Baby Bear shoes has officially started!

I gave six pairs of my shoes to my friend to put in her store yesterday. I have named the company Baby Bear, by suggestion of my Father in honor of our nicknames :). The new ones will all have the bear paw symbol on the side but the first 4 I made do not have them. I am really excited about this opportunity and have even gotten a request for a monogrammed pair already. Here are the first six. I will be making another 6 to put at their other store and we will see how it all goes.

There is also a picture of the curtains I made for Mikes office. They don't look quite like I want them to, but I still love the fabric and the fringe

Girls Weekend in Kentucky
This past weekend my 3 best friends from college came up for a visit. It was so great to see them and to catch up on life. Its crazy to think we have been out of college for 3 years now and I miss all the fun times we had together. I really appreciated them making the drive up here and enjoyed getting to show them around Lexington and taking them to the horse races at Keeneland. Unfortunately I dont have any pics of them from their visit but they all love taking pictures so I am going to get some of theirs. I do have some great pics of Mike and I, since Rebecca is starting up a photography business and she so willingly did a session for Mike and I while she was here. We went to a historic house in our neighborhood, Ashland (the Henry Clay estate) to take the pictures. They turned out so great and I think I am going to get a little book made of them. It is nice to have some of this stage in our life at the half way point of our stay in Kentucky and after a couple years of marriage. Here are just a few of them.

The furniture has arrived and I absolutely love it. I think the rug just tied in better than I thought and the paint colors look great also. It is amazing what paint does to a room. I am hoping to get the dining room curtains done this weekend and they really help pull the rooms together. It still needs some work done, like I want to paint the little yellow table black and it needs some pictures and other odds and ends but I couldnt be happier with how it turned out. Here are a few pics but you all need to come visit and see it in person :)

I have lately been having the itch to sew and have found that when I have a project I am really enjoying sewing. These are just a few pictures of the shoes and purse that I have made, My sister always finds these awesome sights and so I stole the pattern from her for the baby shoes (Thanks Becca). I am really excited about how they turned out and can't wait to let me mom use her monogram machine to make some look even cuter. On Sunday I made a purse for myself but my sister is going to help me find some directions for a smaller clutch which I am excited about making. I have used the uphostery fabric from work to make these items and I am hoping to find more projects to use it for.

There is also a picture of my finished curtains, pardon the mess in the guest room I was working on the bed skirt and just had to move the mattresses out of the way. The other picture is my fabrics, yay! I cannont wait for my furniture to get here, 2 weeks. Sorry that i dont have much to write about. Mike and I are going to a semi-formal dinner tom night for ASDA and I am excited about getting dressed up and meeting some of his friends and their spouses/ girlfriends. Hopefully I will actually take some pics and post those also

Ice Storm in Kentucky

Well for those of you who have been watching the weather, Kentucky got a nice dose of ice and snow these past 2 days. We have fortunately not lost power yet, but as you cant tell from one of these pictures there is an omnious branch hanging over the power line that comes into our house. The crews are already out checking on things and cutting the branches that have fallen down. I have been watching the news and realizing just how bad it is in Lexington. There have been multiple fires from downed power lines and MANY people are without power. There are saying it can take up to a week to bring power back to some people so please be praying for them and us. The sun has started to come out so I am hoping this will help melt things. Thankfully I got called off from work right as I was getting into my car and Mike does not have school today. I excitedly thought this meant Mike and I could have a fun snow day, but he is in dental school so he has headed off to campus to study. How I long for the free time we had with RUF, but four years and then it will be much better, at least I think. I am planning on spending my day catching up on my scrapbooking and just enjoying being home.

One nice thing about yesterday at work was that absolutely NO ONE came in (which in my opinion it was kinda crazy we were at work anyways) and the new fabrics from Wesley Hall did so I spent about 3 hours picking out my fabrics and finalizing everything so we should be ordering some new furniture by the end of this week! I am very excited about it and think it is going to look great when it comes in. The picture shows the 4 fabrics we are using. The blue one will be on the chairs, the gold on the sofa and the red and pattern on the pillows.

On Sunday I made my first set of curtains by myself. I was a little nervous but I think they turned out great. I applied the green stripe down them because I thought it added a little something extra. They are not quite done because i am going to put grommit rings (like the pottery barn curtains) on them, but I am waiting for a coupon to Hobby Lobby to buy them. I thought this picture would give you all an idea of what they look like in the room.

We overall are staying pretty busy with school and work, and trying to hang out with friends and fix up our new place. Mikes school has definately picked up this semester, so he was glad to have today to kinda catch up on some things. Also I just had to post a picture of my amaryllis because I am so proud that it finally bloomed, a month after Christmas.

So here are a few more pics of our place for those of you who care to see it. I am definately learning I am not very good at taking pictures or writing about our lives, hopefully I will get better when we have children otherwise I think our family will kill us. If my sister or sister-in-law would also like to tell me how I can get my blog looking as great as theres I would appreciate it. My account does not seem to have all the options to change templates as y'alls do.

Life has been going pretty well here as we are adjusting back to work and school after a very short and brief break, but we really enjoyed seeing our family and meeting my new niece, Tess (you can see her pictures on my sisters blog), and getting excited about a new niece on the other side of the family.

I am very excited about the guest bedding I found on clearance at Macy's in Greenville, SC. I kind of stumbled on to it when I was shopping with Rebecca Perkins (one of my best friends from college). It was the green I was looking for and came with everything, except I do not like there curtains so I am currently looking for fabric. Mike was about to kill me when I came to the car with it (we were loaded down from Christmas) but when I told him what a great deal I got for it he was a little better with it. I am really enjoying setting up our place and slowly hanging up pictures and panting and yes I painted our bathroom purple and I thought I was crazy at first but I absolutely love it and the towel my mom monagrammed with her awesome new machine.