Family Pictures

If has been years since me, my sister and my mom have had any pictures taken together so while she was visiting from Colorado she wanted us to get some made.  Saturday after Jillian's party we all went to the Target portrait studio to get some made.  I think for having a worn out little girl they turned out pretty good! 

Carnival 4th Birthday Party

Yesterday was the big day, it was Jillian's 4th Birthday Carnival! 

We all had a blast and I would call it a success!  I wanted to share with you some of the photos and I plan on sharing a tutorial for the cupcakes soon!

The party invitaions were made by GwynnWassonDesigns and the printables (cupcake wrappers, birthday banner) were designed by TypeWink, both on etsy.

Top Posts from 2011

I've seen a lot of my favorite bloggers post year end reviews that share their top projects/posts from 2011 and I thought I would join in!  Below are my top 5 most viewed posts from 2011.

1.  My post viewed post in 2011 was my Mini Monkey Bread recipe.  I can thank Pillsbury for most of these page views, they posted my recipe on their facebook page and I got over 10,000 visitors! 

2. Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!  Jillian and I made a cute One Fish, Two Fish. Red Fish, Blue Fish snack for her to take to school to celebrate Read Across America week!

3.  At Home Gel Nails is my tutorial and information about doing your own shellac/gel nails at home! 

4.  Sprinkle Cookies!  Is my SUPER easy sprinkle cookie tutorial.  We make these cookies all the time, Jillian loves to make them by herself!

5.  Easter Egg Wreath tutorial. 

Thanks to everyone that visited my blog in 2011 and a special thanks to everyone that left me comments and feedback, I LOVE hearing from you! 

Hopefully 2012 will be a great blog year and I will get to share even more tutorials and recipes with you!



I'm still here.... I PROMISE!

Life has been CRAZY!  Since my last post I received TONS of wreath orders.  I was so slammed with making wreaths I didn't have much time for anything else. Then the first part of November I had about 10 orders for Thanksgiving shirts so I was busy with those. It was a blessing I got the orders, the money I made payed for all of our spending money at Disney!!!

The week before Thanksgiving Michael and I surprised Jillian with a trip to Disney World!  We all had a BLAST and we are already planning our next trip!  I joked with our travel agent that we have turned into "Disney people" and she said we must have drank the water!  Soon I'll share with you some of the cute outfits I made and ordered for Jillian to wear on the trip.

When we got back it I was in full Christmas mode and had a bunch of shirt orders and shopping to do. 

Two days after Christmas was Jillian's 4th Birthday!  I took the afternoon off work and Michael and I took her and her best friend Emma to a movie and out for frozen yogurt!  Tomorrow is the big party day and I can't wait to share the details with you.  I planned a CARNIVAL!  We have games, booths, cotton candy machine, popcorn..... the works!  My mom will be in town for a few days but after she leaves hopefully I'll have a little more time to blog and share the party details with you. 

I hope to spend a little more time over here in my little section of the www to share my recipes, crafts and random stuff with you all.  See ya soon!

Unicorn

This weekend I took a break from wreath making and worked on a shirt for Jillian.  I got this outfit at Walmart for only $10 and knew it would be perfect to add something to.

What do you think?

Jillian loves the outfit and had to wear it to school today!

Wreaths, Wreaths and More Wreaths pt. 3

So, are you sick of wreaths yet???

Check out my Vandy and Florida versions.

Wreaths, Wreaths and More Wreaths pt.2

I've been a very busy bee working on wreaths.  I've cut myself with thread from the fabric and burned just about every finger with hot glue but I am having so much fun making all these different wreaths!

Check out my house divided wreaths.

Alabama and Auburn

Southern Miss and Miss State

Georgia

Wreaths, Wreaths and More Wreaths!

After I posted my Alabama wreath on facebook I got TONS of orders and request for other schools!  I am having so much fun making all the different wreaths.  So far I have completed wreaths for Tennessee and Auburn and wreaths in the works for Georgia, Florida, Southern Mississippi and Vandy!

These are my Auburn and Tenneessee wreaths and I'll be sure to come back and share the others when they are completed!

Womb Mates

Last fall I was asked to make some Womb Mates shirts for a friend to give to one of her friends that was expecting twins. I came up with a simple circle design with Womb Mates in the center.  The mommy to be was having a boy and a girl so I chose to use a light pink fabric on one and blue on the other.  The shirts came out so cute that the twins Mommy just hired me to make a second set of shirts since the twins have out grown their first set!  I thought you all might like seeing these cute little onesies (is there are correct way to spell that? spell check never tells me).

Since those shirts were such a hit I knew that I had to make Jillian's teacher that is expecting twin girls some womb mate shirts for them!  I am a little bummed that the blue thread I used didn't show up as bright on the fabric as I would have hoped but in person you can read them much better than this picture I snapped with my cruddy camera. 

Parmesan Knots - Pintrest Find

Have I told you how much I LOVE Pintrest?  I have always had a problem with organizing my bookmarks, half the time I save something and then forget about it.  Well, with Pintrest I can just look at my boards and easily find what I am looking for. If you aren't on Pintrest and want an invite leave me your email address and I will send you one!

One of my favorite things to pin are recipes.  I found this recipe, I think one of the people I am following posted it and it was too easy not to try!  I made these to go along with Baked Spaghetti and they were the perfect addition!

The Easy Parmesan Knots recipe is from Real Mom Kitchen, head on over to check it out! 

Roll Tide Wreath

I decided this football season we needed a little bit of Roll Tide for our front porch!  This wreath was SO simple to make and the only things I had to buy were the wreath form & the pendant. 

I wrapped a wreath (I used the kind from Hobby Lobby that are plastic filled with wood chips) with hounds tooth fabric.  I just tore strips about 3 inches wide and wrapped away hot gluing as I went. 

Then I made some flowers with small strips of different fabrics, if you would like a tutorial on the flowers let me know!  I purchased the Crimson Tide pendant at Party City.

I think the wreath looks great on our crimson door!

Do to popularity I have decided to make and sell my wreaths!  If you would like an Alabama or Auburn (boooo!) wreath please let me know, they are only $25!  If you have another school in mind let me know and we can see if we can work out a design!

Roll Tide

Those of you that don't know me personally probably don't know it but we live in Alabama and we are BIG University of Alabama football fans!  Football season kicks off in less than two weeks and we are in full Roll Tide mode!  Last night I decided to whip up a hounds tooth ribbon skirt to go along with a top I made Jillian last year. 

The skirt was so easy to make!  I just used ribbon and hot glue!  I plan on hand washing it since I don't know how well the hot glue will hold in the wash.  Last week I made another skirt like this with some Little Mermaid ribbon, once I make the shirt to go with it I will share it with you! 

Let me know if you would be interested in a tutorial, I'd be glad to take step by step pictures of my next one if you would like!

I purchased the shirt on Ebay last fall, it was made by Gymboree a few years ago. I think it works perfect for some Roll Tide gear! 

My friend Shara ordered this bow for Jillian last fall from a seller on Etsy, it's it adorable???

We are ready to cheer on the Crimson Tide! 

Tomorrow I will share with you my new Alabama wreath that I made for the front door!

stuff I've been working on

Lately I've been doing some applique work and wanted to share with you a few of my projects.  The first two are shirts I've had sitting around to do for Jillian since May.  She is so happy with them and loves showing them off!

One of my friends from high school asked me to make some shirts for her daughter and soon to be born son.

We are leaving soon for our annual family beach trip and I decided to make beach towels for Jillian, my neices Mackenzie and Ensley and my nephew Russ. I hope they all like them as much as I do!