i'm realizing more and more how much discipline i need in my life. oddly enough it seems that it takes discipline for me to really do what i want to do. i have all these things i want to do but i never seem to have time to do what i really want. the reality is if i develop some discipline i will realize i really do have time. so anyways, i'm working on it. slowly but surely i'm developing some good habits in my life. for example i have finally mastered the skill of flossing on a daily basis to keep my teeth from eventually falling out due to week gums.

so in conclusion, hopefully sometime soon i will have some crafty posts [:

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Originally uploaded by homegrownbymaryjane.

i haven't done any crafting this week... i did start an adult beginner ballet class this monday. i love it! the teacher is really nice and the other students are as bad as me. the last time i took ballet lessons they put me with a group of people that had been dancing their whole lives. so this is much better and fun (:

my new year's resolution

I started this blog in an attempt to get myself to be creative. I didn't do so well last year but this is a new year and i have actually been doing pretty good. I just haven't blogged about it yet.

My goal is to get an online business up and running this year to sell things that I make. So I came up with a stategy. First, I will do all the mending and projects I have let build up over the years. This will help me get my sewing skills back. Then, I will start making things for my shop. I've already finished alot of my mending. It's almost like Christmas. My husband and I are wearing clothes we haven't been able to wear for the past two years.

I also discovered something about myself. My sewing room started out in my closet and I had problems getting motivated to go sit in a small, poorly lit closet to work on projects. Then, I split our bedroom in half with our dressers and made one half of our bedroom my sewing room. I had more room but found that I didn't like sitting in my sewing room by myself. Finally, i split our living room in half. Now my sewing room is in our living room, I'm by a window with a good view, my husband's desk is next to mine, and we can watch tv or movies while working on projects. It is working very well so far! We have a small living room now, but i love working in my new sewing room!

trips to Indiana

Our trips to Indiana can be eventful...
A year ago we saw "the yellow submarine" on the road

He caught us all staring at him and taking his picture. I don't know if you can tell from the pic, but that's why he has that smile on his face.

The last two trips we broke down on the way there and one time on the way back.

July: On the there we blew a tire and on the way back we lost the belt to the alternator. It coudn't of happened any better though. We had just pulled off on an exit and our car died. The people behind us pushed our car over to a hotel and then the people behind them offered to go get a new belt and put it on for us. It took awhile but we were taken care of. They said if we had driven much further we would've ended up in a pretty bad side of town.

September: On the way there our car started overheating. We coudn't quite make it to an exit so we had to walk to try to find a gas station to get coolant. As we were walking a trucker gave us a thing of coolant but since we were close to an exit by that time we thought we would go ahead and get some water too. about 4 miles later we find that the nearby gas station is abandoned and the other two are closed for the evening. we had a long way to go to get back to our car and not much to show for it. on are way back at 3 am a nice lady and her nephew offer to give us a ride back to our car. So for the rest of the trip we had to slowly travel to Terre Haute by filling up on coolant or water as we drove. When we made it to Terre Haute our friend's husband and dad fixed our car. Turns out our heater hose had a gash in it. Then we finally made it to Indianapolis.

So we've had a lot of problems but every time God takes care of us so it's all good (: You do meet alot of interesting people this way.

money monster wallet

I decided to take a shot at fredflare.com's "the next big thing" contest. I hope all goes well. Let me know what you think (:

that is all for now

and a hand knit beanie