Who I Am

So now that I have this blog, I soon hope to have some visitors to it and I am sure if someone is curious enough to check out my blog, than I am sure they will want to know a little bit about me.  Hmmmm, I sure do hope I am interesting enough to gain a following!!


I may have mentioned this already but I tend to repeat myself a bunch...My name is Mona, short for Ramona. Born and Raised in...cue music>>illladel~Val Pennsy, thats my residency!!<< Sorry if you are not familiar with the lyrical stylings of The Roots that would be Philadelphia, PA.  You may find me breaking out in song mid sentence to really get my point across, i guess because i am typing it though I will always say cue music>> !  Ok, so now that we have established the fact that I am a big DORK, please don't swear me off!! I am the coolest dork you will ever meet!  I have been married to my hubby for close to six years now, we celebrate our anniversary in a couple weeks on May 20 but we have been together for just about forever now and as much as he annoys me I love him.  He is my best friend and we have been through it all.  We have two beautiful girls, Julia Morgan age 9 and Olivia Grace age 5.  They are the lights of my life and they amaze me more and more each day.  Nothing can compete with a Mothers love for her kids!  My life pretty much revolves around my girls and their activities.  I spend much of my day in the car driving them to and from wherever they need to go.  I used to have a job, I have two degrees, but I stopped working about six years ago to raise my kids and when I wanted to go back to work, I got a big reality check because there are no jobs out there and nobody wanted to hire me.  This was not a good thing because we are not rich, and money is tight.  All of that is kind of how I ended up here with my own blog...

I recently discovered my passion for creating and crafting and I feel like I am on to something.  I started with wreaths and random d.i.y. holiday home decor ideas because I could no longer afford to buy all the things I wanted like wreaths.  Once I started reallly looking at theses items I realized I could probably make my own stuff but make it a lot nicer so i got to work.  People like my stuff.  My big thing was Easter egg Wreaths that I made...I sold 4 of them and if I had prepared myself better I probably could have sold more.  My new idea that i have been trying to put out there are personalized name signs.  I hope that I can use this blog as a way to interact with people who share my interests, exchange ideas and tips with those people and also make it a place where I can showcase my crafts and designs for sale! 

Another Wonderful Mothers Day Is Coming To An End!

So today is Mothers Day and this year I decided to take on the biggest craft project I have ever done in my short history as a Craftaholic!  I admit, at times I was not sure I was going to be able to pull it off but I did and very successfully, at that!!!  You must be on the edge of your seat wondering what it could possibly be...

Wreaths, Glorious Wreaths is what I am talking about, beautiful floral wreaths made by me for each of the wonderful Moms in my family that I celebrate Mothers Day with each year.  That would be nine amazing ladies by the way...and no I was not blessed with nine moms(haha), there is my sister, aunts, grandmom!! It has become tradition that we exchange gifts and they are usually personal and creative with the exception of my gifts which were always the generic store bought whatever, and I never got the ooohs and ahhs that everyone else around the table did.  That ended today when I proudly handed out nine plain brown bags and waited for some reactions.  I was ecstatic when I saw how much everyone loved them, it actually took me a while to convince some of them that I did not buy the wreaths at the store and add my own tags that said "made with love by ramona" but instead really did make them with love all by myself.    Check them out:

I am so mad I still have not gotten a chance to work on my blog!