I Love Spring

Spring...Sunshine...Flowers...oh yeah, and inch worms.

Fabrically Delicious

I'm soooooo excited!!! Look what came in the mail yesturday. These are the sweetest fabric desserts. I love them so much that I'm starting my own online shop selling them and other delicious fabric. My business name is: Fabrically Delicious. I'm blogging about this a little premature, (I'm still working on my website) but I couldn't resist showing these off. The colors are so beautiful, you really could almost eat them.

What are they anyway?

They are precut fabric strips rolled up super cute, or precut squares bundled together. There are many patterns that go along with them.

If you don't sew, nows the time to start. These precut fabric pieces are ready to sew, no cutting or very little cutting needed, it makes sewing sew easy.

Each set includes about 40 different coordinating fabrics that are designed to go together. You no longer need to go to the fabric shop and pick out 40 different bolts of fabric and have the fabric cut from each bolt. Ta-dah!!! They are already to go and the cutest designs, colors, and quality.

Jelly Rolls

Layer Cakes

Charm Packs

More to come.....

Yummy Waffle Cones

One of our favorite gifts my husband and I bought ourselves for Christmas one year was a waffle cone maker from Williams and Sonoma. Jason worked at Baskin and Robbins when he was in High School, so he considers himself a professional waffle cone maker. So after we bought it he went to Baskin and Robbins and bought a case (yes, that's a lot) of waffle cone mix. Now we make our own fresh waffle cones whenever we want.

One of our favorite ice creams, Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie, it's seasonal, which is probably a good thing for me.

Waffle Cones + Ice Cream = Happy Kids

You know when you enter an ice cream shop or pass by one at the mall and it smells soooooooo good. Thats what our house smell like when we make them, absolutely wonderful. A great gift idea!

Remember these? I bought the fabric in the beginning of March. Well, I finally finished them. They've been almost done for a while, but with moving and other responsibilities that have come up it's taken me a while to get back to them. I made a few table runners. I made up the patterns, but was inspired by Camille's quilts (like the flowers and circles) who also designed the fabric. My first experiment: Remember I'm still learning.

Experiment 2:


Experiment 3: This one was fun, I tried stippling on my sister's fancy sewing machine and stippling was pretty fun. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. But luckily I had a small project to work with.

Now I must admit there are some mess ups that I didn't realize until it was too late for me to fix or want to fix, like placement of fabric patterns, but pretend you can't tell even if you try.

I'm Finally Back

We have finished moving and are mostly settled in. Spring has arrived, the trees are beautiful and we even have seen some sun. We tried to take advantage of the sunshine when it came. Jason went for a bike ride and gave his bike a bikewash, Preston joined in.

Monday I really needed to go grocery shopping, but this bench has been calling my name for a while, it's been ready for a fresh coat of paint. So our tummies had to wait until Tuesday. The weather was too good to resist painting instead of shopping.

Before:

After:

I've been craving bright fun colors lately. This aqua did the trick. Then I made this 'Happy Birthday' banner for our craft group at church. I think it turned out cute. You can buy banners at http://myemmiecakes.blogspot.com/, she makes really cute banners.

Good Times

I'm blogging today about many things. We will be moving out soon into my In-laws home while they serve a service mission in Malaysia. We will be taking care of their home while they are gone (and no not for free, I wish) until they get back in about 18 months. So anyways, I will be busy this month.

Make Your Own Pizza Night

Our family LOVES pizza. We have it at least once a week for dinner, usually homemade. Tanner wanted to make little pizzas, so everyone made their own. It was perfect everyone made theirs how they wanted, so no toppings were picked off. Lately my favorite has been a Mediterranean pizza, yummy. We also like taco pizza for one of our usual pizza nights.



Our Boys

Spencer is our oldest 9 1/2 years old. He was born with a serious Heart defect, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and has a pacemaker, but he has been doing great. Our miracle child.

Tanner, the second oldest just turned 8 years old. Monkeying around! Tanner was baptized by his Dad. He had lots of family and friends there to support him.

Logan here, you know like the X-men Wolverine Logan. He loves me to make up his hair. He likes the Elvis hairdo too. He's 5 years old.

Preston, our youngest is 3 years old. Cutie!

I have the greatest kids! It makes me happy that they are great friends with each other.

Sewing Project

My future project. I am a Camille Roskelley fan. She designs quilt patterns and here is her fabric, Cotton Blossoms. I love her patterns they are hip and fun. I think I will stick with some table runners for now, but I'm looking forward to making one of her patterns in the future.

Dream Kitchen

Here is a picture of my dream kitchen. I love the wood island, white cabinets, and wood floor.

My kitchen now has oak cabinets that the previous owner had custom built and when I first saw them I wanted to paint them, but I was too chicken. I knew we wouldn't live here forever, so I wasn't sure what it would do to the resale value. We will be renting out our house soon, so I'm glad I didn't paint them. But I would love to have a kitchen I love in our next house, even if I have to paint the cabinets.