WINNER

I was finally able to figure out how many entries everyone had and threw a bunch of names in a bowl.

 I had my boy Tyler pull out three names and would you believe it or not ALL three names were one person. So the first winner is

AMANDA

Then we disregarded the fact that Amanda won all three and pick two new winners!  haha

And the next winner was

Spencer and Sara


And thirdly picked by Kayla was

Lisa Morris

WOO HOO!  So happy for everyone who won!  Everyone who won let me know which hair clip you want and hopefully everyone picks a different one.  If we have any repeats I am going in order of how you won.  WOO HOO

thank you for all of those who entered.  Maybe I'll do one again soon.  :)

Pinterest

Who here is addicted to pinterest?  When the blogging world first started talking about pinterest I had NO clue what it was.  Then I noticed it showing up a couple of times on my STATS for the blog.  I finally decided to figure it out.  I got on it and fell in love immediately.  Then I naturally got both of my sisters hooked and my mom.

Any ways.  I have a board on mine called FLOWERS.  Check it out HERE

I have LOTS of flower tutorials on there.  I also have some under the crafts board that I haven't moved over to the Flower board yet.

If you are wondering what the heck I am talking about and want to join in on the fun of PINTEREST let me know.  I can send you a request to join.  It is so much fun and such a wonderful resource for finding things you need or want.  It is also a great way to share things with people easily.

So take a look under my flower board and find some more great tutorials for flowers.

Don't forget about the GIVEAWAY CLICK HERE  Today is the last day and the contest ends at midnight!  Leave your comments and check back tomorrow to see who wins!

I am off to hit a couple of yard sales with my honey!  We close on our new house any day now and if we don't find some more furniture it's going to look like we spent ALLLLL of the money we had on the house but then couldn't fill it with stuff!  haha  Have a great Friday Y'all!

Awesome Blog

I have posted this before but you MUST check out the blog fabric bows and more !   It has every type of flower and bow imaginable on there and the tutorial on how to do it.  When I first saw this site I about died.  I spent hours on there going through all of the tutorials and learning LOTS.  Go check it out and find all the wonderful options available on there.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the LAST day to enter the giveaway!  I'll see you guys again tomorrow.

Gathered Flower

Some where on the net I had found a flower tutorial and read it but never book marked it or pinned it.  I remmebered it the other day and decided to give it a try while watching America's Next Top Model!  ( Are my sister's, mom and I the only ones who LOVE that show?! )  Any ways.  I got it done but wasn't sure how to put it together completely so the next day I got on line to find it.  CAN'T FIND IT ANY WHERE! Boooooo  I spent like 3 hours off and on looking for it on the internet and pinterest.  It was driving me CRAZY.  Yesterday I was attempting to clean some of my craft stuff and I found a piece of paper my mom had given me with instructions on how to make several fabric flowers and it was on there!  AHHHHH  I wanted those other 3 hours or so of my life back.  So frustrating.  But before I had realized I had the instructions all along I went ahead and put the flower together how I wanted it to be and put it on another garter.  I LOVE how it came out.

So my question to YOU guys is DOES SOMEONE HAVE THIS BOOK MARKED OR PINNED SOMEWHERE?  You make this flower by take a piece of ribbon or fabric and you basically stitch up and down the length of the ribbon in a zig zag pattern and then you pull the stitch to gather it.  You get this gorgeously gathered petal flower.  Any ways if you have a tutorial for it PLEASE let me know.  I want to see how they say to assemble it AFTER you gather it.  I just kinda did it best I could but am curious what the actual instructions say.

So THREE people have signed up for the giveaway.  And I am giving away THREE things.  haha  SO far I have automatic winners!  If you are reading this now thinking, "What giveaway?"  click here  to check it out and participate!

Tonight we are doing a craft night for the ladies at church and I am teaching them how to make flowers. We'll see how it goes.  I am really excited and hope it will be a success.  "See" Y'all tomorrow.

My Cutie Pie Designs

Today I am featuring an etsy shop called My Cutie Pie Designs.  It has all sorts of fun hair clips including seasonal ones.  She has several for Halloween so if you wanted to get some for the holiday coming up go grab some up!

Her etsy site is My Cutie Pie Designs 

She also has a facebook page where she sometimes does sales and giveaways!  WOO HOO  Check out her facebook page HERE  Go LIKE her page and I am sure she would appreciate it!

Go support a fellow crafter and check out her stuff!  Later today I am hoping to get some more stuff up here so here's hoping I find the time!

