Maya Road and Me

early mornings

So I must confess to being a late night owl. But with 2 babies that is when I can get a lot of stuff done. Deb and I work on products, chat with our production people. I find the middle of the night is when my best ideas come!  It has gotten a wee bit harder with another baby in the fold but we are adjusting.

I hung out with my family a lot this weekend- but how can I resist when I have this:

 

and this:

to look forward to? I also got to spend some time with DH, play a couple of soccer games and work on a set of stamps I am really excited about!

I have also been working on having our first every Maya Road Chat/Crop/Challenge. I prepared a couple of tutorials which I will share during the chat - it includes these cool tags I made:

And I found this resource which is pretty cool if you have school aged kiddos - you can print out handwriting worksheets to whatever words you want your kiddo to write! It is also pretty cool if you want to print some cute lettering for your scrapbooks.

Check out Noah learning to write his name here:

Sundays

It has been a beautiful weekend here in Dallas. The rain has finally stopped and the leaves are starting to change colors.

I finally worked up the energy to do my first 5k run in over a year. I know some people think I am super crazy after having Olivia about 7 weeks ago but for me the need to exercise is something that is a part of me and the only way to get going it to jump right into it.

You know how some people have nightmares where they are being chased by monsters or are falling out of an airplane? Mine are nothing like that. Mine are that no matter how hard my mind tells my body to run fast, I end up running in SLOW motion. And that actually was what the race felt like yesterday. I was passed by everyone - little wiener dogs, little fast 5 year olds, bigger dogs dressed like bananas and even some 70 year olds.

I had to stop and walk a couple of times but it was sorta like my nightmare dream come to reality. But when I faced head on into it, it really wasn't that scary at all. True, I was running probably 3 minutes slower per mile than my usual time but I am learning to cut myself some slack.  It wasn't that long ago that I was waddling around in 100 F temperatures waiting to have my baby girl. Getting older (and entering another age group in racing) has given me a new perspective in life and also now has kicked started me into getting back into it.

I saved my race bib and racing chip as I plan on scrapbooking it and talking about everything I have talked about here. I rarely do LOs or albums about myself but I am trying to make a more conscious effort to do so.

And of course last night was Halloween - check out my two cutie pies:

If you can't tell what Olivia is - she is a piece of salmon sushi. Noah also got a homemade pumpkin costume which he wore to his school party but decided to wear his Elmo one this time around the block. He has had this one for a while and since we were out of the country last year at Halloween, he didn't get to wear it then. Olivia just went along for the fresh air while Noah went around the neighborhood. Noah was amazed that you could go to any house and ring the door bell and say "trick or treat" and they would give you candy!!!

Anyhow I have printed a lot of photos to scrapbook but we are getting ready for the first ever online Maya Road Chat / Crop/ Challenge on Facebook! It is the evening of November 13th and we have lots of fun things planned. I have even created some tutorials and have some challenges up my sleeves so join us if you can. I will be there to chat with everyone and I can't wait!

Have a great Sunday!

howdy

you know it has been years - literally years since i dug out the sewing machine my mom passed onto me and made anything. well that sewing machine died a couple of years ago (RIP). a couple of years back my sis got me a new one. a sweet hello kitty janome one.

anyhow, i finally opened it after 4 years (yeah i know but i was busy and apparently didn't have a need for it) and started learning to thread a bobbin again. it is a good thing that sewing is like riding a bike - you really don't forget. i needed it this past week since i was making noah and olivia's halloween costumes. there is nothing like a deadline to make the sewing come back to you quickly!

anyhow, i finished up the 2 kiddos' costumes tonight but since i took the machine out i have been sewing crazy!

check out this skirt i made ms olivia last night:

i think she has gotten chubbier since i measured her waist as the skirt will be snug soon (she has gained close to 4 lbs since she was born). since my sewing skills are pretty beginner i had to wait til i had a little girl to make some simple skirts. this little stripe one i made olivia cost me probably all of $1.75 which isn't bad. i imagine i will be making her quite a few soon!

last night we also made some marshmellow ghost brownies - those were a big hit with noah:

with that, i need to finish up some design work for our next show. have a great night!

I am back!

I started running again this week - 3x in the last week plus an indoor soccer game. It feels good to be back into this. I even took Noah out in our jogging stroller and he listened as I huffed and puffed my way up this big hill by our house (all the while saying "faster mama, faster"). Exercise to me brings me a time to get away from it all; reflect upon things that I need to do and problems I need to solve. I thank God for my many blessings after my runs.

We have been busy this week making some Halloween crafts and decorations. I need to finish my kiddos' costumes this week. Check out this robot pumpkin Noah and I decorated. We were able to recycle some water bottles to decorate this sweet thing:

And today I managed to make some little girl shirts using some of our Maya Road flowers and Microfelts:

These are very simple and you can make them yourself in about 20 mins for both shirts!

Hope you all are having a fabulous weekend!

howdy

 

 

Just enjoying the cool fall weather here in Dallas - we took the kiddos to the Arboretum today and checked out the billions of pumpkins they had. The Arboretum here is next to the lake I ran a lot when I was marathon and half marathon training. I haven't run there since I was pregnant with Olivia and seeing the lake made me want to start running far again.

I have already gotten the ok from my doctor so I am going to train for a 5k race coming up in a couple of weeks. I cannot wait! I ran almost 2 miles the other day and nothing hurt that day or the day afterwards so that is a good sign!

Hoping you are having a fabulous weekend with your loved ones!