We're here! We're here :)!

Well we are slowly getting settled in to our new home :)! I really do like the house except for all of the wallpaper :).... They LOVED wallpaper!

Hopefully next week I will begin working on my daughter's dollhouse furniture again :)! Obviously I won't make it for Christmas but her birthday is in February so that should give me plenty of time to get things ready :)!

I also have a few more Christmas gifts I need to make . I fell behind this year with the move.

Off to work! Just wanted to pop in :)!

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Moving

Well our life has kind of been in a whirlwind lately :)!
We are moving! We have been leasing our home for the past 6 years and our landlord decided to sell :)! We had planned on saving for about 2 more years and then were going to bulid or buy a new home.
They gave us notice for the 31st of Dec. but who wants to move the week after Christmas so we lucked into another home (It is bigger and has a lot more storage space!~~ We all know that women who love to craft and make things need lots of space~~ LOL!! Well this girl does for sure!). Anyhow since we are moving next week the dollhouse stuff has been put on hold temporarily!
I will be back soon though!
I figure if she doesn't get it for Christmas, then we'll get it for her birthday in February!

Hugs and off to packing...
I really don't like packing lol!

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Doll House Items Round #2

Yep I have been at it again :)! My daughter is in school 2 days a week so I have a very limited window of time that I can work on these items. (Since she NEVER seems to sleep Please keep in mind these items are not finished! This is the "rough draft" so to speak :)!
Anyhow, here is a photo of her bed made from Popsicle sticks :)!



Can you guess what these are going to be?
Keep in mind these are upside down!





They're going to be chandeliers :)!

Can you guess what I am going to make out of this???


Well it's going to be a fireplace ! Check back to see it finished :)!

Thanks so much for taking this journey with me :)! Off to painting on her fireplace!!

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Dollhouse items so far!

Well as promised I am doing more updating :)! Hopefully it will continue!
Here are a few of the items I have been working on for my daughter's dollhouse so far.

Keep in mind I am just now putting them together and I still have a looonnnnnnggg way to go!
First is a photo of her bathroom sink :)! I used an old heart shaped wooden bowl and glued it on top of a wooden candlestick. It still wasn't quite tall enough so I then glued it on top of one of my dad's old English Leather cologne bottle lids!

To the left of the "sink" is a lamp I made out of several things :)! I took a sample perfume bottle, washed it out really well, let it dry, and filled it with different colored seed beads I had. Then I glued some little round plastic balls to it for the shaft of the lamp. Finally I took one of the lids my mom had brought from her old perfume and used it as the "shade".

Next is a closer view of the lamp :)! It's not as crooked as it appears in the photo :)!

Ok next we have her bathtub :)! It's not finished yet but here it is! I took some wooden globe looking things and glued them to one of those hospitial things (Don't worry this one is my mom's and she didn't use it :) )!

I still have to add the handles and the shower!
Oh and everything has to be painted and finished of course :)!
I will tell you I am REALLY struggling with making a potty! I just may have to break down and buy one of those :)!

Well that's it for now! I will hopefully post some pictures of her bedroom items within the next few days :)!

Thanks so much for taking the time to look!

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This Blog

Well I have kind of let this blog go along with everything else in my life as of late but I am slowly getting back on track. Once you lose a loved one it just seems like the everyday life "happenings" aren't as important. For example, we had company come over last night and normally I would have been cleaning until the moment they arrived.
Well not last night, I didn't clean! Why should I spend my Friday cleaning for visitors? If I were going to clean like that I should do it for the people that are here all the time :)!

Anyhow, I have recently closed my website until the beginning of the new year. I want to start off fresh with new beginnings and I have decided to focus on the most important things in my life for the Holidays, which are my family members!
I have several items I want to make for family members and they have always gotten put on the back burner this time of year. Not this year :)! I have started to make my daughter a Barbie dollhouse and I will try to post pictures with some of the progress :)!
It has been so much fun! My mother has been helping me with it and it seems like it is , in an odd way, helping us to heal!
We are not going out and buying a bunch of expensive furniture (I have bought a few wooden pieces but none of them have cost over $3.50). We have ideas to re-purpose items into lamps, living room furniture, and bedroom furniture! I have made a few of the lamps so far and we are having a blast!

