Ever wake up and have the desire to be transported back to the beginning of the week you just finished so you can actually make sure it really happened?! I sincerely can't believe how quickly this week went.

Last week's visit to my parents house for Easter/Passover was great. My sisters are all getting so big! We started the week out right with a visit to the local quilt store,Quilter's Stash, to get some batik for a project I'm working on. If you've never quilted before make sure you wander over to the how-to video section and check out the stippling and piecing videos!The picture of Jeff knitting in the car was during the trip there. My youngest sister Alison had showed him how to knit and he is proudly displaying the 3 rows he finished. The store was amazing! we oogled over fabric for a while and I shared all my favorite designers with my sisters. We decided to make a quilt for a wedding coming up so there went another hour of grabbing, squinting, debating and buying fabric. It was a ton of fun.

We celebrated Passover together and all watched my hubby's face (this was his first time participating) for disgust over the bitter herbs. Unfortunately he loves horseradish.

Saturday, my mom offered to host a first birthday party for a family they know. We spent the morning making the cutest cupcakes! Here is what we did:

Make the cupcakes and frost them.

With a clean pair of slightly damp scissors, cut a large marshmellow into thin slices.

Decorate one side of the marshmellow slice with sprinkles

Arrange the slices in a circle to resemble a flower.

Place a candy, jelly bean or tiny candle in the middle.

Here's the little brag book project I've been working on in the absence of my sewing machine for my friend Lindsey. She is days away from delivering her first (and highly anticipated) little girl.

This is a purse shaped blank board book from C&T Publishing who are also the publishers of my books. I used some fun, girly papers and found a poem about little girls that I printed off on card stock.

I rotated poem pages with picture pages and placed a large rectangle piece of decorative scrapbooking paper where Lindsey could put pictures of the baby once she arrives.

It was a fun project and would be awesome for a wedding, birthday or christmas gift. Instead of leaving the picture pages blank you could gummy glue gift cards or "I owe you" cards.