Merry week of Christmas!!

Posted by on December 21, 2010
Here is my very small stack of “to-do” for this week. I’m down to 5 shirts! These were some I had agreed to do a week or two ago and am just now getting around to them. Hopefully I can finish these tomorrow and enjoy some time off to wrap presents (I haven’t wrapped a single one yet) and do some other stuff around the house and with the kids! Jeff is off for a while over Christmas too so I’m sure we’ll find something to do ~ probably do some new AC designs!?
We all went to Target last night and I bought this cute little travel iron. I had a craft iron on my list but could never find one, so I saw this one in/on the luggage aisle and decided it would do – probably gets a little hotter too? My plan is to use it on my applique fabric AFTER the tackdown stitch and AFTER I’ve trimmed, but BEFORE the satin stitches. With my Heat N Bond Lite, I think it’ll fuse the fabric better to my garment before the final satin stitch. Note: add a new ironing board to my list ~ this one looks horrible! Lots of HNBL residue built up on it.
This weekend we went to a (HILARIOUS) Christmas Vacation party. Jeff & I are not the dress up type (I think we’ve dressed up once since we’ve been together over the past 12 or so years). He went as Cousin Eddie (black dickie and all) and I went as Audrey. There were lots of Eddie’s at the party, a couple of Clarks, an Ellen, several Catherines and even Aunt Bethany and Uncle Louis. Lots of fun!!
Here is a pic of Audrey from the movie. My hair wasn’t as kinky but I had the pink headband!
Here is Cousin Eddie. I think his pants are green and of course, the black dickie.
Jeff actually wore one of MY shirts!

Here is a family photo from the movie. I think everyone was just about covered!
If you’re friends with me on Facebook then you can look on there to see the rest!
I had a visit from my friend the other day, AGAIN! I don’t know if he’s coming in with the mail or what? He seems to like it amongst my sewing stuff!!

It’s almost CHRISTMAS! While we’ve been done with shopping for a week, not a present has been wrapped yet! I guess we’ll get it done! Applique Cafe ~ all “Christmas & Holiday Stuff” designs are 50% off, everything else is 25% off and you get $5 off your purchase of $20 or more through the end of this month! We’ve already put up 4 new Valentine designs for the upcoming year and also several Mardi Gras designs! We’ll work on more over the next week or two including EASTER!
Have a great week!
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December Eve Eve

Posted by on November 30, 2010
I hope everyone had a fabulous and
relaxing Thanksgiving full of good food and family!?
I have been asked 2 or 3 times lately where this design came from. I have designs on my blog from lots of different places ~ they are not all from Applique Cafe! This cute lamb/sheep is from Elizabeth’s Embroideries. This website is tricky to maneuver but if you scroll down on the page, you’ll see a pink one with a bow. That’s the one!
Today I did the Double Circle design and while the coloring on my photo is off due to the rainy weather today (I took the pic outside), I loved these fabrics together! I was matching a pair of pink pants and also a green cord skirt. It’s the daintiest pink flower fabric and I love using it! I also used it on our new angel in a blue/periwinkle version of the same fabric.
We spent 5 days at the beach for Thanksgiving and it was fabulously relaxing! This was our 5th year I think of the beach tradition and we will hopefully continue for years to come. The weather is usually GREAT along with great shopping (and eating) and lots of doing NOTHING! I even met a blogger/applique/facebook friend at Publix down there. We were in the produce section and gave each other that “are you ?” look and quickly realized we knew each other, cyber-speaking knew each other! Not quite as crazy as running in to another blogger friend down at Disney this past year, but fun nonetheless. It’s a small world after all…
Lots of these on the beach….
And lots of smiles….
This is NOT my Christmas card photo but I thought it was cute enough to post. I took about 40 pictures and ordered my Christmas cards today after spending most of the day on 7 different websites playing around with my “it” picture and all the gazillion cards out there. Snapfish had 30% off today so I went with them (and free shipping). Yeah! So glad that is over with (the ordering part).
My family was also extremely happy with the Iron Bowl results and are pumped up about ATLANTA this weekend (SEC Championship)! I went to Troy, but my husband, sister, father, brother in law, sister in law, half brother, a few cousins and 2 uncles graduated from Auburn so that qualifies me as a true Auburn fan! I’m sure I’m leaving some extended family and/or friends out of that list too. WAR EAGLE!!

