I'm about blogged out! I had the incredible opportunity to be a Guest Mom at a famous blog
Design Mom this past week. Design Mom is written by Gabrielle Blair, a mother of 5 living in New York, and just so happens to have lived in Stover Hall at the same time I did during our freshman year at BYU. So it was very kind of her to invite me to do this but this blog is a bit swanky and stylish and I was totally stressed about coming up to those standards.
I was going to write stuff a bit more generic, but a good friend encouraged me to write about sewing and quilting - that would be a more unique angle and more reflective of me. So I have been sewing like crazy for the past month. I even wrote to a big fabric company and asked if they would sponsor my fabric because I wanted to write about one of their products. And they did! I got an amazing box in the mail with all kinds of goodies! It was very fun - and something totally out of my normal realm.
I'm very grateful to my sister Laura, sister-in-law Meredith, and brother-in-law Nathan for their help taking pictures. This was the the thing I was most stressed about. They kindly shared their time and good cameras so that my pictures would look more professional. And I am SOOOOO grateful.
So you can read my posts by clicking on these links:
here,
here,
here,
here, and
here. I wrote a post for every day from the week of April 13-17. I was very grateful (and excited) by the positive responses.
Also, amid the chaos, I opened a small online business selling quilts and quilt kits. It's something I've been thinking about for almost a year now, and finally having a deadline has got me do it. It is part of an online craft community called
etsy.com. My store is called
amysmart.etsy.com.
So I'm especially thankful to Michael and the kids for their patience and help over the past few weeks. I'm looking forward to getting back to "normal" whatever that is. :)
Also, I have many family posts to write about David's birthday, Easter, Spring Break, our trip to Rexburg, etc! So keep your eyes peeled. I promise to finally start posting here again AND to finally make this blog private. :)
I am finally catching up on the past month, so lets start with Easter.
Here we are dying the eggs that weren't boiled all the way through. Yuck. Fortunately we found out after only 7 or so, so we reboiled the rest.
Cute kids after church.
Later that day we had a fun egg hunt at Grandma's house.
With Great-Grandma Udall
It was extra great because the Bowens and cousin Norah in town!
I'm about blogged out! I had the incredible opportunity to be a Guest Mom at a famous blog Design Mom this past week. Design Mom is written by Gabrielle Blair, a mother of 5 living in New York, and just so happens to have lived in Stover Hall at the same time I did during our freshman year at BYU. So it was very kind of her to invite me to do this but this blog is a bit swanky and stylish and I was totally stressed about coming up to those standards.
I was going to write stuff a bit more generic, but a good friend encouraged me to write about sewing and quilting - that would be a more unique angle and more reflective of me. So I have been sewing like crazy for the past month. I even wrote to a big fabric company and asked if they would sponsor my fabric because I wanted to write about one of their products. And they did! I got an amazing box in the mail with all kinds of goodies! It was very fun - and something totally out of my normal realm.
I'm very grateful to my sister Laura, sister-in-law Meredith, and brother-in-law Nathan for their help taking pictures. This was the the thing I was most stressed about. They kindly shared their time and good cameras so that my pictures would look more professional. And I am SOOOOO grateful.
Also, amid the chaos, I opened a small online business selling quilts and quilt kits. It's something I've been thinking about for almost a year now, and finally having a deadline has got me do it. It is part of an online craft community called etsy.com. My store is called amysmart.etsy.com.