A Long Overdue Update - and Baby Makes Four :)

HeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellloOO!!!!!!

It's been forever since I posted here :) I closed up last fall after thinking that this blog no longer suited me... well... I am back now with a new design and lots of news.

Our first big news:



This is Jett, my second baby boy, due August 9th (But hoooopefully in the next week or two!). I've been busy all these months cooking up a human!! We are so excited to have another baby, and Jude seems to be excited to have a brother, from what we can tell. It's hard to understand how much a 2 year old really "gets". My sister in law is also expecting a baby girl, she was due on the 14th - so the family is expanding very quickly and I couldn't be happier. I never thought as an only child about being an auntie, especially an auntie to a little girl.

This is my belly as of last week:



My etsy shop has been very busy since I re-opened in April, but I am now closed again for maternity leave. Don't worry, I'll be working on new things while I am away and preparing for the holiday season. I hope to be back in September or maybe before, depends when baby arrives and how we adjust to having a newborn again.

So anyways, look forward to more posts here about my life, my crafts, and my kids. Speaking of crafts... here's a picture of my first scrapbook layout since October 08! I have another in the works (well, it needs to be fixed... Jude got it with a glue runner.. oops) that I will share soon :)



xo, Chelsea

Hello Dear Readers :)

Ahhh, this post is *so* hard for me to write :( I have to take a short break from this blog - but I promise I will be back! I have been really sick, and am so stressed out, worrying about a blog isn't something I should be doing. Mentally I have just been feeling terrible.. all of the wedding stuff is really getting to me. I think I cried for an hour yesterday. Anyways - the point of this post is to say that I will be back posting regularly at the beginning of October (you never know - I may sneak in occasional posts before then) and *hoping* to launch my etsy store by the end of October.

I am so sad about this... the blog finally has a decent amount of readers and I know it will decline so much from me taking a break. I've been working so hard to get people interested in this blog and the Paper*Cakes store that this feels like such a big loss. Ah well :) Real life comes first... I'm getting married and I should be excited about that!!

If you want me to email you when I am back to posting, please reply and leave me your email. If you aren't comfortable leaving your email out in public, my email is spikernub@hotmail.com.

So check back in October. I am planning a big re-launch with a new blog layout and maybe a contest or two! If that isn't moivation to keep reading I don't know what is ;P

Just popping in

Good News: I cleaned my desk last night. I now have a useable work surface.

Bad News: I still have a kidney infection.

Even Worse News: I am having what I believe is an allergic reaction to my medication and feel like icky crap, and can't get off the couch :(