Flower Brooch Finally Done

Ive Finally finished the fower brooches that Ive been working on and agonizing over the details
. Im doing more of them for the UP-Comming Hallowen holliday. Lots of black and gold and orange, still working out the design details more on that soon.

I started out making these to embelish the bags (see past posts),.. but then I noticed that I loved the way they look on thier own. Let me know what you think! I love the feed back.

Oz Party!

Oh , how I wanted to be here yesterday and to frolic and mingle in the party that
was. But alas<.. It somehow seem as though the house fell on Me instead!....
Now it seem as though it will take yet another day or so for me to dig my way out
bit by it.....see you in a spell.........

Hello World! My name is Jean-Pierre Malik Betaudier, and I arrived today
at 8:25 am. Nice to meet you all. Im going to take a little nappy now! nity night!

Once in a Century Event

This is the second of three total Eclipses that will happen in the space of a months

time. Third on will be on August 6th that will be a lunar Eclipse. How cool is that?

These have to be amoung the most colorful cookies in the world,.. even more so than last
years alphabet cookies , and finished more quickly! They were just as big of a hit though!

The colorfull cookies from last years birthday party...

This is the sound of Father's Day '09

a small preview

Ive been doing the finishing work on a line of bags and pocket books and even evening bags fashioned from up cycled blue jeans and thrifted fabric. The buttons and embelishments are also entirly made from denim scraps, and I will be making some broaches out of the denim flowers as they are my new favorite thing. I love when I ge a tinge of excitement over a new design...

New Baby's Comming!!!

Ive been busy ,busy ,busy with the garden (ish), finishing up my new line of bags, and getting things ready for he new baby. This weekend is the baby shower. The theme is "Mina's LAST Baby Shower".

Well , OK, this is baby #3 and for now I agree with them. They already know that its going to be a boy! Yeah for them.! For me I didn't want to know until the last moment, ... I don't like peeking until the package on Christmas Eve either!

I am excited to make it special without being fussy. ... I tend to be a bit fussy and I've been called on it but then again that's what I'm loved for,.. fussy and over the top pretty and good to eat!

With that I'm a bit disappointed with not having enough time to make my Fourth of July fancy pancy platters like I wanted. Unfortunately Ive turned the kitchen into my work room for lack of space and Ive dominated every counter top and available table space until I get this selection done... so I only made four things this time. Thanks Tom for being my prep chef, couldn't have done it without you.(kisses)

I made a red white and blue potato salad, devilled eggs , fresh fruit tarts, and a tray of cookies . They came out sorta OK, but not what I wanted although every one loved everything,(happily)

Now for a Baby Shower Luncheon for 30 with about 20(ish) children. I'm not sure its standard to bring children to a baby shower, but what the heck.... so I will be making some goodie bags for the haflings too..... and its already Thursday... So it will be about 4 more days or so until I get around to finishing my beloved bags... Ill post a sample of my progress as soon as I can squeeze out some time.