It's a set!

Well, I some time on my hands in between washing, drying and folding clothes for this weekend... so I made another burp cloth to go with the wipe cover and the other burp cloth!  The burp cloths are really easy and fun to make!  As you can see, I had a lot of giraffe print left over from my pillow case!  I put a blue outline to give it some other color.. anyways! 

I am so glad that tomorrow is Friday!  Can't wait to see some of our friends that we haven't seen in a while!  We're gonna have a blast! 

My sister went to the doctor today and they said everything is on track... and they are thinking he is going to be a big baby. Maybe he will be born on my birthday!  Or Easter!  Can't wait!  

Oh well.. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!  And don't forget that if you know anyone having a baby or who needs to get a baby gift!  I will be glad to whoop something up!  I have plenty of burp cloths, just let me know the fabric and ribbon color! 

In my spare time!

In my spare time.. which, by the way, I have a lot of it... I like to try new homemade projects!  In earlier posts, I started making minky blankets for family members around Christmas time.. well now, I am on to more projects!  Since my sister and brother-in-law are expecting in April, I started making burp cloths and tried to make a baby wipe container cover.  It was very interesting to make to say the least.  The hot glue gun and I do not get a long.. period.. end of story.  I thought I did a pretty darn good job considering it was my first try.  We will see.  I am not sure how much spare time I will have in the weeks to come.  TJ's best friend from college is getting married the 2nd to last weekend in March.. so from now until then, we will be some busy bees.  I also have some gifts to make for a couple of my sister's showers since I won't be able to attend.  It would be way too much traveling in one weekend.   Here are some pictures!

New camera

I have long awaited for a DSLR camera and I was FINALLY able to get it with my Christmas money!  I am so excited.  I have been sewing lately, so I haven't been able to play with it!  I got a Canon Rebel XSi... and I LOVE it!  I am still new at it, so bare with me!!  As everyone probably knows, Jack (TJ's dog) and I have a love/hate relationship.  He's gotten a whole lot better since we got him fixed, but he still can irritate the tar out of me, that's for sure.  Anyways.. on to my story, he was my only cooperative subject at the time, so below are a couple of pictures I took.  Can't wait until my new nephew arrives, so I can take lots of pictures.  Until then, nature and Jack are my subjects... Sewing takes a lot of my time lately!  Got my first order for a pillowcase! YAY!  I hope they like it!  Well, nevermind, I will add the pictures later. TJ is playing some type of game online and when I try to upload my pictures, it goes very slow. Grrr.  

Until then! 

 

Let the holidays begin!

This was yet another busy holiday season for us, but we so enjoy spending time with family!  

We started it off the weekend before Thanksgiving at TJ's parents house for his birthday celebration and Thanksgiving at their house!  I definitely ate way too much.

We spend Thanksgiving Day with my mom and her side of the family.  It is so good to see everyone because they live so far away.  We cooked everything on an open fire and the day could not have been more beautiful! 

Then, Thanksgiving weekend, we headed to Corinth to see my grandfather and for the guys to do a little hunting and PJ and me to do a little shopping!!  And, of course, the guys had to burn something (long story.. but ends with 3 fire trucks and 2 or 3 acres burned...)  When we got back from Papaw's, it was time for another work week and for TJ and me to celebrate our 1 year anniversary!!! Wow!! 1 year!  

Then, we headed back to Southaven for Jen and John's wedding and we got to hang out with Robert and Alison, which it felt like we haven't seen in a while!  So much is going with my their wedding fastly approaching!!

I think the next weekend, Shanon, a coworker and fellow seamstress, and I headed to my mom's office to finish up some loose ends on our sewing adventure!  We spent practically all day and we had so much fun sewing our blankets, stockings and learning how to make bows!

The weekend before Christmas - Saturday, we had Christmas with my mom, stepdad and his side of the family and Sunday, we headed to Lambert to visit with TJ's grandmother and his dad's siblings and their families.  One of his aunt's made some divinity that was to die for!  Too bad we don't have the right weather in the south.  But it might be a good thing!

The week of Christmas was a short week for me at work.  Luckily, this go around, I had some time off saved up and was able to take Christmas Eve off so we could spend more time in Southaven.  We headed up there Tuesday afternoon and ate with TJ's grandparents and swapped gifts!  We always love spending time with his Papaw and memaw.  

They have a Christmas Eve tradition at their house where everyone opens their gifts that night with just us there.  Adams was able to join us later that night after spending it with his family. 

We got up early Christmas day morning and headed back to Jackson to go spend the rest of the day with my Dad, sister, Ben and Addison!  Santa brought her a trampoline! We had some fabulous food and enjoyed each others company while watching Mamma Mia!!

Saturday after Christmas, we trucked again to my mom's to spend the day with my aunts, uncle and cousins to celebrate the reason for the season!  My grandmother was missed dearly, but we know she was looking down on us watching enjoy each other's company.

The next few days went by fast because I was off for New Year's and Robert and Alison came down to spend some time with us.  We went to dad's and had a blast shooting fireworks, cooking and playing guitar hero.  

New Year's Day seemed to go by real fast!  Went to visit mom for our New Year's tradition of eating peas, cabbage and ham!  I also found out that day that Morgan and Adams got engaged!! CONGRATS to them!  I wish them the best and hope he comes back safely from Iraq.

That's all for now.  Will post more later

Christmas gifts!!

Wow!  It's been a while since I have written anything, but I am going to try to catch everyone up on what has been going on since I started sewing the blankets I made for everyone for Christmas. 

I will post some pictures at the end or in another post...  I made at least 15 blankets between TJ's family, my family, and a couple of our friends!

Here's the list!!!  I have to say so myself that I am pretty darn proud that I put my mind to do this and I accomplished it with flying colors!  Everyone loves their blankets!

- my mom - zebra/black minky dot

- dad - leopard/black minky dot

- PJ - brown/red minky dot

- Ben - brown minky dot/creme minky swirl

- Addison - brown minky dot/pink & brown striped

- TJ - creme minky/maroon minky dot

- Mr. Wayne -  grey minky/maroon dot

- Mrs. Rhonda - green minky swirl/ brown minky dot

- Morgan - sage minky dot/lavender minky dot

- Secret santa gift - brown minky stripe/creme minky dot

- Robert & Alison - maroon dot/ light brown minky dot

- Brian & Kim - maroon dot/light brown minky dot

- a couple of extras at the house - red/brown minky dot, zebra/turquiose dot and blue/light brown minky dot.

Along with all of those blankets, my mom and I made TJ and me some stockings to hang above the fireplace!  They are really cute, but I forgot to take some pictures of them!  One side is brown minky dot and the other is red minky dot with a white minky dot overlay!

I am starting to make pillowcases as well as shower wraps!  If you are interested in purchasing anything, just give me a call!  I can get over 40 different regular and minky dot colors.  Pretty much any color you can imagine!  The yard and a half blankets will run around $65 and the 2 yarders are $80.  I prefer to do one side either brown, black, light brown, or latte and you can pick any other color for the other side.  Just let me know!

I am also starting to do baby blankets.  I am open to learning new things to sew!  These make great gifts!

I have to say that the zebra and turquoise is the favorite!