spring time, spring dresses

I haven't written in a while but I have been busy sewing and working lately. At the beginning of March I took my Praxis 3, a formal observation of me while I am teaching, and I just found out Monday that I passed! This week has been spring break and at the beginning of it my mom, dad, and brother were able to come visit. It was fun to see them for a few days. They left on Wed. and since then I have been busy sewing some dress orders. I Just finished the last dress this morning. I made a St. Patty's Day dress at the beginning of march for Reece. I have also made a dress with a cute owl print for Mady Belle, a peace&love print dress for Kennedy, and a cute lady bug print dress for Maddie. I hope you enjoy the pictures!

snowed in

This week Searcy has been a white wonderland. I woke up Wednesday to go to work, no snow at all on the ground but it was scheduled to come, and schools were already cancelled. By 8 am the snow was falling and by noon we had 5 inches at our house. I was so glad that I had thought to get some fabric the day before! I have been sewing and embroidering the past 2 days, and now I have two dresses for little girls sewn, a blanket for Zoe Grace's birthday (Brad's cousin), and 3 pillows made for my couch. I still need to finish the pillows but it has been a good 2 days off. School was out again today, but instead of sewing I have chores to do...but I thought I would go ahead and add some pictures of what I have been making!

what started it all

For anyone that knows me, they know that I love figuring out surprises and that I hate to wait. It's not that I dislike surprises, but if I know that one is coming I like to figure it out instead of waiting for it. My husband, Brad enjoys making me wait. A lot. For my birthday he told me that he had some ideas for a gift and kept feeding me hints. I happen to be really bad at guessing so he wasn't concerned with me actually being able to figure out what the gift was. One evening i was laying in bed wanting to fall asleep, but not able to keep from running the hints through my mind and it hit me. He was getting me a sewing machine. He wasn't very happy when I told him iI knew what my gift was, but then he later decided to let me select a machine on my own. He told me what he had in mind was a sewing and embroidery machine combo, totally not what I had in mind, but so glad that he did. I was able to pick my singer out and it became my birthday/christmas/anniversary gift! Since then I have been playing on it trying to figure out many different things. So far I have sewn some pillows and embellished and embroidered some hand towels. there will be more pictures to come as I learn new things!