a joyful gift...You Are So Loved

My friend and her husband just welcomed their 4th child this past week...a little girl.  She is their blessing for everything they withstood in his 1 year away from home in Iraq.  She endured that one year with 3 little ones at home and was SUCH a trooper...as was he and we are so thankful for his service!! Kathy and Tom - We love you and welcome your precious baby girl.  Just wanted to share some pics of items I'll be taking to them along with a nice warm meal tomorrow.  BLESSINGS!

personalized pink bucket

personalized water bottle labels (designed by me)

You Are So Loved printable found here at a blog called Diary of Dave's Wife.

Hope you had a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!

joyful about thanksgiving

Love these printables that I stumbled across here at "Craftily Ever After."

I printed a small one and am in the first stage of decoupaging it onto a pendant...photos to come...want to wear it on Turkey Day!

Blessings to everyone out there in BLOG land!

happy halloween

fall break beach trip

Look whoooooo's back in the sewing room!

Had a sew along with one of my "sewing sistas" lately and got inspired to create a ton of "hooties!"

This one is an applique on my shirt - I'm not the model that my daughter is...apparently.

joyfully proud

THIS is when I'm proudest of my Ben.  He doesn't even know how his gift of music pleases others.  We do the services at a convolescent home once every 3-4 months and on this day, he played a few songs on the piano following the services.  Thank you, Lord, for his gift.