Charlie's Sticker Chart

Charlie has had some issues lately with cleaning her room and sleeping in her own bed. Today we made a sticker chart for her, to maybe put a little fire under her butt to do what she needs to do. We watched an episode of Sid the Science Kid and we were inspired....

Each day she has four jobs:

1. Keep her room clean
2. Be good
3. Brush teeth and hair
4. Sleep in her own bed

She gets to draw a star for each task each day she completes, and if she does well she'll get a sticker for the week. A month that has a sticker each week earns her a trip to the mall to buy a Build-A-Bear. I'll let you know if it works..... 

Me, Myself, and I .... Craftasauras Rex

 My name is Jaclyn, most people call me Jackie (or Crack if you’re one of my sisters). I've lived in sunny California my entire life, and I'm still one of the palest people you'll meet. I was born on June 8^th in 1985, to a family of my mom, dad, and older sister Darlene. I was the second child born, my parents added my younger sisters Robin and Nicole in the next nine years that followed. My mom is a nut, and had all four of her daughters at home with no drugs. Heck, I remember being excited the night Nikki was born, because I got to stay up late and watch Jay Leno. All while my mother gave birth in the next room, kind of horrific now that I’m thinking about it. 

                    Me and my older sister Darlene (left).

          I had a great childhood. Years were spent living on a cul-de-sac running the streets like a wild banshee, while the rest was spent climbing chicken coups and using my imagination in the trees. I was a tomboy for years. I chopped off all of my hair in the fourth grade, and spent months being asked “Are you a boy or a girl?”

          After graduating from high school, I got a job in customer service. It was at an HVAC company, and that’s where I met my husband. Matthew and I were married approximately two weeks before I accidentally got knocked up. Our entire honeymoon period was spent with me being fat and unsexy. Charlotte aka Charlie Bucket was born in January of 2008, and she just recently turned four.  Charlie is amazing, and already ten times smarter than her parents (she literally corrected her doctor last week).

 

       

  I adore crafts, and discovering new crafts. I took four years of ceramics in high school, and I still have a deep-seeded longing to do it again. It's the reason I started playing with polymer clay in the first place. I opened a shop on Etsy a few years ago for all of my creations, but have since switched to only selling wine charm sets. I also crochet, scrapbook, re-purpose, paint (badly), do a bit of woodwork, and other various projects and ideas I find across the internet.  

It Creeps, It Crawls, It Eats you Alive... Run, don't walk.... From the List!

I'm starting a "to-do" list.
I slack when it comes to taking care of obligations or just starting one of the many projects floating around my head- I'm hoping that having a list for all to see will put some fire under my butt. I have so many things to do, that I'm beginning to get frustrated with the amount of projects left.
The list will become smaller, I will not fail.
- Que The Eye of the Tiger.... Do. Do do do. Do do do. Do do dooooo.....

Bare with me.....

• Organize all of my craft materials
• Paint. I need to paint....
• Beg all of my professors to add me from the wait-list, to their classes.
• Start some paper crafts with Charlie (Thank you library book!)
• Photo day with Charlie
• Start seriously pursuing my children's book ideas 
• Stop delaying the end.... Watch the final installment of Harry Potter. (Rubbish... How someone can choose the books over the movies is beyond me)
• Get a yard sale together
• Post on Twitter, blogger, and Facebook more like a madwoman
• Organize the basement
• Contact the Mission Galleria about a booth
• Increase my Etsy shop's inventory
• Find my missing mp3 player... Doing dishes sucks without it!
• Set up my recycling buckets
• Overhaul and organize the walk-in pantry
• Build a Julia Child's inspired pan wall
• Season all of my cast iron skillets
• Start the quilt for Charlie
• Buy a new couch
• Fix money-pit car one more time.....
• Design and create a height chart for Charlotte
• Shampoo carpets
• Organize walk in closet
• Build a poker table
• Build a bar from a travel trunk

I'm sure this list will grow, just as fast as it shrinks. Talk crap if you don't see any crossed off soon. Maybe some good ole' fashioned bullying will do the trick......