Zeeke the Misfit Lion Feltie :D

Hi everyone! It has been one long week, and I haven't been able to post a blog in a while, so I apologize for that. I have been trying to get over this cold, and I think I have it almost beaten :)!

Anyway, I created another adorable feltie for my shop :) Let me post a couple pics of him below :)

Isn't he adorable?? :D He is actually based on a story character I wrote about. I may make a mini children's book to sell along with him, but we will see :) Here is a little bit about him:

"Meet Zeeke, the Misfit Lion. Abandoned at a circus when he was a baby, he grew up feeling unwanted and unloved because of his wild red hair and colorful spots, which was completely different from all the little lions he met. But one day, things changed when he met Santa in the North Pole. Showing Zeeke that he was special because he was different, Zeeke the Misfit Lion felt loved and had a good family with all the other toys at Santa's workshop.

Getting near Christmas, Santa has promised to find Zeeke a good home under someone's tree or in someone's stocking. Zeeke is a very loving lion and will never leave your side :) If you feel he is the one felted animal for you, take him home with you today! Santa and Zeeke would be much obliged since the little lion has been looking for a good home :)"

Anyway, if you want to have him, be sure to click on my Etsy shop that is located on the right of my blog :)

As for what's been going on lately, I have been working alot. I finally did get to finish those angel costumes for the church drama, and boy am I glad that's over. They didn't even use the sashes I spent forever making with them, ugh. Oh well, they turned out looking good.

Oh, and my hubby got me an adjustable seamstress dummy for Christmas! I am so very excited about it!! I will name her Lisa the Dummy haha. I will have to post pictures of her. Oh, and I have been working hard at making my new sewing/workshop room!! It is almost complete!! Pictures will be posted soon of it :) I love remodeling rooms in the house and I am so glad I finally have a place to put all my wonderful craft stuff :D

Anyway, I better get back to work. Got a lot to do before this day ends! Love you guys and I hope ya'll have a good weekend. And I hope ya'll have a safe Thanksgiving and Black Friday Holiday if I don't post before then :D!!

~Leisha~

Tired But Here :)

Hi Everyone :) Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. Been busy all week! lol. How about ya'll?

Anyway, figured I would post something before I got out of the habit of posting lol. Today, I'm running on low energy lol. I couldn't sleep last night and at 2 am I woke up with heartburn. :( So I went ahead and got up and caught up with my show I recorded on DVR. (America's Next Top Model All Stars-All new season!! :D ).

Anyway, I also worked on angel costumes for the drama we are having tomorrow night. I'm a little frustrated about it because I wasn't given much notice. Oh well, what can you do? I even brought the costumes to work with me today so I could finish up some sashes for them and iron them lol. On my lunchbreak I'm going to have to go and buy some more material for the sashes.

So, after doing all that this morning, I finally went back to bed at about 4:30 am and woke up at 7:30 to get ready for work. haha and that's why I'm exhausted. But, I brought my mini coffee maker I bought to work with me so I could have hot chocolate :) I'm sipping some now :D Ahhh, how I love my mini coffee maker.

So, my to do list for today is to catch up on paperwork, knit some, and work on those costumes lol

I'm excited about two things though and I just realized I haven't blogged about them yet! Crazy me! lol. The first thing is a miniature dachshund named Cookie :) My hubby went to see her last night and to make a deposit on her :) She is two weeks old right not and she is just as small as the palm of my hand and her eyes are open :D She is so precious!! And I'm excited about getting her :) It will be the second week of December when I pick her up!! :)

The second bit of news is after Christmas, and after me and my hubby pay off our vehicle, we will begin working on adding on to our house! So my mind is a flurry with all kinds of ideas and decorating themes! Very excited for next summer when we begin the project! I will have to include some before and after pictures after it's all done :)!!

Well, I have to go now. Just realized I have a safety meeting today that I have to attend so I need to hurry and finish up that paperwork!!

Love you guys and hope ya'll are having a good Thursday!!

~Leisha~

Hello Lovelies :)

I just wrote an entire post and then somehow I deleted it :( *sad face* So now I will start all over lol!

So, I'm back at work today :) Although I feel like I should be back at home cleaning, but I don't think I would get anything done if I did stay at home! haha so me and my hubby have dedicated this Saturday to cleaning. yay :D I smile now but I bet I will be on here grumbling about it when Saturday gets here haha.

Anyway, just catching up on busy work when I decided I would take a break and check up on Etsy and my blog and other blogs and Facebook :) lol. Nothing much going on.

Last night I watched the latest episode of Walking Dead on the AMC channel with my hubby before we went to bed. I will not do that again! I had horrible dreams and at one point during the night I woke up thinking that an intruder was in the house! How scary! And then I dreamed about a zombie apocolypse and me and my family surviving!! Lol. I'm glad that was all a dream. I usually watch the show when I download it on Itunes at work and it's DAYTIME. I think I will do that next time instead haha.

