Tea party gifts

As promised, here's what was inside the gift bags that I gave to my mom, sister and nieces.  Every year we have a birthday tea and I make them each a little gift.

This year I decided to put together small sewing kits, since my sister is leaving for a year to live in Ireland (I know lucky huh!) and she isn't taking her sewing machine I figured she'd need something for quick fixes.  One of my niece's lives in another city going to college and the other works in an office and can put it in her desk for emergencies.  My mom is a great seamstress so her's is just something pretty to put by her chair to hold extra pins and what-nots. So here's what I did.  I used the little half pint mason jars, I didn't want them to be too big or take up too much room.  Of course each one had to be colored coordinated.

Here's a peek inside.

Lid off, everything fits snugly inside

There is a small container with buttons and safety pins, a seam ripper, measuring tape, scissors with cover, a wooden spool with thread, a thimble, and a felt needle book

This is the inside of the needle case with a holder for a needle threader.

I painted all the metal pieces to match cause we all know I'm crazy for how things coordinate!  I found some very cool metallic paint and painted the thimbles and needle threaders.  I wish I could have done something with the scissor handles but I had to give in on that one.  My inspiration for the needle books came from here.  My sister's, of course, had shamrocks instead of flowers.

Well, there you have it another yearly tea gift.  But. our next one will be much later, we have to wait till sis get's back.  Have a great weekend everyone.  I'll talk to you again soon.

June pretties

It's June and time for our annual Birthday Tea at the St. James Tea room.  I've been working on my gifts for my mom, sister and nieces.  The packages are all dressed and ready to go.

I'll share what's inside of them tomorrow.  Right now, I'm off to have tea.  Have a wonderful evening!  I'll talk to you again soon.

Memorial Day

Have restful day and remember those who paid the price for our freedom.

May highlights

Today was the last day of school for this school year.  I think I can finally breath a sigh of relief.  This past month has been a bit frantic with all the end of the school year activities and graduations and fun family celebrations, May has been a whirl.  I did get some craftiness done and photographed and with a sweet new camera to break in I did a lot of photography.  So here are some of the highlights from the month (so far).

 Some quick thank you gifts for my library volunteers.  They really outdid themselves this year.  I would not have gotten half the things done that did get done without them.  Inside the tags there were gift cards too.

I filled the cups with a few goodies just for them and some they could share with their kiddos.  Next, I had a friend who was celebrating mother's day with several female family members and wanted to give each one of them a handmade card.

Yep there's more....

Almost done.....

Whew!  Got'em done just in time.  Then I made my mom's card but I didn't get a picture of that one.
I did several photo shoots this month and have a couple more before the end of the month gets here.

Mr. M and sweet Miss B.  It was my first time photographing an infant and young children, I had a great time.

I attended a photography workshop with my friend Sara.  We had so much fun and learned a lot too.

A shot of the "super moon" over the Sandia mountains.  And finally, I've been busy in the kitchen trying to get fresh fruits and veggies into my sweet DH.   My latest was a version of a cobb salad.  It tasted as good as it looked.

Well, there they are, a few of the highlights of the month so far.  It's been hard to get to the computer to up date everyone so I apologize for the length of this post.  But, summer break is upon us so I'm hoping to get caught up and back to a regular schedule again.  I hope you've had a great week and I'll talk to you again soon.

Happy Easter!

I hope each of you has a blessed Easter and a sweet time with friends and family.

I'll talk to you again soon!

Finally...a sign of spring

Early Saturday morning this lone little flower was opening up.  The air had a little warmth to it and the sun was peeking over the mountains.  By noon this little flower had been joined by several more brave little blossoms.

But by evening the wind had started up again and the temperature dropped several degrees, the weather man was predicting rain and snow.  (We did get a little of both)

But for a few brief hours, there was a glimpse of things to come!  I have been hibernating and dreaming for the last few weeks waiting for the sun and inspiration to come.  I'm hoping soon....

I'll talk to you again!

It's been busy...

What a sweet face!  One day, recently, when the weather was mild I walked through a farmer's market down along the Rio Grande, this little guy was so cute and didn't mind posing for a couple of pictures.  I did pick up some alpaca wool to play around with for a future project but until then I'll just have to look at his cute face.

 
I'm currently working on all the orders for conversation heart bracelets and valentine boxes.  I've also been doing a lot of photography and having such fun with all of it.

Can't believe it's already February.  I'll talk to you again soon.