Happy Birthday, Natalee!

This is a little girl named Natalee, and her mommy.

Natalee will be having her first birthday really soon! Her PawPaw is THE PROUDEST I have ever seen! Thank you, God, for blessing this family with such a precious baby!

Happy First Birthday, Natalee!

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I guess I dumped too many at once.....I'll try again.

Bags from the past

These are some of the bags that I have made for people. I have more pictures to upload, but I can only do a few at a time.

Look carefully, if you are a customer or family...you might recognize yours!

the bag from H_ _L!

This bag took me 2 days to complete! It was a ROYAL pain in the REAR! I bought a pattern....first problem - I don't make bags by patterns! - but it was SO cute and I thought it would be perfect for the little girls in MolliKate's class for birthday presents. It's just the right size! Well, first off, the lining has a different pattern piece than the outside. They NEVER match up, and of course, this one was no acception. When I put it together, the lining was ALOT shorter than the outside, and crooked, while looking at the pictures that came with the pattern (you know, step by step!- yeah Right!) it said to put wrong sides to right sides, on one picture, then the next one showed it the opposite way which really confused me, so, it's made by a pattern, it's lined, but it has lots of my little touches to it. Like I had to re-cut several pieces to get it to match properly, and something really screwy with the pocket on the inside and side pieces and UGH!!!!! I'm just glad I'm finished and I better NOT get any orders from ANYONE at school for this bag or they will be totally astonished at the cost of such a small bag!

Maison's new shirt

I was without children (PHEW!!!!) for an afternoon- I had to go to the dentist, so the kids spent the night with my mother. After the dentist, I went to Ackerman to one of my fabric stops. I picked up several pieces of fabric for school clothes for the kids and for the new one. Still can't do much for it yet, it's just "the bump".
Anyway, I bought this crab fabric for Maison hoping that he would get away from t-shirts.....well, he just added it to the t-shirt, but I thought it was cute and he loves it. He had me buy him MSU fabric to make another one, of course, he already has a maroon shirt with a bulldog on it to wear under that one! UGH!
MolliKate's skirt is finished except for the elastic, and I just haven't been able to tie her down long enough to measure it.
You don't realize how much you can get accomplished without having to stop every few minutes to talk to or feed or settle things with your children.

Welcome!
I plan to post pictures of my creations, my children, my grandchild, and life in general. Be patient with me on posting, I do have a life, you know. There's all that mother/wife/housekeeper/head cook/taxi driver/business owner/slave driver to myself that I must attend to first. Hopefully, I can use this as a portfolio for my business....we'll see.