Crocheted Valentine's Day Hearts

As much as I hate to stray from my pictures from my night Dancing with the Stars (did I mention that I got to meet Derek Hough and Mark Ballas!?!?!?!) - I felt I should get this blog back to this sort of stuff.......

I found this great little pattern for Sweet Crocheted Hearts on Bella Dia's blog -http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/2008/02/sweet-heart-cro.html and thought I'd give it a try myself since I really don't have that many cute Valentine's Day decorations.

Give it a try if you want - it's super simple and you can add any sort of details that you want. I'm planning to add more vintage buttons to mine and then probably string them into a garland to hang somewhere in the house.

I'm also planning to try this Valentine's Day Craft from Heather Bullard - Vintage Inspired Living.

http://heatherbullard.typepad.com/heather_bullard_collectio/2009/01/valentine-craft.html

Her blog is so beautiful - it's sure to inspired you! I just found the $1 wooden hearts she mentions at Joann's on Saturday in their dollar section. I'll have to let you know how they turn out!

Check out my Etsy shop soon - here are some pictures of items I am trying to get listed today. My girl is due home from school in about 20 minutes and the boy is stirring from his nap - so that may or may not happen, but we'll see!

More Pictures of Ballas and Hough Band - Dallas, TX

Here are a few more pictures from our evening at the House of Blues in Dallas. I can't tell you how genuinely nice these guys seemed to be. Their energy and enthusiasm was so contagious - and, I am genuinely looking forward to hearing more of their music as well as seeing them dance.

This is Sam. We had such fun watching this kid play guitar. I hardly ever saw him with out a smile on his face...

The girl in this picture is Emily Grace. She plays keyboard. Seemed like a really sweet girl. I think the band had just as much fun as the audience that night.

Thanks again Ballas and Hough Band for such a fun evening my mom and I will have fun talking about for a long time!

Dancing with the Stars - Ballas and Hough Band - OMG!!!!! The BEST time!!!

Do you SEE who we are with??!!!!! I'm telling you this was the best time! Mom and I went to the Dancing with the Stars tour show in Dallas - then, hiked a few blocks down to the House of Blues to watch the Ballas and Hough Band. We love Derek and Mark as dancers and know we're definately fans of their music.
We hadn't planned to go to the concert afterwards, that was a fluke. I really didn't think we'd be able to get in - but we lucked out.

I can't tell you how nice these guys are - they spent time with each and every person that wanted a picture or autograph and seemed to be having such a great time with everyone.

I also got pictures of Cody, Cheryl, Lance Bass, and Maurice Green - they all came to House of Blues too. My sweet husband gave Mom and I a night at the Adolphus hotel in Dallas that night - and it was spectacular! Such a treat -

I'll tell you all more about it later - but couldn't wait to post these few pictures!!!

Happy New Year, At Last!

Hi All -
Just wanted to reach out and say hello. I'm still here, just still basically out of commission regarding computer and camera, etc.
I am soooooooo glad that it's 2009!!! I'm ready for a clean slate, a new year, a new start. This will be a better year I'm certain. Of course I'm counting my many blessings from 2008, but there were several happenings during the past year that I would rather erase.
We had a fun Christmas despite the knots in my stomach over the break in. We were able to capture memories via family members cameras and video cameras. But, my husband made the comment that we have never gone through a bottle of vodka in our 10 years of marriage as quickly as we have during the last few weeks.
I realized this past weekend that the videos of my son crawling for the first time as well as his first steps may have been taken. I'm so heartbroken over this I can't bring myself to see exactly what I have and what I don't have. I don't care about any of the "stuff", I just want those video tapes back. The jerks that got into our house also managed to take several other items of value that had sentimental value. Why they couldn't have taken other things instead I don't know. I'm just praying everyday that who ever did this to us gets caught and that by some miracle we may get some items of significance returned.
I still pray that they get whatever help they need, because they are in a worse place in life than me I know.
Happy New Year to all our family and friends!!

My Sense of Security - Please Say a Prayer.

Hey Everybody-

Thank you so much for continuing to check in with me. I really do love the blog world and love hearing from you all and connecting, etc.

Anyway -

I've had a horrible week - my house was broken into, many things stolen - some that can be easily replaced, and many that cannot. Our sense of security has been drastically changed. I feel very blessed that my family was not hurt and we have been able to keep this news from my children. The intruders did make a huge mess, and have created major upheavel in our lives, but at least we were able to clean up enough that the kids haven't caught on yet.

My computer was stolen. It has everything business related on it among many other things. I don't know what to do with myself without it -

Luckily, I'm able to do a little bit on my husband's computer, but needless to say my blog posts during the next several weeks/months??? (who knows) will probably be sparce.

Please say a prayer that this jerk gets caught and doesn't wreak the same havoc on another family. I also pray that whatever life circumstance led him/her to do this will somehow improve. I have to believe that this person was desperate; although it's very hard to know what to do with the anger that has come of this.

Isn't She Beautiful

I had to share this picture of this darling little girl. She's the daughter of a great customer of mine and she's wearing one of the Yo- Yo pins from my collection. What a sweetie.
It's such fun seeing how people enjoy using the things that I love to make.

A Turkey on My Head

Much to the horror of my family - I'm posting this picture of me in a vintage apron stirring the Thanksgiving gravy in... ,yes, a turkey Drumstick hat. (At least it's hiding the "Yentl" hair, which is starting to grow out thank goodness!)

Thanks to my sister :) - for the hat, not the hair.

Just to show - I do have a sense of humor, odd as it may be. I'm trying desperately to keep a straight face.

We definately had some laughs over this one!

Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm trying to get myself back in gear after dealing with sick kids and 22 hours in the car headed to Indiana, and 22 hours in the car back to Texas.

All is well here now thank goodness. Getting geared up for Christmas!