Napkins!

I had this old dress that I bought like 8 or 9 years ago for like $3 or $5...to say the least it does not fit anymore. But, I love the color and texture of it so I decided to make some napkins out of it! Here is a better picture of the color.

I sergered around the edges and was able to make 15 napkins. They were not all the same exact size but they were pretty close! I was really pleased with how they came out!

J-O-B!!!

DH officially has a J-O-B!!! Praise God!! He is filling out the paperwork now and then he has to go for a physical...which he should have no problem passing. They offered him a $1 more an hour than they originally said..Praise God!! It is a $5 an hour pay cut (that is $800 a month) but I still am going to Praise God that he has a job now!!
Now we are on the hunt for a good used car and until we get one I will be home and he will be driving 'my' van.

Chocolate truffles!

This is DD's new pillowcase dress that I made this week. It has chocolate truffles all over it! YUM!! Then we have chocolate raspberry body pray that we put on her and she smells just like a chocolate truffle! This is some of the fabric that I got when I went to TN in March with my mom and aunt to a quilt festival.

Just because they are so darn handsome!

The boys have been enjoying the swingset!

It's a jungle out there!

Our at least it is a jungle around here! My 6 yo found this little frog yesterday....then my 3 yo let it loose! And then my 6 yo was none to happy!

Frog!!

DH found a frog in the boys bathroom this morning in behind the toilet!! EWW!! That has got to be the grossest place in our whole house!! And how it got in there I have no idea!

Baby bunnies!

We found some baby bunnies in the back yard. (Being that I have several bunny loving friends I will leave out the rest of the story, lets just say it has something to do with the lawnmower you see in the background.)

Water balloon launcher!

My mom bought my 6 year old a water balloon launcher last year for his birthday. If you do not have one I highly recommend it!! We can get the little water balloons to launch way over 100 feet!!

Why does it take 2 hours to fill up a bag of water balloons but only 2 minutes to break them all???

Our new swingset!

I don't think these pictures do the sheer size of this swingset justice! The swing uprirghts are 6"x6"x16' posts! 16 feet across and the monkey bars are 12 feet long...making it a total of 28 feet long....and the monkey bars are 7 feet in the air. The kids have played on it pretty much nonstop since DH took the braces off and the cement dried. I am sure that they will have years of enjoyment on it. Our plan for the future...hopefully next summer...is to add on a platform/tower on the side of the monkey bars and then put a platform around the tree next to it and a sandbox underneath...again that is future plans. And we still need to put a tire swing on in between the two swings but we have to special order it from somewhere.

Sneak Peek!

I have a TON of pictures I need to get uploaded to my blog but, here is a sneak peek of the outfits I just made! I think they came out AWESOME!! I made an outfit for DD's doll baby, DD, and myself! I made the pillowcase dress for DD and her doll and made it as a top for me and then altered a pair of maternity pants I got off of ebay to match. I had two identical pairs of black pants so I cut one of them off and made it into capris and then put the zebra print on as a cuff....those also came out great!! The hair bow that the doll is wearing is the one I made for DD a while ago (can be seen in a previous post...back at the beginning of my blog.) It may be hard to see but I also sewed on a piece of black satin ribbon on between the pink and bottom strip of zebra print. Now my goal is to make matching purses for DD and I and have my mom embroidery our names on them.