Progress has been pretty good... BooBoo sits and can (and often does) pull to standing :) Peanut is 2 and acts like it - a total delight one moment and a terror the next. Being a full time Mommy can be very stressful sometimes, but life is pretty good. Peanut and I go to swimming class and have a regular playgroup, and BooBoo loves when it's quiet and cuddles abound.
On the gaming front, I played Final Fantasy XIII-2 all the way though and got all the achievements, started a Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness file that Peanut insists has a 2nd player (she's darling with a PS2 controller next to Mommy with my Gamecube controller) and we're "making a Puppy team" ... I don't know how well it's going to work out, but it's worth a shot to make her happy... I've paused my journeys through FF12 and Hyrule (TP) for now and picked up Rune Factory 4. The biggest problems with that game is that if Peanut gets my 2DS, she could send me to the doctor and take all my money in it and that I still don't know who to date. On the other hand, it isn't in real time, which is a huge plus over Animal Crossing: New Leaf since time is in short supply and I'd rather kiss my kids and take them to go play than spend it all plugged in.
I've been fascinated with this show called "Opposite Worlds" on Syfy lately. It's an interesting concept where one team lives in the past and the other lives in the future. The teams can switch positions depending on if they win certain challenges... and most of the Future stuff can be bought in stores already! What Ryuu and I really are jealous of are the super fancy showers and the temperature controlled beds. Of course the gaming stuff would be nice too, but we're still working our way through what we have. . . well, sorta.
My current crafty stuff? Well, I have made a few more cross stitch patterns that I am eager to try out. My last attempt apparently looked like an elf instead of mistletoe... we may put that bookmark up for purchase soon. One of my friends is getting married soon, so I need to think up something awesome for her, and one of Ryuu's coworkers is having a baby. I think I'll teach myself to crochet - and knowing I'm going to regret saying "How hard can it be? I already knit." I'm a little stalled on the Christmas Samplers, but got the ribbon on the bottom of Peanut's Bunnies done this week (Yay!).
Progress Bar:
Sunday Mystery Sampler - on the last week of black, not really tracking by weeks on white but done with angels and going for Mary and Joseph (I'm doing two, one with each pattern - black is MSII, White is MS)
Peanut's - ~24%? (about to start the bottom Bunny and block )
BooBoo's - not started
Gale of Darkness - 50% story with lots more to go
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Moms by Design
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Moms by Design
This project deserved its own post because it's a new achievement.
A friend of mine echoed what my grandmother has been saying, which is that if I don't have place for finished projects and no one to gift them to... I could sell them. She has much the same problem, so we have decided to collaborate and try to make this wild notion a reality. We are crafting projects that will be available for sale soon, including requested personalization if called for by the client (and the project).
I'll post the Etsy site when we have it up and running so wish us Luck!
Busy Busy BumbleMommy
In a rare moment of Silence, it's time to update...
Things have been crazy the past two months, what with the holidays especially.
We have a huge, local family. This is normally a good thing, but this year the schedules got all messed up with who was supposed to be where when and it all had to be unraveled and re-knit back into place. Add on that I try to make gifts, bring food, assemble the children (including my husband on that since he'd forgotten to turn off my poor car's headlights, meaning we had to jump the battery On Christmas Eve!) and make sure they were presentable for what turned into three events... not everything got done.
As I mentioned in the last post, I was working on Paulette from Plum Street Sampler's Christmas Sampler - one was a gift intended for my mom and the other I hadn't decided. Well... I got too attached to the black one and had to make an attempt to quickly finish the other. Didn't happen (haha) so she'll get it when it's done, hopefully soonish. I bought fudge... and forgot it at home both days. We went out for my birthday... forgot the pumped MommyMilk for BooBoo, who has therefore been introduced to the idea of formula and dubbed it "poison".
Also in this time has begun what I like to term "Two and Teething." Peanut is having moments where I almost swear all other two-year-olds' angst channels into her poor body and making my super sweet and loving angel into the brattiest brat that ever brat. BooBoo is 5 months and 'chewy' with super hard gums and no teeth in sight. *sigh* Discovered Rested - a rewrite for parents of "Royals" yesterday - totally there (and in the comments over there, more links of "awesome" parenting stages)
On the gaming front, we picked up Assassin's Creed 4. I just finished Sequence 4, and Ryuu has finished the whole thing and is working on multiplayer while waiting for the social events to ... debug. Apparently there is one that even if you clear an event, sometimes it won't clear the marker off your map and therefore won't spawn new ones. Very frustrating.
