Hello dear friends and family! I sincerely hope you are having a wonderful Christmas Eve/Christmas Day depending on when you read this. For me, it’s Christmas Eve and I just finished making coconut chocolate balls for my family. In a few minutes I’ll start making a huge batch of mashed potatoes to take to Todd [...]
You’ve all heard me talk about my sister and how we are so much alike and total opposites at the same time. We both love pink, I like pastel, she likes hot. We love Pepsi….diet for me….regular for her. I love winter, she loves summer. The list goes on and on. I’ve tried to explain [...]
Recently, a few of my posts have been on the more serious side of life. I started thinking about that and realized that a few of you might actually think that those “Julie” things aren’t happening to me anymore. HA! So I thought I’d share an incident that happened to me a few weeks back, [...]
Hey Friends! So…what the heck is A4J? Well….I need a favor. I know you are all busy right now with Christmas events but I just wanted to get this little favor in your head! I’m in the process of designing a full apron. I’ve looked at some patterns online but I don’t like them very [...]
Well…yesterday certainly didn’t go the way I expected it to go. It was one of those weird mixed up days where you feel like you’re in a bad sci-fi movie. I had worked very hard for two days to get more stock ready for the “show” (with very little sleep). On the morning of the [...]
I have my first “official” craft show today. I worked late last night and finished up 5 more aprons. That makes around 16 (I think). It’s a little after 6:00 a.m. and I’m sooooooo sleepy and tired. I’ve been up since 5:30 because I have a little more to do. It’s 18 degree’s outside and [...]
To me, Thanksgiving is more about family than Christmas is . And I think it’s because there are no gifts. Gifts….things….take away from the non-tangible side of joy. Seeing the smiles on my nephews faces, my kids eyes full of the anticipation of their favorite foods, watching Craig try to stay out of the way [...]
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It’s 12:12 a.m. and I REALLY should be in bed. I’ve spent the last 11 hours cutting out and ironing ribbon pieces for 9 ornaments. I wanted to get the cutting and ironing done for several pine cones at once so I could just work on the assembly at night when I’m too pooped to [...]
I’m finally getting around to updating my craftygirlz online store. We took pictures for about 3 hours Saturday evening and I’m getting them up as quickly as I can. The first items to be put up for sale are the Christmas Pine Cone Ornaments. Here is an example of one. I have 9 different color [...]