Christmas is over and now the New Year is upon us...

Whew...Christmas is over and that means a bulk of my orders are completed.  Today I actually finished one of my last orders.

My new "invention" of Christmas Booty Stockings.

I'm loving how these turned out.  Hope the recipients enjoy them.  This is a short post but hopefully will be having a little bit more free time to short blogging more often.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

CHRISTMAS IS HERE ALMOST!

Last night my church had our annual Candle Light Service and it was beautiful.  The entire sanctuary is dark except for a few lights on the stage.  Songs being sung, the Christmas Story being read, Advent Candles being lit and then at the end one by one we share the lighting of each others candles...it is just beautiful.

Our Wonderful Savior's Birth - this is the reason for this season let's remember it and say Merry Christmas!

Throwing a little bit of my projects in the post as well...here are some things I've been working on here lately...



Georgia Bulldog Hobo Purse

Close Up of Interior Fabric (Picture doesn't do it justice)

SEC Large Key Fobs

SEC Large Key Fobs (Backs) 

SEC mini key fobs

SEC mini key fobs back

 

Youth Throw Blanket (Quilted)



You can't tell but this blanket is AWESOME!  If I do say so myself. :) This is made of regular fabric that I quilted with batting and sewed to white minky fabric.  It turned out to be about 40" x 60" and is the perfect size for toddlers.

Tye liked it so much that he said he wanted me to make him a bigger version with Tennessee on it (UGH!).  I loved it so much that I wanted to keep it myself!  hee he

Loving all these projects but will be glad to have a little bit of rest when Christmas gets here...next project is to make a Christmas Stocking for the Peyton Blanket (above).  The customer liked it so much she wants me to make a matching stocking for years to come for her grand baby.  I'm excited!

Anyways, enough with this post...hope you all have a wonderful and Merry Christmas!

God Bless and HAPPY NEW YEAR as well!



Finally, Finals, Finished

Ah, end of the year- it's always a Hot Mess for everyone.  Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and all the normal every day stuff we do in our lives in between...work, kids, school, family, etc...  How do we manage not to go insane?  Well I'm on my way to full insanity...I've been working on orders, school finals and work.

Last night was my Calculus final. Okay so I know a majority of success in a class is studying but come on people let's realize a good part of it is understanding the material in the first place.  A big chunk of it (to me) is having someone that can teach it so that one can understand. But if you have a super-genius person teaching you it's not very helpful. They think it's easy stuff and I think they are mad! Well I hopefully managed to understand most of what I needed but I'll find out soon enough.  Tonight is my final for Anthropology and then I'm done until January...were the fun will start all over again.

So in between studying and work I snuck in some sewing orders.  I have some awesome people I work with at my job and one of them came to me not too long ago asking me to work on an idea she had for Christmas stockings.  Her dilemma she had was that her niece was a Tennessee fan (yuck...hee he) and the niece's husband a Georgia fan (GO DAWGS!...whoops did I say that out loud? :) ) and they were going to be popping out a little one soon, so naturally as with a house-divided couple they argue about which team the child will go with- so we throw them both and hope the kid will pick the best team of the two...TN or GA (<--- this one of course, ;) oops did it again).  In order to display this option she decided on a house-divided stocking but something unique and different.  So me and my cohort that works with me started talking and Angie (said cohort) said "what about baby booties?"  She explained what her idea was and it was brilliant so the plan began.

With some post-it notes and thread as my tools...I constructed some miniature baby booties as my design. (okay so here is where I would normally insert a picture but sadly I threw them away) Anyways, I took me a bit to figure out exactly how to make them bigger and what they would look like as a finished product.  But they are complete and as my first pair of Baby Booty Stockings I'm quite proud of myself.  But all the credit should go to Tonya and Angie at my work for being such geniuses to think of such a neat and wonderful idea and project for me to try out.

I've already have received 2 more orders for them as Christmas presents, although they are doing just one booty instead of pairs but the pairs are more for the house divided ones I think.  Who knows it could be the next new thing!



House-Divided Booties with the original stockings she had purchased.



Close-up of Booties (one the sides is the child's name with snowflakes)



The Year on Bottom of Booty.

Here are some sweatshirts I appliqued for a lady at my work.  Her daughter planned on giving them as gifts to her sorority sisters.  I think they turned out really cute.

There you go a little update on my insanity bound life.  Although, I joke about my life I really am thankful for having all the little things that happen...good or bad it is all part of the greater plan.  Enjoy the craziness!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  Remember the reason why we celebrate this season...our dear Savior Jesus Christ!

Tell someone Merry Christmas this year!  See you next time...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!