Anyway, hope everyone's Monday is going well :) It still feels like Saturday to me but that's probably because food poisoning stole my weekend from me haha. Blog at ya later! :)

~Leisha~

IHop and Shopping :)

Hi everyone :) I'm sitting at IHOP with my husband sipping on a cup of MEGA awesome caramel hot chocolate :) words can't even describe how good it is haha.

You may be wondering why I'm blogging while spending time with my husband. Well me and him are both very good at multi-tasking. We can talk and play on our phones lol. He is showing me an awesome guitar that I am trying to convince him to buy. :) he is so cute. He will buy all kinds of stuff for me, but will squabble about buying something for himself. I wish I was more like him though. I have a dresser full of unused makeup :( but I still love to look at it haha!!

Anyway, we just got thru doing some Christmas shopping in the mall. I'm going to have to make a detailed list out for some people that way it will be easier to shop for them on the go like that lol. We also watched the new movie called In Time with Justin Timberlake. It is a retro futuristic movie, but I can see a lot of truths in it. I don't wanna go into too much detail, but the buying of things with time/time equals money rings true along with a little view into our future through Revelations-buying things with the scanning of one's wrist or hand and what-not/Mark of the Beast kind of thinking. Also, there are literally no old people in the entire movie and everyone looks like they are around 25 or 30ish and everyone is wanting to live forever but only the rich have the most time. It kind of reminds me of how alot of people in hire politics think-no old people. By making it harder and more expensive for older people to get medical insurance, it makes it easier to get rid of the old. How scary is that? That's where our world is headed. But I don't want to get into any political arguments with people.

Anyway, the movie was okay. Kind of reminded me of the modern day version of Bonnie and Clyde.

I just ordered a single pancake. Just now getting over that food poisoning, I'm trying to take it easy. IHOP is dumb though when it comes to ordering off the kid's menu. They simply won't allow it if you are not 12 or younger. I don't want to eat very much but I had to order a regular sized pancake anyway because I couldn't order the jr. Aye. Policies, Polices. Lol

Anyway, I hope everyone's Sunday went well :) Tomorrow is Monday which means back to work for me lol. Maybe I can get some knitting done!

Love you guys!

~Leisha~

A quick update :)

Mccallister's is the most awesome sandwhich place!! That is all :) lol

The Worst Night Ever Among Other Stuff :P

Hey Everyone!! :)

I hope everyone's weekend was good :) Mine was terrible until today haha. I will tell you what happened, starting with Friday night.

Friday night was Drama Practice at the church. It started off well enough, but it started to worsen. And I know it was all me and that I have to get a breakthrough from it. I consider myself an excellent drama team member and I do give it my all. But it always seems that people that don't really give it their all get really big parts. Ugh I'm sorry. See how messed up that sounds? I just feel like I'm just a backround player when I know I can be much more. And even when I do feel like this, I still give it my all because I know I'm doing it for God and not for anyone else. Please, Lord, help me through this. Anyway, one good thing is that the last time we did a drama for the church, Pastor told my Mother-In-Law that she had her eyes on my the entire time. She said she saw so much passion and authority rising up in me. And that made me very happy :) So I have to remember those words of encouragement everytime we do a drama.

Well, anyway, after practice that Friday night, my hubby and I went home and I fried up some chinese food. It was really good, and after watching tv and playing guitar, we went to bed. Anyway, about one oclock that night, I woke up feeling really sick. I mentioned to my husband that I felt like I was going to throw up. So I went into the bathroom and had extremely bad diarrhea (sorry for being so blunt lol) and I vomited seven times (I counted lol). All that chinese I had eaten hadn't even digested. Ugh! Oh I felt horrible. I went back to bed and about every other hour I would wake up and have to use the bathroom again. Well, about 5:30 that morning, I threw up 5 more times. I never felt so horrible in my life. It felt like my stomach was flushing everything out of my system. And through it all, my dear husband helped me. He was so sweet :) Doting on me and cleaning up behind me. He didn't get any sleep like I did.

The weird part about it was that I didn't have any fever. And then I realized it was food poisoning. My hubby didn't have it, so I knew it was from the BBQ plate I bought Wednesday at work. (The BBQ smelt ruint and I only ate a couple bites of it. But those little bites sure did destroy me in the end!)

Anyway, Saturday morning, I laid around on the couch all day long, dozing off and watching tv. My sweet hubby did things for me around the house, including cleaning and getting things for me at the local Wal-Mart. I felt like death. But I was still going to the bathrooom on the hour every hour. Ugh! But I was dehydrated, so I sucked on ice chips and nibbled on Saltines crackers. Haha how pitiful was I!

