Copper Acorn

Holy Crap. I was looking at a couple links to other blogs and I think the size of the ‘Blogosphere‘ really hit me. There are so many people out there wanting to be read and followed- and lets be real, we all want the comments.
Each blog was pretty unique and nice, but it also left me wondering what I want in my blog. And after some time, I think I have a little bit of it.

*First, I want my blog to be read by friends and family. When Travis, Emma and I move to Europe we will be separated by a little pond known as the Atlantic Ocean. Not to mention an entire country (USA) and then more countries in Europe. So I want those who are close to us to know how I am and what random thoughts came to me today. Narcissistic? Kinda, yeah OK whatever.

*Secondly, I would like new readers to come across my blog and relate to me. I have a good number of friends and the majority of them think they are the only ones who feel certain feelings. Yeah, not true. I’ve realized that when I open up and show my vulnerable side, I immediately have others who agree and begin to open up about their struggles. Woohoo! I want real conversations with friends- not shallow ones with acquaintances.

*Thirdly, I love pretty things. This includes most things creative. The part I don’t like would be decorating with real animal skins- I love animals and am ‘the person’ who cries at Dumbo, King Kong or any other animal movie…yeah. But I am all for the fake animal prints- I’m currently in love with Zebra stripes with hot pink.

Anyways, I would like to share whatever I am into with you reader. Cooking, Learning to Create Something New, Family, Jewelry, Sewing projects, Writing, Books and just life. I would also like to get responses from you- this blog is a conversation in progress not a dictation of opinions. Thanks for reading 🙂

Please pray that I can find my camera! I lost it and think it’s in the house…yeah. I made some cool things today too and can’t post photos of them! Sad Day!
Oh and the frogs were not out last night- 🙁

(Don’t understand?-read my last post.)

Today is a good day. The sun is shinning, I planted flowers, baby girl is finally asleep and I have my (seriously) fat cat snuggled with me on the couch while I’m roaming the blog world.
It seems like everything is happening in April. EVERYTHING. Plans, parties, trips, meetings, holidays, signing practices and then of course there is the daily duties. Cleaning, dishes blah, blah and more blah. I think I’m ready for a vacation. If I could go anywhere…I would go to Yellowstone Park. Stay in one of their lodges and of course have a handy professional camera, hot tub AND fruit galore. With my Travis and Emma of course. If you could go anywhere and escape from the mundane and meetings, where would you go? Beach and Margarita’s or skiing and Hot Chocolate?
Writing the above reminded me of a couple days ago when I was out in the evening watering my plants and I heard a chorus of frogs. I stopped what I was doing and smiled. I put down the watering can (aka my coffee pour er) and took 30 sec. to listen to them. There is just something serene about nature. It allows you to take a moment out of your life and just breath. This is coming from a city girl too- love the museums, coffee chops, libraries, express ways and stores. But sometimes you gotta just chill and escape the lists and clocks.
I hope the frogs will be out tonight- I’ll listen for them when I go watering .

This weekend was wonderful. Travis, Emma and I got a chance to do nothing. In our home/life we have to schedule ‘nothing’. Our day to day is filled with people, work, church, meetings, worship practices and many other things that fill in the cracks. And as a whole Travis and I are pretty social. We LOVE having people over and hanging and talking with them. We’ve been entertaining a lot recently and this weekend was just the rejuvenating we needed. We watched tons of HGTV, I baked a lot (fun!) and Emma rolled from one side of the room to the other. (Yesterday she was really snugly- :)) We even went out after church with a friend to Rocky Bute in Portland and looked out at all the lights. (Pictures turned out horrible)
Great weekend-the sun was out, I was with family and I even got to take some cool pictures of my jewelry. (Shameless Promoting) In order of appearance: ‘Wrapped Wire’, ‘Champagne

Glitz’ and ‘For the Love of Turquoise’.

