Fabric, ribbon and hot glue OH MY!

For a while I had been thinking about learning how to make hair bows. I have two daughters and spent good money on hair bows all the time. My friends and I would talk about leaning but to me it always seemed "hard". Well this past November I decided to make my own Christmas Tree topper(large bow) and I looked it up on you tube and something that seemed so hard became easy and i did it! Not only did i make it, it looked pretty darn good too. This sparked my interest in learning how to make hair bows.

I started making bows first, but then became interested in fabric flowers and rolled flowers. I made them for me and my girls at first. Then friends became interested and I decided to start a face book page to display them. I'm not a big "bragger" when it comes to things I can do but I really am enjoying making all these little pretties, especially being able to share them with others. So I wanted to officially announce my "business" and kind of link my blog and it together.

Most of the items on my page are things I have made for some one, that I can recreate for anyone in any color, pattern, theme, character. A lot of what I do is custom ordered. Just contact me with an idea and I will do my best to make it happen. I am also making other items, such as paci clips. I have some other things in the works.

I am very excited to see where this leads me. God has a plan and I put it all in his hands. I am just happy to be able to do something that I enjoy, makes people smile and I can do all this from home.

So check it out, and contact me if there is something you are wanting or interested in. :)

We will understand it better by and by...

Today I stumbled across a blog. The blog is for a lady that lost her daughter at 4 months last month. As I started reading the blog all of these emotions surfaced, sadness for her and her husband, for her family for losing such a sweet little angel all to soon. Then the all to familiar feelings of grief surfaced from a year ago. Feelings that surface often but today they were strong. I scooped up my baby girl(who is also 4 months) and sobbed. I sobbed for those moms who would never get to hold their babies again. Then I thanked God for my babies and for them being alive.

See I know what its like to lose a baby, a baby that was growing inside of you, kicking small kicks. I know what its like to give birth to a baby that's already sleeping, already wrapped in God's arms. To plan and go to a small memorial service and see a tiny coffin and visit the grave site of a baby you had so many hopes and dreams for. Its awful, its unbelievably painful and not a day goes by that I do not think of him but to lose a child that you have cuddled with, kissed, felt the warmth of their skin, heard coo and smile. A child you have seen LIVE and thrive, has to magnify that grief and pain I felt by a million.

Life is short(to short for some) and very fragile. We take it for granted daily, we do that with a lot of things. If we only stopped some times to remember all those people who have lost someone or how easily and quickly some leave this earth we'd stop and smell the roses, tell the ones we love them how much we do, we'd hug longer, visit longer...

Its so easy to get frustrated with our kids(anyone really), especially as they get older. To fuss and yell over toys and home work. To rush the time we have with them. I'm not judging, I do it, we all do. I just wanted to take the time out to remind us all to just STOP, breath in your children and the people you love. Rejoice and be thankful we have them and say a pray for all those people out there who don't have the chance to do so any more.

** There is an auction being held for the family in the blog I mentioned, for more information go here.

Back in the Saddle again...

The title say's it all. ;)