May the 4th be with you...

Happy May 4th Everyone! Sorry for the lame-oid joke in the title but I just couldn't resist...hee hee!

Well, it's OFFICIALLY spring here in MN, although the temperatures lately would fool you into thinking that it's still winter! We had substantial frost on the lawn the past two mornings. I'm so ready for this winter to be OVER already. But our neighborhood has been budding, the spring peepers have been very vocal with their peeping and last night I witnessed the first mosquitoes of the year. Them I can definitely do without. But happy Spring...

I know that I've been rather lax on keeping up with the blog but it's been a pretty busy scene in our house since we've gotten home from vacation because...WE GOT A NEW PUPPY! Yes...as exciting as it all is to have such an amazing furry ball of energy blasting through our house, it's rather exhausting as well. Puppies are like little kids in that there MUST be parental supervision pretty much at all times...which means you pretty much don't get to do much else than follow said puppy around removing shoes and things you don't want chewed up or destroyed from it's mouth and general vicinity. It's a full time job.

But this weekend Kipp and I will be working on getting the baby business one more step closer to liquidated! YES!! I'm so very excited about it, to tell the truth! There is a biiiiig consignment sale happening in Eden Prairie next week and we'll be spending lots of time tagging and bagging all the goods so I can drop it all off next Tuesday. I priced it slightly above what we paid wholesale so when the sale takes it's 30%, we're not taking a huge hit money-wise on what we put out to start that business. This weekend I'll take down the website and cancel the Paypal account, cancel Constant Contact and basically get it all squared off so it's not costing us any more money out. Hugely exciting stuff! Hope it sells. If not, Plan B will go into action and I'll be posting it all on Ebay for wholesale price and trying to clear more of it out that way. Wish us luck! LOL!

But other than this, THIS is what we've been working on...every day life. I have been making a few sketches in my idea books, working on one particular project that I am finishing up for my aunt who recently had to put one of her cherished horses to sleep after it ate some poison weeds and got liver damage. I will post some photos of it when I finish it...she sent me some tail hair that I will be incorporating into the piece somehow...I have a few ideas that I've been knocking around...but that's about it. I really would like to get down to my studio but I am not seeing that happening for at least another week or two...I'm hoping that I'm wrong. I might just have to get down there anyway and carve out a few hours and just make it happen.

Well, Everyone...I hope that you all are having a great May 4th...and remember...in the wise words of Yoda, "There is no try, only do". :)