Hope you had a Merry Christmas!

Sanat Video

http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/d8c5da803c660908e7aaaa64a24d4d5c

367 Days Ago ...

367 days ago this little bundle of fur became part of our famlly. Above is Biscuit's Time To Rise @ 7 weeks old. We had no idea how she would truly change our lives in the course of a year ... even poor little fuzzy asst.{Molly II}, who isn't fond of her at all.

Now here is our sweet baby - 14 months old! She is  good dog - a little high strung at times, but starting to come into her own the older she gets. She actually slept in the bed with me and the huster last night for the first time ever! {I think we have turned a corner - FINALLY!}

I just wanted to also share a few things she has been up to this summer and fall.

ENJOY!

 She has been redesigning the uses of our trampoline! The plastic and foam guard must taste some kind of good?

She has dug us our own private lake in the backyard! How lucky are we? Anyone care for a dip?

She has even take to redecorating and resigning the patio. How creative is she? She must not have liked the orginal design of my sweet chairs that I cherished because this is what has happened to them at the end of the summer. Wonder if she was teething? {Thankfully they are about 14 years old.}

But we love her reguardless!

Merry Christmas to Biscuit and to all a good chew toy!

Happy Monday

Don't forget to head to Project 320 Blog and get your virtual ticket this week. Only $10 a ticket and the money goes to build a well for clean water.

Wouldn't you want your children to drink clean water  or have clean water to take a bath in? Help save someone else's child with only $10.

PROJECT 320

Take a few moments to click on the link and learn more about Project 320. Some of my amazing crafty blog land mommas have come up with this wonderful project ! The reason for the season!!! Give and you shall receive!!

Let's celebrate Christmas,

support handmade,

and give LIFE

PROJECT  320

  

CYBER MONDAY!!

Cyber Monday starts tomorrow!!!!!! 

A fabulous place to start is right here at Ucreate. Kari {a fabulously sweet as pie crafty lady} has created a Holiday Boutique for us to shop at. She has gathered together lots of crafty ladies, put them all in one place and created  a CYBER BOUTIQUE!!! The Boutique will run Nov. 30th - Dec. 7th. There will be lots of special deals only for people who travel over to the Boutique and use the special codes for these offers. So make sure to click your way over there starting at 12:01am and see what special deals you come across to make your holiday and extra special handmade one this year!

Pop It - Lock It - Polka Dot It!

I just wanted to share with you all a great blog run by a fabulous lady named Sally! She runs an amazing blog called The Polka Dot Mom and also a blog named Polka Dot Birthday an has an awesome website and Etsy Shop! She is all over the place! {I am not sure how she does it all!}
 
"We feature fun and friendly moms in business who create handmade polka dot products. Find projects, recipes, business tips, giveaways, gift ideas and special coupons too." So pop it ,  lock it  and polka dot it over to the Polka Dot Mom for awesome information about amazing other Mom's that are helping make the world a better place with handmade goodies for you and the kiddies. You'll find links to her store and other blogs as well.  You won't be sorry!

Come join the fun!

Too Cute To Spook

Hope everyone had a great and spooktacular Halloween!!! Ours was a quick dress up and we went to see the grandparents and 2 friends as our little wizard has pnueomnia!  So not much tricks were happening, but she was happy she got to wear her costume .. especially the dangle peace sign earrings I made her .. which is all that mattered! Plently of reats were received despite the fact ... now we are working on getting better! {Hopefully a good report tomorrow!}

Quilt A Long Lodo Style

This summer I found several blogs that were doing quilt a longs ... so I started getting jealous .. first when I saw all the amazing fabrics everyone was gathering at their houses.

Old Red Barn.....I think got the ball rolling .... but Julie at Joy's Hope told me about the barn and I also found out that Crystal at Little Bit Funky was playing with the quilt a long. I have fallen head over heels with the quilts that Julie & Crystal have both made ... so I called Lodo up and told her all about it .... sent her the links .... and we started to collecting the fabrics ... or at least I did.
This past weekend Lodo showed up at my house for the weekend with her kiddos. I thought we were going to start our quilts together ... but she had other plans. She only brought herself and was ready to work. She cut all my fabrics and helped me pair it all up and got it ready .... {I was working on birthday gifts and party dresses} She got the hardest part {to me} all done. She even sewed up half of the strips .. told me the rest was up to me.

So now Lodo has to decide what fabric she wants to use ... she just can't decide .. luckily she has a few months before I can get to her house .... because when I go it will be my turn to cut her fabric and help her pair hers up and get it started.

We said we wanted to do this together and we did and are!

I can hardly believe all that she did for me ... thank you Lodo ... YOU ARE THE BESTEST !!!

Fall For Fall @ Blue Cricket

Halloween Tree

Start with a little of this!

Spray on a little of that!

Slap on some ribbon & add a few treat bags

and Hocus Pocus the spell is complete!

Frugal Mommy of 2 Girls Giveaway

Surf over there and see what is being given away!!! Right now it is Mary Martha & Co. Halloween Notecards!!! Enter there to win through Oct 4th!!

Tissue Box Cover

Check out my newest of the new!!! Isn't it cute? I am so in love with this new project!!! I am going to start carrying them in my shop as well. What a great gift and easy to mail .. simply fold and address the envelop! All for a whopping $8!!!!!
{monogram additional charge of $5}

So surf over to Mary Martha & Co. on Etsy or email me! We can search through all my fabrics and find something perfect for your home!
{some fabrics listed on site .. if you don"t see what you want ... we can try to find it for you!}

NEW Preppy Colored Notepads

Check out these great new notepads I just designed for a customer.

