I can live for two months on a good compliment. ( Mark Twain)

Yes, I can live for two months on a good compliment, just like Mark Twain  said :) Sometimes all we need to feel good is a compliment. It doesn't cost a dime and make us feel so good. I have always enjoyed saying compliments to my friends and Customers because I know how they make me feel.

I was having a good day, not to much productive but, it was an ok day until a few minutes ago when I got this Convo from Etsy that made my day :))

This lady was browsing the net trying to find a birthday dress for her daughter. Even thinking that she couldn't afford it, she took some minutes of her time to say something nice  that put a big smile on my face :) 

God bless your heart dear mom :)

Isn't it so easy? Now I keep thinking to myself: why don't I just pay it forward? Why don't I give a look through all the shops on Etsy and maybe I can be lucky enough to make somebody Else's day! 

This is the world that I want for the next generation. A world of love, peace and gratitude. John Lennon was  so right when he said that he was a dreamer, but he wasn't the only one.  I am a dreamer as well.

I thought I would share with  you what made my day today :)

God bless that lady's family and yes, I have done something about it... They say that money makes the world go round but, Love also does the same.

God bless you and your family!

Smile :) Life is GOOD!

Zee

www.myfirstbirthdaydress.com

Thank You dear Lord for one more day ...

Beautiful  My First Birthday Dress

Dear Lord, thank you very much for this day.

Thank you for watching over my family, giving me patience, wisdom, peace of mind, thank you dear Lord for all the blessings you bring to my life. Since the moment I wake up in the morning to the time I go to bed to rest, my heart is full of joy because I know you are with me every minute of my day.

Thank you  Lord for the opportunity of owning my own business and keeping it running smooth. Thank you so much all the Customers I have and the moms and babies who buys my First Birthday Dresses. You know I make each one of them with love.

Life is so precious and I have so much to be thankful for. I am not talking about material things but the ones that money cant buy. 

My First Birthday Dress

As I switch off my machines and get ready to have some rest,  I know that tomorrow will be another day and I will be closer to have my dream becoming true. You know my dream dear Lord. I BELIEVE that the entire universe is conspiring so that my dream will become a reality soon.

God bless and be with us always.

Zee

www.myfirstbirthdaydress.com

"If I had a day that I could give you...

Its 9/11, a very sad day to remember what happened in our Country. God be with the Victims of 9/11.

Today, for some reason, to me, it has been like one of those days that we feel like we are at peace with the universe... One of those days that feels like we can conquer the world... That is how I feel right now.  I have a beautiful family, wonderful friends and Customers...

I look around and see my machines running smooth, work getting done, it feels like everything is in harmony :) This is how I wish my life were all the time... Yeah, I know it isn’t possible all the time but you know what? I am enjoying it as much as I can. I am taking advantage on this precious feeling I have inside me right now to be thankful for everything that Lord has given to me, every little thing I've gotten with my hard work. I've learned early in life that nothing comes easy to us, everything that we want very badly has to be deserved. I've learned that everything that comes easily, goes away easily... I want everything to never go away so, I don’t mind about working hard for it. I want the love of my family, friends and customers to always stay with me. When I am gone from this world, I don’t want people to remember me for the things I used to have but for the difference I've made in their lives. I want to be healthy and I want to always have the strength to help others in my community who needs me. That is why I live for.

You might be thinking, today is September 11th, it's a sad day to our country, a day to remember all the victims of the 09/11 attack. Yes it is a very sad day but, I am taking some minutes also to pray for the ones who suffered and still suffer because of that day.  Unfortunately that happened, but, let’s look forward to a world of peace to every single nation in the world. Peace starts at our home, lets teach our kids the right thing to do, lets teach them better with actions and not only with words.

 There is one thing about  the numbers 9/11 that makes me smile big. Yeah :)) on February First of 2006, my daughter Isabella was born weighing 9 pounds and 11 ounces. God bless the day she was born. :)

Let's always have positive thoughts, positive people around us, positives actions bring us positives results.

Dear Lord, thank you for this moment of infinite peace I am experiencing right now. It's a beautiful day out and it's a beautiful day within :)) Nope, I am not on any kind of drugs, what makes me feel like this, I would say, is the love of our Lord that I  will always have in my heart. :)))

Quoting John Denver I would say "If I had a day that I could give you, I'd give to you the day just like today."