Don't forget the current giveaway.  Enter by clicking HERE

I'll see you later with a tutorial and some hair things.

Flower Week and a Giveaway!

I had a BUSY day!  I haven't had time to sit down and write a proper post but I wanted to get this giveaway started.  SOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm going to be giving away 3 hair clips from my shop!  That means 3 winners!  WOO HOO  I am also thinking of doing another winner where the person doesn't get to choose something from the shop but just gets a bag of hair bows and things I made that I never put on a hair clip.  Does anyone else do that?  I have like 20 hair clips/flowers/bows that I made to put on an alligator clip or what not but never actually put on something and then it just sits there.  Any ways.

I am going to give you guys a couple of ways to win.

1. Be a follower or become a follower

2.  Visit my etsy page and "like" it.  I don't think I have a single one  haha

3.  Blog about this giveaway on your blog or write about it on facebook

4.  Visit my etsy shop and leave me a comment telling me which hair clip ( or head band ) you would choose if you won.

That's it.  If you do any of these leave me a comment and please leave a comment for each one.

Visit my etsy store HERE and if hair clips aren't your thing I'd be willing to let anything 10 dollars and under go!

Thanks for all of you who read my blog regularly and leave comments.  It is so nice to see when you want to show something off or get feed back on something.

Please let me know if you would like me to feature you this week.  Tomorrow I have an etsy shop to feature and a hair bow tutorial so come back and check out all of the fun!

*****ADDED*******

SO THIS IS WHY I SHOULD NOT DO THINGS WHEN I AM TIRED.  I DIDN'T TELL YOU WHEN THE GIVEAWAY ENDED!  GIVEAWAY ENDS FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT AND I WILL ANNOUNCE THE WINNER ON SATURDAY.  ALSO GIVEAWAY IS FOR USA AND CANADA ONLY.   THANKS AGAIN

GIVEAWAY

Well I was a little discourage this week because only ONE person responded to the need for a giveaway.  BUT  I decided I don't really care and I am going to do one anyways!  HAHA  I really need to get rid of some things from my etsy shop and so why not give a couple of them away right?  So starting tomorrow I will be posting the info about that.  Amanda if no one enters then you will win everything right!?  haha  So we'll see how this goes everyone.

Going along with the giveaway I am going to feature a hair clip every day.  Either one of mine or maybe someone else's.  Do you have a hair clip or flower tutorial on your blog you want me to share next week?  Let me know.  My email is on the right hand side of my page.  Also, if I can figure out how to use the linky thing Thursday I think I will do a linky where you can link to your blog with any hair clips you have made using one of the tutorials I will post or just making your own.  This week goes perfect for my personal life because on Wednesday we are having craft night for the ladies at church and I am in charge of teaching everyone how to make flowers!  I can't wait.  So we'll see how that goes and I'll keep you all posted.

So until tomorrow....

More Garters

I finally made some more garters.  I like how they came out.  I had been looking on etsy and noticed that quite a few people who were selling garters decorated stretchy lace.  I thought that seemed like a really cute and fun idea.  Not to mention EASY!  So here is what I came up with

Isn't it cute.  I think this would be so cute around a brides leg.  I bought a boring one from the store.  I wish I was as crafty now as I was when I got married.  I would have made tons of stuff instead of buying it and it would have been cuter.  I am not planning on getting married every again so oh well.

the last two are matching ones so I was thinking of selling them as a set.  A toss garter and a keep one.  We shall see.  My etsy shop has been SOOOOOOOOOO slow lately.  I haven't sold anything in weeks but I spent a bunch of money buying supplies and haven't managed to make them yet.  I am seriously going through a rut right now.  I am thinking of doing a giveaway next week.  We shall see.  I was thinking about having next week be HAIR week and then giving away one of the hair things from my shop.  Would anyone be interested in that?  the rest of the week I was going to post hair ribbon tutorials and what not.  Either my own, or ones I find on line.  We'll see.  Leave me a comment if that sounds at all interesting to you.  I hate putting lots of effort into something only to have no one respond.

Pinterest has been one of my many down falls.  I LOVE IT!  But it takes up time that I could be using to do something else.  I usually get on pinterest when I only have 5 minutes.  You know like, I am making my kids grill cheese and so I will go through things on pinterest in between flipping the sandwich.  So pathetic I know.  It makes me feel like I am doing SOMETHING other then cleaning, cooking and helping my kids with stuff.  I am hoping to get into a better groove and better time manage soon.  Because it's killing me to be so out of whack.

