New Logos...

For my baking business!!!

A friend and myself started a baking business this year called, K & T Sweet Eats.

Basically, we make everything from scratch and try to add new eats each week.

Though this is not my true calling, it is still a great passion of mine and I love baking so why not share and make a profit.

I recently hired a good friend of mine to design our official logos and he came up

with 2 great concepts so I decided to use both.

Here they are:

So us!!!!

I love this one too!!!!

 Our newest Sweet of the Week:

New York Style Cheesecake with Strawberry Sauce

Come Treat Yourself!!!



Like So Many Before Me...

 I have decided to do the impossible...

Reupholster a CHAIR!!!!!

Isn't She Lovely?

Well it's not too imposeible and the chair is FREE!

Yes, FREE!!!!!!

It all started early one morning on my way to work, as I was driving along I noticed a living room armchair beside the dumpster.

It was calling my name.

 But since I was already late for work, I continued right on. Thinking to myself that if it's meant for me then it would be there after my 8 hour shift.

So on I went.

Well it turns out that it was meant to be mine, as soon as I returned home I noticed that it was still there patiently waiting for me to bring it home.

I had to have a little help getting it into my house, so I enliseted my roommate's boyfriend.

We planted my new lovely in the living room right next to my workstation.

At this very moment I'm washing the cushion cover and I have to disinfect the outside before I will even start the project of taking her apart very carefully.

Hopefully tomorrow I can stop at Hobby lobby and look over some fabric and get an idea of how I want her to look.

Wish me luck, I have the feeling I'm going to need it...

~N~

Gooble, Gooble Day & My Birthday...

Yes it's my birthday!!!! AND yes, it's Thanksgiving too!!!!

This does not happen very often so I plan to enjoy myself to the fullest today!

Hoping that everyone has a very safe and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Here's the centerpiece I created for my Grandmother's table today:

Lovely fabric from Hobby Lobby.

A beautiful basket, also from Hobby Lobby.

Yes!!! They look great together.

Time to glue it all together.

A great assortment of artificials from... yes you guessed it, Hobby Lobby.

Foam is glued in, time to arrange the flowers.

The end result! She 's going to swoon over this!!!

Oh and I think I'm in love with Hobby Lobby, did you guess:))
~N~



Designing Woman...

A Donna Karan sketch

When I was a little girl, I dreamt that I would become a chef.

I loved any and everything that dealt with cooking. I especially loved being in the kitchen with my grandmothers. I would sit on my little barbie chair and watch as they fluttered about, measuring and mixing away.

Watching them cook, made me long for the day I would be old enough to get behind a stove and whip up something delicious.

Then, I discovered fashion design!

See growing up with 4 boys in the house, there was nothing girlie about me. I didn't read fashion magazines, I didn't care about keeping up with the "latest fashion", and I had no idea who Coco Chanel was... the horror!

What I do know is that when I drew my first outfit, something just seemed to click in place!

I knew that very instant that I wanted to design clothes & sew them myself for the rest of my life. 

Though my dream is coming along slowly, I'm not giving up!

After I take my final GED test, mathematics suck, the new journey to get into a fashion design school will begin, of course after I ace the ACTs!!!!

It helps to stay positive!

SCAD-Atlanta... My dream college!

4 designs from 2 of my collections... I soooo need sewing lessons!!!
~N~

Baby on my mind...

Too adorable...

It's happening all around me, AGAIN!

Friends and friends of friends are getting pregnant!!!

I'm happy for everyone, but... I long for my own child, and at the age of 27 and single and so NOT mingling... I feel a little left out.

This year BOTH of my best friends welcomed baby girls, Jade & Trinity (who should be here next week hopefully) and I am happy for them but at the same time I feel like the odd non-pregnant woman out.

For a long time I didn't want children.

After helping my single mom raise my 4 younger brother, I was a bit... tired I guess would be the word. I felt as if I had done enough parenting to last 5 couples... until I became older and I started to long for marriage and babies.

It sneaks up on you, just when you think you have life figured out something just poofs into your mind and the next thing you know, your baby crazy.

So far I know 4 women who are expecting and since I am close with them all, it means I shall be close with their lovely additions as well... but it's not the same...

I guess the only thing I can do is focus on work, get into college, bust my butt to graduate, and keep my fingers crossed that Mr. Right will appear when it is time for him to...

To my future life (hubby & all)... I'm waiting oh so patiently to meet you...

~N~

My First Flea Market Part 2...

I'm still buzzing off of my first trip to the flea market...

Even when I fell asleep, all I could dream about was having my own house and filling it with the lovely furniture I saw.

It will happen, I am working hard to make all of my wishes come true...

Until then, here are the lovely pieces that came home with me, money well I spent!

Milk Glass Pitcher, $8.



Vintage Lysol Bottles for flowers, $3.

Wall Sconces for my office, $5.



A Homer Lauglin plate to go with my Big Mama's collection, $7.





A piece of fabric for a future pillow, $2.



Perfect for hanging my aprons on, $8.

Vintage Plant Mist Sprayer, $1.

And something I HAD to have after seeing the cover of Garden & Gun magazine,

I can't wait to clean her up and serve some pie, $2.

~N~

















My First Flea Market...

I have fallen in love... with a flea market.

Scott's Antique Market of Atlanta to be exact!

Yesterday was my first time at a flea market, EVER!

Yes, I know... WHERE HAVE I BEEN? under a rock apparently...

It was nothing like what I imagined, it was BETTER!!!!

Plus I was with my new found friend and "sister from another mother", Ms.J.

We both left the market, fully inspired and ready to tackle our own little side projects, that some how never seem to get completed.

Here are some of the beauties I saw:

Vintage Keys

Vintage Knobs

Antique Furniture, say hi Ms. J!

Beautiful Floral Pieces

Lovely Pie Safes

I will share the beauties that came home with me next post...

~N~