By Lisa Gutierrez on 05/10/2010
Like I mentioned at the end of last week, my cousin graduated this weekend and my mom and I took a little (~3 hours) road trip from Houston to San Antonio to celebrate.
I kissed my boys goodbye early Saturday and we headed out. The ride there was pretty uneventful. We just ran into some traffic in San Antonio because we exited a bit early. We still got there with plenty of time to get dressed up and head to the arena for a good seat. The ceremony wasn’t nearly as boring as I was expecting it to be. The class was a decent size and the speeches were inspiring.
Spot the graduate! Ha! (Get it? They’re all graduates? I only care about one, though.) Sorry, Amanda, but you looked bored throughout the whole ceremony. I SO saw you texting!
She said she made it tear-free throughout the whole shebang, but had to let them flow when she saw her mom’s. They were happy tears. We were all super happy and proud. We wouldn’t have driven 200 miles, early on a Saturday morning, if we weren’t. In four years, we’ll most likely have to do it again for this girl:
She graduates high school in a few weeks and will be attending St. Mary’s in the fall. Huzzah!
AND NOW THE HORROR!
Around 9 pm, about 100 miles outside of Houston, my mom and I pass by a stalled car and I whisper, “that sucks..” My mom agrees with an “mhmmmm…” and literally 2 seconds later, we hear a thump and feel the vibrations of our brand new flat tire. Sigh. I’m a big fat jinx. This is where I whine about not having any money in hopes that I jinx myself and get lots more! yeah! Right.
Anyway, we call my aunt (mama to the graduate) and her (and her family! with males!) are about an hour behind us. We wait there in the dark that hour. See, I have no idea how to change a tire. I would have attempted it, but it was really damn dark! There was tall grass and trees not too far off the road. I think I’ve seen too many versions of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to self-learn tire-changing in the middle of the night on a stretch of dark Texas highway. The guys had it changed up in like 5 minutes and we were off on our donut. We had to drive the speed limit the rest of the way and we didn’t get home until after 11pm. It was kind of terrible.
I’ll blog later about how my BABY spent the night without me! I’ll just say he did fabulously! Made this mama proud. I get to scratch off TWO things from my 25 before 26 list, #7 & #23.
I hope everyone had a great weekend, especially you amazing mamas!
By Lisa Gutierrez on 05/05/2010 
I crocheted and [finally] listed these 3 new bookmarks. You can find them in my shop.
I have 3 others that need to be photographed. I really do enjoy making these. Even with those tiny stitches! My favorite part might be choosing the buttons and thread, though. I arrange about 6 bookmarks, place the supplies in their own little baggies, then start crocheting them off. It’s a nice little set up. I haven’t lost anything yet, so that’s a plus.
My baby turns TWO in TWO WEEKS! ah! This weekend, my cousin graduates college, so my mom and I are taking a little road trip to attend the ceremony. Daddy will stay behind with the boys. He’s taking the big one to his very first baseball game and the little one might (!!!) spend the night (!!!!) with grandma!!! That would mark 2 off of my 25 before 26 list in one day! Ah! I’m not sure I’m ready, though J says Andrew could totally handle it.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 04/29/2010
Yesterday was a pretty horrible day. Nothing happened, but I didn’t feel right at all. I felt completely uninspired on every front–crafts, photography, Etsy, etc. Today, though, I had some coffee and a good breakfast and I think I’ve redeemed myself. I have done the following:
-crocheted new bookmarks for the shop
-crocheted an apron
-taken the kids on a walk to the park
-browsed a garage sale
-took photos on park trip
-watched two episodes of The Vampire Diaries (newest guilty pleasure; my sister and I got sucked in. Ha! See what I did there?)
-finished compiling a photo book
Add all that to a PB&J lunch and getting the littlest one to nap alone and I’d say today was about 210% better than yesterday.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 04/10/2010 First things first. If you have a button that you would like to put in my sidebar, please tell me in the comments! I have decided to post little buttons in my sidebar to my blog friends. I put up the code to two different ones that link here/my shop. Feel free to snag one, if you’d like! Also, if you’re viewing this in a reader, come check out the blog! I put up a new header.
Now that blog business is out of the way, let’s talk about these other types of buttons:
button bokeh. It’s awesome, no? That was probably one of my favorite buttons in a jar I bought at an antique store, a few weekends ago. Andrew helped me sort them (and taste them! yum!) and I ended up with a nice amount of lovely white and ivory colored buttons. I have found myself heading to that jar before my others. They’re just so….charming. Know what I mean?
Here’s a shot I took of my small to medium jar-
I shot it through my Duaflex. I’m now totally caught up on my TtV project (and my self-portrait/week project!) and that makes me giddy! I need to find more interesting things to shoot through the viewfinder and think of more clever ways to photograph myself. Any tips? Suggestions?
Tomorrow we’re headed to a “junk shop” downtown and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping to find more jars full of buttons. I’ve had to restrain myself from walking to the antique store closest to me to snatch up the other jars I saw there. I wasn’t a button collector before I saw them sitting on a shelf at the Antique Junction, I SWEAR. They just called to me! Do you collect anything? Show me your collections!
Man, I’m a bucket of questions, tonight. This is what some moms do at 10pm on Saturday nights.
oh! One last question: have you ever regretted not buying something at a thrift store? GOODNESS! I saw the prettiest chair at one, today, but because of a lack of space and vehicle for transport, I said goodbye to it. I want it. I want it bad. And they’re closed on Sundays, so I can’t just buy it and throw out my rocking chair to make room for it. But I really wanna.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 04/06/2010 The little one has an ear infection. It’s slight, but we suspect that’s what’s been causing his fevers since Saturday.
We picked up his medication on the way home and a few minutes after I administered it, half of which he spit out, he puked big time. GAH. That’s wonderful, isn’t it? He hasn’t had a fever since about 11, this morning, so I’m hoping we’re on the tail-end of the sickies. I pray his temperature doesn’t rise again and that he finally sleeps well. I will try to give him some more of the medicine tomorrow.
Hope for clean clothing and sheets throughout the evening!
it’s just one of those days.
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