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Alright so Im back from my blogging hiatus, and glad to be here. Its not like this takes a lot of time or anything and Im a bit of a jerk for not ever writing, but hey, cut me some slack here I got alot on my plate.

Wow, Im a blog slacker! Just call me the Slack Master. I do have good reasons tho. Number 1: a baby who is now walking. 'Nuff said. Number 2: trying to make something of my business, BayBeeGee. Now I guess you could argue this reason because a blog is supposed to "help" your biz, but mine isnt...yet. So there. Number 3: Time management is not one of my good qualities.
But oh well! Here I am! Alive! Happy! LIVING this wonderful amazing thing called Life. So updates on the fam-damily: Gavyn is walking and looks like an orangutan/drunk old man when he toddles around. He likes it when I whistle to him and puckers up his lips and tries so hard to do it, but mostly we just end up laughing at eachother in a huge snugglefest. His new favorite word is "shit". Weird because I think that was my moms first word too, she will be happy to know this. What else is new?! Rusty has started tattoo school a few weeks ago. So far so good. He made a light table in our basement and draws alot, which is good. Someday I will be getting free tattoos for life, which is uber sweet because those stinkin things are EEEEExpensive. Whats new with me you might ask? I am starting to sew my Fall Line for BayBeeGee. I got my first wholesale order of Uber Kix from a really cool baby store in Portland called Black Wagon. I was really excited for that, and also glad to have finished it so I can focus on my new creations. Be sure to check out my etsy shop (www.baybeegee.etsy.com) for the latest and greatest, oh and while Im self-promoting, why dontcha become a fan of BBG on facebook as well, www.facebook.com/baybeegeeshop. My FB fan page just got 100 fans and I held a contest once I got there for a free pair of Uber Kix. Some lucky little dude will be getting his free custom pair soon.
I was in an art store with Rus a few weekends ago and came across my dads book "How to Make a Journal of Your Life", which was really cool because even tho I have like 20 copies, I dont think I have ever really looked too deeply into it. I should be fired as a daughter sometimes, Im rotten. Anyways I checked it out, only to find all these really cool pictures of my family when we were all younger, my yummy cookie recipe (the BEST around...no joke), and basically just total coolness was jumping out of every page. Go find the little book and buy it and read it. You will be inspired. I was. I also came to the conclusion while I was wandering around, that I am obsessed with paper. And journals. Ok mostly journals. I think that I have like 50 unfinished journals around somewhere. But a NEW journal is the best thing ever. And I always think really hard about what to write on the first page, because it sets the tone for the whole thing. Of course I bought one, its square, with a black soft cover, and yummy thick ivory pages. I decided that I would give the journal to Gavyn once he is older, so Im writing about all the funny things he does and how he is changing and growing. I even watercolored his new wooden fruit toys that you can cut up with a fake knife. He digs it, we say "Go cut up your fruit and make some fruit salad!" And he plops down and starts chopping away.
Now I think Im going to go eat my sammich.

Dude what just happened to my day? I just looked at the clock, expecting like maybe 9-ish, but obviously I have been zoning out once again for over an hour. And what have I been doing, you may be asking? Duh, sewing and taking Etsy breaks, of course! I should be sleeping, or atleast attempting to sleep. My days are nutso. Gavyn wakes up hecka early, we all play in bed (more like he clanks on his xylephone while Daddy and I try and catch like just one more Z or two until the breakfast screams comes out), then drag ass outta bed to make some delish oatmeal and yogurt (yo-meal...try it, its amazing) for Gavyn. After getting a yo-meal shower, my husband and I shotgun our espressos in between cleaning the layer of breakfast off of G and trying to shove something of substance down our throats. We then hang out in the living room and learn our ABC's. Gavyn has a new dance move now that he busts out when the ABC video sings the alphabet song...its super funny, especially when you are zombie-tired. I sneak out to check emails, hoping I have an order or some good BayBeeGee news to share with the family. While Gavyn naps I sew like a mad-woman...finding that once I know its getting close for him to wake up, my heart starts pounding a million times a minute and it becomes a race to the finish line. "Ok how many Uber Kix can I finish before my little monster wakes up...I got about 10 minutes left, should I sew the sole onto this pair or start a new one and get thru the more difficult sewing steps of that pair so that I can possibly finish both of the pairs while Gavyn is pre-occupied?" And always right before I finish what I set out to do, he wakes up. Ahhh the life of a mother. You learn time management REAL quick. Its been a bajillion degrees out lately, so normally we would take a walk to the park and push Gavyn in his favorite swing, but we cant or we would cook like an egg on the sidewalk, so instead we hide out inside, eat snacks, attack the dogs, make new toys out of the most random things. Who knew that a wire basket could become a push-cart, AND a throne for G to climb all over. Way cooler than the toys we buy, in his eyes. So as the day winds down, after many clothing changes and diaper changes, its bathtime...Gavyns favorite part of the day. He splashes and takes all the bottles down off the edge of the tub, then puts them back. In the exact same order. I swear this kid is a genius. Imagine like 7 bottles of randomness, all different colors, shapes, sizes, and throwing them into a tub, playing with them for a minute, and then putting them back in the exact same order. Uber amazing. And if one is not right he knocks them all down and puts them back the right way. Dude is superbaby. And so now, here I go, off to bed. Baby is asleep, husband is lonely and neglected, and my eyes are stinging from this stinkin screen I spend way too much time in front of. Sweet dreams to all my homies out there....you know who you are:)

