Mindy Mae's Market

I was recently invited to join Mindy Mae's Market.

That doesn't mean anything to most of you, but here, it's the

next big thing in northern Utah. Mindy Mae's was

featured last week on Studio 5's week long segment,

"What's New In Your Neighborhood".

What is Mindy Mae's Market?..... click below to find out!

So, I've spent this snowy Saturday afternoon trying to

figure out how to display my wares in a 5' x 2' space.

I decided to go vertical! This trusty door has come in

handy so many times, last time it was placed on

saw horses and used as a table at our grown up lemonade stand.

I've also been busy coming up with some new tags.

HERE'S A HEADS UP...... I will be closing my shop for the holidays on Dec 1st. I'll reopen January 1st. So, if you have been planning on buying something you might want to get on that. For you locals, I will be at Mindy Mae's Clinton show on Dec 4 & 5. I'll post more about that as it gets closer.

You Are Not The Biggest Loser....

.....Kelly!

You are the lucky winner of a 20$ gift card from Rosies. I will give Brandi your email address and the two of you can work out the details!

Yay you!

As Promised

As promised here are a few of my new little creations.

I have been having so much fun trying hard not to make any of them alike.

You know where to find them!

Last Day

Rosies giveaway ends Friday at midnight. Don't be a looser....enter!

Click on photo to the left.

Idea's That Are Better Than Mine!

I got my Country Living magazine today..... MMMM, I sat outside "Grandma's Closet", a local boutique where Miss Erika takes guitar lessons, sipped a D.C., watched the leaves fall and flipped through it's idea packed pages.

I love planning Thanksgiving.....the table scapes, the food, the fun.....just love it.

So, here are a couple of idea's I'll be adding to the "cute butter" this year.

How simple, but also elegant is this? This came from their website so I'm not exactly sure what it is. It looks almost like masking tape (?), whatever it is.....I'm using it!

Love this table scape. I've done the napkin rings with big monograms before, but not the line up of candles. You'd have to put your food on a side table, but I like that better anyway.

We aren't at the "kid's table" stage yet, but when we are I will remember this..... to cute!

New Item and Another Giveaway

Thanks to Tasha at "Catch The Drift" for hosting a giveaway for me.

Another Bobbityboo skirt up for grabs!

ALSO....

Here is the first of my new baby gown line to roll out of the sewing room door! I love a new baby in bright, big prints. It just screams "I've got a hip mommy!"

I've got 5 others all lined up down in the sewing room just waiting for their one of a kind look. The fun think about these gowns is that after I get the simple base sewn I can embellish them in so many different ways. This one is pretty plain (plain is sweet) but some of the others have many of my signature embellishments. You'll just have to check back to see what I mean.

POST SCRIPT: Fast forward 5 hours. I line my little gowns all up on the kitchen table and say to the kids, "Look! Didn't they turn out cute?" They all get these blank looks on their faces and Braden (19) ventures out to say, "I don't get it. What is it a carrying case? Do you hold them by their feet or something?" I'm shaking my head in wonder.

They've Come Out The Other Side!!!

Long before pillowcase dresses were in vogue I made these fun little numbers for the girls to wear on a cruise. I didn't realize it at the time, but that was the last time I made my girls matching clothes. (I hate last's because you never know that that's what they are until years pass and you think, "wow, that was the last time I ever....whatever it was").

Shortly after that Miss Liesl, who was about 8 at the time, announced that nobody else wears home made clothes and she didn't like it. I was so sad that that part of my mommyhood was over.

Well, I was wrong! Apparently they go through this weird little pre-teen/teenage vortex and eventually come out the other side. In my case, begging me to make them clothes! I was so excited that I got right on that!!!!

Here they are in their little knit jumpers, with ruffly hems. The fun thing is that aside from the fabric being different (colorful for Erika because, well, she's colorful and tie die for Liesl since she's my funky hippy girl) they wanted matching dresses. Ahhhhhh....my little girls are back (insert tear wiping here)!

These dresses were so easy.....no pattern needed! One of these days I'll whip up a tutorial for them.

Erika, my scissor happy fashionista.

Liesl, my funky hippy girl.

And there's Nate, my little line backer.

(Big B was snoring away during this little photo shoot, he's not big on pictures.)