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Yumminess!
Want your own? Head over to My Girl Thursday for all the details on how to make your very own version of my amazing guacamole! Seriously, it’s amazing.
And the lucky couple is . . .
Number 11 Jen and Alex!
An email has been sent your way Jen!
Sorry everyone else, however, on a fun note I’ve decided to do monthly giveaways featuring stuff from some cool Etsy sellers so just you wait until August!
Giveaway winner revealed . . . finally.
Ok so here’s how dorky I am.
1. random.org’ed on my PC and couldn’t get the winner box thingie
2. Took a photo of it with my iPhone instead
3. Had no clue how to find comment #blabbidy blah
4. Tried counting on the screen while scrolling
5. Pulled a brain muscle
6. Tried to print the post, but it was 21 pages!! 21!!
7. Spent some time deleting the comments and keeping the names
Argh, stop the insanity! My wonderful hubby helped with his mad programmer skills.
Sooooooooo long story short the lucky winner is . . . . .
Amy | May 24, 2011 at 1:28 pm |
Hi! Thanks for a great giveaway! I absolutely love your sense of humor! And I think your photos are great!
Then because I invited readers from Wild Olive over, with the little task of sneaking the words ‘tea party‘ into their comment, I went ahead and chose someone who did that. I must say I was quite amused by some of the comments. So while you didn’t win the cozy & scraps I’m up for the challenge of creating an Alice in Wonderland themed prize and sending it out to . . . .
Liz | May 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm |
I am not a coffee drinker, but a sweet little tea party is always a great way to enjoy the afternoon!
Also, I’ve won a prize from Lisanne, some thread and fat quarters!
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A fit of giggles.
SMS Giveaway post is here or scroll down.
I slept for about 9 hours, can you tell?
I was ridiculously tired yesterday. I stayed up late for the entire weekend, basically 1am each day. Good thing Monday was a holiday! I tried to go to bed early that night but since it was Giveaway Day I got distracted entering on blog all over, then poking around some blogs, adding some to my reader . . . . you know.
So then comes Tuesday morning and it was our Yucky Early Day, which means it’s the day I teach the whole day, we have to be up and out first thing in the morning. After all the late nights and a full day at work I was pretty useless yesterday evening. I kept doing that, “Why am I standing in this room?”, “What was I looking for in the fridge?” and such. My BFF was over to help me put buttons on 50 or so cup cozies. I’ve been working away for a charity thing she helps organize and that’s why I’ve been a mad crafting machine lately.
Numerous times I said I was “Sooooo tired” and both she and my hubby would yell out, “go to bed!!” but it wasn’t even 9 yet! I refuse to go to bed if it’s not an acceptable adult bed time. She tried to argue that’s the point of being an adult. I said that only applies to fun things like ice cream for breakfast. She left around 8:45 yelling for me to go to bed as she was getting into her car. I gathered my iDevices and told my hubby I was going up to bed.
“Leave the laptop”
“No, I need to approve comments and send an email. Can you finish loading the dishwasher and run it?”
“If you leave the laptop”
“Can I have a kiss goodnight?”
“If you leave the laptop”
I took the lappy upstairs with me.
Then at about 9:25 I realized hubby would see I had the lamp on still so I shut it off and decided to just read through my Google Reader and then go to sleep. Then I heard footsteps at about 9:35 and I hurried to shut my laptop.
“NO!” says hubby storming into the room, in the dark “Give me the laptop!”. He starts grabbing for it and takes it right out of my hands.
Here I start to giggle.
“Give me the iPad too!”
“NoooOOoo It’s charging, Wesley was playing on it. Leave it!”
“Go to bed!! What are you 6?!” he storms out with my laptop
“Plug it in” I yell after him through a fit of giggles.
I wish I had audio of it all, it was pretty funny.
So I’m making a bag . . .
I’ll let you get over the shock . . . .
I had it all cut out and almost ready to go when I found this cute little tree print at the bottom of my fabric crush drawer and now I’m rethinking my choices. The main fabric is this cute Little Red Riding Hood print.
Then for the side pockets I’ve got this brown polka dot fabric lined up. For the big pocket I’ve got the red polka dots ready to go.
But then I stumbled upon this fun brown fabric with little apple trees on it. The colours fit with the bag perfectly but I’m wondering if it would be overkill. Thoughts?
Here’s what the bag looks like assembled, front view and back view. It’s from Quilt a Bag, my new favourite purse making store.
The lovely Pheobe at the store was worried about selling me the pattern since English is not her first language and she’s not sure the instructions are well written. I offered to be brave and give it a try. So far I’ve just cut out all the pieces but over the weekend I hope to get down to some actual sewing. Wish me luck!
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Insert happy dance here!
See it? See it? Isn’t it wonderful?!
LOOOOOOOOK!!! Look left! Look right!! Look up!! Look . . . ok you get the idea.
Thanks to a whole lot of hard work by Leigh-Ann, Kyla and Corey Marie of the Freckled Nest Design team my lovely new blog is up and running. I’m still working on some of my homework, like adding to Friends & Sponsors, so there might be a few tweeks here and there. But isn’t it lovely!?
If you’re still in your reader what are you doing?! Get over here!
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Oh right.
I blogged a while back about The Vintage Cabin, a fun blog and shop I stumbled upon thanks to My Girl Thursday. I made some purchases and was going to show the fun package I recieved and my purchase in action.
This cute little fellow was greeting me when I unwrapped the box.
I thought this was a brilliant little touch, stamping the tissue paper! I have a custom SewTara stamp, why hadn’t I thought of this!
Here’s the new home of the lovely vintage clock. Yes that’s an unfinished wall. Yes that’s the fuse box. My ‘studio’ is a corner in the man cave. I make do.
Lately I’ve been having a hard time working my various jobs. I spend the mornings with my kids, run off to school to teach all afternoon, come home and do the usually family type stuff and then run to the basement until I can’t keep my eyes open to run my business. It’s like working 3 jobs.
I was wondering why I didn’t think of all this creative/blog/business thing *before* there were kid/kids and my hubby pointed out that maybe they are what drove me to find it. I think about all that time I just sat around doing nothing with my life before and how now every moment is filled with something. He said the pressure might be what pushed me to work so hard at being ‘me’ again.
I thought he was being pretty wise. Don’t tell him I said so, that kind of stuff goes to his head sometimes.
Construction woes.
We hit a little bump during construction. So no prettier site just yet. I had my handy dandy hubby work some magic so there’s at least something here to greet you all. Don’t worry you’ll know when it’s all shiny and new. I’ll be shouting it from the rooftops!
Once again, image via We Heart It.
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The caterpillar turns into a butterfly.
I’m so exicted. My little blog is going to grow up. Friday it will emerge looking super fantastic, all thanks to some very hard work over at Freckled Nest. See you on Friday!
Butterfly image via We Heart It.
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