Giveaway Winners and New Friends

I hope you all are enjoying a relaxing Memorial Day. Having been in the military(peace time so no comparison); I'm definitely thinking of those overseas today and hope they all come home to their families safe and soon. My two winners from my Mother's Day Giveaway are Lidia and Claire, two of my absolute favorite blogs to visit btw! By random draw, Lidia wins the keyfob and Claire wins two magnets. Email me your addresses ladies! Congrats!

Pictured above is a robe that I made recently and my brunch today. More on both shortly. I would like to welcome two new blog followers. The first is Patricia at Walk, Walk Fashion Baby. She is only 16 and has a fabulous fashion inspired blog. As we all know arts and fashion go hand in hand. I highly recommend her blog for inspiration. Also, Patricia is an excellent writer, very impressive! Thank you Patricia! The next is Laura at the Vintage Key.  She teaches scrapbooking classes and is a design team member for my favorite paper company...Graphic 45! Laura's projects are devinely vintage! Thanks for following Laura!

So, I wanted to show off my robe that I made with my new sewing machine. It's so cute cuz it has ruffles at the bottom and on the arms, as well as a hood(first pic). But there's a funny story to this...

My new machine has the embroidery functions, something I have never had before. Therefore, I wanted to embroider something on the robe. Clever as I am(wait for it...), I thought that I should probably practice in a scrap of the same fabric. After carefully following the manual, my heart sung over the darling hot pink butterfly that I was able to embroider! I ran to brag to my son(who could care less, he's a teenager), but I HAD to tell someone! Having been successful, I now proceeded to embroider the real deal, the robe. Now they tell you very clearly to make sure you don't have extra fabric caught up in the hoop. On God, I bet lots of idiots do that, I thought slightly haughtily...after all, I had done this once so now I was clearly an EXPERT. Well, guess what...yeah...here it comes...I GOT THE BOTTOM OF THE ROBE CAUGHT IN IT! If you don't know, you can't pick it out; the entire thing unravels...so I learned. BUT, I made lemons out of lemonade and used my sample and learned how to use the applique feature. Thank goodness. The results were good as you can see here.

For my relaxing day, I partook in a little brunch for myself. Some tea, perfectly, mouth-wateringly, sweet watermelon and a lovely tuna sandwich on toasted English muffin. 

It was delish and then I went to read Julia Child's memoir. LOVE it!