Its all about the planning!

I didn't sew a lot to post but I did get new Etsy things posted up, sooo I guess I did sew!  = D

I added some new notebook with covers and little key chain pouches.

 Clicky on the Etsy store over there to check them all out!!

I wanted to share a planner that Katrianna over at PrettyChaotic sent to me to review that she has put together and its a great , PRETTY and functional planner! I myself am , like, obsessed with planners, notebooks, anything like that. So I very excited to get to review this one! Thank you Katrianna!

It follows a August 2012 - July 2013 Academic format. I printed a few pages out and it looks great! Its pretty simple to put together as well. Print and cut in half to make a 5.5" x 8.5" half size planner. You could punch you holes and put in a binder or take it to your local office supply store to have it bounded. When I made a bounded planner a couple of years ago my local store only charged one cent a page! plus the wire or plastic binding.
Here are a few pages to see for yourself.. Isn't the cover page pretty!!

 There are the monthly pages with lots of room to write your appointments...

 Pages for lists...

 More lists pages!!! (I love the check off boxes myself)

 There are weekly pages with a space for each person to keep reminders. Here she shows how it's filled...

She has some more images on her page at Prettychaotic if you want to view more. 

(Katrianna gave me permission to use these photos)

She has it marked down to $10 right now to print !! Regular $15. 

I think this planner would be a great family and blog planner !! Go check it out!

Well, I was going to participate  in the Sewmamasew give away day but things are just to hectic here and I did not get anything together to give away = ( 

But I will enter a few !!! That's always fun!!! 

So, last post I said something about exciting news for me.. I think its safe to tell a little bit ..I was just nervous about talking about it before it was official for us. 

This is going to be the view of our NEW front yard!!

See that house waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up there in the front, its the house I live in now. The tree line on the right of the picture is the driveway from the road. 

 Then just left of that is another part of the new front yard.. our little pond. We decided to build a full basement with rooms on top. I think I'm more excited of my new sewing room that will take up 1/4 the of the basement! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

We will let my oldest son, Zoey's daddy , rent the house we are in now. I TOTALLY CAN NOT WAIT! 

But the guy we thought was going to dig it out did not show up to go over the layout nor did he call back for 3 days!!!! So, now we are in search of another contractor.. UGHHHHHHH! People doesn't want money or what???!!! 

And plus we have to wait for my neice to move a house trailer off that sitting back behind where I took the photos. She is in the process of that .. yay! 

So,, anyways that was my exciting news. lol

Hope you all have a good weekend! 

New things..

Ooops I didn't get my post out this weekend.

I want to wish all the mothers and grandmothers a late happy mothers day. WE LOVE YOU ALL! I don't know about you but it should be mother's day every single day.
I went to my mom's for the day. I don't get to visit her as often as I like.. when I do its not to sit long to chat or nothing. So I packed up my huge tote of sewing goodies and off to mommas I went. I sewed some things I needed to finish and she worked on her laptop. Then we ate lunch and ate home made from scratch coconut cream pie......MY FAVORITE!!!

I've been working on new patterns.. Just some little items.. I worked out tutorials for these but no pictures yet to go with the tute.
Some of you know I love paper, pens, anything like that. So I made some little nifty things to put the paper goodies in.

 and open...
Then pink and white one on the top right isn't finished.. lol there's a pin stuck in it..I'll be making more of those flip top one's with some children's prints.These will go in the Etsy shop. Each one of these pattern's are mine. I actually measured out and everything!  There are tons in blog land similar and I wanted my own .. grinz = D

I received some goodies in the mail last week!!! All the way from Singapore!  My friend Jane from ProjectsbyJane blog takes care of her friends and I'm glad I can be one of hers! =)
Aren't the colors so colorful and fun!!! It came with a skirt pattern. The skirt sizes start at 5-6 so I will have to wait to make that for Zoey and well.. I don't think it will fit me. I will be making Zoey something from the fabric though! cute cute cute!! Thank you so much Jane!!!

I do not know how she knew I loved orange and flowers and pink is always fun!!!! but she hit the mark...
There's some white fabric there peeking in the back of it too..





















When I got home from my mom's I saw a small envelope sitting on my desk. It was in my oldest son's Stephen, (we pronounce it Steffen) handwriting and I thought awwww he got me a little something..
It was a gift card for Joann Fabrics. for......$100.. gulp.  I'm itching to go shopping!!!
For my own mother's day gift I bought myself a new camera!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell from my photos how colorful and rich and NOT BLURRY they are!!!!!!!? I'm not one to get all fancy and the best thing out there on the market.. but I wanted SOME quality and after Sasha showed me one she liked and her hubby reviewed it for me I was set. I hate to think and think about things. I make my decision and want it today. I purchased the this Nikon. It was on sale a week ago and with free shipping I went for it. For the price its a great little camera. I've not played with the video settings or nothing else yet. I've hardly had time to take any pictures if that..

I've been going to my local library every week because they been having a book sale.. I think I have purchased about 30 books for .10 cents to .25 a piece altogether. Last week they told me to come back on Monday and take anything I wanted.. I got about 5 more books.. lol.... and about 15 VCR movies.. yes I said VCR.. some of you young dogs and cats out there are probably googling that word .. I even had a VCR player stored in my closet.. (NO I'm not a hoarder.. but hey you never know when things come back in style!! ) I still have my vinyl lp's and small 45's too from the 70's!!! And they are coming back ! yay!
Anyways.. the movies I got are from Zoey. Disney movies mainly. We watched The Fox and The Hound today and she kept asking where Mickey was.. lol he was in the previews..

