Auburn Gal Always

What I've been doing today - when I wasn't taking down the Christmas decorations...

Car seat research...

http://www.carseatdata.org/ a site that has a database w/search capabilities for checking compatibilities of car seats and particular vehicles. No not every car seat works in every car.

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-ppcarseats ivillage forum where car seats are discussed

http://www.car-safety.org/ site with forums and other info about car seats

http://www.elitecarseats.com/home.jsp on online vendor with user reviews and seemingly thorough range of choices

http://babyproducts.about.com/od/carseats/Baby_Car_Seats_and_Car_Seat_Safety.htm a list of the above sites plus a few more that I haven't explored yet.

I also finished the invitations for Stinkerbell's birthday party at Club Libby Lu. I bought a pack of sticky pink, purple and clear sticky "jewels" in the scrapbook section at Wal-mart. I let her stick a few on each invitation. I also bought a pack of pretty card stock (different shades of pink and purple mostly). I sat and worked on how to make my own envelope out of the card stock. I finally figured it out - my grandmother would be proud - and trimmed the pretty paper down to fit the card perfectly (pretty much) and fold over to be the envelope. Now we'll find some cool, diva-like stickers to seal the envelopes.

Stinkerbell loves the invitations, the shiny jewels and the custom-made envelopes in matching colors.

I've played with the idea of designing and producing invitations for a home-based business. I've done invitations for birthday parties for free for friends from church (part of my birthday gift). If I ever do this type of invitation with the jewels and custom envelope, it won't be free or part of my gift. These are worth a little bit of money to me.

If I can find my camera, I'll take pictures. If not, I'll have to find a way to get the digital pics I took with our camcorder onto my puter and then I'll share them.

I should be asleep. I'm sleepy, but I probably won't be able to fall asleep for a while right now. I'm cranked up at the moment.