Vacation

I am the worst blogger in the world. I just can never remember to write on here. What is going on here??? Well, I leave for vacation in 10 days. I am super excited. I get to help my parents pack up their house and move closer to me. Right now, my parents live 10-12 hours away and if you hit Chicago at the wrong time, It could add a couple more hours. They are moving to be 6 hours away with no major cities in between. To say that I am excited would be an understatement. Now if we could only get my husbands family to move south it would be great. Also, It is going to be my nieces 1st birthday. I am working on a twin size rag quilt for her. I hope to have it most of the way done before I leave, or at least all sewn because i can always rag it once I am there. I am also faced with a conundrum, to close the shop or to keep it open and let customers know that the items will not be shipped til such and such a date. (Let me know what you think)

Pins and Needles

Already, I know everyone is on pins and needles. My appointment went great. I had never had a trans-vaginal ultrasound before. With Kailyn, the only ultrasound I had was at 19 weeks and then a 3/D one that evening to find out gender. The heartbeat of this little peanut was 164bpm. The tech said the peanut was around 2cm long and you could just watch this little heart beating so quickly and strong. God truly is amazing.

Pregnancy

Anyways, as only a few people know. I am pregnant again. We are not telling people until we know everything is alright. I am so very excited. This Friday, I get to have an ultrasound to date the pregnancy. So far I have been feeling pretty good. I do have a bit of morning sickness but as I tel my husband, I knew what I was getting into when we decided to get pregnant. Also, there are so many people out there that would love to be pregnant so there is no reason to complain. There are only 5 more days til Friday.

Pillowcase Dress

And No it is not made from a Pillowcase. I was looking at some boutiques and things last night and saw pillowcase dresses and noticed the price was not what I was willing to pay. So, I decided I would try to make one. So i went and looked through my fabric and found this gorgeous big print that I have been holding onto for awhile, like 4 years. So I made my own pattern and went to town. It did take a little bit to figure it out,because I had never worked with binding before let alone making my own binding, but it turned out pretty well. I may start selling them in my store. www.pretties4princesses.etsy.com but it will probably be a week or two until i get them up. Here is a picture.

Organization

I think being organized is very important, and I have been very lax lately on putting things away neatly. Yesterday while I was at Micheals (I am there probably twice a week) I noticed that all of their baskets were 50% off. So, I was able to pick up some really cute cloth type baskets for $6.50, I purchased six for my laundry area as well as three for my office. So today is the day to start getting things once again organized.

Work

What some people don't know about me, I babysit for an 8 month old 4 days a week as well as have my business. I have trying really hard to get everything done. I have some fabric for some rag quilts that I am going to try to work on in the next couple of weeks. I have some really cute ladybug fabric and some really cute little boy prints.

Vacation

I leave for Vacation on Thursday. I am so excited. I will get to see most of my family. There will be three of my parents 6 grandchildren there and they are the youngest of the six. It will be Kailyn who is 14 months, Elias who is turning 1 on December 23rd, and Levi who is 7 months (I think). It should be a blast, but we will be missing Lucy (3 1/2), Jacob (almost 15), and Akeela (12). It just won't be the same without them. I will of course miss my brother and his wife Mel. Life will hopefully slow down a little this week, so I can pack. The church had its Christmas cantata tonight and last night. It went really well. Our church secretary Bonnie does a great job. It was entitled Christmas at Home. It was about the civil war and a young boy that becomes injured and dies. It really was great. In fact, there will be a DVD of it available.