A Crafty Bee Named Gee

April of 2012 I quit my job at McDonald's.  I worked for McDonald's for 26 and a half years, starting when I was 16!  Craziness, I know.  It's definitely not for everyone but it was always there for me through high school, cheerleading, college and after.  I didn't know what I wanted to do even when I was in college, so I did what I was good at.  McDonald's.  I was so excited to be a stay at home mom.  For a while.  Then I started getting restless!  No surprise for me considering at McDonald's I was always running and always had things to do.  During my time at home, my husband and I visited his aunt and uncle in Georgia.  It was there I saw what I wanted to do.  They do direct-to-garment printing, machine embroidery and heat press vinyl.  They had a SERIOUS craft room.  So, I got started and planned on doing all of this from home myself.  But then, I saw the cutest retail location in the little town of Fe...

Hi!  Today's post has been brought to you courtesy of my little man!  Yesterday morning my children were brushing their teeth and were arguing about who could stand on the stool that allows them to reach the sink.  My cousin gave the stool to me and daughter as a baby shower gift.  It was the best gift because over 5 years later, it is a gift we still use!  She hand-painted it and put my daughter's name on it.  We use it to brush teeth and my babies (they're 5 and 4 and I still call them that. not sure why.) like to use it to help prep and cook in the kitchen and those sneaky stinkers also use it to reach snacks on the high shelves in the pantry!  Now that they are getting bigger they both can't fit on it and it got ugly today.  To fix the problem, I promised my son that after preschool we would buy him one and he would be able to decorate it any way he wanted.  That made him happy.  We went to Michael's (one of my favorite sto...