Daughter of Mine

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The Lord has allowed my daughter to reach her 12th birthday last month.

My daughter is precious to me. As a young lady, I dreamed of the day I would have my own little girl. I would buy little things like frilly bonnets to save for the daughter I believed I would one day have. My husband and I were delighted to find out during my second pregnancy that I was carrying my longed for baby girl. She has truly been a gift from God who was gracious to give me the desire of my heart. My daughter is the middle child between 3 brothers, all who love their sister.

My daughter is a faithful daughter. She is strong in her faith and convictions and takes her life as a child of God very seriously. I'm so grateful when she asks me, "Mom, am I doing better in this area of my life, or that area, etc." She willingly works along side me in our daily chores. She loves all things feminine and gives great importance to growing in the graces of a lady. She truly is a blessing to me. May you be blessed, my daughter.

Tea With My Daughter

The Olde English Tea Room.

At our lovely table.

A hat is a must for tea, darling.

Let's take pictures!

Sweet One.

Lovely.

Just the two of us.

This hat was my favorite. I love it!

Time to go.

A few weeks ago I decided to take an afternoon off with my daughter (I only have one) and visit a Tea Room that we had been wanting to visit. We had a lovely time together, talking, sipping our tea and eating our delicious lunch. This was the first Tea Room that we visited that served actual plates, or platters, as they were called on the menu. I ordered a chicken salad sandwich with fruit and my daughter chose a Chicken Divan platter which included Chickan Divan (of course), fruit and a croisant. For tea, my daughter chose vanilla and I chose a flower/herb tea (I forgot the actual name itself.)

After tea we tried on the large selection of hats that were displayed and available for use. We had so much fun taking pictures of each other and laughing at how we looked with some of the hats.

After taking pictures we headed on over to a shopping plaza that we passed by on our way home. We had fun browsing and bought a few items.

All in all, it was a wonderful afternoon, just the two of us enjoying each others company.

She Loves Horses

My Snow Princess

Yesterday, my daughter and I were in a rush to execute my plans for a photo shoot in the snow before sunset. Even though the sun did set on us, we had alot of fun taking these photos.

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Read Our Interview With Feelin' Femenine

My daughter and I were honored to be the Featured Femeninas, on the Feelin' Femenine website, for the month of January 2010. We were interviewed by Angel of The Daily Planet who is also a regular contributor to Feelin' Femenine. Read our interview by clicking HERE .

If you are not familiar with the Feelin' Femenine website please visit them today. The following is their mission that I copied from their website:

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The mission of the Feelin’ Feminine site is simple and it is our hope to ignite a fire that has long been put out. We hope to rekindle the beauty of dressing and looking feminine. While we will encourage modesty of both inward and outward appearance, this design of this site is not that. We want to show you that being feminine in it’s truest and purest form is nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to resent. Feminine is the opposite of masculine, and they are both quite equal but so very different, working together to build and complete the unity of the family. If one does not do their part or does the other’s then both of them, the family, the home, the culture, etc all fall a part. It’s a domino effect as we’ve seen. We hope to build our lives on the Scriptural foundation and restore His purpose for us as women. The Word says that a capable wife [woman] if valued far above rubies, pearls, or diamonds, and so we want to fulfill the calling of becoming a woman that is sought after with a priceless price.

Our Mission:

To encourage, inspire, and challenge young ladies to rediscover the treasure of dressing in a feminine manner. So we may be an example in a world where true beauty has been lost that we may bring glory to our Maker.

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Isn't that just beautiful!

I am greatly encouraged to read about all the young ladies who are striving to be set apart and holy unto the Lord by following His plan for their lives through the light of Scripture and not according to the World's expectations, popular culture or examples set forth by the liberal media. May these woman arise to be holy woman of God, the wives of great warriors for Christ and the mothers of millions!

My Girl

My Daughter's First Sewing Project

The Project Challenge:
Create a set of matching pillowcases for our front porch chairs.

Here we have two mismatched useless pillows.

Material on hand: an old full size bed skirt that once belonged to my son.

Learning sewing machine basics.
To begin with, I taught my daughter how to thread our sewing machine.

I also showed her how to thread and use the bobbin.

I went over the basics of setting tension levels and stitch length.

Cutting off the elastic of the bed skirt.

More trimming.

Practice sewing on scraps.

Pinning two pieces of the bed skirt together to make a wider piece.

All nicely stitched together and ready to sew into a pillow case.

The first pillowcase is ready. The pillow fit well after a few adjustments and the bottom opening was sewed together. Beautiful!

The next day: Repeating the same steps to complete the second pillowcase.

Sewing up the pinned sides.

The completed pillows on our front porch. Don't they look wonderful?!

I blogged last week that I would be helping my daughter to start her first basic sewing project.

I had several goals in mind that I wanted accomplished with her first project. My goals were as follows:

1. A fun and relatively simple project. Nothing frustrating or too hard.
2. A project that would be a motivation to start other projects.
   
3. A project that would use materials I already had on hand.
   
4. A project that would be useful. No useless projects.
   

I'm proud to say that she did a wonderful job with her first project and all my project goals were fulfilled! It took her two days to complete the project working about one hour and a half a day. Our "new" pillows look great on our front porch chairs!

We will start a second sewing project on Friday. Can't wait!