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I have been married since 2000 for the second time. I have three children by my first marriage. Two girls and a boy. They are all adults now. I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I design hardanger and make my designs into kits to sell. I also make cards, magnetic bookmarks and such from my photos that I take. I also sell earrings that I've tatted or crocheted and paintings that I have done.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Tomorrow my husband and I leave to go to my youngest daughter's college graduation. She went to school to learn to repair stringed instruments. Last Saturday we attended my son's graduation from Northern as a math teacher. After tomorrow all of my kids will be done with school. It looks like my son will be moving to Florida at the end of the summer where he will be teaching. Not sure where my daughter will be moving to. She's still looking for a job. When my oldest daughter came home for the graduations, she informed me that she, too, will probably be moving later this summer. She's going to follow her boyfriend to wherever he can get a full-time job. My son is following his girlfriend to Florida. She has a job there and so they are moving there. Hopefully, this all means that soon there will be in-laws and possibly grandchildren. I don't want to be an older first-time grandmother. I want to be able to enjoy them and keep up with them.

During the winter I took some pictures of my husband's niece with a red hat to make blank note cards of red hats. I used my bedroom window as the backdrop. They turned out really cute. I even managed to sell some on Ebay. I'm hoping this summer to get some more with his other two nieces. I'd also like to get my Mother-in-law to pose for some for me. I want to put her in an old Victorian era outfit. I'm hoping my backyard and flowerbeds will make a good backdrop for those pictures. Will have to see how my gardens do this summer. Hubby's niece had a fun time. Uncle Rick bought her some donut holes and chocolate stars to have with her tea while I took pictures. She didn't get tired at all. I want to take the best picture, have it enlarged and framed so that she can hang it on the wall in her bedroom and, along with a scrapbook of all the pictures taken, give it to her for Christmas. I'm hoping that I can talk my mother-in-law to do some selling for me this summer now that she is retired. I'm hoping I can get her to take my cards around to different shops as she travels around this summer and convince them to sell them in their stores. I'll need to do the same thing locally. I'm just not very good at doing that. It's one area that I'm not very comfortable. It's like selling myself. Need to get over it or I won't be able to make much money with my cards.

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