Peanut downloaded Animal Crossing: New Leaf to my 2DS so now I have a town called Serenity (Dream Address 5600-3279-6686) and my Pokemon X - though sitting in my DS - is only half way done. And when I've gotten any "spare" time, I've been trying to find a memory card that walked off somewhere - an adventure, especially when you have the kids to bed and Really Want to Play That One Game Noooooow... oh well.
So Twilight Princess has had little progress therefore - just got the Master Sword and saved, thankful to get That far.
Watching Let's Players on Youtube (because it's funny when they are playing together) has been good for kicking back and trying to contain the Present-splosion. We also loved the new Dr Who episodes and are watching the new Sherlock every week. The meantime is used trying to watch Stargate, a pastime greatly aided with the Christmas gift of the first 4 seasons~! Woohoo!
Progress Bar:
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess - Master Sword Unlocked
Final Fantasy XII - Power Leveling before Continuing Storyline (same place)
Sunday Mystery Sampler - on the last week of black, not really tracking by weeks on white but done with angels and going for Mary and Joseph (I'm doing two, one with each pattern - black is MSII, White is MS)
Peanut's - ~22%? (middle Bunny and block done, headed around to the bottom one using the ribbon )
BooBoo's - not started
Let's Play channels I'm watching: Versus and TheRunawayGuys
Things have been crazy the past two months, what with the holidays especially.
We have a huge, local family. This is normally a good thing, but this year the schedules got all messed up with who was supposed to be where when and it all had to be unraveled and re-knit back into place. Add on that I try to make gifts, bring food, assemble the children (including my husband on that since he'd forgotten to turn off my poor car's headlights, meaning we had to jump the battery On Christmas Eve!) and make sure they were presentable for what turned into three events... not everything got done.
As I mentioned in the last post, I was working on Paulette from Plum Street Sampler's Christmas Sampler - one was a gift intended for my mom and the other I hadn't decided. Well... I got too attached to the black one and had to make an attempt to quickly finish the other. Didn't happen (haha) so she'll get it when it's done, hopefully soonish. I bought fudge... and forgot it at home both days. We went out for my birthday... forgot the pumped MommyMilk for BooBoo, who has therefore been introduced to the idea of formula and dubbed it "poison".
Also in this time has begun what I like to term "Two and Teething." Peanut is having moments where I almost swear all other two-year-olds' angst channels into her poor body and making my super sweet and loving angel into the brattiest brat that ever brat. BooBoo is 5 months and 'chewy' with super hard gums and no teeth in sight. *sigh* Discovered Rested - a rewrite for parents of "Royals" yesterday - totally there (and in the comments over there, more links of "awesome" parenting stages)
On the gaming front, we picked up Assassin's Creed 4. I just finished Sequence 4, and Ryuu has finished the whole thing and is working on multiplayer while waiting for the social events to ... debug. Apparently there is one that even if you clear an event, sometimes it won't clear the marker off your map and therefore won't spawn new ones. Very frustrating.
Peanut downloaded Animal Crossing: New Leaf to my 2DS so now I have a town called Serenity (Dream Address 5600-3279-6686) and my Pokemon X - though sitting in my DS - is only half way done. And when I've gotten any "spare" time, I've been trying to find a memory card that walked off somewhere - an adventure, especially when you have the kids to bed and Really Want to Play That One Game Noooooow... oh well.
So Twilight Princess has had little progress therefore - just got the Master Sword and saved, thankful to get That far.
Watching Let's Players on Youtube (because it's funny when they are playing together) has been good for kicking back and trying to contain the Present-splosion. We also loved the new Dr Who episodes and are watching the new Sherlock every week. The meantime is used trying to watch Stargate, a pastime greatly aided with the Christmas gift of the first 4 seasons~! Woohoo!
