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a sweet valentine

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a sweet treat…pink decorated tins filled with heart shaped cookies (the cookies were frosted pink of course)

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a sweet gift…i started this quilt A LONG time ago.  i finally got it finished (or paid to get it finished) and it looks great.  sorry for the bad and rotated picture…i will try to get a better one up here in the future.

i hope you had a happy valentines day with your family too.

we made a bag. she did most of it though. and she was a great model too.

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inspired by the words of john adams to abigail, his dearest friend…love sweetens life.

i handed these out to all the ladies that were in our new year’s eve dinner group.  i hope that they enjoy(ed) them.  i sure did.

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tied up with string.

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these are a few of my favorite things.  Merry Christmas.

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i love this shimmering gold paper.  and the cute little boys on the cards make the cards even more cute.

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meet cooper.  my parents pick him up december 20th.  what a fun christmas present for them…and for us while we are home visiting.  isn’t he a handsome little pup.

i have done such a large range of cards for this upcoming season.  i did an order of 40 for my bestest customer jan c.  these were super cute “ornament” cards sent of in crisp white square envelopes.  then i did an order of 350 less custom but just as great holiday cards for a business to send to all employees and customers.  this is getting to be so fun!  next step = write up that business plan!

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quantity: 40 🙂

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quantity: 350 🙂

sorry for the poor picture. i took it at 5:30 am before work so that i could deliver to my customer at the plant.

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it is basically the exterior and interior cut down the middle and then sewn back together to get the stripe and the flowers on both the exterior and interior.  and yes that is an appliquéd flower drifting over to the striped part of the bag.  love it!  you will be seeing more like this.

over our thanksgiving travels we got to meet some babies we have been longing to meet.

first we met layla. andy’s first official “uncling” assignment. 🙂 papa doug is on andy’s left. andy’s younger brother mark is on his right.

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then we met emarie. she belongs to kipper and caleb…you see any either of them in her face??

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