Hope

Hope McKenna made her debut one week ago today! She is such a little doll! Tiny, skinny and she looks just like her big sister Faith. Jamie came over a few days ago and we took some pictures of Hope and made some announcements; just for fun, to pass the time.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

I love to look out my back door and see neighbors helping neighbors. My back door neighbor, Juliet, must have a LOT of canning to do this year, because...

...they're still going strong in the dark! Love my neighbors and these ladies!
 

Happy Day!

Love this girl of mine! I heard her singing in her room earlier today and when I went in to see what she was doing, I found her wrapped in her curtain, dancing and singing "Happy Day" at the top of her lungs! She's one of my daily tender mercies!

Pemberton Family

My recent family shoot! Love this family...so much!

Commissions

I've gotten several orders lately for car seat covers. They're fun for me to make and I enjoy doing it.

This was the first booster seat I've ever done. The client wanted it to be girly, but wanted to be surprised. I LOVE when I can run with my creative side! So, I bought this adorable rose minky and fabulous flowered material. Whipped this baby out in one night! The client loved it, and has commissioned me to make her another cover for her 4-year-old's booster seat as well!

Zebra print with hot pink minky is very popular right now. I've done three in the last 3 months. It's kinda fun! Not my style, but I do love the contrast! This client had an adorable cover already on her car seat (plum purple Minnie Mouse), and wanted the zebra one so she could change it out. Usually, on an infant seat, I will remove the canopy and permanently attach the new one. Because this client wanted to change it out, I left the original canopy on and made the zebra/pink one attach via velcro. The velcro is hidden so you can't tell that's how it attaches. The client (and her mother) were so in love with it, they commissioned me to make a matching car seat tent and blanket to match!

This client bought her own fabric from Joann's. I prefer the zebra print in the previous picture (less white). While I was fitting and pinning the fabric I realized I would have to make a new requirement for my orders; I now can only take orders from smoke free/pet free homes. The smoke smell from this seat made me cough badly, and there had to have been cats in this home because I couldn't stop sneezing. I went to Walmart to buy some double-fold bias tape for the edging (let's face it, their options are few, but their prices are awesome)...nada. Went to Joann's...zip. Hobby Lobby? Zilch. Back to Walmart to get single fold bias tape. I ended up having to sew two separate pieces of single-fold, to create a double fold. Time consuming? uh, yeah! More expensive? For sure! Worth it? Absolutely! And...I've decided I like doing boosters much more than infant seats; infant seats take twice as long!

Little Frogs

We hit Trafalga for about an hour the other night. Just enough time for Ava to ride a few rides and for Sean to climb the rock wall. We got Ava to ride the Frog Jumper ride...she was scared the first time...but couldn't wait to go on it the second time!

My Son

How is it possible for me to be the Mother to an 11-year-old!? I say this every year, and every year I mean it more...wasn't it just yesterday I was holding him in the hospital!? I was a few weeks late in capturing his birthday picture this year (almost two months...yikes!), but I love how this turned out. This captures his personality well; silent, thoughtful, with a hint of mischievousness behind those ice blue eyes. How I love this young man of mine!