I have been around photography since before I was even born...if that is possible. My dad has always had a camera around his neck, so its no big thang if theres cameras going off around me. Now that I have a child, I have REALLY gotten into photography. I mean reeeeeeeally. Im always laying on the floor trying to get funky angles, shooting into the sun to get those sweet sunrays coming out of Gavyns head like hes an angel, and I am just now discovering that if you take a pic of movement without the flash on, the result is almost ghost-like. My husband and I just got a MAC computer this year and it has some killer programs for editing photos, which can be really fun, but also very addicting. Should I make it black and white, wait no how about I enhance all the colors, no no sepia...SHIT i dunno! Too many choices. Anyways, the point of this whole thing is that I really want a Diana camera. Pops used to have one (and if you still do and are hiding it from me Im going to come hunt it down and steal it!), and it made the coolest pictures ever. I cant even explain to you how cool. Stellar, thats a good word to describe them. So if anyone wants to fuel my passion for being a crazy mom taking pictures all the time, send me a Diana camera asap. No joke dudes....I want one:)

I am really loving the end of today. L.O.V.I.N.G. it. It started great, at 5:45 am, but to a big smile on Gavyn's face and his little arms outstretched to me. My heart explodes with this overwhelming love every time I see his funny little smirks ("squinchy face" as we call them), his crazy hairdos in the morning, his cute little toosh splashing around in his pool. It is amazing.

So its just a few days, well actually one day left (Friday) until the NW Crossing Farmers Market that I will have a booth at. A few days before market, my brain will not stop spinning, thinking of all the things I need to sew, new ideas that I want to create for the market, then realize that there is no way I will have time for them, and then back to how much I need to sew before the day. I really worked on not procrastinating this time. I sewed every night, then realized that my poor husband is being neglected, sitting in our room all by himself...lonesome for me. So my new rule is be done sewing at 10 pm. As you can see now it is 23 AFTER 10, I am already breaking the rules. But tonight I couldnt help myself (just like last night....went to bed at 41 AFTER 10...whoops). See I have been thinking that Gavyn(my one year old rockin baby) is really in need of some booties, hes learning to walk so he needs a mushy sole so he can get his balance. And dude, baby shoes are EEEEEEExpensive. Plus, duh, I sew booties like all day long, so I envisioned these super rad slippers like his pappa has. "Castro" slippers I think they are. While sitting on the couch tonight I totally busted out and drew up the pattern, and sewed em up. These just arent any slippers. I made them from one of my old Volcom shirts, and a black and red striped tank top for the lining. Dude, they are UBER COOL. I would sport them. I think this is it, my million dollar idea. Making stellar slippers (that could even be the name of em) out of your old shirts. The part I love most about making them is figuring out how it all goes together, how the seams work, what goes where in what order, and at the end with this amazing trophy that I have created, its a sense of overcoming, of triumph. I did it all by myself, from my brain, and it worked. Love it. Its probably what its like for a math wiz, figuring out a crazy mathematical whatever, problem I guess its called, with no calculator...just the brain. And now Im off to bed, in hopes that my brain will simmer down. If anyone knows where the off button, lemme know:)

So Ive recently started BayBeeGee's shop on Etsy. It was a little intimidating at first, Im not gonna lie, but less than a week later, I am in LOVE with it, and a little obsessed as well. You can log in and see how many views each item has, and who "hearts" your shop! Im always looking to see how many more views I get, and who new has "hearted" me. Its great! It gives me such incentive to keep doing what Im doing and following my dream and the vision of BBG. No sales yet...but thats ok! The forums are fantabulous on Etsy as well, I just discovered how to put my "mini-etsy" shop onto my profile page, so that all my homies can see the latest and greatest, and when they click on an item, it takes them directly to my shop...Genius! Everyday I am learning a new marketing tool, or reading a forum about how to take better pictures, basically anything to make my shop and company more successful! Its a great thing to watch it grow daily and feel the love from friends and fans! YAY!
xoxo S

The babe is asleep and it is officially time to start my other job...sewing my BayBeeGee products. I hang out with Gavyn during the day, sewing and cleaning when he takes naps, and we jam out most of the rest of the day. Walks to the park, playing in the baby pool, learning how to throw the ball for our dog Ruby, and riding on his Indian motorcycle...thats what we do. And making huge messes. No one tells you how messy a one year old is....so Im going to. Actually no Im not because that would take all night and I really do need to sew, but Ill just say its a massive amount of cleaning. But its ok because Gav is the coolest dude in the universe and so I would clean his messes up any day if I just get to hang out with him and wrestle.

It is a historical day today. This is BayBeeGee's first ever blog post! I am so excited:) Im not really sure where to start, I guess by saying thanks to everyone who has made this all possible! My son Gavyn, my husband Rusty, my mother-in-law Vickie, my motherLynne, brother Shane, and pops Dan, my website guy Ryan, Angela my number one homie and her daughter Olive, who you will see in BBG's photos, Vanessa whom I share a Farmers Market booth with, Dierdre who is Gavyn's fav and watchs him so that I can actually sew, and everyone else who believes in the vision! I love you all so much and am thankful for each one of you every single day!
xoxo Shilo