Runaway October

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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Did you make any­thing for Christ­mas presents? Let us know!

Aren’t these guys just too cute!?

Con­fetti Flow­ers Christ­mas Card

Make a state­ment with Shut­ter­fly Christ­mas photo cards.

View the entire col­lec­tion of cards.

That was an evil laugh, in case you couldn’t tell.

We’ve all had one of those birth­days or Christ­mases. You know, the one where every­one was like “But I didn’t know what to get you.” And you were all “Are you kid­ding? I want every­thing a few spe­cific things.” So my solu­tion to this issue was to start a wish­list. Then there’s no excuses.

Here are a few of my choice home décor picks for upcom­ing birth­days ( ) and Christmas.

So, there ya have it. All kinds of great gift ideas straight from my wish­list. Because, ya know, I am totally the height of fash­ion… Okay, that’s push­ing it.

If you don’t buy them for me, I highly endorse them for some­one else. I’ll be rock­ing out a few more of these show­cases soon. Hope­fully before the christ­mas ship­ping deadlines.

** None of these pic­tures are mine. I do not claim them in any way. They belong to the mak­ers of the respec­tive prod­ucts. Word.

Every year I put off mail­ing my Christ­mas Cards until it’s almost to late. I hurry down to Michael’s and hope they have some­thing inter­est­ing left. Some­times I’m lucky, some­times I’m not.

So my goal this year is to get a head start on things. I’ve been look­ing at some of the var­i­ous photo christ­mas card offer­ings. Shut­ter­fly has always been a superb com­pany for me and my fam­ily. We’ve had mousepads, fridge mag­nets and beer steins made, among other things.

Check some of these gor­geous designs out:

I love this one because you have so many pic­ture choices and your fam­ily mono­gram. I’m a sucker for monograms.

Sim­ple and clas­sic. Again with the monogram.

How’s this lovely for bright and cheery?

Flirty and fit­ting for my neck of the woods, or should I say desert?

Love the vintage-y feel and col­ors. Very clas­sic layout.

I’m hav­ing such a hard time decid­ing! There are almost 750 designs in the Christ­mas sta­tion­ary alone. Yikes! All cards come with envelopes and Shut­ter­fly will either mail the cards to you so you can address and stamp them as you see fit, or they will address and mail them for you. Talk about a timesaver!

Don’t for­get the per­son­al­ized cal­en­dars too. You can add your own spe­cial dates and pic­tures. What a great gift for friends and family.

Throw­ing a New Years Party? Don’t worry, Shut­ter­fly does invites too!

Full Dis­clo­sure: Shut­ter­fly is pro­vid­ing me with 50 free Christ­mas cards for high­light­ing their prod­ucts. As with every­thing else I post about, the opin­ion is mine and not swayed by any­one else.

Blog­gers can get 50 free hol­i­day cards from Shut­ter­fly: http://bit.ly/sfly2010

Alright guys, I have a favor to ask.

Some­hwere along my inter­netty trav­els, I came across a sweep­stakes of sorts. Prilosec OTC, the heart­burn med­ica­tion, is offer­ing a spon­sor­ship. For any­one, for any rea­son. Accord­ing to the FAQs, it’s for around $1000, which isn’t much but is $1000 more than I can use on my hob­bies right now.

The selec­tion cri­te­ria has 4 sec­tions: Pas­sions, Cre­ativ­ity, VOTES, and Community.

So what I’m ask­ing from you is your vote for lit­tle hum­ble ol’ me. You do have to reg­is­ter to vote, but it should only take a few min­utes of your time to vote and leave a com­ment. And if your nice enough to vote and I win, most likely you’ll ben­e­fit in a round about way, come birth­days and Christ­mas.

Oh, and don’t read my dorky pro­file, I’m so bad at fill­ing out these things.

Thank you!