Eli's gifts

4 cloth pads I made for her postpartum, velour on top, fleece in bk and microfiber soaker.

An hawaiian burp cloth I made

A tag blanket I made

I also ordered her 4 LittlebeanDiapers

My Peach Cobbler

This is the best peach cobbler and is very easy to make.
1 large or 2 small cans of peaches sliced
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup self rising flour
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
dash of cinnamin

Put butter in your baking dish, microwave to melt. Mix sugar, flour, milk and extract in a bowl. Pour into the melted butter. Drain peaches, arrange in the dish. Sprinkle cinnamin on top. Bake in 350 oven for 50-60 mins. Yum-O!



Before baking

All done!

Secret Sisters

"I am signed up for the Homeschool Moms Secret Sister Session #3!"

another diaper

Aqua pul with aqua or teal velour inner with microfiber soaker. It sucks but works...

Gifts

My friend Grace recently had her third beautiful blessing and I had to make her baby something, so I embroidered her name bday on a fleece blanket and made her an Hawaiian burp cloth....

Wallhanging Gift

My sister was blessed, and was able to get her house expanded and have her very own sewing room. So to help her with decor I made her a wallhanging. Yes she could make it herself but I wanted something that was from me and showed my love for her. Click to enlarge...

My diaper attempt

I love amp diapers, well, I cant find anyone who will sell to me in the United States so I tried myself at making them. my serger messed up on me but other than that Im pleased with my first attempt.

Sara's Changing Table

This is just a peak at Saras changing station, the basket of dipes is usually underneath but I wanted them in pic.

Kids craft

Once a week we have craft day. Last weeks craft was making those things that you have to iron the beads and it seals it together. I had to practially do Emalys and helped Leia do theirs but they had a blast. Sebastain even joined us for this one. They wear them all the time....

Sara's Shirt

I know this is a sad sad picture but I wanted to show the shirt that I embroiderd for Sara, It says Made In Hawaii.

What do you see?

Ok ladies, another picture story. Take a pic of what see when your standing at your sink...... The above picture is what I see while standing at my kitchen sink. I have my cutco knifes out of reach of little ones. I have my karinas kitchen thingy I made a long time ago, I have a playdough thing that Sebastian made me, I have a candle that never gets lit and picture of three of my kids, then the paper basket is something that Sebastian also made for me many years ago for Mothers Day all by himself and it means alot to me, Then hanging on the pegs are a wallhanging my friend Christi sent me for my birthday, a baby washcloth and a hotpad that I made while visiting family last year....



Now the rules are simple, take the pic now, dont doctor the area in which you see. Take it as is and let me know when you do so I may see.....

Coffee?

Here's me favorite coffee cup. When I was living back in North Carolina, my mother in law would make coffee on sunday afternoons for us to enjoy together. (She does this every afternoon, but also with us on Sunday as a family) Well I would always grab this coffee cup. So when we moved to Hawaii she gave me this cup. Everytime I drink coffee at home, I use this cup. Its my favorite and holds a special memory for me. Coffee with mom.

Do you have a favorite coffee cup? If so share yours with me. Let me know you posted one by commenting here. I look forward to seeing your cup and hearing its story.

Homemade Rolls

I have never tried my hand at homemade rolls until today. So Leia and I set out to make some together. Here are a few pics of us making them together. Even Sebastian and Emaly helped.


Leia so proud and melts my heart when she looks at me this way.

Leia kneeding the bread dough. I helped her. Even Sebastain wanted to help kneed.

Sebastain, Leia and Emaly all helped roll these out.

All Done.
* Edit- They tasted great, and Andy was impressed.....

A New Look!

Hi Blogger friends, I have a new look. Thanks to Jennifer I'm still learning. My sister Jennifer does the admin stuff on my blog. She is awesome. I'm so clueless. But I'm getting there. I want to start adding receipes to my blog. Only my favorite ones ofcourse. Again thank you Jennifer!

More cloth napkins!

These match my kitchen perfectly. Yellow flannel on one side with the blue flower print on one side. I only made 4 right now but plan to make more. These are honestly the best way I have found so far at making cloth napkins.

The girls new jammies

Leia is wearing them first, the girls share their clothes.

Mops Notebook

We made notebooks at MOPS this week to keep all our stuff in. I surprised myself with this, considering I dont scrapbook. I did get the idea from someone else but I added my own ideas as well.

