This post is a bunch of different photos over the past week or so! First and foremost, I finally got up the nerve last week to unpack my cap frame/hoop and give it a whirl. I’ve had a couple of visors WAITING for this moment for like a year now. Does this look like medical equipment, or is it just me? It’s really not as hard as I anticipated and I did 1 visor and ordered 20 more to do for my patient friend (patient as in patiently waited for me to tackle this for the past year, not patient as in this IS medical equipment).

If you click HERE, on Sewingmachine.com’s Facebook page, they have a great video on doing hats on the (Brother) PR machine. If my link doesn’t work go to their Facebook page and click on Video on the left sidebar and you’ll see it. I have some improving and fine tuning to do, but it came out pretty good for my first try! I also monogrammed his web address on one side. These visors are for our good friend and Realtor John Coley at Lake Martin Voice Realty!

Speaking of the LAKE, last weekend we went up to Lake Martin for a couple of days to hang out and celebrate Browder’s 8th birthday. We rode over to Windemere to see some tornado damage from the April tornadoes that hit Alabama. It was an amazing site! You could see the path of the tornado as clear as day!

Here were B’s birthday cupcakes (sorry the pics are out of order) and they were decorated by the kids themselves! Looks like 1 is missing… Jeff??

Sis in her stylish $1 flower sunglasses from Target! Sorry again, pics out of order…

Back to tornado damage… we saw homes that were pretty much gone and some were wiped out completely with nothing left but a slab! We saw part of a kitchen with items still in the cabinets while the rest of the house was GONE! We saw “stuff” such as clothes and mattresses hanging in trees, as well as a wreath hanging on a tree where 2 ladies (on another part of the lake) were killed by the tornado. So sad!!

Here is one that is GONE! Not sure if they have cleaned it up that quickly or if it was wiped off the slab.

If you’re on Facebook you may have seen where we’ve been collecting embroidery items for Laughin’ Lizard Embroidery. Michele lost her home in the April tornadoes in Eclectic, AL which is near the Lake. Her machine was saved but a lot of her fabric and supplies were damaged. I met Michelle one day last week and gave her 4 or 5 boxes of stuff people had sent, as well as a bag of stuff I cleaned out myself. So far this week I’ve received 2 more packages with several more on the way! If you have extra embroidery supplies, fabric, etc. that you’d like to donate to her, please email me at rosemarygulledge@appliquecafe.com! Michele is in temporary housing right now with plans to rebuild, so that’s why I’ve been collecting and delivering to her! She works in Montgomery where I live so we met on her lunch hour for “the exchange”!!

More randomness…

Here is a shirt I did last week ~ the AC Flower Purse (minus the flower). My friend bought an extra pair of shorts so I could use the fabric for the applique. These are from Belk ~ love J. Khaki stuff!

I also did Virginia’s Cross on this tee to match the skirt. We have sold 81 Virginia’s Cross designs thus far, and all proceeds will be donated to Virginia’s Run. Applique Cafe will also match whatever is sold! I love this design and it would also be pretty with muted colors ~ ivory, khaki, tan, etc.

I got a new feature on my website! Now the Facebook, Blog & Twitter links are all in one place. While adding this I finally noticed that Your Cart was also a feature on my site! Yes, I had never noticed this before!!!!!!

LASTLY….. I will be at TJ’s Fabrics in Opp, AL on Saturday, June 18th (a week from this Saturday) from 10AM – 1PM! I’m so excited to be IN a fabulous fabric store for 3 hours, and I look forward to everyone coming by! It’s on the way to the beach, so just make a trip out of it!! 🙂 TJ’s is also on Facebook!

One more thing… I mentioned before that we bought a house! We’re so excited and are scheduled to close next week. Throw in a little family vacation and we’ll be moving (again) at the end of the month! This will be our last move for a long long long time! Lots of work ahead, so I am SERIOUSLY not taking any more customer orders until we get settled. I still have like 4 shirts and 6 graduation gifts to do and that’ll be it for a while. Oh yeah, and maybe the visors when they come in. Stay tuned!! I’m so excited to have a SEWING ROOM with a DOOR that CLOSES!!! NO MORE DINING ROOM!!