She was looking for a "preppy" colored pad with her families name on it.

Surf over to the shop and order one for yourself or email me.

Offered as a single pad $7.50 or 2 for $15 ... 5.5" x 8.5" with approx 75 sheets per pad.

OR
Get the "skinny" version in 3.75" x 8.5" size for $5 with approx. 50 sheets or a set of 3 "skinnies" for $15.

What a great stocking stuffer, something for the teacher, sister or you!!!

Start shopping now for Christmas ... only 107 days left .... which won't last long as we all know!

Paisley

Had to share this sweet picture of Paisley that Carol Hedspeth took of her!
I love it even more that the picture is of her in the bucket that I made her and stuffed with goodies. I am so touched that Michelle took it with her for pictures and so tickled that Carol posted the picture on her blog!

Thanks ladies!!!!

Blue Cricket Design Blog

I just wanted to share this cute blog I just stumbled upon .... Blue Cricket Design!

I am addicted to surfing from one craft blog to the next. I can't help myself .... I do that almost as much as I stitch and breathe. I have several that I hit daily to see what is happening in their little crafty and kiddo filled days.

I stopped here tonight before dinner and thought I would share. Surf over and check out all of Becca's cute ideas and things she has crafted up!!

{I think Becca might just be added to my daily stop by!}

I will never be lonely again!

I will never be lonely again .... me lonely .. yes ... school is back in session and yes I have tons to do , but the house is quiet {even with the assistant here} I have not adjusted to my "time alone."

Normally I would crank up the the ipod and get to work, but even that doesn't seem to be enough these days.

I have been wanting for some time to add a TV for a little company to my crafty room ... ha!!! We another TV in the house like a hole in the head. SO last week I rearranged the crafty room and whole setup because I though we were getting new cable. {That's another story that has now ended after an 8 week wait on the cable company!!!}

So I was going to steal the TV and DVD Player out of the play room {that no one uses .. just stores all the toys!} Since the cable didn't pan out this a.m. I decided to go ahead and steal from the playroom anyhow .. DVD Player and all!!!

Now I am all set up with my stack of favorite movies to listen to and every so often peek at while working! {YEAH ME!}


Thanks Cinderella !

{Did I forget to mention that Patrick is in like half the movies in my stack?}

{I am sure Maddie will not be so happy once she realizes the move, but she hasn't watched the thing in weeks and now Mommy's "Hidey Hole" "is complete .... well would be if I could watch my soaps and sew at the same time!}

My Assistant

Meet my Assistant - Molly The Black Lab! She's not quite as cute as Julie's Assistant over at Joy's Hope, but she is amazingly cuddly and always agrees with whatever I have to say!

Yes, I said Black Lab - Maddie named her that! we watched her being born and the first words out of Maddie's mouth were "Look Momma, DC had a Black Lab!" Thanks to those sweet words of a then just turned 4 year old she instantly became ours! {Thanks Sally & Daddy}

Anyhow, Molly loves to sew or at least she thinks she does. Sometime I have to run her off to finish projects because she will come lay right in the middle of the sewing table or crawl up in my lap and want to stick her paws up at the running needles! She has even been known to crawl on top of the embroidery machine . {Who is named Daphne!}

Well, yesterday she was in full force ... but searching for a resting spot ... which ended up being inside the fabric cabinet ... even though Maddie had made her a little hidey hole under the table with her.

So what sort of silly things does your Asst. do for you?

Ahhhh! That's all I can say!

Look what I found from my little lady the other morning after she went to school. She left it on my "ORDERS" board in the sewing room.

What can I say? It makes my heart melt!!

TIE ME UP!!!!

I just wanna know if I can get away with wearing this to the next PTO Meeting at school?

I just stumbled upon this in an ETSY SHOP . The designs are think are killer - especially if you have this killer body to go with it - I don't - anymore!

I actually love this skirt and if I looked like that I JUST MIGHT try to pull it off and wear to the next meeting at school.

What do you think?

Sassy, huh?

Quilt Picture

I saw this over @ Joy's Hope after Julie finished her quilt.
{Which I am hoping to start soon} Anyhow, she has this adorable picture of her youngest on the quilt and then made this quilt style "picture frame"

So I tried it. I didn't use the awesome canvas like she did, but a cheaper option from Micheal's .. they had these bit foamy boards 2 for $3 .. so I thought I would try this and if I feel in love {which I have} I would go back for a large canvas and order the paper Julie had! {which I love}

So what do you think? The picture is not the best since I used my phone, but you get the picture.

First Day of 2nd Grade!

Happy first day of 2nd grade Maddie Paddie who looks like her Daddy!!! The fairies left her 2 pink flamingos in the front yard for her first day of school!

{silly fairies!}


As usual I drove her to school this morning to take a few pictures - of course!! What a crazy morning - mommies rushing to meet the bus to see their kiddos getting off and to take pictures!

{Secretly I go the 1st day to see all my friends too! Shh! I love seeing all the kiddies coming in as well and seeing how much they have all grown over the summer!}


Here she is getting down to business and wishing I would hurry up and leave!

{Yet she will pose for Courtney, but not me!!! Go figure!}


Finally home!

Here is Maddie's newest buddy { and neighbor} & little gal pal - Kayleigh! She just started
Prek 3 this year and they are 2 peas in a pod!

Happy first day girlies!!!