Just in-case you are wondering what in the world the pictures have to do with anything....they don't, but I hate to post without a picture ya know? It hurts me. This is just a couple of shots I took the other night when my dear boy was trying his best to annoy his big sis. Yeah, my kids do that too. At least this time it didn't end with me yelling over them "Break it up!" or "Take it outside!". So back to you now....
(I just added this! Your new button!)
P.S. I should add....if you happen to read this two years from now and have gotten to know our family through this blog, please add your story! This post will stay open! This is going to be so much fun!!!!
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Stephanie
I also decorate weddings. I am always busy doing something but most importantly I get to spend everyday with my girls.
http://prayersformymom.blogspot.com/
www.LightningBugz.etsy.com and
www.LightningBugz.blogspot.com
We homeschool and are trying to lead good lives!!
Iam trying to craft and sew more and chanced (very luckily) onto your blog.
I do read your blog often (even if I don't post ;).
My blog: www.blessings.blogspot.com
My etsy shop: www.adorableblessings.etsy.com
Please come visit my crafty blog: http://mamalusco.blogspot.com
or family blog: http://luscofamily.blogspot.com
I'd love to make more blog friends!
I am Australian, married and live in the hills with lots of wild birds and animals sharing our garden. My husband and I are both teachers. I am completing my doctorate as well and should be finished in a few years.
I sew heirloom children's clothes and make dolls. I am working on my first line of children's clothing patterns and my first lot of dolls to set up an etsy shop. I haven't been able to blog much lately due to illness but have begun to feel better and hope to be back at it soon!
You make and design beautiful clothing. I have been following you for a while, now. Love the pictures of your children being normal kids!!
What a wonderful idea. A chance to meet other like-minded people.
I am a mum to a precious 3 nearly 4 year old. We live in Australia.
I love to sew and try and make every Saturday my sewing day. I make dresses and skirts for Jessie and myself. I have just blogged about sewing curtains for my lounge room which was fun.
We live a fairly simple life. That's the way we want Jessie to grow up.
Memories of cooking, sewing, gardening etc with her mum.
I love your blog and your beautiful dress patterns.
We always get comments from people when Jessie wears her Miss Madeline dress. I can't wait for your latest pattern to be available.
I blog at
http://vintagerose-at-plumthorpe.blogspot.com/
Take care & God bless you and your beautiful family Samantha.
Melissa
My name is Marla and I am Momma to an 8 year old girl and 5 year old boy. We live in Birmingham, Alabama. I homeschool my boy, and did hs my girl too until this year when she began going to a neighbor's house (who is a certified teacher) for some very lovely Charlotte Mason styled learning. I enjoy every kind of crafting imagineable. I like to sew and am hoping to improve in 2010- and to take on quilting. I blog at www.sincerelyhome.blogspot.com
Please come say "hi"!
I love this idea. Thank you!
Well, right now, our big project, well the big one among other big projects, is making dolls for orphans in Haiti. Ahnalin, my 5 year old is very committed to making these dolls for orphans as she remembers wanting a mommy and daddy.
This has kind of put some of my pattern projects off for a few days, but they are still in process as well. I sew, design patterns, make slipcovers, etc. I had better get back to sewing.
Thank you for asking and have a beautiful day Sam!
I am Kim, Mama to 4; 3 on earth 1 in Heaven, and a wife to a really cool guy.
I knit and sew, hate to clean and love to bake :)
I have an Etsy shop - www.prairiemama.etsy.com where I sell pillowcase dresses, repurposed t-shirt dresses and rompers and ring slings.
I live in Utah, but am from Kansas. So, I am Prairie Mama lost in the Mountains! :)
Dawn
My name is Nancy Scalf and I live in Orange Park Florida right outside of Jacksonville. My husband and I have three children (now grown) and have been married for going on twenty six years now. I came to my relationship with God rather later then you or anyone else here probably, I was twentyfour and we had two children already when I was baptised. But I've learned since that God was with me even when I didn't realize or think that He even cared. I was abused (physically and sexually) when I was young and you can just imagine what my opinion of God let alone religion was by the time I left home to join the Navy when I was eighteen. Here's a hint: my mother went to our pastor seeking help in getting away from my father and the first words out of his mouth when she got done explain her situation was "Well, what did you do to make him so angry?" (!) Needless to say I didn't have a very good opinion of preachers (especially Baptist preachers) by the time I met Himself (as I refer to my husband online). Here's where God decided it was time to make Himself known to me- turns out DH's father was - wait for it- a Baptist Minister!
