so many things to be excited about!

WOW. i just keep thinking it while i drool over this gal's new online store. and i just spent almost $200 on her new fabrics. yikes! but seriously, you must check it out, be you a sewer, quilter or scrapbooker, she's got something for everyone! and her store is just beautiful.

my grandma comes home today from boston! she's been gone for 2 months and i'm used to seeing her once a week, so i am excited to give her a big hug and hear all about her trip. oh yea...she's 82!

this upcoming weekend, scott and i are going camping with gobs of friends and it will be my first camping trip.....EVER. i am nervous, excited and and anxious all at the same time, but i think it will be a lot of fun-and we're taking chloe!!!

i made a cute purse scrapbook last week, got the idea from here. i highly recommend that everyone make one, it only took me an hour or so to print all the pictures and put it all together and the book only cost $3 from target! i'll post my version tomorrow once i take pictures.

today i had a short lil gmail chat with this gal-and she told me the package of goodies i won in her giveaway is on it's way to wisconsin from canada! yippee! LA is so sweet :)

and lastly, i am anxiously awaiting the opening of rachel's new vintage/flea finds shop. she has such a great eye for this stuff!

a recent etsy purchase from elsie:

happy monday everyone :)

things i love

i had so much fun making this, thanks for the link LA :) click to enlarge

4th of July weekend wrap-up

our holiday weekend was jam-packed full of activities and fun, first we went to summerfest (again) but this time just walk around the shop vendors and eat yummy food and listen to music. and i had my first charicature done! scott and i did it together and it turned out SO good!! the picture below you can see my face is already done and scott is getting drawn. i'll post the whole drawing tomorrow for laughs :)

then we went with scott's relatives to the germantown parade and we took chloe and she did so well, we even took a little family portrait :) after two days of activity, bbqs, fireworks and too many roasted cashews, we were exhausted!

and this is the finished wedding quilt i made for our friends who were married in may...i thought it was about time i posted it, you can see the beginning stages of the quilt here:

happy tuesday everyone :)

lisa's book club...

okay i know i stole that from oprah, but i couldn't think of anything original.

i love reading. getting lost in a book with my wild imagination and vivid imagery can hardly beat much else (well you know BESIDES sewing and scrapping) but still, one of my great loves.


throughout the summer, i will inevitably get a LOT of reading done, so why not share with you my great reads and hopefully we can have a little book chat :)


a great suspenseful, murder, detective, who-dunnit book that i finished this morning was:

this book was fantastic. ESPECIALLY the 2nd half, i couldn't stop turning pages, i had to keep reading and find out what was going to happen next (i love books that can evoke this!!) to the point where i promised scott i would stop reading at the bottom of the page and 4 pages later (lol) he is like, "i know you didnt just flip ANOTHER page!!!" haha...we had to be somewhere and i just kept reading, he isn't an angry person or anything :)

so enjoy if you decide to take me up on my book recommendation, and i'm open to book recommendations too!

what's your favorite summer read (past or present) ???

M.I.A

i have been soo M.I.A. recently but have plans to change that! i had the best day yesterday for so many reasons -which is awesome because the day before was a bummer :( but the icing on the cake was winning this gal's 2 year blog-aversary giveaway! i had a meeting last night at starbucks and afterwards i was checking my email and thought i'd see if LA had drawn the winner yet, so i put my earphones in my laptop (they always play the music REALLY loud at night so you can't hear) and what do you know?!?! she pulled my name!

totally.made.my.day.

i've been sewing again, i'm half way through a crib quilt which will be a beauty once it's finished, and i am aching to scrapboook soon, i have so many ideas that i want to create!!

and to be random, some of my recent favorite pics:

lol-my 23rd birthday party, you had to be there!

scott & i at a friend's wedding

my new favorite wedding pic from work!