What I Didn’t Do

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 by Tabitha

On Saturday, I went to town to do our grocery shopping. After I had finished running a few errands and doing the shopping, I was on my way out of Kroger’s parking lot to head home. There was a man with a sign. You know the one. “Family in Need. Need Job and Food.” I looked at him. I made up all kinds of reasons why I couldn’t stop. {I had to hurry and get home to my family. I am just a little girl. We don’t have much either. He might just be standing there and not really trying to improve life.}

I didn’t stop.

I felt God telling me to stop; and then to turn around and I didn’t. Since Saturday I have thought about this so many times and I feel terrible. I should have stopped. I should have given him a bag of groceries. I should have asked him if he knows Jesus. I should have prayed with him. I made all those excuses, but what if he does really need food? What if I could have helped that family? It was a busy intersection and nothing most likely would have happened. My family could have waited a few more minutes for me to get home.

I pray that someone did stop and that that man now has a job. I pray that God will forgive me for not stopping. I pray that the next time I am led to do something I don’t make excuses. Right now, I am not happy with what I didn’t do and I want to change that. I want to do the Lord’s work. I will if He just gives me another chance.

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*New Product* Pleated Clutch

Posted on Monday, May 7th, 2012 by Tabitha

I made a cute little purse called the Buttercup bag, maybe a couple of years ago. I found the free pattern on made by RAE and then saw that if I bought the pattern in 2 sizes I could sell them too, so of course I bought the license! Then I proceeded to not make any more of the bags. Until now. A few weeks ago I gave that little bag to a little girl when her sister was born. The mom asked me if I could make the same bag, only without the strap and with a zipper as a pouch for keeping her stuff in the diaper bag. I said, “oh, yeah. I can do that.” I had never put a zipper in anything, but I knew I could figure it out. Now I can’t stop making these cute little bags! The zipper was surprisingly easy (I hope I’m doing it right!) and I’ve added a little wrist strap to my latest ones.

The aqua and green floral bag was my first zipper. :)

The yellow bag belongs to me. I used a napkin that I got from my favorite store to make it. I just love the combinations of fabric on all of them; it’s so hard to pick a favorite!

I have this black one cut out, but I am not sure how to finish it. Taylor has claimed it and she wants it to have a long strap (crossbody), but still have a zipper. I’m not sure how to go about that. I think she’s going to get upset if I wait too much longer to get it finished though!

I’m still making other things too. Have a couple of notebook covers on the back burner right now and finished a baby quilt yesterday that I wasn’t all that happy with when it was finished… Wish I could have a redo on it:

The front is fine and I really like it, but you can tell I was sewing quickly on the back. That’s what I get for procrastinating. I hope the back doesn’t drive the new parents as crazy as it did me in the 15 minutes I got to look at it. No pictures of the back since I was in a hurry. I’m just glad I made it to the baby shower, even if I was late. It was wonderful to see the family open all their gifts and to be a part of the blessing. And, someone asked me about my nest necklaces yesterday too. I just wish I could remember who it was! So, if I show you my necklace sometime this week it’s because I can’t remember who asked me to see one!

I’m thinking of changing my etsy shop name. I think I might go with Awesome Accessories. I like it, but I’m just not sure. I want to start putting things in there again, but I want to have a good name that I like… Any suggestions?

Have a blessed week friends!

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Scenes from Kyler’s Party

Posted on Sunday, April 15th, 2012 by Tabitha

We had a cookout for Kyler’s first birthday party. It was owl themed, as I’ve mentioned before. Here are the best pictures from the day. Descriptions follow if you are interested. :)

