Book of Numbers Tutorial

For tutorial go here.

Mum's having a giveaway--

One of her projects made an appearance in this magazine- go check out her blog and comment for a chance to win!

I kind of fell out this week... a ton has been going on but nothing you all would find interesting... hopefully I will get my act together and be back this next week! - no promises...

Happy Birthday to me - To you! AKA the Stand Mixer Cover Tutorial

Please go here for the full tutorial

Redraw for the Garland Giveaway

Unfortunately I didn't hear back from the winner of the Garland Giveaway. So lucky for you guys I picked a new winner!

Conny! 

Please contact me (jessica_m_m@hotmail.com) within the next 5 days with your mailing information or I will redraw another winner.

Thanks again for everyones participation.

** Micah's officially 4 months old today- how did that happen so fast?!*

Box of Chocolates Garland Giveaway *and the winner is*

For full tutorial go here.

Box of Chocolates Garland Giveaway

*this giveaway is closed*

Finally a little giveaway for you! This garland might look familiar to some of you since I made a similar one for myself last year. (And I don't want to talk about it but I like this new version better) I thought that since I was nearing my 250th post (what?!) and Valentines day is just around the corner one of you might like to have it!
So up for grabs is this yummy (roughly) 8 foot long wool blend felt garland with hand embroidered detailing.

If you would like to enter please leave a comment.

For extra entry's you can

1. Follow me

2. subscribe

3. blog about my giveaway

Just leave me an additional comment for each one (if you're already a follower or subscribe it still counts as an additional entry so leave a comment!)

The giveaway will be open until next Friday (the 28th). When I will use random.org to pick a winner (If the winner does not respond within 5 days, a new winner will be chosen)

This giveaway is open to everyone anywhere!

And the winners are...

I asked my random number generator (Uber) to pick two numbers and he chose 4 and 8.

So the winners are Joan


and Kelly

Contact me with your emails. (Make sure they can accomodate a 9.38MB file)

Thanks everyone for playing along. The tutorial is also up in my shop.

Thanks for all the love on the slip covers!!

Tomorrow's the last day for the GIVEAWAY...

So for everyone who wants something actually mailed to them for the giveaway I will try and get on that someday when I have some spare time. But that probably wont be soon because I am stretched REALLY thin right now, works CRAZY, I am teaching at church, I am trying to learn the guitar, and there is more going on but just right there you can see I am swamped. But I am wanting to do it... and would love suggestions as to what YOU guys would want to see as the prize... because I really don't know what you would want!
We checked out a antique mall/flea market on Saturday morning, I went with low expectations (this is something I am working very hard to make myself have ... I am not trying to be pessimistic, just realistic) anyway back to the story- low expectations - they were right on the mark. The antique mall had no furniture and a lot of overpriced dishes. But I did find this

Don't ask me why but I totally dig these. ( It's a power line insulator for those who don't know) A friend where we used to live collected these and had them in all sorts of colors and I always found them fun to stare at...they are absolutely not useful in anyway.

The flea market side of the thing was rough. In our area local farmers do not sell at farmers markets they like to sell at the flea markets.... can anyone explain this to me?? And they are the only good thing there... which kinda weirds me out. I really wish someone would open a decent farmers market. Other then that flea markets in the area are actually junk markets they are rather a depressing place to go and I have seen nothing at the two I have gone to that I would touch and I don't know if the vendors are really as bad off as they look or if they dress for pity but I don't think I will be checking anymore out any time soon.

So another insane project is completed. I bought the Pottery Barn Megan chairs after staring at them for 2 years and what do you know the next month they discontinued them...after having them for YEARS... they never came out with another slip cover and none of the ones in their last batch matched my house. Did I mention I even asked the lady if they were discontinuing them before purchasing them and she said no... So anyway I finally decided to make myself some. I have 8 chairs... oh dear was this a project. I now know that I very extremely dislike sewing the same thing repeatedly ... it makes me a nasty person. I had to make my own pattern and everything. 19 yards of fabric and 8 invisible zippers later I got done at 11pm last night I will never try and do this many at one time again (I started them last Saturday) next time I will pace myself ... haha

I think they turned out very well. Only a few mishaps. Which we are not discussing here...

I am really hoping the fabric holds up well it's not as thick as the store bought ones. Why is it impossible to find fabric as nice and thick as what stores carry stuff made in?

My other concern is are they too green?

Never mind you probably should answer that... unless it's to say that they are perfect.

Now I am just going to wonder if you are lieing...but I definitely think they add color to the space!

Meanwhile for anyone who is buying the new version of this chair that is just EVER SO SLIGHTLY different from the old one (darn you pottery barn) my advice to you is buy as many slip covers as you can... they are actually very well priced (especially when they are on sale...it's a steal when they are on sale) and if you have the old version and need the pattern I will totally help you out...

GIVEAWAY!!

The tutorial is finally complete and I am going to giveaway TWO here. I am pretty close to my hundreth post and since I am not great at being on time lately.... I figured it's better to be early then late-- right?

The comments will be open for four days. You can get up to 3 entries by



1. Leaving a comment on this post.

2. Blog about it and link back to my site on your blog. (let me know in your comment)

3. Fav me on Etsy.



The tutorial will also but up on my Etsy site. Have fun!