Christmas Eve

We took the girls down to Hyde Park to visit with Santa this afternoon. Both of them had no shyness with Old Saint Nick.

Early Explorers

On Monday we went to the December Early Explorers class at Bush Gardens. Haley learned all about animals in the winter and how they stay warm. She had hands on experience, petting a possum. We also were able to go visit the Clydesdale's and pet one of the larger horses 'on staff'. Afterwards, we went into the park and went on some rides and played with her friend Alexis.

We've been ELFed

This is hilarious! Check us out: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1160722136

Happy Holidays!

The holidays are heating up, or should I say cooling off, since today is the first day of cool weather that we have had in quite a while, so now it is starting to feel a little bit more like Christmas. Yay!
Mick worked hard on putting up our Christmas lights on the outside of the house and they look awesome! We used straight lined colored lights (instead of icicle lights as in years past) and we outlined the house roof and porch roof along with decorating the large and small palm trees in front. Oh ya, and I can't forget the large blowup Santa the adorns our front porch (Mick's favorite!)

December already!

OK, I'm not sure where the time went, but I've found myself unprepared to send out hand crafted Christmas cards, as I have done for so many years past. This year has been so hectic, I have decided to keep the Christmas cards simple. I still need to get photos of the girls in their Christmas outfits too!

Although I don't make daily (or even monthly) entries on our Blog page, I do try to keep the photo albums (see link to the left) up to date with photos of the girls, so we hope you enjoy viewing those.

I'm finally caught up on my orders for now (and a few birthday gifts for Haley's friends), so I'm taking off tonight and giving Janome a rest (that's my sewing/embroidery machine). It seems like as soon as September hits, we have a birthday party to attend almost every weekend, so with that in mind, I created a little birthday dress for Haley to wear (and also to sell on my site). Here she is modeling it:


Next, I am going to start building up an inventory of items that I will be selling at craft shows. I have one scheduled for November and will work to schedule additional ones before the holidays.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Not too much to update on... just doing a ton of projects. Oh ya, I did manage to start to organize a 'sewing studio' in our spare bedroom, which I'll share half with the girls for their playroom. This will allow me to 'clean up' the dining room, where my sewing machine rarely left. :) Here's a picture of where I am so far... I have a lot more organizing to do:

I'm not really sure how many people are actually visiting this blog space (gee, I need to figure out how to add a counter so I know if it is worth updating or not...)
I have been trying to keep our photo's updated, so you can always check those out on a regular basis... just click on the link to the left or here