Runaway October

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!

PAY IT FORWARD

The first THREE peo­ple to leave a com­ment on this post will receive, at some point dur­ing the year, a hand­made gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total sur­prise. The catch is that you must par­tic­i­pate as well. Before you leave your com­ment here, write up a pay it for­ward post on your Blog to keep the fun going ( or you can cut and paste from this one like I did ) then come back and let me know you’re going to play. Then sit back and wait to receive your fun gift : ) Remem­ber that only the first THREE com­ments will receive a gift from me, so hurry, hurry, hurry !

Thanks Lisa!

My chil­dren — They are healthy, ornery and intel­li­gent. My life is hec­tic, full and amaz­ing with them in it. They have thought me to be patient, to look at the world through dif­fer­ent eyes.

My hus­band — Though our mar­riage is still fresh, our part­ner­ship is any­thing but new. I am thank­ful that he is by my side, help­ing and sup­port­ing. He is the may­on­naise on my sand­wich of life — with­out him every­thing would be too dry. 

My mother — Cur­rently she is furi­ously scrub­bing “her bath­room” which hap­pens to be the main bath­room that a cer­tain mostly potty-trained lit­tle boy pees all over. She’s also made break­fast and cleaned the kitchen this morn­ing. Our house­hold would come to a grind­ing stop with­out her in it with us. Some may dread hav­ing their mother come to stay with em, but we absolutely adore her.

The rest of my fam­ily — Every one of them rounds out this lit­tle slice of life that I call my own. Were they not here some­thing would feel amiss.

The rain — While the mud in my dirt back­yard is not fun, I am happy to have the rain wash every­thing away. It gives us a chance to hun­ker down and enjoy time as a fam­ily while drink­ing hot spiced cider.

I am thank­ful that we are healthy, that we have a home and have food to fill our bel­lies. There are needy fam­i­lies who can­not say that they have health, wealth or hap­pi­ness like I can. Though money can be scarce most of the time, I am rich. For that I am eter­nally thankful.

Now… where’s the turkey?

Still try­ing to decide if all 3 of these would work well together. Flow­ers and Stripes is City GIrl by Berna­tex and Giraffe print is Happy Trails by Bernatex.

We’d love to have you join the fun. Check out Tamara’s blog 1/4 of an inch for info!

So I went ahead and bit the bul­let. I joined the Mar­ket Tote Swap hosted by InANut­shell. The last cou­ple swaps I’ve par­tic­i­pated in have been a com­plete flop. I’d put so much love and time into them and received, well… I’d rather not say. On top of that my last apron I mailed is still miss­ing in tran­sit. I’m hop­ing that this one will pull me up out of the dumps and it sounds like so much fun. 

There’s still a cou­ple hours left to sign up, head on over and join me. It looks like a great bunch of crafters so far! (Nudge nudge Nicky)