Hello! Ready for a giveaway...........????

I been trying to get my crap together..this that and more.. my sewing room is a mess..again.. and I have been  doing a organizing cleaning .. Trips to the recycle store.. to the trash.. and resorting.. and I can't tell! lol but I busted my bum to get something together for Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!!! I get so excited every year for this! The first year I entered for these was about 3 years ago and I won several things! The next year  not so much.. and then last year......nothing lol But I still love them.. I find new craft blogs to follow and new friends as well! Thats always fun! It starts tomorrow but I will give you a peek at what I'm going to give away.. because I will join in the giveaways this year! yay!  I noticed I have my sewing followers and I have some Filofax peeps.. So I will be fair to you all and explain in the giveaway post tomorrow.. But these are some of the goodies I'm entering to giveaway!  yes I made that..

For my Filofax, paper / planner lovers I will have something too.. will just have to read tomorrow !! But this little pouch can be used for pencils too!!!  ( do you see the cute little strawberry on the zipper pull!)

My focus this month is to get my blog in order .. post more and get some things on Etsy.. I think I said that a few months back.. but life goes on different curves and you just have to do what ya can... 

See ya tomorrow!  

Happy Halloween!

I made my little goody bags just today! I been running behind all week and so busy that I never got to even make special little things for my goblins!! I don't get regular treaters, just friends and family.. I used some printable labels and threw in some home made cookies and bought candy and picked up a package of cute sunglasses in the birthday aisle!

I forgot to take a picture of my little Batman girl last night!! ( my great niece) she was soo cute! But here is my other great niece and her little brother. They did the Wizard of Oz theme, and she had to have a Toto so we put our little bumble bee Baby in her basket! so cute! Excuse my mess in the back!! Its our dumping grounds for shoes and what nots and Doug's work clothes...ugh.

The of course here is Baby dressed up !!! her second year as a bumbling bee!!!

And of course excuse my mess.. It was a Zoey week!!

 Here's our little monkey now!!! and her momma. ( a not so Big Bad Wolf..or maybe she was?? LOL ) her outfit was a knock out though!!

 She even did the monkey sounds hehe

We made cookies today and home made cornbread..She kept saying ewww icky icky.. 

I hope all went well with your Halloween!

Don't forget my giveaway!!

Go here to enter!!!

I will probably leave it open until Wednesday night!! (the 2nd)

Thanks !!

My Planner

I don't remember ever , EVER using so many notes and reminders to myself in all my life!! In the last two years I have to write everything !! down or it will slip my mind completely. I always use to keep everything I had to do stored in my pea brain , but nope not anymore.. I have a notebook for my car I hang up on the vent for all the stops I have to make..My computer screen is bordered with tiny posty notes..and I have a big dry erase board on my refrigerator.  I think I remember hehehe, no pun there, that reading about as you grow older your brain cells die off. I'm IN BIG TROUBLE!! I had very few to start with!!!eeeks

But anyways I have always loved office supplies!!! planners, paper products and pens, post it notes,, etc. I'm so glad my sister works at the Staples warehouse!!!
Last year I made my own planner instead of buying the expensive refills.. one year I actually just bought a notebook and wrote it page by page, it got boring.. or someone would grab the notebook and use it for their own liking.

I made my own pages this year. I used a few different one's from blogs this past year. I like the half size planner the best. And I like to refill and move the pages if I wanted to. Staples has the half size binders and they are very durable.
Here are the pages I made..

 I was wondering if anyone would like a copy of these pages to use?? I print them out two on one full page then flip the page and print two of the second page , then I cut the middles. Make sense? I can email the pages to you if you like!! I  made these using Photoscape!!! The lines look like stitches, you can't see it well here. And don't look at the mistake I made , I punched holes on the wrong sides.. oh dear.

 See my last year pages?? I have the pocket dividers in the back and tabs inside as well.

I add a memo clip on the top of this weeks page. This is a page from last year I had been using. You can view about that one HERE from my blog. There are links to download those too if wanted from Sofiasworld.

You can still have a chance to win my planner I made!!! well the cover for the planner I made.. but it comes with a store bought planner!  Go RIGHT HERE!!! for my give away!!
Parting words.. my son was driving home from work a few mornings ago and he was looking out at a field of wild turkeys. I cringe when I see those birds! Word of experience here!! haha..but one decided they had to comment suicide flying right into his windshield! SPLAT. yep he was mad. 250$ worth of damage to his windshield.
I guess that turkey was wanting to go out of style instead of in the oven!

Give away!!! NOW CLOSED

This give away is closed!


Ok I got it finished!! I have a nice little give away gift for one lucky person that follows my blog =)
My blog birthday (one year anniversary) is Nov. 4th. When I started this I just wanted to record my craft projects. I never knew how blogging worked and saw you could follow others and put comments on and everything! I totally go addicted! I follow over 150 blogs.. Lost count after that...
I never intended to have people follow me but its nice to see people interested in what I make!! and jabber on about......
I thought I would give away a nice present for one person and I wish I could make one for everyone that follows! I probably will get a tutorial up for those that would want one?? For this!!

 I made a 2012 planner cover with planner included. I used the Little Apple's fabric line for the whole thing.

 I added pockets on the inside flaps, I wanted to get the trees up farther so you could see the little squirrels and turtles but didn't work out after I put the pockets on , my bad.

 I made a bookmark because those are always handy to have!!

 The planner I purchased at the Dollar Store, it just has the main stuff, weekly pages, and monthly pages, with a notes page. Also has address sections and information pages like conversion charts on the back.

