Summer Sewing Busy-ness

Everything Bag

This month has been busy.....

 I have had more going on this month than ever expected.
My son drove in from out of state to visit with me. He brought his family and I was in heaven for a few days.
This is the first visit that I was not totally nervous over. I usually break out and get flustered before hand, but not this time. It was so of the Lord. I knew he was coming and I just asked the Good Lord to take control of it all and He did. We had a great time.

my grand children

On top of that, I had all my children with me. It was not my birthday or Mother's Day. No one died or got married and it wasn't planned.  It just happened and I loved it.
We had a quiet fourth and we enjoyed that.

my children

My grand-daughter was with her daddy so we just relaxed.
My son turned 30 this month, wow does that make me think....

My youngest will be 25 next Friday, and yes I am still thinking....

On top of all this I have been making aprons and wallets and bags of all sizes. And Really, Enjoying it. I was hoping to make some money, but just being able to sew has released some energy that has been bottled up for awhile. I love to sew and we are selling some, but until we can be ahead of the cost, we just keep sewing for the purpose. (see  http://hopenmotion.blogspot.com/  ).

I was able to do some canning yesterday for the first time this season. I got three quarts and one pint of stewed tomatoes. I have some in the freezer and I have eaten many already. Crop is good this year. Even after the beginning struggles, we are getting some produce that is very delightful to the taste buds, yummy.

And having my husband around every day is not to bad. The honey do list is getting taken care of even as we add to it daily. Did I mention he went to Joplin to help out in the tornado relief efforts? The Lord just keeps growing him and I love him more every day. -both the LORD and my husband-

part of the harvest

Well with this update that is long over due, I have some more sewing to do. I have orders for more bags and aprons...

purple bell peppers

two very happy customers

If you would like one just let me know...

Quilter's Wallet Treat

The time has come to prepare for our up coming quilting retreat.
I am able to go because of a very sweet friend of mine. I  have been sponsered and I have made a gift for her as a a THANK YOU !!!
The wallet is Pat-e-Pattern Designs, and kit. It is a great way to show someone they are special. My friend loves purple and so I made it in her favorite color.
I carry one myself and have made many others over the last few years.
The wallet takes three fat quarters to make it. The kit that you can purchase as well from the company makes it super to put together. It is not really a beginner project, but it could be if one really likes it and sews slow. The pattern is super easy to follow and has great pics to help you as you go. Some of us do better with visual. This pattern has it.
Hope you like what I have made, and maybe you will be inspired to make one too.Three fat quarters is all it takes.

Check out their site  http://pat-e-patterns.com/

Therapy in Session

I know that it has been sometime since I last blogged, but I have been SEWING....
I have been sewing bags of various sizes and styles. Plus I have made a few aprons and Petite wallets, all so I could send them out for sale.
My daughter and I have been focusing on bags for World Racers in the mission field. The racers cover up to eleven countries in eleven months. This month they have a training camp being held and we have a great bag that goes over the shoulder and across the body. Back in the day we called them HOBO bags. Today my daughter calls it the 'Over the Shoulder bag'. We also have made what she had titled ' The Everything Bag'. It is like a large beach bag. And we have made the same style in smaller sizes.
If you can, check out hopenmotion.com and brows the different pages.
We have sold a few already before they were shipped out. That is exciting to us.
I also made some aprons and wallets to send to my sister who is holding a flee market spot in her town and we will see how that pans out. I am just really happy to be sewing this summer. I was not able to do much this last winter due to homeschooling, but hey, therapy is in progress.

I have been eating many things from the garden as well. Things like, zucchini, crooked neck(yellow) squash. Green and purple bell peppers and Fresno chilies. Jalapeno's and onions in salsa's and omelets.
We finally got our first tomato two days ago and there are many more to come. With eighteen tomato plants you would think so .....
Cucumber's are good and I had been making zucchini bread and putting it in the freezer, until this week when the temperature's are so high who can even think of turning the oven on, not me.

hope'nmotion co-founders

So I will try to write more often now that the rush of the big bag push is done but hey we will be putting some things on etsy.com as well real soon so please check back often and see what else we will provide to you who want something of a one of a kind.

