lovely afternoon tea

Is there anything more lovely

then your big sister getting dressed up in 3 tutu's

setting out the good china and silver

and having afternoon tea with you? 

If  you are 4, this is probably one of the most lovely and wonderful things in your world. 

it makes my heart sing. 

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Generations

I had the opportunity to photograph my sister's LOVELY children yesterday. 

I had a good time... 

they are a bunch of clowns. lol

They cooperated and I took way to many shots. 

You can see more if you like on my other blog

HERE

anyway, I was looking thru and I was thinking...

I take an awful lot of walking away pictures. 

I LOVE them. 

wonder what that means about me? 

anywhoo...

I love our family genealogy. 

It is fascinating to me. 

I guess it goes hand in hand with keeping and collecting photographs for

the family archives. 

I started to see the family resemblances in the men in this family... 

so for your viewing pleasure here goes.... 

 my great great uncle

my grandfather

my Dad

my nephew

This picture is my Great Great Grandfather in front of his Home. 

The home where I took these pictures. 

I believe this is late 1800's

I took this picture yesterday. 

Of his Great Great Great Grandsons, standing in front of his home. 

wow, pretty amazing... if I do say so myself. 

How cool is that? 

How many people can say do that... I imagine not so many. 

well, have a blessed day. I am going to go and sew... 

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Poncho

I needed to sew something different.. 

So I went and purchased some polar fleece 

and a bit of ric rac and pom pom's.

And a poncho was born.I think it is just right... and she likes it too. 

Emily helped me with the impromptu photo shoot. 

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creative genes

I have creative genes.... 

Yes, that's right. 

My Mom gave them to me. 

I passed them to my daughters. 

They are lovely. 

My Mom made this amazing quilt

for Maddie for her birthday. 

(She let me pick out the fabric in the summer )

Get ready to be amazed. 

Yup, told you amazing. 

and now 

look at what Sara, just whipped up in about 20 minutes for 

Maddie on her birthday. 

Seriously, how cute!!!!!! Maddie won't remove it from her head. 

She went through my stuff... 

" Mom,  can I use this  " 

"Mom , can I use your sewing machine"

Amazing!! 

and Maddie will not take this Repunzal dress off. 

Jump she has been wearing it since Friday. 

complete with Wand and Crown. 

and she keeps telling me she is a Princess when she wears this... 

( by the way.. this is the odd forced smile that she is doing now)

((what a goof))

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Sometimes...

Sometimes, you just have to make a choice to be positive. 

Okay, take for instance this incredibly crazy weather

we experienced this weekend in New Jersey.

Went out this morning and really took a good look around. 

Some new landscaping for the backyard... 

going for the forest look here. 

Yes, in this next shot you can almost see the swing set. 

oh there it is.. 

I will try and appreciate the new flow of sunlight gleaming brightly into our backyard. 

And how the tree landed ever so gently on her swing set... 

that it wasn't destroyed. 

I am loving that we are going to have plenty of firewood to burn. 

nice big logs to split. 

and Maddie was so concerned and worried about her tire swing 

the entire storm...

God spared it. seriously. 

all the other branches around it broke and fell.

I am thankful that God protected my family in our home 

during this storm. 

I am thankful that no trees fell into our house. 

I am thankful that we only lost our power from 8 pm to 

3 pm the very next day. 

and I am just thankful for God allowing me to make the choice to have a 

lovely attitude about the whole thing. 

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lovely littlest beansprouts

I thought my little dollies needed a dress. 

So I got out my elastic thread... and Voila. 

A little (mock) smocked dress. 

I think she is pretty cute... 

she needs some freckles...

I used the Moda Little Apples fabric. 

Its so so cute. 

Then

I had some request for a boy.. 

so I whipped some up...

well, not just whipped it up , I made one and 

my husband told me i couldn't make the bodies the same as the girls..

The hips were to wide. 

I believe he called said

"boys don't have birthing hips"

So I made them more narrow... 

made a little pattern for a hat and some pants

and there you have it. 

A boy.

man this is fun!