Note: My giveaway post is the next post down. But now that you’re here, check out all these great tutorials and vote!
I’m so excited by all the great entries! Thanks to all you submitted your tutorial. There is such a great variety of projects, truely something for everyone.
Please vote for your favorite. You can vote once. If you have an entry, make sure and spread the word that you want votes!
All pictures are courtesy of their respective blogs. If you don’t wish your picture to appear here, please let me know. Voting will be up until Wednesday 12/9 evening, to give everyone plenty of time to recruit votes! Thanks! Poll will be in another post, to keep this one from being three pages long! Thanks again to JED Bridal, The Hempsphere, ThistleDelight, MemoriesByFionchadd, and FacciaFelice for your generous prizes.
Welcome! I’m so glad to have you here! I hope you decide to stay and check out my blog, maybe even subscibe. But even if you don’t, I’ll still let you enter. 
My name is Kristin and I’m a wife of a super-smart and sweet computer guy and mama to 3 precious, mischievious, and fun boys. I love to sew pretty much anything, though with more success on some things than others! I have an Etsy shop and also enjoy making things for my boys. WARNING, Blatant self-promotion coming: I have some great gifts for sale right now. Okay, enough of that!
Now on to what you’ve come here for! I’m offering up the winners choice of 2 yards of County Fair fabric by Denyse Schmidt (my choice which ones) or a FRE of scraps, whichever you would prefer. I’m also going to include some handmade goodness, but I haven’t decided what i want to make, so it will be a surprise. I might even wait until a winner is chosen and make something based on that. We’ll see! The giveaway will close on Sunday night or Monday morning, depending on when I get to it!
To enter, just leave a comment…if you want, please share an idea of something I could put in the pocket of the advent calender I’m STILL working on! For extra entries, Tweet, Facebook, blog, etc. Just leave an extra comment for each extra thing you do. Sorry…USA only, unless you want to pay for the extra shipping. Two giveaways in a week leaves me pretty tapped out on shipping costs!
a round-up of all the contest entries and a chance to vote on your favorites, probably on Thursday. Until then, I’m up to my eyeballs in flaxseed and bamboo velour, filling a whole bunch (at least for me!) of orders. It sure makes a world of difference being on Etsy’s front page!
Um, I meant to post a reminder that the contest ends today, in like an hour and a half. But I didn’t, so you have one more day! I will close it up tomorrow evening (not midnight, when I get to it which will probably mean about 7), so if you haven’t got around to linking to your tutorial, do it now!
How about a little self-promotion! If you’ve had your eye on anything in my shop, now would be a great time to buy. Everything is on sale and all purchases over $100 will have free shipping. I also have 49 sales and the 50th will get a little free surprise. I just listed 7 new heat/cold packs so there are lots to choose from, plus I still have customs available. My skirts are on sale too and I have some pretty ones, if I do say so.
The SewingMamas Team I’m a part of is also doing a big Black Friday promotion. Click on the button above and it will bring up all sorts of great items from the SewingMamas.
May we all be thankful to God for our blessings…
…and not worry about the not-so-perfect pie.
Don’t forget there is less than a week to go on the tutorial contest. There are about 18 entries so far. I will be doing a post with all the tutorials, but for now, you can check them out here. Well, maybe not today! I know I have pie to bake, so not much crafting going on around here. And check out the contest sponsors in the sidebar. They have some things that would make great Christmas gifts.
-Thankful for inspiring crafters here and here and here. And here….and here! I think it’s pretty cool that God gave humans the ability and creativity to make beautiful things.
And thankful for fun giveaways like this one!
There are also giveaways going on now or starting tomorrow at several great sites:
oh, how behind I got on this! And I can feel it! I really think just the simple exercise of thinking of one thing each day to be thankful for changes your perspective. Truely, the days I didn’t were more frantic, more grumpy. Gotta change that! Today, I’m thankful for new beginnings…each day, each year, forgiveness. Maybe I failed miserably at this blogging something I’m thankful for, but I get to start fresh today! Oh…and I’m thankful my sister and her husband and their darling little boy are coming up for Thanksgiving tomorrow!
Stole this from here…such a great idea!:
The Thanksgiving holiday is one of my favorites…food, football, family,friends and lots of fun. But, originally, it was meant to be a day to pause and give authentic thanks to God. Unfortunately, for many, including myself, thanksgiving is more of a one-day holiday that a way of life. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been blessed beyond comprehension, and even in the unwelcome moments of life, I have so much to be thankful for.
What would it look like if I ONLY spoke words of gratitude the entire week of Thanksgiving? If I went so far as to look at a pile of laundered clothes that awaits my folding and putting up, a task I normally hate, and instead think and speak out loud, “God, thank you for these clothes, for providing covering.” When my daughter voicing her grumpiness, “God, thank you that she has a voice that works and you are shaping her own unique personality.” If every time next week I see a person, I tell them why I am thankful to God they are in my life.
So, starting this Monday morning and going through this Sunday evening, I’m challenging myself to live an entire week full of thanksgiving.
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
(Ephesians 5:4 ESV)
Anytime I’m tempted to think/say/do something negative (filthy, foolish, crude or otherwise unthankfull), I will instead choose, in that very moment, to give thanks to God for His blessing in my life.
If you’d like to join me, please leave a comment saying so AND repost this (in our own words, if you’d like…no need to link me) on your blog, twitter, facebook, etc. and challenge your friends to do the same. Even if you’re not reading this until after Monday morning, it’s never too late to take up a good challenge. And, keep in mind that nobody who takes this challenge is going to make it an entire week without missing the mark…so, when that happens to you, just pick yourself back up and start again!