Today, this Sunday, I woke up feeling a lot better! I still go to the bathroom, but not as much. My hubby went to church and I am laying on the couch watching cartoons and typing this out now lol. I had a little bit of chicken noodle soup, and since I feel so much better, when my hubby comes back home, we will make a trip out of town for some Christmas shopping! :D Yay!

So, I'm glad my ordeal is over. It was the Worst Night Ever!! lol. Anyone catch up on their Christmas shopping? I keep seeing awesome Christmas commercials and it makes me so excited!! :) I wanna decorate!! And I'm excited about Black Friday. :)

Anyway, I just wanted to update the blog and tell ya'll about my ordeal. I haven't been able to knit or make anything this entire weekend ! :( sad face. Lol. But I will be back at it tomorrow! Now I'm off to Etsy shop and eventually I will have to get up and wash some clothes and get ready to go shopping. Love you guys and I hope ya'll's weekend was better than mine! Haha

~Leisha~

It's Friday :) (Please Don't Sing the Rebecca Black Song lol)

Yay it's Friday!! The weekend is finally here!
Getting up today for work was hard because my hubby is off today. Snuggling when it's cold in the room and warm under the covers, it was so hard to force myself to go to work haha! But here I am :) And I am glad I am at work because I want to try my hand at crocheting!! I will let you know how it goes haha.

Anyway, today is going good :) About to leave for lunch to go eat at the local Mexican restaurant (they have the BEST guacomole dip!! but not as good as my mother-in-law's haha) with my hubby, my dad and my Granny :)

Last night was youth praise practice, and it started off pretty good. But it didn't end very well :(. We are trying to get to a new Spiritual level in how we do things, and we have our Worship leader who is training us (she doesn't sing with us, she is kind of the "mom/leader" of the group that tells us what to do in certain situations, and we are learning alot) and then we have our Youth Worship Leader. And everything was going fine, but our Youth leader started on a song, and wanted to take a certain part of the song out. Our Worship Leader didn't want us to because the song didn't sound very good without it, but our Youth leader wanted to try it anyway. And then I began to see lightening clashing between the trainee leader and the main leader. They were butting heads, and it turned out that the Worship Leader was right all along and the song didn't work without the pre-chorus. Anyway, it went on like that, and then the youth leader started another song which she had introduced to the group a few months back and we have sang it several times and she should know by the back of her hand. Well, me and two other girls are to "back her up" singing with her, but the youth leader sang the song completely different than how it should be done, and the guitar players (including my hubby :) ) were having trouble playing with her. O my gosh it was horrible! (not that her voice didn't sound bad, it sounded pretty as always, but the song sounded terrible--the melody and tune was way off!!)

So, here I am, struggling to back her up, but I don't know whether she is going up or down on a certain part and then she started changing around verses and what-not. A complete train wreck. And I was getting more and more frustrated, and our Worship Leader was trying to get her attention, trying to tell her the melody doesn't sound right. Instead of listening and submitting to our Worship Leader, the youth leader just kept going. Getting my fill of it, I said into the microphone, "Hold up!! What are we doing? This isn't right and it sounds bad. Are we changing the song or something than how we normally sing it? If we are, that's fine, but I'm confused and lost?" Instead of stopping to listening to me, the youth leader said, "Just keep going until we get it." And she said it in such a rude way and was giving me a death look. Now, she has been my friend for several years, but that really ticked me off. So then I tried again, "How can we ever get it if we aren't singing it right in the first place?" She still didn't listen, so since I knew how the song went, I sang the right melody as loud as I could into the mic, drowing out the youth leader. Ugh I was so frustrated with it, and I don't think I did anything wrong by doing that.

Anyway, our Worship Leader stopped us and confronted the youth leader, then got me to sing it for her so she would know how it goes. That was awful but I did it anyway and then we sang it right together a couple of times. Then after that, my hubby asked the youth leader how a certain song went, and she spouted off, "why don't you ask one of them? I might sing it wrong." In a really spiteful way. Then after practice was over she left without saying anything and I felt that she was really angry with me.

I tried texting her later trying to tell her that I wasn't trying to be rude...oh well. I don't think she ever texted me back. So I'm praying for our next worship service. (I think we have the service this next Wednesday. I hope we practice before then!)I definitely don't think I was in the wrong. But dang is that girl bull headed! Lol.

Anyway, I'm still frustrated about but what can ya do? I have been praying about it though. Well it's about that time! :) I'm going to go eat me some Mexican food :) Then I'm going to start crocheting! :)

Love you guys and I hope ya'll have a great Friday!!

~Leisha~