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About Me


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Hmm. Time for an update, I guess. I just moved to Portsmouth, VA with my husband (Stephen), daughter (Eliza) and dog (Monster) into a house that will soon ALSO house my mom and my brother (when he's home from college). It'll be an adventure!
We have a huge public park/playground four blocks away in one direction and the Elizabeth River five blocks away in the other. I can hear both trains and boat whistles at night. We live in a neighborhood that Stephen and I refer to as Oregon Hill East, which is something that I love. I'm so relieved to have moved back to a working class neighborhood.
I spend my days making websites , making clothes , listening to music , playing with my best girl, and laughing with my best guy. I've got a big, new office that opens onto the living room that's about to be outfitted with a bunch of new work furniture, a brand new, super amazing serger, a BEAUTIFUL new iMac (all the better for coding with, my dear) and best of all, a oversize chaise lounger perfect for snuggling up with baby girls and reading books when I should be working. We have a huge front porch with wide steps and wicker furniture (porch swing coming soon). We have a big back deck with a table that seats eight and a second-hand Little Tikes playground set in the backyard. So we're all set for lemonade and chatting up front and dinner and playing out back.
Basically, I actually have a CAREER (scary word that I thought I'd never use for myself) making beautiful websites for women in business for themselves (like me!), get paid to design rockin' clothes for tots, get to take my daughter to the park every day if I want, get to live in my dream house with three generations of family and get to rest my head beside my best friend every night.
Life's pretty damn good.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I love chatting with other crafty mommas whenever I have a quiet minute (hardly ever). Please meet most of these requirements: liking dogs, music (all kinds), dry humor, compassion, tattoos, playgrounds, having fun doing nothing and peanut butter & jellies; tolerating the fact that I love drinking when I'm able, diversity, and "radical leftist propaganda" as my dad puts it; and lastly, not liking reggae (spell it right, hippies), drama, and G.W. Bush. Okay, so the reggae thing isn't a deal breaker, but the GW thing pretty much is. You get the idea.

I'd be REALLY stoked to meet more punk rock/progressive/whatever parents or parents-to-be as my husband and I aren't really the neighborhood association types. We only know one couple in Hampton Roads, so we'd love to meet new people here.

BUT!!! If I don't already know you and we haven't even talked/emailed/messaged, I will not add you as a friend....because I don't know you. So how can you be my friend?

My Blog

Quarter (?) life crisis.

So I'm going through what I guess is my quarter life crisis (although please god don't let me live to 90-ish). If I had it my way, I think what I'd do right now is sell the house, sell most of our st...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:03:00 GMT

Compare and contrast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGfJZvkThQM So here's Mya's version of the Peanut Butter Stomp (care of Yo Gabba Gabba, the only children's show that's target market is really hipster parents)...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:51:00 GMT

Videos!

We got a sweet new digital camera for Xmas and finally got Eliza to let me take some videos of her. At first she wasn't into it and then she didn't want to stop! She's such a ham. Anyway, posted a ...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:47:00 GMT

I'm so bad at this.

Okay, I'm really going to try to be better about this MySpace blog thing.  I'm so freakin' busy that it's almost impossible, but I'll try!!In case you haven't heard, I finally got Cherry Mom...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:15:00 GMT

Anyone want to get paid to go to a hot rod show?

I'm a vendor at the Street Rod Nationals East in York, PA this weekend coming up and I need a booth helper. My friend that was going to do it had a death in the family and can't come now. I'd pick you...
Posted by on Sun, 28 May 2006 17:54:00 GMT

New skates!!

Yay!  I'm getting ready to order my new skates and I'm so freakin' excited.  EVERYONE needs to go to www.lowpriceskates.com!  I'm a big comparision shopper and they have the best prices...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:24:00 GMT

News and whatnot

Man, I am so slack about this blog stuff!  Don't feel bad, I'm not any better at keeping my business blog updated.  So it's not just you, I'm just lazy and forgetful. I just realized that I ...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:45:00 GMT

Check out this event: Richmond Craft Mafia's Handmade Holiday Trunk Show

Please come check out the Richmond Craft Mafia's premier event, the Handmade Holiday Trunk Show! Hosted By: Leila WylieWhen: Friday Dec 09, 2005 at 6:00 PMWhere: Bainbridge Art Center1312 Bainbridg...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:35:00 GMT

I'm sorry I've been away.

I had a great, long update and it's lost now.  I'm so mad.  I guess you don't get to know about my life now.  Sorry.     Leila
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:11:00 GMT

Music and MySpace. Why?

I can't begin to tell you how much I HATE when people have music/videos that play music on their MySpace page. The main time I get to look at MySpace is when Eliza is sleeping. Since the computer is...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:08:00 GMT