Audrey and Pippin

When I was young I desperately wished for my own pet fawn,

well to be honest I wanted a pet everything, but especially a sweet baby deer.

I have always loved pictures of Audrey Hepburn with her pet deer Pippin, and have had

great plans to create something using them as inspiration.

So when I heard about spoonflower's doll panel theme, I couldn't help myself.

Please vote for my design HERE

I ordered a yard of it that will be arriving any day, so I will post photos of

the finished dolls and deer soon.

xoxo

Spoonflower finalist! Please Vote!

My design made it into the final stage of voting... please come vote for me!

The design is titled tree2, the place for voting is HERE.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love spoonflower? Well I do, where else can you design and print your own fabric in whatever quantity you want and have it in hand in about a week? And now we can buy fabric from other spoonflower members! If you don't have an account, it is quick and painless to set one up. So what are you waiting for?

Here are my designs I received yesterday, I am so happy with them!

Now I better get busy sewing them into something! Maybe after costume season is over.

Harvest time & Vote for my fabric design...please

It seems the cold weather sneaks up on me every autumn. It snuck up on my pumpkins too, most of them didn't have a chance to turn orange. My 9 year old says they will make great

jack-o-witches!

This is the first time I have entered a fabric design in one of spoonflower's contests.

The theme is "numbers", this little owlie tree is what I came up with.

If you like it, please vote for my design here. My design is number 33.

I hope you are all enjoying the change of the seasons, I am so excited for Halloween, candy and COSTUMES!!!

Oh Deer

Here are the swatches of my darling deer fabric printed at the fabulous spoonflower.

Deery creations coming soon!

Summer Snippets

We have been busy bees this summer!

Due to my lack of multi-tasking skills, I have been a lousy blogger lately,

but we have enjoyed many a warm and sunny day.

With all our traveling and crazy projects, my favorite days of the summer were the ones I stayed home, didn't put my shoes on all day, and sat in my lawn chair watching the kids play in the sprinklers. Remind me to simplify my life in time for next summer! I am a little sad that summer is over, but I do love autumn with the cooler weather, Halloween, and harvest time.

Recognize this?

Lovely Zinnia seeds courtesy of Zinnikki. Thank you!

Banana Cream, mmmmm!

A bunch of cute kids.

Sarah and Shaun's wedding cake and fab enertainment. (I'm the one with the black afro)

I hope you all had a great summer!

I'd love to hear about your favorite summer days!

Time for Lunch!

School has begun, and so has the taunting, ridicule, and such.

I have been made aware by my 4th grade daughter that disney princess lunch bags are no longer considered cool. That's not the main reason I replaced her lunch bag, after 3 years of use, it smelled strongly of moldy peanut butter and banana peels.

Here is last night's project, and it was all worth it when I heard my daughter's squeals of delight this morning. The pattern needs some fine tuning, but I like how it turned out, and she can fit enough lunch for an army inside!

Speaking of mold and taunting, I stumbled upon these lovely lunch bags.

I never had any problems with bullies trying to steal my lunch, but these sure would have come in handy when I had something so yummy I didn't want to share.

Anti Theft Lunch Bags

Giveaway

Enter in fun giveaways at the DRESS-UP DRAWER. There are some great items featured including my Oliver Owl Pattern and a choice of a print from my shop.

The Float

Here are some pics of the float I designed for the Pioneer Day parade on July 24th.

Have you ever made a 6 ft tall paper mache bulldog? If you are planning to, please contact me and I will talk you out of it! I don't know what I was thinking, but I do like the way the school house turned out! I was awake for 58 hours straight, probably lost a year of my life, but boy was it worth it! A big thank you to all my wonderful helpers!

Away we fly!

Actually we are driving... for fourteen hours.

I am so excited to go to Oregon and see my sweet little sissy!

We will be gone till the 20th - my birthday - but as a farewell gift, here is a peek at my most recent painting. Hope to finish it as soon as we return.

Hugs and kisses!

Star

The Red White and Whew!

This is how I felt after the 4th of July! I was going a million directions at once, trying to keep my children alive while allowing them to have fun. Not an easy task for me.

We all had a lovely day, nobody got injured except Sophia almost drowned in a pie at the pie eating contest. Isaac thought the fireworks were "boofull", Isabelle was in sugar wonderland, and we all slept like rocks!