{"id":110,"date":"2006-11-13T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T14:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/mondays\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:09:41","slug":"mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/mondays\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually like Mondays.\u00a0 The house is always a disaster after a weekend with everyone (plus friends) around so Monday is usually spent picking up and catching up.\u00a0 The noise level is greatly reduced and Cole and I hang out while I catch up on emails and computer work while he watches SpongeBob, snuggled on the couch together.\u00a0 Wireless is a wonderful thing.<br \/>\nI hate the fact that I can&#8217;t update my website. Somewhere along the line I should have learned HTML, or perhaps I should have chosen a web host that was more user friendly.\u00a0 At any rate I have to wait for Andy to have time to do my updates.\u00a0 I have so many new ideas because the current website is not what I want it to be.\u00a0 I was hoping to at least have new fabrics up but Andy had work stuff and house stuff to work on and a long trip to Home Depot&#8230;.. \u00a0 Bear with me, changes are coming.<\/p>\n<p>On the house front, we have decided to stay put for now.\u00a0 We were both 50\/50 between the other house and our current house.\u00a0 I had an &#8220;ah-ha&#8221; moment the other evening when I was in the tub ( having my &#8220;5 minutes peace&#8221; &#8211; ever read that book?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a children&#8217;s book about a mama elephant that needs 5 minutes&#8230;.anyway) I was looking around the bathroom thinking of all the things that would need to be fixed before we put our house on the market.\u00a0 That bathroom hasn&#8217;t been touched in 40 years.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a serious timewarp.\u00a0 So as I thought about all the changes it needed I thought that once I got them all done, well I might actually like it.\u00a0 I decided that once I get my house fixed and if I still feel like moving we can revisit the idea again.\u00a0 When I think about the upgrades we have put into this house like a water treatment system, gutter system, new Pella windows, new roof- all things that cost a lot but were not very much fun- well I really don&#8217;t want to have to start all over.\u00a0 That Bungalow is very cool, but colonials aren&#8217;t so bad either.\u00a0 Besides, I have a friend who has threatened my life if I move even just a few streets over.\u00a0 Expect me to flip flop on the decision, I always do.<\/p>\n<p>I am excited about some new products that I will introduce early next year.\u00a0 Here is a sneak peek.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/295681765\/Elisalou_Pillows.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Elisalou Pillows\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/103\/295681765_6aa2732056.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am in love with this polka dot cord.\u00a0 It is so soft.\u00a0 It was supposed to go up over the weekend so look for it soon.\u00a0 It comes in brown\/blue and brown\/green.<\/p>\n<p>Andy set up a little photography studio for me in the basement and I have been playing around with it.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/295681762\/Elisalou_Sidekick_pouch.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Elisalou Sidekick pouch\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/107\/295681762_d3319f2e9f.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/295691888\/ELisalou_bags.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ELisalou bags\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/102\/295691888_163dc10ca4.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/295681750\/Elisalou_Sidekick_Pouch.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Elisalou Sidekick Pouch\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/108\/295681750_1f53ad0adc.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took the middle picture because I get a lot of questions about sizes.<\/p>\n<p>This pictures shows a large bucket, a boxy tote, and a lily.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to try to start posting more pictures of the bags here on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t those little flowers on the sidekick pouches cute??\u00a0 I just found those.<\/p>\n<p>Off to get out of my jammies, reheat my coffee and hit the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually like Mondays.\u00a0 The house is always a disaster after a weekend with everyone (plus friends) around so Monday is usually spent picking up and catching up.\u00a0 The noise level is greatly reduced and Cole and I hang out while I catch up on emails and computer work while he watches SpongeBob, snuggled on the couch together.\u00a0 Wireless is a wonderful thing. I hate the fact that I can&#8217;t update my website. Somewhere along the line I should have learned HTML, or perhaps I should have chosen a web host that was more user friendly.\u00a0 At any rate I have to wait for Andy to have time to do my updates.\u00a0 I have so many new ideas because the current website is not what I want it to be.\u00a0 I was hoping to at least have new fabrics up but Andy had work stuff and house stuff to work on and a long trip to Home Depot&#8230;.. \u00a0 Bear with me, changes are coming. On the house front, we have decided to stay put for now.\u00a0 We were both 50\/50 between the other house and our current house.\u00a0 I had an &#8220;ah-ha&#8221; moment the other evening when I was in the tub ( having my &#8220;5 minutes peace&#8221; &#8211; ever read that book?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a children&#8217;s book about a mama elephant that needs 5 minutes&#8230;.anyway) I was looking around the bathroom thinking of all the things that would need to be fixed before we put our house on the market.\u00a0 That bathroom hasn&#8217;t been touched in 40 years.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a serious timewarp.\u00a0 So as I thought about all the changes it needed I thought that once I got them all done, well I might actually like it.\u00a0 I decided that once I get my house fixed and if I still feel like moving we can revisit the idea again.\u00a0 When I think about the upgrades we have put into this house like a water treatment system, gutter system, new Pella windows, new roof- all things that cost a lot but were not very much fun- well I really don&#8217;t want to have to start all over.\u00a0 That Bungalow is very cool, but colonials aren&#8217;t so bad either.\u00a0 Besides, I have a friend who has threatened my life if I move even just a few streets over.\u00a0 Expect me to flip flop on the decision, I always do. I am excited about some new products that I will introduce early next year.\u00a0 Here is a sneak peek. I am in love with this polka dot cord.\u00a0 It is so soft.\u00a0 It was supposed to go up over the weekend so look for it soon.\u00a0 It comes in brown\/blue and brown\/green. Andy set up a little photography studio for me in the basement and I have been playing around with it. I took the middle picture because I get a lot of questions about sizes. This pictures shows a large bucket, a boxy tote, and a lily. I am going to try to start posting more pictures of the bags here on the blog. Aren&#8217;t those little flowers on the sidekick pouches cute??\u00a0 I just found those. Off to get out of my jammies, reheat my coffee and hit the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20841,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/20841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}