Where have I been

Well, I decided I should at least post something. I have been doing a lot of sewing, banner making, but I didn't take any pictures. Can you believe it?

My friend and I made banners for a Christian women's retreat the last weekend in September. We did a lot of praying and getting together for a few Saturdays in a row. They turned out very beautiful. It was great fun working beside someone who is so creative.

I am knitting something right now. I will post more on that along with a picture. Just wanted to get back in the swing of things.

Busy weekend

My sweet 4 year old is 5. Her birthday was on the 8th, but we were in Canada, so we celebrated her birthday on Saturday with a fun party at the near by park.









She asked for a princess castle cake. Here is the first step. She wasn't seeing the vision.








The next step in the decorating process. Keileigh wasn't very sure at this point. She liked the purple frosting, but wasn't seeing the whole picture

She was liking the HoHo's. The more frosting the better. The vision is becoming clearer. And now...drumroll please:)

The princesses are in!!






















She loved it!! The vision was complete.










Should I add cake decorating to my list of interests? No, not really. I will do it for my kids/extra kids, but I don't think it would be for a living.





Now, just for your own enjoyment, a picture of the oldest of my children, or husband, sometimes I forget which. He's just a big kid at heart:




We had a great day!! Most importantly, she did. I would post more party pictures, but I don't know how the other parents would feel about their child's picture on the web.








Oh! I almost forgot, the cake was a big hit!!

Finally!!!

I have been quite busy of late. Summer has not been lazy for me. We have been on vacation, moving a child out of the home, in home daycare and getting my CDA. Oh and fair. My daughter had a bunny win champion in it's class and reserved champion in another. Really cool!!

I know I have been promising to post some finished projects and here they are!! About time, huh?

This is the Barcelona skirt. I made one in the A-line and....

one of the layered skirts.

It was a very fun pattern to make.

I also made a Emmeline apron. That was a fun pattern to make.

I couldn't decide what material I wanted to use. Material Mart had some really cute rooster material, I love roosters and this Dick and Jane collection. I chose the Dick and Jane because it combined my strong like of cooking and children. Oh, I love children. I realized how that seemed.

Now, on the knitting front:

As you can tell, I still have to weave in ends and pick up stitches around the neck and arm holes to finished the tank, but I just wanted to get it posted. I will post it when it is finished.

Well, I am being summoned by the 5 year old.

The ins and outs of blogging

I am so new at this. I have been reading through all of the help menus and seem to have the hardest time figuring things out. I will get it soon enough, I hope.

I forgot to mention in my previous post that I also had a birthday. I am on the tail end of the up hill climb to 40. I wonder if I spell it it will make it feel less ominous. Forty. Nope.

Well, I am off to find someone to take pictures of the latest projects I keep promising to post.

Starting over

I have decided to start a different blog with the name that appears on my comments and ravelry.

I have been having a very busy summer so far and really don't know where all the time is going. Let's see, I have been sewing, knitting, taking classes and having my first born graduate from highschool. Not in that order.

I have to say they are a nice group of kids. Of course, the one in the baseball hat will be the next to graduate. She starts highschool this fall.

The little mini is starting kindergarten here at home with mom.

I plan on trying to post some pictures of my projects if I can get someone to take them for me or figure out how to take good pictures of myself. I am very new at this blogging thing.

I am really trying to figure out how to put the pictures in where I want them.

Have a great day!