Progress Bar:
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess - Master Sword Unlocked
Final Fantasy XII - Power Leveling before Continuing Storyline (same place)
Sunday Mystery Sampler - on the last week of black, not really tracking by weeks on white but done with angels and going for Mary and Joseph (I'm doing two, one with each pattern - black is MSII, White is MS)
Peanut's - ~22%? (middle Bunny and block done, headed around to the bottom one using the ribbon )
BooBoo's - not started
Let's Play channels I'm watching: Versus and TheRunawayGuys
Friday, October 18, 2013
Pressing "New Game"
So far, this blogging thing has been a lot harder to keep up with than I thought it might be. I've tried twice before, but like any other adventure game, sometimes the best thing to do is pluck out the long forgotten cartridge or disk, slap in a new memory card, and try again.
So maybe a little about me to start - As the title of the blog suggests, I'm a young mom who loves to craft and play video games. And when I say "craft" ... I pretty much do it all. I cross stitch, knit, write, sew, quilt (a little; I'm not very good yet), draw (also a little), am trying to teach myself to crochet (. . .very much a WIP)... Right now, my main cross stitch projects are my daughters' birth samplers and this Sunday Mystery Samper
I like to play Hidden Object games and RPGs (role playing games) for the most part. My favorites are the Final Fantasy and Zelda series on console, as well as the Dark Parables series on PC. However, I do have a special fondness for Pokemon and Assassin's Creed, so maybe my Christmas will have a surprise. Fingers crossed!
All that being said, my favorite "craft" and favorite "job" is being Mommy to my girls. Peanut is nearly two, and BooBoo is just over two months. And much as I love doing the other, mommy-only things, there are many times when naptime is shorter than you'd like or you realize a pattern has grown legs and wandered off... and that's ok (most of the time... and when it's not, it's because they've done something dangerous).
Progress Bar:
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess - Fire Temple Miniboss (have to run back through the temple to reach it again)
Final Fantasy XII - Power Leveling before Continuing Storyline
Sunday Mystery Sampler - about to do Week 3 on black, Week 2 on white (I'm doing two, one with each pattern - black is MSII, White is MS - but not feeling too bad since I started 2 weeks behind anyway)
Peanut's - ~20%? (middle Bunny and block done, headed around to the bottom one using the ribbon )
BooBoo's - not started
So maybe a little about me to start - As the title of the blog suggests, I'm a young mom who loves to craft and play video games. And when I say "craft" ... I pretty much do it all. I cross stitch, knit, write, sew, quilt (a little; I'm not very good yet), draw (also a little), am trying to teach myself to crochet (. . .very much a WIP)... Right now, my main cross stitch projects are my daughters' birth samplers and this Sunday Mystery Samper
I like to play Hidden Object games and RPGs (role playing games) for the most part. My favorites are the Final Fantasy and Zelda series on console, as well as the Dark Parables series on PC. However, I do have a special fondness for Pokemon and Assassin's Creed, so maybe my Christmas will have a surprise. Fingers crossed!
All that being said, my favorite "craft" and favorite "job" is being Mommy to my girls. Peanut is nearly two, and BooBoo is just over two months. And much as I love doing the other, mommy-only things, there are many times when naptime is shorter than you'd like or you realize a pattern has grown legs and wandered off... and that's ok (most of the time... and when it's not, it's because they've done something dangerous).
Progress Bar:
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess - Fire Temple Miniboss (have to run back through the temple to reach it again)
Final Fantasy XII - Power Leveling before Continuing Storyline
Sunday Mystery Sampler - about to do Week 3 on black, Week 2 on white (I'm doing two, one with each pattern - black is MSII, White is MS - but not feeling too bad since I started 2 weeks behind anyway)
Peanut's - ~20%? (middle Bunny and block done, headed around to the bottom one using the ribbon )
BooBoo's - not started
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The start of a new project
Sometimes, like anyone else, I find myself trapped by the desire for more. This, of course, is not always a bad thing. But perhaps some perspective needs to be gotten, especially when I start to feel down.
Giving thanks shouldn't just happen when you are happy you got something you desire, or limited to one day a year.
So I have decided to give myself something to be thankful for...
Today, I shall think about how lucky I am for my family.
I have a wonderful, sweet baby girl. And a silly husband who is reading this over my shoulder and giving suggestions what to write about him. ;)
No, seriously though... I'm very fortunate to have them. They are part of the good that has come out of trials in my life. Sometimes I get frustrated with them and/or forget this. It only takes coming home from a day away or (le gasp) a nap that makes baby girl all smiles and roses again to fix it for the most part though.
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