Runaway October

Just thought I’d share.

This poem shows up ran­domly in my life often and every time it does I, well…, feel like shar­ing. This last time was via Juste Ven­teux.

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This was writ­ten in 1927 by Max Ehrmann. Check out the wiki here.

Maybe I should just tat­too it and be done with it?

In case you’re liv­ing under a rock, like I was until recently, this is the run down of Cre­ative Estates.

Doesn’t that sound like a mil­lion pounds of fun? (Who really says things like ‘a mil­lion pounds of fun’?)

Any­way, the con­fer­ence is in Chan­dler, Ari­zona on April 8^th, 9^th and 10^th. Tick­ets are only $149, which is dang cheap for a 3 day con­fer­ence of this type.

Check out the Agenda here. I’d have a hard time choos­ing which ses­sions to go to if I was able to go.

You can reg­is­ter here, but be sure to check out the whole Cre­ative Estates web­site, espe­cially the guest speak­ers.

If you’re like me and need to win tick­ets in order to go, be sure to check out Shey B’s Get Your Butt to Ari­zona give­away post here. She’s gen­er­ously giv­ing away 2 or more all-inclusive passes to the lucky win­ners. YAY!

Do you already have your tick­ets? No?! Bet­ter hurry! And let us know if you’ll be attend­ing!

I seem to do this every year around this time, don’t I?

How do you like it? Any­thing weird that you notice?

And speak­ing of shiny, or more appro­pri­ately, shin­ers, how do you like this baby? He, sadly, did it to him­self when one of the stools he was bal­anc­ing on slipped out from under him. Poor dude.

I took all these pic­tures inside at night, so par­don the crappy qual­ity. It was either take them NOW or know that I’d never get to it later.

Not a hand­made present, but Curt the Dirt was my craft­ing buddy through the 3 mad days I did most of these in. I really need to stop procrastinating.

Oh god, look­ing over these pic­tures.… I really should be shot for post­ing some of these. :S

Com­plete with tramp stamp:

Seat belt covers:

Tuto­r­ial here: Seat­belt sleeves by AfricanKelli

Car trash bag:

It uses bon­ing to keep itself open. Cool huh? Tuto­r­ial here: Trash Bag by Make it and Love it

A few belts to help keep the pants up on my super skinny boys. Tuto­r­ial here: Boy Belts by Elsie Marley

Can­is­ter sleeves for my mother in law to match her red kitchen. Time con­sum­ing but super cute, eh?

Tuto­r­ial here: Quilted Can­is­ter Sleeves by HandmadeMommy

Some freezer paper sten­cil shirts. Appar­ently I for­got to take a pic­ture of some, but here’s a few of them.

(I was try­ing for a grungy look. I swear. )

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We hope you had a won­der­ful 2010 and that 2011 only gets bet­ter from there!

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