Chicago Trip WHAT FUN!

Here is Maylee standing next to a picture OF the sears tower INSIDE the sears tower. Thats one conceited tower!


The elevator to the top goes SO fast your ears pop and stuff. It goes 18 miles an hour! Its really fast and they play this dumb video with annoying cartoon characters to get your mind off the fact that if that cable broke your in a world of hurt cause they got like 20 people crammed in that elevator and its heavy....A little unnerving but nonetheless...











It was super cold in Chicago...not real bad but like in the low 60's and we are used to still sweating our butts off here in Kentucky. So thanks to Monkeylips I had this hat to put on Maylee cause it really is the Windy City up there and she would have got a bad ear ache if it wasnt for this hat, so thank you again! for the beautiful gift to my baby...I still cant thank you enough LOL




This is the view from the top of the Sears Tower. You can see Lake Michigan on the right and a whole buncha buildings to the left...this stretches as far as the eye can see. I live in Louisville, Ky and its a decent size town, but you can fit 40 of Louisville in this place, srsly.







We had the pleasure of staying in this place on Saturday night...this turned out to be one of those fine establishments that rents rooms out by the hour....and has "free movies" Unfortunately my kids found out what kind of movies as Noor gave them the keys to the room and let them go first...of course the coveted TV gets switched on first. I hear them exclaim about "porn" on TV and I immediately disconnect the cable...I was a wee bit mad cause the dude that rented us a room seen we had a van full of kids ya know....oh well. I will just mark this up as one of the "Ghetto" inns that we have stayed at over the years...some day we can get a ritzier place without fist fights upstairs in middle of the night, and men with scantily clad women going to and from the place all hours of the night....geez. It was the first place we could find and yes we were THAT desperate for a place to stay!


The motel may have sucked really bad, but the food...oh the food! When you get out on Devon Ave you can find ANYTHING you want to eat, and its cheap and good! I ate the best Dal curry of my life Sunday morning before we went to the Sears tower. This is a picture of the kids playing inside one of the fine establishments we ate at. My goodness the veggie curry was to die for...these people can cook SOOO good, I wish some of them would move here and open up a store on the corner of my street LOL. I love
Indian food, and there was plenty of it here.










This is the death trap we drove up there...cool huh?



















Cops really DO hang out at Dunkin Donuts!!!! Here is proof!














Tyler walking down a street after eating some awesome Indian food!











This is us at the Sears tower...Tyler took the picture, but thats Justin in the orange shirt, and me and Noor (hubby) holding Maylee....dont know who the guy in the stripedy shirt is....











And I gotta represent my heritage while I am hanging out here. I missed Shabbos cause we was driving around breaking the Shabbos looking for a motel LOL I found this cool sign on Saturday too....













Shabbos special...chinese food LOL. I HAD to take a picture of this one LOL.


















On our way home Sunday we stopped at this candy factory...they had a chocolate fountain inside, but it was blocked off in such a way I couldnt drink from it or swim in it...damn.

This place was so cool, and got 35 bucks of our hard earned money...THIS is why i am fat guys. Its the chocolate...if peanut butter and chocolate were illegal to eat, then I would be skinny...





I wish I could post more pictures, but I could take up my whole blog talking about this trip! LOL

I wanted to leave you with a lil something if you ever plan on going to Chicago be aware traffic feels just like this big knot all the time LOL. This is where a bunch of highways meet....we drove on this. In the deathtrap. It wasnt fun. Traffic is a nightmare, so be prepared! I love Chicago, but I would never live there. I love going to visit though. I honestly thought with our financial situation i would never get to see it again...and there I was over the weekend! You just really never know whats gonna happen!

Another lil update on my life for you guys that are constant readers...I came home from this trip to find out my father had passed away from a massive heart attack. He died instantly as far as the coroner could tell so thats a blessing he did not suffer one bit. If you could keep us in your prayers I would be most appreciative. I will still be making soap and making my pretty plus size clothes...I am just gonna be taking a break this week, and hoping to resume my normal work schedule this weekend. Thanks so much for the love guys.

Maylees new Halloween Bag

I been blogging a lot lately about other people stuff, thats one thing I LOVE to do is promote others work. The nice lady that made this bag does INCREDIBLE work and you guys HAVE to check out her shop if you need a bag for your kids for halloween. She ships out SUPER quick like next day kinda quick so you will get it in plenty of time for halloween. I present to you Maylee's new Halloween bag from Ginny Mack's Crafts











I followed Maylee around for a good 10 minutes while she was playing with her new bag and this is the best picture I could get. She wears it like a purse, she is so cute! I just love her to pieces!








