When I was growing up my mother loved Avon, and I was the only daughter so I was spoiled with all kinds of trinkets.
Some of my favorite things she’d buy me were the pins that had chap-stick or perfume in them! Anyone else remember these? I just LOVED them!
(This one was my favorite! The legs swung back and forth.)
Last week I was contacted by Katie, at Maidens for Modesty who is making and selling these nice lockets with organic lip balm in them. What a flood of memories that came to me.
10.) She’s meek.
She’s powerful, but self controlled. But her whit and wisdom keep her power in check, she keeps a tight reign on her force. She understands that power restrained builds empires, where unleashed force can only destroy.
(Didn’t you see Frozen? Yeah, don’t let that go…)
9.) She has a plan.
She’s not out there living willy nilly, hoping that good things happen. She knows what she wants. She has goals, a vision and nothing is going to stop her. She has an in-writing, achievable timeline for getting what she wants.
Thursday night just before midnight the Lord brought our grandson, Joshua Jude, into the world, weighing in at 8.9.
The Lord was so very gracious in many ways through labor and delivery and even before that because last week on his due date we had snow on the ground, which is a big deal for Alabama.
We were even able to celebrate Javi’s first birthday in the snow storm as we awaited Jude’s arrival.
You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging much, or maybe you haven’t.
Our life has gotten so busy, so industrious that the blog is waaaay down on my list of priorities. It’s not because I don’t have anything I want to blog about, actually, I keep saying, “I’m going to write a post about ‘that’ (insert passionate topic), but at the end of the day when I sit down to type, I am so exhausted my brain can not form a sentence.
Baby Jude (our newest grand-baby) will be here in about 4 weeks and we can’t wait. We are busy sewing and crocheting gifts for him.
Cherish (11), made her new nephew a quilt. This was her first time to use a rotary cutter and quilting rulers. She also got a LOT of practice using the seam ripper. The quilt was much more difficult than her first one a couple years ago.
I made this cake last weekend for a little 3 year old’s birthday!
It had buttercream icing on a vanilla cake.
The turtles were made of fondant.
Once you learn the basic skills of baking and decorating it is easy to learn new techniques and be more creative and elaborate with cakes.
So what do you do with all those t-shirts you’ve saved from high school, teams, concerts, races…whatever… ?
You make them into a quilt!
Here is one I made several years ago that included adding this boy’s scouting patches to the boarder. He took it to college with him!
There are several ways of making a t-shirt quilt, but using the rag quilt technique is the easiest!
Last weekend’s wedding was so beautiful!
A beautiful southern wedding with finger foods.
The bride’s cake was elegant with a lot of delegate trim work.
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The cake was layers of vanilla, strawberry and Bride’s white.
Although cake decorating is VERY stressful there is much satisfaction when the job is done and everything comes together as planned.
Blessed indeed!
We enjoyed our advent season of reading and singing.
We did a LOT of baking!
See more gingerbread pictures here.
I had a couple of big orders that kept me up late at night.
These were for a Christmas party for a railroad company.
We went to the Christmas parade and froze our tails off!
Josh and Charlie joined us, it was fun to watch Charlie enjoy his first Christmas parade!
The key is to place your cutouts in the freezer for 10 minutes before you bake them, they will hold their shape.
We dipped our sides in melted almond bark.
Let the sides dry and harden for a few hours, then added the roofs.
House, Cabin and Barn
25 years ago I learned how to decorate cakes , it was the best money and time I have ever spent. Not only has my ability to decorate cakes enabled me to make some money from home, but it naturally grew into a catering business. And what has been even more rewarding are the countless classes where I’ve taught others how bake and decorate.
