Ready for the pumpkin patch!

We are hoping to get over to the pumpkin patch this weekend or next, so tonight I whipped up our annual pumpkin shirts. I really like this years! I snapped up this great jack o' lantern cotton lycra about four months ago in anticipation of using it for these shirts. I found really cute embroideries that match pretty well, and I was so happy!

Here are the girls:


And apparently here Abby is showing off her crazy eyes LOL:

So we are all ready to go and get pumpkins!!

Supergirls!

The girls love to run around with a playsilk tied around their necks, yelling, "SUPERGIRLS!!!" and jumping all around. It cracks me up!

Awhile back, I ran across a seller who makes pretend capes. I filed her away in my etsy favorites, and decided to finally splurge and just order them. The seller is fabulous, and I received these custom capes very quickly! I highly recommend Superfly Kidz! Of course, it was easy to decide that they would most definitely love the princess capes!




Aren't they just cute? The capes are very well made, I was very happy. The crowns on the back are so perfect, and I love how the two capes are reversed :) And they were thrilled when we got them in the mail!

Andraya has finally adopted a favorite toy. I was really wondering if she was just going to be one of those kids that never did that! Abby goes through phases of what is her favorite, but ever since she was about 1, she has had one favorite toy or another that she drug everywhere with her (the most consistent being Normal Baby - her name for a dolly she has). But Draya never did that. Until now.

She got the cutest little dolly, that is a princess doll with hair. It's just a cheaper Little Mommy Doll, even though I had tried to provide her with a favorite doll in her Bitty Baby and Chou Chou dolls, she was having none of that. What is ironic is Normal Baby is a Little Mommy Doll with no hair. I just think those dolls are so perfectly loveable.

Here she is, their first official photo together:


And a lot of times I will catch her just sitting there loving on this baby. It's so cute!


I made a huge mistake the first night we had this baby though! I was holding it (babysitting it), and I picked up a brush and just starting brushing her hair, it was a little tousled. Draya came flying in and just started yelling at me! "NO COMB BABY HAIR MOMMY! NO COMB BABY HAIR!!" Apparently that was NOT allowed :) She was soo disgruntled, she grabbed her baby from me, and made a big show of rubbing her hands over her head and messing the hair back up to undo the damage I had done. It took all I had to not bust out laughing, but she was so serious, I knew that would just make it worse! Now the poor dolly is just destined to have messy hair forever.

When Big Sister decides she is a hairdresser

Now that is a fashion statement! I can't believe she sat still long enough for Abby to do that! :)

Shameless Book Recommendation

I got the most exciting phone call tonight.....my mother in law, Juli, called and asked me to look at a website. In looking at this website, it took me awhile to take it all in:

The BumbleBee Book

Not only did she write a book inspired by my niece, Samantha, and my daughter, Abby, but the girls illustrated it! If you click view excerpt, you can see some of their artwork!

I had no idea she was doing this, and I was just floored. It will be at Borders here semi-locally, and in early November there will be a book signing with her and all the girls!

Abby is going to be so excited when we get a copy of this! I can't wait to see the look on her face!!! And I just get all sappy thinking about reading this to both of them now (the book is dedicated to Andraya), and then someday reading it to my grandkids, too. Makes me all mushy :)

The girls best friends

I am just plowing through custom orders right now, getting caught up more everyday! I am just having a little happy mama reflection today.

We feel so lucky to have two sweet little girls, and we also love their best friends :) It's so sweet to see the girls with their puppies, and see how much they baby them and love them.

Andraya and Whip:


Abby and Stretch:


It's funny to me how each of the dogs has really adopted a favorite girl! You can tell how much Whip loves to play with Draya, and Stretch always runs for Abby. It's quite sweet.

Ridiculously Excited

I am so excited! I have been working behind the scenes on some great collaborations with some other WAHMs, and they are coming together!!

Later this month, I will have the honor of sewing up some shirts to go with gorgeous yarn from Nurturing Threads. Stacy and Jessica are awesome mamas, and I cannot wait to see what colorways Stacy comes up with to match the fabrics I sent! And I am quite lucky that I will have the opportunity to pet some of their lovely yarn while sewing up shirts to match it! I guarantee I won't drool on it though :)

And I have decided to take the knitting plunge. It's just too tempting! I am taking a beginning knitting class the first week of October, so we'll see how that goes!! I hope I have more success than Sarah, but I am not holding my breath yet! ;) If not, I have plenty of knitting friends to send my lovely yarn collection on to where it will be loved and used!!

A little something extra....

I always struggle with in stock items, when to embellish and when to not embellish?? On one hand, sweet little matchings sets are the things I love most for my daughters, but at the same time, when the shirt only goes with one pair of pants, I feel the need for more mix and match-ability.

So I try to be flexible with customers and their wants for coordination in the tops and bottoms. So when a mama asked if I could add an owl embroidery to my owl wool set, I was happy to oblige!

It's so sweet with this little detail, just the perfect little extra something:

I was surfing around reading a blog the other day (and to be honest, I can't remember which one or I would give credit), and the blogger had posted a picture of herself. It's funny that I read blogs and get a mental picture of the author, and then a lot of times I am surprised in one way or another at how off my mental picture can be.

So I resolved to post a picture of myself. Of course when I decide to do this is a day when my husband won't be home, and my four year old has deemed the camera too "complicated and I don't want to touch it" and my two year old is not looking like a good option.

So, here I am - in all my self photograph glory:

This is me, the author of this blog! And yes, it took some creative cropping to remove the background I blog in - our office/playroom that has a constant supply of toys scattered about. :)