I potty trained my girl this weekend.  She is doing really well.  Last night I put on her diaper so she could go to bed and then we were reading scriptures and she says, "I have to go potty!"  and ran to the bathroom, took her diaper off and went on the potty!  WOO HOO  I am SO happy she didn't just go in her diaper.  Today we haven't had any accidents and I am crossing my fingers it stays that way.  Happy Thursday everyone!

Do You Remember?

Do you remember back in May or June when I blogged about a camera bag I REALLY wanted but they were out of stock in the color I wanted? WELL, they have the color in stock again! I have been debating on buying it or not. I HATE spending large amounts of money on one single item. Last month I bought my new backdrops and I haven't regretted that yet! I got great pictures of my sister and her little family. Check out my cute nephew

Here he is with his daddy sporting one of the bow ties I made him!

So I LOVE my backdrops!  I haven't used all of them yet so I still need to get some bodies over to my house so I can try out some more.  And now I am debating on buying the bag.  BUT WAIT!  Over at sew.craft.create.  She is giving one of these camera bags away that I want!  I am sure I will not win because I just am NOT That person who wins things ever BUT I am blogging about the giveaway any ways.  Today is the last day to enter so go on over and enter because you never know when you might win something!  And even if you don't win the blog itself is SUPER cute and you might get some new great ideas!

Since I am showing you pictures from my little photo shoot wanna see some more?  Check out my cutie pie Kayla girl

And the BEST picture I could get of the two of them

And then my boy!  The first picture I posed.  THEN he decided to pose himself...

LOVE this one!  haha

And if you knew my boy you would know him this picture describes him to a T!

Don't forget to go over to the giveaway and enter for your chance to win a camera bag!

WINNER

I have to tell you what happened!  You know how most blogs doing giveaways use random.org to produce a number?  Well before I had all the entries for the giveaway I put in some numbers and it gave me a number.  After I went to sleep someone else entered so I had to do it again. It gave me the same number,  Hmmmmmm.  I was thinking since it was such a SMALL number I was putting in maybe it just was having a hard time.  So I tried about 5 or 6 more times and EVERY single time it gave me the SAME number.  I decided that was random then, and I threw all the names in a bowl and did it the old fashioned way.  This gave me the real winner which is

Mrs. Sassy Crafter

WOO HOO  I know she is going to be happy about that!  I would have laughed hysterically if I pulled the same number from the bowl as what the random.org kept giving but it wasn't.  So thank you to ALL 6 of you who entered!  haha  I wish I had enough for all of you.  So Mrs. Sassy Crafter email me your address and in a couple of days I will be mailing off your package!

Again thank you to those who played along.  I really appreciate it and hope we can all continue to do things to help the Earth and not just this month because we are supposed to.  :)

Earth Day Giveaway

Today is the last day to enter the Earth day giveaway and do you know what?  I have had only one person enter!  BOOOOOO  No one wants free stuff?!   Let's see if we can get some other entries today or my one entry will win by default.  You have until midnight to enter.  Go here for the original post to see what you would win!

2 Reusable shopping bags for your purse
Home made deodorant
Kirt's Castile Soap bar
Hand made grey hair flower made from recycled satin
small container of coconut oil

Let's see who wants a chance to win.

So in other news I did some sewing yesterday!  Oh my gosh it is turning out SOOOOO cute!!  I wanted to make a dress for Kayla out of the skull and cross bone material I bought with my gift card from JoAnns.  It's not done yet but check out how cute it is turning out

It is so hard to tell from these pictures but it is turning out so cute.  The back has buttons for the straps to attach but I haven't done that yet which is why I didn't hang it up to take pictures of it.  When it is ALL done ( hopefully today! ) I will get some more pictures up.   Girls can have skull and cross bone Easter dresses right?!  heehee

Earth Day Giveaway

At the beginning of the month I talked about doing a giveaway for Earth Day.  Well, Earth day is quickly approaching and I have been busy getting ready to leave for a trip back to Utah.  I will be gone for a week and a half.  I am leaving on Easter, which happens to be the day after my mom's birthday and then I will leave around the 5th of May, which is the day after my oldest sister and my dad's birthday!  It should be fun!!  So my apologies at getting this giveaway up kinda late but it still gives you guys a good couple of days to enter.

