Happy Valentines Day!

I hope your day is filled with all your favorite things!

I saw this on Pinterest and thought it so cute...easy...happy...perfect for this day!

Had to share the love! 

Flower Girl Cottage heart tutorial

Source: flowergirlcottage.blogspot.com via Alicia on Pinterest

So Proud!

So I must brag a little about my Sister-in Law! 
The story starts like this...
I taught myself to crochet about 2 years ago and I became hooked (no pun intended!).  I tried to teach my own girls how to crochet but it hasn't quite sunk in yet and that's ok...I am 41 and it just sunk in for me.  This past Christmas my Sister-in Law said she really wanted to learn so I gave her the book that worked for me, a hook and some encouragement...never did I think I was creating the next crochet phenom.  She tried it, got frustrated, tried it again, got a little less frustrated, tried again and she got it!  I am so proud!!!


Here is her lastest project...Look at this...AMAZING!  Remember she has just been doing this for 6 months!

How great is that?!!!

I love the different sides...perfection!

I have known this amazing woman since she was 7 yrs old and we have always been close.  When C and I started dating she became my own little sis, the one I always wanted.  She is really so special to me and my family and I was thrilled she asked me to help her learn something that I love to do myself.  I am also so proud that she didn't give up and now has a lifelong hobby that fills her with lots of joy. 

Awesome Sis!
Love!

My first official crochet project!!

I decided this was going to be the year to perfect my crocheting skills.  I have ended up making a few things but nothing too expansive...dish clothes, really.  Mom, Donna and Lori were the receivers of wonderful dish clothes but what fun is that really?  To enjoy, you must wash dishes...nice but no fun!

So my wonderful friend Jess, needed a thank you.  This fall she organized  meal deliveries for us for 2 months while I recovered from my seizures and the new meds.  It was AMAZING!  

Here it is...on me!  It turned out so great!  This scarf was the perfect, relatively easy, fast project and she loved it!  She also loved the color which can be difficult with all the choices out there.  I think the color is perfect for me too...hmmm!  Back to work!     

Snoooow Fun!

Saturday was a good day!  It was our second snow day in a row...no end in site either.  Carl had plans so he took off early in the morning.  I slept in (7:45!!!) and the kiddos quietly played wii and ds.  At least I think they were quiet...I put my earplugs in around 5AM and didn't hear a thing...PERFECT!  (my oldest is 11 yrs. old...she can easily babysit while Mom takes a deserved break from an early wake time!  Thanks Sissy!)  

We decided to spend our morning at the public library.  We live in Boulder but we had heard that Longmont, the town just to the north of us, had a great library too so we had to check it out.  We all loved it!  The kids section is really wonderful!  So that was the morning...

The afternoon was not so civilized.  While I was doing some sewing, the kiddos hung out. They played inside with their games, dress-up, laughing, wrestling, and then sliding down the stairs over and over and over again.  It was all fun but I just had to change things up a bit (a bit too crazy).  I told the kids to get their snow stuff on (again) because we were headed out.  They all assumed we were going sledding but Mom doesn't do sledding so much...just not my thing.

This is what we ended up doing...a neighboring playground that we hadn't been to in quite a long time!  They were so psyched!  Easy enough!

HAVE FUN AND PLAY SAFE...hmmm...that is just what I had been saying over and over again as they were zooming down the stairs at home!

This is what they did!

The pics are a bit dark...sorry...It was snowing hard the entire time but they loved every minute of it...I bet they played for 45 minutes!  

After I quickly took these pics, this is what I did!  

 

  

Now this is my thing...warm, cozy, quiet time doing my favorite things...reading, crocheting and watching my kiddos have a great time!  PERFECT! 

It's the little things...

Some of my little things that make me happy...

A great fabric scrap basket full of amazing fabric!

Playing with those little pieces of fabric scraps to see what I can create!

A lovely bag that turns out perfect for my lovely mom!  I am thrilled you are so happy with it Mom!

Whoever said a piano was for playing...its just so perfect to set all my great stuff on!!

These are the some little things that make my life happy!  What little things make you happy?