On a more serious note, I was in bed not sleeping- which is super frustrating- and all I could think of were tons of questions and crazy feelings. As many of you know- Travis, Emma and I are moving to Krakow, Poland. Why? Check it out here. Anyways, have you ever asked God to ‘Just show me now God!’ but he chooses for you to wait and see? Yeah…be happy about that. God has told us we’re moving to Krakow and have had years to plan, worry, get excited and store many feelings inside. Sometimes it’s easier when you just don’t know. I am also the kind of person who thinks and analyses things- so I have detail questions which can’t be answered. It’s like…I see the destination God wants us to be, just not the how-to’s. It can be stressful- process after process. Different people thinking, with your best at heart, that ‘this’ way is the way you should go… and then even more questions arise..and so forth.
It’s kinda like God showing you that you’ll get married in two years and to ‘this’ person…it just hasn’t happened yet. Nerves, excitement, more nerves and questions swarm your head. When it actually happens will it be as glorious as you thought it would be?
Just some insights into my mind…this goes on about every hour or so…I create to escape.

Have I been a busy bee today! The weekends are usually relaxing and lazy- today I felt creative and rather than do things for Emma’s birthday I created in the kitchen! The above picture is just because I like organic things. 🙂

The below picture is of me being ambitious. It was SO easy! The ingredients are just dried apricots, sugar and water! It filled the three jars and it’s so much fun! Try it!

The below is trail mix I made too- it took little time and it’s better than the store bought kind.

And these are cranberry muffins that look beautiful but I only put half the sugar in- yeah-bad thing. Honey however is a very good thing! 🙂 Happy Weekend!

This week has been really crappy. Tons of things that stress me out have happened and it’s only Wednesday. Fortunately one of the only good things is that we’re all healthy. We’ve had some problem with the US Postal Service not delivering out new debit cards and our old ones are now turned off. Frustrating. And to make it worse- I literally have no food in the fridge. It’s really empty and because of all the cleared space- I saw how filthy it was and cleaned the entire inside. I guess that’s one good thing about having no food-no messes. 🙂
And you know what, today is filled with many good things now that I think about it: The sun is shining (huge for me), we finally figured out how to buy groceries (Thank you God!) and I have Emma’s invitations done and I just have to go pick them up. So I guess there are many good things happening, I suppose I just feel a bit overwhelmed with a couple of huge things. Like what the crap am I making for dinner?! Well, Emma just woke up from her nap- time to read some books and so some ‘Twinkle, Twinkle’

Have fun with your food- enjoy it- why not?

I might have gone too far and taken too many pictures, as you can see she’ll always let me know 🙂 I am so happy I caught this expression! Priceless.

Awwww. We make messes to go into Bubble Baths! The green fishes and pink starfish are from the Dollar Store. Gotta love a great deal!

I was looking at a new post and I have to show off her genius-ness. Who in their right mind actually likes metal mini blinds?! Nobody that’s who. They are ugly, stiff and crinkle too much. So- this is going out to all of you, but especially you Melissa who gets to design a new condo. (jealousy!) This only involves fabric, scissors, hot glue and cheap blinds. I love it because of how cheap it is, you would be able to splerg on some nice up-to-date fabric. Shall I say Amy Butler?!

I love make-over’s. Houses, people, craft-sy things…whatever. Looking on some blogs, I notice that only pretty re-do’s are posted. Hum…why? I would love to learn ‘What could go wrong if you do this…’ or ‘warning- your result could look like this’. That would be a pretty funny post actually…anyways, this is not a pretty make over- rather a make over gone horribly wrong. Oh and don’t you worry- I have pictures.

I have a few items in my craft room that I have been waiting for to ‘make over’. I had a free 30 min. today so I thought my creative journal would do nicely. Yeah…little did I know that it would end hideous. (a little overly-dramatic?) How frustrating. Here is the before. Yeah, pretty ugly. I will not excuse my earlier attempt at making it pretty. We all have our ‘on’ and ‘off’ days- you can guess which day this was for me. I was going for an eclectic feel.
So here is the after picture:

Can you see why I would be frustrated? It’s not ugly or anything, but the paper BUBBLED! This might be a ‘duh’ to many of you but after I glued the paper down in the place, I put Modge Podge down to seal it- BAD IDEA. That is what made it bubble. I certainly learned from my mistake. I think I’ll keep using it but I’m going to keep it in the ‘make-over’ pile. Does anyone know of a good way to not have it bubble?