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Friday Night Sew-In!




  
Don't forget about my giveaway today! I will post the winner later tonight! Good Luck!

Five Question Friday

My friend Kasi participates in Five Question Friday quite often, so I have decided to give it a try.

1. What ringtone do you have on your cell phone?

     ~ Well I had to grab my cell phone and figure this one out. Turns out that I have Fur Elise as my current ring tone. You see my kids tend to change my default ring tone when I'm not looking. This makes life interesting, because if I'm out in public and it rings, I usually stand there looking at somebody else wondering why they aren't answering their phone. Then I realize it's ME!

2. What is your favorite memory from this summer?

     ~ Dancing at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas of course! You can read about it here.

3. Paper books or ebooks?

     ~ Paper books, I've never tried ebooks before.

4. If you could have one home upgrade what would it be and why?

     ~ A bigger and better bathroom! My house is 91 yrs old and it has 1 small bathroom. It currently needs LOTS of help right now!

5. When was your first serious boyfriend/girlfriend?

     ~  My freshman year of high school.

Fabric Designing

On Wednesday I showed you this picture of some fabric. 

Many years ago, I used to make web page graphics as a hobby. This fabric was made with one of my graphics! I decided to give Spoonflower a try and see how some of my graphics look as fabric. I've uploaded a few graphics, but wanted to test this swatch first. 

I think it turned out rather cool! If you would like some of this cool fabric just go here and place your order. Also, your order will help me complete one of my 101 tasks in 1001 days!

Don't forget to enter my giveaway! I will draw one lucky winner tomorrow!

Have a great weekend!

One Flower Wednesday & Giveaway

I haven't done much sewing on my hexies lately. I did get the last one on the bottom right finished this weekend, the others were done a few weeks ago. I haven't been good at taking pictures as I go, so today I'm playing catch up.

The last time I participated in One Flower Wednesday, I was suffering from a really bad headache. Go HERE for the update on that. I am MUCH better!!!  Thanks for all your nice comments on my getting well.



So, tell me what you think about the design on this fabric...

I love this fabric! It didn't photograph as pretty as it is in person. Want to get some of this fabric for yourself? Stay tuned and I'll tell you where you can find it. :-)

Now on to my giveaway. A few days ago I posted about this digital scrapbook software giveaway. Now I don't do digital scrapbooking, but I had so much fun with this program that I'm going to make my daughters one. So go HERE and enter into the giveaway.

Today kick starts our county fair. I was supposed to enter 2 quilts into the fair, but as of right now, I'm still working on the binding to both quilts. My quilter didn't have them finished until today. I'm not posting pictures of them tonight for a couple reasons. One, it's late and the lighting is terrible here for pictures. Also, my baby quilt is a gift for my best friend, Kasi, and I cannot post pictures of her quilt before she receives it! If all goes well I will be mailing the quilt to her on Monday and hopefully it will win a ribbon at the county fair and I can send her that also.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a great week!

My Memories Review & Giveaway!

I was recently asked to review some digital scrapbooking software from MyMemories. I have always loved playing with graphics and designing flyers and such, but have never thought about digital scrapbooking. I must confess, I am a terrible scrapbooker and have pictures digitally and printed that need to be put somewhere. 

MyMemories was so easy to get started. First I browsed their free kits online. I found a few to download and get started with.

I downloaded this one first...

I was going to put a picture of my daughter playing softball, but couldn't find a good picture. So after playing with the design a little bit I created this page...

I think it turned out rather cool! Don't you?

Next I decided to add a page and select from one of the blank templates MyMemories offers with the program.

I love the drag and drop feature for your pictures! I turned this template into this page...

Next I decided to go with an original background. I had some trouble with this. Several years ago I created a bunch of web page backgrounds for fun. I was so excited to be able to use my designs in my scrapbook page. So I chose this image to be used as a tiled background...

Only to discover the program just stretched out my image and didn't tile it on the page. 

It's not bad, but not what I wanted. So, if there is an option to tile your background images I couldn't find it. If there is not that option, I really think it should be added.

So, I decided to make my daughters picture the background and came up with this page...

So CUTE!!!

While I was playing with the MyMemories program, my 15 yr old daughter decided she wanted to create her own pages. Here are a few of what she did without any instructions on how to use the program...

I have really enjoyed playing with this program and am looking forward to using it to help me complete my kids scrapbook albums.

Now here is the cool part for my wonderful readers. MyMemories is going to give away the My Memories Suite to one of my lucky readers! That's a $40 software program for FREE!!!

Here is how you can win...In ONE comment let me know...

• Go to My Memories Suite and look around. Let me know which digital paper pack or layout is your favorite.
  
• Become a follower of my blog. Let me know in your comment that you are a follower.
  

Make sure that your comments can be replied to via your email address & don’t go to noreply-comment@blogger.com or post your email address in your comment.

Want a few more chances to win? Here are some optional entries for ya...

• Visit the My Memories Suite Blog and become a follower, then post another comment telling me you did.
  
• "Like" My Memories Suite on Facebook, then post another comment telling me you did.
  
• Follow My Memories Suite on Twitter, then post another comment telling me you did.

Good luck to all my wonderful readers! A winner will be chosen at random on Saturday, September 10th.

As a bonus My Memories Suite has given me a special coupon code for my readers! This code provides a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store - $20 value!) Use this code upon checkout for your savings...STMMMS26843

Giveaway is now closed. Thanks to all who participated! 

If you missed out, feel free to use the coupon code above for a discount on the software.

New Blog Tabs

If you notice at the top, I have added a couple of new pages to my blog. I've been a terrible blogger and am trying to become better. What better way than to let you get to know me a bit better?

The 1st tab is 101 tasks in 1001 days. My best friend, Kasi, told me about this web site where you can make a list of things to get finished in 1001 days. I have posted my list and my progress on this page in my blog. I don't have my list completed yet, but I'm working on it.

The 2nd tab is 50 random things about ME! Just some random facts about me that people might find interesting. I may turn this list into 100 random things at a later date.

I hope you take a look at my new pages and let me know what you think. Have a great weekend ya'll!

Another Headache Update

Since my last post, I have gotten much worse and today I am much better! Over the weekend I participated in the "my head hurts so bad, that everything I eat comes back up diet". Lost 10 lbs in 2 days! Also during the weekend I busted a blood vessel in my eye. The "evil eye" I give my kids really is an evil eye now! They shiver in fear! Haha

On Monday my doctor put me in the hospital for more tests and to really give me lots of antibiotics. They found I had a SEVERE sinus infection. When I arrived the nurses weren't very nice. The one getting me in my room was really rude. Then she tortured me by having trouble with getting my IV in. I told her that I'm a hard stick, and I'm dehydrated and told her where my IV usually ends up. She didn't listen and stuck me 6 different times before giving up! After coming back from my CT scan she was there waiting for me to try again. This time she got my IV in place, in the exact spot that I told her would work! I could go on and on about the nurses (some great and some not), but I won't bore you.

Anyway, I came home Wednesday. Today I have felt pretty nauseous and dizzy. Hopefully all that goes away soon. I have to go back to work tomorrow! Thanks for all your prayers and keep checking back for that giveaway!