Baby Shower Time!

So, the baby shower went well. Due to the nasty snow we got the day before there was not 80 people there, thankfully. Those that did show had fun!













I was in charge of balloons...

and punch...



















Grandma-to-be brought the cake and flowers...

There were:


Prizes!

and presents

and games of course

and a few little ones for a taste of the joys to come!

And just cause, here's a picture of my last minute present :)

Baby shower

So, tomorrow (Sunday) I will be co-hosting a baby shower for a friend of mine. We are expecting 80 people. *gulp* I'll let you know how it all goes.

Oh, and I got snowed in today and didn't get out to buy a present.... hehehe... thankfully I remember a little something I made a few years ago and had stashed away for one of those whenever-we-need-a-baby-present-times. This was just one of those. Thank you Lord!

Sarah's dress

I have recently have a itch to sew little people clothes. So, I made Sarah Beth this dress. I have gotten the pattern on sale, it is adorable!


Of course I forgot to take pictures.... I always do, this is all we had...














But thankfully Rachel had taken some pictures while we were playing with the children at the gym. And she graciously sent some to me.

So, without further ado...

So... I'm sitting here trying to think of something the say.... and once again my mind is _____________. That seems to be a trend lately... Don't worry though, I'm not always like this.

So,..... how about a random odd fact...


"I simply love ... celery root!" ;)




I don't think I've ever had celery root..... not that I remember anyway....

Recent projects

So,..
as most of you know, Rebecca, Stephanie, and I recently moved into an apartment of our own. So, most of my sewing projects have been domestic oriented. A.k.a. curtains and pillows :)
Here are the curtains I made :)





Bathrooms curtain. I LOVE these! The wall is actually a French blue color, I'm not sure why it looks white.....

This is our front door. Also a polka dot curtain :) We like polka dots :)










And this hangs in our kitchen. The idea turned out cute but the colors aren't exactly right. There is a dowel sewn in the bottom. That's how the curtain "opens"

And finally a still-in-progress project. We can't decide exactly how we want these to hang. They are in Steph and my room...
You can find pillow pictures on Rebecca's blog. Here

It's snowing outside. It so pretty! Too bad snow has to come when it's cold..

Birthday Presents

Hi everyone! I just wanted to show you all my wonderful birthday presents.

I forgot to take a picture of the first one, before it died :( I got a beautiful bouquet. The delivery lady told me it was from a boy. *blushes*






















O.k. o.k. I didn't believe her, cause the lady was Rebecca and they were from her :) It was actually the only present I got on my birthday cause we celebrated on Friday instead of Thursday.


Otherwise I got:
If you haven't seen this you MUST! You can borrow mine!



Isn't it beautiful! It's just what I need. Steph wants one now to. :)

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sewing will be so much easier now!! I can actually run gathering stitches!

YAY!!!

I got a new cell phone!!!

*dances in circles*

(for those of you who aren't around me much you won't really appreciate it. But I'm VERY thankful!)

Just curious...

Quiz

It's fixed now.

Missing.. REWARD!!!

I've lost my brain, it anyone finds it please return it, I miss it!!!

Why?

Why is it that I sit here trying to think of something, anything.

And I never come up with anything. And I don't just mean, nothing interesting, I mean I don't come up with anything, period......

Check this out!

http://www.downeastbasics.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=29

If anyone is interested we could go together and save shipping, since we will all be seeing each other soon...

New Microsoft 2007

So, a couple weeks ago we got a new computer. And it came installed with the new Microsoft 2007. I LOVE it!! It makes my K4K work so much easier! Cause you see,... you can change the clip art easily.
The word I just finished doing the layout for didn't have anything in it that clip art already have pictures of. So... I created ALL the pictures. Here's a couple examples.

The Cloud of Witnesses

Just a quote from the word that I jazzy up.









So, anyway. I think it is awesome it makes my life so much easier, and it's fun too!

Kids say the cutest things

These are Pumpples


not pumpkins.


And are not to be confused with apples.



At least that's what I've been told.
Sarah saw a picture of a pumpkin and thought they were apples.
I decided to teach her how to say pumpkin. She can't say the "k" sound. After a few tries she resorted to Pumpples. And if you tell her pumpKIN. She say "Tatie, that's a pumpPLE!!

What's new in my life

Nothing.



Sorry everyone..... I'm been thinking lately, I've been reading various posts of what's going on in people lives, what new thing they've done or are doing. Something exciting. Something just plain different. Moving, new job, new whatevers.... And I've come to realize, I'm in a rut. A deep rut that keeps running in the same direction with no end in sight. *sigh* What do I do? I'm not dissatisfied with my life, I wouldn't have chosen, I would have made a mess of it. But now what do I do? What's next? What about my "degree" a.k.a the piece-of-paper-I-need-to-prove-I'm-competent. The meeting this morning was about Turning Your Eyes Upon Jesus. O.k. so now what. God's been speaking to me lately about spending more time with Him. And I know I need too. I just hope the "things of earth grow strangely dim" quickly....

Apparently I need to get married

A few weeks ago while I was teaching one of my students asked me
"How old are you?"
"Almost 23. Am I old?"
"No....................................Are you married?"
"No."
"You should get married."
"Why?"
"Just cause, you should."
"Oh, but what if I got married and had to move far away and could be your violin teacher anymore."
"You don't have to."
"I don't have to what?"
"Move. You can get married and still live here."
"Here as in Platteville."
"No, you can get married and still live at home."

Well, he is only 8, I think... anyway he doesn't quite understand. But then again, it was sweet of him.

Houston, we have take off

I happened to end up in the lobby this morning just after the Space Shuttle Discovery took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They had a camera on the External Tank (the orange thing). I could see the earth from forever up. In 7 minute they were up to 10000 MPH and were using fueling at the rate of emptying a normal swimming pool in 25 seconds. Then they showed when the shuttle detached from the external tank. Well... needless to say it was totally AWESOME!!! I want to be an astronaut!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every Fall

Fall is HERE!!

and with it comes APPLES!!!!


Every year we go to Gay's Mills for a day



and get apples,



drink apple cider,


enjoy the views,


and the sunflower/corn maze,



visit Dudley



and overall just enjoy ourselves


If this year was an indication, looks like we will be visiting "Old Mac" as well :)

All pictures courtesy of Stephanie





oh and yes, I was playing with my blog. Is anyone having any viewing troubles? And is it hard to read like this?