I thought it only appropriate to put up pictures of my moms lavender as she is the "Lavender Lady". Today is my moms birthday, Happy Birthday!
She has a blog full of delicious recipes using lavender and anything else you can find in the garden. You can find her recipes here. 
These pictures were taken in the middle of the Summer last year, Henry was almost fully cooked and ready to come out. Despite being extremely close to delivery we helped harvest lavender as well as sow seeds in their massive vegetable garden. 
I love fat-quarters. They are, as expected by their name, a quarter yard of fabric. The nice thing is they are usually about $2.50 a piece. So if you see a pretty piece of fabric that you love but have no idea what to do with it, you can just get the quarter and stash it away until the day you get some inspiration.
The kids took pictures yesterday. A friend of ours up the street is a photographer and he said he'd take their pics in front of this amazing barn here just down from Main Street. 
Anyhow, Mimi didn't have anything to put in her hair. My friend down the street makes these darling headbands, but I only had 15 minutes and thought I'd try to make my own at the last minute.
I already had this headband from years ago. I made the yo-yo flowers and fabric covered buttons, sewed the button to the flower and hot glued it to the headband. As Max would say it was "easy-peasy lemon squeazy" (I think he learned that from Noah) ;)
On my sister Rozzie's blog she talked about "baking pretty" and blogged about cute cupcake holders that she found on Bakerella. So I thought I would take a look at the site and found on the very first page these darling cupcake pops....
For Mother's Day Steve and the kids came home Saturday morning from running errands bearing gifts...I loved it all, and the peach Daisy's are just beutiful. 
I love Shabby Apple dresses. I have admired them for about 3 years now. In fact, for Rozzie's wedding I got a dress for Mimi to wear from the Shabby Apple Girls line, the dress is called 'Botanical' and you can find it here. 
We have been so sick these last few days, some strange mutant stomache virus has got ahold of us. But I wanted to post these pictures I took last weekend. These are of my sunroom. With a fast and curious little 9 month old, a "helpful" toddler and active kindergartner and only 2 arms this is the best I could do for now. Not Roman Shades but they are a vast improvement from the yucky old mini blinds.
All I did was measure the length and width of the mini blinds, cut out the fabric to match (sew the edges so it's one big rectangle). Glue the fabric on the top and bottom of the mini blind with fabric glue. The bottom doesn't look perfect, but you'd never notice unless you turned it over and looked. 
