Etsy Owls Trunk Show!

The Etsy Owls Team Trunk show is happening tonight! Tons of awesome prizes will be given away, and tons of awesome shops will be featured! To see the prize packs, check out the Owls Blog!

WHO? The Etsy Owls Street Team

WHAT? An online shopping experience full of a wide variety of items, including art, crochet/knitted items, jewelry, and more!

WHEN? Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 from 7:00 to 8:30 Eastern time

WHERE? Etsy's Virtual Labs, http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php (Room TBA)

WHY? Come on, why not? It'll be a great chance to see some talented artists on Etsy, get to know a fun bunch of people, and if that's not enough, we're giving away A LOT of stuff for FREE! FREE!

Broncos Training Camp

I LOVE football, and I'm a big fan of the Denver Broncos. Yesterday, my hubby Jeremy took the day off and we went up to Denver to the Broncos training camp! Fun!

Ayden looks like he's doing magic! The whole drive up to Denver he kept saying "watch Broncos play football!".

Brandon Marshal! Yay! One of our few decent players!

The new QB Kyle Orton. He looked pretty bad in our first pre-season game (throwing 3 interceptions), but I'll give him a chance. New QB, new coach, there's been a lot of changes to the roster.
Ooooo, action shot!!

Ayden took this picture! It looks, um, naughty. No butt patting here! We grab each other's junk!
I'll cheer on my donkeys even if they have a terrible season!

Confessions of a Coffee Crazed Nurse

Today I'd like to talk about birth plans. What are birth plans, you ask? Well, I'll tell you! A birth plan is basically a, well, plan on how you'd like the birth of your baby to go. They're all the rage on parenting websites and magazines. When you pre-register at a hospital, we give you a birth plan worksheet! Hoorah!

Yeah, not so much.

But Cami! The birth of my baby is the most important thing ever! I want everything to be perfect! Well, no sh*t! Really, I thought you wanted everything to go horribly wrong. Seriously ladies, let me let you in on a little secret: the more complex or demanding your birth plan, the more things that will go wrong. You want a home birth with a midwife and no meds for you or baby? Fantastic! I'll see you in the OR with your emergent C-Section and will be whisking your baby away to the NICU. (this very thing happened last week, by the way).

My advice, be realistic. We know you want everything perfect, and believe me, us nurses will do everything in our power to make that happen. But, as much as you want to snuggle your new baby and breastfeed within a minute after delivering, it's not happening. Especially if he comes out blue and not breathing.

So relax. Play your soothing music, use the birthing ball, the bath, the shower, massage, meditation, what ever you like. And know that we really will do what we can to make your labor pleasant and uneventful.

True things I've seen on birth plans:

I would like no complications. (thanks for the heads up)

I would like my husband to 'catch' the baby. (um, no. BIG liability and too much can go wrong)

No c-section. Even if my life or my baby's life is at stake (sorry - if your baby is at risk, it's no longer your decision)

I would like the bed to be surrounded by candles and rose petals (weird - and no fire! there's oxygen lines in the walls!)

And now, some pics of me at my nephew's delivery! Yep! I delivered my nephew Logan!!

Right after the delivery!

Washing his hair!

Yes, I gave him a faux hawk. How could I not!!! He's so darn cute!

And The Winner Is . . . .

I want to start by saying thank you to all who entered! I appreciate your interest and feedback! There was definitely a theme for people wanting to see more vermin in addition to raccoons, badgers, skunks, hedgehogs, and squirrels! Funny, because I've been wanting to do all of these! They will be slowly making their way into my shop - it'll take time as I haven't drafted any patterns yet. And unless Claire the octopus sells in the next 2 days, she'll be getting a zombified makeover! 'Cause, yeah. She doesn't fit my shop theme.

My son had the honors of picking the winner.

All the entries! Yes, the dumb flash washed them out. Grrrrrr.

Folded and into the mixing bowl!!!

See how professional Ayden is? He's looking away to make sure it's all fair! (actually, he's watching Wonder Pets)

Hamming it up for mom!

This one! Got it!

Read it! Read it!!

That's right! Silly Little Lady is the winner! Check your convo gal!

Again, thank you so much to all who entered. I really do appreciate you taking the time! And don't worry - I'll be having more giveaways! The next one will be in September! (if I'm able, I'm going to try and give away a rat every month!)

Thank you again!

My Squirrel Wedding Cake Topper

Alrighty all! As promised, I have pics of my finished squirrel wedding cake topper! The gal who ordered this wanted the squirrels to be free standing (meaning, no base). I'm really pleased with how they turned out!

They both are about 4 1/2 inches tall and have tails made from a feather boa.

Mr. Squirrel, looking quite dapper in his bowtie!

And his beautiful bride! (she's not a bridzilla, thank god - who could stand a squirrely bridzilla?)

I wonder where they'll take their honeymoon . . . .

Feature Friday: ip2much

It's Feature Friday time again!! Today I'm featuring ip2much. I found Lady Pee quite by accident and I'm so glad I did! How did I find her, you ask? Her deviant art page! Lady Pee is insanely talented. AND her work is right up my alley!!!

I absolutely LOVE her "of beavers and tentacles" series! I mean, come ON! Beavers? And cephalopods? HEAVEN!

She has these and other adorable critters in her Etsy shop (which I recommend you visit, now). But she also has some fabulously twisted critters that you can see on her deviant art page.

Like this, for example:

To say I love these would be an understatement. And I WILL own some of her work! Love, love LOVE it!!!

LOL Goodness!

I love the site I Can Has Cheezburger! I mean, love it! My hubby shakes his head as I laugh hysterically at adorable lolcats, loldogs, and every other awesome thing on that site. If you don't know what that site is, you're missing out. Seriously.

The premis of the site is quite simple. People make captions to adorable and funny pictures. Cats, dogs, other animals, celebrities, politics . . . . Another part of the site is their "fail blog". Hilarious!

I stumbled upon this site a few years ago and I check it about every other day! My addiction to it is almost as bad as my addiction to Etsy!

You can also upload your own pics and make captions for them! How fun is that?!




If you haven't been to the site, you need to go! It's worth it, trust me!