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i have received the BEST

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i have received the BEST gift ever. when kelly said it was special she certainly did mean special! saturday i received TWO packages! one was my sock dog/cd mix/valentine RETURED to me because it was undeliverable....and a BABY SHIT YELLOW HAND CROCHETD SCARF!!! my friend kelly rocks so hardcore. when i receive anything handmade it makes me teary. i have become quite the crafter and always make and give everthing away..so when i get anything i get weepy and keep it close by me so i can see it everyday. that’s why all my paintings and cards are so close together. so kel..lucky for you it was about 5 degrees out tonight. a record from what they say on the news. when nathaniel and i went to get pizza...he was cold and i was WARM as TOAST in my wonderful scarf. it’s on his coat rack right now and it makes me smile.

speaking of making me smile..i have gotten to spend some quality time with my little nephew. Team Zander is a poopin’-formula drinkin’ -cooing-ball-o-cuteness! when he’s at the house i snap him up and he and auntie jennifer lay on the couch. he lays across my shouder/chest and sleeps..i rest listening to him make his silly cooing and baby sounds...he laughs alot in his sleep too.  all i can say is he smells so friggin good and he’s so soft and so so so tiny he just ROCKS. there is nothing better than being an aunt.

i have managed to knit up a little storm the other day and think i am getting my tension alot better. now i need to practice purling ALOT. since i seem to twist up my stitches alot latley. tomorrow i think i am going to go to Paperboy tomorrow and get kel a card and something special...maybe i’ll go shopping while nat works!

xoxo

Posted by Jennifer on 03/09 at 10:23 PM ♥ Comments (0)

ugh up early..can’t sleep. i

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ugh up early..can’t sleep. i am not a morning person. i have attended a sewing circle, thru a friend in chicago. the girls in the group were so fun and awsome. i don’t think anyone was really over the age of say 35...and someone was doing embroidery and the rest of us were knitting or LEARNING to knit as in my case. you know i grabbed my grandmother’s size 8 straight needles before work yesterday and i am having a MUCH MUCH MUUUUUUUUUCH easier time with learning...it’s funny how one size difference on the needles makes all the difference. i am knitting looser and more even..but i am not purling at this time. i am practicing over and over casting on and knit stitch. i am a person who learns best doing it over and over and then i get much better and i have to REMEMBER this casting on stuff which is real wankery at times for me. i really liked the sewing circle and hope to attend next monday, i have bought the next hostess a small hostess gift and a friend who gave me BABY YARN a small gift as well.

baby zander has come home, he made a little stop by auntie jennifer’s for her first visit.

Posted by Jennifer on 03/05 at 08:36 AM ♥ Comments (0)

oh what a happy day.

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oh what a happy day.
the sun came out and we celebrated the new baby! there’s nothing like a baby. you know even tho i keep saying i am BORN to be an AUNTIE and NOT a MOTHER...there is still nothing like a little tiny baby to make everything better. you see babies in the hospital nursery that aren’t even yours and somehow as you sit there peering at them everything just seems better, because they are so tiny and cute and happy. when i start to feel a little sad that i can’t see my new nephew yet, and i get a little sick of hearing about the baby or dealing with pictures....i just think of the video i watched. my dad took some video the other day when Alexzander graduated to a crib/box type thing in the neo-natal ICU...this is one last step before release. and while eating pizza and watching his dad, adam change his first diaper when he picked up the baby’s little feet and you see his little butt..you think dang. there just isn’t anything cuter than a little baby’s butt! awwwwwwww!

i had a picture taken of me and nat that is NOT blurry for once. and i haven’t had a recent picture of myself taken in awhile.

Posted by Jennifer on 03/02 at 11:42 PM ♥ Comments (0)

it’s official..i HATE my printer.

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it’s official..i HATE my printer. it’s an epison 820 photo series and it just won’t print photos easily fo rme at all. i don’t know what i am doing to piss it off so much but for the love of god, stop making my photo’s look like CRAP. i can’t figure out what the hell i am doing wrong. i printed out several photos of the baby and they were fine, really nice even. now i go to print out pictures for the picture board for the baby shower and they are all looking like total crap. you can see dots and white noise, and the color is all washed out i replaced the ink and cleaned heads and messed and messed in photoshop, but for some reason i have to live with this crap. ugh.

the baby’s photo albums are done and are so pretty. with the help of Nathaniel they are a success and my sister and mom will enjoy opening them tomorrow. my mom has seen my sister’s book, but has NO IDEA she is getting one...which is good because she has managed to ruin every surprise i had so far. wanker.

i’ m feeling really retarded because i miss nat. i used to go months...MONTHS without seeing someone i swas dating because he lived 525 miles away and in Canada, but i was always fine and stuff, what’s my deal? nat is like 40 miles away and i miss him after 3 or 4 days. retarded i say. just like my hair. i hate my hair did i mention that as well? argh i am now just a rambling mess. i did get to talk to an old friend today and it was nice to know how he was doing.
xoxo

Posted by Jennifer on 03/02 at 02:03 AM ♥ Comments (0)

okay so i bought 18$

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okay so i bought 18$ worth of SPARKLY HAIRPINS, so sue me. a girl just has to have some sparkly hairpins once in awhile. what i am talking about is my love for all the hairpins at this store called hazel. it’s in lincolin square by the brown line stop of Montrose. i started just window shopping last fall, and i went in on several occasions to pick up cards or gifts, THEN i saw all the lovley hairpins. bobby pins with beautiful crystals in flowers and different shapes. last fall i bought 12$ worth. and yesterday with nat making fun of me i bought 18$ worth. argh. with them being 2.50$ a pair it’s easy to get carried away.

