Quilting Calendar Contest

This year we have decided to start a new promotion...We are photographing some of our favorite customer quilts and at the end of the year we'll put together a calendar. All entries are quilts brought to our studio for quilting in 2009. Winners will receive gift certificates to our studio! I will be posting many of the photos here so you can tell me which are your favorites!











This quilt was pieced using a beautiful selection of reproduction fabrics and we quilted it in Rhapsody. We all fell in love with it! Photos just don't do it justice.

Dr. Laura on Motherhood

Dr. Laura has written another book! This one is about one of my favorite things-Motherhood. It is going to be released on April 7th! I love being a mommy, even though it is often exhausting. This book praises mothers for raising their children! A little encouragement is always helpful.

I enjoyed one of her previous books, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands and once or twice a year skim over it again for a refresher. I would highly recommend this book for any woman considering marriage, recently married or married for years.

Girls' night!

Saturday my husband took my little guy to see the monster truck show and so my daughter and I hosted a girls' night at home! Notice he has a monster truck in his hands. He never goes anywhere without that truck, he even sleeps with it.

The girls and I started off with some yummy food… Wendy’s six layer salad was fantastic and Gwen saved the hamburgers from scorching after I walked away and the whole thing went up in flames. Thanks Gwen!!!

We also make these darling pinwheels from Heather Bailey! They were supposed to be a daughter craft with a little help from mom but after painting the dowels, the little girls ended up watching a movie while the moms assembled. The top eyelet got easier with practice! This photogenic little one was more than happy to pose for me while the others ran around making their pinwheels spin!

Stampin' Up & Heather Bailey

I am a huge Heather Bailey fan....

Today I found the new online catalog for Stampin' Up and yes I browsed through all 202 pages! A little ways in, I found these darling Jelly Bean Boxes. I had found the tutorial for it earlier on Heather's blog. Heather your stuff rocks! Oh and the catalog was great too!