cards

I just wanted to share these cards that I just made and will be listing in my shop hopefully tonight. I am having such fun with them but unfortunately ran out of time due to football practice. Oh how I wish they had outlets at football fields!

The Newest Rage in Window Treatments!

I was going through some photos and forgot that I had taken this picture on our way into Manhattan one day during the summer. Looks like they even added a tieback to the front window!

Now don't you all start rummaging through your stashes of pretty fabrics and trims! ;)

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!

Today is my sweet nieces 1st Birthday!!!!! The party isn't until Sunday but in the meantime I wanted to share some of the favors that I made. We weren't sure about a theme until my sister-in-law showed me her pretty pink dress. She added a brown and white polka dot sash to it and that got us going on a pink and brown theme. I made these nut cups and filled them with these...

My pal Ellen had these cards in her Etsy shop and I fell in love with them because the little girl in the picture resembles Natalia!
I also just went up into my attic and unpacked this little child's mug. My Aunt gave it to me when I was little and now I am passing it on to my niece.
Now I'm off to see my sweet girl and bring her some birthday flowers (even though I know she doesn't have a clue!).

The last day...

In about 3 hours I will be taking this little guy to his Kindergarten orientation. At this time tomorrow I will be waking him up to go to his first day of school....my first day of being all alone in 9 years! I was never one to rush my kids back off to school during vacations, but by the end of this one, I was done, they were done...we were all done!!! It's officially time to get back to some sort of schedule and routine. But this morning I woke up feeling incredibly guilty. Did I yell too much? Did I do enough with them? Will they remember this summer vacation with fond memories? As exciting it is to get a piece of myself back, I am afraid it's all gone just way too fast! I thought I had so much time before the day came that all three of them would be in school all day... and now it's here. The house is going to be so quiet. Even though when 3:30 comes around it will be complete chaos...it's just going to be so darn quiet all day.

Well, before I zap out the keyboard with my tears, I thought I would share some pictures of where we spent most of our summer vacation...my backyard!

millinery

I am on an organizing kick right now. Whenever we are approaching a big change in our lives (in our house anyway) I go into an organizing frenzy and right now it's "before the kids go back to school, let's get organized!" frenzy. I get like this around the holidays too! The boys all go to school in just under two weeks and I have to get closets, etc. organized or I just don't feel right. I am not lucky enough to have a studio or really anywhere to keep all my crafting supplies so it's stored in different areas of the house. I never really see it all at one time. Well tonight I came across all of my millinery flowers at one time and it's officially out of hand. I didn't realize just how much of it I had. I also have tons of lace and I don't know why because I don't like lace! I know some of you are gasping right about now. I wish I knew why it bothers me so but it just does and in the meantime I've accumulated lots of it. I've starting listing some really pretty pink millinery in my store tonight. I have lots more and am hoping to get some more put together in some packs maybe by tomorrow night.
So if you are looking for some millinery....you know where I'll be!

Jackpot!!!!

I had to take my youngest to football orientation this morning and on the way home stopped at a barn sale near my house. It an okay sale that I remembered going to last summer and nothing appealed to me much except for some ironstone pieces that were just way out of my budget. Well one year later the piece that I wanted and couldn't afford was there...again, but this time marked down to $15!!!!!!! This tureen is huge too and ohhh the details!!!!! I know that I am probably boring you all with my ironstone posts but it is my most favorite collection and when I find a piece, such as this, I have to tell the world!!!! This little cutie my aunt gave me a few months ago. I assume it's either a child's piece or a salesman's sample.

This is definitely a child's piece!!!!One big happy ironstone family!!!!I also wanted to share with you what Cari from CariKraft made for me. When I saw it I fell in love with it. Something about it just reminded me of me and my husband!
I think maybe it was the saying because I still love holding hands with him...

...and plan to for the next 50 years...at least!
Thanks Cari!!!

e-stationery

Have you ever seen this before? It is e-stationery from a website called Iomoi. They have some of the prettiest e-stationery I've ever seen!!!! There is a membership fee but, there are a few free ones to choose from. Check it out...