Anyhow, I just wanted to give a quick update and I hope to do more updating on a regular basis!

Hugs!

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Winner of my Drawing

Well I did draw the winner on Friday night lol I am just late posting her name!

The winner of my drawing is Marcie from Gingerbread Hill!!

CONGRATS TO YOU MARCIE! You won my $20.00 gift certificate towards items on my website!!

Just go to http://www.primbydesign.com to make your selections!

Thanks again for all of those that played!

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My Apologies!

I am so sorry I haven't posted in a while! I will draw for the $20.00 gift certificate tonight and post the winner! I honestly had forgotten about it with all that is going on until I logged in here today!

Some of you may be aware that my dad passed away Sept. 1 and I have been kind of living in a fog ever since! It's like time stands still and you really don't know what to think or how to react!..

Here is my daddy! If you get a moment you can click on the link below and the funeral home created a wonderful video of him and his grand kids :)!

http://www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/services.asp?locid=22&page=odetail&id=17852


Again I apologize for the delay in getting the winner!

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You could win a $20.00 Gift Certificate!!

That's right we decided to join the online craftshow at Prim Mart this year and we have decided to give away a $20.00 gift certificate !

There's no purchase necessary to win :)!

Just visit our booth for details on how to win!

Click here : http://www.ezcraftshow.com/shoppe/?sid=PrimByDesign
or just cut and paste into your browser!

We're also offering free shipping on all items purchased from the craftshow booth :)!
Thanks for taking the time to peek!

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Contest Winner

OK Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Well the winner of my contest doesn't win a chicken dinner but their choice of one of my 3 patterns below!!
I couldn't draw just one! I have 2 kids here with me today and they were gonna fight over who got to draw for the winner and sooooooo we drew 2 names :)!

1. Maureen
2. KKL Primitives


Woohoo congrats to you both!
You may pick your pattern from the 3 below and I will email it to you!

We decided, very last minute I might add, to have a booth at the Christmas in July Online Craftshow this year and our patterns will be available there :)! Hopefully we will also be able to introduce another new pattern this week too :)!
It doesn't open until tomorrow at Noon! Here's the link if you are interested, but our booth won't be ready until noon tomorrow :)! I am still working on it tonight :)!

http://www.ezcraftshow.com/shoppe/?sid=PrimByDesign

Thanks again and congrats to the winners :)!

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The Fork

Well I suppose it appears as if I am just going to be speaking about my beloved daughter :) ! Maybe I should have named this blog after her..
We were all about to go out to eat last night, hubby had been working all day and we wanted to take him out to eat...
My daughter comes into the living room making these horrible noises, I will try to duplicate them on here lol... It was OWWWEEEEEEEEYYOOOOUUU and other horrible mumblings from her mouth. You must understand my daughter, she is very small but nothing small comes out of her mouth... Anyhow, I look at her and ask "what in the heck she is doing?"....
She looks at me like I am a complete and udder idiot and says "MOM you don't understand whale ??" Apparently she was talking "whale" as they do on the movie Nemo...
Ahhhh, no I totally missed that one !
Ok fast forward, we found a neat little country style restaurant to eat at and we're eating? No biggie! I look up and my daughter has ever so gently placed her fork behind her ear like a pencil.
Mind you this wouldn't have been quite as bad if it would not have had a piece of chicken hanging off of it.....
One thing I have learned is that if you see something shocking with your children try not to gasp or yell in shock....
So I politely ask her "why in the world she has the fork behind her ear"?. In the meantime my hubby responds with a "gasp", you know the one I was just saying you shouldn't respond with...
She starts laughing at us uncontrollably and says "MOM I was just saving it for later, like you do with your pencil".......
ACKKKKKKKK LOL!

