good help is hard to find

Soooo, I have this custom order completed:

Next on my to~do list is to start my apron for the altered apron swap I am in. I have

heard from the experts here and here that although the task may be daunting, it is
greatly enhanced by a} consuming a lot of sour apple martinis and b} having a spoiled
fur baby that you can use to model your various embellishments while you decide which
to use. Hey, I have one of those ...

"oh Mr Madison"

uggggh ... I am doomed ... anyone have a good sour apple martini recipe?

a little dress

Anyone remember Karlapalooza? Well, I wanted to show you what I did with the other
doll dress that I bought while I was there. The first dress went into this shadowbox. As a
side note, I did change the angle of the pic on the dress in the shadowbox ... that was
really bothering me. Anyhoo, this dress was my favorite, not only because of the delicate
pink color but also because it looks like it was well used. I'm sure some little girl really

loved the dolly that was wearing this dress.

The "pocket" is a picture of my dear hubby when he was a boy. Isn't he a cutie? Oh, and
have I ever told you how very much I love craft paper photo corners? They really make
me happy for some reason.

I got the "tree branch as a hanger" idea from that clever girl Dawn. Luckily my hubby

just trimmed our flowering crab and never cleaned up his twigs. The flowers were from a
small cluster that I found while out shopping one day, I nearly passed out. Millinery is
hard to come by here, so that was a very lucky find indeed. The little girl on the tag is a
picture someone gave to me. The text is from one of my old crumbling books.

I am very happy with how this turned out. I really love a quick easy project.

Have a Happy Sunday!

hello my name is lori

i have one of these:

and this is how i roll:

teddy said ~ i said

Holy wind gusts! It is blowing like you wouldn't believe over here today. I just hope I
get my post in before my power goes out.

Today is the birthday of the best man that I know { well, he is tied with my hubby}.
Happy Birthday Dad! I love you more than words can say!

If you are here to see if you won my OWOH giveaway, you did if your name is Connie and
you blog here. Thank you to everyone who entered, it was so nice to meet all of you! We'll
have to do it again next year. Thanks to Lisa also for hosting.

So, who is this Teddy you are wondering? Well, I am referring to President Theodore
Roosevelt. In 1901, after the assassination of President McKinley, he became the young~
est man to serve this office at the tender age of 42. You can find more information about
President Roosevelt here. I am more concerned with his famous saying: "speak softly and
carry a big stick; you will go far".

Hmmmmm, well what if we lopped off the tail end of that ... made it more
whimsical ... inserted some cuteness ... and what if the "we" is rhetorical



because I have already done it for us ... may i present to you:

"speak softly and carry a big bunny"

Hee Hee!!! I hope you like it.