February 13, 2009 at 4:07 am (Daily Living, Kids)
making myself some new business cards, and Matthew is watching The Wiggles the next room over. He’s been pretty cranky all morning, so I found it really odd when I realized he’d been quiet for quite some time now.
Uh-oh. That can only mean bad things …
Or not.
It was only 11AM! He doesn’t normally nap until 1pm! I guess, either he’s getting sick, or the new nap schedule is catching up to him! I discovered several nights ago, that if he only naps for 30 minutes to an hour, he is so very easy to get to sleep at night! It was taking me an hour at least, to put him to bed at 8pm. He was napping around noon to 2pm. Now? He is out within 15 mins both at naptime and bedtime!
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February 8, 2009 at 4:05 pm (Daily Living, Hand-Knit Yummies, Kids, Seam-Wrangling, Yarn-Making)
Hi y’all!
You may know me from my other 2 blogs (that I never keep up) neversatisfied & Cajun Cloth. Neither of those names work for me anymore, and frankly I am tired of changing names! So I figure ‘Cajun Crafting’ will cover all my bases 
I am a momma of two youngn’s – Abby & Matthew. Abby just started Pre-K this year and loves it, and is quite the chatterbox. Matthew is your basic two year old boy – very active, very destructive, very loud. But he is also so very sweet and loving.
I began my crafting journey when I started cloth diapering Abby at 11 months old. Seeing the high price of a diaper (averaging $15) made me want to learn to make my own. Little did I know how addicted I would become to making them and all the cute fabrics! So it didn’t turn out any cheaper *laughs*
Learning all about cloth diapering (and there is alot to learn!) had me wanting to learn to knit. A knit pair of longies would average $50! Totally worth it, but at the time totally not in my price range for a single pair of pants. So I began to knit, and again, little did I know how addicted I would become to yarn! (see a pattern yet?)
Learning to knit just eventually led to my newest love, spinning my own yarn and dyeing the fiber/yarn. My heart was never really in sewing, no matter how badly I wanted it to be, it just wasn’t. I just don’t have the inclination to sew like I do to knit and spin. Which is a shame because I have some beautiful fabrics and wonderful patterns, but they just sit.
I can’t even tell you the last time I turned on one of my sewing machines. I have three – you see when I start a hobby, or anything for that matter, I dive in headfirst and go all out. I want it all! So I have my basic machine that I started with (a gift from my mother and a lovely workhorse), a serger (finicky thing that she is, but sooo worth the time she saves!) and my newest, a combination sewing/embroidery machine. I would like to upgrade her honestly, but I just can’t justify it when I might only use it a dozen times a year.
So here we are today. Just call me a cajun momma with too many hobbies
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