I've had quite a day.... keep me away from open flames for awhile!!!

Well I'm still working away trying to get ready for a show. I did one last week and did just fair, it was in a tiny town and mostly I sold to other vendors and a few of just the local towns people.  But it was a fun day spent with my sister and my mom and lots of old friends. 

I had quite a day yesterday, I was boiling water to make some tea and I went and sat down to wait for the water to boil and forget to take the pot holder off the top of the kettle, well you can imagine...it fell off into the fire, so I had a small fire and then I was working on some tiny snowfolks and was trying to hurry up the drying process and put their little dresses in the microwave to dry and I came to the basement to put clothes in the dryer and... Yes you guessed it they started on fire!!!! Burnt three of them beyond repair, so I had to make three more and I didn't put them in the microwave this time...  so here they are.. I love them!!! They are tedious work but worth it!!! I hope I sell them all!!! 

Have a great day, I need to get to work, but not with anything hot other than a glue gun today!!! 

Have a good day, Oh and don't forget to sign up for my giveaway... down below... I'd love to hear from you!!!

 Here are all 11 of the tinies I got done... LOTS OF STUFFING OF TINY PLACES!!!

 The Pattern was with the crow... he is kewl too!!!

I added angle wings and the halo to three of them. I love them too!!!   So hard to pick a favorite one!!! 

HE'S HERE!!! And some things I have been working on!!!

HE MADE IT!!!

I recently won a blog giveaway from Pat,ahlcoopedup,and he arrived yesterday!!! He is so nice, which I had no doubt he would be and Pat even tucked in a couple additional goodies, a cute star snowman ornie and some great room spray that smells like cinnamon!! It is wonderful. I sprayed "Frosty" with it!!! 

As you can see my kids like him too!!! 

Thanks again Pat for the great snowman, he will be treasured for years to come!!!  Don't forget to sign up for my giveaway too everyone, it's open until Nov 13th!!! Two posts down!!! I'm getting a kick out of the comments, your gals are great!!

I have added a few pictures of what I'm working on too.... my basement looks like a snowman convention right now!!! Hopefully soon they will all have new homes!!!

Oh I love my kids!! They are my heart!! 
 

 My "country girl" nodder. Her scarf is bandanna fleece...so cute!!!

 Table full of nodders and a couple other designs hiding in the back!!

 These guys just got all glammed up with some mica or glass glitter!! 

 More getting sprakley!!

 Yes,there are everywhere!!!

 Top hat nodder, he was a good seller last year!!

Front view of my country girl!!

Have a great day everyone!!!

Enjoy the quite!!!!

The elections are over!!!
THANK GOODNESS, and now we can answer the phone again, turn on the tv and not be afraid to open the mail box!!!  

This beautiful sunrise greeted the kids and me was we walked out to the bus this morning and it just made my day better by getting to witness its beauty. 
GOD IS GOOD!! 

Today is a new day and life goes on  and it is just a little more peaceful here today!! 
I'm still working like crazy to get ready for my shows, but that's going great too!!!

Also, I just wanted to say thanks for all the great comments about my giveaway prize!!  I wish I could give you all something!!  If you haven't signed up for it the giveaway is right under this post, check it out and sign my guest book please while your here!!  I love seeing all of your blogs, everyone is so talented and creative, it's nice to share our love of creating!!

Have a wonderful, peaceful day!!!

Happy Halloween...and it's finally time for my first blog giveaway!!!!

 Happy Halloween!!!

Okay...now...
as promised...
I am going to have a giveaway!!! I'm have been blessed to have won at least 3 that I can think of, one just last week from ahlcoopedup and so I thought it was time for me to give back. Everything I have won has been so nice, so I'm feeling the pressure!!! 

I am giving away this shelf sitter snow man!! He is better in person. My camera and I are having 'issues'!!! I haven't mica flaked or glittered him up yet, I will give you the option of either or after the drawing!!  I have actually had the pattern for a about 3 years, I got it out of the Holiday Crafts by Better Homes and Gardens magazine in 2007!!! Yes 2007!!!! But I just checked the website, they still have great craft ideas. Maybe not this guy but others just as good!!!  I So it has just been in my "stash" of patterns the one's I always want to do but don't get them all done!!! I did actually see this guy on an Esty page just a few days ago, so someone else has the same 3 yoa pattern !! 

I'm not going to have a lot of 'rules' to get your name in the snowman hat!! Please U.S.  and Canadian address's only. I don't want to leave anyone out, but the overseas shipping is a little steep for me! sorry!!
  Here are your instructions!! :O)...

You can get your name entered up to three times so here we go!! 

1. If you don't already, please, become a follower of my blog!! If you already follow my blog, awesome!!! But please let me know and that you want to be in the drawing and I will count that as an entry!! You don't get a freebie for being a follower and not seeing the giveaway!! I want to know you read my post!! Make sense!? 

2. Leave a comment on this post for your second chance If you don't have a blog, please leave me an email address so I know how to get a hold of you if I draw your name!!!

3. Mention this on your blog for your third chance. 

Okay that's it in a nutshell!!  

The entries open as soon as I  post this...I'm hurrying!!! And I will close it on midnight November 13th. that will be right after the big show I'm getting ready for.  I may even have a few extra goodies to throw in with this guy!! 

Good luck and I look forward to hearing from you!!!

Can we start to panic yet????

Yes it is getting closer!!! 


Christmas Countdown - Christmas Layouts

I've been consumed!!!!

 Okay, so I have been consumed by snowmen!!! I have two shows in the next month just a week apart...so I have been frantically sewing stuffing and dressing snowmen!!

