Photo post we will chat tomarrow

A peak at our day! .....need sleep now...... i will elaborate later

Mardi Gras......

 Bad Mama won't let me eat the batteries...I'll show her

  I will eat the hot chocolate

                                                                          pretty pink flower

Birdie loves her new shoes, me too.

The duffel bag is not getting any attention.....

Vintage Wedding Dress Rehearsal

We had a short outing today. As that children learn what they are taught, mine have picked up my thrift store and garage sale addiction(yeah!),they requested that we go to Goodwill(not my favorite but it will do).  We rescued a child size lawn chair, purple puppy, roll up toiletry bag, and this simply wonderful  vintage(70's) wedding dress.

  Just before she asked me if she could try the gown on i  had forced up the nerve to begin deconstructing this little piece of history but it turns out that won't be happening any time soon.

  Just yesterday i caught myself staring at her wondering where my little dressed up Cinderella has gone, and now if but for just a moment she has returned. Those beautiful flower brooches that have been making themselves in my mind will have to stay in there just a little while longer. I rather enjoy Cinderellas company perhaps i will even get her to have a tea party. A mother can dream.

Winter Flowers are All Sewn Up

So, back to crafting.
   I have been trying out several different was to create flower brooch/clippies.  My goal is to fill my etsy shop with these lovely blooms and post a tutorial so those of you who are feeling crafty can give it a go.  As I was trying to get the tutorial together i realized that my lighting is so bad that the pictures (can't have a tutorial with out pics) were not exactly clear.  So with any luck, perhaps next week, i will make a few more and photograph them during the day when my lighting is better.  Here are a few examples of what i have been doing.

These are three different sizes each with different fabrics, i can't seam to pic a favorite, each has something different to offer but I did enjoy working with the chiffon(1st photo). I was excited to dip into my ostrich feather stash, i am going to have to hunt down some more.My girls are begging for the pink one but i think i will put it for sale in my etsy shop. Perhaps they will get lucky and it won't sale

I have also gone back to work on the duffel bag.  I will not let this project get the best of me. I will Finish it before i start anything else and i am just itching to attack my Anne Marie Horner fabric.
If your interested just click on her name to view her blog and check out what she has to offer. I revieved her book "Seams to Me" for Christmas-Thanks Mom! Its beautiful and informative.

This last part of my post is dedicated to my husband. It seams that my craftyness is rubbing off on him.

   In our home we have a bag/ purse problem (go figure) we all LOVE bags including my husband.  The problem is storage. But my man has a solution (as he does for most things).

  A few left over pieces of wood, a few coat hooks, a few cup hooks, a little paint, and POOF we have a purse holder / belt / scarf holder.

   I know that its hard to tell for the pictures but we placed this on the back wall of Birdies closet.  Scarfs and hats hang on the large hooks at the bottom and all those purses she loves so dearly, well ,she gets to keep them.
Next week it Lou-Lous turn.