Forever

Seems like forever since I did a scrapbook page. Of course even though I have half of last year to finish and the rest of this year, I decide to scrap the few images I took on Father's Day. Hey if I was ever caught up, then I wouldn't have anything to do!!!

Have a great Day!

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GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN!

Had to share these amazing young ladies. The first image pretty much sums up our session....FUN! We laughed, and laughed and really had a great time and captured some wonderful images of them both. This is just a tiny bit of how many great images mom is going to have to pick from. I enjoyed meeting you both and appreciated all moms help.

Have a great Day!

FIRST REAL QUILT

This is my first "REAL QUILT"! Yes, I know I have made a bunch before, but not like this. I just finished taking a wonderful month long quilting class in Crystal River and man did I learn so much. Everything I have done in the past was from reading in a book and that is fine, but learning hands-on is far better. I actually quilted the top with a pattern and learned how to put binding on the edges something I never knew how to do. I am glad the trips to Crystal River every Monday evening are done, but I can not thank my instructor enough Ms. "M" we will call her, for being so patient, happy and willing to share her talents with me.

Have a great Day!

RAIN, RAIN!

Finally, so much needed rain. You could almost hear the plants, flowers and birds saying thank-you. I am not so sure if this guy was saying thank-you. The kids came running for me to get a photo of this huge butterfly that was drying it's wings out on our back porch. You may not be able to see it on blogger, but there were huge water droplets all over his wings. Beautiful butterfly that we observed for a few moments and then he was off on another adventure!

Double Dose

This session was a double dose with 6 week old baby girls, a bit of a 7 year old awesome big sister and one helpful and patient mom tossed in!!!!

As I Sit Here.....

As I sit here a little bit after midnight, tears fill my emotional eyes. While I get teacher gifts ready, clients files uploaded and wait for the last batch of cupcakes to cool, I can not help but think someday this chaos will be gone. There will be a time soon, where cupcakes won't be cool anymore and neither will eating lunch with mom at school. So I sit here and browse the images I took tonight from my son's honor roll ceremony and think how much I have to take in every minute. To be thankful that both of my kids have done so wonderful this year at a new school. To be grateful to both of their awesome teachers for making their transitions not only easy, but enjoyable. To be happy with what is right now, because you can never have now again. I am so very proud of both of you!

Terrific "T"

I am posting this sneak peak for mom a little bit later than I said, sorry. All I can say, is one year old Mr. "T" , mom and grandma, drove up from Mt. Dora to have a session and boy is mom going to be in trouble. You could not ask for anymore personality, he was loving the camera more to come later.

9 DAYS OLD

This little bundle was 9 days old, and awake and alert for the entire session. Luckily after a little bit of a snack he drifted off so I could capture those sweet, sleepy images.

9 WEEKS

9 WEEKS OLD AND HE IS ALREADY A HEART BREAKER WITH THAT SMILE!

FUN WEEKEND

I hope everyone had a fun weekend and spent some time with family or friends. I thought I would share a few images from our camping trip to the Suwanee River. The kids had a blast at the river jumping off the limestone rock, not really as crazy as it looks. We also took a hike to the actual Suwanee Springs where the water comes from and captured a few neat images to share. Just a short video, not so great from across the river of the kids jumping.

WEBSITE DOWN

I AM SO SORRY, OF COURSE THIS IS HAPPENING WHEN I HAVE AN OUT OF TOWN WEEKEND. THE WEBSITE IS DOWN FOR SOME REASON, NOT SURE WHY AND COULD NOT GET THE HOSTING COMPANY OUT WEST BEFORE LEAVING. HOPEFULLY IT WILL MAGICALLY COME BACK ON, IF NOT I WILL BE WORKING ON IT TUESDAY WHEN I AM BACK. I APOLOGIZE TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE CALLED AND CAN NOT SEE YOUR GALLERIES, TECHNOLOGY IS GREAT, BUT ALSO SOMETIMES HAS ISSUES. HOPE EVERYONE HAS A WONDERFUL LONG WEEKEND. A VIEW OF MY MOMMA BLUEBIRD WHO JUST HAD BABIES AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Side Note

If anyone knows somebody in the Ocala area that quilts and belongs to a group that has some members under 45 I would appreciate any information. Of course I can not post without a photo.

Craft Nut

Alright, I know I already shared today, but wanted to just share my first block completed. I am one of those impatient, instant gratification type of people, so long term projects are hard for me to stay on track with. This has definitely been one of those projects, but I am going to keep plugging away slowly and hopefully in the coming months I will have an embroidered quilt to share with you all. Oh, and thanks Tricia for the kind words!

FAIRIES

A little bit of a big project I have been working on for about two months now, called Truly Scrumptious ( available at treasuredthreads.typepad.com) . It is little hand embroidered fairies, 9 to be exact 7 are finished and then they will be blocks placed insides of a patchwork type quilts. Something to do while watching American Idol, since I can never seem to just do nothing. Thought I would just share a little of my embroidery passion with you since these fairies are so cute, just like some of the fairy princesses I am lucky to capture in images.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there! Thanks again for letting me capture those precious moments of your kiddos and families. As we all know, sometimes we need to just hold on to our moms!

Family

I meet such a wonderful family from Mt.Dora,that came up to do a session. With grandparents that were such good sports, after driving from Virginia just the day before. We had a good time, and captured a ton of memorable images. Just wanted to share a few before next week, because I know how excited everyone was.

Heartbreaking

Do you ever read or hear of someones heartbreaking tragedy. Today I had that experience and could not stop thinking about how awful if would be to loose a child. I can not even imagine all the little things that I would miss. So I took the opportunity to write down just a few things for each of my kids I would miss right now. Eventually I really will miss all of these things as they grow up and change. But for now I am lucky to be able to hug and kiss them goodnight, every night!!!

Miss Independent

"Miss Independent" was the song I kept hearing while working on this two-year olds session. She definitely knows in her mind what she wants to do, a confident woman already at two.

THE THRILL

Your faces light up as you hear the ringing bells. The thrill of hearing the ice cream truck's musical anthem, as it marches up and down the neighborhood streets. Still so excited to wait in the front yard, hearing it get closer and closer. Talking about what treats you plan to eat and the final scream as it turns the corner down our street. Ah...... to be a kid.