It's the Most Wondrful Time of the Year!!

I love this time of year!! I hate being cold, but I love the season!! 

Our house has a fireplace, and I love sitting in front of it while we watch a movie or just listen to Christmas music. 

I love Christmas music!!! I was so surprised this year when I heard it playing. I had lost track of time because of being so focused on work. So, that tells you a little of how crazy it's been around here. 

Thanksgiving was a blast! I love being with family. I loved having several days off!! 

I've been trying to get my art side job to get off the ground, but I'm obviously not a business person. 

Life is being crazy!! I'm excited and nervous for this next year. So many things could be changing!!

Failure

That is the one word that is on my mind.

I can't seem to teach. I can't seem to sell art. I can't seem to get pregnant.

Failure.

Haircut

I was debating about having some huge celebratory giveaway post for my 300th, but as no one reads or comments, I'll just talk about my haircut. 

I had been debating for weeks to cut my hair. I was getting headaches almost daily and I'm now not sure if they were caused by heavy hair or tension in my shoulders. Either way, I do need to relax, and I solved the possible hair issue. 

**If anyone has good tension relieving stretches that you use for your shoulders, I would love it if you shared!!**

I finally decided to cut it about how it was when I graduated high school 6 1/2 years ago! Seriously can't believe it's 3 1/2 years shirt if ten years!!

Anyway, I did get it cut and I love it! Right after I get it cut, I always think why do I let it grow out so much? I can't run my fingers through my long hair. It gets caught in all the curly tangles. 

But I'm so glad I did it!!

Giveaway!!

I'm helping with Ali's week of giveaways again!

Go check it out and enter for a chance to win either a watercolor or acrylic painting or a piece of digital art!

http://crazyaligirl.blogspot.com/

Patience

So, patience is not one of my virtues. At all. 

You guys know I want a baby pretty badly. I would love to start our family. 

The message I seem to constantly be getting is be patient. That's about all I heard during our church meetings today.

 My only hope is that the Lord knows what he's doing and will bless us with a little Jason or Courtney to teach the gospel to soon. 

If things go according to plan (meaning if they follow Heavenly Fathers plan), there are some crazy life changes in store in the next year or two. Maybe that's why we aren't ready for a child. 

My only prayer is that I'll learn what I need to learn from this experience. 

So, maybe I'll make patience one of my virtues after this. 

I love my ward!!

Today was rough. 

I woke up with a headache. That made me sick to my stomach, though I don't think it was a migraine. Being sick to my stomach makes me miserable. I didn't think to take Advil before church, which would have been the smart thing. I just didn't think about it. 

I made it through sacrament meeting, barely. I decided to try and make it through Sunday school and barely made it. As we were transitioning from that to the third block for combined meeting, I had a Sunday school teacher come up to me and ask if I was alright. He is a doctor and gave some tips and offered to help if I needed anything. Then a former student's grandma came up and offered to help. (Of course the whole time I was in tears. I am not tolerant of pain at all.) 

They didn't have to come up and talk to me. They may not even realize how touched I was by their actions, but I felt blessed to be in this ward. 

When I have cried in previous wards or looked obviously unwell, people would quickly ask if I was okay, I would say I would be fine, and all was left at that. Not this ward. There are some weird things about the ward, but the people are very caring friendly. 

I am certainly blessed. 

And I'm glad after a nap and some Advil, I finally felt better!

Selling Art

Isn't going like I had hoped it would.

No one wants any. Same thing happened for my sister's and my bow shop. People say they like it and then never buy it.


If you like my art, please go like http://www.facebook.com/mycaslart


If you want to check out my stores, here are the links.

For a gallery and to make personal requests, go here.
http://mycaslart.weebly.com

To look at a gallery and purchase something that the store will send you, go here.
http://www.zazzle.com/mycasl_art
http://instacanv.as/ladyc4ever

(Instacanv.as needs to be opened by the site. There is a link to request for it to open, please click! Many thanks!!)