Christmas

What a busy few days it has been!! Christmas Eve started off with the my Dad and step mom, Julie at our house celebrating Christmas! The kids had so much fun eating Pizza Hut and opening their fun presents! I tried to take some pictures of them all together and of course never got everyone smiling at the same time! This is the best I could do.....

I tried again after everyone go their traditional Christmas Eve jammies on.

They all seem to look happy:) Jonathan's expression is my favorite! They all wanted to hold a present in this next one......

AWWWWWW:) So happy, it makes me wish I was kid again:)

Preston and Jonathan doing a little playing.

Preston putting out cookies and milk for Santa!

After lots of excitement the kiddies finally went to sleep and I did one of my favorite things. HO HO HO!

If you notice, half of the side of tree has no lights:/ We can thank the cat for that one. I caught her up in the tree. I hand no desire to fix it. One last cute picture of Christmas Eve.

I love his little shaved head:) He is too dang cute! Love you Preston!

I had both my cameras going all night and decided to Matt in charge of the digital on Christmas day. I wish I would have had both. This is the only one I have to share of our very busy fun day!

I was so disappointed that I did not have more to choose from. The digital camera does not take very good pictures, but it would have been nice to have more. I will have to wait to get my film developed for the hopefully better ones!

We had such a fun time with the family! LOTS of food and laughing!! I wish my brother and wife could have made it home this year and also my sister Melissa had to work:( Too bad that it had to end a little earlier this year due to the bad weather.

I wish everyone has a great New Year!

Christmas SALE

I am having a Christmas Sale in the shop. I put all the Christmas dollies on sale:)

Christmas Owl

And the last Christmas Owl banner!

I hope you find something you like!

I am hoping to get my homemade Christmas presents finished this weekend. I still have to get some baking done as well. YIKES!!!! I am running out of time.

I am not ready!!!

I am not ready for Christmas to be here yet. I am not even ready for Preston's birthday which is in 2 days!! Tomorrow I am hoping to get almost the rest of my shopping done:) We will see how that goes. I am trying to get the Christmas gifts I make, finished. I barely have started:/ Maybe I should stop making these...............

These bookends are fun because they can be toys as well:)................A little heavy, but cute:)

I am off to finish about 20 ornaments that need to be mailed out today. YIKES!!

Note to self.............less time on the computer:/

SEWING nonstop

That is kind of how I feel. So much sewing going on over here:) I really never imagined that I would be so busy this year with the shop. Last year was so quiet.

While I am busy doing custom orders and sewing ornament after ornament, I squeeze in some items for the shop. Here are a few of the newest little dollies!

3 of them are for the shop:)

BETHY

SALLY

SUZY

Sally has a similar one:)

Which one is your favorite? Tell mw what you think of the eyes. Do you like them better with shut eyes? You will have to look at old posts or my shop to see the other ones.

I have a ton more ornaments to make. ..................so have a good night:)

A Fun Surprise!

I was featured on this blog tonight!
http://http://thepartsy.blogspot.com/

My little Christmas dollies were on her fun blog!!!
Just thought I would share!

custom dollies

These little dark skinned dollies turned out pretty darn cute:)The middle one is becoming quite popular in the shop. I have to make a 3rd one this week:) I also want to make some darker skinned ones for the shop, what do you think?

The little dollies are now off new their new homes:)

I had a busy weekend of decorating the tree and house, wrapping presents, sewing and much more. Now I need to get my orders done to be shipped out tomorrow................another late night for me.

I am lovin Etsy right now!

This is my favorite ornament and it is in the "GIFT GUIDE" on Etsy!!

Super fun!!

My sister had me make this doll for one of her friend's daughter. She turned out adorable:)

I forgot to take pictures before I gave it to her, she was so nice to do it for me:) Thank you Stacy!!!

Tomorrow I will have pictures of the 3 custom dollies that will be mailed out today......................unless I forget:/

Have a great weekend!

500!!!!

WOW!!!! I thought I would get to this amount of sales in the new year!!! Very exciting for me:)

I wanted to share this adorable print. I think it will be one of the items I by soon:)

This is her shop.

http://http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28694952

Have a happy Thursday everyone!

Santa's workshop!

My studio definitely feels like Santa's workshop right now. It has been so hectic with everyone having the stomach flu. I am now the only one left to get the awful sickness:/ In the meantime this is what I have been busy doing.

There is really bad lighting on this side, so sorry for the bad picture.

The ornaments are selling so fast. Luckily I have a few of them already cut up and ready to sew. I hope I have some left to give as gifts:)

These ones are one of my favorites to make.

This one is waiting to be stuffed. I was crazy busy the other night making stuff for the shop. I made 13 owls, like 20 ornaments (can't remember exactly), 4 dolls and 5 mini owls!!!!! Some of the owls were bookends.

A few of them have sold already. I enjoy making these as well:)

More projects to finish. Dollies are the most work out of all the little creations in my shop, besides the quilts.

I am so grateful that I get to bring these to the post office twice a week and sometimes more:) LOVE what I do!

Here is a cute picture of Preston as Hockey:)

He is doing sooo much better this year. No laying on the ice yet:)

Today is another busy day of bringing Preston to school and working on the dollies while Jonathan takes his nap, only to be woken up in a couple of hours to go pick Preston up and then Corrina and Carmen from school and then back to the middle school to pick up Corrina!!! Lots of running around with all these little kids. What else would I be doing?

Have a great day!

I am Thankful for these special people:)

And for everyone being flu free for 24 hours and counting! I am so happy that the flu did not ruin our Thanksgiving. Wednesday I had 2 sick boys, so we were wondering who would be next...............no one yet:)Here are some high-lights of our thankful day!

A little nut cracking:)

2 pail but HEALTHY boys!

This little boy is getting ready for his nap so us big kids can play a HECTIC game of Pictionary.

Preston did so good at guessing what the pictures were and drawing them. He had a little help.

They almost won!! I know, a lot of pictures of Preston, but he looked so dang cute in his outfit I took the most pictures of him I realized.

Little Jonny-be-good, woke up from his nap in time to watch dad build a fire (his favorite....Jonathans too:)) Also it is one of my favorite times of the day for a few minutes of quiet at least.....................................................

MOVIE AND POPCORN TIME!!!!! Believe me, they do NOT sit through the entire movie:/

Time to eat!!!! We had a ridiculous amount of food!

We were going to have some of the family come over, but with the flu bug in our house we decided best not to infect anyone else. We will be eating turkey for days!!!

When I was loading up the pictures I realized that I did not take a picture of all the kids together:/ Holidays are a lot of work around here!! Maybe Christmas:)

I have added some new Christmas ornaments to the shop!!!!

These are 3 out of the 6 new ones. I also added these little minis:)
I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!