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Life {Style}{Sneak Peak}
Posted on January 29, 2012
It’s getting pretty exciting around here! Thought I’d show you a peek of what I’ve been working on…
Week In Review {Via Insta.Gram}
Posted on January 27, 2012
Just a peek into our week via IG…
1. New moccasins
2. Brothers (NOT fighting, yeah!)
3. Yellow
4. Her Style
5. Dreaming big!
6. Beautiful day
7. Morning legos
8. Guilty pleasure 
9. My springtime attire
10. Breckan brought me a flower
11. My seesta’s
12. What I wore
13. New ties!
14. Fun stuff in the mail from a dear friend!
15. Playtime with B3
16. Card making
17. Color {Her room}
18. Project for a friend!
Happy Friday!
Fruit Fly trap
Posted on December 15, 2011
Ok, I’m going to put myself out there by sharing this because its a little bit embarrassing. I know that I’m not the only one that has a problem with them from time to time. I only get them when I buy fruit. They are so disgusting! I tried to find the article I read on them that said they like to lay their eggs in sink drains and on wet rags and sponges. So every night dispose of all moist rags/sponges and pour bleach down the sinks. I tried several of the traps but found this one to be the most effective. I normally do this in a gallon zip lock bag leaving just a inch unzipped and lay it on its side. You may have to use a tooth pick to prop the hole open. Put some fruit in the bag or bottle and watch the fruit flies swarm to it. After a hour or so zip it up and toss it or take it out and turn them loose and reset the trap. You won’t catch them all the first time, it takes me about 3-4 times to get them all. This time I used the water bottle but they could fly right back out real easy so I put a piece of plastic wrap over the opening and poked a hole in it. When you get some in there put the lid on, take it out and let them loose.
Good luck!
Thankful.
Posted on December 13, 2011
One year ago today my Dad walked away from this with mere scratches. I’m am so very thankful God had mercy on our family that day!
Carmel.the.goat.
Posted on December 12, 2011
She’s like a dog. We turn her loose in the fall/winter after all my flowers have died. Otherwise she heads straight to the roses and chows down. 
Occasionally she comes up to the front or back door begging for treats. Treats because she’s already been fed. She’s spoiled like a dog. I like her better than a dog…..she doesn’t bark or jump on you.
Instagram Window {into my world}
Posted on December 9, 2011
Have I said how much I love Instagram? It’s a photo diary of my daily life. Few words, lots of pictures. I love looking back thru them and seeing what I’ve done each week/month. Here is a window into my world this month via IG. IG is very personal to me so I’m not looking for followers, I’m just enjoying the journey.
Feliz Navidad!
Letting go….for a new direction. Finally!
Posted on August 29, 2011
I’ve finally given up & surrendered to what God wants me to do with Lilly Anna Kids. I’ve wrestled with it for a long time & since making the decision this weekend it’s been confirmed for me 4 times & I have such peace about it. Why do we fight God? I’ve thought it would kill my business but it truly is my hearts desire & I know God will provide. In fact if I know anything about him he probably has something better. I’ve held onto this for so long b/c it is a part of me…letting go seemed like I would be losing a part of me, my dream. But I know he has a plan & I want to follow it…..willingly.
Don’t panic, I’ll still be sewing and selling on a small scale but I am going to be closing my website and putting most of my things in my etsy shop. I want to focus on helping others. Let me tell you why….
It all comes with the personality I think. Shy, quiet, poor……low self esteem. I was the oldest of 5 and my dad worked hard to provide for us. In fact that is what I remember most about him from my childhood, how hard he worked. A family of 5 kids required every dollar he made so we didn’t have all the frills that kids grow up with today. Of course being a kid I grew up comparing myself to other kids I knew. Kids who didn’t come from family’s of 5 kids=more $ for things. But before you feel sorry for me let me tell you we were rich, though we didn’t realize it, we had each other, lived on a farm and had amazing parents….we had it made. The ideal childhood minus “stuff”. (which I think is best anyway, less “stuff”) Whatever the reason, (was probably my shy personality) it seemed that the friends I had were the kind that only liked you til someone better came around which equaled a feeling of “something is wrong with me, I must not be as valuable as that person”….this continues on into the teen years along with those feelings we have about our bodies. I especially hated my nose, hairline and various other parts on my body and constantly compared myself to others around me. Let me tell you there are some beautiful people out there that are so ugly inside. I know because I knew some of them. Looked like porcelain dolls but acted like monsters to those they didn’t deem “worthy”. Throw in starting back to public school in 9th grade after being out for 7 years and I had a serious case of low self esteem. I was too shy to push myself out there and make friends so I hung with the special needs kids most of the time, it seemed…..the ones no one wanted to be around. I see how silly this case of low self esteem was now but at the time when you are a teenager it is a big thing. Seemed like as I went along the road of life the proof that I was worth less than others kept stacking up against me. Of course this is ridiculous and at the time I didn’t see this as