GrowingRays

Hello, my name is Doreen and I am a stay at home schooling mom. I strive to share God's love with my children while helping them to grow in a nurturing environment. I love to create and craft with fiber arts as well as the gadgets and tools for creating. If you are reading here, come on in and see what we are working on growin'.

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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Wallet #2

My first one was getting grubby. The fabric had too much light color and a surface that seemed to attract dirt. Honestly though it was mor...

adjustable closure.

Flat view of interior of wallet and closure tab. I used two different weight decorator fabric scraps left over from work projects. The gree...

Expanded view showing bill pocket, id pocket, 2 card pockets and coin pocket open.

Room update

I'm not terribly proud of this pic because there is still so much to be done in this room to get it where I want/need it to be, but thi...

2 striped pillows

Here's my latest "job" completed. 2 15" striped pillows with welting. I also made the pillow forms. They are pretty stra...

Proud Charmie

While I sat in our boy's bathroom trying to encourage Mardie unsuccessfully to make a poopie in the potty Charmie had to occupy himself...

Friday, December 01, 2006

all right already

Here are the two King pillow shams I made. The bottom one is face up, the top one is upside down showing the flap opening to stuff the pill...

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Update

Tonight I started and finished 2 King pillow shams. They were not as hard as I used to think they would be. I had a freak out moment when I ...

Chillin

Here's s shot of the boys wrapped up in a blanket I made in college and sitting out their couch watching tv. They were being so sweet...

Getting our Christmas Tree at Pinetop farms 2006

We decided to continue our tradition from last year and get our tree from a local tree farm where we go and cut it ourselves. We were hap...

The brothers search diligently for our tree. Charmie kept picking trees tha were about 4ft. tall. To him they were big enough. We kept ...

Our Tree

Rocky with Charmie assisting cutting down our tree. Mardie sits nearby making sap lotion on the recently cut stump. I am oblivious to hi...

The tree all cut down.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Mardie and his Lightning pants

After making Charmie's race car pants I remembered I had some Car's licensed print fabric that I meant to make them both pants from...

Sunday, November 19, 2006

major overhaul

Sorry I have no pictures to post yet, but yesterday starting from around 7am Rocky and I did a major overhaul on almost every room in our ho...

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Stork?

On the 10th my sister was admitted to the hospital to induce labor for Jada Cherie. That morning my dad saw a bird fly over his house and he...

Felted Fuzzy Slippers

Here are the slippers felted. Notice the size they represent on my oven. . . much smaller than before. I hope that they are cozy.

Rain Rain Rain

As some of you know our yard has been a work in progress for some time. Rocky is doing the best that he can, however since he works more ...

Here's a view of the left hand side behind the shed, the water is still flowing across the yard on this side as you can see in the ripp...

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About Me

doreen: Princess daughter of the King of Kings, wife to the ONE, Rocky 11/11/00, SAHM to my precious boys, Charmie and Mardie and darling daughter Zuri.

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