Oh man do I ever wish I was in California calluna! I will be jealous of whoever gets that!

Me, too! I'm a good thirty-two hours drive from California.

Okay, I'm officially in according to my swap stats...so I guess I'd better jump in on the thread before I forget to do it.  With family coming to visit next week, I'm glad sign ups are going until July 12 and send outs are in August.  I don't know if I have the brain power to tackle any crafting before my dad and brother go home on the 5th.  Five week old babies don't exactly help, either, but two houseguests in an 800 square foot home make it pretty much impossible.   So while I have my partner, I'll be waiting a bit to start working.

Nice to get back into it a bit and see some familiar faces after a break.  Hi, Mink!!

aww itchy, he's a pudding! (and i just love that the modpodge gets in shot! you just can't be too busy to fit crafts in there somewhere!  )

Haha, yeah I noticed that after I took it - that the mod podge was in the picture.  Along with a whole lot of other junk.  My desk is a dreaful mess right now. 

And thanks, everyone.  I'm absolutely in love with the little fellow.  I did think I would have a girl again but haven't had one moment of wishing he was a girl..he's just so sweet as he is.  

I'm having a crafting dry spell right now...but I'm trying not to beat myself up for it seeing that Ben is only five weeks old. 

Okay, okay.    Here's Ben!

This is the adorable Baby 4.0 shirt that cjclark made for me in her first swap.


Smiles!


And yes, my child is enormous.  I think my breastmilk must be 25% fat or something.   My daughter was bigger at birth than Ben was but she wasn't this big at a month old.  Maybe the feedings every two hours have something to do with it..?

Round three would be great in a few months.  I'm still being controlled by a twelve pound baby (yes, he weighs twelve pounds at ONE month - he's enormous!!!) but maybe by then I'll have a bit of free time available (and motivation) for crafting.

I'm with you all on the condo cards being brilliant.  At the moment, if I made up cards like that, they would read, "Would I rather get rid of the mold in your bathroom or buy that?" or "Remember the goal of new windows for the house."  So many things to fix!!

But actually, I might make myself some anyway...depressing as they might be.

Great package!!  Cloth pads are so wonderful..I'm finally using them just for postpartum reasons (I was still grossed out by the thought back when I last had a period last summer) and they're so nice and soft.  It's possible to actually forget you're wearing them unlike disposables...yuck. 

Itchyfingers, Congrats on baby Benjamin... and phew glad my hat in your swap package was Blue!!

Yeah, I know, hey?  All the cute girlie things I got recently will just be packed away - good thing we're not planning on being done yet!

Hey, everyone!  We had another boy!  Benjamin Joshua was born at 12:01 yesterday morning and weighed 8 lb 14 oz.  He's a big healthy baby and we're all doing well!  Just figured I'd give a quick update.  I'll put up a picture somewhere in the next day or so.

Ooooh, I love that map bag!  If I ever see map fabric, I'll want some to make a bag like that, too.

The baby shower in a box goodies are amazing! What adorable gifts.

I know, aren't they?  I feel SO incredibly blessed.

How was this organized?  I would have sent you something too!

It was all Aikibookworm to begin with - she made a comment about giving me a virtual baby shower..or something like that.  And then she and dharma_rebel organized the whole thing in secret.  All told, there are something like twenty or more people involved - seventeen who sent things to dharma and then she sent me a big box.  Aiki still has some stuff for me and apparently so do a few other people.  The only inkling I had that someone was doing something was that kaz sent me a PM asking if she could give my address to someone.  I just assumed one person had a little something for me.  And then two months went by so I thought maybe the package was never sent or got lost.  I was just about to check with kaz to make sure it hadn't been sent and gotten lost (so I could have her tell whoever it was that was sending it) when the package showed up.  Most of the people involved were from the FrugAlong and others from the first round of this swap.