We had a new nephew show up a few nights ago (so proud of you Leah! and so looking forward to meeting the little guy!) and so yesterday I quickly pulled out the material that I had stashed to make his blanket. :) The blanket is brown minky on one side and a JoAnn’s print on the other. I used the Scallop Baby Blanket pattern from Bend-the-Rules Sewing (such a fun book – if you haven’t thumbed through it yet…
O worship the King, all glorious aboveO gratefully sing His wonderful loveOur Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise O tell of His might, O sing of His grace Whose robe is the light and canopy space His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form And dark is His path on the wings of the storm O measureless might, ineffable loveWhile angels delight to worship above Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the…
Right now I’m up to my elbows in wedding orders like this: and this: and I’m loving it.Filling all these orders for Spring weddings (plus being wife and mommy) is keeping me crazy busy right now, but I’m loving it. :) you can see more creative spaces over at kootoyoo :)
Today it’s official – Spring is here! The grass is getting greener, the buds on the trees are starting to swell and Easter is coming …… just thinking about it makes me happy! (and Peeps are back in the store, too :D)
John knows me so well, and he loves me. :)When we were packing up our apartment he knew that I would need my box of shoes nearby, no matter how long we were in limbo, so he labeled them as Very Important. I love you too, Darling. :D
I’m so sorry that this didn’t get posted until today, but we do have a winner for the CSN Stores giftcard giveaway! I used random.org to find our winner: <p>&amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; The numbers generated by this widget come from RANDOM.ORG’s true random number generator.&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;</p>There were 16 entries (a big thank you to all of you who shared the giveaway on facebook or your blogs). For some reason I can’t get the winning number to display, but it was…
Romantic Hearts Garland – white with a single red heart Have you been watching the updates on t.v. and online about Japan? Every time they show images of the devastation my heart goes out to the Japanese, wanting to do something more tangible than pray (even though I know that prayer does help). So, I decided to donate all the proceeds (that’s right, 100%) from my new garland – Romantic Hearts, white with a single red heart – to one…
Babies seem to be popping up all over this year (what joy!). It seems that every week I hear of someone else who is having a baby. :)Our family circle is adding two – John’s brothers are each having a boy. Emma and Ian are getting their first cousins this Spring! Of course, I have been itching to do some sewing for our new little nephews. :) One of the things that was on my “Ideas” page was this tutorial…