For Sale

I just sent these to Oregon for a craft sale that my mom is participating in this weekend. I hope I sell some things. The wallies would make great wrappings to stick a gift card in for a teacher/friend/swap etc. Or they make great stocking stuffers. I also sent my coffee cozies which make great stocking stuffers too. Some were made of fabric and some I crocheted and put large buttons on. They look like little sweaters for your disposable coffee cups. But you could put a gift card in an empty disposable cup and then put the coffee cozie on the outside and attach a cute gift tag. Wish I had a pic of that. Both of these items sell for $4 each.

I made two of these short aprons. I just fell in love with that fabric. The other apron actually has a row of pockets on the bottom instead of the ruffle. I also sent a matching mother/daughter (size 2-4) apron set made from vintage fabric and linen. Short aprons are $12 and matching set is $30.

If any of it doesn't sell and you are interested - let me know. I expect to receive unsold items in about a week and a half.

Thanks

JOEY

Advent Calendar

I love advent calendars. I use to call them countdown calendars then I figured out that the real name for them was Advent Calendar. I hope to make and collect them and I have a wall picked out at the house to hang them all on.

I just hope to have this one finished BY Christmas. Then i hope to make at least one type of advent calendar a year. I really like them.

I will post a pic of the finished one hopefully by next week.

JOEY

Fall Wreath

Here is the fall wreath inspired by Thrifty Decor Chick. I auditioned it inside the house on a few different walls but liked it best on the front door. That front door is what sold me on this house. It is an 8 foot door (standard doors are 7 feet). The front porch is at an angle and makes it difficult for decorating. Plus I like to decorate very symetrically and the porch is just not even on both sides. Any ways, hope to add more deocrations to the front porch and post soon.

JOEY

Thrifty Finds

These are two of my most recent thrifty finds. The top one I got for $2.50 and the bottom one for 50 cents. Chaching!

I was thinking of putting some small pumpkins in the top one and some qtips or cotton balls in the bottom one and using it for the bathroom. Not very original I know. Any suggestions?

Wait til you see my next post with pics from a wreath i made. Inspired from Thrifty Decor Chick.

Ooh, it's hard to photograph glass.

JOEY

Gotta love these rub-on letters

I've been eyeing these rub-on letters. Seems they are everywhere. But I found some at my local Hobby Lobby store and purchased them this weekend. I think it took longer to open the package then to apply the lettering. Hoping to add some more family pictures to this wall (hint, hint Kari, Jenny and Mom). Oh, this is in the foyer of our home. It is the first thing you see when you walk enter. Most of the frames I purchased either at garage sales or thrift stores and spray painted them black. I especially love the center one. It was one of those frames that has a mat with 50 openings! Seriously? Who has a whole bunch of 2" photos? So I purchased the larger mat 16x20 with an 8x10 opening and I LOVE IT!!! I think I've spent maybe $20 on all of the frames/mats/paint and new lettering. Pretty impressive if I might say so myself.

Happy Apple Orchards

Brooke with her beautiful eyes

Britt and Brett (say that five times fast!)

Lewis - gettin' me some apples

Me and Francesca.

This is how we spent our last sunday morning. About 20 minutes from home is a place called "Happy Apple Orchard". It is so picture perfect there. We actually timed our trip just perfect. The raspberries were ripe (and not all picked through) and there were apples still on the trees.

Brett (the new boyfriend) thought it was going to be lame but actually had a really good time. Pretty impressive to be able to happily entertain 19 year olds.

The people there are so friendly. My daughter thought she lost her billfold there and I called 4 or more times and they just kept looking! (never did find it though).

I made an apple pie (disgusting! - not that sweet flaky crust like my sister-in-law Jennifer makes). I made apple crisp - couldn't gag it down disguised in ice cream (just more tart than sweet) What is wrong with me? I can't cook or bake. I don't like to cook but would like to make things edible. I like to bake but continuesly have issues. I really want to make some apple jelly but I need my mom here to help. I called her today just to tell her that. I miss her. I have about 4 pounds of apples just going to waste. I don't want to destroy them by attempting another recipe. ugh! I guess I just slice them up and serve with some peanut butter and get on with sewing. Why fight it, right?

Tattoos

These hummingbird tattoos are in memory of my husbands late mother, Kathleen. Our whole family plans to get matching tatttoos. Kathleen's "cb" handle was hummingbird. We were at the Colorado State Fair parade when I took this picture of the girls. We were eating the yummiest breakfast burritoes. The weather was beautiful and all 5 of us attended (no picture). Cody has the tattoo on his shoulder. I really, really, really wanted to get a tattoo. I thought the ideas was so honoring but after seeing Brooke get hers . . . Ya, not so sure. She was in a lot of pain. We'll see and I will post a pic if I do.