Here it is... the final piece of my little puzzle...  can you tell what it is?  Does it remind you of anything?? hehehe.
Square #39
 

Does this give you a clue?


And what about this one  these two!
LOVE IT!


 And baby will make three ~


So then you have the petit version ~



Yes, it is in celebration of the banners that my daughter has designed. I love them!
And as you can see, BIG girls and boys love them also!!! :)

Oh, want one too!  Just pop over to NICE.

Links ~
NICE ~ my daughters shop
Wedding photography
"HOORAY For Babies"
Amy :)  See her finished embroidery sampler!!!

I will show you my finished sampler tomorrow for I have one more to share with you #40!

Hugs,

Mary

Here it is... the final piece of my little puzzle...  can you tell what it is?  Does it remind you of anything?? hehehe.
Square #39
 

Does this give you a clue?


And what about this one  these two!
LOVE IT!


 And baby will make three ~


So then you have the petit version ~



Yes, it is in celebration of the banners that my daughter has designed. I love them!
And as you can see, BIG girls and boys love them also!!! :)

Oh, want one too!  Just pop over to NICE.

Links ~
NICE ~ my daughters shop
Wedding photography
"HOORAY For Babies"
Amy :)  See her finished embroidery sampler!!!

I will show you my finished sampler tomorrow for I have one more to share with you #40!

Hugs,

Mary

Today is the day, the Saturday before Easter, that my family decorated eggs.   My Mom would "cook" up a huge batch of eggs so that we all had several to decorate.  I had one  older brother and 4 younger sisters.  (We had a lot of fun!)  For our own family we had the same Saturday tradition.
I remember the very first time my daughter Caitlin  was old enough to color Easter eggs.   I was in the Kitchen with the eggs all ready, and getting the dyes in the coffee mugs ready for her.  In she comes ~ about 2 years old, with her paint brushes!!!!  She wanted to "paint" her eggs just like she saw  the "Easter Bunny" depicted doing!!!  So I let her do it this way and they turned out beautiful :)  A few years later,  my second child, Doug, liked to dunk his eggs... as much as possible :)
#34 Easter egg .... ready and waiting in the Easter basket!




Links ~
Amy

Hugs,
Mary

Today is the day, the Saturday before Easter, that my family decorated eggs.   My Mom would "cook" up a huge batch of eggs so that we all had several to decorate.  I had one  older brother and 4 younger sisters.  (We had a lot of fun!)  For our own family we had the same Saturday tradition.
I remember the very first time my daughter Caitlin  was old enough to color Easter eggs.   I was in the Kitchen with the eggs all ready, and getting the dyes in the coffee mugs ready for her.  In she comes ~ about 2 years old, with her paint brushes!!!!  She wanted to "paint" her eggs just like she saw  the "Easter Bunny" depicted doing!!!  So I let her do it this way and they turned out beautiful :)  A few years later,  my second child, Doug, liked to dunk his eggs... as much as possible :)
#34 Easter egg .... ready and waiting in the Easter basket!




Links ~
Amy

Hugs,
Mary

Growing up with a big brother and four younger sisters was wonderful.   One thing that my parents did with us was to take us camping.  NOT in the middle of the woods but on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan.  Water, waves, sun, sand, Dunes and at the beginning of the little walkway out to the lake from the camp parking lot, a little store.  By sweeping this walkway from the petit store to the opening where the walk opened down to the beach I could earn my own money for a fudgesicle. There was a coke~ a~ cola machine but I was more interested in frozen chocolate.  Oh, and being noticed by the older boys!   There were also trees on top of the dunes on each side of the walk and our camping area.  Trees with VINES (Tarzan like vines) hanging down!  Once, my brother and his friends decided to grab on to a vine and went sailing out just over head of our tent,  softly landing on the sand.  Of course there was heard the mandatory Tarzan yell (we all liked to watch the old Tarzan movies).
Our tent was much larger than the petit one in my 1"x1" square.  but you get the idea of what fun camping can be for kids... now mom's... they do sacrifice for their children in this:)

#19  Camping :)


Caitlin sent me a link to an interesting vacation site... look what YOU could "camp out" in! 
Remind you of anything????  hehehehe

Hugs,

Mary

Growing up with a big brother and four younger sisters was wonderful.   One thing that my parents did with us was to take us camping.  NOT in the middle of the woods but on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan.  Water, waves, sun, sand, Dunes and at the beginning of the little walkway out to the lake from the camp parking lot, a little store.  By sweeping this walkway from the petit store to the opening where the walk opened down to the beach I could earn my own money for a fudgesicle. There was a coke~ a~ cola machine but I was more interested in frozen chocolate.  Oh, and being noticed by the older boys!   There were also trees on top of the dunes on each side of the walk and our camping area.  Trees with VINES (Tarzan like vines) hanging down!  Once, my brother and his friends decided to grab on to a vine and went sailing out just over head of our tent,  softly landing on the sand.  Of course there was heard the mandatory Tarzan yell (we all liked to watch the old Tarzan movies).
Our tent was much larger than the petit one in my 1"x1" square.  but you get the idea of what fun camping can be for kids... now mom's... they do sacrifice for their children in this:)

