her mom, our 14 yr old niece and our 9 months and about to pop pregnant 22 yr old niece with us.
We got back to the dock and it was looking bad, so I sent all the girls on up to leave with Sugarwings and her mom, telling them we’d tie up and haul everything up to our car, that they should get indoors.
In the short time it took to pack up, the weather got much worse and all the boats were trying to get off the water as fast as they could, sirens were going off, and the marina was announcing that there were tornado sightings.
As I walked up the dock to the parking lot, I saw a funnel cloud right above us! Luckily, it was dispersing. No touch down, no damage, but I sure thought that there would be wrecks in the parking lot, you should have seen everyone trying to get out and to shelter!
I am pretty proud of myself for not being one of the people who were in panic, but mostly for also not being one of the dumb asses standing there staring and pointing and taking photos. Of course, that means I don’t have a picture to show you here. Sorry.
Everyone figures Kansas is nothing but one Tornado after another, but I’ve only seen 3 funnel clouds since I have lived here.
Maybe I should’ve gotten a picture?
Earlier before the storm, I did take this photo- Sugarwing’s first swim in the lake. She loved it.
Sugarwings’ first swim! Oh fun!
~Jody
Karla, you are not alone. Most of the time I have a really hard time prioritizing between cleaning and creating. There is just no way to spend good time being creative without letting something else go! At least no way I have found! I have a cousin whose only hobby seems to be cleaning, lovely girl, spotless house(you could literally eat off the floor!) but she is a bit boring to talk to unless you are another germaphobe! As for selling, I feel the same way, it is an affirmation of sorts of your style and taste and talent. Hard not to take those things personally. Thanks for sharing your talents, you clearly have a lot of fans :>)
Looks like you had a fun time at the lake even with it ending the way it did. You also managed to temper your cleaning efforts with a bit of fun as well.
Karen
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