Guess Frannie's Halloween Costume Contest

Marsha is having her 2nd annual Halloween Costume contest. And you know what? My blog has a CLUE on it! Who knew?? LOL. I know what the clue is ;)

Look at Frannie last year. Glinda the Good Witch from Wizard of Oz. Beautiful! I want to know how Marsha made her crown! And secondly, I'm going to hire Marsha to make all of Punkie's future Halloween costumes. LOL!

So pop on over and give a guess! And I'm not aganist taking fabric bribes if you want to know what the clue is. LMAO!

Enjoy your day!

Jen :)

OH! Another Giveaway!

Jackie at Canton Village Quiltworks is having a giveaway with 5, that's FIVE, chances to win!

Here's one of the prizes...

Oh. I WANT one of these!

So pop on over and enter. Good luck!

Enjoy your day!

Jen :)

A Giveaway

Kris - Dandelion Quilts - is having a giveaway for her 200th post. She also incorporated remembering those around us that are struggling this holiday season. What a nice idea.

There is no need to donate to be included in her giveaway but what's a dollar or two? I know by the time Christmas comes, I've donated at least 5 bucks to the bell ringers in front of various stores. I can't walk by them without giving. I feel like a heel if I do. Especially when it's cold outside. You can even designate what location your donation should benefit.

So, go and check out Kris's post about her giveaway and good luck!

Enjoy your day!
Jen :)

Halloween Giveaway Goodies

I got myself in gear and got all my goodies together to send to QuiltingDaisy, winner of my "Celebration" giveaway. They will be going into the mail tomorrow or this afternoon if I have time.

I wanted to make more for the giveaway but I only had time to make the embroidered towel. Taking lead from my friend Kris (dandelionquilts), I tried my hand again at machine embroidery.

Came out pretty good, I think!

Here's a close-up of the pumkin.

I got the pumpkin embroidery pattern from SWAK embroidery. I love their site. LOVE it. There are so many things I want to do off the site and their sister sites. And their instructions are very easy to follow. I'm going to be making some Christmas/winter towels too. I think with snowmen.

They have one project that has been on my mind since I found the site about 6 months ago. This one. Since I can't find a darn thing with Amelia's name on it, I would love to make her a personalized pillow. And I adore the font they used and it's all done in the hoop. On their sister site, youcanmakethis.com, they have the letter patterns for sale to make it "manually" but I like how I can set my embroidery machine up to do all the curves and stuff and I just have to sit back and watch it come alive before me!

I did a practice run with the pillow but I ran into some puckering so I put it aside. I'm taking a stablizer class/lecture in a couple of weeks. That's going to help me a lot in getting over my machine embroidery fears.

That's all I got. I'm up for a very quiet weekend. Punkie is going with my in-laws today to New Hampshire for the weekend. So I'll have Saturday and Sunday all to myself! What to do? What to do? My list is long. I have lots of sewing to get caught up on and some movie watching to do. I don't think I'll be bored at all!

Enjoy your day!

Jen :)

Pumpkin Carving!

A few weeks ago, Amelia mentioned that she would like to carve a pumpkin this year for Halloween. I was all for the project since it had been years since I myself have carved a pumpkin. Last year we painted faux pumpkins. Which reminds me, I should go dig them out and display then outside. We bought one of those carving kits with all the little tools and templates for the occasion.

This past Sunday was a rainy, cold day so it was a perfect day to stay inside and carve. We went out in the morning and bought ourselves a pumpkin and after nap-time, we started.

Amelia REALLY wanted to do the carving but we talked her into helping remove the insides and poking out the carved pieces. Here are some pictures from our project.

Daddy getting started. Marking out the top. See how interested Amelia is?? LOL!



Here we go! Taking out the pumpkin guts! Amelia is NOT impressed.


This was her reaction to the task.


EWWWWWW! Pumpkin juice! Mama! It STINKS.

Busy carving out all the bits and pieces.


Punkie with her pumpkin!


All done! It's kinda spooky, Mama.

Can't wait to do it again next year!

Enjoy your day!

Jen :)

Another Giveaway...

Check it out... knitty bitties is having a giveaway of her cute - I think I overuse that word; need to come up with another adjective - happy little coffee coats!


I'm NOT a coffee drinker but these would make great gifts. I hope I'm the lucky one ;)

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Jen :)

A Giveaway... go check it out!

Brenda at Pumpkin Patch Primitives is having a giveaway and a good one! Go and check it out! I'll post a picture of what's she giving away...


See? I told you it was a good one!

Good Luck!
Jen :)