Etsy Shop SALE month

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my Roosevelt Kid shop on Etsy.com and to celebrate Charlotte's first birthday, all items are 25% off through the end of February!

Garden Journal: May 23rd

This weekend I finally finished most of my projects in the garden.  Sunday was a very busy day for Charlotte and I.  We were up at 6 am taking photos of the garden.  And then we spent the rest of the day finishing the patio table area (you can find photos of this project under the post Dinner for Two).  I also mowed the lawn while Charlotte barked and attacked the mower.  The only thing left to finish in the garden is to plant a few more peppers and weed a little in the far back corner.  Here are some photos from the first blooms of the summer season.

The rhododendron bush is a beautiful light pink

I'm not sure what this plant is. Its probably a weed but its a pretty blue and it keeps coming back even when I dig it up.

These tree blossoms are a delicate pretty flower.  Unfortunately they smell awful.

Vinca vine.  I hate this plant because I cannot get rid of it but it does have beautiful flowers.

This planter has a jumble of plants in it.  I'm not sure how its going to look.  Its a mix of whatever plants I had left over from other projects.

Gnomes are invading the yard!  I know have 11 gnomes roaming the garden.  This does not include the three in the house or the gnome salt and pepper shakers.



Lupine is just about to bloom



The humming bird station is all planted and ready to bloom soon.

My humming bird station includes red nasturtiums, a cape fuchsia, thunbergia, rudbeckia, foxglove and lupine.

There is a basket filled with petunias and million bells.  It doesn't look the best right now.  Its had a rough couple of months but soon it will look spectacular.

Verbena and bacopa basket I bought from Schmidts

Tea cup and saucer bird feeder.  I have 2 of these for sale on my etsy shop.

So cute in a blooming garden.

Charlotte doing some modeling for my dog bandanas on my etsy shop.

She even has an Oregon State bandana

Meet Gertie and Bram

Meet Bram and Gertie- husband and wife felted pins

This weekend I finally finished my felt gnome pins I've been working on for over two weeks now.  The boy is Bram and the girl is Gertie along with their mushroom friend.  They are felted broaches I hand cut and sewed.  They are 3 1/2 inches tall and 2 1/2 inches wide.  They are just so cute.  If anyone is interested I have them for sale on my etsy.com site  http://www.etsy.com/shop/bunnygirl7  I've been wearing Bram for most of gnome week.  You can wear them on a shirt, sweater, jacket, purse, apron or whatever else you can think of.

 

Headbands

I just finished making a ton of headbands and hairclips.  I just love these.  I made them using felt and buttons.  They are for sale on my etsy shop. I've posted pictures below of some of them.  Go to http://www.etsy.com/shop/bunnygirl7 to check the rest out.

I Heart Gingies

This Christmas I love snowmen and Gingies!  What are gingies you ask?  Gingerbread men of course!  I don't know why I started calling them gingies, but I can't stop. My friends tell me it sounds like a dirty word.  I disagree, I think it captures the essence of the gingerbread man. I love them so much I am making us all gingie stockings for Christmas.  I also put them on sale on my etsy site along with my chickadee stockings so everyone can have a fun stocking this year.   Go to http://www.etsy.com/shop/bunnygirl7 to see my designs.  Happy Holidays!

This is the first stocking I made.  I cut the gingie out of felt and hand stitched him on.  He has button eyes and a big loving heart.

These two stockings are so cute together

My family of mini gingies!

I love this material.  I bought it a few years ago but keep buying more because I think it is so cute.  I've found tons of uses for it so far.  I hope they don't stop making it.  I don't know what I'd do without my gingies.

Stockings

I'm already looking towards Christmas and have started my holiday crafts.  A few weekends ago my friend Amy was in town and we went to the fabric store to buy supplies to make our own stockings.  I accidentally bought enough fabric to make 32 stockings (not sure how that happened).  So I have lots of ideas of how to use the fabric.  So far I made eight stockings (four of each kind) and a matching tree skirt. It was hard to take a picture of the skirt but I will work on it.

This is what we ended up with...tons of fabric for both stockings and pajamas, 15 patterns, countless buttons and patches....and all we came in the store for was enough fabric to make 4 stockings. We got a little out of control.

But I made cute stockings to decorate the store fireplace (see my blog about my step by step guide on how to build a fireplace)

Close up of the chickadee detail

Earrings

I just opened an etsy shop and here are the first of my earrings for sale.  My shop name is bunnygirl7.etsy.com if you want to check it out.

Etsy!

I just posted cute earrings on etsy. Please check them out at bunnygirl7.etsy.com.