Rain... Rain... Rain...

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

As the rain has been pouring I've been kniting away, filling, and shipping orders for warm hats of all sizes and colors. For some reason, more than ever, I am very excited about Fall this year and looking forward to warm sweaters, boots and coats. Lately I've been into bright colors of thread and have created several hats for boys and girls.

Hand Knitted Bright Neon Colors Hat- $16

Size: 0-12 months.

Crochet Hat White w/Flower- $16

12 Months

Newborn Violet Hat, Crochet w/Flower- $16

Gray with Lemon Yellow Knitted Hat- $19

Size: 3T-4T

Navy with Orange Knitted Hat- $16

Size: 12-18 months

Currently working on several other colors and will share with you as they are done.

Offce/Sewing Room

Finally took some time to reorganize my home office/sewing/crafts room. I spend at least several hours each day in this room. If it's not business paperwork or bills its eather sewing, crafting, knitting or simply wrapping a gift for someone.

I decided to divide the room into two sides to keep paperwork seperate from fabric.

 

I spotted a wood storage unit, that became very handy for different accessories.

 

Plus storage boxes and some small decor pieces, I finally finished this room.

People we Love!

On July 8th 2010, I lost my MOM. She might of lost battle to cancer, but she definatly got an everlasting Life with Jesus Christ on heaven. She's been battling cancer in several parts of her body for over 15 years. She's had a total of 14 sergeries and different dangerous treatments, adding up to over 100 hours of full body anesthetia, countless doses of strong drugs and morphine. Thru all these years, she's been thru so much, but most of the people who knew her didn't know half the stuff she was going thru, including us kids. She was a strong women thru out her life and never had time to feel sorry for herself. She didn't want any of us kids to know all of her sickness and diagnose everytime she would come back from the doctors office.

My older sister received a call from her doctor on July 1st, explaning my mom's diagnose and her life expectancy from that day. He encouranged her to sign up for hospace. Much to my disbelief and denial my mom's health was rapidly changing. Going from being able to slowly walk, talk and consume a small amount of foods, to rejecting all the foods & liquids, not able to talk and definalty not able to move around by herself with in only 5 days.

Being the youngest in the family and never losing anyone close to me, I denied everything and had hopes until the very end. I could not amagine myself with one someone I loved dearly and couldn't live without. She was a big part of my life and my kids lives. But God had a plan for her. Looking back at the times we spend together, I remember moments when she would talk about heaven and her going there and (to my understanding now) she was slowly and gently preparing me for this exact moment. But you can never be prepaired for it. Young or old, sick or healthy- Death rips a hole thru your heart that never heals. There are times I wake up and reach for a phone to call her, or have a question that I know she would be happy to answer. I pray to God that He would give me strenght to go thru this difficult time in my life, and greatfully Thank everyone who's been praying and being there for my family.

She's impacted a lot of people with her life and I only hope to be like her, and meet with her there in heaven.

"I love you and miss you terribly."

Sweet Pea Patterns Guest Giveaway

Sweet Pea Patterns Guest Giveaway

If you too love to make your little ones their own little sweet feet, Sweet Pea Patterns offers the cutest little baby shoe patterns. And they are offering her six shoe variations, that's 6 patterns, to one lucky Grosgrain reader.

Patterns include a reversible seamless crib shoe, Jack and Jill loafers, reversible Mary Janes, Baby Kawaii Kimono shoes, Angelina Ballerina shoes, and the Bella Baby Crib Shoe.
Imagine all the cute combinations you can create

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My latest invention....

As I was creating some of the smaller Rosettse headbands for infants, I decided to go very small and see what happends. Here is my latest creation, or should I say last night's idea:

Hellow Yellow!

Perhaps it's because summer is here, but we can't get enough of yellow. The bright and cheery hue brings a smile to our faces and puts a summer in our step. Want to immerse yourself in the color of the sun? Shop for the favorite golden things.  

YELLOW POEM

Yellow are the taxi tops

the butterflies and bumblebees

juicy lemons, sunflower

and for falling leaves

Yellow is for egg yolk

a fever's name,

yellow directory pages

and a yellow warning cards given to players.

Yellow is for the sun 

ornaments of gold,

colour of papers

that are preserved and old.

Yellow is for mustard fields

and banana peels

I stepped on and tripped

also a colour of wisdom and intellect.

Yellow is for charming smilies

for youth, exhuberence and cowardice

to make people smile is its purpose.

Time with the girls....

My husband has had a very busy week and has been coming home later than usual. As much as I could protest he still had to go to work on Saturday. Usually I desperately look forward to the weekend (especially Saturday) to spend time together. This Saturday I had to come up with something to get myself busy with. I decided to take my girls to a park and give then a well overdue photoshoot. I brought lots of different outfits,  jewlery and head full of ideas. Here is an outcome of several hours, in the park running around taking about 200 pictures and making noises to get their attention. Sweating under the burning sun and 80 + deg weather. I am going to admit photography is a bit of a hard work, especially with kids, but I did enjoy it a lot.

Also discovered that Abby is absolutely terrified of a grass and trees, she cried half way thru the photoshoot and wouldn't sit down unless I had her attention with some snacks or toys. And Erika is just like I used to be, loves to climb trees and not afraid of heights.