Love Is All Around

This weekend I have been working on three sweet skirts for three sweet girls. My own bug and bug's cousins Miss R and Miss C.

I wanted to do something nice for my girls for their upcoming Valentine's Day parties at school so I decided to make them all skirts. I love Valentine's Day because of all the pink and red, a few of my favorite colors.

My bug is in love with Olivia the pig and her Valentines for school are Olivia themed. I wanted to make her a skirt to wear to her party out of this amazing Olivia fabric that I found on etsy. I used the last of my black polka dot fabric for the ruffles and I think it was a nice touch. I love the way it turned out and later I am going to make her some hair bows to go with it.

For Miss R. I found this great Littlest Pet Shop fabric on clearance at Wal-Mart. Miss R. loves the pet shop pets and I love this fabric because it is pink with yellow hearts all over. I added a little green ruffle on it to give it some twirl power.

Last but not least I worked on this cupcake skirt for Miss C. I have had this fabric laying around for a year waiting for the right time to use it. I love how it came out and the polka dot ruffle completes it perfectly.

I love how they all came out and the girls loved them too. I like making original skirts like this because in a small town with limited options you always run into someone else who has what you have but these are one of a kind.

Also, I wanted to share with you all my mom's Valentine's Day tree. She picked up this little pink tree on clearance last Christmas and every holiday it is decorated to the nines to celebrate the holiday. Here is her Valentine's one and I adore it. Mom has such a talent for decorating trees and wreaths. I love that lady!

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great week and stop by later this week. I should have some new items to share with you. :)

Romantic Marie Antoinette Bottles

I have been working on some Marie Antoinette bottles for the last few days. It's no secret that I love the notorious queen and I am inspired by her in almost all the crafts I do. Almost, the other inspiration is my lovely daughter.

Anyway, back to my newest items. I took a vintage bottle and added some terrific Marie clip art, lace, and a clay rose. My other bottle isn't vintage, it came from Michael's and is along the same lines as the first. It's filled with faux rose petals.

I love how they turned out. You can check them out at my Etsy shop, just click on my store front on the left of the screen.

My mom also has been working and made this darling Valentine's Day special delivery. It's a little pink mailbox, with rose decals, and filled with a sweet pink bird, feathers, and some green foliage.

So that's what I have been working on this past week. I also want to tell everyone Happy New Year! It's a great time to change your life. I have a few resolutions that will be great for my little family and will hopefully come to be this summer. Fingers crossed.

I hope everyone has a great day!

New Valentine's Day Items!

Here are some new items I have been working on for Valentine's Day. I have a lot of new ideas and with all the new fabrics coming out for the spring season the idea are just flowing.




I am working on a couple of new things today and hope to have them done by the end of the week. I hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Busy Bee

I have been working like crazy again today. I just finished some shabby chic, heart, bowl fillers for Valentine's Day. I really like them and the front of them was completely hand stitched by me. It took some time and my hands are killing me but I love them.

I want to get a few more things done to put on eBay. I have a couple of Valentine's Day outfits from Gap that Madi wore last year that I can sell and some other stuff and I feel like I will have a good haul before the week is out.

Anyway, I better get dinner started and call ZK to see when he will be on his way. I hope everyone is being safe because the snow is really coming down out there.

Valentine's Day Prim Doll

Here is the Valentine's Day doll that I have been working on for 2 days straight. I think she came out lovely. She was difficult but well worth it. I plan on putting her on eBay tomorrow.

Now That It's Over

Well Christmas came and went. I had a lot of fun, got some great gifts, and took tons of pictures. I got a Paula Dean pots and pans set, Tomb Raider video game, a personalized cookie jar, and a neat wallet photo album from my mom. I really like it. You can add up to like a thousand photos and some music.

Yesterday my mom came over and we hit up the craft stores. I am already getting ready to make some Valentine's Day stuff to sell because if that law goes through this will be my last holiday to make children's items to sell. I picked up a new scrapbook because the one I had previously purchased didn't have the expandable spine, a frame for Madi's photo with Santa, and some yarn to use for my dolls hair.

Oh yeah, I am making a new kind of doll. It's called a primitive folk art doll. I love them, they are so darn cute. They are kind of a pain because the arms and legs are so skinny and my fingers are too fat to fit in there so I had to use tweezers, but I liked the finished product. I gave the first one to my mom for Christmas. I took it up there and acted like, "Hey, this is my new doll. What do you think?" and she said that she loved it then asked all sheepishly, "Is it mine?" So cute. Of course it's yours mom! She always gets the prototype of my new items.

Here she is:



Well, I better get off here and get some stuff done. I plan on making lasagna tonight and I think I might do it in the crock pot. I'll let you know how it turns out.

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas.