NEW CONTEST GIVEAWAY

??? What will be the winning Number ???

Last month, I was quite impressed to have 146 entries in the giveway.

Let's blow that number away with April's contest.

You know there might even be a runner up prize :)

TO ENTER: (*You may be entered more then once)

1. Follow Pretty Little Studio on Twitter
2. Become a Pretty Little Studio Facebook Fan
3. Heart Pretty Little Studio on Etsy
4. Twitter about Pretty Little Studio (send an etsy convo w/link)
5. Blog about Pretty Little Studio (send an etsy convo w/link)
6. Join Pretty Little Studio's Flickr group
7. Make an etsy purchase

Everytime you do any of the follow your name or user name will be added to a list. Then on April 15th at 6:00 pm. Somebody will be selected using a Random Generator.

GOOD LUCK!

Third Shift

Well, the kids and I are back on third shift. This time I'm not liking it at all. I get up around 3 pm and then I'm up until 7 am. Mia went to bed around 1:30 am and slept until 3 pm. She must be going through a growing spurt, I think she drank a bottle every 3 hours. Emily took a nap around 2 am and got up around 3:30 am then back to bed around 5 am. She is still asleep its 5:18 pm. She did wake up to watch about 15 minutes of her new Piglet movie from netflix then she was out again. I stayed up all night making One Word flashcards. I made one for Little Girls in 2 sizes and Anniversary Cards in 2 sizes. Then my printer ran out of toner and I couldn't get the new toner installed so I cut Animal ABC flashcards the rest of the morning and went to bed around 6:30 am.

Its Spring

Tim and Sophie brought over the cutest matching nighties for the kids. After Mia had her bath yesterday we dressed her up in the whale. I put the whale bottoms and then she wanted to wear the butterfly wings. They had 2 easter buckets, but i wanted to get pictures outside. So I grabbed a quilt, the camera and the Easter buckets, each grandparent had a kid and we went outside. 117 pictures later, Mia didn't smile once, she just kept cutting her eyes over at Emmy looking at all her bucket contents wondering why her bucket was empty. ( I had dumped out the green grass and candy out of Mia's bucket so she wouldn't eat it and just gave her the empty bucket and shovel).

Stacks

Stacks of printed, cut and packaged flashcards. Aren't they pretty. I spend the whole weekend cutting away. I had a new customer order 54 sets of flashcards.

Tonight I've just got a huge order to do and its not my regular stuff. It all has to custom designed. Alice in Wonderland theme with lots of yellow strips, polka dots and gingham, my favorite. Its for a huge magazine article and a 1/2 page ad spread for Kate Landers Events. It is a birthday party for 2 - 1 year old. Complete with cupcake wrappers, flags tag for the handmade lollipops and upside party hats to hold candy. I have about 2 weeks to get this done, in between my other million orders. So far tonight, I've just had one big order and its half packed. So back to work. Be back later.

200th post

Today is my 200th post. BUSY! Busy! Busy!. I can't seem to get away from my computer. Its my new love. You can tell around the house to, its a wreck. So here is a catch up what happened this past week.

Monday - We played outside in the evening. Emily pulled Mia around in the Red wagon. Then Emily would jump in the wagon and I pulled both them around in the grass.
Wednesday - We went to park. The highlight was Emily telling a little boy what the plastic dinosarus were named and that their spots kept them warm.
Friday - Rich and I met up with Jeff and Steph at City Range for my belated birthday dinner. Emily and Mia both stayed at the grandparents. It was Mia's first time to spend the night and be away from me for that long. After dinner, we went to Ingles grocery shopping. Around 3 am I decided to watch the 2nd Bourne movie. I turned it all the way up and snuggled down on the bed with lots of cover and watched it with no interuptions. Around 4:30 am I had to go check on the computer.
Saturday (today) - Emily and Mia came home. Emily played and played with her Little People tonight. She set up the house and was changing her voice and talking for her little people. Mia played in her bumbo for hours. I got lots of orders around 8 pm. So I spent the night cutting and watching back episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Dancing with the Stars. Rich spent the day making BBQ on the grill. I can smell it in the oven now.

In this picture, we were playing princesses.

We all had to wear ribbons in our hair.

Emily told Mia "I love her"

Spring is Here!

