Miss Ava

Ava loved the bubble gum machine
Pink was her favorite color
We told her to jump!
Gotta love those pink shoes
When Martha lived in Newnan, she lived next door to an amazing family. Sara and Drew have 4 neat kids. Ava was just a little younger than the boys and Jaxon one of her brothers was just a little older than the boys. The two of them loved coming over to play with the boys. We loved sharing popsicles and toys and the driveway with them. I loved just talking to Sara her mom. We always hung outside when the weather permitted it.

After getting to know Sara, Martha found out that Sara was a professional photographer. Martha always hated not having pics. of the boys when they were born and their first 2 years of life. It wasn't long before her walls were filled with pics. of the boys and her and Chris. Miss Priss has been photographed since a few weeks after she was born to just having another session last week. We love Sara's work.

During the summer when Martha and I were back in Newnan to spend a day with the friends they left behind, I was talking to Sara about my photography skills and we decided to spend a morning together. I drove back to Newnan a few week-ends ago and spent the morning with Sara. We used Ava as our model. I had so much fun and learned so much. These were a few of the shots I took. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them

Sewing Projects

It has been so long since I have blogged that I have forgotten how to do it. Got into something called dashboard and have no idea what that is but it does have some of my pictures there where I tried to blog a few weeks ago.

Uploaded new pictures of some projects that I have worked on this summer but couldn't get the text to go next to the right picture.

One is a diaper clutch that I created after Martha asked for something to carry only one or two diapers. So that design is what I came up with. It holds 2 diapers and a small pkg. of wipes - travel size I think. Martha loved hers and a friend wanted one so I made her one.

The dress is a knock-off of a Matilda Jane knot dress. It was so much fun putting the materials together. Martha and I worked with her 5th grade language arts teacher to put the right fabric together. Mrs. Youngner (not sure this is the correct spelling). It was not hard to sew and once I put it on Anna Claire, it was so stinking cute. Plan on making the flared leg pants to go under it and Martha has the Matilda Jane leggins that will also go under it.

The 2 skirts were so much fun to make. I actually use an alg. formula to create those skits. I finally found a use for that high school alg. I took all those years ago. What fun. I plan on selling those in the spring. The pink one was made for a photographer's daughter and I made it without Ava being here. It fit perfectly and looked so cute on her. We used her as a model when I was working with her mom on a photo shoot. That is another story....

Hope you enjoy the designs and look for future works. Also hope to figure out how to post pics and write the descriptions next to the pics.

Sewing Projects