FREE STUFF!
Wow, all caps. I’m too lazy to go back and change it, ha ha ha. Yay for Fridays!! I am so pleased with myself for hauling my ass to boot camp on only a few hours of sleep. Since I am in such a good mood I thought I would post a little contest today! Plus it’s Friday.
As most of you know, I have a facebook fan page, but the web address looks like gobbeldygook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Mateo-CA/spacestitch/94990581572 A bunch of useless numbers and not very memorable at all. When I get to 100 fans I can get a nice pretty web address–maybe facebook.com/shopspacestitch? I’m a dummy and already picked facebook.com/spacestitch for my regular profile. You can find me there if you like. I’m usually taking useless quizzes and posting pictures of my kids so if you are into that I’d welcome any new friends!
So anyway, I really want to get a few more fans so I can get that web address. So to enter the contest all you have to do is:
1. Become a fan of my fan page on facebook–here’s the link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Mateo-CA/spacestitch/94990581572
OR, if you are already a fan,
Twitter my fanpage or post it on your blog–here’s the link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Mateo-CA/spacestitch/94990581572
2. Come back and post a comment so I can enter you in the drawing.
The purpose of my fan page is mostly to stroke my ego, but you can get a glimpse of items before I list them, and I will advertise all my sales, specials and things there.
If you have not already relinquished all rights to privacy by signing up for the network monster that is Facebook (meaning you are smart enough to keep it in your pants), then just post a comment to say you love me. Just kidding! I’ll enter you anyway, just say hi or something, even if it is in another language. I know I have visitors from far off places I can’t pick out on a map!
Oh yes, I almost forgot! A picture of the goods:
6 lucky people will get a new package of bento picks for just a few seconds of your time. I might be feeling inspired at the moment and throw something else in there for you too.
AND, that’s not all! (Channeling Billy Mays here) Just for reading this post, or even making it close to the end, get FREE SHIPPING on any two items you purchase from my store at spacestitch.com by entering the code “BLOG” in the “message to seller” box at checkout. I will refund your shipping via paypal. All items are ready to ship and since I have nothing better to do, they will most likely go out the next business day.
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Tags: bento picks, contest, drawing, free shipping, Friday, sale, spacestitch
my desks
I found a few more funny photos along with the GMO grown sunflower. Here I am being my crafty little self at about 3? years old. Awww I wish I still had that desk for M, although E-chan’s fingers would probably get slammed with that lid. Or possibly her head. You should see the set up we have now with our kitchen table–this little monkey is a climber! The first few times I found her on top of the table was pretty hilarious, but now it’s not so funny. We have pulled all the chairs away and tilted them on their sides, and M has to sit up at the table in a high chair so E-chan won’t climb up and bother her. It’s crazy. You can only keep her busy by throwing food in her general direction for so long before she wants to crawl up to see what her big sister is doing.
Here I am at about 4 or 5 years old. Making something out of origami, I suppose. I still have all my books so sometimes M and I make stuff. Funnily enough we still have that Easter basket and it gets pulled out every Easter when we are in WA. The head is about to fall off, though. That brown plush thing on the desk was my ET doll! I still have a little fake leather one filled with sand, but I’ll leave that one for another day.
I guess I still have a tiny desk, with only slightly heavier machinery. It’s a lot messier now because I think I took this last year. Craft shit multiplies like rabbits, doncha know. How nice of my husband not to say anything, even though he has to sometimes weave around the towering piles of fabric to get to his computer desk. Someday I will have my own craft room with SHELVES. Ooooo.
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Tags: baby pictures, crafting, desk
almost a flower
We almost have a flower!! {insert frantic jumping up and down smilie} I never would have thought it possible, but our lone sunflower is about to flower. The other ones died a sad death by mold but this one is nice and healthy. Well, a little stunted but it’s doing good for an inside plant. Think Flowers in the Attic type stunted here, people. I still don’t know how to underline things in wordpress, so just pretend that book is underlined.
Here it is before:
And then today:
It will never match the awesomeness of my 12 foot sunflower of my long lost youth (guffaw!), but it will do.
Plus M planted it by herself so that’s cool. I think I’m even more excited about it than she is. We decided to take pictures before it fell over in a tragic accident, so it hasn’t quite flowered. Plus that will leave me another thing to post on my blog later. I’m running so low on creative energy!
