Krista Schmitz
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Female, 37,
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- Married
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- Me, Myself, and I
- Check out all of these awesome new websites (they're mine.)
http://www.cutebabyfix.com - for daily cute babies
http://www.thecutenews.blogspot.com - where the news is never bad, just cute.
"The question is not
what you look at—but
how you look and whether
you see." - Thoreau
The one who says something is impossible
should stop interrupting the person who is doing it.
-Old Chinese proverb
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
Henry David Thoreau
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw
- The Other Half Of Me
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- Music
- I'm listening to Analouge by A-ha. All things 80's, I really like a Norwegian band called a-ha, Savoy, and Afrocelt Soundstation.
- Films
- A Room With a View, Mirrormask, Dead Poet's Society, Practical Magic, Legend, Better off Dead, Napolean Dynamite, Joe vs. The Volcano, Groundhog Day.
- Favorites
- Altered books, the color red, flea market furniture, toile, shabby chic, vintage clothes, jackets and jeans, wearing boots, fall leaves, cooking interesting food, dark chocolate, ridiculously dangly earrings, silver, Alma-Tademas, complicated music, ancient history, Aslan, My children's faces when they are sleeping, Impressionists, Dvorak, Organic vegetables, laughing, cats, pajamas, hydrangeas, peonies, and especially red poppies, Ozma, the Woggle-Bug, painting, surprises, Pringles, craft store shopping, Root beer floats, having breakfast for dinner, English poetry, thunderstorms, and a few other things
- Etsy
- I have opened an Etsy shop to sell my Lilipins and other art work.
Check it out: http://Lilipins.Etsy.com - What I am reading...
- I just finished Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. It was delicious. My favorite novels: Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett and Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte. And Narnia, of course. I'm working on the Old Testament for seminary...
- hobbies
- I am doing an altered book on Twilight. It has sort of taken over...
I make these tiny little people who wear acorn caps. I will send you one if you are nice to me. If you are really nice, you could pick up acorn caps and send them to me, I am always running out. - Quotes
- "However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society."
Thoreau
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Making $$$
We have officially made over a hundred dollars blogging. The Google AdSense Check is in the mail. Who knew you could make money by writing out all the idiotic things you think of?1 Comment 901 days
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Playing Hairdressers
So here is what my weekend was like. I notice that The Stupid Bup (our formerly white, fluffy cat.) looks even stupider. I did not think this was possible, so I'm examining her more closely, and I realize one of the kids has decided to play hairdressers. After a round of the Spanish Inquisitions, (fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, etc.) I figure out whodunnit, and her excuse? "Well, I cut some of her hair *accidentally* and it looked bad, so I decided I better even it out. A lot."1 Comment 901 days
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Poop, Teeth, and Shoes Revisited
Since every one wants to know where the teeth come in, here it is. The original essay where I rant on and on totally full of myself because it is my blog and I can cry if I want to. Try to keep in mind that you asked for it.
Teeth, shoes, and poop? 522 days ago
On Halloween we were all happily driving to Lou Lou's to borrow her neighborhood for trick-or-treating since we live on a busy street. We were eating sack lunches in the car for dinner. Jonah announced that he couldn't eat his apple or vegetables because his front teeth were loose and they hurt. I said why don't you wiggle them and get them out? And he said, are you crazy? After seeing Mallory and Noah almost bleed to death? No thanks. Noah has decided it hurts too much to get his baby teeth out, and is letting all his big teeth grow in behind his baby ones. The dentist isn't worried, he thinks Noah will get them out himself eventually. He doesn't understand Noah. Noah will be taking those rotting baby teeth to his grave. But anyway, I tell Jonah he has to eat some vegetables before he can have any candy.
For the rest of the trip I think about teeth and shoes. One of the teachers at school once joked to me that kindergarten was all about teeth and shoes. She meant losing them and tying them repsectively, but I have come to the conclusion that it is *ALL* about teeth and shoes. (And poop, but that is later.) These constitute the tough philosophical work of parenting. They encompass economics, values, truth and lies. They take in power struggles and Who Exactly Is The Boss. Do you make the kid pull his teeth? (Tried it, unwise...) Do you let him have his double rows of shark teeth so he can learn the consequences later when he has torturous braces? Do you even get him braces, which by all accounts is a lot of money just so your kid can have a painful cosmetic procedure done so he can look like everyone else? What kind of message does that send about self worth? And what about the tooth fairy? Is it good to fill their little heads with stories of strange coin-toting women who will enter their rooms at the dead of night to take bloody body parts for cash?
I for one, am the crappiest tooth fairy on earth. Christmas, Easter, birthdays- all of those are done well over the top at our house, but by the time the children are sound asleep enough to actually get their horrible little tooth out and replace it with cash, I am exhausted, and I always forget. The next morning I remember when the boy complains over his cereal that the tooth fairy forgot AGAIN. So I stammer out wildly fanciful lies about how she probably had to fight off the cats and anyway, being the tooth fairy is a tough job, who knows how she manages with that ladder! Noah, who is in the know, looks at me cynically. He wants his 25 cents.
