Bonne Annee!

Wishing you and your loved ones an abundance of peace, love and joy this upcoming NEW YEAR! WELCOME 2009!!!

Bonne Nuit

xoxo jo ;)

Toothfairy clearly knows our addy...

clearly...the toothfairy knows the way to our house...this is Ian's 3rd tooth...

went to the good ol' dollar store and found 2 cute pillows shaped as a tooth...so the lil' ones can put their lost tooth in there for the toothfairy...one is blue and the other is...you guessed it PINK!

don't worry, Shioban...God will let you know when your tooth will be ready...

your time will be coming soon...don't cry...(just breaks my heart...) Bonne Nuit

xoxo jo ;)

Down Memory Lane...Hallow's eve, Tart Heart, coco chanel...

Do you remember this dear lil' ones...i sure do...you light up my life and i'm so happy that you're in love with life...

here you are Shioban with your sweet girlfriends at school...

Ahoy, me harties!

Ian, here's you, Shioban and your bud...3 lil' pirates...in my eyes,
you won 1st place!!!

Shioban, you just couldn't make up your mind, huh? Princess, Pirate, Cheetah gal...whomever you are...you're the most adorable lil' sweetheart!

Here are some pics from the munchkins' lil' modeling job this past Fall for the ever so Sweet Jasmine Kummer and her Tart Heart Shoppe...We just love Jasmine and her beautiful hats, softies and her other adorable creations! We also loved her place...it's in my old neighborhood, where dear Hubby had his 1st apt. and across the street from a wonderful park-great place for a photo shoot...however, it was one of the most coldest, wettest and windiest day ever last Fall...so we settled in her cool apt. and well the rest is history...the lil' munchkins just adore Sweet Jasmine and her very creative boyfriend, Joel. Can't wait to get her newest catalouge...I also was in the shoot but I didn't get some shots with my camera...but here are the ones I took with my camera...(because we modeled for Jasmine, she made me this lovely French Beret with the most Sweetet Eiffel Tower Pin...will be taking pics of that one soon...) WE LOVE YOU SWEET Jasmine of TART HEART!

you guys are just growing up like weeds...

i just can't believe that you'll be turning 7 this coming April...

wow...how time flies when you're having fun...

you're my sweetie-pies and i love you to pieces...

may this new year bring even more blessing to you and your sweet world...

you're my everything...you're my world...

mahalkita lil' munchkins!

leaving you with a collage of my lil' coco chanel-Shioban...Love you sweet pink peanut princess bunny!

Bonne Nuit

xoxo jo ;)

Here's a lil' peek of what our Christmas was like...hope yours was a very good one...

Bonne Nuit

xoxo jo ;)

Rhondamum...Continuation Merci Beaucoup Le Vendredi #2

(handmade card from Sweet Rhonda of Rhondamum.blogspot.com/)

as promised...

(all images from Labour of Love)



(all images from Labour of Love)

i'd like to also Thank my sweet French Sister, Rhonda who was my most fantastic partner in my sis, Mary Ann's Vintage Christmas Stocking Swap 2008. Look at the most wonderful gifts she gave to me and my lil' ones. Her stocking that she made for me is ABSOLUTELY DIVINE!!! I LOVE linen and French-inspired art...and she made me such a BEAUTIFUL Vintage+French inspired stocking!!! I simply adore the embellishments...the laces and the Old Santa fabric is absolutely gorgeous!!!!

(all images from Labour of Love)


(all images from Labour of Love)

(all images from Labour of Love)
Such a BEAUTIFUL Stocking...so in LOVE with this very SPECIAL VINTAGE FRENCH STOCKING!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!

(all images from Labour of Love)
Gorgeous Vintage Santa...Love the embroidered ribbon...the linen and lace are so PERFECT!!!

Rhonda gave me so many sweet items...lil' French Eiffel Tower confetti, a BEAUTIFUL + sweet Marie Antoinette vintage glass container, a gorgeous glass vial with her Halloween French Themed item for the Fantasmagorique Swap, absolutely beautiful French ledger papers, sweet Eiffel Tower and Pink Rhinestone Crown ornaments for my tree, wonderful bread warmer linen, handmade Christmas Card, delicious candies, Magical Reindeer food, French blue Rendevous post-it notes, Vintage French word cards, Burt Bees' items, nice white linen laces, lil' cracker gift (So European!) and soooooo much more...

Here's a lil' bit more pics of what I gave Sweet Rhonda for our Vintage Stocking Swap...

This is just one of my favourite lil' mantras that I made up one day for a couple of my pictures, also here and here a year ago...it is so true...I like to keep saying it to myself esp. when sending out sweet packages to special hearts...

Sorry for the longest posts and the gazillion pics...I just wanted to make sure that I properly showed Rhonda how much I LOVED everything she sent to me and how much I LOVED making her something really special too...She truly has spoiled me and my lil' ones-BIG TIME...

Hoping you had a GLORIOUS CHRISTMAS...
Wishing everyone an abundance of PEACE, LOVE + JOY in the upcoming new year...
here's to more BLESSINGS in 2009!!!!!
more thank you pics to come next week from
Sweet Josephine, Tangee and other projects that I have been working on...
Bonne Nuit!
xoxo jo ;)