Creative Chaos: You have no idea how many titles this post had.....

You have no idea how many titles this post had.....

within a span of five minutes......

First it was "Don't Hate Me Because I Live in San Diego"......then it was "Holy Crap! I Just Lost All the Pictures I Took Yesterday When I Tried to Download Them. I Hate My Computer!" ..... then it was "Lady Luck is in the House! I Just Recovered Them! So Now You Can Hate Me Again!".......

Phew! That was a close one. When the pictures didn't come up I felt like a piece of history was erased. But here they are. And this is what we did all day yesterday.......

So all my midwestern friends, family and readers can all feel free to hate me right now as we spent the day at the beach. Although it wasn't exactly hot (it was probably somewhere in the range of 60 degrees with a chilly wind) it was warm enough to feel like summer is on its way. The water was COLD though. But that didn't stop some people from going in.....or slipping in as the case was for Carlos. Poor guy was trying to build a dam and then slipped and fell into the puddle of water. But, as all kids do, he managed to recover nicely and didn't seem to mind wearing wet jeans for the remainder of the day.

Andres preferred to stay dry and play with James in the sand......

And, cavort with the local squirrels who were looking for a snack.....

Yes, that is a woman in a bikini. I intentionally cropped that in.......

So much work to be done on the beach....so little time......

So on Saturday I did some "Spring Cleaning" at the Chaos household by tackling my extensive flower collection. Back in the day when I used to design and manufacture picture frames, I managed to build up quite a stash of flowers. They have been stored away in my garage/once my studio collecting dust. I decided that this was the day I was going to clean and organize all the flowers. While the kids were playing in the backyard, I took out almost all the boxes and went through all of them. I got inspired with some new ideas for them as well as decided that I will sell a bunch also.

Here's a small portion of my flowers looking all organized in their nice clean boxes.