Introduction to my beautiful family!

This first picture is of my beautiful 2 sisters, my wonderful sister-in-law, and me!

This picture is of my parents and all their children (my siblings :-)

This is ALL of us minus my parents plus my sister-in-law!

My siblings are (from oldest to youngest) Jon, DQ (his wife Cayla), Amy, Sasha (my photographer), A (you already met him :-), and last but definately not least- Z!

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A new creation

This is a skirt I whipped up the other day. I needed another nice skirt that would mach most of my nice tops and I had gotten the fabric previously at the thrift store! It fits perfectly!

This was my first pattern with a waist band and also my first with an invisible zipper! Thankfully they both went on smoothly!

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Baby carrier

This is a baby carrier I made for fun (we already had 2).
The pattern was very easy, I think it would be fine for beginners too! If your more experienced and crafty you can add more detail and even a little cell phone pocket for fun on one of the straps (just an idea, use your imagination and you could do ANYTHING!!!).
I found the basic (free) instructions here but I didn't make the interchangeable panels part.

The little child in the picture is one of our cute foster babies (that's why I had to block the face out) I wish you could see how CUTE they are! We have had 29 in the past year.

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A doll dress

I made this American girl doll dress for my little sister (all of us girls have several Amer. girl dolls). I totally changed the pattern to make this dress and was very happy with the finished product.

The style of this dress (I would say) is around the late 1800's and is a walking or riding style dress (because of the shorter length).

I also had some fun making a small bustle to go in the back ;-).

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My Renaissance dress!!!

I finished this dress yesterday. (my little sister did the wonderful photography :-)

My Easter dress (and my new sewing form!!!)

I know, I know, "Easter?" yes Easter. I told you I would post pictures and I did. Better late than never?

I made this dress out of a sheet!!!

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Our road trip in alphabetical order

FYI, I have been out of state on a long road trip for the past month (I DO have an excuse :-)
I wrote this the other day to give you a small idea of what our road trip looked like...


Our road trip in alphabetical order

A is for our aunts we saw namely, Lorainne, Ruth, Mary, Geri, and Sharon

B is for Boise Idaho, the first place we stopped

C is for Cody, Wyoming, the “Rodeo capital of the world” (and yes we did go to a rodeo while we were there)

D is for driving the whole way (more than 5,000 miles!)

E is for eating, usually at a picnic table, at a rest stop

F is for the (MANY) fields we passed, full of cows and corn

G is for gratefulness, thank you to all those who helped in any way

H is for heights, at Milner Pass we were at an elevation of 10,759 feet

I is for Inns, in which we stayed over night

J is for joy, which was seen often

K is for Kansas, we spent 4 days there with my aunt and her family

L is for loneliness, which did not exist on our trip :-D

M is for Minnesota, the main point of our trip, my mom grew up there and so we stayed with her sister for a week

N is for names, they are so hard to remember, especially when you haven’t seen that person in 10 years!

O is for “Oh, look!!!”, which preceded almost everything we said while driving down the road

P is for pools, most of the hotels had them so we went swimming a few times

Q is for questions, for many were asked on the trip

R is for Mt. Rushmore, we stayed overnight in a place that you could see 2 of the heads from the window

S is for sightseeing, like the Badlands, Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park, Mt. Rushmore, etc.

T is for tales to tell; funny, exciting, and sad

U is for Utah, one of the many places we stayed

V is for van; believe it or not, we only brought one 7 passenger van for 6 people and their stuff on a 24 day driving trip!

W is for Wall drug, they have signs from 365 miles away!!!

X is for x (believe it or not), one of the easiest letters to find when playing the letter race game in the van, just look for an exit sign!

Y is for Yellowstone National Park, we saw 3 bears, more than 150 buffalo, more than 50 elk, and a mountain goat!

Z is for Zack’s birthday, which happened while we were in Cody

Written by Ashley
6/22/09