upcoming craft shows

OH MY! We have a CRAFT-a- POLOOZA coming our way.

Ok here is the deal, our RCM girl Erin has been busy entering us in all these Indie Craft Shows. I talking the rock star shows, the really awesome ones that we all want to go to just so we can shop and be seen at! Yes we are talking status here! Well damn if we didn't get into every single one of them.

Here is the line up!

For me alone we have:
Strawberry Street Festival
Saturday, May 10th from 12 noon - 4:30 pm
Fox Model Elementary School
Richmond, VA

The Lewis Ginter Recreational Art Show
Saturday, May 17th from 10 am - 4 pm
Richmond, VA

For RCM group booths we have:

Art Star Craft Bazaar
Saturday, May 31st from 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, June 1st from 11 am - 5 pm
Philadelphia, PA

Ice Atlanta
Saturday, June 7th from 11 am - 6 pm
Atlanta, Georgia

Renegade Craft Fair
Saturday - Sunday, June 14th - 15th from 11 am - 7 pm
Brooklyn, NYC

Crafty Bastard
Saturday, June 28th from 10 am - 5 pm
Silver Spring, Maryland


Personally, I have to say I am totally freaked out. For me it is the guilt of not being able to go to them with the girls. Not to be a team player, not to offer my van up for traveling all our stuff there. Our family life has been less than calm lately too. I keep telling myself that I would do it for them if they were in my shoes. But, honestly I really want to go and have fun too. THIS is what being a responsible Mommy is all about.

creativity!

So instead of school this week the kids have been left to their own creative selves. Yesterday I came into the dining room and heard the kids collaborating on this. They said it was their new comic book. No call from DC Comics yet!


One thing that I love about this unschooling week is this Webkinz Club form that Maddie worked on all day Monday. She revised and edited until it was just right. And then learned how to use our copier. Who says we didn't work on spelling, writing and grammar?


And Aidan and I are having a power struggle over math. I know he knows much more than he communicating to me. Earlier this week I tried to get him to do a Math Fact sheet and got a load of disinterest and a fair share of DIS! So I made it crafty math and we made a big book of doubles. When I asked him to help me with the answers he rattled them all out quickly! Who's trickier, me or him? I tell ya add glitter glue to math and you can get them thinking every time!

I love my blog it helps me see how our lives create balance in the end. I get obsessed with the balance of each day and forget to look at it over a week or a month. Keeping this record of our lives really is wonderful.

Todays project, sun catchers for them and oilcloth tree skirts for me! Structured reading, writing and arithmetic will come next week! For now real life is our lesson!

Modern Polly Pocket!

UPDATE: This is my Saturday November 3rd post! I didn't want to break my moblopomo 07 pledge on the third day! I knew that driving up to DC for the show I would not have blog time so I did it the night before and then posted it in the morning before I left. But the date was listed as Friday! NOT FAIR, blogger! So that is my excuse! Third day and I am making excuses for a silly online pledge thingy! I need more sleep!

Maddie made Polly pocket go Modern June! The apron was hand made with love is out of polymer clay. I don't think we will be baking the poor girl, but I will cherish her until she needs a new outfit!

"For you mommy!" some of momma's favorite words! She made this for me since she knew I was in my pre-show-stress-mode! Oh mommy guilt you are a bear! I love the kerchief on her head. Who knew Polly Pocket was a housewife?

Puppets for my little puppets!

Every once and a while I go to a really rock'n craft show and I get to sell my stuff and I get to buy stuff. Well yesterdays Crafty Bastard Show was not one of those shows. All there was time to do was to sell, sell, sell. I finally got away from the Richmond Craft Mafia group booth to run over to My Paper Crane. It was 4:40, 20 minutes to closing time. She was all packed up! She must have sold out! WOW!

At these ultra cool shows I buy cute little things for the kids. It is my way of saying that I am sorry that they have to put up with me and Modern June. My way of dealing with the guilt for not being home with them on a Sunday. But really for the week leading up to these events. It takes a lot out of all of us. But this time I came home empty handed.

So on the very long way home from D.C. last night I decided that we would make our own lovies today! So while still in our jammies at 3:00 this afternoon we started making our own cool stuffies! Well they were supposed to be stuffed but instead they became puppets. This was decided because I have two tons of work to do before I go to bed and because I have a van full of crafty madness just waiting for me to unload! yuck.


So puppets for my little puppets! And now they are up playing with the little somethings that they made with their Mommy. I like this way of dealing with my mommy guilt much better. And this way next time I am at the My paper Crane booth I can shop for me! I wish I had gotten one of these! How sweet are these? That Heidi, she is cool n' crafty chica!