Holy Cow! I Won!!!!!!!

Kelly over at I Have A Notion (IHAN) and AccuQuilt teamed up to giveaway an AccuQuilter GO! and three dies of the winner's chosing. Guess what? I WON!!! I cannot believe it!! A HUGE thank you to both IHAN and AccuQuilt!! The AccuQuilter GO! is the coolest thing since sliced bread, no more cutting everything with a rotary cutter for me! So which three dies did I pick? I picked two strip cutter dies, one in 1 1/2" and one in 2 1/2". I don't know how many times I have carefully cut my strips to find out that there is a wobble.

No more wobbles for me! Then, I picked the Drunkards Path die. This die will literally save me hours of cutting time. I'll be posting more about the AccuQuilter GO! after I get it in my hands and get to play around with it. I CANNOT wait! WooHoo!!!!!!

My Craft Room Revealed....

So, there's this giveaway over at I Have A Notion (IHAN) to win an AccuQuilter GO! The catch? One of the ways to enter is to post pictures of your sewing space, un-staged. So here we go!
This is a picture of the futon in my craft room/guest room. This is the way it always looks. I stack projects on it. The only exception is when company comes and I move the stacks of unfinished projects to another surface. This futon drives Shawn (husband) crazy.

This is my cutting table and "design wall." I'm cutting a lot of 1 1/2" squares right now.

And finally, my sewing table. I got lucky, it usually looks worse than this.

Some Things We've Been Doing...

Maddox has been working out in the shop at his toolbench with his new tools from Christmas.

Making Rice Krispies treats.

Chopping down ur Christmas tree.

Painting...

Jumping on the bed...Dad doesn't seem to mind.

Maddox bowling for the first time in Clarkston.

Swimming lessons. (He did not pass)

Spending time at the cabin.

Music camp.

LONG TIME!!!

Long time no bloggy! Life has been busy. Everybody probably wants an update, so here it is: I am doing great in school! Shawn and I will both finish up next Spring. Maddox is FINALLY happy at North Wall, cause 3 mornings a week was a big deal, but not anymore. He starts a Spanish class at the end of this month. He claims he doesn't need to go because he "speaks English". Here he is before his Christmas program: He is 42" now and tall enough for the water slides, which he loves. He's liking ice skating once a week, Hockey here we come!

The shop is up, all the concrete is poured, all that's left to do is the inside. Will post a pic soon.

Craft Hope Project #4

Craft Hope Project #4 is underway! This time they need sock monkeys! Ugh. The last time I tried to make a sock monkey it didn't turn out so well. I've also got a full plate right now as far as projects go, so, I don't know if I'll make a sock monkey this time around. BUT, one of YOU could make a sock monkey!! The monkeys are headed over to Little Heroes Preschool Burn Camp, and they will benefit the smallest of burn victims through the Firefighters Burn Institute in Sacramento, California. Deadline is September 18th, plenty of time. Head on over for a Sock Monkey Tutorial.

Numbers are in...

The numbers for Craft Hope's Project 3: Bhawani, Rourkela & Sooch Village are in!

Beanies: 494

Booties: 379

lBankets: 465

Pillowcases: 302

Hankies: 776

Bibs: 7

Balls: 23

Total Items: 2,446

WOW!

Yum

Finished, finally, two years later. Got put up and forgotten. My picnic quilt! It's pretty big, and hard to take a picture of. Some of the quilters on Flickr have such nice pictures of their quilts, and I can never seen to get a good picture. But, here it is, finished. I really like it and had a lot of fun picking out all the different food fabrics, and now I have a TON of leftover food fabric that I'm not sure what to do with. I finished this yesterday and it has already been used and spilled upon by two little boys having a picnic. Did I mention that I really like it?