Fabric to Make a New Necktie Design!

Yesterday I was blessed with swanky high quality fabric for $1 a yard b/c of a sale. Unbelievable, but true...big sale..so I got two yards and plan to make a man's necktie out of it for my shop, and not sure what I'll do with leftover fabric. It's double sided...so here's the bright side.....

and here's the lighter side.....

And here's showing both fabric sides contrast. Gorgeous I think! What a blessing!

My Attempt at Freshly Squeezed Grapefruit Juice BY HAND!

Cutting corners doesn't work well. This morning before leaving home I decided to squeeze fresh grapefruits BY HAND to fill up my little thermos for my morning grapefruit juice at work instead of using my juicer machine...trying to cheat by not having to clean my machine. (BTW--fresh grapefruit juice is very good for the liver which is a vital organ..not the store bought grapefruit juice loaded with sugar, but the real thing squeezed & sweetened with natural stevia.) Anyway, I ended up with enough juice to fill up my thermos for the day, but usually with the juicer I get two thermos's worth...so I ended up losing a days serving AND as the photo shows above I still had a mess to clean up!

BUT....My juicer is all clean and unused this morning! :-)

Our Group Photo

The Group Pic that my brother shot @ NTBMO Dinner at my place. The rest of the people pics still coming soon.........

The Big NTBMO Dinner Food and Setup Photos!

A few photos of the big Friday night NTBMO dinner hosted in my home. Today, Sunday, my mom came over and helped me wash dishes and clean up from it....we worked from 9AM this morning non stop and finished around 3:30PM Was wishing I had a commercial dishwasher, but everything is clean and done! Busy time of year, but we all survived and everything went smoothly. Now, sleep sounds great! Excited to get into bed before 1AM tonight! People pics from the NTBMO dinner coming soon. I was busy being little Miss Hostess, so my brother did most of the people photgraphy during the dinner.

A Few Diesner Wedding Photos

.....a few of the Diesner Wedding Photos w/the new couples permission to post. For those who have been asking to see them, here they are! :-) All 300+ of the photos are now posted on royaltruecolours and will be on peacefulstorms very soon for those with password access. A special thanks to my brother who allowed me to use his very swanky camera to shoot this wedding.

New CCoatsOfManyColours! Wedding Pillow Designs

Here is my latest design. This past weekend, Becky (now Diesner...just got married yesterday!) asked me to make her wedding kneeling pillows which meant I only had Sat. Night to get them done by the wedding that Sunday. On Saturday night, I went over to Mr. and Mrs. Brian Davis' house with a few of the AC students, had a blast and didn't get home until after 11PM...somehow when I got home I wasn't tired though, and know God gave me the energy and help. I got the wedding pillows completely sewn and done by 1:30AM! This design was a last minute design. Hopefully the bride liked them! My usual designs are pulled more tightly, but I decided to go with a simpler looser look this time, yet elegant. I actually really liked the simplicity of this design.
I also have the photos of the wedding ceremony and reception, but I was the official photographer for this wedding, so I can't post them until the Bride and Groom see them first. I just had a look at their pics this morning, and they came out fabulous! So happy about that! .....Busy, productive weekend which made me push out an unplanned design that I'm pretty happy with, and for the new couple! :-)

Slacking on New Designs

Here's two pics from a chili cookoff that I went to last weekend at a friends home. All of the pics that I took over there are on my royaltruecolours.com website.

Please forgive my lack of designing new fashion accessories or creating new recipes to share. I have been spring cleaning my home from top to bottom and also preparing for the Big NTBMO Dinner coming up in 2 weeks, and that has taken every ounce of me to do so, but down to my kitchen that I'm almost done with, and then a nice deep cleaned home for another year and new fashion designs and recipes will be coming soon!