Are you ready for a giveaway?! - CLOSED! Winner announced soon!

As promised, in celebration of my 2 year blogiversary AND my birthday, I'm having a giveaway.

Here's the loot... an embroidered Halloween pillow (pillow form included), a fun Halloween zippered pouch, some Halloween anti-bac pocket pac and Creamy Pumpkin soap from Bath and Body Works (smells YUMMY!)

OOOOO! I love that pillow! Amelia does too. She wants one for her house. I guess I'll have to make another.

If you want enter the giveaway, here's what you need to do:

1. Skip through your neighborhood, dressed all in pink. If you wear a tutu, you'll get 2 chances!
2. Clap your hand 3 times, while spinning around
3. Sing "America the Beautiful" - backwards

I kid. I kid. I hate the giveaways that make you jump through hoops. Just leave me a comment. One comment. That's all I need. And I'll ship international. No problem.

You have until October 19th to enter. I will draw a winner on the 20th.

Good luck!

Jen

It's all about ME!

Happy birthday to ME!

Happy birthday to ME!

Be on the look-out for a giveaway announcement!  Happening soon.  I promise!

Enjoy your day!
The Birthday Girl

Will you help me decide?

Because I am torn!

This year Ameila only has 2 teachers for Kindergarten versus the 4 the couple of years in Preschool.  I would like to stitch her 2 teachers each a christmas towel using the same method I did for my owl towel and I'm undecided as to which design group I would like to use.

I've had this one picked out for a while:  http://www.embroidables.com/store.php?page=product&collection=157  I like the Christmas tree and snowflake in this group and I thought those would make a nice border on a towel.  But then this one came out today and I just love it.  It's a bit less sophisicated but fun and whimsical: http://www.embroidables.com/store.php?page=product&collection=162

I like the Christmas trees and snowflakes in this group as well as the snowmen and polar bear and penguin.

So tell me.  Which group do YOU like??  I'm leaning a bit more to the cutesy one since the gift will be from Amelia; even though I'll be doing the stitching.

Help me decide!  PLEASE!

Enjoy your day!
Jen

Layer Cake Quilt Along

Why not!  I'm going to join.  I enjoyed the Jelly Roll quilt along and I have a Smores layer cake that I bought when the fabric line first came out.  I've done nothing with it but I still have it.  This sounds a good time to use it.

This quilt along starts 2-Nov and goes until 3-May-2011.  What I like about this quilt along is that the designers can't use the accent fabric as much as they did with the first quilt along.  My jelly roll blocks are very white heavy.

So?  Will you be joining too?  I think you should!

Enjoy your day!
Jen

A Giveaway!

Vickie at Spun Sugar Quilts is celebrating her 600th post with a giveaway!  She giving away 6 - SIX - giveaway prizes!  Her selections are GREAT!

So go on over and throw your name in there.  You won't regret it.

Enjoy your day!
Jen

False Alarm

Phew!  My machine isn't broken.  Burns me that I lugged all 40+ pounds of it to the shop to get fixed when all I did was turn around and lug it back home but it's all good.

As soon as I walked in with my machine and embroidery attachment, the man knew what the problem was.  I explained that my attachment was bouncing its way out of my machine which in turn, loses the computer connection and stops what it is doing.  I also have to jam the attachment to get it to connect to my sewing machine which I know isn't good.

His first question to me was "what kind of table are you using?"  I told him just a folding table.  He told me that's where my problem is.  My table is bowing ever so slightly with the weight of my machine which isn't making the connection between the 2 pieces very secure.  He took my machine and embroidery attachment and it just glided and clicked into place ever so gently on a sturdy surface.  He also told me I wasn't the first person who has come in with that same issue and the shop themselves had problems like that.  They've recently got rid of the folding sewing tables that they had in the shop and went to more sturdier tables.

So, crisis averted... thankfully.  I knew I should have called before I went there with my machine but I was headed out to my ceramics class anyway so it was on the way.  Now I can get back to what I was working on yesterday... just have to work at the dining room table for now.

My husband is going to put some plywood on the top of my sewing table so that the surface is more level.  The man at the shop said that should do the trick until I can upgrade myself to a better table.

Enjoy your day!
Jen

Going into the shop

So sad.  My machine needs to go get fixed.  So sad.  I have so much I need to do.  This comes at a very bad time.  I KNEW I should have taken it over the summer.  Bad Jen!  Bad!

I'm was working on my blog anniversary/birthday giveaway and my machine started acting up again.  It ruined my very cute and almost finished project.  :(

So before I go any further with anything, I'm going to drop it off today and beg them not to keep it forever.  I have a Halloween costume to finish, giveaway stuff to do, birthday gifts to create.

UGH!

Since posts without pictures are boring, how about a new one of Punk?  Today was picture day.  Blogger keeps turning my pictures around.  I have cuter ones of her.  This isn't it.

Enjoy your day!
Jen