Honestly my kids really used to shock me all the time.
Now it really takes a LOT!!

We're going to head for the lake here in a bit for an afternoon picnic!

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Finally Friday :)!

Well the weekend is here! I will have to find out what projects we have in store for us this weekend! I think I would just prefer to take the kids swimming :)! Yep we have to "go" swimming someplace, which is fun, don't get me wrong. It is just that we purchased one of those inflatable ring pools, and the thing won't stay standing up! It is ridiculous. I feel as if we wasted lots of money on something that is just going to rot! We have leveled the ground and it's almost as if one side was warped when they made it because it will just fall and water will come flooding out. Oh well things could defintely be worse :)! No need complaining I just needed to get that off my chest!

Ohhh my beloved daughter, for those of you that don't know, she is a pickle! My hubby had to work late last night and it was about 11pm. I had been lying in bed drawing new patterns and watching a re-run from one of the Housewife shows (I am so addicted to those). Anyhow, I got up to make something to drink and she is standing in my kitchen with this horrible look on her face.
The look that tells me she has been caught! That little turkey was taking any and all change that was lying around and putting it in her new coin purse we got when we were on vacation at Pigeon Forge.
First off, I thought she was sound asleep, so she startled me ! Secondly, I have been wondering where all my change has been going! I guess late at night she gets up and sneaks my change off the kitchen counter. I have a 4 year old change thief lol!

Have a wonderful weekend all! OH and Dont' forget my pattern give away below!! All you have to do is leave a comment somewhere on my blog or follow me :)!

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Contest!!

Well In celebration of me finally designing some patterns I would like to have a contest on here! Designing patterns has always been something I have wanted to do and I finally decided to do it!


Currently I only have 3 but I am working on a few more! When I take my kids to Playworld they play while I design new patterns and then we come home and they help me "name" them. Then I get to work the patterns up into reality and tweek them so to speak.


Here is how the contest is going to work! Just leave a comment or become a follower of my blog and you can win! That's right! On the 22nd of this month I will draw 1 name from everyone that has either left a comment or has become a follower and you may choose the pattern of your liking! That sounds simple enough right :)? It will come to you in PDF format so you don't have to wait for it :)!



Here are my current patterns :) !


First off we have Elvin the Elf

Secondly we have Drake the Dracula

Last but not least we have Ginger! She is our first Gingerbread Girl

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Our Day Today :)!

Well this is my very first post! Yes I am finally taking the plunge into blogging :)! I have yet to make it to myspace, twitter, and many of the others. One step at a time for me :)! I have to take baby steps. I have been working on this blog for months now and just decided to finally post.

Today I took 2 of my children to a local pottery studio. They were having a class today when we went so we will go back in a couple of days. The concept is ingenious I think. Basically you purchase a piece of bisque ceramic, paint it , they fire it and glaze it for you and you pick it up. It gives children the opportunity to feel as if they are making the pottery from start to finish. Except for cleaning and firing it they actually are!

After leaving the "pottery store" we decided to head to Staples for a few back to school supplies. I love my children dearly but they are at that age where they LOVE to pick at each other. My son, Gavin will call his sister "Roast beef"... Since I absolutely don't allow name calling when they get angry at one another or want to pick on each other they will call each other weird names. For some reason calling my daughter "roast beef" just infuriates her. I have tried to explain to her that her brothers only do this because it makes her mad. She is such a ham, no pun intended! When she shows her temper, she holds nothing back!
Anyhow, in Staples Gavin calls her roast beef and Summer starts growling back at him with this most evil growl a 4 year old can muster. I don't watch many horror shows but her growl is so vicious it reminds me of something that would come out of that doll who's head always spins around in the horror shows...
Everyone in Staples is staring at us by this point and I decided it was definitely time to leave!
I can honestly say there is never a dull moment in this household, that is for sure!

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