Here’s how we have to prop it up in order for the poor thing to get some sunshine. *We live on the 3rd floor of an apt, so no balcony*
Um just ignore all the dirt and whatever that is on the window sill….hey at least I scraped the pasta/cereal/something dried and shriveled off the floor before taking a picture with M.
What a ham!
PS I got some cute little bento picks at the store today, so I’ll do a giveaway soon! I’m blogging against the clock right now (alien 2 is taking a nap but I never know when she will wake up, usually at the least opportune time which will probably be right now! ) so I gotta go.
PPS I don’t know how old I was in the picture, but maybe 4?
Filed under: Hawaii, apartment living, crafts with kids, gardening, home sweet home, kitchen, photos, stories | 2 Comments
Tags: gardening, kitchen, old picture, sunflower
my first blog feature
My little shop has been open for about a month and so far I think it is going ok! I’m learning a ton of things about EVERYTHING, like taking photos, marketing strategies, finding a customer base, etc. Most of it is still all a mystery to me, but I think I am really starting to enjoy it all. Best of all, I get to meet fun new people on the forums. I somehow stumbled onto this awesome shop, and I am honored to be featured on alohaokaaina’s blog. Here’s the link to see some photos and read the ever so nice words about my store.
Yippee!
June seems to be a pretty slow month for online sales in general, but I’m keeping busy. I have a goal to get to 100 items so my shop is nice and full. More to choose from is always a good thing, right? I’m working on more cloth pads, some drawstring knitting bags, and some kids hats. Now all I have to do is fit it in between keeping the kids entertained and busy, making sure they get enough sun, making dinner, cleaning, you know—all that other stuff! LOL
If you have any suggestions or critiques for my shop I’d love to hear them, good or bad. Believe me, by this time I can handle it.
Now I must stop laughing at my newly turned one year old, who I found crying on top of the kitchen table.
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Tags: alohaokaaina, blog, feature, spacestitch.com
bento bako 1.8
OMG, my last bento entry was LAST YEAR? How on earth does that happen? I hope I just made a mistake tagging. ha ha ha
This week we had a monumental event in our household. My first born went to school for the first time! In order to get her ready for preschool in the fall, we signed her up for a 4 day session of summer school at her preschool. 3 hours a day, and she got to bring a lunch. I only caught a picture of her bento (and daddy’s) on the first day but here we go:
Alright so before anyone calls me on it, yes that is a juice box and yes, that is a package of fruit leather. C’mon, a kid has gotta have some fun in her life! Nah, mostly I was just worried that other kids would make fun of her lunch. Dad was lucky too and got to take a lunch to work. I fell off the wagon the last 2 days of summer school, but 2 out of 4 isn’t bad!
M’s never been to any type of school before–most kids get 2 years of preschool before going to kindy, but M will only get one. There is just one reason for this and I’m not even going to get into it. Grrr So anyway there was no crying involved and M had a fantastic time! She even ate most of her lunch all four days of the program. I have to admit I got kind of used to getting a few hours to myself but it was kind of lonely. At least I didn’t cry ROTFL!! She’s looking forward to September. Or maybe she just wants those Elmo shoes I told her I would get her? Hmmm We’re off to the park to enjoy the day before it gets away from us!
*As a bonus, I now have a sore throat courtesy of waking up much too early, with not enough sleep. 
Awww thanks for all the nice comments! I finally felt like a mom–making a lunch and taking the kid to school. I was all proud I got so many comments so I showed my husband. His response was to inform me that I spelled “bakko” wrong. It’s “bako”. Doh. Well I still think the lunch is cute. He should be happy I packed him a lunch at all. Grrr
About the preschool thing, I’m not sure what is the Canadian equivalent. Maybe junior kinder? Is there such a thing? It’s only 4 days a week for 3 hrs. All day ones would run into the thousands, I am sure.
Maybe it’s time for another give-away for bento stuff? That would be fun, plus I get to go shopping. Japanese people seem to have a thing for poky choking hazards to stick in their kids’ food. I have plans to make a bento set for my etsy store, but that would involve actually getting work done. HA HA HA what a joke.