Enjoying today weather! Tim, Sophie and I took the kids to the park. Mia fell asleep in the car seat on the way there and slept most of the time. Emily played and played. She ran around making new friends. She got on top of one of the plastic dinosaurs and told a little boy that is was a "triceratops" then she went on to explain that the spots on him where to keep him warm. Where did she learn this?? Computer?? Maybe Diego or Dora, I've dinosaurs on those 2 shows? She had a name for the other dinosaur too. She was correct for both of them. After about an hour, Emily had me on the slides. She said "C'mon, lets climb up the stairs. I'll show you how!" Around 4 pm it was really starting to warm up, so we convenced Emily to go see the ducks by telling her we were going to get some french fries. She left was out a meltdown. We saw the ducks and turtle then left and went to BK. In the car, I kept asking Emily is she wanted some Fries, she just kept mumbling "I just want a coke." I got a coke and a chocolate milk shake. When Sophie and Tim left, we all crashed out for about 3 hours.

Caught! Redhanded

I walked out of the room for a second and came back and Mia had dumped over my paper trash can and had a piece in her mouth.

Happy 7 months!

Today Mia is 7 months old. Where has time gone.

Mia's favorites:

Turns from back to stomach.
Rotates in her bed or on the floor
Loves to scream back and forth with Emily
Loves to aggrivate Emily by touching her hair or arm (and then laughs when Emily screams)
Sits in her bumbo 1/2 the day and plays with toys
Loves to eat baby food. Sweet Potatoes are her all-time favorite
Licks her lips while we eat food in front of her.
Can drink out of cup.
Has to sleep with a blanket and a pacifer.
Says "Da-Da"
Still no teeth yet.
Can sit up with help.
Loves to play in the bath tub and tries to grab the water.
Sleeps 12 hours at night with of course lots of bottle to hold her over.
Has a diaper blow out at least once a day
Smiles 90% of the day

Tea Party Time

Linda brought over a set of play food the other day. The plastic tea party set she got for her birthday. So the other night, she said, "Let me show you how to cook." She got her barbies and her food and wanted to set them up. I told her we had to find a table cloth. So I went digging around in my fabric bin and she picked out the pink one. I spread the fabric over her lego table and we set up the tea party. Notice her barbies were guest at the party and I had to have their own tea cups full of coke. During the party I kept asking if I could have chicken. Emily said no and gave me the carrot and said that I had to cut it up like this (she showed me how to use the knife and fork, and would get upset if I stopped cutting). We played for awhile, when Mia started making alot of noise to irritate Emily, Emily had a melt-down and that was the end of the tea party.

Contest Winner!!

AND the winner is:


Etsy Customer: Karaanne



Thank you for everyone who participated in the contest. Stay tuned for another contest next month.

When I grow up . . .

Emily: When I grow up I want to be a train like Percy.
Emily: My favorite color is black.
Emily: I belong in my bedroom on my bed with my kitty cat.

Milestone

Today, Mia reached a another milestone -turning over from her back to stomach. She has been trying for a while, but get that one arm stuck. Well she mastered it in the crib today.

Mia was in her walker last night and I turned around and caught her typing on Emily's keyboard (shh don't tell Emily). She acted like she knew exactly what she was doing.

Get some Sleep

I crashed out last night around 7 pm. Mia went right to sleep after getting drops in her eyes and a bottle. I woke up around 1:30 am wide awake. I went to my studio and had a few orders to fill. So got busy working on orders. Orders done by 2:15 am. UMMM. its now 6:02 am and I'm still awake. New posting - done. Updated flashcards -done. Printed new flashcards - done. Ate stouffers early morning meal - done. Uploaded new pictures - done. Cut out flashcards - done. Make new packaging labels- done.

See lots done. But soon I'm going to need more sleep :))

Conjunctivitis

Such a big word. I called the doctor this morning, because Mia was all stuffed up was breathing out of her mouth. They told me to come right in, so an hour later I was at the office. 2 hours later I the doctor told me she had "conjunctivitis". It looks like to me she just has a sinus infection. So anyways they gave her a prescription for eye drops. I have to give them to her 4x a day for 7 days that quite a feat 4x for such a little person.