Here you can see her bag a little better. It is SOOO well made and ready for tons of candy she is gonna get for her mama...er....I mean herself with her cute lil fairy outfit. I will have pics of the outfit soon. i got the tutu finished yesterday and I am gonna make the wings myself. She hates the tutu and cried when I put it on her LOL She tried to pull it off. So I can only imagine how the wings will go but thats what duct tape is for (smiles)




SO if you guys need a bag for your babies for halloween you should get one of these. Buy handmade! Support this country in the best way you can cause Lord knows its going to hell in a handbasket economically...but thats another blog post LOL

Maylees Hair Clips By Julibee Kitsch

Isnt she sweet? Perfectly innocent with those big dark eyes, and her almost black eye from her many adventures falling all over the house...she is a doll in the new flower hair clippie I got from the sweet Miss Juli who has the shop Julibee Kitsch on Etsy. I got these for Maylee at the awesome art and craft fair we were at together Saturday.Juli has many more fine pieces of jewelry and also more hair clippies! These are set on alligator clips which are GREAT for staying in fine silky hair like mine and Maylee's. I love the way it stays in Maylees fine silky hair...



Until she grabs it and yanks it out of her hair.


Then she hands it to me (sigh)


The clippie is wonderful and Maylee's actions in no way represent the quality or beauty of this item. If I was a baby I would totally wear it:

Everywomans Art and Craft festival was a blast!

It went GREAT! I wanted to post before now but I been super busy these past couple of days, anyhoo...The show was awesome and I got to meet SO many of my street team! I met Ladonna, and Mari, and Sherri, and Juli...it was so GREAT!

I couldnt resist Miss Juli's wares so i had to get something. I am a sucker for jewelry. i cannot resist it. its like chocolate. I cant say no!


She had a great set up at the show, and I got some hair clips for Maylee and the awesome periwinkle necklace featured in the paper we was in YAY! I HAD to have it! I will have pics soon. I cant believe I been so busy! AHHHH! Her jewelry is awesome and I highly recommend her shop Julibee Kitsch I still have a pair of earrings I bought form her eons ago when i first found her on Etsy. They are among my favorites (smile) I will have cute pics of Maylee in the hair clips soon...she keeps pulling them out and saying something that sounds like "Pretty" while she is pulling them out LOL.



Miss LaDonna had a nice set up too. All her beautiful paintings were there...LaDonna is super sweet for inviting me to the show so I want to thank her again for being so kind to me, I had the best time I have had in ages at the show. i met so many great people there! Oh and you should go see LaDonna's shop! She has goddess stuff!




I also met Miss Sherri who makes the incredible artwork for her Maninthemoon Etsy shop. Her work is like WOW!!! I cant believe I got to meet her and she is SOOO super nice too! She just dropped by for a visit she wasnt in the show but she should have been, cause she rocks! Please go check out her art work, this woman in fantastic!

And I got to meet the ever sweet and ultra talented Mari who makes the most awesomely good jewelry for her Whimsybymari Etsy shop. She has a blog too, and I think everyone has to agree she takes the best pictures! LOL Her stuff is VERY treasury worthy so if your a treasury hunter please consider Miss Mari's stuff. The items are gorgeous and the pictures are perfect!

There was also incredible music OMG! The music was just awesome!!! I am not into music much in the past few years but this woman grabbed my soul and took it for a ride! You have to check her out. I prefer local music over big names of course, and her stuff is so true, so honest, and so down to earth...well ya just have to hear it. please go check out Annette Neumann on myspace. There is a song player that has a couple of her songs on it and PLEASE listen. She is so cool in person, and she talked to me for a while and even bought soap! I bought her CD too LOL Its only 1 of 2 CD's I have purchased since 2001 so that tells you something. The other CD was the Villebillies...I like them a lot too! LOL

I had a blast at the show. I sold out of a whole lotta soap, I sold 5 body butters too! YAY! I came home with a lot less stuff than I went with thats for sure. I am hoping to get in on some more shows soon! I am very excited about this whole craft show thing, and I never dreamed it could be profitable for me after my first fiasco at a craft show...cost 35 only made 18...lost a days work,and 17 bucks....thankfully this show did NOT go like that LOLI came out ahead in this one.

We are hoping to do this show again in the spring so if anyone out there reading is in the general area of Radcliff or Lousiville or anywhere kinda close to there and want to see some great arts and crafts and hear some incredible music keep an eye on Everywomansart.org for details on the show hopefully coming in May!