Mother's Day Bracelets

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

Feeling a lot of love for all the moms I know. And all the sisters who mother, and friends who love whole heartedly.

Bracelets made by C-bug, me, and T-man. I love that with all this jewelry making I've been doing, I coincidentally got two lovely gems from my kiddos! I was thinking last night about what I have gained from my own mom, and what my kids will gain from me...they won't know how to keep a house clean, but they sure will know how to create someting beautiful!

Happy Mother's Day friends!

Saturday is a special day

For those of you that don't know the song, the next line is "It's the day we get ready for Sunday." Which is only true today for me because it's the day I can do a lot of fun things before my real boring Sunday ;)

Wore this reconstructed top today (men's old navy shirt, now cut up, gathered, tucked and sewn back together) and my necklace is part of a 3 piece series I am making for myself...and then there probably won't be any pictures like this for awhile...so I am sort of promising all you lurkers and loyal ones that I will stop boring you with these wardrobe posts LOL!

I decided at the last minute to go yard saling, so glad I did, spent $8!, got 3 picture frames, big blanket (for batting for a quilt), HUGE embroidery hoop, one bunny parasol, one paper storage box, 4 canvas totes (now have 6 for groceries!!!), 2 pieces of Indian fry bread (yay New Mexico yard sales!), and 4 name brand clothing pieces for B. Pretty good aye?

We cleaned the kids rooms after switching them around again...can see the floor!!! Fell asleep on the floor LOL went to Raesha's favorite Mexican restaurant for dinner, enjoyed a quick thunderstorm, planted tomatoes and green chile, and now I'm going to finish my Ben and Jerry's Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream ice cream!!! mmmm

1 apple up on top

I'm not sure what it is... I just want NEW maternity clothes...not my old stuff, not my sisters' hand me downs...something all me and all new.

This is the third shirt and coordinating piece of jewelry I made this week. I've been having green apple images on the brain. Would love to get a temporary tattoo of 3 green apples on my arm...I know...crazy.

I'm out of knit now, so next week will be a bigger challenge for making tops.

Sometimes I can do some magic

I was determined to make a maternity shirt today...

problem: no pattern...solution: make one

problem: no lovely coordinating necklace...solution: make one

Just (sort of) wasting more time

I know I'm not REALLY wasting time...I'm getting more scrapping done than I have in the last year. But because of my week off my feet I have a million things to do, including houseworks and business, and my list gets longer when I sit down at the computer to play and make new elements. I made all of these elements myself. It's pretty fun converting my paint on paper skills over to the computer. have some more ideas of elements I want to work on...some a little more complex thn others.

It's C-bugs first day back at school since her month off (year round) and I just don't know what to do..I've lost my helper, but I've also lost one of three fiesty redheads!!!

It's me

My C-bug took this pic of me today. And I thought I'd share it, since I have some newer readers, and i know I like to put a face with the blog.

We spent the afternoon taking pictures and playing. It was really nice at the little village just a couple miles from us. We love it there. A lot of artists, agriculture and trees. It's only a couple of miles from our house which is by the busy mall and walmart. Once you get there though, it's like you went on a road trip to some small town in the middle of nowhere. And the wind that was BLOWIN' at our house was completely absent there! It's like heaven! :)

Making LEMONS out of Lemonade

Because it's a tougher thing to do ;)

Shirt made and remade and remade again, because I like to do things the hard way (w/o a pattern)...but really because I hate to cut out patterns. And yes, those are zipper scraps that I used for the straps.