Have a peaceful day my loved ones :)

God bless us always...

Zee

www.myfirstbirthdaydress.com

SMILE! God has planned a week full of great surprises for us :)))))))))

Halloween First Birthday Dress made from scratch this weekend

The weekend is almost over..

I can tell we had a wonderful one. Isabella had some "grandma time" she spent the night at grandma's and went to the church with her. Brian and I had some quality time together and some time spent with friends.

I  beteween all the cleaning and fun, I have gotten a First Birthday Dress made from scratch. There is nothing that relaxes me more than working on my little dresses. You have no idea how a wonderful therapy it is for the soul. :)

Ohhhhh Cant forget to say that our plants got some water as well. We had some rain and I thank Lord for that. Our tree look so much happier :)

What is your plan for the new week ? My plan it to make no plans at all. Play it by ear, live one day at a time. I have realized that when we plan something, it never happens as we planned but sometimes, like this weekend for example, it turns to be a great one without any plans at all.

I have an idea about what is going to be waiting for me is God gives the  gift of living through one more week, Some stuff, I look forward to and others not so much but I will take it. As long as we are healthy, there is nothing we can face it if we ttrust that God will be with us.

Ok, Isabella just got in my room and she  is reading what I am typing, so she says that I should post on my diary like this, she is telling me this right now:

I should work as hard as I can to get all of my stuff done so that I can spend more time with her. She says I work too much and I have not spent a lot of time with her...

Ok She is gone now LOL, That little stinker, made sure I typed what she told me to. LOL

You all have a wonderful week ahead and dont forget to wear your best outfit everyday... YES, you best outfit is a SMILE,  yes, a smile never goes out of style... :))) Try it right now, SMILE very BIG :)))) With your soul and heart. SMILE! God has planned a week full of great surprises for us :))))))))) Let's be thankful for what we have and God bless our new week ahead!!!

Hugs
Zee
www.myfirstbirthdaydress.com

Isabella's words of wisdom

Isabella always comes up with something to talk about in the mornings, there are some stuff that she says that I really need to share. Too funny.

This morning while having her breakfast she asked me:

- Mom how much money do you have?

- Not enough. I replied. (I knew she was going to ask me for more "My Little Pony" )

- How come you never have money? How about all the work you do and all the customers that come over here?

- Well, the Customers always tell me they will send me a check later...

- OK Mom, from now on when they tell you that they will send you a check later, my advise to you is, look them in the eyes and do like this:

- I 'm sorry but I have seen this already. I wont fall for another one, you pay me now or you wont get your embroidery!

- I cant be unpolite with the customers Isabella!

- Mom, listen to me, I know exactly how you feel. it has happened to me once. I had a quarter in my pocket and the boys across the street were selling lemonade, I went there to buy it from them, they told me to give them my quarter because they were going to show me a magic trick  so, I gave them my quarter and they made it disapear. I told them; _ Ok now give me my quarter back.  They told me it had disapeared. I came home very frustrated and daddy took care of it.

- What did daddy do?

Daddy went there and told them to give me my quarter back and told them to give me a lemonade FOR FREE for all the trouble they made me go through. See mom, I came back home with my quarter AND my free lemonade. That is how you do it.  Dont let them tell you they are going to pay you later mom, only give them their embroidery if they pay you right away!

She even finalized her advice with:

- Lets see how you are going to do today, when I come home from school, you show me how much money you  made ok?!  I was speechless...  What to tell her after all this lecture? LOL

GEEZ,  all I wanted  was to get away with saying I wasnt going to buy no more "My little Ponys" to her... Well, at least for this week LOL.

Have a great weekend!!!

God bless

Zee

www.myfirstbirthdaydress.com

Sometimes number 1 is number 1 until it becomes number 2...

Good morning Kids :))

This is how an embroidery machine mother board looks like.