Just wanted to tell everyone that I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!  Be safe and remember what tomorrow is all about...giving Thanks!

I'm so thankful for all I have in this world!  I give thanks for my Lord in Heaven!  (note: hopefully I'll get some sewing done too.)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ready, Set, Sew!

Like promised I have taken pictures of the blankets I did this past weekend along with a scarf I did as well.  With Christmas approaching it has fueled the fire for more orders.  That being said I'll be popping out yet more blankets along with some new creations.

With any luck I'll remember to take pictures of those in order to share.  I'm excited about my sewing projects.  Life is good and I'm truly blessed by my wonderful Lord in Heaven.  I thank Him every day for what He has given me and even when the "valleys" come in our lives we need to see the silver lining called grace.

Enjoy!

Oh small note...this first picture is a blanket that my mom (aka mother-in-law) gave as a baby gift.  The friend sent us this the other day with her precious little girl with the blanket...too adorable!



BEAUTIFUL Leighton!



Monogrammed Grey Fleece Scarf

Packaged Fleece Scarf

 First picture (should have take them all like this)



Cream, Black and White

Pink, Blue-Grey, white (Brynn)

Lavender, Yellow, White

Pretty little packages - ready for their recipients

READY, SET, SEW!




Thanksgiving and Christmas here we come...

If you hadn't noticed or realized Thanksgiving is just 16 days away and then 'BANG' Christmas will be here before you know it.

With that being said - I've got to get to it!  Order, orders, orders...blankets, key fobs, purses, shirts, scarves, etc...

I'm going to be a busy bee in the next few weeks but I'm excited.  And (hopefully) I'll be posting pictures (yikes, there's a word that is always so far out of my mind) but I'm going to try and remember to take pictures of all the things I'm going to be working.

Hope you all are having a wonderful day.  It's beautiful today here in Georgia.

And I'm back!

Lately I've been quite busy with school and work so I've ran off track and lost my time to work on anything else.  This weekend Tye and I went to a FamilyLife - Weekend to Remember conference at the Chattanoogan.  One word-AWESOME!  We learned quite a bit about each other, how to communicate better, and how to work things out, and all kinds of things.  So I had to take time to share and try and get back on track.



Chattanoogan Hotel-beautiful place for our conference

Learn Lots?...yes we did

Workbook-essential tool

It's a boost for your marriage.  There were couples there that had been married for 46 years to 1 week to engaged couples.  They talk about all kinds of things and most important they talk about our main priority in a marriage- God.  Tye and I both enjoyed it so much and look forward to going again in the coming years.

It started on Friday, continued on Saturday and ended on Sunday.  Saturday on the lunch break we decided to eat at Urban Stack since we were just a short walk away.  Plus, it was beautiful outside and we enjoyed the stroll together.  Neither one of us had ever been there before and so we were eager to try it out - I was especially surprised since Tye is a bit picky with his food.  Me on the other hand can eat just about anything.  I took more pictures here because I realized that I had a phone and it had a camera...duh!  :)  We both enjoyed it..we order a cup of chili...d-licious and then we each order the Bacon Cheeseburger and split an order of fries.  One suggestion- they only offered us 2 choices...pink or well...and unless you enjoy pink...and I mean pink - then you better get well done.  We chose pink and Tye figured out pink wasn't his forte but it still was great.

My bubby...handsome fella!

Bacon Cheeseburger - bacon, lettuce, tomato, balsamic onions.

  

On the walk back to the Chattanooga we stopped to take some pictures and I had to act silly a minute with our Shadow people.

I'm a lucky gal!

Shadow people

I'm so glad I have such a wonderful husband.  My best friend-one that understands me and loves me unconditionally.  No marriage is without arguments or problems but luckily with this conference we've learned how to make the good times even better and how to work through the tough times with a little patience and with a little communication.  It was one of the best weekends we've had and if you ever consider taking a marriage class or seminar or conference try the FamilyLife one out.  And if you would like to ask me or Tye about it we'll be as helpful as possible. It's well worth it and it's made us stronger.  I know that I want to have Tye by my side till my last breathe and I'm so blessed to have him in my life.  The Lord has truly blessed me with an awesome husband and his name is Tye.

I hope that all who are married know that your marriage is the most important relationship you will ever have in this world- it sets the foundation for your future, your kids, and their kids.  A healthy marriage is first centered on God.  Thanks FamilyLife for a great Weekend to Remember!

Fun weekend!

