[Build up.]

KIDS ART CLASSES.

Details:

Tuesdays & Thursdays

May 28, May 30, June 4, June 6, June 11, June 13

Age groups: 4-6 year olds (if they are 3, but you think it will keep there attention that is fine)

7-10 year olds (if they are older than 10 & want to come, that is fine)

Younger group: 9 - 10:30am, $12 per class

Older group: 10:30-12:30pm, $15 per class

All supplies will be provided for your kids. 

An example of what they will be learning & doing:

Art Journalling

Silversmithing

Mixed media

Painting

& a little of everything else you can think of...

It will be fun & hopefully they will get a little bit more insight into what art is & how creating can be so much fun! It really is my passion & I love when a child sees that also.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me.

Space will be limited to 6 kids per class, so email me & let me know what dates you want.

If people are interested, I can do it again at the end of july & into august...

Thanks.

Liz

 

Back in business.

After a long break from making or taking orders for jewelry, I am back at it. Just starting to get the ball rolling again. I have re-opened my etsy shop & my other website, lizeatonjewelry.com, for taking orders. I am excited to also get some new things in the works. I will share my new designs here when I get them made.

she is loved.

+my little girl.

+ the boys can't seem to get enough of her. Don't think I could live without her!

coming back. oh the JOY.

I guess a hyatus was in need. A lot of craziness has been happening in our little world in the last few months. Too much to catch up on right now, but the bottom line, we played, we had fun, we grew a little or maybe a lot (my stomach anyway) we had a great summer & this photo pretty much sums it up. But I guess I shouldn't lie, it wasn't all fun in games, of course this mama had struggles with bedtimes & getting her kids to eat or listen or be respectful or be quite when asked or whatever...When I look back I want to remember that we have grown together as a family & now that we have another one here life just got even more complicated, but oh so much JOY also...

This is our newest addition, a little sister for these 3 big brothers. & if you are doing the math that is 4 kids 4 & under. That is crazy, but oh the JOY.

PK (Patricia Kay)

6lbs 10oz

19.5" long

9.15.12

I have missed this place, this blog, this time to refect & journal & remember the things I never want to forget.

Soccer boy + other stuff.

Dax has been playing soccer for a few weeks now. & it turns out he is pretty dang good at it. His first game he scored 5 goals, there was a total of 7 goals scored for his team. He came home from that game & drew this picture all by himself. Even put his name on it. I was so impressed. I love his drawings. I love when he is passionate about something.

 

other stuff: I know I have been a lazy butt around the blog front. I guess you could say a lot has been going on. Life has been going on. & it drives me crazy that I haven't been recording it. I will be better. Cause I love looking back at it & seeing how we are growing & progressing as a family.

[a moment.]

A moment to pause & remember something that has happened this week in our lives.

(I got this idea from soulemama's blog.)

Trying new things.

This past weekend David did something he has never done before, he ran in the Phoenix 1/2 Marathon. Amazing to me that he even wanted to do it. He is what you call determined. Once his mind is set, it's on! I guess I am a little like that too, so it's good. Our kids seem to have some of that in them too. I have a very determined 4 year old who will try the same trick over & over until he feels he got it good enough to move on.

I took Dax to the BMX park on Monday. I am trying a new tactic with him, kind of like a reward system. Going to the BMX park is probably his very favorite thing to do. & his least favorite is probably going to school, it's not even the going to school part he doesn't like, it's the seperation from me that is hard for him. The getting dropped off thing. He has been known to throw quite the fit about it. So...my solution is take something he loves & something he doesn't love so much & make them colide. The deal is, if he goes to school good all week, then he gets to go on a day date with me to go to lunch & the BMX park, just the two of us. So far it is working out great! Let's hope he can keep it up. He really is a good kid, but also requires a lot of one on one attention, which can be hard in a house full of little people.

It's a balancing act for sure!

Thickness.

When you start something & then it sits on your workstation for days, weeks, months.

Going to the park seems like the only way to keep you & the kids sane.

When someone orders a piece of jewelry & it really hits you square in the eyes that you love what it says & how it turned out. That it just makes sense.

I feel thick.

Like I can't kick this thing that is weighing me down. My motivation for anything is out the window. That I am having trouble from literally not going insane.

I need to find my mojo.

I need find energy.

I need to slow down, but speed up at the same time.

I need to find that space between.

I need to put my earphones on & turn the music up.

I need more snuggle buggles with my little boys.

I need to just start...

 

outside playing.

When things seem so chaotic I can't think straight, I have to pull up pictures like this, when all 3 of them are getting along good & are playing all on their own. It's moments like this, that I remember that it is all worth it. That I am on the right path & hopefully so are they. I do love being a mom, it is for sure the hardest thing I have ever done, but so so worth it.

[a moment.]

A moment to pause & remember something that has happened this week in our lives.

(I got this idea from soulemama's blog.)