Inspiration!

I know it has been hit or miss with me keeping up on here. What can I say, it has just been busy around here. The winter weather does not help my mood much either. BUT, today is sunny!!!! As I was cutting away in my studio I thought to take some pictures to show you what inspires me:)
SOME of my fabric stash:)) I love looking at these and I LOVE getting them in the mail:)))
I have lots of little jars of flowers, buttons, stamps, ribbons and other things.
Most of these are for my scrapbooking that I have neglected:/ Notice they are in jars as well:)
Another thing I have neglaected are my handmade cards. I REALLY wish I had more time in the day, but very thankful for how well I Sew Lucky is doing:) BUTTONS! I used to keep these in little tiny jars, but realized that this is much more efficient. Not to say you won't still find little jars of buttons throughout my house:)
More jars:)
Owl garlands in progress.
What inspires you?

I put some new items up in the shop today!! 2 Owl Bookends with this super cute Riley Blake fabric:)
This is the last of the cute polka dot fabric by Riley Blake. I put this little minky one in the shop earlier and has already sold:) YAY!! Love my job!!!

I would really love to hear what inspires you:)

Where have I been???

Stuck in the house:/ Winter is never ending:/ But, today as you all know is Valentine's Day and thought I would share a little photo of Matt and I:)

Not the best quality, but it is one of my favorites of us over the last 15 yrs. This was about 5 yrs ago at the airport, on the way back from Disney World.

Here is one of the kids yesterday doing their Valentine's cards. Corrina of course is too old, so she is not in the pic.

Notice Jonathan's "outfit", I am not the only one ready for summer:)

Have a very Happy Valentine's Day!

GIVEAWAY!!

Over at Take Heart, Danielle is hosting a giveaway for I Sew Lucky!! She did such a cute job on displaying items from my shop. Pop over to her blog and see if you will can be the lucky winner:)

Winter blues

Every year I have the winter blues in February. This year it came early. Living here in northern Minnesota, the winters are soooo long. Mornings are usually gloomy which has made it really hard for me to get on the dreaded elliptical trainer (have yet to hop on). We did however get a Wii fit and it has become a big hit with the kids. Me, not so much:/ It is really hard to get motivated. But, I have been very motivated in the studio:)) I added 26 NEW items to the shop yesterday!! The chenille owls have become the most sot after. They are pretty dang cute:) I only had a couple girl ones in the shop and finally got around to making some little hoots for the boys. You can also find them in white, blue and some other little girl ones in pink and yellow.

I only had 1 mini owl in the shop and add some requests so I have added a few of these also.The perfect little something for Valentines day or for any day.

The chubby owls are another popular item in the shop, so I had to add a few of them as well.Don't forget about the small hoots!I LOVE this color combo! Amy Butler's fabric with Riley Blake's, so cute!Hooty Hoot Riley Blake is another popular one.

Can you ever go wrong with black and pink? Check out this other pink and grey combo!

I also added 2 bookends. I am working on more, but have a wholesale order I need to finish first.

SO my question to you is how do you handle the winter blues if you don't live in a nice warm sunny place?

New things for the New Year!!

I have been busy in the studio sewing and cutting!! I thought it would be a little slow after the holiday but no break for me. It is a good thing:) I wanted something new for the shop so here it is! Chubby Medium Owl!

The chubby ones are quite popular so I thought a medium one would fit right in.

Annnnnd do you see the little tag on the side??? I had a design made for sewn in tags. The front:)

The back:)
I LOVE them!! You can check her shop out here. She also did my business cards earlier this year. I will have to share those one of these days.
What do you have in store for the New Year? Good things I hope:))

Christmas and END OF YEAR SALE!

Every year I look soooo forward to all the Christmas festivities and this year did not disappoint. The first part of Christmas Eve was spent with the just us hanging out and the kids playing:) They got to open their traditional jammie gift that they open every Christmas Eve. Even though they know that it is jammies it is always fun for them to see WHAT the jammies look like. I had to wait awhile to try them on since Grandpa and Julie, Jennifer and Sheena were coming:) I have become soooo bad at making sure I take pictures so the only one I have of them is this.My dad and my son:)

After we ate and laughed a bit it was time for the kids to put their jammies on:)He received the cutest jammies:)I tried so hard to get red jammies for all the kids and if you know Preston it suits him that he ended up with black. He just a little stinker.Sorry about this bad pic:/ Matt I got to bed around 12:00. That never happens it always ends up being 1 or 2 so you would think we good nights rest. HAHA!! Kids woke up at 2AM!!! It was our other stinker who was the head of it all.She looks innocent. Carmen and Corrina I guess made this master plan to set alarms and wake up the others but Carmen had her own internal alarm and woke up Preston and after that there was no turning back and having them fall asleep. We tried but they were just to excited. Preston fell asleep on the floor and Carmen went back to bed for a bit. They kept coming up to our room and saying it's after 8 (that is one of our rules) are you coming? And I would say I am trying, this is what happens when you wake up at 2 AM. So finally we crawled out of bed and the opening began.......................after I made some coffee:)I won't bore you with all the morning faced pictures, but this was the present I was most excited to give:) She has wanted on for so long and this year I she got her wish:) An American Girl Doll!!! Kit! She is sooo cute I wish she was mine:) Ava has been dressing her in her jammies every night and sleeping with her and in the morning getting her dressed and toting her around all day. I love that she loves her sooo much, these days will not last forever and are over way to fast.WHAT A MESS!!! But, really this makes me happy:) They will soon be grown and have their own families.It is soooo hard to get a picture of them without half of them not cooperating:/ This is the best we could do. When the company arrived Preston had just his white undershirt on and I MADE him put this on for the pictures and he whipped it right off after they were over. I HATE having my picture taken, but when we take pictures together it turns into a silly laughing fest and that makes it not so bad.We had such a fun time on Christmas day! I LOVE being with my family:)Just Dance 2 on the Wii was a big hit and Stacy I believe had the most fun with it:)))We had the fire going so they were a little warm but it did not stop them:)I wish we would have taken a family photo. I know these pictures are a little late and now it is New Years Eve!! Boy does time go by fast.

Don't forget about the END OF YEAR SALE! Select items are on sale and all prices are changed for you!! YAY!

Wishing all of you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

It's Christmas???

With all the orders I have been sewing up for the last month I have barely had time to enjoy my favorite holiday! BUT...................today I mailed out the last of my holiday orders!!! A little bittersweet to know it is over for now.

Every Tuesday and Friday I was mailing about this amount out. It was crazy!!!! I am sooooo grateful for all my customers!! Thank you so much for supporting my little business:) Next year I think I may need to hire some elves to help.

If you are looking to now buy yourself a little hoot or to get those late Christmas gifts. This one has become the newest popular item.

Isn't she cute?:))

I am off to drink my coffee and stare at the wall for awhile;)

Wishing all of you a wonderful weekend!