Giveaway Day, Part 2

As I mentioned last night, I am participating in Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day. Here is the completed necklace that one lucky winner will receive.

Be sure to leave your comment here to be entered to win. Do not leave your comment on this post or you will not be entered in the drawing.

PS I will have another giveaway next month to kick off the grand opening of the Etsy store my husband and I are opening. Become a follower to stay updated on when this is happening.

Giveaway Day

Sew Mama Sew, my inspiration and one of the first blogs I followed, is hosting a Giveaway Day so I thought I'd join in on the fun.

I am offering a handmade glass pearl necklace. The pearls are a coppery/deep gold color and are strung with copper wire. There are a few blue disc beads throughout the strand. As I am posting this, it is not quite finished, but I will post a picture of the final product sometime tomorrow (Monday). Until then, here is a sneak peak of what it looks like so far.

To enter the drawing to win this necklace just comment on this post telling me your favorite Christmas gift that you are giving to someone this year. My favorite so far is the BBQ apron that I made for my brother-in-law. I will keep comments open until noon(ish) on Friday, December 17th. Be sure to leave your email address in your comment so that I can contact you if you win. Thank you and good luck!

*I've decided to leave comments open until I get home from work tonight. So you have until approx. 11pm Mountain Time for a chance to win.

Busy Day

Jake and I have been busy working on Christmas presents today. Here are a few things that we've been making.

BBQ Apron for Jake's brother. His boys are each going to get matching ones.

Action shot.

Except that it's way too cold to actually cook outside, that's way there's nothing on the grill. :)

Sneak peak at something for our friends. I finished binding the last one today.

These go with the picture above. Any guesses of what this used to be before Jake sliced it up for me?

Gorgeous candle holders Jake made for me.

I Won!

Yesterday I showed you the gorgeous fabric that I bought for Christmas gifts, but I forgot to show you what I received from FedEx the day before.

By Weeks Ringle & Bill Kerr

I won this book from Sew, Mama, Sew! and their Handmade Holidays giveaways. Every day in November Sew, Mama, Sew! put together a large list of handmade gift ideas (with tutorials) for the various people in our lives. Here is the link to the master list for 2010 and links to previous years lists as well.

Every day they also gave away tons of fabulous prizes, and I was lucky enough to win Quilts Made Modern by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. I've only briefly looked through it so far, but the little I have read I've enjoyed. I love the section on selecting colors/patterns and I like that they mention not only their successes, but their failures as well. I do wish that there were more pictures, but I know that there is lots of valuable information within this book and I look forward to sitting down and reading through it once the holidays are over.

Fabric!

Look what just arrived at my door!!!

(A big thank you to my neighbor, Nancy, who brought it by on her way to town.)

My order from Sew, Mama, Sew! has arrived!!!

Logan home dec weight fabric by Vicki Payne

I know these two fabric don't seem to go together too well, but look closely at the fabric on the left and you will see a bit of the periwinkle from the other fabric.

This is going to be a Weekender Travel Bag, pattern by Amy Butler

It's a Hoot fabric collection by MoMo for Moda

These will become Miss Madeline dresses for the daughters of our friends. How cute will those dresses be?

Getting Our Christmas Tree

We went up "the high country" aka the Northeast pasture yesterday to find our tree. Here are some pictures of our adventure. Enjoy!

"Hey guys! Wait for me!" Cord found all the deepest drifts. Or maybe they just looked deep because of his short legs.

Shaking off the snow. Gotta make sure this is the right tree.

The trucks down there somewhere. Thanks honey! :)

Our lovely Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

Please excuse the ugly wall in the back. They put in an air conditioner before we moved in (which works great, by the way) and haven't gotten around to finishing the wall yet. The A/C is covered in plastic and tape because the wind blows through when it's uncovered. At least the red and white is festive. Right?

A great day!

Eek! A Mouse!

The other night I was sitting at the computer when I heard "scratch, scratch, scratch" coming from the kitchen.

Since winter has set in the field mice have decided that my house is warm and toasty and a great place to make a nest. We've been battling them since we moved in, but it's definitely worse in the cold weather.

The dogs didn't hear the scratching since they were down in the basement so I decided I would investigate. I quietly climbed over the baby gate (which keeps the dogs off the carpeted part of the house) and tip toed over to where I heard the noise. I've tried to discover these bastards before, but the noise usually stops once I've gotten about halfway across the kitchen (and it's not a very big kitchen), but this night the noise continued. Since the lights were out and I could still hear the mouse I decided to grab a flashlight so I could try to see something when I opened the cupboard.

This is what I found.

The piece he is sitting on goes to our dehydrator. The piece above him is from the food processor and the the paper is parchment paper that I had cut for the dehydrator so small pieces of food wouldn't fall through the slits. There were actually 2 mice in this nest, but one got away as Jake was pulling this out of the cupboard. This one was taken outside and set free. The dogs tried to nab him, but he got away. Bad Dogs!