Sara's baby quilt top

The girls newest quilts

I finally got the girls quilts done that I had been working on. I designed each one myself. They are matching quilts but have different fleece backs and their own names on the quilts. I also appliqued their hand prints on the quilt. There is no middle layer.... I also handmade the ruffle that is around the quilt......


Leias quilt and what both look like on the front minus the different names and hand size.

The back of Leias

The back of Emalys

Leias close up

Emalys close up

wipes!

This cloth wipe is for Sara. The wipes I made are one side is velour and the other side is flannel. THey are soft soft soft. I serged them and then sewed over it too. It was great to sew again even if it was a small project.....

These are made for a friend who is having a boy.

Im still around......

I will be making a apron soon. I just have to get my thoughts together. Baby brain makes it hard, but Im startin to feel better so I should be making things soon.......

Pregnant ***edited to say Guess what?????

I just wanted to post to the internet friends of mine, That we are expecting.... Im due sometime around August 7th.....

Edited to say*****Woohoo! we just found out we are expecting a new little bundle of JOY!!!! Although Im feeling sick already, I am deep inside very excited about having a new baby to nurse and cloth diaper and love.........I love being a mommy!!!!!

Chemical Warning

Chemical Warning:

A recent study indicated that fabric gives off certain Pheromones
that actually hypnotize women and cause them to purchase
unreasonable amounts. When stored in large quantities in enclosed
spaces, the Pheromones (in the fabric) causes memory loss and
induces the nesting syndrome (similar to the one squirrels have
before the onset of winter i.e. storing food), thereby perpetuating
their species and not having a population loss due to their kind
being cut into pieces and mixed with others. Sound tests have also
revealed that these fabrics emit a very high pitched sound, heard
only by a select few, a breed of women know as "quilters". When
played backwards on an LP, the sounds are heard as chants, "buy me,
cut me and sew me". In order to overcome the so called "feeding
frenzy effect" that these fabrics cause, one must wear a face mask
when entering a storage facility and use ear plugs to avoid being
pulled into their grip. One must laugh, however, at the sight of
customers in a quilt fabric store, with WWII army gas masks and
headphones! Studies have also indicated that aliens have inhabited
the earth, helping to spread the effects that these fabrics have on
the human population. The are call QUILT FABRIC STORE CLERKS. It's
also been experienced that these same Pheromones cause a
pathological need to hide these fabric purchases when taken home (or
at least blend them into the existing stash), and when asked by
significant other if the fabric is new, the reply is 'I have had it
for awhile.'

Yesterday I was soooo bored and wanting to sew sooo bad, I sat and stared at my stash but didnt have enough to really do anything. I could have finished up Emaly nite time diapers but wasnt feelin that.... I started to work on a few outfits for the girls but didnt have all the stuff needed..Sooooo Today during naps I decided I NEEDED to sew.....So i finally got around to making a pillowcase dress. I have been wanting to for a long time now. I used pink ribbbon to tie on the arms and ribbon around the bottom and used my embroidery machine to applique the butterfly.... I really like this and plan to make Leia one too and many more I think.....:)

Here is the finished quilt for my brother Steven. He loves the marines, not sure why but he requested a quilt with this theme on it. I made it up as I went. It is really long which is good, cux he is tall. I still have to mail this to him. I hope he is happy with it....

you can kinda see the quilting I did on it.

Big Swole is his nickname....

Quilt

The back of Stevens quilt

Here it is, All done.......Im very pleased with how it turned out...

The back of the quilt

here are my wheat berries (i used red hard wheat berries) to mill into flour to make my bread....

almost

Looky looky flour, wow isnt that soo cool!!!

In the oven fixin to bake:)

Bread all done. I gave one loaf to a friend..

Well I had another sewing nite at my house. Tonite we made fabric Christmas trees and had great fellowship and lots of laughs. Everyone did awesome, two of the women had never sewn and now want to learn even more. They also said I was good teacher, wow uh......We had a great time.....

View from the other side. Notice trees everywhere.....

Here is Debbie working on her tree.

My tree all done, I wanted to get pics of their trees but everything happened so fast, I didnt get too.

The ribbon is messed up and I need to redo it, I will be adding more to this tree havent decided exactly what yet.