Preparing for Market Day

At the end of this month is another Market Day.  I'm very excited, but trying to find the time to make stuff is becoming very difficult. There is work, Halloween parties are coming up and I still don't have a costume, I like to sleep to much and pure laziness are my downfalls for the most part, but alas, I must push on.  Honestly, I think I work best under pressure and by pressure I mean procrastination and get everything done the night before.  Now kids, I don't recommend it, but for me it seems to work for the most part. 
For now I only have a few things done and I took some pictures of what I worked on tonight so here is a sneak peak of at least one thing I will have at Market Day....

And yes... I am ironing a coffee bag.  Hope your all excited as I am!

Help the penguins!

If only I knew how to knit anything more than a scarf, I would love to help out with this....

I have a tumblr, if you dont know what it is look into it because its a great easy blog site to follow people and just post pictures and fun information, and I follow "The Daily What", which is part of the "I Can Has Cheezburger?"site that posts interesting, informative, and up-to-date news of whats going on in the world, whether it is important or not. 
WELL, I found this post especially interesting and important.   "The Daily What" posted this article about these poor little penguins that were part of an oil spill and are in need of some tiny sweaters.  These sweaters are not only adorable on them, but also very useful in order to protect them from picking at their oiled covered feathers. 
If you are more talented than I and can knit anything more than just a scarf, please help them out! 
Here is a direct link to the website that is helping out these penguins and instructions on how to knit them.
http://www.skeinz.com/Newsletters/spring2011.html  

I have an Etsy!

As of last week I now have an Etsy!  I only have a small amount of merch up right now but I am quite proud to finally have an Etsy set up.  Its been something that I have wanted to do for awhile because I love creating and making things but I was never sure of what I wanted to make.  At the end of last month I got to be apart of Market Day, a local craft fair, and I HAD to make something for it.  I had previously played around with was t-shirt pillows, where its a cool vintage t-shirt on one side and the other is a nice fabric made of cotton and sometimes flannel.  The chance to be in Market Day really helped me realize that not only do I love crafting, but helped me get the confidence to finally put myself out there and see if people like the stuff I make.  The left over merch from Market Day is now what is on Etsy but I'm going to keep creating pillows and some holiday stuff.  I'm really excited for this new adventure of creating and selling and putting myself out there. 
Here is a link to my etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ameileen?ref=pr_shop
And, here is a link to the Market Day website:
http://marketdayiowa.com/

This is a promise...

Several things have gone about since my last post which have obviously kept me very busy from posting.... ok that is a lie, but I have been very busy.  Within the past month I have started a craft, made seven pillows within a week and a half, been in Market Day, created an Etsy, started another project, and am starting a Stich n' Bitch (knitting club) with a friend/coworker.  This may be pointless, because honestly I am not sure if I have any followers, but this blog is a promise to blog more and SOON in the future.  If anything I am writing this as a reminder to myself to be more devoted to updating this blog more than once. 
Tomorrow is our first Stich n' Bitch meeting and I am very excited!  I'm not sure if there will be many people, but I am excited to at least start something like this in Des Moines and also, to be able to sit down and make myself have time to knit and gab about anything with fun and interesting people!
Wish me luck, and I promise I will write more!

Devotionals

Last night I started two devotionals, one is Living a Divinely Inspired Life and the second one is Love and Marriage.  When starting these devotionals you read the introductory paragraph that basically sums up what the devotional will be about.  Obviously, Love and Marriage is about marriage and love within your marriage for each other and your relationship with God.  Living a Divinely Inspired Life is about your purpose "in this God given life" and "a role he has given you to fulfill."  Not only in Living a Divinely Inspired Life but also in Love and Marriage they ask what is your purpose/role in this life/marriage? 

Being a 25 year old married lady that has already graduated from college and still isn't quite sure sure what to do with my life, I'm still not quite sure of that purpose/role.  We start in high school getting ready to go to college supposedly knowing what we want to do with our life, then we go to college and are still trying to figure it out, then we graduate from college feeling more pressure about what we want to do or be or maybe what our purpose is.  You think, "I should have this figured out by now" but it seems most people my age are still asking themselves the question, what is my purpose/role?  Maybe we need to answer that question with another question, what IS a purpose or role?  That may seem like a silly question, but when I think about purpose/role I think job or maybe a serious hobby that you could be really passionate about.  Is this purpose or role definite, like for instance will you only have one and is it for the rest of your life?  Are we not fulling living our "God given life" if we don't find it out soon? 

My question is why is it so important to us, as people, to find a purpose/role?  Christian or not everyone is looking for a purpose or their role to play in this life we were given, but why do we need to know now?  I feel that most of us may never really know the answer till we are old sitting somewhere pondering the life we had, the choices we made, what was really important to us and so on.  What if we all had one purpose and one role, to experience and love life and everyone around us just as Jesus did, would that not be enough?  Maybe that's my purpose/role?  Who knows, I don't really need my answer right now, I'm happy working as a barista, married to my best friend, and experiencing what ever God puts in my way. 

I guess this is the first one

I guess this is the first blog I will be posting as an official "BLOGGER," what ever that means.  I really feel like I should have a point to this blog but I don't have one yet.  I'm not even a good writer.  Think about it, you just want to have a place to write what you think and share those thoughts with the world wide web, but then you get judged harshly for whatever your thinking and how your thinking and so on and so forth, but then again, this is the USA and you can do that here.