Silly Baby Brooklyn Video!

Gramma's Little Cupcake

Good news - I finished the Cupcake Hat for Brooklyn - just in time for it to be right at 90 degrees here yesterday!!!




This was a great pattern and easy to do. I used Simply Soft yarn - the pink was leftovers from a blanket so I only had to buy the tan. The whole thing is wonderfully soft and fits her like a dream.

She was pretty full of herself with the hat on. Of course, we were all ooo'ing and gooo'ing and telling her how adorable she was!

Brooklyn's First Boat Ride

Kind of hard to believe that we headed out to the lake in February! That's just one of the joys of living in Texas :)

Loni decided it would be a good idea to try the life jacket on Brooklyn before we got out to the lake. Mostly we had to make sure that it fit, but we also felt it might be wise to be prepared in case she hated it. But her little trusting eyes in this picture are looking up at her Grandpa to see what he thought.

Loni also lathered her up with Water Babies sunscreen, then said that Brooklyn smelled like a Cabbage Patch baby! Really it was a wonderful smell. And we did get some smiles from her as soon as we discovered that she vastly prefers to stand up so she can see the water out the back of the boat.


Her eyes closed and her nose in the wind - I do believe we have a little sailor baby amongst us! She even did a little dancing to the Alan Jackson song that was playing.





Of course, being out in the wind and the sun can really tire out a baby girl. What a little doll baby she is! And have I mentioned just how much I love my granddaughter??? :)

Stamp Night Projects

More cards from our recent stamp night! This time we were celebrating the annual Stampin Up! Sale-A-Bration and using stamps from the promotion.


I just love the colors of the first card and it kind of surprises me as I would never have picked these on my own. :) The sentiment is from the "Merci" set and I can't find the set the flowers came from. The ribbon and all papers are also Stampin' Up.







The second card uses stamps from the "Friendship Blooms" set and that's the set I ended up purchasing. Just loved it! I'm not sure how well it shows in the photo, but this card has a tab that it tucks into to keep it closed. Too cute and what a great thing to learn!

New Stripes Yarn

I have fallen in love with Sugar'n Cream's new Stripes yarn. I first saw it on one of my mother's friend's blog and snagged me a skein at Hobby Lobby the next time they had a 40% off coupon.

This color is Violet Stripes and to me has such a Caribbean flavor to it. I dashed off a quick Grandmother's Favorite dishcloth just to try it out and am thrilled with the color and striping.

The ball band has a "pattern" for placemats using this yarn and I'm thinking about doing a couple for our table. It stripes up so nice and since I have about 10,000 dishcloths and know that they wash well it just makes sense to have placemats.

True Light and Atlanta

As I flew in to the DFW airport at night this week I was struck anew by the sight of millions of lights for miles on end. The sheer beauty of the silver and gold lights fills me with awe each time I see it.

I don't fly much. In fact, I can only think of two times in all our 28 years of marriage that Keith and I flew for vacation. The rest of my flights have all been business related through the years. And that's not to say that there have been a lot of them. But each time I'm in an airplane I am just amazed that humans can fly through the air with such ease. Truly a modern wonder.

As we hovered over DFW waiting to land, and as I watched all the lights below with such glee, it made me remember the book I recently read - True Light by Terri Blackstock. The premise of the book is that some sort of pulse knocks out electricity worldwide. It follows one family's struggles and triumphs and actually this particular book is #3 in the series (I just read that #4 will be released 4-18!!!). We live in such times that we take for granted such things as hopping on an airplane and dashing off to Atlanta for a meeting and don't give it a second thought. Or hop on the internet to find the answer to any question with only a moment's effort. A picture of my precious grandbaby can be shared in an instant.

And I sat in that plane as we landed and taxied to the airport where my beloved waited to take me home, I bowed my head in a prayer of thanksgiving. I was back from my trip safe and sound, the meetings went very well, and I was back home to my family. Truly God has blessed me yet again.

Amen.