The Phantom Moon

Happy Anniversary, Husband

10 years ago today I married my sweetheart and my other half.  No, not Duncan Sheik, Bill Nighy or Christopher Walken.  I married my darling husband who is snoring like a trucker beside me.  We live a charmed life for sure.  And he's the lucky fella who was woken just a few minutes ago out a sound sleep by a drive by tickling from yours truly.  What can I say, I get a little crazy at 2am.

Thank you darling for...

• Letting me sleep in late even though it's a bear trying to get me to wake up.
• Making me lunch / dinner when I can't make up my mind on what I want to eat.
• Playing video games so I can watch them like my very own movie (but cooler then a movie since I can interact - holla!).  And for not getting upset when I fall asleep halfway through your playing and ask you to re-do everything after I wake up.
• For playing Lego's with BB so I can catch up on work.  Or sleep.  Or whatever I'm watching on Netflix.
• For not getting angry when I forget to make you coffee, even after you've reminded me about 200x before that.
• For giving me a wonderful daughter who upon occasion makes me want to join a convent, or pull my hair out.
• For a wonderful 10 years that have been a blast.

Happy Anniversary, sweetie!  Here's to 100 more!!

Care package for baby

I'm a Great-Aunt.  Can you believe it?  I still feel so young, lol.  My niece, who lives in Louisiana, recently had her first daughter in July.  She's such a cute tiny thing and is turning out to be a fantastic mother.  Since we live so far away I decided to put together a little care package full of lovely handmade goodies to celebrate the birth of the adorable Giovanna.

I decided to make a few things for her.  The first thing I made was a reversible baby blanket.  I used some leftover pink fabric with cupcakes on it and some creamy flannel.  I changed up the stripping from the front to back to make it more interesting.

It came out so soft I almost didn't want to give it up!  Oh, and sorry for the horrid lighting but I had to package and send this baby out the very next day and had finished up this project at around midnight or so.  Back to the gift ... I stitched together a little puppy dog that I thought would go nicely with the blanket and be a cute lovey for the baby.  I'm still working out the kinks on a new stuffie design but I love how this little fella came out!

And of course I also included a Custom Name Embroidery Hoop.  I love making these in my shop and it was so rewarding to make one for family again.  I love how it came out!

After it was all said and done I packaged these goodies and they are now on their way to their new owner.  I can't wait for my niece to get it and hopefully send some pics my way of her sweet new bundle of joy.  Now let me get back to the sewing machine.  BB has decided she needs her own Puppy stuffie ...

The Day After

Or should I say several days after?  The Outdoor Craft Store was this past Saturday and it was amazing!  I'm so exhausted though from all of the late nights that led up to the show that I literally crashed (after having dinner of course) after the show on Saturday and am just starting to get my bearings today.  I had a blast though and it was the perfect first craft show.  I of course forgot my camera in the rush of all things but I did manage to take some pictures with my cell phone.

Here's one a quick picture of my booth before the show started.  I really love how it all came together that day and I found that actually setting up is a bit harder then I thought.  It's funny when you have all sorts of ideas in your head how you'd things to go and when it comes to putting things together like this, the most natural ways to do things just kind of evolve and it's okay to kind of do things organically instead of sticking to the plan.

And those gorgeous ladies in the photo?  They are my true soul mates, my Mom on the left and sister on the right.  I couldn't have done it without them!  Oh, and the awesome treats that they kept bringing back to the booth helped that day too, lol.

And take a look at this handsome muffin.  He made an appearance and had all of the women who stopped by the booth swooning over him!  And who wouldn't with that killer smile?  He's a keeper for sure!  At one point I walked around the show with him, you know - just the two of us, and commented more then once that I had "stolen" him from my sister.  Thinking about it today, I'm not sure that was the proper thing to say, ha!  But, I was also running on about an hour of sleep so some slips of the tongue were to be expected.

And look at the twins!  Their "Mom" was dutifully pushing them around like this for the entire show.  It was too cute so of course I had to run over and snap a pic of them while she was chatting it up with some fellow vendors.

It was definitely a great experience and I hope to do it again some day real soon!  And to give you all a heads up, any of the items not sold on the day of the show will be slowly making their way to my Etsy shop as I find time to photograph and list them.  Now if you will excuse me I'm going to continue my final day of rest before plowing through work again.  Hope you all had a great weekend as well!