Since this is for Earth Day I have a couple of Earth friendly things to offer you.  First, some of my home made deodorant.  Second I am offering a grey hand made flower made out of recycled fabric.  I always wondered what people meant when they said recycled fabric.  Well, this used to be a bridesmaid skirt that just hung in my closet.  Now it is being made into lovely flowers!  Here's a picture

MUCH better then just sitting in a closet right?  And the main prize is a set of two mini reusable shopping bags!  These are nice because they fold up and fit into your purse.  That way you ALWAYS know you have some.

So how are we doing on the giveaway?  I feel like it isn't enough.  How about I throw in a little container of some coconut oil too!  That way you can try some of the coconut oil suggestions we've been talking about.

Here is how to enter Y'all.  Leave a comment about something you are trying to change to make your life a little greener.  It could be trying some of the coconut oil suggestions.  It could be doing the home made deodorant.  It could be using reusable shopping bags.  It could be making your own hair care products.  Whatever it is leave me a comment telling me about it.

If you want another chance at the giveaway blog about what you are doing to make the Earth greener!  This is ALL about spreading the word so others can join in and find other ways to help out the Earth.  It is up to us to make the world a better place.  We do so by educating ourselves and then educating others.  So let's spread the word!  Leave a separate comment for each entry and good luck!

* ADDED-   This just added!  I went to shower right after writing this post and remembered one of the items I was planning on  giving away!  Kirk's Original Coca Castile soap.  This is a coconut oil soap!  Sweet!  It's all natural, hypoallergenic skin care with no animal by-products or synthetic detergents.  :)

Earth Day

HAHAHAHAHA  Here IW as thinking Earth Day was sometime in March and about a week and a half ago I looked it up on the internet only to find out it is in April.  Boy was my face red.  This is why there has been a SERIOUS lack of Green post for the last two weeks.  Earth Day is actually on April 22nd.  It should be easy for me to remember from now on since it is the day before my mom's birthday.  I am excited for April to come because I have been looking up recipes for all kinds of things for y'all.  I am excited to be sharing them.  I have not tested all of them.  With all of the things out there I do not have enough TIME or MONEY to test everything.  Anyone interested in tested out a formula I find and then doing a guest blog post?  Let me know.

In the mean time, I have been loving my deodorant still!  It's wonderful and my arm pits have been SO soft.  I ALWAYS have ingrown hairs in the area.  Gross I know, but every since I started the home made regimen I have only had maybe 3 the whole month.  Usually I have 3 in a week.  No wonder too since I have been trying to find new uses for my left over coconut oil.  I have discovered that it is a GREAT moisturizer.  If you bought some to make the home made deodorant and were wondering what to do with yours, start rubbing it on your face once or twice a week after you wash it.  It soaks in wonderfully and does NOT leave an oily mess on your face.  It also smells wonderfully yummy.  There are so many uses for coconut oil that I think I might post one for everyday in April.  I am sure there are that many uses for it.

Another thing I have in mind is for a give away the on Earth day!  I have some really cute green bags that will fit in any purse that I bought two sets of on sale for REALLY cheap from Avon.  I have been wanting to do a give away but wanted to wait until the appropriate occasion and I think Earth day is perfect!  I am also going to throw in some home made deodorant and some home made chap stick.  Maybe I'll have one or two more home made items to throw in by then as well.  So stay tuned and be on the look out come April first for some great tips, tricks and recipe for GOING GREEN!

My birthday is April 6th and to help with all the green things I wanted to do during that month here on the blog I told my husband I wanted a book for my birthday.  My sister bought the book loved it and then bought it for my other sister.  I was originally going to buy it for myself and put it off and never did it.   NOW I ordered it from Amazon and I can't wait to get it!  I know it is filled with awesome suggestions and recipes.  It is also a fun read and not super boring as I read some of my sisters when she first bought it.  The book is called GORGEOUSLY GREEN by Sophie Uliano  Check out here web site HERE .  I am going to be checking it out later.

Hope everyone has a great Friday!  I was so happy last week to FINALLY sell my first thing on etsy.com  TODAY, I sold my second thing.  WOO HOO  It happens to be one of my favorite hair clips I have made.  I am glad someone will get to enjoy it and it is not just sitting here at my house any more.  HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE!  I know I am having a good one.  I get to do a photo shoot for some dear friends this weekend before my friend Jason gets shipped off to Iraq for a long time.  I'll share some pictures on Monday.  Until then, I am praying for no rain.

