Summer Fun with my new creation just for me!

An up coming birthday party inspired me to make myself an apron. I am one of the world's messiest cooks around. I wanted to look good for the party so I needed a cute apron. I decided to make a halter apron because its really hot here 103. Aprons need not be drab but can be cute for the hostess. I tried to think of matching my clothes to an apron but I didn't have any fabric to go with the outfit I wanted to wear. Hum, imagine that.

I decided to find cute appealing fabric and just make something I liked and then find some outfit to go with it. Boy, that was much easier.



My apron I decided on was made from scraps of fabric I had left over, even from an old shower curtain I once used. So I have vintage fabric and new fabric. My reversible apron will give me two different looks for what ever mood I'm in.

Here are some halter aprons in my shop.

Red and blue floral reversible halter apron.





Gardener's Delight Halter Apron


I also take custom orders for those special occasions or special requests.

Elton John Eat Your Heart Out!

Today we had to make another run to the party store. Of course my grandkids found something else they had to try on "glasses"!

Elton John was famous for his music but also his many pairs of funny and silly glasses. Well, my two grandkids had the pick of the litter sort of speak.


So here are their cute finds. There are too many to post so here are the best of the best. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.


Christian as guitar hero!


Lovely pretty pink lady!


The bat as Christian calls them and the smart teacher!


The ice cream man!


Swan Lake!


Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! I thought they reminded me of Wally's eyes, the little robot.


Cat Woman Hisss!


Red flames of fire!


Sending you some love and kisses!



This is my favorite Elton's song! Perfect for the event.

Fun Party Shopping

Shopping with children can be a chore but when you turn it into a fun adventure its more fun than a problem.


Since we had to go to the party store for the up coming birthday, I decided to let my grandkids try on some costumes so they would behave and not cause me any problems.






LaRyn's favorite character to dress up is a kitty. She tried on several different cat masks.


Christian insisted he was a cheetah in this costume.


One of Christian's favorite characters is a pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

They had lots of fun trying on costumes and deciding what they could be. Since I don't celebrate Halloween, I decided to have a costume party for the October birthday. It sounds like too much fun. I hope everyone wants to participate including the parents.

Girly Treasury

It's a pink Tuesday! Look at all the lovely pinks.




Girl's look so cute in pinks. My pink camo apron was featured in the etsy treasury. I'm truely blessed that someone would think of featuring me in this collection. Theres are so many cute things here.

You can find them here:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=66311

Father's Day!

Father's Day is a great way to honor our fathers. Mine has since passed on and since we didn't have a good relationship I don't think about him much. But my husband has been a wonderful father, a man of character and a great example to our children.

This Father's Day was a busy day with 2 of my children coming to visit and 7 of my grand kids made it quite an eventful day. It seems children can all get along as no one touches an another and and keeps to themselves. Did that happen of course not, kids wouldn't be kids if they didn't cause a commotion.

My oldest daughter came and made her father's favorite German Chocolate cake with coconut frosting. She in listed her sister's son to help her make the cake. She had Christian put the eggs in the batter and he put the eggs shell in all in the cake. Of course she took the shells out before baking.


The children played on the "mini trampoline", I bought just for the grandkids this weekend, the swimming pool, swinging, and digging in the dirt. Mally's favorite part of play was the trampoline.



Some of us choose to go to the Irish festival since we are 1/2 Irish and wanted to see what was going on. There was vendors everywhere, and Gaelic dancing, Spanish dancers and Irish bagpipes. My husband's favorite part was the bagpipes which he has informed me that he wants at his funeral.




My husband went along for the ride, he's such a good sport. I'm sure his favorite thing to do was to go golfing on Friday and watch it on TV. Boy, has he become a golf fanatic, but love him anyways.

New Item listed

Just listed this apron for those police lovers or for those who want to be the police of there family BBQ. What ever the case this is a great apron to keep you clean when you are grilling.