Oy! Either God has a really sick sence of humor, I thought, or He really didn't like me after all. Even thought for the life of me I could never figure what a small child could do to make Him so upset. Any way we were moving out of the barracks right after we were married (Himself served 20 yrs. in the Marine Corps) and up drove Dad Scalf. He had driven all the way to Alameda California from his drill weekend in Yuma Arizona to get a look at his new DIL (and mother of his firat grand child) You see even though we had been married for a month and I had just gotten a medical discharge, I was *four months pregnant*. Needlass to say I was not thrilled to see him. (My exact thoughts were Oh great he's just going to love me then) But DH made me go with him to greet his dad. Himself hugged Dad and turned to me ad said to him "and this is Ann" I (head down to my chest) muttered "'lo" rather sullenly actually. And before I knew what hit me I heard this booming voice say "Hey Red how you do'in!" ("HUH!?!) I thought as I tried to extracate myself from a giant bear hug. Of all the ways I could of been greated by that man that was NOT one that I had imagined! Turned out that both he and Mother S. (who is a sweethart and has always been incredably kind to me) were just thrilled at the coming new grandbaby and could not have been more pleased with both of us. I asked Dad some years later why he and Mom were able to take our situatin so calmly and he said "Annie a mistake only becomes a sin if you don't fix it. You and C. made a mistake and then fixed it by getting married and having our grandbaby there what led up to that is none of my buisness."
Wow. I was head over heals in love with that man ever since. Unfortunately Dad S. passed away in May 1999 but there are times and places yet that I still miss him sorely
I talk about the goings on in my life with the kids, cats, husband as well as my love of all things needlecraft related on my blog http://do-dadroom.blogspot.com
Thank you for letting me be so long winded!
Nancy
Goosegirl,
I read "The Enchanted Barn"... Oh I loved it so much! It is now one of my favorites!
Anniebelle,
What a beautiful testimony! Your story was amazing, thank you so much for sharing with us!
Ya'll keep'em coming! This is so much fun! Don't you wish we were all sitting in my livingroom eating homemade bread and sipping coffee and hot chocolate?
xoxo,
Sam
I've been sewing since I was 5 and have made everything from barbie clothes to wedding dresses. Now I design and sew for our family.
I also homeschool our children and love to cook.
Last winter we started a pattern design business (pdf style) because so many people were asking me how to make (my kids clothes) and though they couldn't do "that". Well I was intent on writing the patterns easy enough so that they surely could.
The great thing is that many of those sewing mama want to be's are now sewing mamas. It's been so much fun meeting sewing mamas from all over the world...thanks again Sam. Now I can meet some more.
You can see more about our company SquigglyTwigs Designs at http://www.squigglytwigs.blogspot.com
Please comment and let us know you were by.
Happy Sewing!
I live in Auburn, AL and have a little girl (Sarah) who is 3. We also have a little boy on the way, due in June. I am jealous of everyone's sewing experience. I absolutely love nice outfits for little ones and would love to make Sarah something from her mommy. However, I am basically terrified of the sewing machine. Yes, I have one and it is even set up in my office. But I had several bad experiences when I was younger of thread breaking off, reloading bobbins until my fingers hurt and other such crazy nonsense. Suffice it to say, I could use a really good beginner's class to teach me how to use the crazy thing! Looking at Samantha's beautiful patterns makes me want to figure this whole sewing thing out once and for all. :)
Have a lovely day
Renata :)
Where I sell the FINEST sewing supplies I can get at about a 25% discount! I have very nice fabrics and laces and pleaters and Dovo scissors and books and CDs and Samantha's Patterns and LOTS of other stuff. I have a 'Sewing School' with free patterns and projects and hints and tips, too!
I'm Barbara O. but I'm also known as 'Sparkle', short for Sparky.
