Welcome Southern Belle Soiree

Holy Camoly!!!! This is crazy!!! Crazy!!! Crazy!!!  We are having the time of our lives!  It is like a dream world!  This blog is going to be about the welcome night!  I am going to wait until next week to blog about  meeting Paula Deen's brother, going to the beautiful beach, antique stores, meeting new friends, the Tea Room etc.   So much has happened!  How can I make this my job?!?!?  Anyway,  we got all dressed up in our Sunday best and walked into such a beautiful wonderland of pink and frills.  Jo Packham, (Editor in Chief of Where Woman Create), was an amazing sweet, funny and driven woman!  She was such a hoot and I got to sit by her on the trolly ride and visit.  Hopefully, we can get her to OK to photograph my girlfriends and my studios!  The gal taking pictures of me with Jo did not get a very good pic so I will get a better one with her today.  Anyway, the soiree was so much fun and so beautiful!  Rosalyn-Sue Smith had a beautiful sugar bar for us to fill goodie bags up.  It was such a cute idea and the kids are going to love all the sweet goodies we got.  We stayed up late in our room visiting with our new friends Bryanna and Joanna!  They are great artist!  We are dragging this morning and trying to plan out our day!  We do not want to spend too much money today because there will be vendors tonight at the dress up night!  Still on top of the world!  Jenn is and amazing hostess and looks just like a barbie!  She is the one in the picture that has the beautiful pink and black dress and long brunette hair!!!

Petticoats and Parasols (aka Parachutes)

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I am so excited to be packed and ready to head to Savannah G.A. in the morning!! We are headed to Jennifer Hayslip's art event!  We will tour, have a soiree, and get to hear Jo Peckman speak!  On Saturday, we will be going to the Ford Plantation to make three art projects from three different artist! Misti is going to pick me up early and we are headed to the airport!  Grandma Leslie is going to meet us there after she goes to the hospital with her sweet daughter Jessica and amazing son in law Wes to find out the sex of their baby!!!  I am hoping girl!  I am ALWAYS wrong.  Grandpa Chris needs a little girl!  Ryan blue label UPSed my dress, gifts and supplies to the hotel in Savannah.  We are so giddy and fired up!  I bought all the supplies on the list but have no clue if I got them all packed.  That is so my personality though.  Leslie will take care of Misit and me if we get in a bind!  I hope to have many pictures to blog soon.  I feel so and guilty leaving our sweet Maranda home sick with her daddy but he says he can handle it!

Doll Army

I finally started and finished my 6 paper dolls for the swap this week when Leslie, Misti and I go to Savannah, GA for Jennifer Hayslips "Petticoats and Parasols" event!  We are so excited and I cannot wait to share all of our experiences!!  Leslie and Misti are at home right now working on their dolls.  I decided to name mine the Savannah cupcake dolls.  Their skirts are made out of cupcake liners as they hold cupcakes on their silver platters.  I hope everyone likes mine.  I just have to figure out how to get them to GA without smushing them too much!!  I think I will put them in a shoe box in my suitcase.  They have taken me all evening to make!!  Leslie, Misti and I played dress up and put on our southern bell dresses and petticoats.  We look cute/hilarious!  We can't wait to get there but have SOOOOOO much to do before we can!  

My Man is Home!!!! LOL!

After 3 WEEKS in Oman's desert, Ryan finally flew in yesterday.  It took him 32 hours of planes and airports but he made it!  He slept throught the night so that is great considering his day's and nights are reversed.  He brought us back some great goodies from what I am guessing was the Oman or Dubai airport.  He got the boys some spy gear and these hats for my boys with huge heads.  Maranda got a camel and I got this beautiful beaded shawl that I will use as a runner.  Feels so great to have him home!  I was so sad and lonely without him.  Thank you for all my friends (Leslie and Misti especially) for keeping me on the move and having fun while he was gone.  Now I am focused on Holly having that baby boy  and the girls and I heading to Savannah for the Petticoats and Parasols event!  Yesterday the amazing Donna kept us super busy making our inchies frames!  It was so fun getting to create and Donna was so generous to share so much with us!  We laughed a lot and I got to sit by my girl Nan!

Easter Kids!

Gabe has been on my case all week about dying eggs, so we decided tonight was the night!  The kids had a lot of fun and so did I.  I didn't even yell at anyone once!!! lol!  They had fun and made some cute designs.  I also had to make cookies for the parties tomorrow.  I remembered Jackie's super cute rice crispy treats so I resourced her fantastic blog and looked it up! These were her pink rice crispy treats with Easter egg nest on top.  Thanks Jackie!!!  Happy Easter All!

Sugar Eggs at Paxton Farm's

This was one of my favorite art projects!  The sweet and most beautiful Cherryl Paxton prepared the eggs because they take awhile to set up.  We got to decorate the inside then ice the rest.  It was so fun and I realize my cake decorating skills were lacking.  We all chose little chicks in a nest to put inside.  Cherryl hand made all types of beautiful flowers for us to use.   I loved Leslie's purple flowered egg.  Leslie seemed to have had a knack for this.  I am hoping she picks it up so we can make more next year!!!

  Cherryl's house was also amazing.  The fountain was from the Tuttle Methodist Chrch from the late 1800's.  Misti is so fortunate to have a family with so many heirlooms,  albums with all their families genealogy and such a great mother in law to invite us all in.  I can't wait to make another sugar egg!  Thanks Cherryl.  You are an amazingly thoughtful and sweet person!

Holly's Last Hoorah!!!!

I don't know if it was actually our last hoorah before this baby gets here but it is gettting really close!!  We had been wanting to go down to the Clover Leaf store in Ardmore for some time.  We finally got a chance today and took Marnada with us. Maranda was really good (except for when she wasn't lol!!).  We always have great conversation.  We discussed all the varietis  of apples, art, Richard Prince at the Guiginheim and A LOT of stuff that "never leaves this car!" lol  We founds some great millinery at a huge antiques store too!  Then my sweet 8 and a half month pregnant friend Holly kept two of my kids for an hour before taking them across the street from Holly to my nephew's birthday party.  Happy Birthday Colby!!!  I went to Luke's baseball game.  Today was so fun though and my heart is still beating fast from all the fun and beautiful things we saw!!!