Another Giveaway

I have a giveaway going on with another blog. If you are a memeber of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( otherwise known as the Mormon's ) Go check it out! GO HERE to see what I am contributing to the giveaway and go HERE to read all about the Proclamation to the World. The blog is doing a WHOLE MONTH of the Proclamation where they are doing give aways all month long and having lots of guest post from all sorts of Members of the Church. They have already started the month out great with some wonderful post! Go check it out. If you have NO idea what I am talking about but want to learn more about FAMILIES and unity and being a better Mom, go check it out. I think EVERYONE can learn more about being a better mother and wife. Bringing out families together is SO important and the month is dedicated to helping us. What a wonderful thing for all of us in blog land!!!

Hope everyone had a great Sunday. Enjoy your families and enjoy Labor day tomorrow. I know we are so excited to have Daddy home to share it with us.

Last Day

Today is the your last chance to enter the giveaway I have going on right now. Go HERE and leave a comment if you want to be entered for a chance to win something sewn by me.

I have things to post but I am heading out for a couple hours. Hopefully I will have some time later to get some stuff up here. How was everyone's weekend? Hopefully it was good. I FINALLY wore a dress I got from our church rummage sale where everything was free. I needed a slip for it and finally got one. I brought my camera to church and was going to have my SIL take some pictures for me after to church so y'all could see how freaking cute it was but alas we had mishap. We walked into church and sat down. About 30 seconds later Kayla started fussing and wanted down. I bent down to set her on the floor and I heard a rip! CRAP! Then about 30 seconds later ( as church was JUST starting ) Tyler pokes me and says, "Mom I have to go potty". seriously.....so we go to the bathroom and I check my dress and sure enough there was a hole in the seem RIGHT over my butt! My purse with my cars keys is IN the chapel. DOH! I had to walk in, grab my purse and walk out. Then GO HOME ( which is only 3 blocks away but STILL ) get the kids out of the car, change my clothes, back in the car and back into church in a NEW outfit. I wonder how many people noticed....

I always wonder why those kinds of things happen when Cody is out of town. Had he been there I could have just snuck home and changed without bringing the kids and dragging them in and out of the car. Oh well.

Promise, Promises

I promised a new giveaway this week. Since it is Thursday, I guess I should get around to doing that! haha I have been SO lazy. And tired. If my husband could still get me pregnant I would totally wonder because I have just been feeling really tired and off. My sister said it is the coming home from vacation thing which puts us in that odd funk and I would have to agree with her. Normally when my husband leaves on a trip I clean like crazy and have a bunch of projects going and I am busy. This time he left and the house got messier and messier...good thing I am baby sitting my friends kids today because that is what FINALLY gave me the motivation to clean my house. Even then it is still not spotless. Alas I must find the energy to get some stuff done!

Leave me a comment here if you would like to win a hand sewn item from me! When the winner is picked I will let them choose between a wallet, purse, hair bow or a eye glasses case like the one I made HERE.

This time let's make it a little more interesting. I only had 19 people enter the giveaway last time which was still nice for my first time. This time, I would like to make it a better competition. SOOOOOOOO leave a comment for your first entry! If you want to have another entry and another shot at winning, become a follower. Already a follower, just leave another comment and say, "I already am a follower!" You must leave a comment for each. Want one more? Blog about the giveaway linking back here and I will give you a third entry. WOO HOO Again, just remember to leave another comment. Don't feel like a stalker ( that is how I felt trying to win the silhouette cutter a few weeks ago! haha I was leaving a million comments on each blog giving them away. Over the next few days I will add some new patterns I just bought over the week. When the time comes to announce the winner, you can pick on the the patterns I bought as your thing I will make you. Also do you remember I bought a bunch of fabric a month ago? I have only used one TINY little scrap of one piece. You will get choice of which ever two fabrics you want! WOO HOO

Since I started the giveaway a little late in the week, I am giving y'all over the weekend to get your comments down for a chance to win. Tuesday the 24rd I will be announcing the winner so comments must be left by midnight on MOnday the 23rd. So get to comment leaving for your chance to win a personalized purse, wallet, eye glasses case or hair bow. Let the competition BEGIN! Happy Thursday Y'all!

Giveaway Winner

This morning when I got up I went to the true random number generator and put in our numbers. It came up with number 12! This was Rebekah!

rebekah said...

This is gorgeous!


Yeah Rebekah! I will be emailing you later to get your address so I can get this mailed out to you this week!

Thank you everyone for entering and remember some time this week I am going to be doing a new giveaway for something hand sewn to celebrate my one year anniversary with my sewing machine. I am excited to do this.

Last Day Giveaway

This is the last day to enter my giveaway for the canvas print 13 X 19 in size.

