Thanks for the birthday love!

I wanted to thank everyone that left birthday love comments for me yesterday! I feel so warm and fuzzy inside its unreal, and I had a lot of love from my hippiesew mama's yesterday too. I did not realize how many birthday messages I got till I got more into my inbox!

I am just so happy that so many people took the time to leave me a comment here or a message on hippiesew. I cant thank you all enough for the love...especially on my 34th birthday!

I am 34 this year...egads! How did I get this old! I guess its a combination of pure determination and the fact that I keep on living no matter what. I am stubborn so here I am 34 years OLD.

If I feel this old at 34 what am I gonna feel like at 44? AHHHH, god I dont wanna think about it!!!! (runs away into the night throwing beer bottles and cursing)

Yesterday was pretty uneventful. I woke up (as usual) and did some sewing on this poor womans custom I have had for WAY too long. I did finish it up by the way. We went to some place my husband likes to eat....yeah you read it right. Then we went to a fabric store. Its a quilt shop that has been here for 5 years and I didnt know about it, can you believe that! I couldnt resist the designer fabrics so I spent 20 bucks getting fabrics for Maylee to have 2 of these really cute outfits I made a pattern for. Here is one of the outfits...this is the first one I made like 2 days ago. it turned out perfect, i just measured her a whol lot and got busy drafting a pattern. Everyone LOVED this outfit when we went out yesterday


I made this one out of yellow jersey knit, and a blue corduroy sun applique, cool huh?

Here is my new conquest in fabrics for her other outfits


The top is just a cotton gingham print but the bottom is a new Alexander henry print. i LOVE Alexander henry and will buy damn enar anything made by him. I see SOOOO many designer fabrics in this quilt shop and they are ALL 8.50 a yard and up, so I could never shop there for fabrics for my clothes but its nice to dress Maylee up. All I need is a 1/4 yard for a top like this one, and 1/2 a yard for pants

Here is my other conquest:




I cant remember what designer these come from AHHHH! But I do know I could not come home without these fabrics. here you see they have already been cut out into pants and a top. I actually got the top finished last night but am still working on the pants. I need to hem them, add a ruffle or something and some ric rac. I will post pics of Maylee in this one cause she is gonna be super cute as always.

So that was the most exciting thing that happened on my birthday. I got fabric for Maylee, I got to do some fun sewing in between trips out in the heat to go places and do stuff like grocery store and crap.

Justin's Birthday was the 19th, and he told me he wanted chocolate cupcakes with blue sprinkles for his birthday. I asked him just for fun what you are supposed to get girls for their birthday, he said,"Flowers." I said, "you go Justin! Thats a good present. What else would you buy for a girl on her birthday?" Justin replies,"Alarm clock." I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants. he thinks girls like alarm clocks and flowers. I probed further to get some idea of why he thinks this and he really honestly believes girls like alarm clocks...I loves my Justin. he turned 15 on tuesday. He was due on my birthday all those years ago, he still made a mighty fine birthday present.

OK thats all for my birthday excitement...yay. I almost had a heart attack from all the excitement yesterday...NOT! But I do appreciate all the love from you guys, I really do. I have so many friends here online and I hope someday I can meet each and every one of you in person!

Showing off

Ok first I want to show off this skirt I got. I was playing around on Etsy and I happened to come across this shop called Delightfully Deliah.

I noticed she had this awesomely colored skirt in her shop and to make my find even better,it was on sale! See the smug look on my face cause I scored such a great find and on SALE too!!!


Her shop is filled with gorgeous pixie hem skirts in every kind of color combo ou can imagine! She has a lot of autumn stuff up now cause its getting to be that time of the year to think about falling leaves and stuff! get your fall gear now, what better place to start than with a fall colored fairy skirt!


The stitching on this skirt is fantastic! She did a great job of constructing this, and it hangs very nice. The only bad thing is her skirts only go up to 44 inches in the waist. I fit this only by 2 inches LOL. I bet she would do a custom if ya ask her real nice (wink) So if she gets swamped with plus size customs, she knows where they come from!

I LUUURRRVE Pink and green of course, and this skirt makes me feel like a fairy princess. I think everybody needs to own one! So go get you one! What are ya waiting for!
She ships out super fast too, so you dont have to wait forever to get your hands on your cool fairy goods!








OK for my next item to show off is a custom I just finished after it taking for eternity. I made all this patchwork myself...all by myself and I am quite proud of how it turned out. i dont do patchwork stuff like this often because of the time involved, and I do charge a pretty penny to do patchwork too. I am super proud of this one!!







I LOVE these!! Thanks so much Jesse for your sweet business.


And for my next items...yeah I am on a roll today aint I?

I have posted all kinds of new stuff in my Etsy shop. I have an ACEO, a new skirt with a fairy embroidered on it sitting on a mushroom, and I have a new product! I had this idea about herb charms...a little pouch you can wear like a neckalce filled with herbs. I filled these with lavender. You can hang them on ribbon or a plain hemp necklace, or you can just stick em in your drawers or in your closet to keep your clothes smelling sweet. I will include a free length of ribbon free upon request for each herb Charm ordered. I am planning on making many many more, I have tons of ideas for these, and I hope they sell! AHHH! I really enjoy making them cause its a lot of handwork. i like to sew by hand.




