Peanutbutter Bliss

Today on Studio5 (I know, I know, another one of those dang Studio5 posts!!) they celebrated National Peanut Butter Lovers Day. I'm all over those crazy national holidays....last year we celebrated nat'l jellybean day, nat'l french fry day and nat'l donut day at our house! In honor of this very special day I would like to share with you one of my families favorite peanut butter recipes. I found this recipe on the blog Stephanie's Kitchen about a year ago. It has been a fav of the fam's ever since. Give her a try!!! Click here to visit Stephanie's Kitchen.

Sweet Charli Giveaway

Let me introduce you to

SWEET CHARLI

another new Utah business that made me stop and look.

Why did I stop and look? Well.... there's just enough of a twist

to their products that it made me think, "Hmmm, clever, why

didn't I think of that?"

Twisted flowers out of printed fabric....

fabric ball necklaces with an attached flower....

Flower belts, but they are thick, rather than thin.

I like it when people take a trend and put a twist to it.

Sweet Charli is offering the chance to win one of the above necklaces simply for checking out their wares.

All you have to do is:

Visit their blog and tell me what you like

• My followers get an extra entry.
  
  If you would like more than two entries you can:
• Become a fan of Sweet Charli on Facebook
• Link to Sweet Charli on your blog
• Follow their blog

Make sure you leave a comment for each entry

DON'T FORGET TO PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN ONE OF THE COMMENTS

(giveaway ends Sunday 3/7)

Meet My Best Friend

I'd like you to meet my best friend... the rolled hem foot! Love this little gadget!!! The only problem is that sometimes getting her started is a little tricky. She likes to fiddle faddle around with the bobbin thread. Some times it takes her a good inch or inch and a half to get her groove on.

The other day I was getting a little mad at her (friends sometimes do that), when I realized that all I had to do was put a piece of paper under the fabric to get her going from the very start. In the above picture I used a piece of a grocery sack, worked great....no more troubles!

We're best friends again.....sigh :)

Lil Bo Peep Is In The Building

This is my little friend Katie....blue eyes to die for by the way...modeling "Lil Bo Peep" for you. I know you saw a little sneak peek last week, but I just had to share the finished product (because Katie is so stinkin' cute and because a real girl makes my skirts 1,000 times cuter)! I've had this pattern swimming around in my head for a couple of months now. It's funny how those things keep me from sleeping. I finally had to make it so that it would stop buggin' me at 2:00 am. This little skirt is now in the shop and unlike my other skirts it comes with its own iron on birdie applique. I'm hoping that with all those birdies spring will get the hint and come already!!!

Floral Wristband

Tired of wearing your headbands on your head?

How about wrapping them around your wrist.

My daughters LOVE shopping at thrift stores. Erika bought this old crepe dress from the DI a couple of weeks ago. We fixed the neck to be more modest and shortened the sleeves. I decided to make her a floral headband with the left over fabric from the sleeves (kind of like the one in this old tutorial).....she decided to wear it as a wristband instead!

Apparently it got a lot of oooh's and aaaah's at the Jr High!

I love how kids these days dare to do different, funky things with their clothes, I NEVER would have dared to be different when I was 15!

Oh My Heck! ....that's Utah for "get out!!!!!"

Let me preface this post by saying that I don't have a cool bone in my body!

Most people would have the ability to be all cool and nonchalant about this, but I just couldn't be cool if I tried.... so I'm not even going to try. I got an email yesterday from a producer at Studio5 telling me they'd like to feature my shop on their "things we love" segment in a couple of weeks! I am so excited! Studio5, for you non-Utahn's, is kind of like the Martha Stewart Show for local crafters. If you follow many Utah craft blogs you will read things like this all the time, "saw the cutest thing on studio5 today, can't wait to try it" or "learned how to make monkey bread on studio5 today". So, do you want to hear the extremely mature and nonchalant way I began my return email to said producer? Here it is....

"GET OUT!!! Really?"

(like I said, not a single cool bone)

Alice & The Queen All Done

Hope those little dollies have fun at the premier!