And then there are the shoes. Noah tells me every day that his shoes are too tight. The day after they are brand new, they are too tight. So I start ignoring him. Pretty soon we get to the Sunday morning when his shoes literally will not go on his feet. I look at them more closely and realize they are about 2 sizes too small. Once again, I qualify for Mother-of-the-Year. Then there is buying them. This is where we find out who is really in charge. They want character shoes with stormtroopers on them. I want the absolute cheapest sneakers I can get away with buying because I know they are headed for mud puddles the biggest pile of dog poop they can find. (Look, poop. But that is not all of it by a long shot.) Noah always picks out the most outlandish sneakers in the store. But I am finally on to him. It is actually a Karl Rovian strategy on his part. He knows if he picks truly awful sneakers I will compromise and get him something more like what he really wanted and less like what I wanted. (I generally pick what we used to call BLS's when I was in junior high; Blue light specials. Nothing is too good for my little darlings.) Once again we have philosophy, value judgements1 Comment 944 days
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Happy Anniversary! For real! Any fun plans? What year is this for you guys? Hope you have a great Leap Year Day!
Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday dear Krista. Happy Birthday to you. I hope you had a wonderful day. Here's to another year of grey hair and wrinkles.
I am making you a little something for your birthday but at the rate I am going you will probably get it at Christmas.
Love you.
Tamara
ya i started seminary
Yo, Mom! How r u?
Hello there from Scotland...hope you don't mind me dropping by? Your page is inspiring and I love your altered art!!
he doesnt have a bebo
.....and no he wouldnt care
yeah i know....i just thought it was cute
i changed it for you!!!
love ya!!
is mallory ever going to ever come on bebo again?
THANKS!!!! you made my day!!!!
i LOVE your skin!!!!!
aunt krista......why hasnt mallory been on???? she hasnt been on in forever!!!
Happy Birthday To You!!! Happy Birthday To You!!! Happy Birthday Dear Krista!!! Happy Birthday To YOU!!!!
...Sorry I'm a few days late on the wishes, but I hope you are doing well, and I hope you had a great birthday!!!
That is my favorite music video!!!!
I love that song!!!
Every time this music video comes on TV, I watch it!!!!
As for India, I don't think I will be going there anymore. I don't work for the company that sent me anymore. Everything else is well, work work work ya know. Good luck with training your dog. I hope that he brings you joy even tho he will be a huge pain
I love ya lots!
Teaching him to not bite your fingers when you have a treat: This is hard because it will take a few times of him really biting you before he starts getting better. You hold the treat out and say "easy". Then as he goes to snatch it out really crazy, pull the treat away and do the naughty noise (I know the naughty noise sounds funny but it works
) Hold onto the treat and don't let him get it. Make him sit or something to get him focused, then slowly bring the treat towards him and say "Easy". Eventually he'll realize he has to be gentle when he takes treats from you. It took Toby a long time to figure this one out and its frustrating cause it kills your hand. As for biting in general, I have had a hard time withit cause Toby still bites when he gets excited and I can't get him to stop. But what the books say to do is to let out a high pitched yelp when they bite you and then ignore him for ten minutes. This is how another puppy would act and so it teaches them biting hurts.
I know a guy that has champion pit bulls and he feeds them chicken necks! We feed our pups Eukanuba or Science Diet because it helps them to have to go to the bathroom fewer times and it also helps their coats look better. If we go with the cheaper stuff Wiggum starts to look homeless
We tried clicker training with Toby. It worked ok but the problem seemed that we never had the clicker when we needed it. So if you try that make sure you keep your clicker with you at all times in your pocket or something. Its also easier to teach them to lie down after you have taught them sit. You hold the treat in your fist so they can't eat the treat but they can smell it. Hold it above his head and make him sit. Then after he is sitting, Move your fist to the floor below him and say lie down or down and he'll try to get it but hopefully he'll start to catch on and lay down. Then when he lays down you open your fist and give him the treat. As for him biting your hand, (to be continued...)
The way I've taught my dogs leave it is by first holding a treat in my hand and showing it to them and say "leave it." Then when they come near it you make a sound like "nah ah ah" and say "leave it" and don't let them touch it. Then when they are focused on the treat but don't make an advance towards it you give it to them. After he has mastered that you move onto putting the treat on the floor far away from him, say "leave it" and do the same thing. If he makes a move for it you make a naughty sound and tell him to leave it and don't let him snatch it. Then when he stays away from it for a short period of time you give the treat to him. Eventually you will be able to place the treat right in front of them and say leave it and they won't touch it. As for cryin in the kitchen at night, hmmm thats a tough one. We have Toby's kennel in our bedroom because of the same problem. All I can think is that hopefully eventually he'll get used to it.
Hey Krista! How are you doing? I was thinking the other day about your addition you were putting on your house and I was wondering how it was coming along? Do you have any more pictures lately?
Ok that link won't work. Go to www.twopeasinabucket.com and go to the peanut gallery and select the Search Gallery. Then type in "altered book cover" by annieluvscsa where appropriate. Its worth the search.
How funny is this- I found an example of an altered book about time
Try this link http://twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?g... to check it out. Its really cute.
Krista,
What is an "altered book" ???