Yes, I destroyed my blog.

In the effort to make some small changes, I somehow erased all my links and such,

and due to my lack of technical abilities, I'm sure it will take me a while to get it

looking right. Oh poo!

Here is my most recent entry in the spoonflower fabric contest.

The theme is "fish" with a limited color scheme.

I call it Koi Joy.

Once again, if you like my design vote HERE.

If you want to see all my public designs go here.

Or should I say dolls;)

Here is the finished Audrey doll, and she was a big hit with my little Isabelle.

My design didn't make into the spoonflower finals, but I had

fun making it, and love the motivation the contests give me.

Vote for one of the fabulous doll panel finalists HERE.

I just happened upon this today and had to share it.

I was looking for some sites with fun educational games to play

with my 4 year old. And this site came up at the top of my google search.

Look closely at the site review by USA TODAY.

Here's a closer look.

The site boasts that it is trusted by over 30 million parents, that's got to be at least 90 million kids right? What's this werld cuming to?

When I was young I desperately wished for my own pet fawn,

well to be honest I wanted a pet everything, but especially a sweet baby deer.

I have always loved pictures of Audrey Hepburn with her pet deer Pippin, and have had

great plans to create something using them as inspiration.

So when I heard about spoonflower's doll panel theme, I couldn't help myself.

Please vote for my design HERE

the finished dolls and deer soon.

xoxo

My design made it into the final stage of voting... please come vote for me!

The design is titled tree2, the place for voting is HERE.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love spoonflower? Well I do, where else can you design and print your own fabric in whatever quantity you want and have it in hand in about a week? And now we can buy fabric from other spoonflower members! If you don't have an account, it is quick and painless to set one up. So what are you waiting for?

Here are my designs I received yesterday, I am so happy with them!

It seems the cold weather sneaks up on me every autumn. It snuck up on my pumpkins too, most of them didn't have a chance to turn orange. My 9 year old says they will make great

jack-o-witches!

This is the first time I have entered a fabric design in one of spoonflower's contests.

The theme is "numbers", this little owlie tree is what I came up with.

If you like it, please vote for my design here. My design is number 33.

I hope you are all enjoying the change of the seasons, I am so excited for Halloween, candy and COSTUMES!!!

Here are the swatches of my darling deer fabric printed at the fabulous spoonflower.

Deery creations coming soon!

We have been busy bees this summer!

Due to my lack of multi-tasking skills, I have been a lousy blogger lately,

but we have enjoyed many a warm and sunny day.

With all our traveling and crazy projects, my favorite days of the summer were the ones I stayed home, didn't put my shoes on all day, and sat in my lawn chair watching the kids play in the sprinklers. Remind me to simplify my life in time for next summer! I am a little sad that summer is over, but I do love autumn with the cooler weather, Halloween, and harvest time.

Recognize this?

Lovely Zinnia seeds courtesy of Zinnikki. Thank you!

Banana Cream, mmmmm!

A bunch of cute kids.

Sarah and Shaun's wedding cake and fab enertainment. (I'm the one with the black afro)

I hope you all had a great summer!

I'd love to hear about your favorite summer days!

School has begun, and so has the taunting, ridicule, and such.

I have been made aware by my 4th grade daughter that disney princess lunch bags are no longer considered cool. That's not the main reason I replaced her lunch bag, after 3 years of use, it smelled strongly of moldy peanut butter and banana peels.