I won a couple of giveaways lately:)

Animal Party Too by Amy Schimler

Ryan recently sent me these fabulous prints from a giveaway I won from his site:)  These prints are fun and bright and I can't wait to figure out how to best use them.  For now, I am not cutting into them because I want to save them for a perfect project:)  I am a wimp about cutting into my fabulous fabrics!

I also won this FABULOUS candle mat from Wanda!!!  She made this with 4+ layers of felt and each individual layer is hand sewn with a blanket stitch.  Personally, I don't know what Wanda was thinking when she claimed that this is a candle mat because seriously, it is way to pretty to chance messing it up with candle wax:)  It currently resides on my end table next to my couch.  I am amazed by Wanda's talent, patience and generosity.  I am glad to be a blogging buddy of hers:)

Wanda also sent me a great book.  It has so many patterns in it and I have loved looking through it .  I think that my favorite block so far is the Buttercup Block.  You see, Buttercups are my very favorite flower.  I love the brightness of their blooms but mostly just love that they are a symbol of Springtime's arrival.  When I was little, my Granny always had tons of buttercups lining her property.  She planted them, interspersed with spider grass, as a border of her yard right at the street.  Under the dogwood tree, she has a couple of Easter Lilies planted, too.  Every year at Easter, she would let me pick one of her Lilies and place it in water colored with food dyes to change the beautiful white Lily to purple or blue or pink or whatever else I came up with:)  I sure do miss my Granny!

I think that maybe I should buy lottery tickets since I have had such good fortune with giveaways lately:)  I have been richly Blessed!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a fabulous Spring day filled with Buttercups:)

Sunkissed

Sunkissed is simply fabulous.  Until Monday, QuiltHome.com has the entire line at 20% off.  The coupon code is QHSW20.  I am pretty sure that I need some of each print:)  Oh, to be independently wealthy.....

I wish my computer skills were better honed so that I could post a picture of the yummy fabrics...

Samantha Walker's Enchanted Garden

A couple of weeks ago, I entered a blog giveaway for a bundle of Samantha Walker's  new line Enchanted Garden.  I actually won!!!   She sent me a 1/2 yard cut of each of the coordinates in the turquoise colorway. 

Isn't it pretty?

 

 

I think that I am going to need more of the brown circles print to use as a background piece and want to play with the Wave Pattern that I seem to have fallen in love with recently.  I am supposed to be hemming pants today but just would rather have a lethargic day of doing exactly what I want:)  I think I will do just that!

So, today I would like to have new pajama pants and a start on an Enchanted Wave Throw:)

Have a Blessed Weekend:)

Flickr for the PIF

Kelly was kind enough to send me to the Flickr group for the Handmade Pay It Forward so I wanted to share the link with you in case you are interested in checking it out.

Handmade PIF

Hope to see you there:)

Pay It Forward

Pay It Forward

As I am very new to blogging, I do not, yet, know how to add the cute little button that is on Wanda's blog.  Once I figure it out, I will correct this entry:)  Promise:)

It works like this:

1. Be one of the first 3 bloggers to reply to this post.  You don't have to be a follower, but please, make sure that I have a way of contacting you.
2. I will make each of you something sometime this year. It will be hand made by me.
3.You need to let your friends in blogland know that you are doing a Pay It Forward.
4. Then you will make and send something to the first 3 of your friends that reply sometime in the next year.
5. Then they will continue on the Pay It Forward fun and so on.  

Most of this, I shamelessly copied from Wanda's blog.  She made it so simple to understand and I really like simplicity:)  Forgive me for not asking you first???

Now, I am so new- and bad- at blogging that I only have a couple of followers but hope that the response will be enough that I can play along.  I have done many PIF and RAK in the past on other swapping sites and find that they are tons of fun.  Come play along with us- you won't regret it!!!

Robyn Randolph Sale

QuiltHome  is having a 50% off sale of all in-stock Robyn Randolph fabrics.  I just placed an order for some basic prints that should readily incorporate into most any project.  I love this site; the customer service is fantastic, they get the orders out to you promptly, and the selections and quality are wonderful as well.  The coupon code is:  QHRPF50 at QuiltHome.  Let me know what you find there...

Sick baby girl...

Jesse has been feeling sickly for a couple of weeks now.  She missed her final exams prior to the Christmas Break due to elevated fever and bronchitis.  On Christmas Eve, we ended up in the ER with a perforated eardrum in addition to the respiratory infection.  She hasn't been this sick since she was about 5 years old- it was in December then, too.  This poor baby is coughing so deeply and consistently that she is unable to rest without medication.

So, for Christmas this year, we have been camping out in my bed and watching movies.  While I wish she weren't sick, it has been really great to be able to just be lethargic and watch movies in between her naps.  

Nathan actually had plans with a friend's family this year.  All in all, it worked out well.  Nathan kept checking on his sister but was still able to go out and be festive, too.  When he got in early this morning, he came to check on her again and make sure she was warm enough.  Somehow, he has developed a fondness for his little sister--- but he probably won't admit to it:)

Overall, Christmas was not what I had envisioned this year, but it was good nonetheless!!!  I like it when things work out as they should.