Doing some housework...

.....not THAT kind. The kind that I do when my husband goes on a field job. The real housework gets neglected, while we switch things up a bit.

With a new year here, it is time for some changes around here. The kids and I have changed some room arrangements. My oldest daughter has finally gotten her own room. We ripped out the carpet, painted, and moved her in this last weekend.

Now the real work begins. We have curtains, pillows, and accessories to make and add; not to mention painting all of her furniture white! We made the headboard and covered it to go with the new color scheme. Still alot of work ahead of us, but I think she is happy.

In other news, your calendar patterns have been shipped, and should be on their way to your door in the next day or two. Tutorials listed on the patterns will be up by next weekend. Thank you all so much for your patience with me in getting this pattern to you!

The rest of this month will be spent fabric shopping if you follow the timeline on your calendar.

I've been busy.....

.....running in circles.

I feel like this poor kid lately, running and making a good effort, but going nowhere in my little world.

I have good news,

and bad news....

Good news...my printer's wife had a new baby!

Bad news, my baby has been shelved!

Ladies, you have been so paitent with me, you are such amazing customers! Sew Tweet will be finished up tomorrow I am told, and your calendar pattern will be sent out on Monday. I am so sorry about the delay, but sometimes life just gets in the way.

I have been so anxious about making you wait so long for this, that I have actually made some great progress. I have a few projects that I have finished up, no new patterns, but some great things off the "to do" list. I am moving my crafty room again, making room for more space upstairs. I hope to have a few pictures to show you next week of what I have been working on... but for now, I will try to keep what is left of my nails, and get your patterns off to you asap!

A death in the family...

I just have to share this story with you, it is hilarious!

First I should start off by saying, that despite his pain, there is nothing but humor in this story and I still can't keep a straight face, which makes him even more upset.

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For Christmas, my ten year old son asked Santa for an ipod. I really despise ipods, they create statues out of my children, and a ten year old with a $300 toy... really? Not happening here. I have made all my kids that have one buy their own "first" ipod...teaches them the value of it. My oldest has had hers for about two years, this year she dropped it on the bathroom floor and broke the screen, so for Christmas she wanted a new one as well. I did buy her a new one for Christmas, which meant the hand-me-down ipod was up for grabs, and my son who was so disappointed about not getting one became the obvious choice.

Since Christmas day, this kid has not put this thing down. He has been checked out... in statue land for weeks. I thought that he would get enough, you know you only eat a whole bag of cookies once cuz it makes you sick parental approach - but it didn't work. When asked what he got for Christmas, all the other gifts were tossed out of his mind and he replied "an ipod!" while the other person gets a puzzled look on their face and looks at us with disgust when they see the broken little ipod this kid is holding up.

Yesterday, it happened... all of a sudden I hear loud and uncontrollable sobbing coming from my son, while he was in the bathroom. Naturally that is quite a cause for concern, and I came running in fear to find out how I could help. When the door was finally opened, it was my little ten year old, eyes full of tears, sobbing with a wet, dripping, and contaminated ipod in his hand. Yep, you guessed it, it fell in the toilet.

All I could do was burst out in laughter... I couldn't help myself. Right behind me was his sisters, who had heard the sobbing and ran upstairs to find out what it was all about. They compassionatly snatched up the ipod, despite where it had been, and quickly threw it into a bowl of rice. I guess this problem was a topic of discussion among their group of friends a while back, and this was the best course of action for such a tragedy.

This morning I woke to this memorial for ipod Wyatt. I have been laughing all morning. No one yet knows the fate of Wyatt... hopefully he will make it, but if not, this sad little boy has a lot of work ahead of him.

So, if you want to help out a ten year old earn three hundred dollars.... and you have been wanting a pattern, or a reason to buy one....now is the time!

Introducing Sew Tweet Block of the Month!

Merry Christmas..........................

Happy New Year!!!...............................

Hope all of you had a wonderful time visting with family and eating treats, I know I did. Such a wonderful time of year, it is hard to pull yourself away to finish up projects. Somehow I managed to do so....finally I have finished this one up.....

Introducing Sew Tweet... a little late, but it should be ready to be sent out by the end of this week.

Here it is in all it's glory! I have been working on this project for a while. I am so excited to get this off to all of you who got to order at the PRE-Release price.

If you would like to order your copy, you can visit my website HERE to place your order. This pattern will be offered at $25, and is packaged as a 2012 calendar. It is full of helpful tips, and guidelines so that you can finish it up by the end of next year.

I am so excited about all of the projects I have planned for this year, I hope that you too will be excited to see them. Sew many plans, sew little time!