I also have some new soaps in Maylees Garden


yes this is my new CUPCAKE soap. Its scented with Patchouli essential oil on the bottom and Vanilla fragrance oil on the top. these are now brown on the top, after I gave up after 3 days for them to turn and I took these pictures then I noticed the other day they finally turned brown LOL They are super cute now. I need to redo the pictures, but these turned out so cool. i love the shadow effect.





here you have from left to right, tangerine bergamot, Tuberose,and vanilla peppermint. I am currently using a bar of the vanilla pappermint and OMG! I love that one. I have made it before and every time I do I have to use some LOL. Clicking the links will take you to the item.

Video Of Maylee crawling and clapping.

If you look closely at the cute baby you will see teeth! Yes she now has 4 teeth! Her two top ones finally match. One was longer than the other for a while hehehehe. It was pretty funny. She looked like a little redneck for a while.


She is getting SO big. She is gonna be walking very soon. Big Bubba Tyler inspires her to walk. He was "showing" her how to walk the other day and she tried it! She keeps cruising the furniture, and after Tyler was showing her how to walk she decided she wanted to do it and she kept trying to let go but she is still too scared. She will raise up on her feet in middle of the floor though, not hanging on to anything she goes from sitting to standing and just grins at us when she does it cause we make a big deal out of it so she is doing it for attention no doubt. I am gonna miss all her funky crawls...the spider crawl with her butt up in the air and feet on the floor...her funny one legged crawl with one knee on the floor and using one foot to propel herself (sigh) but she has to grow up. I cant stop her....dammit.

She is becoming more vocal in a different way too...she says "mama" when she wants someone to hold her. Everyone here is "mama" even Tyler. I tried so hard to get her to say "mama" since she was a newborn...ya gotta start early! Now she just calls everybody mama (sigh). She also says something that sounds like "EEEEEE!" She sounds cute when she says this. She also clapped her hands yesterday for the first time. Me and Tyler have been trying to get her to do this for ages and she finally did it out of nowhere yesterday. I was excited.


This is a video of her clapping her hands. I actually had the camera on her when she did it. I was so surprised! She is also doing her spider crawl and she pulls up to some boxes I have sitting here waiting for my husband to take them outside...probably by the next time I post they will STILL be sitting here waiting to be taken to the garage (sigh) Anyhoo...have fun watching Maylee, I know I am having a ball watching her grow up and so many of you guys are too.

Three tiered skirt plus more new stuff!

So, I get this fabric at the store...its premade patchwork. I have went crazy over this stuff and have some more in my stash just waiting...I found some in ALL PINK! Its just for me though hehehehe. ANyhoo... I got this stuff here to make some pants...but the more I got to looking at it the more I thought it should be a tiered skirt. So here it is in all its spinny goodness. You can also see more of it in my ETSY SHOP!







I decided to do something different with the bloomers. I always thought this style was cute so I tried it and I have to have me a pair of these. Wouldnt these just be precious under a skirt thats about knee length?!

These are made from a white quilters cotton that I dyed myself. Yes, I tried tie dying again and you see the results...obviously I need to go back to the drawing board, but they turned out a lovely shade of purple anyways. I adore this purple. I also "tie Dyed" a couple of my ratty looking white t shirts I wear like a uniform and they are also this shade of purple..its a really nice color. Not too bright, not too dark. Just purple. You can see some streaks of white in these in random places where they were ALMOST tie dyed...but not quite.(sigh) You can see more pictures of these in my ETSY SHOP TOO!



Here is a skirt that for some reason I have had in my inventory box since winter time. The listing for this expired and since the pictures of it did blow all to hell and back I figured I would redo the pictures and try again. This skirt has an applique done by *me* that I have been doing for years. This is my mommy's favorite applique of mine so thats one reason I keep recreating it. Its always a little bit different than the last time.

This is also available in my ETSY SHOP! for only 60 bucks. I am listing it so low because we kinda neeeeeed the money.The price in no way reflects quality, so dont let the somewhat low prices fool ya! I do all french seams in my stuff except where otherwise noted. All other seams are topstitched.


And these adorable bloomers here just made me think PUNK ROCK GIRL! My favorite song by The Dead Milkmen...does anyone out there even KNOW who the Dead Milkmen are?? Does Anyone remember??!! If you was part of the skater scene of the late 80's early 90's then you know who the Dead Milkmen are hehehehe. Anyhoo, I kinda broke away from my usual stuff here by making these, it was fun and I am sure this shocks my usual customers LOL. If these dont sell pretty quick I may just keep em and grab my old Suicidal Tendencies Skateboard and go skate!


These have little skull beads on the sides, and a star button, and a cute white bow. These are really adorable in a goth/punk sort of way. These too are up in my shop!



This skirt was "sold" a while back but the buyer didnt come thru...she decided to open up a garage with her hubby instead. Some people! I swear. Pass up this skirt to have her own business...the nerve! Anyhoo....this is another project made with that cool premade patchwork fabric. This is in purple plaids...I got this thing with purple and plaid lately Hmmmm....Anyhoo, this has a roo pocket, and I embroidered a fairy sitting on a mushroom and a buncha little mushrooms on the pocket...the pocket is made of corduroy and fully lined too.

This is Maylee laughing cause I look stupid in the picture. Aint she a doll.

This will be on Etsy probably tomorrow (sunday 8-03)
I am trying to space out my listings over the whole weekend to keep my stuff fresh in the searches.