Come home, Snoopy, come home!

Mary Allison is on her way home from church camp.  Yippppppeeeee!!  

A week without a husband OR a babysitter.  Whut?! Have a fun weekend.  I am going to PAINT!  YEsssssssss.

Mo

More visitors! Hey, It's Pops and Nana!!

Yesssssssss!  MORE helpers!  
With Todd out of town, I am having different "helpers" recruited to come and help me throughout the week.  I know, I know, Mom and Staci, "I am not the first person to ever have two kids."  But.... I am a titty baby, and I like to have helpers and visitors!  So there you have it!  
My girls love to have them come over to play too!  As you can see, they are not too big or old to sit smack on the floor with my girly girls! 
And have a tea party! 
Pops pretended to eat cookies, and drink tea, and stir tea, and made all the mandatory little sounds as Ellie poured her tea from her kettle to the cups! 
And then, he fed the pretend cookies to Ellie Sue! 
Ellie moved around the circle, feeding each one of us. 
Including Gabbi Girl!
Gabbi had a different agenda!  Check this SWEETNESS out!  
She is all about the baby dolls right now!  
She squeezes them, and loves them, and kisses them!  
Is that not just the sweetest thing you have ever seen?! 
Ok, or maybe this is?!  
This is another "Ellie Happy Birthday Present" from Ella Kate.  It is size 2T.  Tonight, I had to take a size 2T dress off her because it was too big.  And then, there is this set of pjs, which seem to be too small?!  I am just confused on this whole size thing!  
The good news is that there is always Gabbi Girl coming up! 
Ellie thought trying to touch Pops's sucker stick with hers was the most hilarious thing she has ever done! 
And buddy roe, Gabbi LOVES a dumdum sucker!!  

I have already mentioned it, but it is worth mentioning again.  Those babies are like having a babysitter!  I mean, my girls don't budge when they are getting a sucker!  
Ellie finds her Pops so amusing.  Wonder why? 
Could be things like this!  
She tried to be just like him! 
and Gabbi just sat back, taking it all in, and of course, GRINNED! 
Thanks, Nana and Pops for coming to help out!  It was a nice bit of respite! 

It is almost FRIDAY!!  YEsssssss!!!

Melanie

We love Aunt Kimie!

Meet Aunt Kimie!  
The girls love her, but their mom may love her even more!  She offered to come over and sit the young uns the day before Ellie's birthday so ol' mom could get out and do the last minute shopping for the party! And you KNOW she didnt' come without a "Ellie Happy Birthday present".  
Omg.  Is it a purse?  And is it full of accessories?! 
and candy? 

And just to play fair, she made sure to give Gabbi Girl some special love and attention too!   

Both of my girls were in the clinic within the first two weeks of being born, and Kimie is also there with her kiddo three days a week.  She actually gets my girls and takes them around town, showing them off to her friends.  She loves them!  And was really aggravated at me when I took them out of town for a month! 
It was all made good when she brought a sparkly silver purse!  
"NO!  Tell me that is NOT a flashlight!"
Sweeeeeet!!
Ellie can't hang out without putting on about a thousand bracelets or whatever she feels would make a bracelet! 

Can you say , "Good Sport"?  
Ummhmmm.  Those would be stickers.  Thank, Ellie.  Truly. 
ANd, Katie.  Wow!  LOVE that tutu!  She picked it out again yesterday and wanted to put it on.  
Yep.  This one is for Aunt Kimie.  Thank you for being a surrogate grandmother/ aunt/ special friend!  
Mel

Livin' the Dream!

So guess what I've been doing!  
Dawn, did you get my call?  Since you wanted Believe on your canvas, and that other one really had a whole lot of negative space down the right side, I ended up painting the words down it for Brian, and redoing one for you with cross up top and leaving space across the bottom for the word, "Believe".  I LOVE this background! 
So much that I took a couple of close ups.  All of these pics tonight were taken with the ol' iPhone! 
I splattered paint in the canvas then let it run.  It looks cool.  Note your bronze and terra cotta and even green in there!  Should be finished tomorrow! 
This is Emma Lou's... almost done!  I tried to steer clear of the more popular lime green.  Rather I used a minty green to match her bedding.  I want to highlight the Believe tomorrow.  PauPau, you like?  I really like the glittery wings! 
This is for Shannon.  She is giving this as a baby shower gift.  I really hope the recipient doesnt' read MoJoy.  It was nice to meet you, Shannon! 
I liked that Shannon sent me a picture of the baby's bedding and told me about the wall color.  That really helps!  I don't want to do a pink backdrop that is going to be hung on a pink wall and it all clash and such.  Not cool!  
This is for Rebecca.  
Check out the little daisy.  That is for coordinating with your daughter's bedding/ decor.  Hope you like it.  It is hitting UPS tomorrow! 
And finally, Zenzile... Here is your little pretty. 
I think the dragonfly looks a lot like your bedding.  I used some swirlies on all the corners and even gave the dragonfly "denim" blue eyes like you described in your email. 
I hope it is perfect for what you were thinking!  

Well that is all for canvases tonight!  These are all g0ing out tomorrow.  I will be working on Dawn's ,Blanche's, Kathryn's (by the way, is L or M more purple/ pink?  vs. teal/ blue? ), Kerrie's, Mischnick's, Candy's, and Sandy's tomorrow.  Oh, you too, Kristi!  Hopefully, another shipment will be heading out by the weekend!  

I get a lot of questions about how to order... well, just email me at mgroves11@comcast.net and tell me what it is you have in mind.  I like a challenge.  Except a horse!! huh, Nena B?!  That was pretty bad!  

Oh, and forgot to tell you... new stuff in my etsy store.  Go check er out!  mo

And read about my fairy below.  I kinda got premature with posting another one.  Antsy since I missed last night, I guess!  Mel