clearly as I do now, I didn’t really think of it in these terms….I just felt it. Let me put in here that my family had nothing to do with these feelings, they are and were the most loving and supportive family I could have been lucky to be born into. Its just that as a child/teen your family’s “approval” doesn’t seem to matter as much as others. Now let me tell you what helped give me self value. Every since I was a child I’ve had the urge to create. And boy did I create! Nothing was safe from me. I usually created stuff from trash or whatever I could get my hands on because we didn’t have money for crafting supplies. Here is what saved me from this case of “no self value”. I knew Jesus loved me but I didn’t feel like I had any value, like I was worth anything to him or anybody. I didn’t have anything, I hated my physical appearance, I hated that I was shy, I had no value, nothing that made me feel worth something but my family (and Jesus) changed all that. (Ok, I’m crying here) When I would create something, my family would cheer me on. I don’t think they realized at first what it did for me but it made me feel like I had value so I would create something else. Making something with your own two hands gives you satisfaction like very few other things will. So that began my journey. It started with my little family of cheerleaders and grew to include others in my “not immediate family”, then friends and then strangers. One day I woke up and realized hey, I have something that money can’t buy, no one can take it away from me and no one can duplicate what I have been given. God gave me a gift, he trusted me with something, I had VALUE! When I look back down the road and where I was as a young girl that had no self esteem, self value at all and I see where I am at today (and I’m not being proud or haughty) I know that God has given me something that is meant to be shared with others, not to be used on myself. To use it to help someone just like I was to find value in themselves with a skill and see the value Jesus has placed on each one of us. We are so precious in his sight I only wish I would have seen it sooner. I’m not begrudging what seem to be the lonely road I walked because now when I look back I see where its taken me and I am so thankful. Now here is the part I mentioned about letting go. It has always been my desire to help someone just like myself but I’ve been afraid. Afraid to tell my secrets (such as they are). I’ve been burned before. You tell someone your tricks and they take your business. I’ve so desired to tell you how to make everything in my shoppe but I feared it would ruin my business. And it may but I’m ready to let it go.I would argue with God about it, I’ll do anything but _____. This is that blank spot. I’ve giving it all. He knows what is best for me, he gave it to me to use for him anyway. It’s been a hard struggle for me to get to this point. Lilly Anna Kids represents freedom and a dream to me. I wanted it to be a thriving successful business that could employ stay at home mom’s and people that really needed the employment but now I see that maybe it will be just that, only thru a different way. I’m changing my focus from making money to change lives. Money and the things it buys is so fleeting and worthless…..helping to change someones perception about themselves is priceless. The greatest work I could do. Now you might not suffer from low self esteem like I did but maybe you suffer from feeling bad because you can’t buy the things for your child like everyone else has. No money to be fancy. That’s where I can help you! In the coming weeks I will be making tutorials for everything in my shoppe…….for free! If there is something you’ve been wanting to make but aren’t sure how, lets talk! We can do it together! I’m here to be the funnel, to pass what’s been given to me onto you. You can do it!
Blessings,
Misty
The Princess is 8!
Posted on August 19, 2011
She turned 8 and while I was having her model some hair things we went ahead and did the birthday shoot. This wasn’t what I had planned but this is truly her, at home on the farm with the chickens.
Entrepreneur @ 7
Posted on July 29, 2011
Meet Breanna, she’s 7….almost 8.
She loves to create beautiful things. I save all my fabric scraps and she confiscates them. I mean I even save shirt sleeves that are cut off. One day she came out of a creating fog with this outfit.
a square piece of fleece that she cut 2 armholes in and a cut off shirt sleeve that she put on the doll as a tube dress. Seriously!?! Ok, I know I’m a proud mama but this just amazed me! Just the kind of thing I love, making something out of nothing! Here is another one of her favorite things to do. Take a cut off shirt sleeve, cut 2 holes for arms and you’ve got a doll dress.
now get out your scraps, you know you have a stack of clothing that needs to go to Goodwill. Get them out, give that little girl some scissors and be amazed at what she can do!
Oh and by the way, in relation to the title of this blog post, go check out all the doll hair accessories she’s selling for those AG dolls or any doll. Excited is too calm of a word to explain her excitement over getting “orders”. Shoot I might even order some myself! Get one for dolly and one for mamma!
To see all the LAK Doll goodies click here!
Garden fresh+dirt
Posted on July 20, 2011
We ran over to Poppy’s monday night to pick some green beans. Of course all thoughts of helping pick flew out the window when B3 saw Poppy’s little dozer. He dreams big when he sits on these big toys….
gotta love dirty little feet…
My silly big boy…
eating cooked green beans and beans fresh from the garden….love it!
Happy Summer!!