The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!

For so many reasons!! #1: The celebration of the birth of our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ; #2: Spending time with family; A tie for #'s 3 & 4: Decorations and cute clothes!! Working on several Christmas outfits for MK in addition to outfits to give as Christmas gifts.

Outfit #1: Cord A-line dress with ruffle. Love this furry PINK snowman :)

Outfit #2: Applique Cafe JOY shirt & polka dot ruffle pants. Can't wait to wear this one! The picture really doesn't do this outfit justice.

We ran across these cute knit pants at Wal-Mart for $5 each!! I was so excited the pants were being sold separatley and not as an outfit. We already had the turtlenecks, so just need to add applique/monogram. So cute for play and less than $10 per OUTFIT!

Our Christmas trees are up, stockings hung, and wreaths ... well, they've been hung, twice, but my hooks keep falling! Grr! Heading back to the store to find super duper sticky hooks for my front windows. Christmas orders (actual Christmas appliques OR gifts for Christmas) will be very limited. I have allotted myself a set number of sewing days for holiday stuff. All Christmas related items will be completed by mid-December. I will continue to accept non-holiday orders after the Christmas cut off date, but plan to take a sew-cation and enjoy Christmas with my family.

Organization Makes Me Happy!

I usually have a pretty good idea of my "To Do's", but, during this busy time of year I really have to keep an accurate count. I mentioned a couple of posts back about implementing a sewing schedule for myself. A good idea, but when I have more orders than can be completed in the allotted sewing time, I improvised with Plan B.
A shelf with tubs labeled with days of the week! With my new plan in place the items to be completed on any given day are shouting "you cannot sleep until you finish me!"
As of today, I'm pretty much booked up through November. As always, email me with any questions regarding potential orders.

A couple shirts from this week's orders...

Last, but certainly not least, I MUST share this pastel portrait of my beautiful daughter!!!!

Gobble Gobble!

Can’t wait to get this Gobble Gobble turkey outfit on MK! The brown minky dot ruffle pants are SO soft and cute!!! I opted to do Mary Katherine’s turkey in fall colors, however, a quick change of fabric and this little turkey can be really girly, fit for the boys, you name it!!

Here’s another turquoise/red outfit! So cute! We got lots of compliments on this little outfit while we were out shopping over the weekend. I spent probably an hour trying to decide which applique design/fabrics to use for the shirt and finally settled on this 3 letter monogram which I think turned out cute. Love the ruffle turtleneck from Old Navy! And the red polka dot shoes which Mary Katherine specifically requested :) She loves her shoes!The current total of items on my “To Do” list hasn’t budged much (which is a good thing!). Every time I finish an order, another one – or two or three – comes in! As I’ve mentioned before, please be sure to let me know if you need something by a specific date. If you do not provide a specified date, your item will be completed in the order it was received.

I have several completed orders that are awaiting pickup and payment. Please contact me ASAP!!

That's all for now. Heading home to sew like crazy!!

Playing Catch Up!

Whew! I can tell it's here - that time of year when we have some sort of event every day it seems like! We've had the fair, MK's school fall festival, the pumpkin patch, another fall festival, a Halloween party, and trick-or-treating!! Whew, again! So, in that order...
The fair. SO MUCH FUN! Mary Katherine, Aiden & I rode this kiddie roller coaster. I'll admit I was glad when the ride was over :)The Pumpkin Patch. My camera battery died before the end of the trip. Again, lots of fun. So thankful for Oxy Clean - I never thought her clothes would come clean!Trick or Treat! Look at this cutie! I was so proud of our homemade costume. What started as big rolls of tulle, some fabric, ribbon, and buttons ended up as this itsy bitsy spider. I even SEWED her candy bag! Yay me :)

In the midst of our busy schedules I've been sewing and coordinating a portrait session for myself and several other moms throughout the state. I cannot wait to see the pastel painting of Mary Katherine! Oh, and thanks to Mrs. Barbara Mitchell (Treasured Memories) for a GORGEOUS dress!!

I went on an organizing/cleaning frenzy in my little sewing room yesterday. Here's my sewing 'space'. Is this what every one's sewing table looks like?! I think maybe I need a bigger table for my embroidery machine, sewing machine, laptop, ironing board, etc. As I mentioned in my last post, we will have a cut off date for Thanksgiving/Christmas orders. Thanksgiving outfits will be featured on the blog/Facebook ASAP and Christmas outfits will follow shortly thereafter. I'm excited - we have some cute stuff!!!