#19  Camping :)


Caitlin sent me a link to an interesting vacation site... look what YOU could "camp out" in! 
Remind you of anything????  hehehehe

Hugs,

Mary

owl city

Caitlin and I Thank You for voting in The Poppies Awards!
Don't forget to check out  Poppy Talk

Owl City - New Music - More Music Videos

Inspiration!  I like this ~

Hugs,
Mary

owl city

Caitlin and I Thank You for voting in The Poppies Awards!
Don't forget to check out  Poppy Talk

Owl City - New Music - More Music Videos

Inspiration!  I like this ~

Hugs,
Mary

Vote For Caitlin!

My daughter Caitlin has been nominated for a POPPIE Award!
WOW oh WOW! Can you feel me beaming :)
It would be great for us to get behind her and vote for Nice.
We have from now until January 29th at 11:59pm.  Thank you, Thank you!  OH MERCI!
Just click over the "POPPIE Award" link above : and scroll down to "Nice".
Caitlin Thanks you also :) :) :)

xo,
Mary

Vote For Caitlin!

My daughter Caitlin has been nominated for a POPPIE Award!
WOW oh WOW! Can you feel me beaming :)
It would be great for us to get behind her and vote for Nice.
We have from now until January 29th at 11:59pm.  Thank you, Thank you!  OH MERCI!
Just click over the "POPPIE Award" link above : and scroll down to "Nice".
Caitlin Thanks you also :) :) :)

xo,
Mary

On THE trail of a great GIVE*AWAY! My daughter is in the new Kayte Terry book. To catch up and join in just hop over to Nice-etc.!
It is thrilling for her to be a part of one Kayte's books!

Caitlin also has some great new gift products that she has designed! Check out the new clocks. They are absolutely beautiful.

Where have I BEEN!? Right here in my humble abode working away... I have been busy this fall with several projects for a design firm, Truffles. LOVE her designs and her seamstress are AMAZING! I am hooping to have a wee tree trimming party for our family. Yes, we still have no decorations on the tree. Lights are all in place though!

While out for a tiny Gift shopping moment we happened upon some REINDEER!!!
MY very first reindeer sighting!!! They are such beautiful animals.


Ok, well, I really did see them and my husband took some photos of them with his phone but they will not load unto Flickr so... use your imagination.. just like we have been doing all of these years for Santa's Sleigh :) So sorry.
I hope to be back by Wednessday. WITH some kind of photos!

On THE trail of a great GIVE*AWAY! My daughter is in the new Kayte Terry book. To catch up and join in just hop over to Nice-etc.!
It is thrilling for her to be a part of one Kayte's books!

Caitlin also has some great new gift products that she has designed! Check out the new clocks. They are absolutely beautiful.

Where have I BEEN!? Right here in my humble abode working away... I have been busy this fall with several projects for a design firm, Truffles. LOVE her designs and her seamstress are AMAZING! I am hooping to have a wee tree trimming party for our family. Yes, we still have no decorations on the tree. Lights are all in place though!

While out for a tiny Gift shopping moment we happened upon some REINDEER!!!
MY very first reindeer sighting!!! They are such beautiful animals.


Ok, well, I really did see them and my husband took some photos of them with his phone but they will not load unto Flickr so... use your imagination.. just like we have been doing all of these years for Santa's Sleigh :) So sorry.
I hope to be back by Wednessday. WITH some kind of photos!

Look what I found when I opened my blog this morning!
A Beautiful New BANNER!!! Hmm, I wonder what pretty angel did this for me? :)

Oh Merci Caitlin!!!
I LOVE IT! It is just what I would wish for... lovely colors also!
This is especially nice because Caitlin is very busy with her shop!

That is not the only especially nice thing that Caitlin did for and with me lately!

On Friday, early evening, she phoned that she was on her way home and
we could go out on an errand to get a certain book *(more on this at a later date).
When I opened the car door ~ hmmm, the scents from her car were lovely.
I thought that she and her friend Taylor had gotten coffees earlier and the
aroma lingered. But no! There were two cocoas in the cup holders, one for
each of us!!! Now how thoughtful is that !!!

