Big Bag

Well Thanksgiving is over, it snowed yesterday and I'm covered in orders! I have my shop open, but I'm not promoting much right now. I am very excited to have some new items starting in the spring, the picture above is a taste of what's to come! I am really excited to get everyone their orders as quickly as possible! I'm also very excited to get working on things for family and friends that I'm going to give as gifts. This is hopefully going to start in 2 or 3 weeks or whenever I wrap up my order sheet. I pray I have the energy to keep up with all I have to keep up with this season, but I've learned a valuable lesson...do more in the summer when I'm slow!!!!!

Pumpkin carvings

Here are some cute pictures of the pumpkins Mike carved. Super cute if you ask me! Who knew!

Halloween Fun

Halloween is getting crazier! My little cheerleader ran this way and that the whole night! Not only was I unable to keep up with her, I was doing well just to know where she was, and this is at 4 years old so help me when she's older. This bag she used was so cute, no I didn't make it myself (not enough time) but I purchased through another cutesy little Etsy store called Ella Ba 'Della .

We had fun doing a little bit of decorating, but unfortunately there was a missing box or two of Halloween items that inhibited the decorating process and Sam told me, "Mom our house isn't very spookily, all the other houses have spookily stuff, but not ours! Next year lets do lots of scary stuff!". Well not to worry, I went and bought fun stuff from Hobby Lobby to make next year a little more "spookily".

Sam's Hair Donation!

Sam decided she wanted to get rid of her long hair b/c she felt like the "snarls" (tangles) were too much, so my friend Meagan suggested we try to donate it. Naturally I went to the Locks of Love website www.locksoflove.org and it turned out Sam was about 1 inch shy of their donation requirement, so I went to www.pantene.com and she met their requirement of only 8 inches! So we went to the salon and they pulled her hair into 4 ponytails and cut each one and put them in a bag which we mailed off. It was easy and now Sam has a super cute short 'do and she loves telling people she "donated" her hair!

The Halloween Basket

Well here is my attempt at copying my mother in laws treat basket. My only problem is that I had no idea how to do it and I have no idea if you can actually lift it by it's handles. Hmmm. Maybe we'll leave this one out for decoration in the house and use the 'ol plastic stand by for actually handing out candy :)
Happy Halloween!!!!

Down on the Farm

My Little Princess.


This day was spent picking out pumpkins. Aren't they cute on the trailer. It came to get us at the barn and then drove us all out to pick out pumpkins in the several acres of farm around. Of course ours were the heaviest! I think.

Christmas Spirit

Without hesitation I can say this is one of the most stressful Christmases EVER! Sam is so excited about Christmas that she's practically coming out of her skin! I wish I could feel her enthusiasm, but that got me thinking about Christmases past. When we're kids we all seem to be crazy about Christmas; there's cookies, games, friends, relatives, food, desserts, PRESENTS!, caroling, church activities, school parties, did I mention food? But when we were kids (or at least in my case) I never took stock of where all these amazing Christmas "things" were coming from...they were just there, every year better the the last. Who did this? Who created all this Christmas spirit? Well this year it hit me! Mom! My mother always talked about being tired after Christmas and I thought she was just old, last year I was 30 and I passed out of the couch for about 2 days after my guests left. I don't think I was old I just became mom!

Well in church today the preacher was discussing Christmas being one of the most stressful and painful times of the year for most people mainly b/c we put so much effort into trying to uphold a level of "expectation" through the eyes of others. Maybe if we took it down a notch, maybe if we just made one less dish at Christmas dinner; bought and wrapped one less gift for each person; made one less batch of cookies; put one more gift into Toys for Tots; put one more quarter in the Salvation Army bucket; sent a box of cookies to the troops...then would we be able to take a step back and realize that the Christmas spirit we're all looking for is the spirit of Christ? I forget all too often.