Lily Thanksgiving morning all ready to go!

We celebrated Thanksgiving @ my sister house this year.
This is my Dad and my nephew Alex.

My Cousin D'Ann and her boyfriend Joseph.

Carissa in front of the tree her & her classmates help decorate.
Her decoration is at the top!

Dad & Mom with Santa.

Carissa & Gracie waiting for the fireworks and lights
to turn on at the Lighting of the Mission Inn.

Lights on!!

Duane, Lily and I

My brother with Sena and all the Kids.

The front of the Mission Inn.
We had a great thanksgiving week!!!

So my last post I mentioned I have gotten a little busy and my priorities have changed. I have added a few things to my plate but I still have been able to do a few sewing projects. Here are a few pictures of what I have made and what I have been doing.

Baby shower gift for my Friend Liz

Baby shower gift for Joy

I have been a little busy lately. I have not been sewing or crafting. I have had my priorities change a little. This quote has been pushing me to help more.

Christ has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which
Christ's compassion for the world is to look out;
yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;
and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.



Saint Teresa of Avila

God has been changing my focus.
Thinking a lot more about his people and How I can help.

This past week I got to make my friend Kimmy's son Evan's 1st birthday shirt. I thought I would do a step by step of the process.

This is the picture Kimmy found and asked me to make.

I start out with a plain t-shirt.

The cut out the shapes of the hat and circle.

Then I print out E's name and the birthday number,
for my patterns.

Here is the main part of the hat with #1.

Added a round top and bottom.

The hard part was cutting out his name.

I then iron them on with Heat bond.
(You can find t his at your local Jo-Ann's)

Almost done.

At the end I ironed on heat bond and cut the circle.

E's shirt all done!!

Baby Kyndell
5 days old.

Monogrammed onsie

2 matching burp clothes

Cotton blanket backed with fleece and mitered edges.

All of it together!!

I have found a new sewing technique. It's called shirring. I have been following a few new blogs . Some have tutorials that show you how to make some amazing projects. I've had so much fun making this dress. It was like I had learned how to sew all over again. You use a notion called elastic string. At first it seemed very hard. It ended up being very simple. Here area couple of pictures of the dress I made.

Carissa had been asking me to make her a shirt dress. We had bought this grey shirt months ago. We haven't had any ideas. So we put or ideas together and came out with this. Oh I should mention she loved modeling. She kept saying"wait one more." Which is why I posted so many.
I love my little chatter box.

This weekend Sandals Church had their annual Marriage Getaway. We had not planned on going due to financial reasons at the time of registration. Well Duane has worked hard and saved up some money in the last few months. So Thursday night I mention to him "lets sign up on the waiting list?" He responded with"What?" "No way, it's way to late it will never happen." So I came back with "You never know all she can say is no."
So I send an e-mail to sign up.
Well guess what Friday morning I get a call someone canceled.

We got to go!! Yeah!!

It was AMAZING!! Well it always is.
This was the view from our room.

Pastor Matt challenged us in so many ways. He had us look at our lives to see what we are treasuring.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21
Saturday he continued and led us into discovering what our true treasure is.
Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you 2 Timothy 1:14
I love the conversations his message stirred up in our groups and alone. To see other people and ourselves being so real and allowing God to move in us was great!

I am so looking forward to next year!

This weekend was our little friends
Audrey's 1st Birthday.

A few weeks ago I made her a special birthday shirt.
She looked so cute in it.
I also got make her a couple of pillow case dresses.
I can't wait see a picture or her & Minnie Mouse with this one on.

I love these frames! I got them at our yard sale we had a few weeks ago. Forgot to take a before picture. They were a gold color. They looked very tacky. But I knew they had potential. So I painted them white put some new pictures in them went a little scrapbook with them.. I also added the brown ribbon.

This weekend was so busy. It started Friday with me working on the bathroom. Doing a a partial remodel. I painted and changed out the old medicine cabinet. Spray painted light fixtures towel racks. I had fun. The color seemed very bright at first but I really love it.

Then Saturday started with Duane replacing our old toilet for a new one. Oh my gosh!! Tough work that alone took most of the day. I missed a birthday party. But made up by dropping off her gift yesturday after church.

Forgot to mention at church really good friends of ours James & Teresa offered me 2 tickets to the Jonas Brothers concert. So of course at 5:30 Carissa and I were off to L.A. It was fun and crazy. So much screaming. I'm looking forward to the day when me and my 2 girls can do that together. We had an amazing night and it was a great way to end a crazy busy weekend. I took a lot of pictures so enjoy them please!

Here are a few more close up pictures.

Found this shelf at a yard sale Saturday morning.

Painted it white and sanded it to make it look old.

Spray painted all my old brass fixtures a Hammered Silver.
The whole look feels a little beachy.