oh my goodness!

remember #4 from this post?  probably not unless you're my mother, who already knows what it is.  what it was (and is) is that my jonjon was offered and has now started a new job!  it's only a block from our apartment and the new office environment is lacking the non-stop drama of the lawfirm (it's not that it's that kind of firm, it just has that kind of staff), so he's much less stressed.  i'm super proud of him, because as soon as they got their hands on his resume, they were scrambling to hire him, and after 3 weeks of work, they are still almost daily finding that he's even more valuable than they thought he was.

also, as of today, i am a full-time stay-at-home mom!  i'm really excited to have the extra time to spend with noah, and hopefully to start doing more with my knitting and sewing.  in that vein, when i got home from my last day at work yesterday, i had a happy "retirement" gift from my wonderful hubby!

the craft inc. book is awesome, but a little scary, because starting a business isn't something that i feel really qualified for, but i would love to get to make some extra cash doing things i love, like knitting, crocheting, and sewing.  i've already made a pretty good start and it's really good.  every so often it has interviews with succesful crafty business owners like my favorite, lotta jansdotter!  i'm really excited to read it and start trying to make my hobbies profitable.  the softies book is absolutely freakin' adorable!  it has sooooo many fun patterns, i can hardly wait to get going on some stuff from it, starting with the tree on the front!  the skirt book has lots of fun patterns in it, but more importantly, it walks you through how to make your own skirt patterns that fit you just the way you want them to.  i love skirts!  that was one of the first thoughts i had when jonjon bought me the machine, i can make myself fun skirts!  i can't wait to get started on something, and to make it even more exciting, that paper poking up from behind the softies book?  that would be a gift certificate to purl so i can get some fun fabric to make myself a skirt, and maybe a new bag.  i guess i'll have plenty to do my first week home= )  oh, and as long as i'm sharing cool new crafty books to keep me busy, in the birthday package my seester sent me (which i am going to blog about in my celebratory week of blogging next week that i don't think i've mentioned yet) was this super nifty book;