4th of July and a little bit more

We had a nice chill 4th at home. Scott had to work both Sat. and Mon. so it was his only day off. Since we live in SC and we can legally set off fireworks (whoo hoo), Scott went down the street and bought a bunch from a little firework stand. We threw poppers which London thought was GREAT and then we introduced him to his first fireworks.

This is Scott setting off bottle rockets in the street and was also taken shortly after he set off a round of 1000 cherry bombs. London just laughed and smiled (and plugged his ears)!

Standing in excitement after many many bottle rockets.

The more we set off the more excited he got. It was really sweet and we have been setting a few off each night since. We drag our chairs out and put a stick on the ground and tell London he can not go past the stick. Super family fun!

Giving Daddy hugs after the big show! Yay for fireworks and Daddy!

The next day we had the McGaha's over for a little cookout and swim in the blow up "party" pool on the back porch. Here is London and his 2 favorite girls eating lunch. They are all total cuteness!

Scott has started learning a bunch of songs on his harmonica. Just so happens we have a kid harmonica for London. Today they were outside playing in the beach ball sprinkler and Scott was playing his harmonica. As soon as he started London came running through the front door and grabbed his harmonica, then ran right back outside. I came out with the camera and this is what I found. hehe

He ran back through the sprinkler (with harmonica in hand) for one more cool down.

I love it, one day when London can play a ton of songs we will look back at these photos and say this is where it all started. :)

Hope you are all staying cool...it is HOT HOT HOT here.

100th post...lots of new work

Scott and London and Sugar bunny and Douglas all chillin - they are the best!

Yes, I finally made it to my 100th post, slowly but surely. I thought for this post I would put up a few new pieces I have completed. I have always seemed to work in spurts and the past few days have been very productive (...now if some of it would just sell- LOL). I have as of right now 372 items in my shop. Now many of those are prints of sold originals or favorite images. Acutally, probably a little more then half of the items in my shop are prints of my originals...but still...super full shop!

I just finished this one above and named it "A Thousand Kisses" it is fabric on wood and really is so vibrant in person. I must admit, I think it is a new favorite. I have really had the best time building up my stash of green fabrics. It gives me great pleasure to pair up various greens and somehow having them work well together. I will never stop making these fabric pieces and that makes me Happy!

Below is a little piece called "Tall Grass" and it is fabric on wood. We have been living in our house here in Lancaster for 3 years now and have yet to have more then a few small strips of grass. We have so many trees that they have created quite the natural space and with Scott always working and me always running around with London it just seems to stay more natural then anything. Someday we will get our grassy yard back but it could be some time and I just will continue to make grass pieces until then. My dream grass is the kind that is soft and you can roll around in it. In the winter it turns brown but always comes back green in the spring. Not sure what it is called.

More Kitchen pieces! I seem to sell my breakfast pieces pretty well and had sold out of almost all the originals so I decided to stock the shelves again.
Here is another "Kiss my Grits-Blue" I added the blue twist and rearranged things a bit from the first 2 grits pieces I made.

"Tea" original fabric on wood

"Waffles" (with blueberries) - finally I got around to making some waffles, thought it was only fitting since I have made a few pancakes already.

Finally sometimes I just want to draw on the wood. This particular piece had such nice wood grains coming through I just could not cover them up with fabric.
"The Mountains were Calling" colored pencil on wood

Hope everyone's summer is going well. I will be headed to the mountains in a few weekends and can't wait to get a little bit of that cool, crisp air!

As life passes us by we remember the laughs

"You Make Me Laugh" - Archival print in the shop now...original is pen and ink and colored pencil.

My husbands best friends father lost his battle with cancer this week. We attended his funeral today and it was so touching and a beautiful celebrations of a great mans life. This piece reminds me of what is so important in life. Laughing and loving with friends and family. Every day that we have here on earth is a gift to share with those we love! I hope that I never forget that as long as I live.

I know it has been a while since I blogged so I have been building up some good pictures of London doing what he does best...having fun.

He has taken quite a liking to the first step in any stair case, or porch steps, or the fire place hearth. It is the perfect height for him to help himself to a seat. Him and Scott were sitting on the fireplace the other night and luckily my camera was close by. My sweet boys!

London lives for running around in just a diaper. ha ha


I was getting something out of his closet the other day and he saw his halloween costume and just had to have it. We have tried to tell him that it is not actually a stuffed animal, oh well it is still fun to love.

Ok this one is even sweeter then the first.

London and I in Sepia.

My mom comes over quite a bit to watch London for us when we can't bring him along to where ever we are going. He loves to read stories with Grandma and gets really excited when she comes over. Tonight he got to go over to my folks house and hang out with Grandma and Grandpa.

Aunt Christie was over the other day too. She has to love on London before she heads back North to AK.

We have a squirrel friend who comes and eats on all the droppings from one of our bird feeders. When he comes to visit he is seriously right outside the sliding glass doors. London thinks it is such a hoot. We watch him the whole time until someone make a sudden movement (usually London - jumping and laughing) and he takes off. I also noticed this morning that our cardinal family is back! Yay...they are the inspirations for the couple of cardinal pieces I have in my etsy shop.

See....squirrel friend.

Well another week is upon us. After a really awesome playdate with an old friend last week we are looking forward to what fun this week will bring.

In the Middle of a Blue Evening

"In the Middle of a Blue Evening" - new in my shop now...here

Random little blue facts about me...

I have always been a blue girl.

I got married with blue fingernails (and they are blue right now).

The first car I ever bought and still have is blue.

I know that when I was younger I always told myself when I grow up I would have a room in my house that was all blue...my "blue room". I am still working on that one.

In all my drawers of fabric the blue one is the fullest.

I am a sucker for my 2 year olds sweet blue eyes.

Every night around the time that daddy should be home London keeps an eye on the back door. If I even utter the word "daddy" he goes running in that directions and waits. In the picture above you can see that Scott did not even have time to get his jacket off after he got home the other night. So sweet...both of them!

London and I were rolling around on the floor being silly and we captured these shots. I love that we can catch a moment in time with the snap of a button.

Hoping everyone has a great week. I am trying to figure out what we are going to get into, whatever it is I am sure it will be fun. :)