Third Granddaughter is born!

On June 25, 2009 our daughter Danielle had a baby girl. They named her Robyn Nicole Smith. Here she is with her cousin Lillee who was born June 10th. The second picture shows Robyn with her mother Danielle.

The first of our new granddaughters is born!

Baby Lillee was born at 7:52 a.m. on Wednesday, June 10th to our son John and Kim. She weighed 6 pounds 5 ounces and is 18.5 inches long. She is a beautiful baby and looks just like her daddy. We are so glad she arrived safely.
Isn't she the most beautiful baby in the world! Now we have 5 granddaughters and 1 grandson with 2 more granddaughters on the way THIS MONTH!

Here's Jordan's finished doll. She added the bow and flower at the waist and the rhinestones and flowers around the bottom of the dress. Notice the rhinestones on the hands.

In April Allan and I drove to Arizona to see Jared and Veronica and our grandkids. I decided I wanted to make fairy dolls with Jordan and Breana. I made the bodies and they painted the faces, hands and feet and dressed them with a little help from grandma. The decorations are all their own idea. I just brought a box full of "stuff" and they chose how to design their dolls. I think they turned out fantastic. The pink haired doll is Jordan's. She's five. The blond haired doll is Breana's. She's eight. I had a lot of fun helping them. Playing with my grandkids is on the top of my list of fun things to do!

These dolls are not quite done.

Here we are working on our dolls. I never did get mine finished. I got too busy helping the girls with theirs.

I guess it's time I posted more on this blog. I bet everyone thought I had died or something. I am still around.

I guess I've been busy. I had a shower for Dani then Kim. This is a picture of the blessing dress I made for Kim's soon to be born baby girl. We found bridal fabric on sale to make it from. The total cost for dress: $35.00. About half of what it cost for a store bought plain dress.

Making a Baby Quilt

The Saturday after Thanksgiving I went to our local quilt store "The Quilted Heart" because they were having a 50% off sale on all their fabric. You had to buy a minimum of one yard but since I am a smart lady I bought a bag full of pieces of flannel that were a kit for a quilt. I didn't use them for the quilt in the kit but used them to make this quilt. Here is a picture of the almost finished quilt. I used crochet cotton to quilt it and made my quilting stitches big (about 1/2 inch).

Here I am ready to sew the squares together. I actually started sewing them like this but discovered they were supposed to be sewn together with each block turned 1/4 of the way around.

Here are all the squares laid out on the bed in my "studio/guest room." When I first started laying it out I was mixing colors in each square. I did not like how it looked so I began mixing fabrics that were the same color to make each square. The squares looked much nicer. For the binding of the quilt I sewed strips of each fabric I used in the quilt together. I like the look of the mixture of fabrics on the edge of the quilt. (I am not smart-I did not take a picture of the finished quilt and I gave it to my daughter at her baby shower.)

Catching Up!

I have been meaning to post more on my blog for some time but have not done it. So today I am trying to catch up and let you know what has been happening since my last post. This is a picture of the table runner we were working on in the previous post. I was teaching a class on how to use freezer paper to applique perfect hearts. I have seen some finished projects and they turned out great!