my cat Bailey....

Today, I went through pictures of Bailey and put together a little slide show using Smilebox. Smilebox had tons of options for putting together great slideshows, photobooks or looks like you have the option for printing out scrapbook pages....with a fee. Anyways, you can make good use of just the free account if you don't mind the advertising! Give it a try!

placemat purses.....

Where's the placemat?

It is actually the front of this cute purse!

A few weeks ago, I started playing around with a placemat that I've had here for awhile. Not liking most of the purses I had seen online made from placemats, I took the best attributes of those I DID like...and then added my own touches to come up with this design. I simply LOVE it! I love the lining, too...it makes the purse look finished...something that the others that I had seen, lacked. So, I start by embroidering the placemat...while embroidering, I cut my pieces and then when it's finished at the embroidery machine, I take it to the sewing machine and put it together. These will be so cute for summer use...I'm calling these my "scooters". I have a show in a week and these will make their debut at that show.

first post!

Well, here we go! It's time I got into the world of blogging. Quite honestly, I really don't have anything on my mind at the moment, so I will just share this cute picture of Marisa, my niece. She tried out a tricycle for the first time Sunday. Her feet just about reach...so she will soon be trying to keep up with the big girls!

For all of you who do not know Marisa's story, she was adopted, at an age of 5 1/2 months, from Colombia, by my youngest sister and brother-in-law, in February 2007.