ART TO START......the weekend

We started the weekend by going to the Utah Arts Festival. This is such an awesome event that happens every year. It is in Library Square in downtown Salt Lake City. This was my 3rd year taking the girls. It is 4 days full of wonderful artists and really fun things for kids to do and a way to explore their creativity. We always stop at "The Mad Hatter" and the girls make hats. I love what they come up with. Bronwyn's was especially funny. The booth is sponsored by Roberts and only costs $3. They have lots of supplies. I love the hats that come out of that booth as I watch all the kids create. After an afternoon at the Arts Festival we headed back to Lehi so Nat and I could judge the floats for the Lehi City Parade. They called us up a month ago and asked us to judge. It was really fun. Nat especially got into it. There were about 40 floats (miniature) and some were just so dang cute! The theme was " If I Could, I Would...." We had to judge a lot of different criteria. I'm including pics of the ones that we thought were especially clever and cute. We went to the parade and of course the girls had fun catching all the candy that was thrown. I love a hometown parade! There is something just so sweet about it. A town coming together to celebrate the people and place they live. I love my little hometown!

The Mad Hatter Booth

I loved this little music sculpture in the toddler area.

The kids art yard installation. Kids made a piece to hang on the collage.I loved, loved this!

Pics of the floats.....If I Could I Would.....Sleep in!If I Could I Would.....live in Candyland.

If I Could I Would....live a Bug's Life!The loot from the parade.....better call the dentist!

Bella trying to convince Bronwyn for some candy.

Lehi Roundup Days Boutique

One of the great things about living in a small town in Utah is that almost everyone of them has a hometown celebration. Next week is Lehi's Roundup Days. Lots of fun activities planned every night and it kicked off with the boutique this weekend. I have never done this boutique before, but because I'm not doing Swiss Days, I thought why not? I just finished tonight and thought I would post some photos. If you see anything you are interested in, just leave a comment or call me. We will be there all day tomorrow (Saturday June 20), stop by and see me! Hopefully, the weather will hold out.

On another note, BRONWYN was chosen as one of 5 finalists in her age group for "Lehi's Got Talent". We are so proud of her! She performs Monday night at Wines Park at the Community Picnic. Come listen if you are out our way.

Close up of adorable black and pink table and accessories.

I love this color! My new favorite. Lots of fun hair clips, vintage earrings, etc.

Hair clips and bobbies
Friends stopped by with their little girls and picked up some wings.
Fairies with attitude!
Shot of flower fairy wings.
Mom's amazing blankets, cute baby gifts, love the sock monkey one!
She makes adorable pillowcases. Love this one!
Cute overalls. I used vintage trim, and buttons, made the fabric flower.
Love this lamp! 6 dozen roses....
A crown for the queen. Bronwyn keeps begging me for this one!
Close up of chandelier and fairy skirts to match.
Vintage inspired cuffs. Most of the materials are vintage finds, buttons, lace, cameo, etc.
Another fun crown. Who wouldn't want to wear this?
Vintage button bracelets, flower shades with vintage lamps, hair clips...
SEE ANYTHING YOU LIKE? JUST CONTACT ME.

The Last Day of School

Isn't it strange how as parents we are so excited to take pictures on the first day of class? Like most parents I always get that first day of school photo op. Usually the smile is a little strained, nervous or anxious. The unknown world. I know we all have experienced that. This year I thought;

Why not take a last day of school picture?

This is when we should be snapping away. The kids are excited confident little beings who have learned alot........and bursting with energy and excitement to begin the summer adventure. So friends I challenge you to take that last day of school picture next year!

The dotters had exceptional teachers this year and we felt blessed to have such talented and amazing women teaching them. We wanted to do something special, so I threw together the treat jar pictured. Yummy carmel chocolate pretzels and my famous chocolate chip cookies. The girls wrote sweet personal notes to their teachers.(Brooklyn's is pictured.) Hope your kids teachers were as wonderful and you remembered to say thanks!

This Beautiful Land We Live In-Memorial Day Weekend

The long weekend, the start of summer vacation (almost) for the kids....yep Memorial Day Weekend. Nat and I have vowed, promised, crossed our hearts and pinkie promised (probably the most sacred of them all) to spend more time with our kids outdoors this summer. They love to hike, camp and bike and we live in a place where there is an abundance of all of those activities. We thought we would start the summer right and we spent some really fun family outdoor time with the kids. Just to make it more fun we had friends along on the excursions. The kids had a ball and we did too. Some fun pics from the weekend.....

On Sunday we went to American Fork Canyon with our friends the McEwans and roasted hot dogs, smores and went hiking. As you can see from the pics, Brooklyn and Savanna were most interested in seeing how many snails they could collect along the way.

On Monday our friends the Meigs invited us to go boating on Utah Lake. This was the first time the girls had been on Utah Lake. They went tubing and had a blast!

Show and Tell "Take 2"

I know I said I was going to post show and tell on Friday, but sometimes the days get away from you. I'm sure a lot of people can relate. I love boutique clothes, but I don't love the price tag, so I'm always trying to figure out how to create a unique look for my girls. I love fabric (and I will confess sometimes I will just buy 1/2 yard of fabric that catches my eye....and stash it for a rainy day. Most of the time I don't know what I'm going to do with it. I bought this fabric at Broadbents in Lehi (I think one of the best fabric stores in the area.) and knew I wanted to use it for something for the dotters. I was reading the Farm Chicks blog and saw this cute idea. Off to Walmart for some inexpensive tanks and skirts (tanks-$3, skirts-$4). I used wonderunder to fuse the fabric onto the clothes. I then outlined the patch with a zig-zag stitch. I bought some cute ric rac and pom poms for the skirt. I didn't have a skirt for 1dotter, so I made this fun headband. I sewed a strip of fabric and put together this white flower. The middle is a very cool red vintage button. I think the outfits came out cute and the dotters really love them.


Many, many years ago (when I lived back east) I used to sell really cool vintage clothing. I have always loved the hunt for that special treasure or cool vintage sweater. I would go to thrift stores often, and I always found great stuff. Fast forward some years (I won't tell you how many.) and I still love to go to thrift stores. Unfortunately I don't have as much time as I like and we live in a very vintage savvy time right now. So cool vintage stuff in thrift stores is hard to come by these days. I mostly go to DI now and once in a while I hit the jackpot. This past week, was a good week and I thought I would share some of my finds. You can still find some cool stuff there. Happy hunting!

I found this bag of trims and lace for $4 !!! Lots of cool vintage stuff in there. I can't wait to use it!

Close up of vintage trims and lace, I love the brown flower ribbon! I think it would look cute on jeans.

I picked up this cute crocheted beanie ($1) the knitted bag ($1) and 2 bridal crowns ($10 each)
I'm post the finished products of what I have in mind for this stuff!

How funky! I couldn't resist the fabric top hat! I'm going to redo it. ($1) I also found this cool hat cloche form. ($1)