 Some are done!!

 Some are in piles.....

 Some are in my chairs...with no bodies!! OH MY!!

 But they are ALL OVER MY HOUSE!!!

 These guys needs trees and some need faces and hats!!

 This guy is near complete..needs some glitter!!

 I have them in bag and "parts and pieces" laying about!!

Some are in boxes!!!They look like they want out!!!

I am dreaming of snowmen, but when they are done, I need to do some of my arrangements and some ornies and then I always think...."I can do just a few more things".. these shows are my Christmas money so the better I do the better the Christmas for my kids is, so I think if I can get a few more things done that is just that much more that Santa can do!!! I do enjoy it so that does help and thank God for my family being so tolerant of all the snowmen in about every room of the house!! I don't have a lot of storage so it's gets a to looking like a snowman village before to long!!!

Well, I have more faces to put on some of these guys.. be looking for my giveaway... I will pick one and get it on here to go to a new home soon!!!! Have a great day!!! 

I WON THE GIVEAWAY!!!! Yay me!!!

 

OH it was my lucky day!!! I won this wonderful snowman "FROSTY" from my friend Pat of ahlcoopedup I can't tell you how excited I am.  I have a few other pieces from Pat and they are WONDERFUL and this guy will have an honored place in my home for many winters to come.  If you haven't you really, really need to visit her esty shop.  She has some wonderful things that you are sure to love!!!!

Okay NOW.... 

since I was so lucky to have won this week, I PROMISE.. that next week I will have a giveaway. I need to get a few more things done so I have some to choose from and then be looking for a giveaway from me too!!!!  I have won a few and now it's my turn to give back.. I'll keep you posted .... so now that I have said it I HAVE to do it!!!  So keep watching!!!!

Thanks Pat, I love "FROSTY" and thanks to Kate for drawing my name out of the hat!!!! 

Have a wonderful day!!!! I know I'm going to try!!!

"Frosty" giveaway from my good friend Pat!!! So cute

Okay Friends it is getting to be that time of year where if you search the blogs you will find some great giveaways!!! I guess I should do one...humm, I will, someday, really believe me...lol.. I'll keep you posted!!! 
I have been creating, stuffing, sewing and cutting a lot lately, I'm getting ready for a big show in Nov and I've been busy, busy with that. 
Okay, okay, get to the giveaway already!!!
My good friend Pat, ahlcoopedup, is giving away "Frosty", isn't he just the cutest???  You will love him.  Go check out her blog and sign up for the giveaway, she does have a couple of 'rules' to be entered for chances, yes that is chances, to win, but they are quick and painless!!!  If you are lucky enough to win you won't be sad!!!! Pat does amazing work and had several things for sell from her blog also, so go check her out, you will be glad you did!!! 
Okay, get on over there and enter up!!! 
Have a great day , Great People.. now I'd better get to work!!!   

click here too!!!!

Super giveaway from the ladies of PFATT Hurry you only have until midnight tonight to enter!!!

What a better way to begin Fall with a great giveaway from the great group of talents ladies!!??

The ladies of the group PFATT are having a giveaway on their blog and there are sooo many goodies for Halloween to be given away to all those that enter.  But you have to hurry, they have extended the drawing until midnight tonight so please go check them out and leave your comment and post their link to get more entries!!! 
HOW FUN IT THAT!!??

http://pfatt.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-herethe-pfatt-blog-fall-giveaway.html

I'm ALONE all day now!!! What to do..what to do!!!

Okay summer is almost over and now I find myself alone at home!! Yikes...this could be bad or really good, I'll get some sewing done, clean my house and just have some me time!! Maybe!!! It has been June since I posted here, but we did have a busy summer!! My Mother in Law came for a visit in May, then as soon as summer break began we started hitting the pool. Did go as much as the kids would have liked but we did go more than last year for sure. We did get to go the lake with my family for a week, it was great fun and the kids had a blast playing with their cousins everyday!! I July we went to the County Fair in New Raymer, near where I grew up and they had a tiny tot pig show, all the kids had to do was borrow a pig and they got to 'show' it, it was a hit and great fun. Ash got to show Clover and they all got a dollar and a medal for their efforts!! Then our Fair here in town, which the kids call the "rides" fair because there are carnival rides. We went 4 nights to the rides and my Trucker and I even got on a few the kids. It is always fun and a good way to end the summer. We went school shopping and celebrated Brandon's 11th birthday on the 24th of August and they had to start school the next day!!! But we made a night of it for him, took him out for dinner and then home for cake and ice cream and of course the gifts!! My kids are growing up way to fast. Brandon will be in middle school next year and Ash is loving 1st grade so far, but says it is "so long", she's still getting used to being gone all day but says they seem to be outside a lot, which she loves so all is good!!
Me well things here are about the same, my Trucker works very hard every day and is still plugging along trying to keep us a float!! He got a 'new to him' truck this summer but that is a sore subject so we won't talk about it!! lol!!
I need to get back on track with my sewing, the fall show I do will be here before I know it, so I'd better get cracking!!
Hope all is well with all of you and that the past few months have been ones of summer fun and family!!! Have a wonderful day and there are a few pictures from this summer below!! Enjoy!!

First day of school, Brandon 5th grade and Ash in the 1st...they both had some tears!! Well we ALL did!!

Brandon's 11th Birthday!!! He shouldn't be that old yet!!

Brandon with a dragon fly he found!!

Ash at the County Fair, styling in her new hat!!!

Love the hair flying in the breeze!!!

Brandon and Me the fair!

My Trucker and the kids on the rides!!  Ash was having fun!!