yesterday i was on a mad search for baby announcements. i wanted someting letterpressed simply with time: date: etc etc on it. i thought you could find them in a stack ready to be printed on. with all these specialty/expensive invitation stores around. i couldn’t find anything, all the answer i got was YOU CAN ORDER THEM...well baby got here ONE MONTH EARLY i don’t have a lot of time to order them now, wankers. i want a letterpress so i can make my own. GRRRRR.

baby alexzander is still in the Neo-natal ICU at porter memorial hospital. aunts are crap out of luck to see baby. so i have to rely on my sister to smuggle in my digital camera and snap away. we are hoping he will come home by the end of the week. he can be at his own shower!

ok i havce to get ready for work, more later.
xoxo

Posted by Jennifer on 02/27 at 12:40 PM ♥ Comments (0)

okay some scarey news…. at

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okay some scarey news....
at 1 am our doorbell rings and adam says wendy’s water broke, she’s going by ambulance to porter memorial, since her ob doesn’t go to portage community. so my sister is at 35 weeks and this baby will be here sometime TOMORROW! they induce her at 7 am and i can’t sleep. i think i am going out of my mind. i want to run around screaming I AM GOING TO BE AN AUNT! at the top of my lungs cause it’s the coolest thing EVER.

by this tomorrow i think my new little nephew will be here!
YAY!

Posted by Jennifer on 02/22 at 03:00 AM ♥ Comments (0)

how cute are these two?

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how cute are these two?

and

Posted by Jennifer on 02/21 at 01:46 AM ♥ Comments (0)

here are my valentine gifts

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here are my valentine gifts first a painting:

and then my ‘card’ which is made of wood:

i love them soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much

okay now i’m COMPLETELY baffled..my stereo speakers are SUDDENLY desciding to work..just like my monitor did. so what is the deal? are all of my electronics going on strike? are they pissed off and tired and want a weeks vacation? i have no clue, but i went to tell my dad about how my stereo speak channel died and how i should take it in, and i go and turn it on and the damn thing descides to work! he OF COURSE doesn’t believe me...and i am left to think all of my electronics are rising up for a mutany.
good lord.

Posted by Jennifer on 02/20 at 10:08 PM ♥ Comments (0)

hmmmm day two that the

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hmmmm day two that the monitor seems to be working just fine.

i went to the stamp place in chesterton today and fell in love with 3 different stamps. of course these had to be EXPENSIVE stamps...but thanks to the key tags and my credit from my birthday all is good. i also managed to figure out the tubo tax indiana state tax problem. for some reason it was downloading and not saying where it went and not re-activating itself.

i think i will type more later when i feel like it.
i am also going to scan my lovley valentines day presents from nathaniel for you all to see. boy do i love this boy. he is craftier than i.

Posted by Jennifer on 02/20 at 04:46 PM ♥ Comments (0)

ok--you know when your life

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ok--you know when your life is like a bad sitcome or an episode of 90210 that things just can’t get BETTER right? when i got back from being in chicago i tried my monitor just for the hell of it and of course it didn’t work. i thought well you know it sat for what, 5 days untouched maybe just MAYBE it’ll work for no good reason. it didn’t. i am up at 6am for work on sunday morning and i notice that the LCD light has stopped blinking and returned to the orange color it always once was. i stand there staring at my monitor thinking DO I DARE TURN THIS ON? it’s just not going to work and i’ll have to hold the pwer button down til it shuts down again like last time. i continue to stare at the LCD light. i turn the thing on and low and behold the damn thing descides to work. at this point i wanted to take the thing and drop kick it across my room. i return from work and it is STILL working. wierd. no explaination. it’s not blinking all weird (the LCD light) like it once was and so on. like i have said in the past my life is alot like a bad sitcom.

ok what’s new:

i’ve finished about 100 little picture pebble magnets for my sister’s baby shower. i am secretly making several projects, i have managed to keep on the DL with my family. my mom is driving me crazy suggesting things for me to make for the baby etc and i am always showing not too much intrest...but this has been backfireing and she is just getting mad that i am not too intrested in making anything for the baby. this is really quite the contrary...i just don’t want them to KNOW about what i am planning to make. sheeesh it’s like people don’t like surprises anymore. if i tell my mom she then tells my sister..what fun is that? so here’s the projects i am rustlin’ up for her and her shower etc.

a sock doggie for the baby (sans button eyes)
place cards sans names but stamped with a cute oh baby stamp and some other fancy things for the shower
and the biggie! drum rolls please....
a baby photo album book...this thing i bought in a kit with the boards all pre-cut and 25 pages..so all i need to do is cover them and assemble them...but not of course without adding something like a covered picture frame to adhere to the front. i bought beautiful light green & blue paper with threads in it. it’s just thick enough and the book will be bound with ribbon in the same colors. this will be so pretty i am sure of it. so sure i bought a smaller 5 x 7 book kit to make for myself...altho i think it will just go to my mother the proud gramma and grandpa of sorts. myself always comes last in crafting.

i have stopped my wonderful start in the world of knitting. i need to get on this and continue to get better because i’d LOVE to make a cute baby sweater by the end of the year. i bought one of those better homes and gardens special edition magazines they seem to only come out once a year. i buy the paper arts one every year now. anyways i bought the knitting one and i saw a baby sweater that is ADORABLE . and lucky for me it is listed as a beginner pattern! i tell nathaniel he’ll get a scarf, mittens and hat just in time for AUGUST! woo woo!
i think i will go craft now actually, xoxo

Posted by Jennifer on 02/19 at 03:11 PM ♥ Comments (0)