Ad it up!

The future of our shop! How do you like the photos and layout?
Any suggestions?

*winter

Ad it up!

Gifts from the mail

It is sew exciting to receive things through the post .

Even more exciting getting something you can make for some lovely little lady!

This vintage wrap dress was sent to me by my lovely sister Summer,

you can see her here

www.allonasummersday.blogspot.com !

And from this fabulous peach dream of a dress I added an airy lining which doubles as a reversible dress with some fancy minty lace! I wish super much that it would have been closer to my size, but I know a young lady that will look just dashing in it!!

Sew, here it is, the soon to be mailed, along with some goodies from our past, this lovely little dress.

Don't you just love it, I do! Romance and fun all tied in to one!!

I hope Miss H enjoys it. I'm sure she will!

Have fun!

*winter

Birthday well spent

The face of 28, well my face at 28!!

This was me the morning of my 28th birthday, January 5th,

And this, this beautiful item, is our new coffee maker. Gifted to us from my boss and his family.

We love it!

Instantly makes coffee, steams, and cleans it's self. It's space age coffee technology.

After indeluging in our coffee maker, we took Vena to the movies to see Avatar.

This is her in the theatre wearing her glasses. She had a lot of fun.

She said, " they sure make movies different these days!"

Vena in her Roy Orbison styling!

We ended our Birthday extravaganza with a silly photo shoot filled with laughing, everyone wearing ear muffs and soft kisses!

Soon to come:

Gifts from the mail,

What I got and what I did with it!!

Until then remember

Birthdays are fun!!

*winter

Time

Running after time

The new year is not so new, and the birthday has past. Time is buzzing by and my net is outstretched to catch some, yet it remains empty. Time is elusive, cunning, and down right sneaky. I'll look about the clock and see some hours I might catch to finish a project or chat but when I turn back to wisely use this time I spy, it slips away and runs right out. Elusive it remains, and time well spend it is not..... here's to catching the times that fly by!

*winter

2010

You say good bye 2009, I say hello 2010.

It's been a year filled with new beginnings, and all came to a close right before the new year and I'm glad. A fresh new start to a fresh new year, that's the way I like it. I always give myself a little extra time to set my resolutions because my birthday is the fifth of January.(just like my Auntie Rosie) I like to start fresh on my birthday as if it were the new year, because for me it is. A new year of age and knowledge, awareness and direction. 2009, a year of starting out and trying. We started staying with Jon's grandma Vena, to help her out. We moved from Grass Valley to Yuba City. We got Nugget the Chicken, our latest family member. Went to Price is Right with Vena in LA. We became obsessed with Wii band, singing games and attempting to keep the grass green. We are excellent at Wii, not so excellent at grass greening! Lets see what else, oh yes this blog, the shop and facebook are all new this 2009.

SEW, for 2010 what's the plan, first up vacation for my birthday. I'm going to travel to Huntington Beach to visit my family. I can't wait. After the relaxation period I'm going to get to work on the shop. New items and posts and pictures are coming. My goal, to save money. I would love to be able to visit my family that is not in California and see the world. Vena has always wanted to see Hawaii, and being 82 years old I feel I should help her get there, plus I've never seen it either so it must be done. Hawaiian cruise here we come soon! Organize this place, I'm currently in the mist of combining Vena, Jon and Me into one house. Each of us has a large quanity of items and keeping it all in one house is hard work. Vena has 82 years of memories in the form of dust, papers,books, pictures, and clothing that fill this house to maximum capacity. While Jon has a large amount of music items, guitars, amps, cable, foot peddles etc. that currently take half the living room and half the guest room. My problem clothing, fabric and wall hangings. How does one combine three peoples lives in to one house and still make it functional. The answer, I don't know. YET! but I will, and when I figure out how to have a music room, craft room, memory room, and rooms for us to sleep and live, I'll fill you in. Until then however, I'm focusing in on the vacation. We no longer have our cottage in Grass Valley. Which is sad and happy at the same time. I'll miss the place, but not the people. Seven years a long time to be in one little house. Memories fill each tiny room of that place, some precious and long lasting; others tumultuous and not worth the effort to recall. Yet, all worthy of one last recollection for old time sake.

It's a new year, a new place and a new time. I am ready to begin this newness and start fresh with life's bounty. Here we come 2010 smiling and with shiny aspirations for you and your many days we will soon fill with productive choices and memories we will cherish forever.

Sew,

cheers to you all

Happy New Year

I hope this reaches you on a sunny day, filled with laughter and love.

have fun !

*winter

Tis the season

Its the snow filled season

I took this photo last week at the house we just moved out of. I'm going to miss the beauty of the creek in the back yard, the giant blue bird that stopped by twice a year, and being able to walk anywhere from home. I loved that little house. Good bye sweet memories of time spent. You will be missed and fondly thought of when talked about in tales of the old!

This season has been slow for me. Why, I'm not really sure. Perhaps the mix of holidays and our moving has sucked all the joyousness out of this time of year. I hope not but I do feel a little down in the holiday spirit department. I still have too much shopping to do, and cleaning and decorating... AHHHHH! the lights, I almost forgot about hanging the lights!! It feels as if I have a never ending ,ever expanding to do list... and it just expanded again!!