We had an awesome weekend!  It started off Friday evening with dinner with friends at Tony's Italian restaurant and off to the Double Decker Ghost tour.  The tour lasted an hour and they drove us around downtown Chattanooga (it was an awesome clear night, a bit on the nippy side but with a jacket it was fine) and told us about Chattanooga's history and different ghost tales.  Ending the ride with Monster Mash and Thriller booming on the speakers!  Right before we jumped off the bus for the night we were handed a Double Cola and Moon Pie (both originated in the wonderful city of Chattanooga).

Tye didn't enjoy it too much because he said it wasn't all about scary ghost stories and they had too many pauses in between.  But I think it was perfect...I liked the little bits of history that was added that I didn't know about and the little pauses gave me time to enjoy the night air and the beautiful city lights.  All in all I'm giving it 5 star rating.

So Saturday I spent the day with my mom (aka mother-in-law) riding around looking for property and a lunch date to Countryside Restaurant.  If you have never eaten at Countryside you are missing out - and sadly we missed out as well on Saturday.  They were closed due to a family wedding...sad for me but happy day for them I'm sure because it was such a beautiful day.  Okay this little family owned restaurant is up in Ooltewah and is a meat and 3 good ole fashion home cooking place.  Must go to!  Unfortunately, we ended up eating...law...I can't even remember...oh yeah I remember...Red Lobster.  Aha...it was okay but definitely not Countryside that is for sure!

That evening Tye and I went to catch a movie...Money Ball.  It ended up being long but well worth seeing...we both enjoyed the movie.

Sunday...church.  And to my surprise my best friend and her husband came to visit.  It was a wonderful service - we had a local family band perform for the service and it was so moving.  For evening service about 40 or so of the church meet up at the Rave to watch the new movie Courageous.  It is a must see movie...I laughed hysterically, I cried, and everything in between.  It has a beautiful message.  Tye and I both liked the movie a lot.

So there you go...my fun, wonderful weekend.  Sorry I completely forgot about taking pictures but I've posted some I've found on the Internet.  God bless and have a wonderful rest of the day!

Hum-drum Day

Today is a blah day to me...YEAH the sun just popped out a little...sorry its been dreary this morning and a little bit of sunshine makes things perk up it seems.

A pinch of sunshine!

I have a project in mind that I wanted to share with you.  Scarves for my co-workers - that's what I plan on making for them in our secret Santa stockings.  Each year a certain group of us at work put up stockings and purchase a gift of $1-$2 value to stuff inside each stocking.  My "go-to" gift is Dollar Tree socks but this year I purchased some grey polar fleece and have the intention of appliqueing each person's initial on the scarf.  It will come out roughly right at a dollar I figured out and will (hopefully) be a cute gift.

In 2 weeks I have fall break at school so I plan on starting on them then unless I get the notion to sneak some in sooner.  I have a good feeling about them - hopefully they'll turn out perfect!

On to another topic - this weekend we plan on using our Groupon coupon on Saturday to take a Ghost Tour in downtown (Chattanooga aka Chatt-Town) on a double-decker bus.  We will be joining our friends, Daniel and Sarah, along with another couple to dinner and then a tour at 10:30pm.  How appropriate to have a late night tour...spooky...right!

This is a picture from Groupon

I've been on a real double-decker in London before and it was so neat...but I can't wait to experience this in our own hometown and a ghost tour to boot!  I think we'll all have a wonderful time and hopefully I'll remember to take pictures and post those along with my thoughts about the night.

Hope you are all enjoying this fall weather and all the beautiful colors of the trees.  That's what I love most about fall - the colors!  It's amazing to see what a beautiful world the Lord created for us and what an exquisite color pallet He has...gorgeous!  Every time I go anywhere that's what I notice the most, all the colors and how bright they are on the different trees.

Well I guess I spouted enough out for now...stay tuned!

AWESOME weekend!

My weekend was awesome!  Georgia wins again this year and I'm loving it - we had a great weekend only bad thing is night games stink.  I was tired and then we had to drive home afterwards.  Here are a couple of pics from the game.
So I sewed some things this weekend and remembered to take a few pictures of some things but completely forgot to take pictures of the blanket I made this Sunday.  Mom suggested that I start making purses again so that might be my next big project.

I made a couple of Greek gifts for a co-workers daughter for her sorority sister so those are below. And I made several bibs and a blanket which a girl at church is supposed to be getting me a picture, hopefully. If you like I'd love to hear your comments.

Acting goofy

Before the tragedy struck

At the game

Greek Key Fob

Greek and Initial Monogrammed Towels

Monogrammed Bib - Baby Gift

Monogrammed Bib

Pillowcase Dress

Hair bow - matches dress