I got back from the doctor and Rich had to leave for a call. Mia was sleeping and Emily was watching cartoons, I decided it was time for some spring cleaning. I took all the toys and dumped them on the bed. I washed out the toy bins and started organzing. Legos, wooded blocks, plastic train tracks, wooden thomas the train, little people, stuffed animals and figurines - anything not in those categories or didn't fit went into paper bags to go to grandma's attic. I threw away trash and old toys, torn books, suckers, 1/2 crayons, missing puzzle pieces. I even moved the couch and swept underneath. PHeww. I feels good to actually be able to walk through one room of the house without stepping on 5000 toys and not bumping in to anything.

Corn on the Cob

Rich gave Mia a lick of his corn. That was it she had to have more. He scrapped off any corn pieces and she had a blast nawing away on her cob.

Yummmy!

Where do I belong?

I was getting Mia out of the walker and Emily started this dialong. Where do I belong?

Emily: "Dadoo belongs in his office. That is where he belongs?
Me: Where does Mama belong?
Emily: "Mama belongs in the mama room.
Me: Where does Emily belong?
Emily: "Emily belongs in her bedroom on her bed with her kitty cats"
Me: Where does Mia belong?
Emily: "in the car."

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Mia has just started this new thing. Fighting Sleep!!!. Instead of laying in her crib and drinking a bottle and going right to sleep, she fights it. She cries and cries. The only solution I have found. Is just to hold her in my lap at my desk and play music for her or to watch internet tv.

Mia drank out of cup this morning. I had a little bit of orange soda in my cup and she guzzled it all down. Her new food she loves is yogurt, she couldn't get enough of it.

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Thoughts for my birthday. Is having a couple date night and going out to eat and leaving the kids at grandma's, even Mia!!

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Today!

Is already starting out long, it started at 3 am this morning. Mia played in her bumbo awhile then it was crib time and then the walker. Its 7:10 am and Emily has having a meltdown, because I won't let her dig through some of my office drawers. When she is getting less attention, she starts acting out. She got up around 4:30 am and was playing good until now. Now Mia is fighting sleep and fussing and Emily is bawling.

I have to go run errands this morning when stores actually open, because by 3 pm I'll be asleep or a walking zombie.

Target for shampoo
Sams for formula

Mash Potatoes

Today we are on a 12 hour shift from 4 pm to 4 am. I think out of all the kids shifts this one is my favorite. This morning we were up around 3:30 am. By 9 am the dishes were all done, clothes were folded and I was ironing pants.

Emily woke up sick this morning with a running nose and stuffed up. She told me this afternoon, "I need to go to the doctor to get a band-aid, that will make me feel better." So today has been sick day. Emily has been lounging around on the air mattress with 4 pillows and blanket along with her friends (2 stuffed cats and a dog). Watching ETV on the big tv and drinking Dr. Pepper.

I made a Roast Turkey stouffers meal for lunch and fed the rest of my mash potatoes to Mia. Then Emily came over and said she wanted mash potatoes and hot dogs. So I got Mia situated in her bumbo playing and made instant mash potatoes. I gave Emily a scoop sprinkled with garlic salt, then went back and got Mia a bowl. Mia grimiced for the first bite, I think if she could talk she would say "These aren't Stouffers!". They were pretty bad they smelled like cardboard and were tasteless.

Snowing

Snow falling all day.
Emily slept from 10:45 pm-9 pm.
Wound up until she crashed for a nap at 3 am.
Mia is her smilie self.
Mia
new toy - she loves playing with foam alphabets.
Washed all the dishes this
morning.
Domino's buy get one Tuesday special. A new Tuesday
tradition.
Two custom etsy orders done and ready to ship.
Some paper
cutting done.
Watched LOST on tv.

Many Files

Tonight:

Many files waiting to be edited in photoshop

Emily's crazy antics

Mia dancing in her bumbo playing with toys

Black beans and rice for supper

Rich's make shift office in the sun room

Melting resins in the oven waiting to be poured into molds

Dr. Pepper and Chocolate Milk in sippy cups

Custom Order proofs done for a birthday party

Emily's new line " I am sick with stage fright"

Very flat air mattress with a big hole created by Patches

Load of stinky baby clothes in the wash

Load of clothes ready to be ironed

Dishes half washed

Tired eyes at 4:31 am and one very wound up child