What are you thankful for?

I am thankful for...

Little girls that want to learn to sew.

Chocolate Pecan Pie

smiles and hugs and baby giggles

Butter Injected Honey Brined Turkey

Christmas dresses

Candy Corn (Aww, the sugary goodness!)

Secret Santa projects with my daughters

Sweet Potato & Apple Casserole

Making Christmas ornaments from Figgy Pudding turnovers! (Check the MSQC site during Dec. for the tutorial and lots of other Christmas projects! Yay!)

Pumpkin Roll

My husband watching the kids so I can go to midnight movies and awesome musicals!

Peppermint Icecream

New quilt patterns. Old quilt patterns.

Eggnog (drunk late at night while making school costumes with my sister!)

Sewing with my sisters and my mom

Homade Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

My life.

... and food. Did you notice that?

Sorry no pics, but my brain seems to be in major planning mode (also known as holiday hiatus :) )

but I wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

We've had a wonderful one and yes our tree is already lit and decorated in the living room!

It makes me smile and I like that! So, very soon there will be new holiday wishes but for now...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fiesta Flowers!

I'm finally starting work on my Sis Boom Pow squares.

My first one is together (not appliqued yet.)

and I have some fun ideas for the second.

I have to get a move on and finish them up this week!

On top of that I have a very special dress I'm making for my 8 year old by tomorrow!

Yikes wish me luck!

A little Fall Lovin!

Next weekend is our 1st Thanksgiving dinner of the year (we only have 2 but still... the first!) and I'm feelin' the Fall feelings! Check out the new pumpkins I made to sit in my entry inspired by a post from Jaybird that had a pic of Rachel's (p.s. I quilt) pumpkin patterns and some other inspiring fall looks!
I started these while prepping for the craft fair a couple weeks after seeing that post and I thought I'd make some pumpkins to sell.
It was fun gathering all the orange and figuring out how to put it together. I love seeing my fabric through new eyes once inspiration hits!
Unfortunately for my bottom line, I decided these were to cute to sell and I didn't have any other orange... or atleast not enough other orange :)
Oh well!
They look great sitting by my stairs!

Stash busting Halloween!

With "Operation Princess" a success I'm very excited to be moving on to a quilt project or two! First I'd like to document this success with a few pictures!

Be aware as we look at these that I did not spend a penny on materials for this Halloween's costumes!

Several of them were made from previous costumes that were added to from stash fabric and the others were made entirely from stash! Can you guess which is which! :D

My biggest princess moment was with Cinderella!

She had the amazing costume changing dress! She wore it short on Friday (there's a little peek at Ariel too) as Felicity: An American Girl (She was avoiding the petticoats for school :) ) and Sat we let it out and added the fluff and Voila it was like Cinderella's mice were right there with us!

We also had a lovely little Belle

We had to take some time on friday and find the Beauty and the Beast movie when we realized she'd never actually seen it!

Beyond those lovelies we had 2 adorable cheerleaders

And the hit of the night was my "Jack"-in-the-box!

(That's his name, he was adorable! Thanks for the idea Nat!)

And with plenty of candy he sat in his little box quite happily too!

I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween and between the screaming sugar high kids and unfinished projects are ready for the fall and winter holidays to come at us!

Operation Princess is underway!

The Holiday is upon us and there are atleast 2 princesses in the making at my house. So we have instituted "Operation Princess".

Phase one of operation princess involves yards upon yards of yellow tulle! Ooh the gathers!

Phase 2 will be the disassembling of one blue satin number turning it into a new larger blue satin and lace thing!

Check out my lady in waiting! Ooh-la-la!

After the completion of this operation don't worry I won't be done yet I still have 2 cheerleaders and a jack in the box to arrange!

Happy Halloween everyone!

I hope you snag lots of treats from trick or treat bags tomorrow night!

October Crazies!

Wow October has flown by and is still flashing past me but I thought I'd stop a minute and tell you about my crazies!

The week after Market I was up until all hours of the night...

yes it's true. Twice I was up until 5 and even 6 am.

Only realizing I should go to bed after Ally's alarm clock rang to wake her up! I prepped for and did a tiny bit of a craft fairage. I made around 30-40 headbands out of some super cute stash

(these are the dregs of the bunch, the rest are at the MSQC, and I still think they're cute!)

and I threw in a few diaper cakes I made to sell and never listed *blush* oops! This last week I spent some time embellishing the extras and sent them on to my sisters shop. Lots of cute ric-rac flowers and fuzzy embroidery! One bonus of making all those headbands, it gave me plenty of opportunity to use my brand spanking new from Market gingher scissors!!!

I love them! So sharp and strong!

Just like a man but all dressed up cute and ready for what ever I tell them to do!

I've also had to little girls birthdays happen in the last couple weeks one party is still coming sometime before the onslaught of the holidays and yesterday was the children's program at our church I'm in charge of the music and we've been practicing all year long and I have to say it was beautiful. Even my husband cried. :) Sometimes things just go right.

Thought I'd leave you with one of my Market pics I haven't gotten up yet :) I'm thinking I'll just sprinkle them in with my upcoming posts so we can have a little market all year long!

This is of course me and the amazing Amy Butler! her class was so fun! Love the new "Love" fabric! I can't wait to see all the fun stuff that comes from all these new fabrics and patterns!

Thank you miss Butler! We love you too!

To Market, to Market to buy layer cakes! Home again, home again last night so late!

It's been CRAZY! I spent last week getting ready for Market and going to market! and the week before that in Missouri and... getting ready for Market!

My mom & sisters & I (the MSQC team!) had a blast!

This was Pillow & Maxfield's booth I love their fabrics! (they have a blog coming soon I believe!) And their quilt on the wall has an awesome story!

Hehe! You can tell everyone at Me & My Sister had a blast!

This was Bunny Designs booth! Alice and her Mad-hatter were so cute I had to take pictures!

She has some fantastic japanese prints! Check out the mushroom :) I love it!

I've got lots more picks with some fantastic designers and you have to keep watch on the MSQC blog they're putting together a video tour of Market that was lots of fun getting material for!

I hit school house on Friday

and wowed everyone with some super cute name badges (hehe)

and met some amazing designers! (Sandi Henderson, Heather Bailey, Amy Butler, Anna Maria Horner, Deb Strain, and on and on and on! Aaaaaa!)

Gushed over them and took pictures with them :D and none of them hate me yet... I think :) hehe!

Can you understand why I'm still giggling thinking about it! Or maybe it's just the fantastic fabrics I got! Aah, japanese prints, Heather Ross, Riley Blake, and more though not nearly enough more! (But apparently enough to make me giggle :D )