Runaway October

Or the S.M.O.R as I like to call it — The Sewing Machines Oper­a­tions Room.

Remem­ber this sorry lit­tle 11’x11’ room?

Which was later cleaned and some­what orga­nized to look like this:

Well, it’s kind of fin­ished now. It’s now a very work­able space and I can actu­ally com­plete projects some­where other than the kitchen table. YAY!

I took at least 100 pic­tures today, and about 20 a few weeks ago. This room is very very hard to photograph.

I even tried to take a video with my fancy new Flip Video Cam­corder from my Prilosec spon­sor­ship, but it eats bat­ter­ies like no other.

Of course I couldn’t find any bat­ter­ies to replace them with.

Such is the life of a mom.

The project table is com­pletely hand­made by me and my dad. We used plans from Knock Off Wood. Here’s the top and the cubby sides.

I’ll go into it in a lit­tle more detail later.

I’ll have to slowly buy or make some pretty bas­kets on con­tain­ers to go in here.

Love these stools from Overstock.com

Hand­made string balls made by one of the boys.

There was two.

One of them bit the dust, or rather, the dogs water bowl.

The string ball, not the boys.

Well, okay, they usu­ally assault the water bowl at least once a day, but they don’t melt.

Unless you count the dirt that melts off.

I should make some more. String Balls, not boys. Maybe a lit­tle girl but that’s a dif­fer­ent sub­ject.

Now maybe I can get these bad boys quilted and bound and in use.

And what craft room photo shoot is com­plete with­out a pic­ture of a cat.

I used Martha Stew­art Hydrangea flat paint for the walls. I also painted the ceil­ing and all the trim, but can’t find the names of them. They’re the same ones that were rec­om­mended on the paint chip palette. No wor­ries about every­thing match­ing together. What a smart girl, eh?

I can’t seem to find a decent sam­ple color online, so you’ll just have to squint and imag­ine you can tell the true color of everything.

I do hope to make some roman blinds or cur­tains for the win­dows. And the bas­kets I men­tioned ear­lier. I def­i­nitely need some art­work and other pret­ties to hang up and keep me happy while I work. I would really really love a stereo or MP3 player of some sort in there too. I work so much bet­ter with music.

So, that’s the S.M.O.R.

What do you think?

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I WON! I am SO not kid­ding. I WON!

I’m usu­ally not one to answer my cell­phone from Unknown Callers, but for some rea­son I answered this call. Then I talked very calmly, to a lovely woman named Stacey (because I’m sure she didn’t want to hear me squeal), hung up the phone and THEN squealed like an idiot.

Check out the offi­cial announce­ment here. This is my goofy appli­ca­tion. I feel so dumb writ­ing these things. Thank­fully the judges must have a sim­i­lar sense of humor.

They asked just a few things from me; To keep my pas­sion and con­tinue doing exactly what I do and to cross­post on a blog that they will host for me. In return, they will spon­sor a few of my crafts. And I’m hop­ing for a serger. Maybe my Etsy shop is closer than we all think?

I haven’t got much infor­ma­tion from them, but do you know who’ll I’ll tell first when they give me more info? Besides imme­di­ate fam­ily and the neigh­bors and the guy at the con­ve­nience store and every­one on Face­book and all my sec­ond cousins twice removed? You Guys! Yay!

And, in con­clu­sion, thank you — to all of you who voted, all of you who encour­age me when I hold up a project, wrin­kle my nose and ask “Does this look stu­pid?”, and to who­ever gave me my cre­ativ­ity since both of my par­ents claim it wasn’t them and it was my Great Aunt Kather­ine, whom I never met and thank you to Prilosec!

I’m ram­bling.

Now, really in con­clu­sion, Yay! Thank you!

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!