Back to work...

I just turned my machine on for the first time since last Wednesday or Thursday! I hosted Bunko at my house Thursday night, and Friday morning we left bright and early to go CAMPING at FDR State Park near Callaway Gardens in GA. We took Browder and this was our tent...
It was SO MUCH FUN! We stayed Fri-Sunday and spent all day Sat at Callaway riding bikes and all that. Great times and great memories! Sunday when I got home Browder & I took a rest, re-grouped and then headed to my parents house where the other 2 kids were. I stayed there til yesterday afternoon visiting my family for the first time in MONTHS! As far as embroidery I did make my usual trip to their Sewing Center and got a few fabrics - mostly restocking my ginghams and cords (brown, khaki, royal blue and a couple of greens). Anyway we got home yesterday afternoon, unpacked and rested, and then decided to load up the family to go to the FAIR! B & G LOVED IT!! G got to ride most of the rides and we ate the usual - corndogs & funnel cakes! This morning I ran errands, had Starbucks and met a few friends for lunch, and it's now 3:30 and I have JUST started working on my first shirt in the last week! I need to pull another late night to get anything done! Browder just finished a breathing treatment (had one last night too). He's got a little cough which seems to be accompanied by a little wheezing, so luckily we have the breathing machine now at home!
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I'm still on HOLD til Monday, but cracked up when I got home today and saw THIS (below) on my front porch! I think all of it is from people who told me they were dropping off for me to work on after Monday. It's quite usual for me to come home and find a bag hanging on the door, but I USUALLY don't come home to 5! HA! Anyway I thought it was hilarious so I had to snap a picture!

I have gobs of camping pictures, fishing pictures from my parents house and Fair pictures from last night, but don't have time to go through them and post right now! Off to try to get some work done!

I Wuv Dis Bird!!

I just did this EB Tweet Bird on a tiny little 12 m. Dharma Trading lettuce edge shirt and it is SO CUTE!! The tweet bird comes in 4x4, 5x7 and also a SMALL 4x4 size, so it was the perfect design for this little shirt! I was matching a pair of pink and a pair of green legging type pants. I put this bird on an Apples & Oranges t-shirt for Mallory this summer to match some bloomers and she has worn it once a week!

Happy Fall!

I happened to wander through Old Navy today, and found these cute GIRLY turtlenecks with the lettuce edged cuff & bottom! They come in white, black, red and light pink. I remember my friend Amie saying last year that she had a hard time finding girly turtlenecks such as these in the stores, so I immediately called her from Old Navy and told her about my find! I also called my sister in law, bought 2 for Mallory and had to share this info on the blog! 2 for $14 or $8.50 for 1. They have the same "swing" top type construction at the top as the Walmart tees this season, but with the lettuce trim! I also highly recommend the Old Navy l/s tees for boys - they are a little more $ than Walmart but they are SOOOO thick and soft!
I'm hosting bunko at my house tomorrow night, so I also bought some new stuff for my Southern Living At Home Market Bucket (which I looooovvveeeee) for my front door. I'm not a fan of fake flowers, but you can find some pretty stuff out there and I found all of this at Michael's. After Michael's I rode by the soon-to-be Joann's, and it was lookin pretty rough inside the open doors. Not sure how far they are from opening? I've also been hearing on the radio that a brand new HobbyLobby opened up in Prattville, so I'll be making a road trip soon!

We successfully installed instant download on our Applique Cafe website. As far as I know it is all running smoothly?! I haven't gotten any nasty e-mails as of yet from anyone demanding their designs that they didn't get? I've also sent the last of our designs to my lady who is converting them all to ART format, so once we get those back and replace those files on the website, all of our designs will be sold in ART format! We hope to get some new designs up next week! I'm off to work... I'm slowly chipping away at my pile! I have shirts I NEED to get done today and then next week will finish up everything else I need to get done before the 19th (when I start new work). I'm still evaluating my plan for the upcoming couple of months before Christmas so that I don't wind up with more work than I can handle! This will mean saying "NO" to some people, and I'm working on meeting with a lady in town who also enjoys applique and I hope to sit down with her next week. I don't know if we could work together logistically, but I'm hoping I can at least refer some work to her so that everyone is happy! I'll keep you posted...

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p.s. Someone gave me a tip today I want to share - get Dawn Power Dissolver to clean your hoops IF you use spray adhesive! I got some today at Walmart to try out!