We ended up at the local Antique Shop where we each found just the right
amount of treasures.
Here is one of mine~ another little Angel ~



Hugs,
Mary

Look what I found when I opened my blog this morning!
A Beautiful New BANNER!!! Hmm, I wonder what pretty angel did this for me? :)

Oh Merci Caitlin!!!
I LOVE IT! It is just what I would wish for... lovely colors also!
This is especially nice because Caitlin is very busy with her shop!

That is not the only especially nice thing that Caitlin did for and with me lately!

On Friday, early evening, she phoned that she was on her way home and
we could go out on an errand to get a certain book *(more on this at a later date).
When I opened the car door ~ hmmm, the scents from her car were lovely.
I thought that she and her friend Taylor had gotten coffees earlier and the
aroma lingered. But no! There were two cocoas in the cup holders, one for
each of us!!! Now how thoughtful is that !!!

We ended up at the local Antique Shop where we each found just the right
amount of treasures.
Here is one of mine~ another little Angel ~



Hugs,
Mary

Oh Merci ~ NICE

I have returned... bearing gifts! Well, gifts for me! From Nice!
As many of you know that follow Merci-Notes, I have been helping Caitlin, {Nice} get ready for this years Renegade Craft Fair. She always thanks me. Last year she surprised me with a box of these~



My very first business cards. Caitlin designed them herself! Love them.
This year she gave me the OH SO CUTE vintage coin purse to carry the cards in!



As you can see in the above photos she also gave me a soft white leather journal,
which I shall use for drawings, and a beautiful towel that looks like it could be one of Kath Kidston's very own!!! I hope one day to have something that she designed.
The roses are from the dear sweet hubby who brought them to me this past Saturday, our anniversary, with a mini breakfast and a nice cup of cocoa, minus the whip, from Starbucks.
AND he had it set up on the patio!!! I love our patio and we have not been using it much this summer and he new this~ so this was also especially nice!

Back to Caitlin, she always gives me surprises gifts, like extremely cute tank tops or tops... She just gets them and gives them to me!!! However I still can be mad at her right now... You probably can figure out why! Guess, and I will let you know who is first to be correct.
not happy, sad.
*i think she owes me a complete redesign of my blog for this one!

Hugs, please give me one also!
Mary

Oh Merci ~ NICE

I have returned... bearing gifts! Well, gifts for me! From Nice!
As many of you know that follow Merci-Notes, I have been helping Caitlin, {Nice} get ready for this years Renegade Craft Fair. She always thanks me. Last year she surprised me with a box of these~



My very first business cards. Caitlin designed them herself! Love them.
This year she gave me the OH SO CUTE vintage coin purse to carry the cards in!



As you can see in the above photos she also gave me a soft white leather journal,
which I shall use for drawings, and a beautiful towel that looks like it could be one of Kath Kidston's very own!!! I hope one day to have something that she designed.
The roses are from the dear sweet hubby who brought them to me this past Saturday, our anniversary, with a mini breakfast and a nice cup of cocoa, minus the whip, from Starbucks.
AND he had it set up on the patio!!! I love our patio and we have not been using it much this summer and he new this~ so this was also especially nice!

Back to Caitlin, she always gives me surprises gifts, like extremely cute tank tops or tops... She just gets them and gives them to me!!! However I still can be mad at her right now... You probably can figure out why! Guess, and I will let you know who is first to be correct.
not happy, sad.
*i think she owes me a complete redesign of my blog for this one!

Hugs, please give me one also!
Mary

Pretty Stacks

Having both a son and daughter that are talented and creative minded makes for a busy household. Right now, for example, Caitlin is getting ready for The Renegade Craft Fair and I get to help her. Mind you it is the less exciting work but non the less it is enjoyable to be of help as she gets on her way. What is my job of the moment? I am the Chief CEO of stitching down trims ends. Soon to be promoted to CFO of sanding and then I am hopeful of becoming a letter cutter! :) Unfortunately no travel abroad is needed for these positions, but if the opportunity comes, I would grab it in a stitcher's minute! :)



I must say, thank you all for stopping by, those that leave such sweet words and those that come and pop in for a visit. :)

Hugs,
Mary

Pretty Stacks

Having both a son and daughter that are talented and creative minded makes for a busy household. Right now, for example, Caitlin is getting ready for The Renegade Craft Fair and I get to help her. Mind you it is the less exciting work but non the less it is enjoyable to be of help as she gets on her way. What is my job of the moment? I am the Chief CEO of stitching down trims ends. Soon to be promoted to CFO of sanding and then I am hopeful of becoming a letter cutter! :) Unfortunately no travel abroad is needed for these positions, but if the opportunity comes, I would grab it in a stitcher's minute! :)



I must say, thank you all for stopping by, those that leave such sweet words and those that come and pop in for a visit. :)

Hugs,
Mary

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