Job Update

First off, I have to start by saying that I do love my husband. My teasing him is out of love. That's what we do to each other, trust me he teases me worse then I tease him. So, just because I like to post his goofiness on my blog from time to time doesn't mean that we're not getting along. We actually have a terrific marriage. Don't get me wrong, we have our ups and downs and anyone who says they don't ever have downs in their marriages are lying. I just got wind that some people (who probably don't know us that well) were worried about us after reading my posts. I love my Kurt.
On that note, Kurt quit his job working for a t.v. station selling advertising for their website. It started out alright, they promoted him just after a couple months to manage the team, but he spent all his time managing and no time selling for himself, which lead him to quit being the manager and focus on his own sales. He then realized just how much he hated knocking doors for someone else's business and not spending his time building a business of his own. So he called me one day and asked if I had his support to quit the next day.
I told him to go for it, we had nothing to loose, this business just wasn't working out for him. He's an incredible salesman and manager, but he completely lost his drive and motivation to sell this product. He was having a really hard time getting himself to go to work everyday, and stay working everyday and not spending his time golfing, hanging out with his buddies, going to lunch...it just wasn't working.
The day after he quit his brother and him decided to start a roofing company. He's been roofing everyday since. It's not his first choice of work, but he's being active, which is great for him and his stress, and they want to get to the point where they have a crew working for them and they do the biding and find the work.
He's also still selling cars with his friend and making a little money that way. I hope we survive!!! It's been a crazy road since he quit the dealership over a year ago, but we've learned a ton and hopefully use our new knowledge wisely. It just stinks that the economy has to be so slow while we try to get a new business up and running. This may sound terrible, but my comfort in it all is that everyone is in the same boat as we are with the economy, and times are harder for lots of people right now. Hopefully things look up from this point on!!!

Sew Much Fun (ha ha that's so cheesy!) ...

I mean it's sew cheesy!
I'm not sure what has gotten into me lately, but I have been loving to sew and coming up with new things to make with my fabric. I've also been on a kick to find things to use as props for my photography and fixing them up. Thank goodness I have a very talented mother in law who has been sweet enough to give me sewing lessons and show me the basics so that I'm now able to do this. She has also supplied with with darling fabrics that are going to make the cutest dresses, I'm waiting to make them because I want to come up with the perfect idea first so I don't waste it. Here's just a few projects I've been working on, I still have a list of more things that are in the process of being made. Hopefully the sewing bug doesn't leave me so I get them finished. My poor girls might have nothing but homemade clothes this year because of my experimentation's. They're young enough that they won't care or know they aren't wearing designer clothes. Right?
I found this barstool at the D.I., it was ugly, (I wish I would have done a before shot), but I knew it had potential as a photo prop. Then I decided that I would refinish it to match Macy's room. Doesn't it look cute in there?
I had to recover a foam rectangle to use as a prop in that fabric as well because I loved it so much. .

Kindergarten!

Raegan's in KINDERGARTEN!!!! I'm so excited for her and her new adventure at the big school! Raegan has been asking for the last month if it's "fall" yet so that she can start kindergarten. Well "fall" came last week and off to school she went.
I had purchase a couple of new outfits for Raegan to start school with and I let her choose which one she wanted to wear the first day. She had to have a fashion show to decide with the full length mirror in her room. With each outfit she would pose, spin and check herself out while making comments like:"This one looks cute with a smile!", "A pony tail would be cute with this one.", "Buns go with this outfit", oh boy, I had to try hard not to embarrass her by cracking up laughing. She finally settled on the tie died blue dress with white shorts. She was pretty dang cute, and she was right, that outfit was perfect with a smile.
Her teacher is Mrs. Rigamoto and she asked that the parents come for the first 30 minutes of school. The kids sang songs, did art projects and read a story. Raegan didn't care when I left, she was just excited to be doing her own thing. I'm not worried about her making friends or doing well in class. She's such a friendly girl and genuinely concerned with others and their feelings. She also loves to learn and listens well to her teachers, she wants to please everyone. Hopefully that trait is used to her benefit in school and doesn't lead to disappointment. Raegan is such a great kid, I'm sad that she'll be going to school everyday, but I'm so proud of her and I know she'll do great!