Finished the summer hat and I really like it. My problem is I always want it for myself, and I wouldn't have anything to sell.  I guess that's good that I like my own creations.  I also made one in a child's size and it's really cute, too.  I made a different style for a special order for a lady in the Red Hat Lady's Society, and ,naturally, it is red and purple, their colors.  She really liked it, so I added it to my shop as a custom order.

Made another hat, and bought some beautiful fabric for more.  Also bought a new pattern, for a summer sun hat.  I always need one here in Arizona, and now I can make my own..  One thing that upsets me from companys that sell patterns, is the statement in fine print that the item can't be sold after making.  If that is the case, it should be up front in the description of the pattern.  I just bought one recently that made that statement.  I made hats for my grandsons and my husband and moved on.  It was probably the worst pattern I ever saw anyway; some of the instructions I just had to  guess and experiment.  Oh well, as I said, Moving on.

I don't care what caused her demise, it doesn't matter now.  Please, dear God,  take her away home.

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I sure have gotten behind on my blog, so what can I say.  We are building our business and that is so time consuming.  I do the computer part of the equation, but I  like the creating end of it so much more.  It's like any job, but at least it is our business.  It is easy to get obsessed when it is your own creations, but we love it.

It was great to be home, but it was hot,hot,hot.  Of course our coolers started messing up pretty quickly.  We can't get on the roof anymore, so rely on the kindness of friends, and finally hired some one.  He did good work at a reasonable price, you can't ask for more than that.
We had to travel back to Albuquerque, to finish up changing the registration on the motorhome to New Mexico.  We stayed with my daughter,  and it was fun being with her and the grandkids.   After about five trips to MVD overall,  we succeeded in getting it registered.  I don't even want to talk about how many hoops we had to jump through.
Sooooo, now we are home in a land of dust.  I am still washing curtains and vacuuming dusty furniture.  My so Mike, and his new wife, Leigh, and my new grandson, Max, will be here in a couple of weeks.  I still manage to find time for Etsy and product making.  Sales are still really slow,but we love what we are doing, so we put our head down and create.

We had a birthday party yesterday evenin for Sarah and Willie, since we won't be here in October to celebrate/  We never get to see them open their gifts, so we had an early party.  We got Willie a mechanical tarantula spider.  He is afraid of spiders, but thought it was cool.  I think that's good.  By the time we left, he had touched it and finally piked it up. 
I have made some scary pumpkins and ghosts and skulls for our etsy shop.  Everyone says how cute they are.  Hope I'm not wasting my time.
We will be heading home to Tucson next Thursday and after three months I'm ready.  It has been really hot, so I know it will be tough at first. 

Well, it's Sunday morning and I tried a pancake mix that said it was buckeye pancakes.  They were ok, but didn't taste much like the buckeye I remember.   Watched Larry sleep in his chair for a couple of hours , which isn't unusial.  The dogs got us up early, (5;30 AM) so it does leave us draggin'.  We walk them around the park for about a half hour, or however long it takes to do their duty.  We do see some beautiful sunrises from where we sit on the high mesa west of Albuquerque.  Sunsets are't bad either.  I tell myself and quite often Larry, that people who don't have dogs with them aren't out to see the beauty.  Of course they aren't out in the heat of the day at 95 degrees either.