She's a one of a kind!!

Good morning everyone!!!  I hope the sun is shining bright where ever you are today!!  We took our boys to the park last night and they got to throw the baseball with daddy and my oldest son Landon actually hit it with the baseball bat about 8 times.  I WAS SO SO PROUD!!!  Having boys is so much fun!!  Sometimes the urge sneaks up on me to want a little girl, and that's when I make things for my nieces :)

Yesterday I kept my nephew (he is right between my boys age wise) for a little bit while his sisters went to get their hair cut and while they were gone, I got busy!!!  I have a huge stash of vintage sheets and pillow cases and I promised my honey that by this summer my stash of pillow cases would start to fade :(  I have so many that they don't all fit in one closet anymore (I know, this screams HOARDER right).  I don't have a great explanation for this other than they are absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!  Well enough with the rambling.........

While they were gone I decided I would try to make a pillow case dress for my youngest niece.  It was so simple, ok let me tell you this way.  Their appointment was at 3 o'clock and they were back by 3:30 and it was done and ready for her to try on when she got here!!  I was so proud of myself!!  When they got here I showed it to her she was so excited to try it, a matter of fact she didn't even want to take it off.  She so got her way too!!!

Let me tell you a little something about Ms. Samantha before I show you her picture.  She is a one of a kind little girl.  She will dress herself and she wears her boots with EVERYTHING!!!  I told her that she looked like a bohemian princess in her dress and her brown boots.  She is so photogenic, as soon as I told her I wanted to take her photo she was all smiles.

See, doesn't she look like a bohemian princess with her brown boots on?  I didn't get any close-ups because as soon as she put it on she never took it off!!  It made me so happy to see her loving it!!!

And of course she had to spin in it!!  Do you see that smile, makes Aunt Alley's heart melt!!

So until next time.......

Happy Crafting!!!

Wedding Update

Good morning everyone!!!  I hope y'all are enjoying your coffee this morning!!  Now as I promised I have something to share with y'all today and I need your opinions please.

Let me start out by painting a picture for you.........

Our wedding will take place at a historical place here in our town called the million barrel museum.  There is an old house there, that is very beautiful!!!  We will have the wedding right outside of the house here is a photo I found of it on the web, it's not the best, but you can see how pretty it is.

You can follow this link to get more info and see some photos of the inside of the house, We will be taking some photos inside before the wedding.

Ok now onto painting the rest of the picture........

All the men including my 2 boys will be wearing dress pants (I'm not sure what they are actually called for men) that are styled like the one's men wore in the 50's, suspenders, white button up shirts and ties.  The girls which are my very best friend and one of my beautiful nieces, will be wearing these dresses.

This is my dress, it is not a traditional wedding dress, but it is very much me!! 

This is my matron of honor's dress.  It is the exact same as mine just in lite blue.

This will be nieces dress, isn't it cute?  I think she is going to look adorable in it!!  You should really go here and check out all of their beautiful dresses (these are their photos)!!  Ok so far what do you think?  I guess I should tell you what our colors are shouldn't I?  Ivory, Lite blue, dark blue and black.  The theme which I'm sure you've figured out by now, is the 50's.  It will be very pin-up, kinda in away.  I have several tattoos and my honey has a few so it kind of fits the theme.  The only things that are actually being bought brand new are the dresses that I showed you above, everything else will be coming from our local thrift store, goodwill and a few garage sales.  We have a budget of $1,000 and after I've paid all of the deposits and bought the dresses we will have nearly $600 left :)  I am so excited!!! 

Now onto the reception..........  It will be indoors because our weather here changes every 5 minutes, I don't want to take any chances that things will be blown away.  Our family's are pitching in to cook the meal (big money saver).  The tables will have thrifted white sheets as table cloths with burlap running down the center, decorated with thrift store milk glass vases and mason jars with fresh flowers in them that we can buy at our local grocery store.  We will have one table dedicated to photos of us when we were smaller all the way up until recently with our children.  At the end of the same table where everyone will come in at there will be a white and rust colored bird cage that I bought for $3 at a local garage sale (will show you photos of this in a later post) this will be for the guests to put personal notes in.  Our wedding cake will be made by my grandmother, she is the BEST baker I know and her cakes are the pretties I have ever seen.  I cannot for the life of me remember where I found this photo at so if you know where it came from or it belongs to you please let me know so that I can link back to it.

Isn't it beautiful??  I love it because it is so simple and fits perfectly with the rustic vintage theme we are going with.  I'm sure I have left out a lot of details because I have so much racing through my mind that I want to tell and show y'all.  I'm sure after I go back and read this after I've posted it, it will dawn on me what I've forgotten.   But I do have one more thing that I want to show you and ask your opinion on, now be honest because I'm not sure if I love them or if I just like them, or if I should do something different to them like add some twine around them or use tulle on the inside of them......

