My Saburban Life
Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!
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Sunday, September 3, 2023
Helllllllooo? Hello out there??
Wow! It's literally been 364 days since my last post! One whole day shy of a whole year? Yikes!! How in the heck did that happen? Lemme see. Umm. Time flies when you are having .. Fun? Umm. Work. Work. Visiting my MIL at her Ladies Home. Work. Work. A two day craft fair that actually went very well!! RSV. Work. MIL. Work. Work.
Somewhere in all of this, I ended up being blessed with a new Sawgrass Printer and an 8 in 1 Heat Press. My brother in law loved the 4 in 1 Can Cooler cups that I made him and my sister in law, so he saw potential to help me earn some money with better equipment. I'm still struggling with gremlins here and there, issues with ghosting, issues with printed wine cups when the printed area was too high on the cup, issues with my old printer and the Sawgrass needing more ink (Whoa! Ink runs $300!). My brother in law wanted me to try and mass produce cups to sell in downtown Kansas City, but I'm not great at design yet. I can't use anyone else's designs, especially NOT here in KC. I would get shutdown in a heart beat! "Do you have a drone? You could send it up to take aerial pictures of Kansas City." Umm. Noooo. Fresh out. Great idea. But. No. I do not.
In the meantime, I've made a few cups. Made some "Wine Doozies" aka "Koozies" (can't call them Koozies because that phrase is trademarked). Made some Air Fresheners. Made some Car Coasters. Sold quite a bit at the 2 day craft fair, despite being up on the 4th floor and not being the only sublimation booth. I tried selling some of my faux leather keychains but lol, I couldn't even give any of those away! What the heck? Alrighty then! Made some keychains for a friend battling Breast Cancer and then some Air Fresheners and Car Coasters when her 2nd sister started her own battle with it.
Other than that, I've been distracted by other craft projects. Wooden name signs. Wooden heat gun and stencil items. However! It will all tie together in one nice, neat little wine bundle. I'm going to make wooden trays, charcuterie boards, wine cups, wine "doozies", and some other assorted wine items for a basket deal. Figured I could also toss in some BBQ bundles with a tray, chef's apron and hats, engraved tools, charcuterie boards, wine cups or glasses for the ladies and a few other odds and ends. I figured this idea would be lit! Literally!
Alrighty then! Until next year.. Umm.. Next time!
Peace!! I'm outtie!!
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Annnnndddd.. Surprise! I'm back again.. Again..
I'm back.. Again..
Not just here on the blog..
I'm back.. At my group home again.. Again..
A month of training 22 miles from my house wasn't good for my car..
It smoked like a BBQ grill when I got to work and when I got back home again..
The odds of it breaking down on the way to work, especially after starting a shift that would be
0530-1400 wasn't going to be very good at all. The people on the way drive like crazy!
Soooo.. I'm back in my same position / days / 2.5 miles from my house again.
: ).. The break was nice..
We made a cup for our training supervisor at my new job too..
He loves Batman..
He loves Legos..
He's been working for 3 years, "Saving Lives and Protecting Properties"
and has been married to his husband for 3 years as well..
Sooooo.. Here's his cup..
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Last couple days at my group home before I start back at one of my old jobs.
My resume goes in circles and I'm sure it's getting dizzy by now!
I have finally burned out of everything group home related.
Grocery Shopping for 8 clients plus staff.
Running everywhere, dropping people off or picking them back up.
Taking clients in for lab work.
Getting supplies from our main hospital.
Cleaning 8 people's dishes, loading and unloading the dishwasher.
But mostly, answering 8 different client's questions in rapid fire succession such as,
"What time are we going to leave?"
"What time are you picking us up?"
"Do we really have to go to work today?"
"We're out of milk!!"
"We don't have any food in the house to eat!" (despite still having 4 days of food for the week)
and client's "attempting" to sing.
Blissfully - I will either be back at my alarm company job - or at a new position of Transportation Director.
But... One more day after this and I am dun.
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Been busy busy busy as usual.
Pups.
Work.
Pups.
Work.
MIL.
Pups.
Work.
The usual.
It's getting closer to the time where my coworker can retire which is great news for me!
She always told me I can't leave work until she does. Her last day is at the end of July!
Time for me do possibly do something else with my life. Orrrrr.
Just go back to Customer Service again.
Hopefully I can find someplace quiet to work this time.
I know that sometimes we can ask for certain things to help us do the job we are supposed to do,
I can ask them for a quiet noise proof clear box to work in. Lol.
Been working on some other craft items too. Kept doing my research after seeing
someone sublimating a tumbler on TikTok. I loved the idea and it looked so easy!!
I gathered all of the necessary supplies, a new printer, ink, paper, tumblers of all kinds
and then I was finally ready to give it a shot. I just started yesterday and so far, it's been
mixed results! The Chiefs cooler cups are great - except that the print is upside down! Lol.
Tried it twice, thinking that I had the paper right side up last time only to have another
upside down print. However! I did a Hello Kitty cup for myself with a Fruit Infusion
cup and it turned out fantastic! Most people cover the entire cup with the picture, but they
also fight "ghosting" and usually have a well defined line on the back where the ends of the
paper meet. I chose to leave space at the bottom, top and the side of the cup instead.
I bought a Cricut Air Explorer 2 and some vinyl and added my initials in my
niece in law's font that she calls, "HeartFreakinTastic!" I love it because it looks
great and has hearts on the letters. It looks great on the cup as well.
I have a used convection oven that worked yesterday but with some issues!
It doesn't have a setting for 400 degrees, and stalled at warming up at 350 until
I turned the dial past 400. Then it got TOO hot, and then too COLD while trying to do the
cups. One cup had a silver metal tab at the bottom that not only made the cup and oven
smoke, but also burned the tab off. That can't be good! I'm replacing the oven after
finding a great replacement on Ebay. All in all, I did pretty well on my 1st day, even
with my boo boo/s!! Here are the pictures!
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Luna Sea Designs.. 💙💚🤍💚💙
Found some new things to do to occupy any time outside of work, home, the pups, my MIL who moved back to KC in April. I need to set up our spare bedroom as a partial craft room for now. Dang Tik Tok drew me in and taught me all kinds of fun things to make. I’ve finally gotten all my supplies, just need to set it up and let ‘er rip! Got some of these cuties done today. 😁😁.
They are my minifobs that are $3 for 2”, $5 for 3” or $7 for 5”, or might be tossed in for a freebie prize with the purchase of upcoming items. I will be glad to finally get set up and going! Been planning this for months. It’s go time!
💙💚🤍💚💙 Introducing Luna Sea Designs 💙💚🤍💚💙
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Hot Dog Bar..
Doesn’t seem like I make it over here much these past few years. Things get busy and the weeks fly by. Tried something different with our guys today and made a hot dog bar.
We had regular chili dogs because some aren’t very keen on experimenting with their palettes. 😁.. For those who gave it a shot, we had three choices.
#1 A"Seattle Cream Cheese Hot Dog" from an idea found on Vixen's Kitchen on Pinterest.
And finally #3 A Walmart / Great Value Mild Wing Sauce (because I'm a wuss with hot stuff!) and Ranch hot dog inspired by this offering from Lemon Tree Dwelling, also found on Pinterest.
It was fantastic!!
Definitely a winner, winner, hot dogs for dinner winner.
and possibly try some other hot dog ingredients!
I really wanted to make a Reuben Hot Dog too! I love me some Reubens!
Alrighty! Hang in until the next time I drop by!
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
7 months away and things have changed a lot!
CovidJuly.