Red Flowers

These are the options I have for you for red flowers.  Sorry about the poor photography.  This is why I try to use professional photos whenever possible.

 Choice #1:  This is a deep red daisy type flower with a crystal center.  This is the same center that will be in the pink peony flower. 

 Choice #2:  This flower has a metal accent in the center that is black and silver.  If you like the flower shape, but not the center, I have this flower available with several different centers.

 Choice #3:  This deep red daisy has a square, embossed metal center.

 Choice #4:  I photographed this one on the black hat so that you could see the details of the white layers of petals.  This one has a circular embossed metal center.

Choice #5:  This is the only shape of flower that I have in the brighter red color.  I do have several of this type.  They all have some kind of red center like the one shown.

Swiss Days!!!

I got a really unexpected phone call last night.  It was Doug, letting my know that he had a spot for me at Swiss Days.  If you have never been, Swiss Days is a huge festival up in Midway that takes place every Labor Day weekend.  Huge throngs of people show up and eat Bavarian food while shopping for handcrafted items.  Crafters come from all over the west to sell their goods at this show.  The competition to get in is pretty steep.  Amy and I applied in the spring, but we were placed on the alternate list.  We figured we would never hear from them again, so we moved on to plan B for our show schedule and booked other shows.  Some of our plans fell through when we didn't get our application in on time for Peach Days and it sold out.  We have spent the past couple of days trying to piece together a Plan C.  Then, the phone rang. 

I just about passed out when I got that phone call last night.  I called Amy and asked what she wanted to do.  We crunched the numbers and ran scenarios through our mind to decide if we could be ready for a show of that gigantic magnitude in just two weeks.  We decided that fate had stepped in and we would skip some of the smaller fall shows so that we could do Swiss Days and still be ready for the Family Christmas Showcase in November.  

This means that I will need to crochet until my fingers fall off for the next couple of weeks, but I am really excited to be doing some of these bigger shows this fall!  I swear everything in my life happens for a reason.  Be sure to check out my revised show schedule on the sidebar of my blog so that you will know where to find me! 

Country Carousel Boutique

I will be in Utah County next week for the Country Carousel Boutique.  This show has been around for 25 years!  I did it two years ago, but I wasn't able to do it last year because my twins were only a few weeks old and I wasn't feeling ambitious enough to do a big show quite yet.   

The show takes place at Provo High School and should have some really fun vendors.  You can look here for more information about what kind of vendors will be at the show.  It will also have the address and hours for the show. Amy and I have grand plans for our booth- it will be really cute!  We are going with a late summer red gingham/sunflower theme.  I am excited to see it all together.  It doesn't matter how many times we put our "Princess Shack" up.  I always get excited to see her. 

This will also be the big debut of my crochet purses!  I found a great hat stand at the DI to hold my purses for me.  We named him Timothy.  After a little TLC, he is looking awesome and is ready to make his first public appearance.   I will post pictures of Timoths and my new purses in a couple of days.  Right now, I need to get busy tagging all of my stuff for the show.  It's going to be a long night...

Frog Prince

I have a photo shoot on Saturday and I am so excited! I am really going to put my photographer friend to work. I have a link to her blog on my sidebar. Her name is Melinda and I have known her since we were eight years old. She is incredibly talented and I am so excited to get some new pictures of my babies and my products. I will post pictures as soon as I have them in hand!

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I am not the only one in my house with an unhealthy obsession with fairytales. Nadia has grown up on Disney and she is in love with princesses. Her most recent obsession is Tangled. We have watched that movie about 500 times this week alone. But one of her all time favorites is The Princess and The Frog. When we saw princess Tiana at Disneyland, Nadia acted like she was meeting her idol.
Aren't those dresses cute? I wish I had gotten better pictures of them. Amy made matching pillowcase dresses for all three of my girls to wear to Disneyland. They had Minnie Mouse head appliqued on the front. I got 10,000 complements on my cute girls!

The Princess and the Frog was always one of my favorite fairy tales, too. When I heard that Disney was coming out with a movie telling that story, I decided to make my own frog prince.

This little guy was actually inspired by a pattern that I found on-line, but I changed it up a little to suit my crochet style and added the crown.

Now it is your turn to share. What is your favorite fairytale?