The Good, The Bad and the Ugly!!

First the Good...The winner of the giveaway is

True Random Number Generator                                                                 Min:                                                                  Max: Result:                                                                8Powered

JennyrooAugust 21, 2012 1:26 PM

I love snack food, so I'm going with chips and dip! Any given night I'd choose that over dinner!

Congrats Jenny!!! I emailed her and will be shipping it out this week. I have another one for September the 1st that you guys are sure to love. I was a little late this month so they will be back to back. Life sometimes gets in the way. 

The Bad...I just wrote a nice, long blog post only to have it not save. And the Ugly....The feeling I have inside me right now!! Haha just kidding - well sort of :) 

~ January ~

AND THE WINNER IS....

Good morning I hope you guys had a fabulous weekend! I'm sure alot of you know about this, but there is a twitter chat every Tuesday night #talknt. It's a lot of fun and they have prizes :) This week it's sponsored by Bernina USA. Come and join us in the chat if you can. Here is the her blog if you want to check it out 

 Talkin Tuesdays. Now to our winner. Random.org picked number 52.  I don't know why it shows max 100 and I don't know why it's stretched. I need to take a class on blogger hahah.

True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: Result:52

BethJuly 5, 2012 12:29 AM

Today our visiting niece told us she is crazy about purple. Shortly thereafter I discovered my stash is low on purple, lilac, lavender, etc. Time for a trip to my LQS.

Congrats Beth! I'll be contacting her in a bit.

 I'm getting my sew on this week while the kids are at Grandmas. They have a fun filled week planed and so do I :) I hope to get a lot accomplished this week, will see what I can get done. I hope you guys have an amazing week and will talk to you soon. 

January 

Now for the fun!!

I would have posted this yesterday like I intended, but I had a horrible migraine all day :( 

Today has been a much better day!! 

This month's giveaway is three Fat Quarters of Lucy's Crab Shack.

I really love the dots!! 

To enter just leave a comment about your fabric stash. What's your favorite color or what your lacking. I am in need of yellows and yellow oranges. I really need to add some to my stash. The giveaway will end on Saturday the 7th and I will randomly choose a winner on Sunday the 8th using Random.org. I hope you guys are having a wonderful summer and good luck!

January

Giveaway Tomorrow

A short post to let you know I just got home from my vacay and I will post about the giveaway tomorrow. I hope you guys are having a wonderful day!!!

January

A winner and some reality!!

Man reality hits you hard bro!! I have this idea of the kind of blogger I want to be (updates at least a few times a week) and it is seriously hard to achieve that in this season of my life right now!  I have been on this journey for a very short time and I am loving every minute of it. However it's hard to carve out the time for everything I want to do. If only we had 36 hour days :) I would probably still be in the same boat, but more tired haha. This week has been extra rough, because we have had some sickness going on. It started with my 5 year old who started feeling bad, then he passed it on to his brother, who passed it on to me. Everyone is on the mend except for the little one who now has strep throat. When it rains it pours! Sorry no more pity party. I was reading over at Quokka Quilts and she wrote a post about this hideous name badge dilemma - Someone had made this badge of an Octopus sword fighting a Kangaroo.  I told her that I made that name badge :(  She wrote me and asked if I really did and could I send her a pic. Of course I was just teasing, but then that got me thinking. So I set out to create it.  This was my first draft and I thought it needed  a little somethin somethin.

So here comes the rainbow and some stars.

 I also added an eyepatch for the Kangaroo :)
So being couch ridden for the last few day I was able to get my stitching on. I'm loving it!! It makes me smile every time I look at it. I needed to smile more this week for sure.

I'm Linking up with The Handmade Parade.

 Go check out some of the hand stitching that's going on.

Now time for that amazing giveaway - Finally!!

The winners of Elizabeth Hartman's  Perfect Zip Bag pattern are: 

#95 - megstringJune 4, 2012 12:10 PM

I luv cloud 9 organics. Thanks for the giveaway! 

#10 - SandyJune 2, 2012 12:57 PM

I am loving Flea Market Fancy...I have gotten some for my stash but actually wish I could get a BOLT of each of the fabrics! That is how much I love it.

and  #84 - KatieJune 3, 2012 6:09 PM

Definitely Marmalade!

I have emailed our winners and Elizabeth will email the patterns shortly. I want to thank you all for playing and a Big thank you to  Elizabeth. I really appreciate it so much!! I can't wait to see all your bags you guys create.  I hope you guys are having a fantastic week and I'll see you soon. Hopefully with everyone feeling much better.

Giveaway - I asked and boy did you tell me!!

Everything has slowed down a bit since giveaway day and getting back to normal. I was so excited reading all your comments about what your favorite blog is. There are some I visit all the time and a few I hadn't had the pleasure of visiting yet. I thought it would be fun to see which blog had the most votes. Drumroll please - It was Elizabeth Hartman from Oh, Fransson! I contacted her to let her know and do you know how awesome she is? She is going to give her Perfect Zip Bag Pattern away to three of my followers! :) 

Elizabeth Hartman

Super cool, right?  The giveaway will run until Thursday the 7th and I will choose three winners from Random.org. I will announce the winners on Friday and Elizabeth will email you the pattern. Be sure that you leave your email if you are a no-reply blogger. Better yet if you think you might be (If you never get replies to comments you left, there's a good chance your a no-reply blogger) here are some steps to get you out of the no-reply zone.

1. In blogger.com, click on Dashboard.
2. Select Edit Profile
3. Check the box for "Show my Email Address."
4. Save Changes

A BIG THANK YOU again to Elizabeth Hartman. She is showing off some amazing quilts that are in her new book Modern Patchwork so if you haven't been over to her blog lately jump on over and check them out. This one is so up my alley! I just finished a quilt top out of The Practical Guide To Patchwork and can't wait to post about it. I love it so much!!

  

For a chance to win this time tell me what fabric line you are really loving right now or are anxiously waiting to come out. The next giveaway starts on July 1st. See you soon!!

January T.

Amazing Giveaway!!

Over at Lily's Quilts she is hosting a fantastic giveaway!!

A Colourbox of Oakshott shot cottons. 100 Fat Eights to be exact. How fun is that? And it's open to everyone!! YAY!! So go check it out and sign up, don't delay!!