Telephones & Rhinestones Feature

A few weeks ago I was featured on a super cool Canadian blog called Rhinestones & Telephones ... check it out! Thanks Sarah for taking an interest in my shops!

Gift Idea

I am up to my ears in orders (thankfully) but really need to get back to the blog! So while my daughter is at VBS and it is just little cub and myself... I thought I would get in a quick post.

I LOVE homemade gifts and so does my family! Well, at least that is what they tell me because they get a lot! So this Mother's and Father's Day, I made these super cute, easy name pictures with my little ones! But it is a good idea for any holiday or just a special gift.

I went to JoAnn's and bought very large (about 3ft tall) paper mache letter and sprayed them white. They don't have to be perfect because you don't really have any close-ups of the letters.

Then I took A LOT of pictures of each child with each letter and then some together. This was no doubt the hardest part. Not only because it is hard to get a 1 & 3 year old to participate in a photo shoot.... BUT because you need a lot of different shots to choose from depending on how you are going to frame them and I wanted the letters to be somewhat the same size in each shot I used. So overall, it took me about 3 weeks to get all the photos done. About every other way, I would take the kids in the backyard or when we were at the park I would bring a letter and see if I could get any good shots.

One of my favorite pics is the one below.... both children smiling and happy (very rare)! But when I went to choose which shots to use, I realized I needed all vertical shot and no matter how many times I tried to re-shoot the same set up with the kids.... it didn't work! So in the end, I was not able to use it... but I still loved how they turned out!

I also had lots of shots I could not use for other reasons...

In the end, all the grandparents and Daddy loved their personalized pics!

No I have 6 huge letters in my garage and am not sure what to do with them.... but am sure I can figure out something. I am hopefully going to try and do the project again in 5-ish years.... just to have a fun comparison of how much the kids have changed.

ahead of schedule...

this does not happen too often.... but I am actually ahead of schedule right now with my wedding cake topper orders.....SO i can accept a few more orders for July weddings... and then of course still have spots open for August too!

here are a few recent orders... some have not made it to my shop yet but will soon!

mini bride & groom... great for cupcakes or ornaments!

my 'studio'

hi... sorry to have been gone so long.... between an extremely busy wedding season, traveling and a 1 & 3 year old... i have barely been able to keep my head above water!!! but life is slowing down, a bit, so i am able to get back to blogging... yea!

even tho i have been crazy busy with wedding cake toppers.... i have LOVED every minute of it! thank you to all the brides!!! i love the thought of getting to make something you will use on such a huge day in your lives.

changing the subject.... i have been asked a lot lately 'where i do all my work'.... and i then reply 'my home studio.' now at this point i am sure some of you are envisioning those extremely organized, beautiful, organized, colorful, organized, super cute studios you see on blog and featured artists on Etsy.... and in my dreams that is what picture too..

.... but in reality, my studio is really my dinning room, where my husband and i pushed the dinning table against the china hutch and squeezed in a antique drafting table (that my hubby got me for my birthday ... i very much heart it!!!).

Notice the "Time Out" bear chair under my table... i bet you don't see that in a lot of studios! :)

my naked little ones...

stock & displays from my last show.....

my wonderful new paint rack i got from Paint Racks Etc

some current July wedding orders in the making....

little projects to finish in my 'spare time'...

but the BEST part of working in my unglamorous, not so cute, extremely unorganized studio is the little visitor who drop by...

even more powerful than superheroes!

the forces that be have had to 'deactivated' some of my favorite superheroes from my Etsy shop... (but I can still make them by request if you are interested! :)

Love is in the Air!

Wedding season is officially here and keeping me busy! All the wedding cake toppers make my heart happy and flutter a bit! They are one of my favorite things to make because they are used on such a special day in two peoples lives... oh, and the fact that I get to create brides in their 'princesses' dresses! :)

True OR False

I have NO self control when it comes to cake, candy, chocolate or cookies!
True or False
The first time I met my husband (where he was actually interviewing me for a job), I did not like him very much.
True or False
I started collecting children’s books in high school to read to the children I would hopefully be blessed with one day.
True or False
An octopus gave me hickies all over my face when I was 15.
True or False
When I commuted to work, I had horrible road rage and more than once flipped off a trucker out of my sun roof… yikes!
True or False
I hate having my picture taken but long to have many pictures of myself with my children and husband to look back at when I am old.
True or False
I will cry when my daughter says the word “LOVE” correctly for the first time…. instead of telling me “I LUB you, Mommy.”
True or False
I nearly left college for a year (and probably for good) to go to Africa for a year with a Christian musical group.
True or False
I am a guilty mom and always worry if I am being the mom I want to be.
True or False
I swam with sharks…. twice!
True or False
My mom is my best friend.
True or False
I do not drink…. not for moral, religious or any other reason other than I hate the taste.
True or False
My mother was afraid I would never get married because I refused to learn how to cook.
True or False
My husband does ALL the cooking at my house.
True or False
I let my kids jump on the bed, drink out of the water hose and gave them peanut butter before they were 2.
True or False
My house is ALWAYS a mess and I am okay with it.
True or False
For a week after I graduated college, I planned to move to NY with a friend, live in a closet with her and try to make it on Broadway.
True or False
I believe God made me to only have 2 children but also believe He has a sense of humor.
True or False
I have to wear a mask and an ear plug in my left ear (but not both ears) to fall asleep.
True or False
I believe being a stay at home mom is the hardest & most rewarding job in the world!
True or False
El Caminos, cruise ships and ants creep me out.
True or False
In college, I had a sugar glider named Romeo & 2 African clawed frogs named Juliet & Fatty.
True or False
I wanted to name my son Oliver and decided not to because of all the negativity I got from others… and sometimes regret that I let it effect my decision.
True or False
Fluoride and Gingerbread make me throw up.
True or False
I craved and had dreams about sniffing markers & gas when I was pregnant with my son… but NEVER did!
True or False
I hate politics.
True or False
I have about 25 bras but only wear 2 of them.
True or False
I LOVE to car dance with the radio turned up all the way.
True or False
My college roommate and I used to sneak homemade cookie dough in tupperware into the movie theater and eat it with spoons.
True or False
I hope my children know I love God by how I love them.
True or False
I am a HORRIBLE speller even though I was an English major.
True or False
I forget people’s names as soon as they introduce themselves to me and am ashamed of myself for it.
True or False
I love to smell babies’ heads.
True or False
I know my husband was made by God just for me!
True or False
This post was inspired by one of my favorite blogging stranger… 4 little men & girly twins.
True Everything on this list!