Random Weekend Update

Today my siblings and I are off to Six Flags. Feel free to come hang out with us. ;-)
Ooh! I just realized it's Christian Music Weekend! Cool.

I'm currently reading Deadline by Randy Alcorn. The power went out because of the storm last night, but I stayed up reading from like 11:00-1:30 by the light of an oil lamp. Yay! It's a super good book.

It's making me excited about Heaven. I always pictured it as standing around a throne singing forEVER. Which isn't too bad, I guess, since Jesus is there, but it did seem a little boring. Mr. Alcorn's vision of heaven is pretty cool. But I guess I won't derail this post and go into it here. :D

Trading on Etsy is fun. I'm trading these slippers
for this pendant. Thanks Lori!

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday! It's going to be busy, but fun. The choir is singing in both services, then my family is going to hang out at Mema's house with lots of other great family peoples, and then we have communion service at church, and youth choir practice afterwards.

May we remember the reason for all the celebration during the flurry of activity! Jesus Christ is Risen! YAY!

Oh - my Morning Thunder tea is steeping, and it's probably nasty and bitter by now. :|
If you like black tea, you should try Celestial Seasoning's Morning Thunder. It's gooood.

This is so random. But I felt like posting, and decided to just write whatever I thought to write.

Oh! Another thing! I'm almost done with sorting out "the businessy stuff" in regards to my Etsy business. By which I mean that I finally got my business registered, my trade name registered, and got a tax ID number to take care of sales tax and all that. Phew. Now if I could just figure out how to submit sales tax. They sent me a whole packet full of papers that I don't really understand how to use. I'm seeking help for that... And help needs to come fast... I'm running out of time to file for the last quarter!

I thought y'all would like to know that after all the whining I did before about not being able to figure it out.

So. I'm going to get ready to go to Six Flags now. After I drink my tea.
Have a happy Saturday, and rejoice! Our God is alive. :D

Caitlin

Another Shoe Post

Hello!

I do not believe I have ever shown off my amazing, custom hand painted shoes from Alexandra.
Allow me-

Are those unique or what? I got her to fashion the little paintings after some of Helen's designs.

(Because I own the little bird earrings and a tiny lovebirds ring from her. And I LOVE them. )

In other news, I have been on the ball with slipper-making this week.

That one blue background picture with all those green ones is feeling a little lonely. However, it's a better photo all around, so it doesn't mind too much.

Now, I would like to share with you a photo that absolutely made my night when I saw it.

From a super-awesome buyer:

"Your description of the slippers made me think I would love to illustrate that."

Is that just the coolest thing or what?! It makes me soooo happy!
I've gotten a couple of appreciation photos before. They all rock, but this one SO takes the cake!

So, I think I'm off to read a little, and maybe make more brown Elfin Slippers.

Happy Wednesday!

Caitlin

Life Lesson Monday

Do not fall in love with an otherworldly shapeshifting creature.

You may find yourself eyewitness to snarling alien forms, confusion,
emotional turmoil, and/or crushing heartbreak.
The relationship will likely end prematurely with a forever goodbye and lingering "emptiness."

This lesson brought to you by Wesley Crusher of The Starship Enterprise.

Adventure of the Ugly Shoes

The other day I felt like doing something creative.
For some reason I chose useless creativity over productive creativity.
I decided to revamp my ugliest shoes.

Behold - the almost-cute-but-failed ugly flipflops that don't even stay on my feet:Are they red? Are they pink? The straps are red, but the foam is ugly faded pink... These photos look better than the real shoes.

Behold the gruesome dismemberment!
enter Calvinesque evil laughter *

Now, behold my crafty, creative crochet work.

I thought it needed more straps. And I was bored.

And then I blistered my fingers doing a blanket stitch around one of the shoes.

I haven't done the other one yet because it seems a little pointless.
Actually, I'm kind of proud of my creative genius, but the shoes are still ugly... I showed Laura, wanting her to say "oh! neat crochet stuff, Caitlin!" But no. She wrinkled her nose and said "Dang, those are ugly." or something to that effect. lol

I think they're a little better than before, but they're still ugly. I would like to get a pair of cute flip flops and make them cuter instead of making ugly ones slightly more tolerable.
:D

* I love Calvin and Hobbes!!

Inspiration, Please!

You know what?
I'm not posting about Etsy stuff, though I've been making new things and sales are down.
I'm not posting about April Fool's Day, though Google's little prank made me giggle.
I'm not posting a media review, though I've been meaning to for quite some time.
I'm not posting a Life Lesson, which I forgot to do on Monday.
I'm not posting a picture post, because my recent pictures aren't uploaded yet.
I'm not posting a serious bunch of thoughts on life.
Nor am I posting another collection of sugary happiness.

I just wanted to blog this morning, and don't know what to blog about.

The cockatiel is warbling and my parrotlet is squeaking at him in irritation.
My parrotlet is growing a bunch of feathers back. That makes me happy. He had pulled a bunch of his feathers out for unknown reasons, and was looking like a fuzzy gray hobo bird instead of a vibrant parrot.

I think it would be fun to get another bird, but I also think that would make Vincent mad.

Well, my stroke of intelligent genius is taking its time revealing itself... So I guess I'll go do something useful. Let me know if you have any good ideas.
I'll eventually get around to writing all the things that I'm not writing today. lol

Caitlin