Birthday cards and shiny shoes

Last week, Emily's teacher had a birthday.  Emily came home on Monday and was so excited to tell me that her teacher was bringing a chocolate cake on Thursday to share with everyone!!!!  I could see the sugar high in her eyes.  She wanted to make her teacher a card and wanted to spell out all the words herself.  She did a great job:

She colored all the stickers and put them on the inside of the card:

 

She has also learned two memory verses since school started and it has been so neat to hear her speak words from the Bible.  I plan to keep that going next year even though she will be in public school.

Emily has been hounding me lately about wanting some "sparkly shoes".  Every time she mentioned these shoes she waved her fingers in the air when she said the word sparkly.  I told her if I found some for $5 or less I would get them for her . . . well she was in luck on Friday:

I needed to buy her some brown leather shoes.  I found them at a store that was having a B1G1 50% off.  These sparkly red shoes were normally $9.99 so I got them with the brown shoes for 50%.  She had to wear them out of the store.  She is going to use them with her Halloween costume this year.

We also took Abigail to get her haircut on Friday.  She did a great job sitting still:

She also decided to write on her face with a pen while grocery shopping:

In sewing news, I embroidered this shirt for Emily.  I bought this shirt on clearance last year for a $1  . . . and voila . . . instant game day shirt:

I also signed up for a bishop construction class.  We blocked it yesterday afternoon and it's now ready for me to start smocking:

It's been about 3 years since I've smocked so I'm taking this dress to a sit n smock in a couple of weeks.  The lady that taught the bishop class has Emily's dress to pleat for me to bring to the sit n smock.  So hopefully with smocking both dresses and then finishing them they can be ready for Easter : )  It's been 2 years since I've taken a sewing class and it felt good to learn something new.