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Tags: 1.8, bento bako, growing up, preschool
green monsters
I’ve been drinking spinach! I got a few bags of pre-washed baby spinach from Trader Joe’s, some apples, almond milk, and some other various fruits like plums, blackberries, and fresh pineapple. There is more info here at Oh She Glows. I’ve also been 5 days without dairy! Yay. If I can kick my daily milk and coffee habit I can be sure to lose these extra pounds. Here are some pictures!
Here’s what I used for most of them:
1/2 c. fruit
1 c. spinach
3/4 c. almond milk
The purple one had blueberries and the one with plums was too gross looking to take a picture of. So I included a picture of M’s smoothie instead (frozen berries, milk, yogurt). And why yes, I did buy one of those Magic Bullets from the infomercial. LOL I found it at Costco.
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Tags: green monster, health, smoothie, spinach, vegetables
input needed!
What do you think of these hats for my etsy shop? Yay or Nay? It’s my first time making up a hat pattern. M likes it and hasn’t taken it off yet– Please please let me know what you think. Boy hats won’t have flowers, I promise.
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Tags: new hat pattern
catch up
What happened to the first half of June??? I have like 10 blog posts lined up in my head. It’s like I blog in my head, and then I convince myself that I have already blogged, so then it never actually makes it onto my blog. HA HA HA Today’s post is a mish mash of catch up with lots of photos!
First some food: Cute snack idea from Celeste. M had a great time helping put this together. She ate so much of it that it became lunch instead of snack. Oh well.
Um yes I have misplaced one of my silicone cupcake thingies. What the heck are those called? Maybe it is somewhere in the toy box with my tongs. I need my tongs. Please let me know if you see it around. KTHX
The official sand inspector:
Some bubble printing:
1 c. water, 1 Tbsp. dishwashing liquid, a few globs of paint, a straw, and lots of paper
And that’s all for now. Flickr is super slow with uploading my pics tonight so I better hit “publish” before the little one wakes up and wants to be held. Did I just jinx myself? Take care everyone and enjoy the days. They just seem to grow up in spite of ourselves, don’t they?
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Tags: bubble printing, kids, muffin tin, park, sand, snack food
etsy plug
My etsy shop has been open for a few weeks now, and it has been so much fun learning how to do new things, like making banners, photo editing, stuff like that. One of the best parts of having a shop is getting notice of a sale. First it’s like, “OMG someone wants something I made!!!” then, scrambling around and double checking the contents and addresses a billion times so I don’t make a mistake. I love the satisfaction of dropping the package in the mail and knowing it will be on its way to someone awaiting its arrival. Another plus is that I have stopped eating all the time. I knew that I just wandered into the kitchen and opened the fridge to find something to munch on ALL the time, but it’s been great to just stop and realize that I’m actually hungry before I go get something to put in my mouth. Maybe I’ll lose those 20 lbs after all….ha ha ha
Anyway now that I have overshared about my eating habits, I’d like to advertise this totally cute shop on etsy. Go to alohaokaaina.etsy.com and you will just want to snap everything up. I have to recommend the fabric section, since I am a fabric fiend. I just got this adorable sushi fabric. I’m not sure what I will use it for, but maybe a cloth napkin for my bento box?
Do you have any favorite etsy shops? Spam them in the comments so I can go take a look at them all!
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Tags: alohaokaaina, etsy, new shop, shopping
getting by
Proof positive I really am a normal person! Don’t forget we live in a one bedroom apt so I don’t have much to clean, no yard to take care of, park & mall within walking distance, and M’s preschool hasn’t started yet. My dinners are mostly from Costco and we use paper plates! If you could see behind M there is a towering pile of dishes in the sink. No tv also makes for a lot of extra hours in the day but I don’t spend them washing dishes. I give in to my 4 yr old when she wants to do weird things that make no sense like sit in baby’s high chair. Why should would want to do that, I’m not sure but it seems mean to say no. I guess I pick my battles. My blog posts are just about 1 second of my very long day, carefully cropped and edited to look nice. What are your tips on “getting by” or just getting through the day when there is so much to see and do?
PS I really should compost those paper plates, but for now I don’t worry about. My motto is, “do what you can and fuck the rest”.
Filed under: apartment living, cleaning, cooking, environment, kitchen, organization, stories | 4 Comments
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