It Is Finished

I just want to say, that this first year of homeschooling is finished. We made it and she wants to do it again next year. YEAH! That to me means I didn't destroy her hope and trust in gamma. I am so glad to finish and she / we finished well. I am so proud of us, we really learned a lot.
I was asked what I learned and I came up with a couple of things.
#1-  Multiply by fives using the clock. I know how to multiply, but it came to me early on this year, that if you can tell time and remember the minutes, than when you need to multiply by fives, think of the numbers on the clock and well I was like, NEW. Anyway, my star student got it, Yeah....
Okay.
#2- I expect to much.
#3- Everyone has a different pace of doing things and I need more patience.
#4- Patience and that I need more.
#5- How to pollinate corn.
#6- How to compost.
But one thing that I knew and was confirmed with is that I love being with my grand-daughter and teaching her what I believe is important to know. I just love that child and love being around her.

1774 dress up like Felicity

end of year celebration

She did great and she completed all required lessons in all required subjects and we are moving on to the third grade.YEAH!!!!

Time is Slipping

Brandi, Punkin' & Bryan

Wow I cannot believe how long it has been since I have last blogged.
Time seems to be slipping away.
 I have almost finished my first year of homeschooling.
We went to KSGN 89.7 and met Brandi and Bryan, so much fun.

Also we had a small end of the year celebration with our small group from school and had a great day.

And I have been watching my vegetable garden flourish.

I have also, oh my I can't believe it, Sewn. Yes I did. I have sewn.
My daughter is going to a friends wedding and wanted a unique gift and with her creative mind she came up with the idea of taking the invitation and making a wall hanging out of it. So cute. So she cut all the pieces out and I, yes me, moi, sewed it together. I love that kind of thing too.
It is getting me excited about my sewing/ quilting retreat that I will be going on soon. Yippee!!!
Any way, I have been busy helping making bags for Hope'nmotiom because we need to have them ready to send to Georgia for sale at a World Race training camp.
I started a summer bible study again and have been so blessed already. Oh I am excited to see what the good Lord is going to do this summer. He is already speaking LOUDLY to me.
Today His message was to 'get out of the way, and let Him do the work' and trust that He will. Okay..
I want to be pleasing Him , that's all I want to do, walking worthy of the calling...
We have picked produce almost every day for the last week and enjoying it.
But now my chickens have slowed way down on giving us eggs. It's like two a day, and I am all about, "what's up?
Oh and my husband has joined the mission field in our church and will be going to Joplin to help for a few days. I just can't believe it. I am so proud of him. This is all new and out side his box. Can not wait, but have to, see what the Lord is going to do with him in this summer as well. I must say, 'The Lord is doing a mighty work here in our camp."

ninja & hula girl applique(20"square)

How's your home camp doing? Are you redeeming the time or is it slipping away?

Memorial Day Weekend

patriotic apron will be for sale 

retired today

So today was my husbands last day to clock in at the post-office. That is where I met him twenty years ago. And eighteen years ago this weekend is when we began to date. Wow how time flies.

As  for time flying, my garden is coming along nicely.

The beginning of this month I had trouble with pests. They were eating everything that was green.

My daughter and her boyfriend bought me a variety of new plants. I was trying to grow everything from seed, and was getting discouraged. So they pampered me with lasting gifts. I think I mentioned that already in an earlier post.

Anyway, the time this month has been flying by and my garden is doing so good. The plants almost all have some fruit on them.

I have already picked some for omelets and salads and salsa.

Today, was great weather as all month has been. It has allowed the plants to gain ground with roots, without devastating heat.I was shocked as I was looking over my onions and the last of the

 lettuce. When I came across this guy.

 It really freaked me out at first. But I asked the Lord to help me catch it before it got away, and well as you can see, He did. Can you tell me what it is?

Anyway, times are flying ands we need to redeem them before to much gets behind us.












I hope you all have a blessed Memorial Day weekend and remember to pray for out Troops and those who have fallen for is it because of them that we can be free.
So what are doing these days?