Go HERE to enter the giveaway! Only a few people have entered so make it count and go do so today if you haven't already. Tomorrow I will post a winner.

Also it is Friday which means lots of links for New Friend Fridays. I hope to get some new followers and make some new friends and add to my ever increasing list of blogs to stalk! haha Also, don't forget next week, I will start my second give away with a hand sewn item to celebrate my one eyar anniversary of buying my sewing machine and changing my life forever. Oh how I wish I had bought it sooner! I bought my first PDF file from etsy.com for a purse I am SO looking forward to receiving it in my inbox so I can get started because let me tell you, it is a WAY cute purse and was super cheap for the pattern. I gotta run and get my kids up but I am praying for a GOOD Friday the 13th ( my day yesterday was horrible! I will blog about it later ) So Happy Friday the 13th everyone and again, don't forget to enter the giveaway if you are interested! THANKS!

GIVEAWAY

Sorry I didn't get back to y'all yesterday. We had an interesting evening. Story to follow but first things first, who wants a free canvas print of a beach?!?! I figured since we just got back from our vacation I would celebrate by giving away a picture of the beach on canvas! WOO HOO



The give away is for a 13 X 19 CANVAS print of the picture above. I LOVE this picture. I have this same one blown up in my family room ( well I did until we started remodeling this room and my husband dropped the frame and the glass broke and scratched the picture. ) If you would like to enter the give away, Just leave me a comment below! I plan on doing a sewing give away some time next week to celebrate my 1 year anniversary with my sewing machine!


Any ways...my day yesterday was crazy! I had forgotten that Kayla had her 18 month check up which meant shots! It was also RIGHT during nap time and she was already overly tired from vacation. She was excellent for her appointment but was done being good as soon as we tried to go shopping. It was 4 and we didn't have any food at home, so we decided to go to Target and then eat directly after. Kayla was being a MONKEY! As we were walking out to the car Cody and I debated on what to get for dinner. I really didn't want to do a sit down place because I was worried about Kayla being crazy. Then my husband said, "Maybe she is hungry." he was right. She had lunch WAY early so we decided on BJ's which is a sit down. We went in and sat down and Kayla started crying because I tried to help her with her milk. Then Tyler announces he has to go potty. BOOOOOO I took both of them since she was crying and only wanted mommy. She cried the whole time we were in the bathroom. Just to clarify, when I say CRY, I really mean SCREAM. Like uncontrollable screaming, kicking, arching her back....all that good stuff. We go to sit back down and daddy and went ahead and ordered her food so it would come and maybe she would stop screaming. I try and give her some food and she freaks out. I decided to take her outside. Every one was staring at us probably wondering why I hadn't taken the brat outside yet any ways.

We get outside and she is still out of control. Kicking, screaming, arching her back, throwing herself on the ground...I gave her Tylenol in case her leg hurt or something from the shots. After about 10 minutes I take her back inside and she is still crying. Finally she falls asleep on me and went completely limp. Like, it felt like I was holding fifty pounds and I had gotten a salad. Booooooo

Long story short, she ended up having a hurty tummy. She poop about 6 or 7 times yesterday and normally she poops one or two. She also had some serious diaper rash which didn't help matters. Needless to say I didn't really get back on the internet last night. My husband was leaving again today for another 3 weeks for work so we wanted to have some time to hang out just the two of us before we went to bed. It was a long day.

Today has been slightly better. I am hoping to get some vacation pictures up on facebook and our family blog. Maybe some artsy pictures on my photography blog too. I will share some here as well. I am crossing my fingers.

DON'T FORGOT TO LEAVE ME A COMMENT ABOUT THE CANVAS PRINT! Just so you know on etsy I sell this size for 60 so it is a good FREE item! I will leave the GIVEAWAY open until FRIDAY the 13th which I think is an excellent day to give something away! I will announce the winner on Saturday! Hope everyone has a great week!

SILHLOUETTE SD

Okay so I am sure everyone has been seeing the Silhlouette SD giveaways on several blogs. Well I would seriously LOVE to win this thing so I am doing everything it takes to win including blogging about it on here. So for those who haven't seen it yet, go check out the give away over on one of these blogs

@ V AND CO.
@DOLLAR STORE CRAFTS

Other places are offering a free machine as well and if you feel silly trying to win one but want it for your own and have 200 plus bucks sitting around waiting to be used, you can buy one for a great price and with some sweet discounts right now. So go check it out on one of these blogs and enter for a chance to win!