I was going to put a pen pocket on the outside..and forgot.. I got all excited about the bookmark !!! But you can put one inside one of the pockets or it will fit tight on the velcro  closure tab when closed.
This is a standard little planner so any will do to trade them out if wanted or for new one the next years..
So here we go,, of course you have to be a follower! Because I made this for you!!
You can follow me by email or RSS or Google or whatever else there is to follow from, just let me know how you follow .  Thank you!
Just one comment please and if you comment anonymously please add a name for goodness sakes!! And email ! But of course if I know ya then that won't be hard to track ya down..
I will also throw a pen or pencil of your liking into the pot. I have many to choose from!! I will let the winner know what types I have.

This will stay open through  Monday Oct 31st. and announce winner the 3rd of Nov. =)
Its open to anyone , international as well. And new followers!

Ok,, another Zoey sighting!!

 We did the Spiderman tattoo bandages. If you notice on my arm, she was practicing real inking.
Thank you everyone for reading my blog!!  

Stitch Your Soul: Sunday Sewing - win win win

Go over to Stitch Your Soul and win a hand stamped zipper pouch!!! I love the colors on these!!
Stitch Your Soul: Sunday Sewing - win win win: I had spent this morning making a new batch of purses in advance of a market I am doing in a week or so and so set up a production line, was...


Hope everyone is having a great week!! It's been raining here last couple of days.. but we needed it...like months ago!! Now it will rain rain rain til November and snow snow snow til spring.. I don't like winter... blah blah blah.
= )

Finally........ MY GIVEAWAY!!!! ------CLOSED--------

This giveaway is closed.

I am PROUD to announce I am doing my very own first giveaway! About time huh??? After winning alot of them lol
I was needing to clean out my over flowing shelves of fabric to make room for new stuff..of course! And, I wanted to give something back in return to my bloggie friends, new and regulars(didn't want to say old.cuz, well I don't like that word)  and my friends and family I know reads my dabbling, off the wall expressions, gross humor, doggy tales or "tails" , and very bad picture taking, , , posts. ... OH and my sewing!!

This is all a hobby to me and it keeps me busy and keeps my mind off alot of things going on with my life right now..I don't ask for a zillion and one followers,and not looking to sell my crafty goods to make thousands..but would be nice!! I do this for fun and I really enjoy making things for kids and friends and love cutting out fabric and it ends up being something that can be used and enjoyed.

I have a lot of neat ideas in my head for new purses or neat toys but there are so many great blogs I follow and I get side tracked and have to sew up from those..hehehe...so....
( long pause here, I was over on Pinterest checking out my pins...giggle)

OH yeah the giveaway!!! I'm sure you might of just skipped on down there and read it didn't ya???

Ok here is what you get a chance at winning...


Not 1, not 3, but 5 of these reusable shopping / library bags. You can use them for about anything.. over night bags for kiddies, or stuff toys in ,,ANYTHING! Give a couple to friends if you like!!

 This first batch went to the library but I made these below and have

these too!!

I haven't picked which 5 out because the winner will let me know if you like floral's, stripes, wild, or whatever. Here is another goody for you all... After I pick the winner for 5 bags..each of you others will receive one bag!! ( I really need to get rid of these! lol) I'm not looking for tons of people to enter this,, but if some wild storm arises here I will have to cut it off to 10 .. so if there will be more then 10 persons entering I will have to just pick 10 more winners for one bag.. make sense?? whew,, I wore myself out.. I will use Random.org to pick the winners.. I never used it or looked at using it yet,,,so hope its not hard to do!!

OK!! are you ready for the surprise!!???? The winner of the 5 bags also wins all this.......

26 assorted pens,new! 3 mechanical pencils, 4 highlighters, 3 large clips, 1 key chain (made by me) 1 pair of scissors, 1 zipper pouch(made by me), 100 paperclips(stripy ones!!)  5 assorted sticky note pads, a bag of assorted buttons, some are vintage!, 1 small notebook, few note cards, assorted scrapbook papers,
plus I'll be adding to this list!!  If you win you will have a new surprises. lol I'll be throwing in a sewn book mark too!(not shown)


Some of you know how these giveaways work, those who don't blog or have done any of these giveaway's, please let me know and I will help guide ya!! Or just follow these directions!

Two chances to win!!
1- You must be a follower of course.. and I welcome new ones!!! So leave one comment and letting me know how you follow, blogger, email , RSS feed, whatever.. as long as you stalk or follow me is fine.. =) I have a email sign up on the side and there should be a area for followers as well!
OH and leave your email in the comment..please?
UPDATE!!! PLEASE LEAVE A EMAIL IN YOUR COMMENT !!! I RECEIVE THE COMMENTS AS A EMAIL BUT IT IS A NOREPLY AND I WONT BE ABLE TO CONTACT YOU IF YOU WIN!!! YIKES!!! IF YOU HIT THE FOLLOW BUTTON ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS PAGE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE UPDATES FOR THE WINNER ON SATURDAY .OR IF YOU DON'T DO BLOGS OR FEEDS YOU CAN ALSO FOLLOW THROUGH EMAIL AND IT TO IS ON THE SIDE OF THE PAGE TO SIGN UP FOR THAT! THANKS!!
2- second chance is not necessary but helps for you winning!! Post this in your blog, Facebook or Twitter. Then come back and put a second comment telling me you have done so!!  and leave email again !Thanks!!
This is open international as well!!! I will close this Friday the 26th 9pm EST and  I will pick a winner Saturday the 26th and announce sometime Saturday afternoon..
wow that was a long post!! Good luck and have fun! That's what this is all about right!???

One last thing.. I use a pattern from http://www.greenbaglady.blogspot.com/ I do not take credit for this pattern . If you would like to make your very own go over to her blog and download it!! They are easy to make and take little fabric! AND, so I hear, she will be having her own freebie giveaway sometime tonight using organic fabric and bags from Birch Fabrics , so you might need to check on her later as well for this one!