Daughters and Sons of History a give away.

Here is another great giveaway from raising homemakers:

Daughters and Sons of History

They are beautiful paper dolls that are great for both boys and girls. So stop on over and enter for you chance to win.

31 Days to Clean Homemaker Challenge Sign Up

Make sure to sign up if you are interested. I just signed up so I guess now there is not turning back! So excited yet a bit nervous.

Here is the link to the sign up:

31 Days to Clean Homemakers challenge

If you still want to do the challenge and not sign up I would still love some more accountability!

31 Days to Clean

It has been awhile since my last post. Since then I have really convicted to work on my homemaking skills, the truly down and dirty part. Cleaning! Not just cleaning, but my entire attitude on being a homemaker. The Lord has truly been molding and shaping me. I guess you can say my hearts desire has been to work towards becoming the Proverbs 31 woman, A woman after God's own heart! And when you truly make that your desire God works.

That is why I am excited to share with you this ebook:
31 Days to Clean
Along with reading the book I will also be participating in a homemakers challenge found at:
Joyful Mothering

This is not a challenge to win any great monetary prize, it is however a challenge to one's self to dig down deep, roll up the sleeves and get dirty! All the while becoming more like a woman after God's own heart.

So won't you join me in this adventure? I would love to hear from you. I will be trying as much as possible to write about my adventure and would love some company (and encouragement) along the way.

The rug is off the loom! I reapeat the rug is off the loom!

Anyone who knows me, knows that I have a long history of starting a project and not finishing. This can become problematic. So in an effort to better myself, be a better example to my children and generally get rid of a mass amount of clutter, I have been very diligent in finishing projects. This includes new ones and ones that have been sitting in my "closet of doom" for a year (or two).

I am happy to announce the finishing my first knitted rug! It has been a long process of starting, stopping, and starting over. This rug began as an I cord rug knitted on my "knifty knitter" loom. After many attempts of lacing the cording together, I still could not get the tension right. So I changed direction.
I tore out all the I cord, re- wrapped each ball of yarn and decided to make a double knit rug on my loom instead.

I used yarn that I purchased for $1 a bag at a book sale. Although, I did need to buy 1 skein of blue to finish the rug off so overall I used 7 skeins of yard and spent $3.25 on the entire project. Plus I used up some yarn.

This rug is going to be used in front of my childrens' bunk bed, when the get a bunk bed that is!


I hope you enjoy!

Little Giggles

As frustrating as sewing can be sometimes it is always worth it in the end when you receive such beautiful smiles and precious little giggles as a result of your project. There is something special to know that a little piece of you is in that dress, or blanket or whatever the project is. It is no where near the same feeling of giving a store bought gift. If you have never sewn before I suggest just try something small. A blanket maybe. The sky is the limit for creativity.
It is a forgotten craft that I feel needs to be revived in our culture. We have relied too long on the stores to provide our basic nessecities. Lets take back our ability to stand on our own two feet. It is a great skill to have for no other reason that when you can't find what you are looking for in the stores you can produce it.
Well that is it my plea for women everywhere to pick up the needle and create!

Felicity Costume

The first costume of the 2010 Trick or Treat season is completely finished! Here are some photos of Miss Grace's "Felicity" dress.






This is the front view. I had to make a couple of modifications do to mistakes on my part. But over all I am pretty pleased. I really hope she likes it.

















This is the back view. The only reason this is up is to show the first real zipper I have ever put in!! Woohoo! I had to have my mother in law show me how to properly place one in. I am ashamed to admit that up to now I have tried to find every way around putting in a zipper and have even not done a pattern due to a zipper! Not any more!

So here it is: Costume #1 finished and ready to go! Now on to an ewok and to finish the tree.

Rainy Day Inspiration

A sister of mine posted a really awesome blog today on face book that is completely up my alley!

365 dresses in 365 day with 365 dollars

There is not for me to say on this so just go there and be inspired!