It's FRIDAY!!!  Thank God it's Friday LOL. I think it's really funny when I say that because to me, it doesn't make a difference what day it's today... As long as I am still here in this world confusing people with my broke English LOL. As long as I am alive I am happy LOL

Although I feel tired for not sleeping well last night, I feel so happy for having my three machines back to life again... Ahhhhhhh I love my baby machines :))). I had to exchange machine number 1 and 2 "soul"so, now they confuse me because when number 1 stops for  maintenance, actually it is not number 1 that I have to oil , it is the number 2 one... How did I get myself into this dilemma?  Well,  when my number 1 machine started  skipping registration mark, jumping stitches to the side, I called  Ben  the technician, and he said it could be the "mother board" or the "X motor". He had the X motor but not the mother board with him, what means that if he drove all the way from Indiana to Springfield, with me paying my mileage and then, $70.00 per hour to get here and not be able to fix my baby number 1, I would be in trouble.

I had this idea about taking the mother board from  machine number 2 and  put on number 1 and vice versa,  this way, I would know for sure that if the machine kept having the same problem, it wouldn't be the mother board, what I call their "soul"  then, Ben could drive all the way here without breaking the bank.  So,  we did it, oh boy, there are so many screw and nuts that I really decided we would leave them as they were, number 1 in number 2 and number 2 in number 1. It's just like trading bodies.... It worked. We figure it out, thank Lord that it was for sure the X motor. Ben came and fixed my baby machine :) It's working beautifully again :))

 So, from now on, for a little while, I have to have in mind that number 1 is only really number 1 until she needs maintenance, than she becomes number 2...

I know, it's too confusing isn't it? Now, imagine me, this poor old lady who doesn't speaks English very well and doesn't remember what she had for dinner last night, having to remember all this "fings" It's really not easy being Zee... But it's funny though...It's a CRAZEE life but I wouldn't want it any other way.. Well.... "finking" better, hummm... LOL Nah, just kidding ;)))

You all have a nice not so confusing day and enjoy every minute of it...Find the silver lining in everything bad that happens to you and everything will be GREAT!! lol :)

Yeah... Yeah... Yeah... I better get my babies ready to work way!

Have a precious Friday kids!!!!!!!!!

God bless

Zee

TOMATOES... TOMATOES...TOMATOES

 Good morning Yall! (WOW, I sounded like Paula Dean without an accent LOL)

Well, I was supposed to blog about My First Birthday Dresses or Embroidery or Embroidea but, forget about it, I want to talk about tomatoes. Would you like some tomatoes??? LOL

I guess this year my lovely husband planted more tomatoes than we can eat. We have been giving tomatoes to Customers, friends, Families and we still have TOMATOES!!!!!!

Juliana, my blessed friend and helper goes to the kitchen and comes back saying she saw a lot of tomatoes in the kitchen. Oh take some tomatoes home Ju!!! - I will take a couple of them. She says. - NO, take the whole bag!!! "I dont need the whole bag Zee" We are only two at home.

-Give to your neighbors! It's in the Bible, you gotta feed thy neighbors! LOL

- Nah, we dont talk that much with our neighbors. LOL 

- Oh dang! Can you at least take a few? 

- How many?

-I don't know, any amount that is more than a couple tomatoes...

 She took only a little bit of them LOL, I keep thinking who in this world is in need of tomatoes? My freezer has plenty of tomatoes in there. 

I had a brilliant idea this morning, I am going to text my friend Sherry Brown from Little India, my lovely friend who I used to work with. I know for sure that she loves tomatoes... I still remember both of us ibn our break time sitting on the side walk eating tomatoes...

Nah, it didn't work as you guys can see our text messages.

OH! OK, Another great idea!!! I am going to ask Brian to take to work!!! Wooooooo Hoooooooooooo:

-Bello, can you take some tomatoes to work?

- I am afraid not. Everybody that I work with grow their own garden, my boss has been bringing lots of cucumbers  also.

I give up on tomatoes... I guess I am putting a  sign here in my embroidery room. "WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOME TOMATOES?"

Its going to be a long "Looking for tomatoes lover day" other than "dentist appointment day" AND "Repair machine day" AND "Work day" but the most important of all, it has been for sure a really beautiful and blessed day because we are still ALIVE!!!!!!! :)))))

Have a blessed  day you all!!!!!!!!

Keep cool :)))) And SMILE :)))))