getting ready for my nephew Eli to get born. haha. due date may 6. :-) so much fun being an auntie! blob bib is from Sublime Stitching, and Love Bear is a free pattern from Badbird. i love teddy bears. (though i prob should retire mine...that i got when i was 10! haha)

had a great weekend!! started off going to First Friday on the Green concert in South side Fort Worth with my friends Dawn and Colleen to see Seryn. BEAUTIFUL MUSIC! and a beautiful night!! u must check them out! then did the MS Walk Saturday morning with my mom and friends, followed by breakfast/lunch/margaritas at Joe T. Garcia's! Yummm. The a bunch of family time. Was going all weekend! Had a great bubble party in my dad's backyard with my niece and nephew! LOVE BUBBLES!! get the bubble swords from Wal-mart, really cool. :-)

 Seryn

 me, Dawn, and Colleen

BUBBLES!

Mom's roses-BEAUTIFUL!

seahorse ride

seahorse ride
Originally uploaded by carrie_76
another lovely sew lovely embroidery pattern from the Deep Blue Sea Collection. wanted to make the seahorse kind of like the rainbow seahorse i did for the PQ movie swap. ("The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou")
Love Sew Lovely Embroidery. They've had a lot of new patterns out and several great giveaways lately! One going on now for one of their lovely red messenger bags. Check it!

Funky Finds Spring Fling Fun

Pax and I went to the 3rd Annual Funky Finds.com Spring Fling in Ft. Worth today. It was fun taking Pax. A lot of neat stuff to look at. Won a cute embroidered towel from the raffle. Not a bad little swag bag either for the raffle tickets. Lots of cute dogs there, too. Pax was pretty good. People love him! Of course.

http://www.funkyfinds.com/

couldn't really spend money on the cool and fun crafts that i saw. but got some cards and got some ideas. i did get $5 worth of raffle tix and a $5 pet portrait(lol)...for a good cause.

Humane Society of North Texas

that's where I got Pax! LOOOOOVE HIM! (duh...WINNING - sorry, had to do it)

Adopt a Pet

octo-mermaid lady

octo-mermaid lady
Originally uploaded by carrie_76

she's just so pretty! love this pattern from the Sew Lovely Embroidery Deep Blue Sea patterns. Working on another Deep Blue Sea pattern now! Almost done. :-)

Valentine's Day postcard

Valentine's Day postcard
Originally uploaded by carrie_76

just a little V Day postcard i made.

hug-bot <3

hug-bot card
Originally uploaded by carrie_76

Hug-bot! so cute. free design from Sublime Stitching. made this card for my nephew. His birthday party is today. He turned 4. He's the cutest kid I've ever seen! :-)

phone is ringing

phone is ringing
Originally uploaded by carrie_76

another phat quarter swap. this time the theme was music. this is from the song "Get it Together" by the Beastie Boys.
unfortunately, my swap partner who got this basically said she hates the Beastie Boys....DOH!

what about the blackbirds?

so most everyone heard about/read about the story of the mass blackbird deaths, falling from the sky, on new year's eve in Arkansas.
i came across this really great piece on flickr by cauchy09. it's really cool! it lead me to her blog post about it.
you should check it out!
What about the blackbirds? on Completely Cauchy.
pretty cool and interesting blog post and really awesome embroidery piece!
another blog to follow.....

:-)

Hope everyone had a Happy New Year! GO 2011. Bring it!

'bout ready for christmas

yes, i've posted this piece before. but now it's framed and bout ready to give it to my aunt for xmas. i think it looks good. had a hard time finding the right frame.

and here's some more christmas gifts. just picked up these felt bags from starbucks and added the names.

cute

cute diy

saw this on another blog. it's so cute. think i might try to make a couple for christmas. maybe. not much time left. eek. but i'm happy to say that i'm pretty much ready, for the most part, almost, soooo close! lol
Mistletoe headband

UPDATE: uh, yeah, didn't get to that. maybe next year...