Sewing Class

Today I am taking a 3 hour sewing class with my mom. I have had a sewing machine for years and used it maybe once or twice. My best friend came to visit me once and she is a master seamstress and showed me some basics but as soon as she left it went out the door..lol ! My mom knows how to use a sewing machine, she used to make my sister and I Halloween costumes but her machine is really old and she only knows how to use hers. So, I convinced her to take the class with me.

It is just a basic sewing class. The cool thing is, I get to bring my own machine so I can know what I am doing. I am not really into sewing but lately I just learned how to make wallets out of magazine paper and I am really just taking it so I can learn how to sew the sides of the paper wallet instead of gluing it. I don't know why it is 3 hours long, that seems so long to me. I hope I retain the information this time so I can do basic things.
I wish I had the cute Hello Kitty sewing machine pictured at the top...that is too cute ! Hello Kitty makes everything. I don't even know what kind of machine I have I think it is a brother ? Hopefully I will learn some basic sewing machine lingo and I won't feel like I am looking at some foreign object after tonight !

Picture Necklace & Ring Giveaway

Hello all, it's that time again to do a giveaway ! This month I am doing a giveaway on a fun picture necklace and picture ring ! The picture necklace and ring is a $35 value. This picture necklace and ring is sold by Gash Jewels on etsy !
The giveaway runs from today 6/14 to Saturday 6/19 at 7pm eastern time.

Your picture necklace will be on a ball chain and your picture ring will look like one of pictures above it all depends on the picture you e-mail me. One lucky winner will be chosen and once you win please email your picture in a .jpeg file.

This giveaway is for U.S and Canadian residents only !

The rules are simple:

You must be an existing follower or become a new follower of this blog

(please leave me the name you are following me under)

Leave a comment with a current e-mail address and your favorite item in my etsy shop

For an extra entry follow me on Twitter and Tweet about the giveaway linking back to this post and when you leave a comment leave your Twitter User name with e-mail


The winner will be announced the following week and you will have 48hrs to respond to the e-mail, so make sure you check it ! Good Luck !

Freestyle Friday : Fun, Family & Work

I am bringing back Freestyle Friday it is just my thing I do from time to time. Whatever is on my mind.. freestyling it ! If you would like to play along just link back to me.

• Happy Friday to all !! I wanted to let you all know that I will be doing a giveaway all next week and it is too cute ! It would be great for yourself or a gift for someone else..all details will be up by Monday !

• This weekend is going to be crazy busy for me ! I am so excited because I have some family that is in town visiting for the weekend ! Tonight I am going to be visiting with my cousin D and his wife and kids and we are all going out for dinner to the Cheesecake Factory ...so yummy !

• After I leave from spending some time with them I am going to go home and finish getting things ready for the booth that my friend G and I are doing tomorrow for our jewelry. It is going to be a nice little fair/festival ! We have all our jewelry made but we needed to make some extra magnetic bottle caps..this will be the first time we are doing the magnetic bottle caps at a fair so we are excited to see how that will go over. We just did the normal bottle caps at the last fair and that was a big hit so we are taking it up a notch this time !  I was up all night last night making them. I need to finish them up when I get home this evening.

• All day on Saturday I am working the festival booth with my business partner G and after that I am meeting up with another cousin that is in town for the weekend with his girlfriend ! I am not sure what we will do yet, but whatever we do it will be fun !

• Sunday I will be resting and catching up on my Tivo shows !

Have a great weekend folks !

Silly Bandz Craze !

My play niece is 6 years old and all she talks about right now is silly bandz ! She is obsessed, she gets me, and her mother and her grandparents to buy her packs of them every week. She even had me look up the website ! They have a section on there where you can send it for pictures of the week. I sent in this picture and hopefully it will get posted next week.

She currently has over 150 of them and it's to the point now where she doesn't wear them all at once because she has so many of them ! She gave me one that is in shape of a shark ..it's to cute. It kind of reminds me of the colored plastic bracelets that everyone wore back in the 80"s.. remember those ? Well these are the same, except when you take the bracelet off it forms a shape of pretty much anything from letters to fish to even a bikini ??!! Kids they love the simple things in life.

Weekend Recap : Baby Showers and Drinks

This past weekend was fun. Friday night I met up with some friends at Hooters for some good convo's and drinks. It was my normal group of friends, and there is was this guy that was there that I have seen before but never really paid attention to. We were all sitting there just chit chatting and my friend had introduced me to this guy which to be honest I forgot his name already and some other dude and I said Hi. Then all of a sudden he was like well I have a message for you. I just looked at him and said, "me " ? He said, "yes " !

All of my other friends starting looking at each other and just laughed. So I just ignored it. I then realized I left my phone in my car so I ran out to get it and I opened my car door and I was bent over in the car getting my phone and I turn around and that guy the random...was standing there and said, "Hi". I just looked at him like ooookay...and I said, " hi " again. Then he said, I remember meeting you 2 years ago at the Mexican restaurant around the corner from here and you were with S. I just said, Oh yeah. He was like I was trying to tell F and A to say something to you for me but they wouldn't. He was like you are really hot. I just laughed and said thanks.

Then we go back inside and everyone is laughing at me and I sat down and my friend S went to pinch me..because she is random like that and the random said, " get off my girl " talking about me ??!!! I just couldn't help but to lol..I spit up half my drink and all my friends teased me all night. It was definitely funny and if you saw him...you would definitely lol ! It was a fun night for sure and I am sure the next time I see my friends we will laugh about it.

Saturday I had a baby shower for my friend L. she is having a baby boy. We decorated with all things blue and brown. We had lots of yummy food, cake and petifores !

My mom and L mommy to be for the second time !

The other half of the table...cake and punch !

Yummy petifores...

Then we played games with the guest, who can change a diaper the fastest blind folded...

Then she opened lots of gifts !

All in all it was a great weekend !

Little Kids To Grown

I am sure everyone has seen this video by now, but I wanted to share my thoughts on it. First off what is the world coming to with these little girls shaking there booties like this ? I remember when I was a kid my sister and I would make up little dance routines but it was nothing like this. Don't get me wrong they are a talented little group of kids but there is no reason for them to be shaking there little tales like that or wearing those dance costumes. My understanding is they were in a dance contest but geesh, Beyonce herself was more covered up in her video.

If I was a parent I wouldn't be having all of that ! What happened to ballet and jazz class like I took or even normal hip hop ? What do you think ?

Happy Friday !!

Moving On....

These last few weeks have been pretty hard for me. Memorial weekend wasn't fun because I had to go to my grandpa's funeral. It was sad but I am happy that he is not suffering anymore and he is in a better place. The only good thing about it all is you get to see family that you haven't seen in a long time.

To lighten things up a bit. I would like to do a giveaway. Some sort of jewelry piece that would be fun for the summer...what would you like ? Let me know your thoughts !

I am also counting down the days until Mr. C my boyfriend moves to be with me. I can't wait. Things will be so different.and I will probably have more things to blog about...haha ! This summer is going to be fun and from now on I am ready to move and have happy news !

I hope you all enjoyed your Memorial weekend and I can't wait to catch up on your blogs ! Thank you everyone for all your sweet comments that is what keeps me coming back to my blog !

Smooches