attention shop owners!

You must check out Remodelaholic!

 She's kind enough to offer Etsy shop owners and the like, post about their shop!

my shop is blooming

I just recently listed some new fabric flower pins/corsages and I'm so excited about them!

I LOVE the way this one turned out...it's made of a muted blush-y,

almost peachy pink chiffon fabric.

I listed it without a pin or clip, that way you could tell me what you want

or add your own!

look how cute it would look on a multiple chain/pearl necklace!

I can't tell you how much I love this fabric, I think I'll go buy the rest of the bolt!

I also listed a multi-textured black flower with a pin back. I used satin, tulle,

and pieces of a mohair sweater!

~like how I made my daughter be my model?!~

It will be fab for this fall/winter with the sweater-y texture...

and super cute on a long strand of beads as well!

go on, get them for a gift...or for yourself :)

vacation fun with Mickey

I'm getting back into the swing of things after our two-week long trip to sunny Florida and our first time to Walt Disney World! We had the BEST time and I'm so thankful we got to go and spend that time together and make lots of new memories. We've been back for about three weeks and the girls are still talking about it!

Our first stop was Pensacola. We go there every year, but this time was a bit different seeing all of these down at the public beach parking area.

We didn't see any oil blobs at all and the beach was as beautiful as ever....

Our girls love the beach!

We loved Minnie!

Disney World was wonderful and it was so fun for me as a mom to see how magical it was for them. Even my 12-year-old!

They took this in Magic Kingdom while waiting for the fireworks to begin.

Can you tell it was like a sauna?? It was SO hot, I've never experienced humidity like that,

even in New Orleans in August!

Our last day at the parks!

Then we went to Crystal River and did some scuba diving/snorkeling!

Millie snorkeling!

Allie and I scuba diving!

Daddy/daughter diving!

When we started the long drive back to Oklahoma, we decided we'd go through Memphis,

do some sight-seeing there and of course, have some delicious bar-b-que!

The first thing we did was go here...

to the National Civil Rights Museum where Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed.

It was very interesting and extremely moving...

We saw the famous Beale Street...

Jeff and I'd like to go back there and hang out...sans children!

When I saw an ad for this

I had to make the family go see it because I LOVE old cemeteries!

This is the Elmwood Cemetery and has veterans from even the Revolutionary War buried there.

It was beautiful...

I just wanted to share a bit of our wonderful vacation. I just love spending time with these

people I live with :)

Since being back, I finished a little something that I'd started on. I made Allie be my model :)

I used some pieces of vintage jewelry, fabric flowers that I made and seam binding for the tie.

I had though that I would use more of the pieces of jewelry I had, along the chain but I couldn't figure

out a way that I liked it so I left it like this. What do you think?

new shop item & a project

  I listed these in my shop! Sooo cute with jeans and a tee!

they make a great gift too!

I've been playing with a new project using this stuff....

care to guess what I'm doing with it?

fun new linky party!

One of the coolest blogs I follow is trying out a new linky party! Remodelaholic is allowing those of us with Etsy shops to post a link to our shops for free! This is REALLY helpful to gain more exposure and free publicity! Plus, it's a great way to find other shops that you may not have known existed. So if you have a shop, get on over there and list it! Grab one of these cute buttons too!

vintage spoons tea-towel

I just listed my new vintage spoons tea-towel in my Etsy shop!

I just love the vintage image of the spoons! So cute for the kitchen!

the French Psalm pillow...

is now added to my shop and I've already sold one and shipped it off to it's new home today! I can do a different verse or saying. I love how the words look old, like an old French feedsack cloth that's been around forever.

peonie love

My first few blooms of the season....

needed a special place to go. So here's a little project I did today and I wish I'd taken a before. I got this adorable bucket at the thrift store a long time ago for like $2 on half-price day. It was a gross, ugly black but I knew I could give it some love and find somewhere to put it. I primed it well with metal primer and tried out the cheaper spray paint they sell at Wal-mart. It's a minty-greeney-blue color and for this project it worked great! After the paint dried I antiqued it and sanded it in a few small spots.

I tore a little strip of muslin to fray the edges and stamped it with a writing/script stamp all along in it then a little birdie stamp at the end and tied it on for a cute touch.

to put the peonies in I stuck in a ziploc bag which sprung a leak, I'm assuming from the rocks I put in the bucket to keep it from blowing around so much in this Oklahoma wind. Plan B was an old plastic gas station cup that I squished in but it showed through the cut-outs so then I put a small square of burlap along the inside to keep it from showing. Sounds kind of like "If you give a mouse a cookie...."!

The plus side of the wind combined with the oh-so-lovely smell of my peonies, means that every time I walk through my front door, I get a little whiff of heaven.

                                                                     I'm linking up to...

I'm joining in..

I'm joining in the Marketing Mondays over at the Trendy Treehouse! Every Monday it's a FREE way to promote your blog, shop, etc. and get to find out about other sites! That's so nice of her to do this!

I've been featured on Tip Junkie!

Wow! I'm so honored to have my dress tutorial featured on Tip Junkie (if you're not familiar with this site, you must go check it out NOW)! And especially with all the other amazing projects featured! That just made my day! 

Etsy shop finally up & running!

Ugh! I am such a blogging loser! I've just been super busy trying to get my Etsy shop up and running (along with homeschooling my girls, laundry, yada yada) but I finally have a couple things listed and am working on more. Here are the items I have listed so far!

and here are some I'm planning to list soon...

faux grain sack pillow with French Psalm (I plan to do custom ones with the verse of your choice)

calling cards

I was featured...

Wow! What an honor to have my book page wreath featured here!

Go check out this blog...she has a bunch of super cute ideas and I love it!