We are working on some new AC designs for this week. 40% off sale ends tomorrow (or first thing Wednesday morning). Have a great week!
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Customer Shirts and G’s Pumpkin

Posted by on November 8, 2010
Here are several shirts I did last week for one of G’s buddies at school and his little brother. Mom wanted BOY stuff (planes, trains, automobiles) and all of the shirts are Garanimals from Walmart. They are also all dark colored tees which is a great idea for little boys! First, I did the AC Tractor minus the patch and the AC airplane (one of our first designs) on Embroidery-Boutique’s rounded square patch.

Next, the AC Zig Zag Dump Truck (which is one of my favorite boy designs) and the AC Bulldozer. Gray was a tricky color but I like the red and black on it.

Next… love the Riley Blake fabric with all the transportation, so I put this on layered AC Rectangle Patches. This is the 4×4 layered on the 5×7. Also, AC Helicopter which is another one of my favorites for boys.

Lastly, the AC Zig Zag Train and EB’s Chunky Applique Alphabet ~ his initials in some cute road construction fabric that “Mimi” sent me in exchange for some patchwork fabric I sent her! Again, gray was a tricky color but the Road Closed signs had gray in them so I thought it was perfect! I also have this road construction fabric with a brown background.
After having to postpone last Wed., G’s preschool (4 yr old classes) went to the Pumpkin Patch on Friday.  After Halloween, but it’s still Fall and we were the only people there so it was great! Luckily I only have my zoom lens on my camera right now, so I was able to catch a couple of shots of him from far away picking out his pumpkin! He was determined to pick it up!
He got it off the ground, but didn’t make it too far…
Love this picture! I also LOVE this t-shirt! It’s a khaki Garanimals tee from Walmart and it is SO SOFT!! I went back to Walmart last week and got him a khaki turtleneck b/c I like this color so much. You can’t see the pumpkin, but it is from Nobbie Neez kids and it’s the first pumpkin applique I ever bought! I did it in orange cord for this shirt and it has a simple brown thread stem and green thread leaves. It’s a great applique!
Yesterday the fam went to Auburn for Homecoming. It was F-R-E-E-Z-I-N-G, but we had a great time! When I say fam, I mean all 5 of us, Jeff’s parents, his sister and her 4 kids. We made it til halftime and then came home! I went to Troy and Jeff went to Auburn. He is a HUGE Auburn fan. I have family that graduated from there too so I’ve grown up being an Auburn fan, BUT….. my boys are crazy Auburn fans! They are obsessed (like watch the game on TIVO 5 times the week after). It’s fun and annoying at the same time!

Sat night we bought the boys a 3 foot blue and orange Christmas tree for their room along with orange & blue lights – it’s plugged in and ready to be decorated for Christmas! Mallory has a cute pink tree that I can’t wait to get out again this year, so why not a War Eagle Christmas tree (or right now, a War Eagle night light)?

Last but not least, we FINALLY showed our house today! It’s been a week and 2 days of keeping it clean and “ready” every single day, so when the Realtor called this morning I got a little excited about our first customer!! The people who looked loved it, but they have to sell their lake house first. They do have someone interested it seems, so we’ll see if anything happens and hopefully someone else will want to come see our CLEAN house sometime soon!! I’m pretty sure that the day I leave it a mess, someone will call to come see it.
We have 2 new AC designs for this week already, with 2-3 more to come! We’ve sold lots of gift certificates too and hopefully everyone will pass the word along and put them on their Christmas list! Hint Hint!!
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