I want to announce something but I'm waiting as I have to wait until its official and final.... no.. I'm NOT pregnant. so get that idea WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY out of your minds............erase that thought.. NOW!
I'll be 48 in June.. I think... for the last 3 years I've been telling people I'm 46 .. just to keep it save ya know??
But hopefully I can tell you later in the week my surprise.........eeeeeeeeeeeee I'm excited!!!!!!! It has nothing to do with blogs, or sewing either.. lol

Look what my momma made.. She bought a pattern at a yard sale last year for a quarter and threw some scraps together and this popped out.. she hand quilted it. I love it.. It doesn't matter what kind of scraps she works with they always turn out like they were meant to be. There is a little bit of everything in there.

A game for ya.. one of these pictures has something extra LOL

My pet chicken tried to hop in my car today...sigh... she is about to go for a ride to my neighbors that has ducks and chickens.. see how many I can trade for her for some ducks! At least they will stay down at the pond!!! LOL

Have a nice week!!!

My new Ottlite!!

I won a table version Ottlite from little birdie secrets blog a few weeks ago on a give away.. I received it yesterday!! i wasn't expecting it for a few more weeks actually and was very surprised to come home and that it was sitting in my living room. = ) Doug said, UPS man brought ya something..yay!!
I didn't get it unwrapped until today though as I had Zoey bug all day yesterday and well, if she saw it had a button on it for a light , it would be all over with!!

Excuse my messy table.. I've been "thinking" again..

This was the initial first meeting to my old lamp.. she very stylish huh?? But always wanted to knock over at the slightest touch..

You think she took it ok?? She looks sortof glum..= (

I think the new one is proud to set on my desk..I didn't put the old one out to pasture.. she is going to set on my other smaller table =) I think she likes it there better.. 

The light is soooooo much better with the Ottlite.. BIG difference!! And it has a carry handle if I wanted to take it to another room!!

Thought I would show you some things that I put in the Etsy store.. (some say shop, I'm a store person hehe)

Enjoy your weekend!!

I'm not feeling so good so this is short =)

Well hello there...

It seems like I get away from this page longer and longer from each post. I don't intend to...

I love posting pictures on here, I love reading all your nice comments, I love making new friends!! And I do love seeing my blogger follower list grow!!! I don't beg for followers but thinking that some people out there in this big world is interested in my blog post's and want to read about it and see what I sew,, well that makes me very very happy!!! Thank's to all of you that follow through blogger reader and email!!! And welcome my newest followers!! 

It's funny because I'm a shy person and if I put in a room with all of you I wouldn't know what to say!!! But I'm sure someone would break the ice and then I wouldn't shut up.. true words..

I also noticed in my blogger draft page, I past up my 100th post and have seen  people post a celebration for their 100, 200,etc posts. Mine sneekied  up on me and I thought.. oh well.. but then I saw my very first post was on November 4 of last year. Well then I think I will celebrate that because let me tell you why.. skip ahead if you don't care!! haha

I have a habit of starting things and get bored fast. If I read a book and it doesn't keep my interest for two chapters, its gone. If I watch a movie and 15 minutes into it I'm wanting to go to another room and do laundry.. not for me... If my husband talks to me while I am reading a good book or watching a good movie I do like, I try my best to stay interested in what he is saying.. well, you get the picture here.... But my blogging surprised me. I took to it slow. I followed others first before I decided to make my own page. I think one month I had one post!! 

I saw a ad where you can make your blog into a book.. that would be something neat to do later down on the golden years road... 

Ok enough jabbering.. Since my one year blog birthday is coming up I'm going to do some sort of give away.. I got a idea and I hope it will make ya all happy!!! NO don't worry no more bags!! haha I still have some left though!!!

Will announce something on this later on in the month....

Ok I have been sewing.. derrrrrrr

These...

I found this Little Kiddie Pouch here. I think they are so cute.. They have a pleat in the bottom and let me tell you they are LITTLE.. but perfect for little hands. I also put a key ring on them instead of the strap it called for.. I got a thing for key rings. I think they need to be on anything I make!! 

I used the Little Apples print I bought from Julie here. I love that line. I sure didn't want to cut it up either!! The Marvel Comics print I had left over from some backpacks I made awhile back.(bought at Joann's) 

 I made two more notebook covers, but you only see one right? I showed them to Liz my daughter in law to be.. and she snatched one up already, so fast I didn't have time to get a snapshot of it!!!

I have used this owl print a lot in my projects huh??? 

Liz took 3 of my fat wallets I had made up and sold two of them in one night for me!! AND got me 3 more orders!!! So after a post I'm doing tomorrow afternoonish... (you don't want to miss this one!!) I probably will be hiding in my sewing room all weekend.. come to think of it that's not a bad thing for me!! 

I did make me a new purse and forgot to take pictures.. I'll save that for a slow day...

One last thing.. my sweet friend Sasha had a little misunderstanding with her bicycle last week, it ended up her breaking her elbow.. eeks. Wanted to shout out to her that I miss her emails!! lol Go over and give her some cheer up words!!! 

Another note book cover..

I like this one better!! I bought a FQ at Walmart awhile back and had it hidden in the clutter and thought..hmmm this looks like doodling.. so I got busy and cut into it. I added a flap ,MUCH BETTER to use!! and hide the label on the back! (not shown)

I'll add this to sell and see how it goes.. Putting it on Facebook first. If interested clicky on the left up there!! = ) I'll even throw in a ink pen!! and of course the notebook come with it.. I'm going to use the first one for my own for a shopping list. Coupons on one side that I want to use, and the back side I'll put the coupons that won't be used because a certain place I go never has the items..
Sorry I'm typing out loud and rambling again...

Ok, going to go add it now...