for sale....very soon

atc mini albums. each album will hold 24 atcs. the outside is covered in paper that coordinates with the atc attached to the cover.  

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i had a left over doll for a pocket doll atc, so here she sits in a feather lined nest. 

my daughter....quite the

seamstress......showing off one of her many purses that she will be selling on her very own blog very soon. we just set the blog up yesterday! we still need to do some fine tuning to it.

she is amazing....sewing is the one thing i was never able to master. the sewing gene must skip a generation! my mom does beautiful work...she made my wedding dress....

my daughter has made all of her purses without any type of a pattern....she just grabs her measuring tape and shears and tada....she even makes these purses lined! somehow she manages to make the lining fit beautifully, also with no pattern! most have an inside pocket. she made an ipod case that is way cute, after watching an episode of .....eeek what is the name of that darn show....i just drew a blank.....with the clothing designers......oh jeez this is gonna drive me crazy....anyway there was one episode with the barbie.....she pulled one of her my scene barbies out of her memory box and within minutes she made a pair of pants for this thing....again no pattern. it blows me away.

one thing that she is having a hard time with is failure......she has really had an easy time learning to sew....she just learned how in school this year.....since everything comes soooo easy for her and works the first time, when she runs into a problem she wants to quit. i could pull my hair out! blahhhhhhh! but, i know in time as she matures she will work this out....but until then i could scream!

i am so proud of her, and her motivation. she wants a sidekick.......ain't coming out of our budget we told her, so off she went to go sew her way to one! 

our backyard dinner guest

this hawk was HUGE, and so beautiful....but i have a soft spot in my heart for anything with feathers. sadly though, his dinner was a robin.

he stayed for almost an hour, taking his time to enjoy his meal and watch us. he was quite a slob and left a really disgusting mess behind....an no tip....hmphf! my youngest took the camera out back and played csi guy and showed us the left overs.......yech.....i will spare y'all those photos.
we were relieved though that he did not dine on our one and only squirrel...... 

the furry things in our life....

.....dust bunnies excluded! they were too busy conferencing under my furniture to have a photo taken........

found all kinds of things camping out in my cameras memory this morning! 

guess what i found......

on my cameras memory this morning. i am guessing my little guy was entertaining himself.....hmmmm i thought he was being awfully quiet yesterday while i was getting ready to take him out for our lunch date. today is his first day back to school after a 3 week cycle break......missing him a bit......what a little goofball he is! 

pocket doll atc's

the baby in the wagon for my yahoo group, and the moon in the cloud for redlead anything goes swap.