I can’t believe it has been almost a month since my last post…well, actually I can!  I don’t know where the time goes, I just know that I have been a busy girl!!!  Emma is putting more and more words together each day, what a sponge!  She loves to point out airplanes, trains and her new discovery roly poly bugs, she seemed a little puzzled when it rolled into a ball, but sheer joy & amazement when it opened back up again…her face was priceless.

I know I have been busy because I have so many things to say today, might actually require a couple of posts!  Holy cow, I am excited just thinking about it.  Since my last post I have completed 2 of the 3 jacket classes I mentioned last time.  So far, so good we have a jacket coming right along! Maybe there can be a few photos to show the work in progress, the rick rack is looking adorable on the jacket, now just need to make the flowers!   Just trying to decide if I want to make the burnt edge flowers, or make rick-rack flowers…decision, decisions. 

I have also ordered business cards for my little sewing business, I even added something to the name so it is now Dragonfly Stitches & Birdie Wishes…Emma loves her birds!  Her new addition to her bedroom is a tree branch suspended from the ceiling, spray painted white & lacquered with love by Uncle Clyde, then Auntie Dawn brought some beautiful birds to add to the branches.  It is adorable and sometimes Emma & I just hang out there with the lights on the branch and look at the birds; she thinks it is great…hmmm, maybe a photo of her tree!  Boy, I keep adding more work for myself..but like I said, sooooo cute, you gotta see it.

I also completed 4 Emma bags! Yay!!!!  I will be adding photos, they just got finished last night and it was late so no time to take pictures, and I finished 2 new samples for the quilt shop!  Yahoo, so that means I will be teaching a couple new classes here in the near future, there will be about 4 or 5 from the book so it makes buying the book worthwhile and what fun! So, yes…as soon as they are quilted I will add those photos as well.

I will close for now so I can take photos while the sun is still shining. I have to get ready for tomorrows garage sale…my 1^st one ever, so that should be interesting.   It’s supposed to be a block sale but I haven’t seen any signs up yet, but I decided to participate…lots of shoes, some of Emma’s things she has outgrown and whatever else I can find around the house that I am not using!  Emma will love it because she will be outside all morning…Papa said it’s a good way to celebrate his birthday!  So Happy Birthday today Dad and we will celebrate tomorrow with Miss Emma!

Xoxo, Emma's mom

Hello again!  My mom and I had signed up for a class that started this past Friday night, we were pretty excited!  It's called the Swing Jacket, not sure why, but the sample at the store was adorable and I just knew that it would need to be in Emma's wardrobe.  We got to class at 5:40 (it started at 6) and much to our dismay the class never happened.  The teacher didn't make it, so the 6 of us ladies sat there until 6:30 and left a little disappointed.  I am still waiting for a call from the teacher to find out what happened...

I chose a baby pink corduroy, (big surprise there coming from me right???) with the liner a cotton print in pale yellow with soft green leaves, and pink & white flowers.  I found soft green rick rack to make stems coming up from the bottom of the jacket and trying to decide if I am going to make flowers to go at the top of the stems or if I am going to just look for buttons....what do you all think????  Hmmm....make them right, I found a blog that made adorable fabric flowers, so maybe I will give that a try sometime this week.

ahhh, I hear Emma stirring from her nap so off I go to play with my lil snickerdoodle!  Love my time with Emma!  Be back soon!

With love,
Emma's mom

Happy New Year!  I know, I am a little behind...here we are 13 days into the New Year and I am just making my first post.  Oops!  My goal was Dec. 31st...well, didn't quite make it.  Let me introduce myself, I'm Emma's mom!  Emma is a beautiful 19 month old angel who has COMPLETELY enriched my life in a way I never thought possible.  Each day brings new adventures, some with challenges, some with frustration, but most with new discoveries and accomplishments, along with seeing the world and life in a whole new light...through Emma's eyes.  At the end of each day I come to the conclusion that I love this little girl more than I did the day before!!

I think the most difficult thing about this blog is where do I start?  what do I say? That's my first excuse for not posting anything yet, but thanks to Janice we made a deal..we both had things that needed to be accomplished so we gave ourselves until January 26th, so woohoo!  I made it and I am even early!  My second excuse is that I needed photos up so you could all see what I was talking about.  Taking the photos was not the problem, but making them "cute" and blog worthy was the challenge.  (I think it still is...)  even though Jailyn was kind enough to guide me through, I think I need a little more guidance, so thank you ladies for helping me reach my goal!

So why start this blog?  I have tried Etsy, but with no luck and only disappointment.  Someone suggested a blog, link it to my Etsy store...so easy right!  Haha...But I am giving it a try and hopefully this is the kick in the pants that was much needed, now I just have to get my wares on Etsy also.  I will get there...quickly!  So what are my wares you ask????  I sew, sewing is my passion, my stress reliever and helps pass my time when Emma is not with me, therefore this is all4emma!! All4emma is my name on Etsy once I get it going again by the way...

Let me start by showing one of the special gifts I made for Christmas this year (I was going to show several but I realized after sometime trying to get my photos "cute" I still need some help so only 1 photo will accompany this post).  Since money is tight (not just with me but probably 75% of America if not more) I made the decision to make my gifts this year.  I have an endless supply of fabric stored in my garage, so I made good use of it...my dad jokes I can open my own store with my stash alone (sad thing is he's probably right...but we won't tell him that).  I have been collecting this stash for years now and its great when I can go "shopping" in my own garage and know that its all paid for!  So with my 50% coupon I headed to Joann's to pick up a package of Printed Treasures and chose some of my favorite pictures of Emma and the creations began.  I originally started this idea with my brother in mind, he lives in Colorado and hasn't met Emma yet, but he gets photos all the time and regular phone conversations with him and yes...she talks to him. Meg Smith, an amazing photographer and long time friend of mine for Emma's 1st birthday did a photo shoot of us, how beautiful they were!!  I chose 12 of my favorites and remembered a pattern from a magazine and quickly realized that I needed to do more...my brother hasn't received his quilt yet, its still sitting on my kitchen table, but this was for Dawn an amazing amount of support poured out of this woman the moment I told her I was pregnant and she was there when Emma arrived into this world....so the 1st completed project was for Dawn and her family...best part about it, I even quilted it myself after Dawn spent hours teaching me...little did she know it was for her...and believe me, no pun intended but I was busting at the seams!!!  So enjoy this first glimpse into what I will be showing.....I'll be back soon!

With love and appreciation....Emma's mom!