Love...Love...Love

I find it interesting that I am able to create many fabulous Valentine's items that are all about love when I am in fact not in love. :-( Sad I know, but an aspect of my life I am working on. As an avid believer in The Secret my hope is that if I embrace the Valentine's season I will send out to the universe that I am not a hater of love but a congratulator. So bring on the love universe...I'm waiting! In the meantime check out some of these great headbands I crafted up in honor of this day of love! And you thought I would stop at the cute t-shirts! The three headbands here are for your little one! I know my mom always got me a little gift on Valentine's Day so do the same for the fabulous little lady in your life!





And who says that fabulous ladies can't wear a "cool" Valentine headband too! I think the fabric used in these headbands is simply stated and beautiful!




So who knows, maybe Cupid's arrow will strike me and I will have a Valentine this year but for me sometimes it is a lot more fun to share the love which I think I have done with this great Valentine's accessories! Enjoy!

I am Branching out...only a little!

As I was wondering around JoAnn fabrics last weekend looking for fun valentine fabrics to make headbands with I got inspired. I was looking at the conversation heart fabric and said to myself..."I wonder if I could make a t-shirt with a conversation heart on it" Then in my head I went through what I would need to do. I reverted back to the sorority days when we would make our own letter shirts. I figured it was a similar concept except I needed something for the letters. Then I walked past the felt. After a couple of consults with my mom and sister and a quick review of my sewing machine manual to learn a zig zag stitch, I was ready to go. I found it interesting how much of my college experiences came back to me while I was making these shirts. In addition to being in a sorority, I also was an RA and made a ton of bulletin boards which got me pretty good at making block letters! So I can thank my college activities for the creation I am about to unveil to you. My favorite part about these awesome shirts is that they can be customized to include your favorite conversation heart saying! I really enjoyed making these and hope to make one for you soon! For more details, check out my etsy shop!






So I realize that the above are shirts and not accessories but what I am finding is that now that I have learned how to sew (I only learned 1 year ago), my mind goes crazy with ideas. And I sometimes surprise myself that I am able to actual create what I am thinking...so who knows what other fun non-accessories I will come up with!

Happy New Blog Year!

Ok as part of my new business goals for 2008 my blog is born (Check!). My hope is that it ultimately brings me many sales to my Etsy shop but I also would be just as happy to make people smile and laugh about life and crafting adventures that I plan to share with you!

So as the first post is happening on the 1st day of 2008 I thought it would be fun to share how I spent my last day of 2007! One of the things I like about my current job is that my company shuts down from Christmas Eve to New Years Day. This time allows me to be a stay-at-home mom for a week or so. Let me just say, I don't know how you (stay-at-home) mom's do it. Going to work everyday is way easier! My daughter Bella spent most of this time with her Dad so when I got her back I wanted to have a day of fun. Oh and a day of fun we had!

First we went to get some lunch and the pizza place and ate INSIDE. Now to my kid this is better than going to Disney World. I typically do not possess the luxury of 30-60 minutes to sit and watch my kid take forever to eat her food, but when I do have the time, I think it makes her year! The night before we were reading one of the books she got from Santa called Pinkalicious...hmm wonder why Santa got her that book! (He also got her Purplelicious too from the same authors. Anywho, the book is about a little girl who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns pink. So my daughter decides she wants to make pink cupcakes. So after pizza we went to the grocery store for cupcake supplies. So she put on her brand new Princess apron that my mom made and we got to work! How do you make pink cupcakes, well Bella did not want strawberry cake, so I bought a white cake mix and added food coloring to the batter. Then we bought white icing and did the same and added pink sugar sprinkles. She had so much fun making these cupcakes but I think her favorite part was at the end when she was putting the remaining icing on her finger, then sprinkling her finger with sprinkles then licking it off. She told me that she doesn't like the bread of the cupcake (I am assuming she meant the cake, who knew my kid was on Atkins!)








After a nice dinner with my parents and grandmom we came home and relaxed. I was working on some fun Valentine's shirts for my Etsy site (to be discussed in another post) and Bella was playing with her Christmas presents. I decided to let her stay up for New Years because I wanted someone to ring in the new year with! I introduced her to the practice of banging pots and pans which at first she was a little hesistant but came around after she saw a crazy neighbor setting off fireworks. She wanted to do this again tonight but I told her that kind of fun can only happen once per year!




Overall I was very happy to kiss 2007 goodbye and could not have thought of a better way to do it then to hang out with my daughter and have a fun filled day! I think it made her year...shame it was the last day of the year! But for me, it taught me that sometimes you have to take a break from your crazy life and just live in the moment with a toddler. Try it, you will be so glad you did.


Tomorrow I am back to the daily grind as a working mom, I will say that I will miss being home with my angel, but I am ready to get back to the normal routine.