New Spring Dress Sewing Pattern!

I have been working on two Spring dress patterns (along with visiting our local garden center and purchasing some cucumber, squash, zuchinni, tomato, pear, cantelope, cilantro, and mint plants for our Spring garden).  I am designing the dresses as simple as possible for you beginners!  Here is a quick picture of one.  This is a size 6.  Grace turned 7 (I can't believe 7 already)!!  This ended up being her birthday dress.  It was such a dainty fit and she looked beautiful in it.  This dress is already designed up to size 10 and I am hoping to add a few more sizes to reach the teens.  I am listening to all those emails from Moms who want bigger sizes.  My new patterns will have bigger sizes :)  I have not tested sizes 6months -4 yet.  I will be doing that next week.  I pray all of you have a very blessed week!  

Beginner Boutique Bottoms Capris!

Here is an awesome Mommy creation!! Just so cute! It gets me so excited to receive emails like this. I know that joy after sewing something for my daughters! I love when I am a part of others happiness. Such a blessing. Thank you, K, for taking your time to send me this and for your kind words. Your daughter is precious and her new Boutique Bottoms are so cute!

Here is what K said, "I purchased your boutique dress top and bottoms a while back. I put sewing aside for a while because of lack of time and space. I was looking through files on my computer and found it recently. My daughter was so excited and wanted me to make her a pair of pants...so much so that she was decided she wanted to spend a little of her birthday money on some fabric that she picked out. Tonight I made the bottoms for the first time. They turned out so stinking cute! She danced around the house for the longest time. :- I could barely get her to stand still long enough to take her picture. Needless to say, I will be making these again and will likely be making a pair for her 3 little friends too! :- Thank you for providing such a user friendly pattern. Many blessings to you!" - K

Below is the pattern collection she purchased to make these bottoms. This is a great first pattern to use if you are a BEGINNER SEW-ER. You can find a Two pattern collection for $15.95 on my Etsy shop or Website or You can purchase the Boutique Bottoms as a single purchase for $9.95. I also have a Physical Version of these bottoms along with the Faith Double Layer Dress Top for $11.50 which can be purchased from my Etsy shop or may be at your local fabric store.

PDF Boutique Dress Top and Boutique Bottoms Two Pattern Collection $15.95

PDF Boutique Bottoms $9.95

PHYSICAL VERSION Faith Double Layer Dress Top and Boutique Capris $11.50

Free Beginner's Market Tote Sew Tutorial!

Market Tote Sew Tutorial

I am working on a very simple Beginner's Market Tote sewing tutorial. This is something quick to make for beginner's while building your confidence as you are learning to sew! Remember, beginner sewers, allow yourself to make mistakes and not get so frustrated. I can't stress how the times I made mistakes (and there were lots!!!!! and I still do) are the very times I learned something new or learned how to do it better. Keep going! You are doing great!!

This particular tote is not only a great take along to your favorite farmer's market but could also be a great tote to make for your next beach trip. You could also use this easy tutorial to teach your daughter to sew. There is nothing like sharing your love of sewing with your loved ones :) This tutorial should be up by the end of the week.

Fabric Key Fob sewing tutorial

*insert fob fabric

*flip fob fabric

Padded Laptop Sleeve Bag Sew Pattern, iPad and Kindle Bag option

I am working on this padded laptop bag sewing pattern. There will be options for an eReader bag or an iPad bag along with a short handle like you see above or a long shoulder strap. I am designing it for the beginner so do not let the zipper fool you or should I say scare you. I promise you can do this!! Wait..... did I just promise this!!? Well, that's how sure I am that you can do this and look how great it turns out! I will also make dimensions for a bible cover as well.

I hope all of you are having a wonderful January day! I am in Louisiana and it is in the 70s today and breezy. Love it!

Laptop Sleeve, eReader Cover, Photo Pillows, Custom Graphic Pillow

Family Picture Day

family pic day: our sons

family pic day: our daughters and two grandchildren

the back of our home :)

heading to the Muppet movie

this was a project I did recently that was bittersweet.

my two singing birds that deeply love each other :)

one of my graphics I plan to use to make a pillow. this particular tree I have been drawing since childhood. This was a tree that I played in and had a tire swing just like that! fun fun memories.

Hello! I pray all of you are doing great and that you are already being blessed this new year. This morning I hand delivered a sweet photo pillow to a dear friend whom I have known since I believe Kindergarten. We live in the same town but I haven't seen her in probably 20 years. The funny thing is when I saw her today I just saw the sweet girl I knew in elementary school. It was great seeing her today. About two years ago her precious daughter went to be with Jesus unexpectantly. When I heard the news my heart sank. I just couldn't believe someone I knew was going through something as painfully devastating as this but my pain was nothing compared to what she was experiencing. When you hear something like this it wakes you up more to embracing every single day making sure not to take it for granted and enjoying each child of ours better than the day before. And that is how I choose to live even if I have to remind myself some days or should I say even if He has to remind me some days because that has been my prayer: that I don't take my life for granted or my family He has blessed me with. God is very faithful to show me the days I am taking my life for granted :) and believe me He reminds me a lot..... like now :) see even as I am writing this and trying to concentrate, our five year old is crawling all over me kissing my lips and cheeks uncontrollably and acting like he is my prince charming (no really he has watched too much Tangled, Beauty and the Beast, and Gnomeo and Juliet. he is obsessed with kissing me :) and our six year old is at the other end of the couch spelling almost every word in the book she has in hand asking me how to say what she's spelling, the problem is I am concentrating so hard on writing this that I don't hear all the letters she is saying so she has to start over :), also the LSU Alabama Championship game is own, and our 8 year old is laying next to me crying because she thinks she is getting corrected. And the secret is..... I wouldn't trade it for the world!!

So my 2011 recap:

In reference to family, this year has been such a joy to enjoy the age our children are, all their interests (and dislikes), their elaborate stories, and just watching them be kids . There has been lots of backyard fun with the garden, trampoline, dome monkey bars, bikes, footballs, frisbees, sidewalk chalk, Little Pet Shop, Super Mario Wii, Just Dance for Kids family dance off, lots of Beyblade's letting it rip, princess and her prince charming, praying together, worshipping together, much family bonding at the dinner table and family pictures! I treasure my family and never want to take them for granted. It has been a very good year!!!!!

In reference to ministry, of course family keeps me busy but in addition to family Tommy and I lead an orphan adoption ministry at our church His Heart for Orphans. In mid 2011 our church launched a foster care initiative and I joined that team to focus primarily helping the children in our local foster care system get adopted, recruit more foster parents, support our church families who have adopted, are fostering, or want to do either but just do not know where to start. I have three passions in my life: family, orphans/adoption, and sewing with God being over it all. I still believe God blessed me with SewSensible and I look forward to jumping back into a SewSensible routine!

In reference to SewSensible, this past year I happily emailed customers their orders, drew up many ideas and dreamed about sewing :) I have been sewing away in my sewing room for the past two months. Right now I am working on a new Easter Basket pattern, a padded laptop/ipad sleeve, and an eReader sleeve. I've also been sewing pillows! Two have been photo pillows for two families whose loved one went to be with Jesus. One was for a childhood classmate whose precious daughter went to be with Jesus and the other pillow was for a sweet friend of mine's daughter whose Grandfather went to be with Jesus last month. The third pillow is a custom graphic I drew which I hope to have available one day. I have found a very fun and rather addictive cute way to customize pillows..... printable fabric sheets.

I hope to reconnect with you and as always I pray for God's blessing upon you!

In Christ, Aimee'