I Made it Monday...

I worked my fingers to the bone last week.

I have no idea how this happened.

I felt a little twinge in my finger 
and looked down 
to find this...

a broken blood vessel 

from gripping my creations too tight???

...is that even possible???

 The older I get the more bruises

seem to show up.

I swear, 

I brush by something 

and a few hours later 

it looks as if I've had a run in 
with a baseball bat.

Old age...the joys

This finger incident 

did 
occur after a sleepless night.

So there is no real telling how it happened

 as I was quite possibly 

in a craft coma.

I dragged myself up the stairs at around 
6:30 am

(just as my high school boy was waking up)

He took one look at me and said

"Mom, seriously...you're crazy!"

I concur...

I fitfully "rested" 

for an hour or so 

before I had to get back up 

to get my little ones off to school.

Then it was back to crafting!

Finishing this
(the sign for my booth)
is what took me most of the night,

the frosting atop my crazy cake...

 Here are some of the things 
produced from that night of insanity... 

this pic turned out not so swift...

I must say...

the injuries and such

were worth it.

The Beehive Bazaar was really good to me.

In all the madness 

I forgot to take a 

"before" 

picture of my booth :(

My niece texted me this shot 

near the end of the first day,

looking pretty spare...

(which is a good thing)

then

my son snapped this 

on his phone 

right before "tear down."

Again, 

not such a great shot,

 but it's documentation of some sort...

(capturing the emptiness is the happy part)

So adieu to the shows for awhile,

it was an exhausting fabulous ride...

p.s. a few more vintage Christmas things left in my etsy shop

"call IT courtney"