Header for Early Work Mercantile

  I am thrilled and honored to know that I am member of the talented group "Early Work Mercantile"

I am making my debut along with two other wonderful talented ladies.  Mary of "Marmmies Mammys and More

and  Carol "Buttermilk Creek Farm"  


   I am just so excited to see what both of these wonderful talented ladies are going to offer.

I have things from both of these fine crafters and believe me their work is amazing

  I was talking to sweet Mary about needing a header for my selling page, she surprised me

with the cutest header,  is prim perfect and exactly what I would want for a header.

I am so excited and want to show you the header Mary made for me. It reminds me of

photo's of when my father was growing up on the farm. Thank you Mary, you are the sweetest!

  The debut for Mary, Carol and I  is March 1st. so mark your calenders. I have been working on my things,

I am excited, I think it will be a fun adventure.

Now to show my header........

  

Look what came in the mail

 Sweet Jean "Prim Crafts"   had a wonderful giveaway. She was giving away prim angels to the

first 13 people that left comments on her blog. I was lucky enough to be one of the winners.

I feel so fortunate that I live near Jean. She has become such an awesome friend and has

helped me and given me many pointers in crafting. I love everything that Jean makes,

she is truly an artist. She has a heart of gold and is a wonderful friend.

  I am so glad that Jean is my friend and I want to show you the wonderful valentine angel

that I received in the mail today. I love her, thank you Jean!  If you don't know Jean, stop

by her blog and say hello!

Gatherings

I love prim decorating. I love to make gatherings and take pictures of them, I would love to be a

photographer

for a primitive magazine. I am showing a little gathering that I put together for the kitchen with an old

Betty Crocker cookbook. When I was a little girl, for a long time this was the only cookbook my

mother had. There are four of us sisters, so as you can tell only one would get the cookbook someday.

We would go through the cookbook, looking at the pictures and trying new recipes.

 One year I went on an adventure, It took me several months, but I was able through ebay to get each

one of my sisters one of these cookbooks for their birthdays. When they opened up their gifts you

would have thought they all won the lottery, they were so tickled with their very own cookbook.

Here is a picture of my gathering.

Happy Birthday little Groundhog!

Today is my granddaughter Riley's 8th. Birthday, as usually my daughter out does herself with

these birthday parties. She hired a magician for the party. There was twenty plus children there

and they were in awe of the magic tricks. To start off the celebration my husband and I kept

all three grandchildren last night. We took them out for pizza and then to the mall for some fun.

I tried to take plenty of pictures, but somehow didn't get any of Jake today at the party,

he doesn't like his picture taken, so you have to take a picture when he isn't looking. Now for

some pictures.

The celebration begins, friday eve. out for pizza.

Riding animals at the mall, pappy too.

Riley bungie jumping

We had to stop at the outfitters store, Jake was so excited we had to stand beside santa's reindeer.

Cole bungie jumping

Jake bungie jumping

Playing a game on the way home

Then today, getting ready for the party.

The Cake, look a magicians hat with a bunny coming out.

Special hat made with balloons.

Riley floating in the air.

And look a real bunny!

Antipication!

what a wonderful group of kids, they are in Awe

So many goodies, wow it is fun turning 8.

And my doll from pappy and maw.

Eating Disorder Awareness

Eating disorders can effect men, women and children. It can be anorexia, bulimia of diabulimia.

The person can be very thin, or not thin, it is an illness that most people would never know

exists by looking at the person. My daughter is diabetic and struggles with diabulemia.

 It tears my heart apart as a mom to see her struggle like she does. I am so proud of her

taking steps to beat this disease and I feel with the right help and lots of prayers that she will.

I want to share her story with you.  My daughter is beautiful inside and on the outside too.

She is the best mother that I have ever seen. She adores her family.

Click the link below to see her story.

Stephanies Story:

Update on mom and what I have been working on.

I want to thank everyone for their concern and prayers for my mom. She had an appoint.

tues. at UVA, where they did xrays and took out her stitches and staples from her arm and leg.

They both look great, now we are just waiting for the healing process. She will probably be in the

skilled nursing facility for at least 12 weeks. She isn't able to put any weight on her leg for eight weeks

and then will have to learn to walk with a walker, which will be hard until her arm heals.

But she couldn't even raise her arm before surgery and now she can lift it and even touch her nose.

 We had a scare yesterday, they thought she was developing a blood clot in her leg, they did an

ultrasound and it was negative. So I am so thankful for that!!! And it is so wonderful to see her being

able to raise her arm and touch her nose. Things many of us take for granted.

  Please continue to keep my parents in your prayers, this is hard on both of them.

I haven't had much time for crafting , my little Granddaughter Riley gave me some motivation.

She is turning 8 next week and loves American Girl dolls. She told me that her dolls needed some clothes.

Well she has the "Our Generation" dolls that are sold at target, but to her they are American Girl dolls.

  My husband and I bought her a new doll and I decided to try my hand at making her some doll clothes.

I am used to making primitive crafts,  where if you mess up or have it a little to grungy it looks better.

Making clothes with patterns was a whole new ballgame, the hardest part was figuring out the patterns.

I will share the clothes that I made for Miss Riley, sure hope her and those dolls like them.

Sadie

Front of dress

Back of dress

Dress, pants, and hair bow for doll, matching set.

Dress

Poncho, pants and matching dress

Close up of dress

close up of pants

New Penny Rugs

I have just recently started making some penny rugs. I actually learned to do the blanket stitch by

watching a video on You Tube. I love Karen "KM Primitives"   patterns. I recently finished

two penny rugs and wanted to share the pictures. I am already thinking Spring and have

been thinking of  bunnies, I have some patterns cut out to make them, I will share photo's

when I am finished.

I have also been thinking of joining one of the selling groups that sell monthly. I don't know

which one to choose and if I would even be accepted. But being busy with my jobs and

helping out with mom, I don't have time for lots of crafting. But if I were to be in a group

I feel like I could come up with at least two things a month and that way I would be able

to have my work exposed more to the public. If any of you awesome crafters have any pointers

or suggestions to help me, they would be greatly appreciated!!!!