Runaway October

Thanks to every­one for par­tic­i­pat­ing! We had 80+ com­ments.

Random.org tells me that #70 is our win­ner! Yay! *

And who is #70? Why, that would be Shawna.

So Ms Shawna, I will be email­ing you soon. I hope you devour the book as quickly as I will!

Thank you to every­one for par­tic­i­pat­ing! Best of luck in the other give­aways. And a HUGE THANK YOU to Ms. Carey for being gra­cious enough to not only give away a signed edi­tion, but to let me host the give­away on my hum­ble lit­tle blog.

*The num­bers selected for Random.org started at com­ment #3 , because #1 and #2 were com­ments from my hus­band and I, so we don’t count.

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!

I have been tagged by Tamara of 1/4 of an inch. Yay!

With­out fur­ther ado:

1.) I absolutely abhor clowns in any shape and form. *twitch* They really make me get creepy crawlies and I have to look away. I’m always afraid that I may go bal­is­tic if one ever approaches me in per­son.

2.) My hus­band pesters me to stop drink­ing soda, and I know I should. But I fear the caffiene with­drawls I get . I also fear try­ing to get through the day with­out caffiene.

3.) I des­per­ately want a lit­tle girl, but I need to drop a lot of weight (I’d be happy with 80 pounds) and I’d like to have the 3k for my home­birth mid­wife saved up already.

4.) I have a prob­lem fol­low­ing through and fin­ish­ing projects. I have 4 sewing projects that need fin­ish­ing and a ton of stuff that needs doing for Hal­loween.

5.) Speak­ing of Hal­loween, it is by far my favorite hol­i­day — fol­lowed by Christ­mas and St Patrick’s Day.

6.) I spend mas­sive amounts of time scour­ing blogs for tuto­ri­als. Much more time that I actu­ally spend doing the tuto­ri­als. Sad.

7.) Matt and I are try­ing to get into Real Estate invest­ing, but we’re hav­ing a hard time get­ting the money together for the tuition. I’m really scared about some of the cre­ative financ­ing ideas he is com­ing up with. I don’t want to ruin the lit­tle credit we have.

Wow. That felt like a mini ver­sion of Post­Se­cret!

As far as tag­ging peo­ple, well that never works. If you feel like play­ing please join me. Leave me a com­ment if you decide to play along.

Oh! I will tag Tina of Miz­zTin­aBam­Bina. Go check out her blog!

One — Your Meemaw really does read your blog. If you go too long she’ll send you a note ask­ing what hap­pened to your blog and if you’re sick. Yay!

Two — Don’t sew pins into things so that you can­not get them out of with­out rip­ping out stitches — espe­cially stitches made to with­stand the abuse of children.

Three — When your two-year-old tells you that some­thing is in the “ghar-can” he’s prob­a­bly not being funny. It really is in the garbage can.

Four — Get to work on my zom­bie plan. It could actu­ally hap­pen!!

Five — Yes, the couch does eat things — espe­cially cro­chet hooks and any­thing rubberband-like

10/30

As is nor­mal for me I’ve pro­cras­ti­nated and took my sweet time on some­thing. So now I have this week­end and this week­end only to com­plete the apron I’m mak­ing for my swap partner.

I think my biggest issue was not know­ing my part­ner. I hemmed and hawed about my fab­ric choices for much much too long. I think I ended up adding about 6 yards to my fab­ric stash that I decided on and then changed my mind. I’ve final­ized all of the col­ors, but as is cus­tom­ary, I didn’t buy enough. Thank­fully it’s a solid and I should be able to find a suit­able piece

At least I haven’t received my apron yet. Then I’d feel really bad. Wish me luck this weekend.

BUT! Once I get this done I can move on with my springy swap with Nicky! Yay!