Happy Birthday To My Darling Daughter

Today, 29 years ago, my middle child came into this world.  

She was born at 7:47 am after a fairly long and unproductive labor.  

They finally gave me Pitocin and THEN 4 hours later she was born.  

She was 2 weeks early, in a rush to be part of my world. 

She was a force to be reckoned with then and still is!

 I was in labor on 8/8/88 but she decided to hold off until the 9th!  

She is every bit a Leo in her personality.  

She is smart, funny, silly, sweet, kind, happy, loving and generally amazing and 

 I could not imagine my life without her. 

 I thank God for her every single day.  

Happy Birthday Goomba!!  

Happy Birthday!!!  I love you MORE!

Love, 

Mom  xoxo

I'm Going On A Trip And I'm Taking...

Do you remember that game?

I just booked a flight to go to Raleigh to visit my daughter.  

Are there any of my NC peeps that want to meet up??

Looks like I have May 23-24 open for fun!!

Please email me and we can make arrangements.  

My email is mamaspark@gmail.com

Shop hop?

Lunch or dinner?

Whatever, I up for some fun somewhere warmer than Michigan!!!

~XOP~

Christmas Finishes

I hope that everyone that celebrates Christmas had a wonderful one! 

 I made a few gifts for Christmas gifts but was not able to share until they had been gifted.  

Then there was the whole I don't have time to post deal, but hey, I have some time right now

 before I begin my running around for the day.

First up, I made a little quilt that I still can't show yet, but I will tell you it has that soft, fuzzy fabric in it. 

 I showed it to my DD2 and she fell in love with it. 

 I was happy to hear that because I used some fuzzy fabric to make her a throw for her couch!  

She is finishing up her Master's at NC State. 

 I found some NC State fabric and put this little quilt together.

The fun part is that they are the Wolf Pack and I found wolf paw prints to use for the quilting! 

 The red fuzzy did show through on the white in the quilting a little bit

 but since this will just be used for a couch quilt I think it will be just fine, she loved it! 

 This fabric is the soft and comfy from JAF. 

 The other fuzzy fabric I used was Snuggles from Moda and

 I LOVED working with the Snuggles so much more!

The other finish I had were these Christmas stockings I was consigned to make

 for my nephew and his new wife. 

 I used the same fabric to make their stockings that I used to make their wedding quilt.  

Both stockings came from free patterns found at Maywood Studios.  

There are 2 other different ones, which I printed out so I can make two different ones later.

Matt's mom (my SIL) asked me while I was making their quilt. 

 So a few weeks before Christmas I made these. 

 I did put aside the fabric I used to make the cuffs and the letters to make future stockings,

 for when they have kids. 

 I put it with the patterns so everything is put together and ready when the time comes! 

This is Christmas morning when they received them.

I am happy that I can finally share these with you. 

~XOP~

Happy Birthday!

Today, 24 years ago, one of my favorite people of all time was born.  

She weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces and had tons of jet black hair. 

 I am thrilled that I brought such a beautiful light into the world. 

 I know my life has never been the same and the world is a better place with people like her in it! 

 My silly, sassy baby is all grown up!

 Out to take the world by storm.

Still makes time to be with her mama.

So happy birthday to my little Gumba, I love you very much!!

XOXO

~MOM~