These are paper cones I made out of an old torn up book that I found at a thrift store.  They are for tossing birdseed after the reception when we leave.  They will be sitting in an old suitcase by the door for everyone to grab on their way out.  So what do y'all think?  Do they need something or should I leave them just like they are?  What do you think about everything else so far?  Thank you for all of your opinions and I can't wait to share more details!!!  So until next time............

Happy Crafting!!!

So Exciting!!!

Guess what, guess what!!! 

I have been asked to host a giveaway over at Kitty's blog  A Law Student's Journey!!  This is the very first time I have been asked to do anything like this and I couldn't be more excited!!!  This is Kitty!!

She contacted me through that wonderful craft trading site I told you about (whoopdwhoop).  There are a lot of wonderful people on there and she has decided to shine the spotlight on a few of them and I get to be one of those lucky people and I am so thrilled!!!  You should really head over and check out her really cute blog and enter in the giveaway!!  And while you're there you should really take a look around because she has some great ideas and wonderful tutorials!!!

Just click on the button below and it will take you to whoopdwhoop so you can take a look around and open up an account if you're interested!!!  You won't be disappointed!!

Big Apology!!

Hello Everyone!!!

I feel I owe you all a HUGE apology for my lack of posts here recently!!!  This week has been nothing short of chaos!!  Monday was the only slow day all week, Tuesday I took my 4 year old to the Dr. because he has been running a very strange fever off and on for the last 3 weeks and come to find out he is having a very severe allergy to our wonderful West Texas weather.  I was suppose to take my soon to be sister in law to the Dr. to find out if she was having a baby boy or a baby girl and I had to cancel on her early in the morning so I could take Landon to the Dr.  (She's having a boy by the way!!!!).  Wednesday I babysat for a very close friend of mine so she could make it to an appointment and my back was killing me all day so needless to say I did absolutely nothing other than babysit that day.  Today I took my Aunt to the dentist to get 2 root canals done (keep in mind I am TERRIFIED of the dentist), then when we got home I had to pick up my kiddos from 2 different places, go get groceries, go sit down with my Grandma and tell her how I wanted our wedding cake to be and as I'm typing this right now I just realized I forgot to go to one more place before I finally made it home!!!  I really hope tomorrow is a MUCH better day, because next week is spring break and Momma is so ready for that!!!  I hope to finally show yall some of the things I have managed to get done this week!!  So until next time............

Happy Crafting!!!

Head on over.........

To Crafts & Sutch and check out her 1000 follower Extravaganza giveaway from Antique Paperie!!  They have some beautiful stuff and you will love Erin she is a wonderful person and she is the one I owe the biggest thanks too for making my blog beautiful!!!!  So hurry....... yes you hurry over and check it out!!!

Thrifty Thursday and my garage sale finds!!

First I am happy to announce that my mom loved her package!!!  Now onto what I promised to share with yall earlier in the week (my great garage sale finds)!!!

I have been slowly working on getting my bedroom decorated how I wanted it and there have been several things I've been looking for and I finally found a few of them.  And since I am a very cheap thrifty person I will only buy things like that at thrift stores, garage sales or things that are being thrown given away.   So because of this it has taken me awhile to find these things at resonable (cheap) prices.

Don't you love it?!!!  It has so much charm!!!  And what's even better is that it was only $5.00 and compared to the other one's that I've found that were $20 and more I couldn't be happier!!!

I love this gumball machine!!!  Not sure if my kids will be lucky enough, to have it filled with gum balls though.

Look at the rust!!  I'm so giddy over here I can't even type without looking over at it!!  The face plate is upside down, but I think I'll leave it that way, I don't want to mess anything up by taking it apart and I don't really mind it.  See I told you I found some really great stuff while I was out garage saling!!  I found a few more things too, but my computer seems to have eaten the photos because I can't find them anywhere!!

So what great thrifty things have you found recently???  So until next time.............

Happy Thrifting!!!

Some inspiration for everyone

Well, this morning I decided I would share some inspiration that I found out in the blogging world.  There are some really crafty people out there that inspire me and I thought yall might enjoy some inspiration as well. 

Now as some of you know I have 2 little boys, so because of this I love any craft projects that have to do with boys.  There aren't a whole lot of crafty things out there for boys so when I see one it inspires me instantly, which is why I had to share this Eddie cap from Mushroom Villagers.  Isn't it cute?  Who am I kidding isn't that little guy adorable?

This flower is truly beautiful, but I don't think I have the patience to even give it a try.  If you think you have the patience to try this you can find the full tutorial here.

Look at these great pinwheel coasters, aren't the just perfect?  I love them and I am on a coaster kick so I may have to give these a try and I will definetly follow this tutorial.

Ok, and last but definetly not least, this clock has to be one of the greatest teacher gifts I have ever seen.  This is on my to do list!!!  Just go on over here and make your kiddos teacher feel appreciated! I hope that yall feel inspired, I know I do!!  I know that after all the chores are don't I'm gonna get crafty.  So until next time............

Happy Crafting!!!