Trendy Shoppes

I made these little cuties and mail them off with some birds to Trendy Shoppes! They should be up soon. I'm really excited. It's a brand new site and I get to be on it from almost the beginning! Plus the site owner is really nice.

*sigh* I really need to improve my pictures. I know my dolls look so much cuter in person! I'm just not a photographer, but I really want/need to be if I want to show off how cute my dolls really are. Arrrhg! It's frustrating, as a small home business owner I have to wear ALL of the hats. Some jobs I'm good at, some I'm not, like photographing. And marketing. If I could just sit back and dream and sew I'd be perfectly happy!

New dolls

I've been designing some new dolls and trying to figure out how to make my embroidery machine do the faces and attach them. Here's what I came up with.



The one on the right is my first attempt. I think it's kinda scary looking, but Willow loves it, so I gave it to her. I even let her sew up the stuffing hole all by herself. She did a really good job!
I like the one on the left a lot better. It has a much bigger head and smaller face. I really like the feet! They're just so cute!


While taking pictures of these babies, Violet insisted that I take a picture of her baby too. Why does that one look so much better? Usually my pictures are just average and the one in a while I'll get one that's "wow", but it's always on accident.

Worst Blogger Ever

Has it really been almost a month since I've blogged? I suck! I have been busy, but not that busy.
I've been selling my goods at a new site. Made it Myself is still in Beta testing and I think it shows great potential, plus it's free right now. I always like free.

Willow got to cook dinner all by herself the other night. She has been awful about complaining about what I cook for dinner for months, if not years. No parenting tips please, I'm doing my best!
Anyway, I finally said "Fine, you get to cook tomorrow night." And she did, with a very small amount of help from me.


She made biscuits and sausage gravy. She only burned her fingers twice. I was able to convince her that baking soda in the gravy wouldn't taste very nice. Her biscuits were very heavy. But it tasted pretty good and she was very proud of herself and best of all, hasn't complained about dinner since. That makes me very happy.

Best Anniversary Ever

My Sweetheart surprised me with a trip to a tent and breakfast. It's like a bed and breakfast, but with privacy and s'mores.

He found this place not too far from Clark Fork.

The bed was a lot prettier before we slept in it.


It was wonderful! And the owners are the nicest people ever. We are seriously thinking about moving out to Bonner County in 2 or 3 years.

So now we've been married for 9 years. I can't believe it's been that long. It seems like maybe 3, but not 9. I feel old. But I also feel great. It's been a wonderful 9 years.

I love you Sweetie.

Tshirt fun

I've been on a tshirt kick the last couple of days. Now 5 of my shirts have cutesy embroidery on them. It started with this one.



Man it's hard to take a picture of yourself! This is the best I could do.
I haven't had this shirt very long and I got a spaghetti stain on it! So I embroidered over the stain. Pretty good huh?

Then came a bird, pig, cherries and a monkey. Look how cute!


My sweet hubby helped me with this picture.
They turned out so cute I decided to put them in my shop.

Wow! Look at this!!

Monica at The Homespun Heart (my very favoritest blog ever) is having a drawing! She got Land's end to give her a $120 gift card to give away on her blog! Go check it out! All you have to do is look at their bathing suits and tell Monica which one you like best on her blog! Easy cheesy :D

For the Birds

Look what I've been making!

Aren't the cute?

Yes well, I made one and I liked it. So I made 2 more and they were great, then I made a batch of 14 more. I think I'm done with birds for a while! They're in my shop now.