Winner time!

It's Saturday! Do you remember what's happening today? That's right. I announce the winner of the hat giveaway. Even though I didn't win the photo package I want to thank all of you that took the time to vote for us. You are the best.

Drum roll please.........

and the winner chosen by random.org is ..........

Ally 

I will be in touch with you to find out the specifics on the hat you'd like. For the rest of you, keep reading and maybe I'll do another contest in the future. I guess it's time for me to break out my knitting gear. It's been awhile and I might be a bit rusty at it so please be patient. 

Hat giveaway contest!

We could REALLY use some new family photos and Christina Beckett Photography is having a contest. She is offering up a $350 photo package to the winner! What I am asking of you is to like her facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/christinabeckettphotography) and then vote for our current family photo by liking it. (Click here for our photo) Whoever gets the most likes by Jan 20th is the winner. This is good for ME.

Please, please please with sugar on top? 

Here is where it gets good for YOU....as an added bonus anyone that shares our photo on your facebook wall and comes back here and comments, "mission accomplished" on this blog post will go in a drawing for me to make them a hat (totally free, postage and all!) 

Ready, set, go! 

This contest will end midnight (CET)GMT+1 January 20th, 2012

Winner will be drawn & announced Jan 21, 2012

I've got my green on!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It's been a busy week! Lots of appointments.  I had a booth at the BCSC Luncheon yesterday. The ladies were kind enough to let us vendors eat for free, so I had my St. Patrick's day feast a day early. Unfortunately the luncheon ran late and I had to leave early to pick up my daughter so I apologize to those of you who where planning to make a purchase after the lunch and didn't get to. You can contact me directly and we can get together. To the winner of the raffle, if you would like to exchange your hat for a different one please contact me as well. I've almost finished one of the custom orders from the show! 

It's becoming a tradition for me to whack off all my hair in March so I did that again today (twice in one day actually- long story!).  I also (finally) went and got my international drivers license. I'm pretty sure my husband only wanted me to get it so I can help drive on our vacation this time. The poor guy hurt his back so I guess I won't complain about doing my share of the driving since he's done all the driving the last two trips.

We are leaving for Paris in the morning so I will get back to everyone next week. I hope you all have a great weekend. I know I will! 

The raffled hat

Arrr! Monster Radiation Blindness!

Ahoy me mateys! I had no idea how hard it would be to sew with only one contact in! Maybe I shouldn't be driving....hmmm. 

I went to the eye doctor Thursday because I felt like I was coming down with pink eye. Any of you with children or contacts will know exactly what I mean. This was the red, itchy, mattery, dry feeling kind thats usually contagious (not the also all too familiar light sensitive, burning, watering, mattery kind caused by my contacts.) Since my daughter had been rubbing at her eye and complaining it hurt we managed to be seen during the last half hour of the day. I can't say I was very impressed. She told me that I didn't have pink eye. Actually no problems with the eyes. I had 20/20 vision with my contacts in. Apparently the contacts were the issue. She told me to take them out and clean them once in a while. WHAT?? Apparently she's not aware of my "wear them until they are painful 12 month plan." She also admonished me for not having a pair of glasses to wear in an emergency like this (which turned out to not really be an emergency since there was nothing wrong.) And if that were not enough pleasantries she scolded me for using my daughters expired pink eye medication from the last bout in our house. Hmmm. I'm not sure how well me and this new eye doctor are going to get along.  I changed the contacts when I got home but the next day it was even more red and watery so I decided to leave it out a few days and rest my eye. I had to leave the other in so that I can function. I've gone months with just one in so I didn't think it would be that big of an issue but then I tried to sew. It's been interesting getting used to this lack of depth perception. I was going to leave one eye off my last project as a dedication to my new "pirate squinty eye" sewing technique coupled with the radiation leak in Japan which is sure to jump start some new species of animals, but since that's not what my customer ordered I stuck with the normal two-eyed cookie monster.  Maybe I can get a job at Disneyland Paris working at on the pirate ship whilst we are there next week. ;) wink wink. Get it? Bahahaha!

Spring Fever

Look what I got in the mail yesterday from my grandmother-in-law! My birthday present finally got here!

I had to start using it right away so I finished up the three hats I had in the works and made these...

I also let my daughter pick out some new nail polish at the store. It was fairly inexpensive so I let her get an assortment of colors. Of course we had to use every single one the minute we got home! Her hands and toes are a like an ice cream cone with glitter sprinkles on top. She insisted I paint mine as well. I took the nail polish off in the morning (after all I'm a little too old for blue, orange, yellow and green fingernails), but I left it on my toes ;) It's our little secret. 

I'm not sure if we've got a case of spring fever but judging by the recent color choices I'd say it's a pretty safe bet.