New Summer Flip Flop Designs

I promise that I am still around. I have been busy painting our home, and keeping our summer bound girls busy and happy. In between all of the chaos, I have been crocheting new flip flop designs. I just finished the Party Cupcake Flip Flops today. They are my absolute favorite and are already available in my Etsy store. You can find them HERE.

I hand sewn little Swarovski crystal beads onto the cupcakes for a little bit of sparkly sprinkle accent fun.

The next pair I created just in time for the Fourth of July. They are the Patriotic Stars Flip Flops and are a size 10/11 in little girls. You can find them in my Etsy store HERE.

These I Heart You flip flops are already sold and lasted about 4 minutes in my Etsy store last week. :) They turned out super cute I think.

And last, but certainly not least, are the Chevron Flower Flip Flops. These were also listed in my Etsy store last week and lasted about 4 minutes before they were sold as well. They turned out very colorful and fun.

New Flower Flip Flops

This week one of my dear customers mailed a few pairs of flip flops for me to customize. She told me to surprise her so I had a bit of fun embellishing these.
The first one had peace signs all over them. I decided to put peace signs into the centers of the flowers.

I think they turned out really groovy, don't you think?
The next pair was leopard print. I crocheted red flowers for these and sewed a pair of leopard printed buttons onto them.

I think these turned out beautiful and are my new favorites!

Dabbling a Little Here and a Little There

I recently found a great idea on a lovely blog I frequent a lot. I have a pair of bird sewing scissors that are sometimes uncomfortable to use. They leave indentations around my fingers. I don't use them often because of this reason...until now! I found this BRILLIANT idea to crochet grips around the finger holes on the scissors at One Sheepish Girl.

I adore the colors coral and pink together so I decided to use those colors for the grips. Now they are super comfy to use and pretty too!
I also finished a cute pair of flip flops for a dear customer of mine late last week that I have been meaning to share.

They are a gift for her neighbor who is a friend of her teenage daughter. I call these Lavender Fields and I really like the colors on this one. They turned out very nice.

She is Growing Too Fast!

Today is Xiera's 9th birthday. I surprised her this morning with a bouquet of colorful daisies and donuts for her and her cousins that stayed over for a slumber party.
On Saturday we celebrated her birthday early with family and friends. She wanted a Powerpuff Girl birthday party so we went with the theme and had a bit of fun with it.

We had her cake made by out local bakery, Brittany's Cakes. I think they did a wonderful job!

For games, Xiera drew Blossom on a poster board and we played Pin the Bow on Blossom.

We then ventured outside to try and break open the ice cream piñata.

Xiera's cousin Kailyn broke it open.

The children wasted no time grabbing up all of the candy.


Afterwards we went indoors to eat and be silly with family and friends.

Soon it was time to unwrap gifts. She received some wonderful gifts.

Happy Birthday Xiera! You are my sunshine and you light up my life each and every day! I love you!

Summer Break is Here

The girls' last day of school was yesterday which means they are officially on summer break. Zella graduated kindergarten and is going into first grade and Xiera is going to be starting fourth grade in the fall. Both of them made straight A's on their report cards too! I am such a proud momma.

Caught in Action

Over Memorial weekend Xiera got a hold of my camera and decided to photograph me while I was crocheting.

I must have been either deep in thought in this next picture, or determined. I am not quite sure.

What was it that I was working on, you ask? My cousin had asked me to crochet a Pooh bear baby blanket for her friend who is expecting a baby boy. I finally have it all finished too.

I don't know if you can tell but I made Pooh bear smiling.

I think he looks very sweet when he smiles, don't you think?

Cute Custom Creations

I just have to say that I have the best customers EVER! They all have such wonderful custom ideas. My dear friend Bekah had asked me to crochet a pair of custom crochet Bubble Guppy Flip Flops for her daughter to wear for her upcoming Bubble Guppies themed birthday party. She requested the character Oona from the show on the flip flops. This is what I came up with!

I had found the green fun fringe yarn in my yarn stash at the last minute and thought it would be the perfect touch to add as I think it resembles seaweed.
This is a picture of Oona with all of her Bubble Guppy friends from the show.

Another adorable custom I had made late last week was this adorable newborn sock monkey hat and diaper cover set with suspenders.

I used a darker grey on this custom set with accents of blue jean blue and white.

Friday Flip Flops

I have had a BUSY week this week. The girls both had field trips this week with their classes that hubby and I switched off to volunteer for. I have also been working on custom flip flop orders this week.
These cute ice cream social flip flops were made for my dear cousin-in-law in Florida. She has 2 sweet little girls that are going to love these.

The striped infant flip flops were custom made for an old high school friend of mine who recently had a beautiful baby girl.

The Shades of Purple flip flops and Lavender Rose flip flops were custom made for a dear customer of mine. They are for her teenage daughters.


This week we also gained a new member to our family. Meet Cupcake...

She is 8 weeks old and spends most of her day on the girls' bottom bunk bed having sweet kitten dreams. Sadly she has conjunctivitis (pink eye) and had to visit the vet yesterday because of it. She is now on medicine and is starting to slowly feel much better. Isn't she precious?

Weekend Fun At The Movies

This weekend we are taking the girls to see Iron Man 3.

I had found a FREE pattern online for the Iron Man Power Gloves so I HAD to make a pair for both of the girls. The pattern was written for adult size only so I had to scale it down a bit by taking out a few rows in the cuffs and using a G hook instead of the I hook it calls for.


I think they are ready to power up now!

Teacher Appreciation Week

This week is Teacher Appreciation week. Both my daughters have been blessed to have the most sweetest and caring teachers this year. Although it is bittersweet that the girls will be moving forth to their following grade level next school year; we are all truly saddened by the fact that they will no longer be in these amazing teachers' classes by the end of the month. I have heard and seen nothing but wonderful and great things about this kindergarten teacher and this third grade teacher. So of course it was with great pleasure that I worked all late morning and afternoon on a pair of crochet cozies that I put around some vintage soup cans. Once the girls got off the bus, I took Xiera to get her expander taken off. (I know! Can you believe it has been a whole year already? Her cross bite has been corrected and we cannot be more pleased and thrilled about it!) Then afterwards, we went to Target's little dollar corner and found the perfect teacher supplies to add to the crochet cans; pens, pencils, notepads, and paper clips. We then went to Bath and Body Works to pick out a few hand sanitizers and Voila!

The perfect teacher gifts!! I hope they enjoy and appreciate these gifts as much as we have enjoyed and appreciated them this school year. They are true blessings that have touched my daughters' lives and will remain in our thoughts and hearts for a lifetime.

Junk to Treasure

Yesterday the girls and I went to a community garage sale in the next town over. We found a lot of of little treasures. Zella got another little Boyd bear to add to her collection and Xiera found some 80's toy Cabbage Patch Kid plastic doll toys. I found a set of pretty Irish laced doilies and a few Ball mason jars. I crocheted a rainbow cozy for the smaller mason jar and turned it into my new crochet hook holder.

It helps me stay organized.:)