9/6/14

My favorites from Stevie Marie's


I occasionally post about my friend who does monogramming and applique. Many people ask me what all she can do...the answer is so broad that I thought it would be a good idea to showcase some of my favorite items she has done. So today is all about Stevie Marie's. You can find her on Facebook at Stevie Marie's or on her website www.StevieMaries.com.



She makes some adorable Christmas dish towels. 


I fell in love last year with some hot chocolate dish towels she made so I had her make me one. I decorated my wine rack in aqua and red. I loved it. 


Here's how I displayed the towel.


She makes these cute towels as well with the Kitchen Aid Mixer....I'm pretty sure my sister is going to love these. 


She does them in a lot of different colors and monograms them however you want. 


One of my favorite patterns is her Ball jar with daisies. I found this vintage towel and had her do the jar on it for me. Daisies are my favorite flower. 


She is doing some cute new pumpkins for kids cloths, but I think I may have her do me one on a black or gray sweatshirt for fall. 


She does assorted sports teams for football. She can also do thinks for baseball, basketball, volley ball and soccer. 


This is also one of my favorites. I think of my niece Amy when I see this. Guess I should show it to her and see if she wants one. 


This pocket t-shirt is one she made for me for my Thirty-One conference. It is actually made from Thirty-One fabric swatches.


I don't know why but mustaches are a big style this year so she has done some mustache pumpkins. 


Her son, Raylan, loves the letter R so she found some alphabet Halloween designs. How cute is this. 


She does hats and pocket shirts like crazy and has an assortment of materials and color combinations. Everything is custom designed.


This is probably my favorite little girl pattern for all. A pumpkin carriage for a little princess.


Pocket t-shirts are one of her specialties. These were done as gifts for the bridesmaids in a wedding.


Here's another football shirt that she can do for any team.


If you are a sports Mom, she can do your child or grandchild's number on the shirt.


Every time I see an owl I think of Ms. Debbie at Jeremiah-2911.


I love this pumpkin towel for the fall. She is going to do some apple ones as well.


Isn't this little shirt Fa-BOO-lous. Too adorable.


And one more towel that she does that I like. The Mason jar with flowers. 


I could go on an on. She is so talented and does good quality products.

9/5/14

Fall is in the air....


Even though the days are still humid and muggy, you can sense that fall is in the air. My friend, Stevie, had an open house last night to launch my fall Thirty-One products. Of course, I had to take pics to blog about it. I went and set up the show earlier in the day. I went back home to clean up and try to make myself more presentable before party time, but here you can see all the new fall goodies.


When we arrived, she had this cute welcome sign.


I love how she has her back porch decorated for fall. 


Owls are really popular this year. 


This is the little bench her children use so she got some mini owls for it.


This was an old beat up glider that got repurposed.


I loved the wreaths on the doors. 


But my absolute favorite was the witches feet in the planter. I just love these. 


She made a big pot of chili for us.


And had a pumpkin roll....


....cornbread


....and a delicious caramel cake.


Thank you Stevie for inviting us into your home. 


Everyone had a great time and it did feel like fall with all her lovely decor.


Every time I get around these women I have a blast. 


Of course, I couldn't blog about Stevie's home without showing off her Pyrex collection.


She collects the blues and pinks.


Along with some yellows thrown in. It is all gorgeous.


I fell in love with the new fall dish towels. I need to order me a couple of these. Check her out on Facebook at Stevie Marie's.


9/4/14

Top 10 Things I forgot about...


I love pinning to Pinterest, but have a bad habit of forgetting to go back and see what I pinned. So I sat down last night and went through all my pins and organized them a little better. I found some things I had forgotten about. Like the fact that I wanted to find a vintage set of Melmac or Melamine dishes. 

melmac ware

I also forgot how much I loved this manicure. One of these days I am going to have something whimsical done to my nails. 

Pink and sparkle music note nails

I found these shoes I had pinned last fall and didn't get around to buying a pair. I'm going to try to get some this year.

These look very comfy.By Skechers
This was something I pinned from a party I had. I made mini cornbread muffins and used my Pampered Chef Bamboo tray and my vintage butter pat.

Martha White Mini Cornbread Muffins

I keep looking for these Nantucket style baskets for my beach room. I have the starfish, I just need the baskets. 

Some baskets for the wall to add some contrasting color

I forgot I had pinned this. I need to find some frames that I can "dress up" in colors for my office and put my grandbabies pics in them to set on my credenza.

turquoise and gray

I need to find this pitcher and get me some colorful kitchen gadgets.

Pastel pink kitchen aids

I did remember this post. I actually did my fingernails like this for National Conference except my shade of pink was different. But I did have the one glitter nail. I loved it.

40 Stylish Pink Nail Art Ideas

I haven't forgotten that I want to find these plastic deer. I am still looking for them.

Vintage reindeer

And every winter my pins remind me to look for a Fair Isle sweater that I like but no luck so far.

Vintage Ralph Lauren Fair Isle Sweater ... loving it.

See, every once in awhile it pays to look back at everything you pin on Pinterest.