My Tart is back:)

My Embroidered Tart

This it the tart I posted about a couple of months ago that I had finished.  I sent it back to Audrey from The French Knot where I bought it in Savannah, GA so she could finish it up.

It is a Raymond Crawford design.  You can find the rest of his designs if you friend him on facebook.

This is my next project that Audrey sent me (she collected all the flosses and ribbons) from her Savannah store.

It is a piece of cake.

Below here is a picture of what it will look like when I finish it.  Check out all the beads!

I can't wait to get it started!

Jill swap

Jill can pack a box!!!!

Last week I received a wonderful stuffed box from my very awesome blog friend Jill at Bucks County Folk Art.  Jill and I comment and email each other constantly and thought we would do our own special Red, White, and Blue swap.

Jill carved.....yes I said carved this patriotic Santa spool for me!  I mean who carves?!?!?  Jill does!! Amazing!  I love him and he is one of my favorite possessions now!  Love him!

All kinds of goodies that I have many   plans for.  

My petticoats and parasol friends from Savannah wheels will be turning    when they see this pic of a tiny      parasol  and fan:)

Jill knows that I have a fettish for all laces!  These are gorgeous:)

Love all beads:)

Sorry Jill, I did not get as great of pics as you did.  This is just the 3rd time I have tried to post it! lol

It is always fun to connect with someone in blog land and Jill has been such a sweet friend.  I love you Jill and all the great goodies!  If you want to see better pics of our swap, check Jill out.  She just finished sculpting a gorgeous santa.  The girl has skills!

Needles Book

Over the last couple of days I have been working on my needles book.  I found the book idea in Sommerset's Sewing magazine.  I loved it and went straight to find the creator of this awesome book.  It was Penney at Farie Acres.  I emailed her and she was quick to get back to me with pointers.

I embroidered each of the titles.  Penney wrote it out with her sewing machine and that looked really cool.  I just need a lesson on how to do that.

I still need to look up what exactly crewel means!  Lol!  Penney just had it on hers so I put it on mine!!!

It is meant to have strings hanging off and have a Ruth Rae tattered look!  I love it and had so much fun making it!

I made this ruffled rose with a hand died velvet ribbon that I bought in San Diego from Paper Tales:)  If anyone knows a good site to get hand died ribbons please let me know!!!:)

Edward, Jake, Bella, Margarita's and Bloody Mary's

OOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhh it was sooooooo good!  My heart is still racing.  Eclipse was so wonderful and true to the book.  I know I always made fun of all the Star Wars people because I am not, but now I am a Twilight person and I get it!!!  Kasey (a regular on here) and I went to the 5:00 show yesterday.  Now I have read  all the books and I will not even tell you how many times Kasey has read the books (3 X's shhhhhh:).  Anyway, in her expert opinion it stayed 99% true to the book.

Yes we are wearing our "New Moon" wolf girl and vampire girl shirts from walmart!

Me and the gang hanging out in front of the theater.

Kasey goes to the theater as soon as tickets go on sale and gets us our same seats in the balcony.  We ordered wings, pizza, bloody mary's (surprisingly great at the theater) margaritas and Dr. Peppers!  So fun!

I love when the theater gets into it and cheers and claps. So fun to be part of the craze. 

 If you "don't get it" or you "are not into vampire's," then I totally agree.....you don't get it! lol  It is such a great love story. I think everyone making fun of us women who LOVE IT forget that when men are so into all their  movies (star wars etc.), golf tournaments, video games, fights, football, etc. and they get all excited that that is ok.  So, give us girls a break if we want to get excited about something that doesn't matter once in awhile!! ;)  I am sorry for rolling my eyes honey when you have to watch golf tournaments and I get annoyed! 

It was awesome and I had so much fun with Kasey!!!!

4th of July Swap is here!

Late this afternoon while I was sitting in the theater watching ECLIPSE (will post on that later) my red, white and blue swap package arrived from Shawn.

My oldest son Luke and I dug into it!  

Look and see what we got.....

Everything was wrapped tight!

We got paper plates, napkins and cupcake liners to use at our party!!!

Candles to set on the outside end tables.....

Icing, cake mix and sprinkles to make cupcakes for the kiddos.....

And an adorable apron with my initial on it!!!! Too cute! Thanks Shawn :)
Thanks Mamarazzi for hosting my very first swap:)

Hummus and Ruffled Flowers

 As I sat here last evening with my sick kiddos, I decided to make some ruffled flowers.  I love making these flowers and they are so easy! 

 This morning I decided to make some hummus.  I made a batch for my family.  They usually devour it!  They devour everything though!

 I love the Barefoot Contessa and have always used her hummus recipe.

 Having my food processor makes everything easier!

 I made a special batch for one of my boys best buddies Jake. Jake broke his leg this weekend.  I hope he likes the hummus.  He is such a sweet boy and is now stuck on the couch for the rest of the summer:(

These are the days.....

When we got back from our vacation, I had a beautiful box from my blog friend Teresa at Maggie Grace Creates waiting on my table.   Inside the box was a journal, laces (I heart laces), beads, post cards, and her own crocheted pieces!  It is all so beautiful and I love love love it!  Thank you Teresa:)

After a lazy Saturday afternoon of napping, Ryan and Miss. M woke up to watch some World cup and color. I love my little family.  It is so nice when we have no where to be.  I made a big dinner and strawberry shortcake.  

I love the rare occasion of getting to sit around the table and visit with our kiddos.  Later we sat on the front porch to watch the kids do a "dance party" to the Black Eyed Peas.  Ryan videoed it all! 

 Later, the kids and dad went into the basement to watch a movie.  He let them eat popcorn and that was the end of all the fun!  They all get terribly sick when they eat it.  So, our wonderful family night turned into midnight puking.  Everyone made pallets on the floor in our room to sleep by their trash cans!  We didn't mean to poison our kids with popcorn! lol  What is it about popcorn that makes them so sick?!?!?  My poor babies!  Oh these are the days!:)