1. A banner I made. It says “Happy 1 Birthday Kyler!” I forgot to at the st to the 1 before hanging it. I’ve been told I should have left spaces between the words, but I like it fine.
2. Kyler’s smash cake. This is the first time we’ve done this. The other kids all just got to have a piece of their cake in their high chair. It was fun! Cake made by my friend Courtney. Carrot Cake with buttercream icing. It was so good – a bunch of us tasted the back after he finished playing with the front.
3. The large cake for all the party guests. Also made by Courtney. This one was chocolate with white chocolate mousse filling and buttercream icing. The chocolate that she does never disappoints!
4. This was the food. That white platter held burgers, hotdogs and veggie burgers. Of course, I didn’t take a picture of it with food and I didn’t take any close up shots for the blog… Oh well! We had fruit salad and chips with the meat.
5 & 6. This is the picnic table gussied up. I made a little fabric banner and hung it from some tree branches stuck in jars of dirt. The wind was blowing pretty hard before the party, so the better picture is from after the party. We had mason jars with pretty stripey straws for drinks. My favorite!
7. The best picture I got showing his birthday shirt that I made. From soccer earlier in the day. It turned out so cute on him!
8. Obligatory birthday picture with Granddaddy.
9. Kyler and his friend Hunter. The only party guest his size who was able to make it.
10. Birthday dinner. Eating his first hamburger with his favorite, watermelon, on the side.
11. Testing the cake.
12-15. Smash Cake. He really didn’t dig into it too much, mostly just the icing. He did have lots of fun though!
16. Birthday boy after the party with Mommy.
17. Playing with a balloon and sitting with Daddy.

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1 Year Old

Posted on Friday, April 13th, 2012 by Tabitha

Today is Kyler’s first birthday!

At 12 months old he:

weighs 16 lbs. 5 oz.
is 27″ tall.
is sitting up well.
is crawling (army style) everywhere and trying to keep up with all the “big” people.
is pulling up on things – mostly chairs and stools. He likes to pull up on the bottom step and look at what has been left on the steps.
is still so patient and calm and sweet and perfect!

Tomorrow is his party, so I’ll be back with pictures. He will be our only baby to have his own smash cake and I can’t wait to photograph him playing! Maybe that will help him gain some weight too, since he got a less than stellar report at the doctor. Apparently he lost some weight according to their records, but I’m not seeing the same thing in mine… Anyway, I’m still interested to find out more about getting more calories into my two littlest boys who eat all the time and are still little bitty. So, back on the subject, I can’t wait for the party and I will post about it all soon. Going to be a fun busy day and I hope he enjoys it!

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Birthday Party Prep

Posted on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 by Tabitha

All week I have been trying to clean and get birthday party decorations done for Kyler’s first birthday party. He is actually 52 weeks old today, since he was born on Wednesday, but his birthday(te) is Friday.

I made his invitations a few weeks ago and handed them out. Here they are:

He is having an owl themed party, since he is my owl baby. He can decide what he likes for future parties…the first one is really for the parents anyway. ;) We are on a “spend no money” budget currently, so I have had to search for all the owls in our house. Since I love owls this isn’t too hard of a task. I have some cute little owl statues and I made a little banner with some fabric scraps that I will tie to some small branches on party day. I also am making a paper banner with owls on each end that will say something birthday related – haven’t gotten that far. I will use the two owls that are on that scrapbook paper. I stamped some little food labels. We’re having a cookout, so these probably aren’t needed, but are cute!

Last in the picture is Kyler’s new shirt that I just finished a little bit ago. I saw some shirts like this when I did a search. They were all crazy expensive from companies that just churn them out quickly on machines. I like mine better and it was an easy quick thing to make, using a cheap t-shirt from Wally World and supplies I already had. I didn’t use anything to stabilize the back where I did embroidery, which probably would make the shirt last longer, but it will definitely last for a few washes. (and really, how many times will he wear a shirt with a 1 on it?)

Easy peasy birthday on a budget if you have a large supply of crafty things in themes you like at your house. The only things I’m buying are food and that t-shirt. My friend Courtney is making the cake and a cute little owl smash cake for Kyler. I can’t wait to see them – she is awesome! Hoping for something similar to the bottom of this with an owl on top. I decided that this would be fun and then I don’t have to try to make the cake that I am dreaming of. This weekend will already be busy enough!

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