Royal Wedding Giveaway!

My friend Katie over @ *explanation required is hosting a wedding giveaway... royal style!!

Click here and follow her directions to be entered into her giveaway

Good Luck :)

Yummy in My Tummy

If all goes according to plan, this is what I'll be baking tonight...



Picture courtesy of Zoey Cakes



I stumbled across this fabulous idea from Cupcakes Take the Cake so check out their blog.  This is from a local upstate New York bakery Zoey Cakes and I have every intention of making a minimum of two dozen Cadbury creme egg filled cupcakes!  Maybe more, depending on how far I can stretch the cake batter.  Pictures to come later!! :)

For the Love of Royalty

Ok, this just made me smile:



Patterns available in paperback or electronic download

Knit Your Own Royal Wedding by Fiona Goble

Now I really don't think I'll be taking the time to knit an entire royal wedding scene, but if someone else does then more power to you and I really want to know! :)  With pictures, please send me pictures!

And if someone out there wants to get really creative and make a video with your knitted royal wedding participants, go for it!  Don't forget to post it on YouTube, it might go viral.

Memorial

In memory of Gillian Brown, who would have been 12 years old today, I wanted to share this organization that was so encouraging to my cousins during their time of sorrow.

Their mission is to 'touch the little lives' of need premature and newborn infants in Ohio, to do all that they can to give families, free of any charge, the necessities that every newborn needs.  The volunteers make quilts, blankets, caps, booties, gowns, undershirts, afghans, bibs, sleepers, and other articles.

Unfortunately there is one additional need that is sadly met within the communities.  For reasons known only to God, many children arrive into this world prematurely, weighing less than a pound.  These tiny babies are called to join their Heavenly Father.  Instead of being able to rejoice at this new life, the sad reality is that the families must now provide for a single outfit in which to lay their precious child to rest.  At this difficult time, when parents should be happily shopping at toy stores for rattles or toys for their child, they are instead looking for doll clothing small enough to fit.  Volunteers respond during this time of grieving by providing burial layettes to these families for their child.

Each year literally hundreds upon hundreds of premature and needy babies are admitted to the local Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU).  The extremely small size of many of these infants makes it difficult to find clothing that fits, and when it can be found, is often beyond the affordable range of many families.  Every item provided is completely free of charge and no one in this organization receives any salary or compensation for their work.  Every penny donated is spent on providing for these little lives.

If you think you can help make something, even just this once in memory of Gillian, check out the website: http://www.touchinglittlelives.org/help.html

Great Big Giveaway

Holly over at HollyCraft is hosting a fabulously cute giveaway! 

Check it out - you could win one of 5 prize packs!  Enjoy!! :)



From HollyCraft FB Page



It Could Be Fun

I'm just going to put this out there... I LOVE to color!!  I know, I'm 30 years old, but I don't care :)

Perhaps I just enjoy the simplistic creativity that coloring brings.  And I'm pretty sure it relieves stress too.  So in light of my passion for coloring, my attentive husband gave me this as part of my birthday gift:

Silly and juvenile?  Probably, but maybe this is my first step towards learning how to draw?  Or maybe all I'll ever do is color... but I'll never know if I don't just try!

Have a great weekend ;)

Display Additions

My very first display purchase has arrived!  Thanks to my dear husband for picking this up as a birthday gift add-on!!  ;)



Styrofoam Mannequin Head



NOW, not only can I use this to display my hats at shows, I can also use it to take photos of my hat designs and post them on this blog.  I have to say I was fighting the urge to get weirded out when I was looking for mannequin heads online.  I'm so happy I found something that works, was inexpensive, and wasn't too creepy.  Thanks to Melissa @ Mel's Crocheted Creations for sharing where she found her own styrofoam heads.

Until next time, make it a creative day! :)