Ruby and Ester

Here is a sneak peek at Ester. 

She is all ready for some clothing!

 Be back soon!

xx

~Annie

Bridal Shower!

Yesterday we had Chelsea's bridal shower!

Isabel and I worked very hard on it for the last 2 weeks.

This outfit was Isabel's gift to her sister!

I managed to snap a very few pictures right before the shower started, and then my battery died! One of the bridesmaids took reallt great pictures which I will share when I get them.

This is the punch table with traditional punch, ice bucket, and lemonade. The punch bowl on the right with the lemonade was thrifted for $6.00! It came with 10 cups and a floating glass ladle! I was able to pick up extra glass punch cups for .50 cents a piece at Goodwill. I now own about 35!

This is a quick snap of the bridal table. I wish I had a better one to show you. I love all of the satin chair covers and for the bridal table we stuck little flower bouquets in the back!

This is a lace parasol that my girlfriend borrowed to me. This gets passed around in her family whenever anyone has a shower.You just change the ribbons and flowers to match the brides colors.  She comes from a family with 15 kids, so she has like 7 or 8 sisters. This has been passed around a lot and its still in great shape.

 I was honored she offered to let me use it!

This is the party favor, a candy buffet! All of the glassware was thrifted, and then I polished up the silver serving spoons from my own family set of silver. It all looked so pretty!

Isabel and I made all the boxes. They were supposed to have a little plastic bag of candy with a ribbon, but we decided to punch holes on the sides and add a handle. We tied 2 little silver rings on the handle with the organza ribbon. Love the way they turned out!

I wish I had a good picture of the whole room to show you. 

It all turned out so pretty!

We had so much fun and all of our family and friends truly showered her with everything she will need to set up her new home in September when she gets married!

We are so blessed!

xx

~Annie

Ruby finished

And now I'm working on her little sister; Ester.

Here is Ruby:

Stay tuned for Ester.

xx

~Annie

This is Ruby!

I am quite enamored of her!

She will be about 28 inches tall. 

I'm trying to decide if she will have a bonnet, a hat or if I'll just continue with her hair.

 I love the way her face came out-I used acrylic paint and colored pencil. 

Still one of my favorite techniques!

Folk doll joy!!

xx

~Annie

Bridal shower in 2 weeks~Aagghh!!

Chelsea chose her 13 year old sister to be her maid-of-honor.

 (Here they are dressed in the japanese kimonos their grandmother left to them)

 So that means her sister must give the shower.

 And since she is 13, that means essentially I am giving the shower. 

LOL!

But I am thrilled to do it.

 (Here is a much nicer picture of Isabel, she would kill me if she knew I posted that picture above, but luckily she never reads my blog!)

We are having a very traditional shower.

 Women only-no boyfriends or fiances!

Just 4 generations of women

 getting together to make the bride feel special

 and shower her with the essentials of setting up a home.

They will not live together until the wedding, 

so she needs everything. 

Just like in the old days, 

I love it!

One of the things we are doing is passing out advice cards to all of the guests. I designed them myself. They will be cut in half once I get them printed, making 2 cards per page.

What do you think?

xx

~Annie

Cherry pie

We got the most delicious cherries on our vacation in Michigan. 

Gotta make one of these:

Yum!!

Summer morning

OK!

After a good and restful nights sleep I am up early, said my morning prayers, took the dog for a long walk while its still sort of cool(not!) and now I'm ready for this:

Oh gosh-its not showing up too well. Gotta work on the photo editing a little more I guess. These are all little watercolors I did while I was on vacation.

If you were here girlfriends, I would offer this one to you!

 And we could sit on the back porch while the morning cool inches away from us

 and discuss the garden. 

We pulled 3~ 12 inch cucumbers off the vine last night! 

Yay!

 The summer bounty is beginning!

 I have 2 wonderful basil plants too, and I'm going to try to make my own pesto.

I love summer!

xx

~Annie