And the Winner is...... and other random craftiness!

First off, the winner of the pincushion is April from AZ! Congrats April! You need to email me with your address so that I can mail it out to you right away :)

I know I didn't blog much last week but I was busy crafting. I wanted to share pictures of the Christmas apron that I made for an early Christmas gift for my daughter and since she has it in her possession now, I can show you the pictures. This apron is the reason I bought the adorable Holiday Happy fabric designed by the Happy Zombie. (you should check out her blog for some really fun totorials and some neat ideas of ways to use this fabric as well! )

 I found this fabulous apron pattern as a free download at Sew4Home.com. I used deep red cotton sateen for the neck ties, lining and waist ties just as they did in the Sew4Home apron. I love the way it adds a bit of "fancy" to the apron and still makes it machine washable. My daughter is petite at 5' tall so I had to take 4 inches off the apron length and the neck ties and also shortened the ruffle layers by 1 inch each to make it more to her scale. I added the polka dot fabric and the white pom poms for a bit more fun. She loved it and I can already picture her entertaining friends during the holidays wearing her cute ruffled apron!

My friend Amy told me about a fabric store in Redondo Beach called the Cotton Shop that is going out of business after 51 years and everything in the store is 50% off. So I called my Mom and we headed on over there the next day and I came home with some awesome fabrics! The colors and patterns I bought just make me happy and I can't wait to start some new projects with these beauties!

I also finished another cross stitch door bow. The original kit came with floss colors in mauve and grey blue (very 80's) but I loved the hearts and decided to switch out the colors for deep reds and darker blues. I love the way it came out :)

 

I've spent my evenings stitching more tiny felt dinosaurs for my grandsons while the hubby watches TV. I only have one more Brontosaurus to make and then 4 more palm trees, 2 volcanos and 3 folding play mats and I can cross another project off the list. Lastly (this has been a busy week ) I completed the 4 stockings, 4 ornaments, and 20 gift tags for the swap I am in with my friends Amy, Regena, Mark & Carolyn. I'll post pictures in a few days, after they have all received them. I'm pretty happy with the way they came out and it was alot of fun designing stockings to fit their personalities :)

It's December 1st! Time for another Give-Away!

 It's hard to believe that it's December already! This year has gone by so quickly for me. I spent 6 hours yesterday sewing an early Christmas present for my daughter. I won't post a picture of it until I get a chance to give it to her. In the meantime, I  made this cute little pin cushion from some of the adorable Holiday Happy fabric that I used in the ruffled apron I posted about last week. I just love love love this fabric. I love the little Santa Gnomes :) The pincushion pattern is a free download that I found on allpeoplequilt.com. Since Christmas is a time for giving and I had so much fun reading all the posts from my last give-away I decided to do another one. So this pincushion is up for grabs! It has the poinsettias on one side and the Santa Gnomes on the other side. All you have to do is leave

a post and tell me your name, where you are from and what you plan to do with the pincushion. Will you keep it for yourself or will you gift it to someone? I'd like to know where this little cushion will find it's new home :) You only need to post once and I'll be using the random number picker to choose a winner. You can post until Sunday night Dec. 5th. The winner will be announced on Monday Dec. 6th.

And the Giveaway goes to........

I wanted to say "Thanks" to everyone, old friends and new ones, who participated in my first ever Giveaway! It was so much fun for me to read all your posts that I will doing another Giveaway in December, so make sure you check back here for more chances to win. I consulted Random.org this morning and used their handy dandy random number picker.....

And the winner is (drumroll please).......MARCIA! Congrats Ms. Marcia! I will get your new sewing organizer to you this weekend!

Free Giveaway Reminder

Wanted to remind you that you have until Thursday night to register to win the sewing kit here on my blog.

 Also...over at Wee Folk Art they are also doing a giveaway that you can check out. It's for a beautiful Poinsetta Garland kit. So get on over there and leave them a post for a chance to win. (I'm hoping to win that one myself!)

First Ever GIVEAWAY !!!

A friend of mine mentioned the other day that you could see how many people are reading your blog under the "stats" tab on the blogger dashboard. So I looked. Sometimes there are over 60 page views in one day! There are people reading the blog from as far away as Russia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Latvia, Greece and Japan....who knew? There are times when I can't even get my hubby to listen to what I have to say....and he loves me! I couldn't imagine how they found my blog, but being the very curious person that I am, I decided to ask that question. On top of that, I was trying to figure out how to get these anonymous readers to post something. So I'm doing my first ever GiveAway! I made this really cute Sewer's Organizer yesterday. (The giveaway is for the organizer only, not the contents in the photo) The pattern is available on a free download from Butterick. One lucky reader will win this organizer! You can enter by posting your first name, where you are from, and how you found my blog. Anyone can enter and you only need to post once. A winner will be chosen at random next Friday the 12th of November.