New fabrics...one of my favorite things!

So I am lucky enough to have the website equilter.com based right near.  I needed some new fabric and was having a hard time finding them in the local shops.  I got lucky and found what I wanted on equilter!  I gave them a call to see if I could save on the shipping since they are right in the neighborhood and just pick it up...they said YES!  I was thrilled!  I still had to wait a day...have to wait my turn for cutting...but they gave me a call the next morning and I had my new a.lovely fabrics.  I can't explain my love of new fabric...it just thrills me to no end!  

Here they are...

 

So pretty, right?!  

You know, my grandmother owned her own fabric store when I was a very small child...I don't even remember the store but that must be where I developed this crazy love of fabric.  I do remember, after she closed her store, I would go and stay with them and she had kept a large cutting table and some fabric bolts from the store.  She had them set up like a mini fabric store right in her garage.  I would go out there and play store...for hours.  
  I thank you Grandma for this gift you didn't even know you were giving!  I adored my Grandma and Grandpa and this just made staying with them even better!


So now I have new fabrics...bags soon to arrive at my alovely.etsy.com site as well!
New fabrics always make any day brighter...try it...it really works!!

It's still snowing!!!

This is at 8am...

This is at 12:45...!

 

And it doesn't seem to be stopping!  The kids are thrilled!  They are hoping tomorrow will be just like today...

We are hanging out, eating yummy brownies, drinking hot cocoa, watching movies and every now and again putting on all our layers for another round outside!  

 

Growing up in CA, I dreamed of days like this...absolutely perfect! 

 

SNOW DAY!!!!

I woke up this morning early so I could check on whether I needed to wake the kiddos for school.  It started snowing last night about 7pm and hadn't stopped so the possibility was definitely there.  I checked the BVSD website and yep...no school!  I tried to stay very quiet but my early bird young man in the house was up like usual seeing what I was doing.  

 

Its always so pretty...especially before the kiddos get in the backyard and mess it all up!

 

So for now, this is what has been happening this morning...

 

and this...

 

Watching morning tv is even more fun when it's a special day off from school.   

I am sure the rest of our day will be filled with snow pants, gloves, hats and snow boots going on and coming back off!  Should be a very fun day!  

It's a hot cocoa and popcorn kind of day!  

Hope your day is just as fun!  It's snowing!!

My little piece of heaven at home!

So our house is small.  All the bedrooms are lovingly filled, dining room is now C's office space, kitchen is the always bustling and full, and our family room is another story.  It's always been a room that you just didn't know quite what to do with it.  I have had poor C re-arrange that room a million +1 times and still it was never quite right.  

The first problem...the room is long and somewhat narrow and it has a big, obnoxious, amazing, and very warm in winter, wood burning stove that we couldn't live without right in the middle of 1 wall.  

The second problem...I needed a space to sew! 

Here is what I came up with...

I finally have a whole area for my sewing and I LOVE IT!  It works out so perfect because I am right in the middle of the entire house.  I also have the 2 biggest picture windows right there.  I love having the sun streaming in and watching the birds fly and the squirrels wonder all over.

 

 It is one of my favorite places to be and I get to do one of my favorite things...sew!

When we had our company and the office space, we bought some office partitions that we ended up bringing home...I covered one with my favorite fabrics and use it as my inspiration wall.  It also works so well hiding my mess when there is...usually, always.  

I love my small house and I love making it work for me and my fam!  

So now you know where I spend my days!  It's the perfect place to create some alovely's!  

...my piece of heaven... 

Amazing Day!

The weather today was just so amazing!  Colorado is so weird in the fall...record lows last weekend and snow, record highs this weekend and flip-flops.  

Lili and I took a bit of our day and headed to the bike path.  Somebody, who knows who or when, put together these rather small yet still a bit intimidating hills to bike around on.  All 3 of our kiddos love them and I must say they are pretty fun for Mom and Dad too.  Lili has recently mastered riding a bike and these hills are helping!  I can remember her either running all over these hills while her brother and sister rode their bikes around or her on the "tag-along" behind me while I went all over the hills.  For her, this is much cooler! 

We really had a great time!  I love seeing her gain so much confidence.  A lot of times Katia takes the three of them herself to play on the hills...I am thankful they are so close (the hills and the kids).  The hills are just hard enough to make it challenging but still small enough that you are not too scared to try something new.  I really enjoy playing on them myself...I wish I had these hills when I was young.  

Can you see Lili has lost her front tooth?  So much exciting stuff going on around here!

  

This is her "big" bike.  It has hand brakes and shifters and it was passed down from her big sis!  She loves this bike.  The hand brake was a bit tricky at first but she didn't let that slow her down.  As kids, didn't we always make whatever we wanted to play with work out?  

We always seemed to find a way!  

 

 We really had a great time hanging out together!  She is in half-day kindergarten and still really likes hanging with Mom.  Note to self...I need to appreciate these special moments now! 

We made a stop at the park on our way back home...happy, happy day!