seriously. this house is a mess!! Today I spent all day on the kitchen, dining room and part of the living room. that’s only 1/4 of our house!
In 3 days it will be exactly a month since I went in for my lumbar puncture. It feels like yesterday. Although I feel 99% like my pre-lumbar puncture self, I was traumatized enough to fear doing something to bring that level of pain back. I never want to feel that again. And again, thank you all for your thoughts, love and prayers. One of my readers asked why I don’t blog about my personal life more often, and my response, after thinking about it, was that I feel bad when my loved ones find out what’s going on in my life from my blog instead of straight from me. But when I told this to one of my best friends, she thanked me for blogging about it…. we are all so busy in our little lives with our little kids and our crazy homes, we rarely have the chance to talk. Which is too bad, I know, but this is our friendship and we are okay with it. So, from now on, I will try to get a little more personal! 
My whole lumbar puncture episode took about a week and a half out of my normal life. I knew I had a market looming that I needed products ready to sell. Praying I’d feel well enough to work it, I convinced myself I had enough product to pull it off (which I would have). But once I felt well enough, I couldn’t see things that way anymore! Wanna know what we did the last couple weeks???
Ready for it??
antique-pickin’
- pickin’-cleanin’
gross upholstry-tearin’
bathtub renovatin’ – ewwww before pic
custom table makeover deliverin’
3 nights of family campin’ and fire makin’
bird-watchin’ (this little bird house was above our cabin, and this little baby had its head out day and night, chirping away… we saw momma coming often to feed the baby, so cute!)
dirt-diggin’
football-playin’
frisbee-throwin’
tongue-stickin’-out (a family trait passed down to our children from my hubby’s side!)
running running running
s’mores-eatin’
sturgeon-fishin’ (okay, I wasn’t invited, but hubby and the men in my family went on my bro’s boat – the one in red – who is a fishing tour guide, went sturgeon fishing to celebrate my dad’s – the other guy – 65th birthday. the day before the market, I might add 
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market set-up preppin’ in the carport
well, wouldn’t you know it, I can’t access my pictures right now. waitin’, waitin’…. I’ve been having serious issues with blogging since I’ve switched to this self-hosted blog. It’s very disappointing, and very, very frustrating, and extremely time-consuming. I love blogging, but it is getting easy to get discouraged, especially when I want to make a detailed post, like this one. Still brainstorming ideas… let’s try again…
yay, here we go! Market day!! the market was supposed to be outdoors, but the weather decided to turn bad on us. So we were nice and cozy indoors instead.
unfortunately the people weren’t there to buy. The vendor idea was new this year, and people didn’t bring cash. I sold 4 items, and I was one of the highest in sales. A little disappointing for everyone.
fortunately I was surrounded by fabulous vendors, many of whom I’ve been stalking for a while, admiring their work! And also met many great new people.
I created MANY new products for the show
it will take me forever to blog about all the new items I made, so if you see anything that interests you, Please Ask! Pictured here are some of the new magnetic boards I made.
…growth chart boards…
…a few masterpieces of my own
a gorgeous window frame with panes still in it (now on my mantle until someone snatches it away from me!) and some new “Keep Calm and Carry On” ‘s behind it
I’ll have a hard time when a buyer comes along for this antique chair planter (the same chair as the first picture!) it’s now sitting on my front “porch”.
Well, that’s it for today!! Have a great Tuesday, everyone!
and thanks for reading!!
xo, Leanne
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Too bad about the buyers being scarce, because it looks like you have a lot of great stuff for sale! I love the chair planter!!!
And as far as house cleaning….my Dad always says “The work will always be there.” lol He’s so right. Keep spending time with those cuties of yours–they grow up so fast.
Glad you are feeling better!
Thank you! Me too- about feeling better, and about the chair planter!!!
I agree with your dad, the work really is always there… but I’m feeling blessed this week, with the great weather, the kids are playing non-stop outside with the neighbour kids, and so I’m getting a lot done… and the house needs it. Seriously, it’s out of control!!
What a great post! I enjoyed seeing so many pictures. And I must say, I am thrilled that you are feeling better!
xoxo
Thank you SO much, Elyse!!
~I have to ask you, who is the other girl in your vacation pics? Is that your sister? You two are so beautiful!
You are too awesome! BTW, I’ve been thinking of switching over to wordpress.org. I’m on .com now. But now I’m thinking of not doing it based on what you said. I just don’t’ like all the restrictions wordpress.com puts on my blogging. Embedding is restricted, among other things. I don’t know.
Awww, I don’t think I’m that awesome! Just trying to survive! LOL!
I didn’t realize you couldn’t even embed on wordpress.com. That sucks. Every time I post I question if I should have made the switch, but there are many reasons why I do like it, like the embedding for example. And not everyone has the same problems I do (although many do – even Not Just a Housewife, and Miss Mustard Seed complains about it :/ ), I don’t know if it’s because I don’t have the knowledge or the time to work more with it, and I’ve lost my level of caring so much. For me I do it all on my own, with a textbook in hand, and I found the switch to be a pain in the butt, including you can’t easily transfer your followers over, your email followers need to re-follow. Sucks. But if you have help/time/more knowledge than me, and you are in a good place to get your readers to do the switch with you, then it’s probably worth it.
You are too much! I live with chronic pain and know how debilitating it can be. For you to be able to prepare for that show (after doing the important stuff; family time) is a statement to how tough you are. I’m not self-hosting (way too ignorant for that), I have enough trouble just doing the basics. And my body is deciding to be a barometer this summer, more pain, less breathing ease with heat and humidity. So what do we have in abundance? Oh, well, some day. I’m so glad, especially at your young age and your kids’ young ages, that you’re 99% back. An indoor show would have had me there, if it were in my neck of the woods
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Janet
Awww, Janet, it’s so hard to think of ourselves as “tough”, at least it is for me, I don’t really think of myself that way. I just like to “do and get done” I guess. Some days are still tricky, but I think back to when I was so sick, and my husband prayed “we pray mommy can get well again to live her wonderful daily life.” And that stuck with me, and use the reminder, yes, my daily life is wonderful, to pull me through the day.
I would have loved to have you at the show!
Hugs!!
Aw sorry you all didn’t have a lot of sales Leanne, but it was a good intro into the market and there will be other shows. Your stuff is amazing. I have to admit – I am totally in love with the Star – dream hanging thing. And I’m glad you are feeling heaps better hun. And bummer about the issues with your posts – I hope you get it sorted soon. Big hugs xxxx Nat
Thanks Nat, I really did have fun, and got good info on the great markets to be at… it was a great networking opp. It was neat being with these other vendors who have “done them all”. I could always ship the star out to you
Maybe we’ll have to do a switch – I LOVE your jewellery! 
Hugs!!
What a fun post! The market looked like fun! Glad you are feeling better. Thank you for linking this up to Rustic Restorations Weekend!
Thank you Tammy! I always enjoy your party!