Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Fashion Savvy Youngstas


Lou Lou had a sleep over

this weekend.


The girls decided they wanted to be fashion designers.







They wanted to make a real dress!

(so guess who got to make a dress.....hmmmm)

:)






We took an existing tank top and hand sewed it

to the pink and black polka dot fabric.






The girls each took turns puttin on the dress while

the other one added thier own touches to the design!

They loved learning how to sew by hand...
and i loved teachin em!
 

this is them at the end of their fashion show....



(....and this is how they normal look.....)

ha ha LOL...JK




It turned out pretty cute...




but then they started talking about who got to
wear it to church/school first......

HA HA HA

that was my Cue to leave the room.....


love those lil ladies!

xoxo  shell


Saturday, October 9, 2010

Loves Polkadots.... Has Dumptruck






It's been a crazy ride....

this past year and a half.


It's funny to think that two years ago

i had my own online boutique.

Vintage frills and fabulous home decor...

that is what i sold.

I loved every second of it.

It felt good to contribute to the family finances...
(and i got to shop for inventory...guilt free)

good times.  good times.






In my plan...

(you know,  the plan we make for our life, the fabulous picture
we see in our minds)

i would just raise my lovely children, shop, and re~vamp old furniture...

It was a nice plan.

But it was not to be.

i closed up my shop....

packed away all the pretty stuff...

and now....

a year and a half later....





I am the crying .... proud owner of

Hawker Landscape Services...

yup.

thass right...

i run

A DUMP TRUCK COMPANY.

(you think i'm kidding dont you...)


No jokin ladies.

I take the calls and give quotes
for delivering topsoil, gravel, roadbase, boulders....etc


QUIT LAUGHING.
I'M SERIOUS.

I book out our dumptruck and B.S. with
Construction guys all day.





It's not what i pictured.

at  all.

ever...

never...

not
even
close!

but it is where i'm at right now.

I could get a part time job but....

let us just say....
i'm not so good with  customers in retail.
(history shows)

i may have mentioned the word "GUN".

loudly.

in a bank.

that i worked at.


and i may have got 5 customer complaints in ONE day
at the department store i worked at.

i am not big on..

"the customer is always right"

infact...
i believe the exact opposite is true most of the time....



SOOOO...

AS YOU CAN SEE:

i am not cut out for the retail world.

so i may fit in quite nicely among the

hard hat guys.


me and my polkadot boots!


just along for the ride,
xoxo  shell