10, 5 3 and 15 mths) Two of our kids have special needs. I sew, mostly to help with our adoption expenses. I have an Etsy shop but sell mostly on my sewing blog.
http://marshallswife.blogspot.com
i actually know sam from church about 10 years ago...OMG it's been that long already?! geez!
i'm danielle. i'm married to marshall. we met on match.com but he was in my old youth pastor's first youth group so we had common friends. we had a whirlwind romance...married in 7 months of when we met. :) we've been married 5 years now. we have 2 boys. corgan will be 3 and june and keelan will be 6 months old on the 11th. i'm a stay at home mom but i am also a photographer. http://www.daniellesmithphotography.com i'm new to the photography business and trying to build up my portfolio. i love taking pictures and capturing moments people will treasure forever. i also like to sing and scrapbook. i sing on the worship team at church and in the choir. i guess that's me and my life in a nutshell. :)
www.providencefarmva.blogspot.com (for the farm)
www.whatsoever-things.blogspot.com (for sewing and lovely things)
and recipes at www.goodprovidentially.blogspot.com
I know some of these gals already...and some I even have seen face to face! ;-) Hi Barbara and Dawn and Goosegirl!
I'm SAHM to my three kiddos, who are 6 months, 2, and nearly 4. I like to make fun things for them to play with, repurpose old clothes into toddler/baby/preschooler outfits, and anything else creative! We live in Massachusetts, where it sometimes feels like winter lasts forever, but hte snow is oh-so-pretty.
well, i am a stay at home, i have 2 children so far (Faith Marie -almost 3 and Luciana Irene-4 1/2 months old)and looking forward to have many more. :D
i LOVE sewing but for right now there is very little time.
i am from Bolivia-South America and i met my husband Ben when i was an exchange student in Rockford, MI. we had a long distance relationship for 14 months, got married 2 times and now we have been married for a little over 4 years.
My passion other than sewing is just being a mom. it is exhausting and sometimes i want to go crazy but i wouldn't be happier in any other way.
BTW... i LOVE your blog Samantha!!! and i also heart your stories the happy ones and the sad ones as well. you are such a wonderful and beautiful woman of God.
Kathya
My name is Murali, I was a stay at home mom til recently, with two now-teenagers (gulp!), who frequently moves across oceans, lol. Currently, we are parked in Hawaii. :p
I have a blog dedicated to things that make my heart sing, and things that I create, which also makes my heart sing, though they don't always necessarily look like the same thing, lol. I sew, craft, bead, etc etc..anything to get the picture in my head into three dimensional form. I just saw a tutorial on making mercury glass out of thrift store vases, and had to physically restrain myself from hopping in the car to buy the supplies. :p
I usually just lurk around here, soaking up the awesomeness. :D
Follow MY BLOG:
kirkskornerathome.blogspot.com
I found your website looking for crochet ideas and I believe I came across a tutorial on crocheting.
I was called to missions when I was 18, but went a different direction for a while, but now I just want to raise my boys to love the Lord and live for him with all my heart. I want to encourage others to do the same! I took my first mission trip to Honduras in March-seeing a glimpse of my calling becoming reality.
You have been an encouragement to me and I want you to know that I love reading about your sweet family and I love how you are real! May the Lord continue to Bless you and your family Samantha!
I don't have a blog yet but when I do get one started I think I will call it "The Eclectic Musings Of An Octogenarian". I think I need it to keep from boring all my young friends with stories from my life. Seriously, since I was born the year before the Great Depression, maybe I should share some of my experiences and the amazing changes that have taken place in my life time. We'll see--it has been on my mind for a time.
I do write a column sort of thing on fb--it kind of just happened. It is called "Good Night,Beloveds". It is mostly about things God has taught me in this long life. I write as it a fb note. If you are interested in it you have to be my friend. I'm listed under Ginny Carter. Please identify yourself as a "Sam's friend" so I'll know why I don't recognize your name.
Even though I am an active 83 year old I really enjoy my contacts through fb. Makes the world really small.
Right now I am working on ideas for my 65th High School Graduation reunion. I welcome any ideas to add what I have already began picturing in my mind. Thanks. Love you Sam. Keep up the good work.