Blog Hop Winners!

Here's Himself choosing two lucky winners from my blog's giveaway in conjunction with The Quilting Gallery's Celebrate Back to School blog hop...

Thanks to everyone who participated, left such nice comments and decided to follow my blog.  I hope you'll stick around and experience even more of this family's craziness with an occasional quilt post thrown in for good measure.  I'm very sorry I didn't get to personally reply to each comment.  Having never participated before, I really underestimated the number of visitors I'd have.  Mea culpa!

That said, without further ado, I give you the two lucky winners...

Lisa Lisa wins Bundle #1

Ruth Ann wins Bundle #2

I've sent each of you ladies an email notifying you of your win!  Congratulations!

If I haven't heard from either lady within 24 hours, I'll choose another two names.

Thanks again for visiting and playing along.  I hope everyone had a blast on the hop and look forward to doing this again soon!

Happy quilting, y'all!

Winner!

The lucky recipient of the leftover Christmas strips is...

doodlebugmom

Please email me ASAP with your shipping info and I'll drop it in the mail on Monday.  Thanks everybody for playing along and to Betty P for sharing her scraps in the first place!

A Finish and a Giveaway

Co-Defendant #2 and I have been busy, busy, busy today what with running around town spending money and planning our Mom and Me slumber party.  I am exhausted.  I am also stuffed full of pizza, sunburned and totally nauseous after watching Puss in Boots.  Not even the voice of Antonio Banderas could make that movie appealing.  But she's happy so it's worth it.  I think.

Here's the finish I managed to eeck out, my version of a Jelly Roll 1600 quilt.  Y'all, I never got so dang tired of stitching strips together!  The strips are from my friend, Betty P, who had them left over from a previous project.  I still have about half of them left. 

If anyone would like the leftovers, leave a comment and I'll draw a name tomorrow at noon my time.  (You know how I am about long waits!)

We've already painted our toenails (I'm too damn tired to bend down to take photos not to mention my own jelly rolls are in the way...that's fat rolls, not boobs...geez, you guys!).  Her toes are glittery; mine are blue and make me look cyanotic.  Oh, well!

Do we look like we're about to be naugh-teeee?

We are!!  Look what's for dessert...

Oreo cupcake

Chocolate...what else?!

Cupcakes from What About Cupcakes? in Waco.

Well, I'm off to watch an episode of The Dead Files (love it!) and eat a cupcake.  Can you eat a cupcake and drink a cocktail?  I'm about to try.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

Linking up to nifty Richard and Tanya Quilts, Amy Lou Who and Confessions of a Fabric Addict!

Happy quilting, y'all!

Last Call

I'm still waiting to hear from Michelle of My Life in Quilts about her win on my FBFs Giveaway.  If I haven't heard anything from her by Wednesday May 30 at 2 p.m. Texas time, I'll have the number cruncher pick another name.

Here's what's waiting for Michelle...

Happy quilting, y'all!

We Have Winners!

Here are the two lucky winners of the FBFs Giveaway chosen by a random number generator!  It's summertime...do you actually think the kids are awake to help draw names?!

Michelle from My Life In Quilts wins this bundle of goodies...

Mary from Made With Love By Mary gets this one...

Ladies, please email me the relevant shipping info and I'll get them in the mail ASAP!

Thanks to everyone for following my blog and for playing along.  More giveaways are in the works so come back often and enjoy the insanity!

Happy quilting, y'all!

FBFs Giveaway

It's hard to believe I've been boring the socks off folks in blogland for two years now with my kids' antics, quilting adventures and general whining and that a few days ago I logged my 200th post.  My, how time doth fly, eh?

This is the kids' last week of school (can you hear them cheering?) and summer vacation officially starts at noon tomorrow (can you hear me weeping?).  I've been doing a little spring cleaning in ye olde sewing area while they're at school and have unearthed some treasures.  To be perfectly frank, I've gotta lotta crap, y'all!

Soooo....

To celebrate my blog's milestones (which is a miracle 'cause I couldn't even keep track of the kids' when they were little), I'm giving away two packets of goodies to my faithful blog followers (FBFs).

Each packet has two quilting books, four fat quarters and a fabric panel.  Behold....

A disclaimer here: the books aren't new.  They are either USED (if you're a redneck) or PRE-OWNED (if you fancy yourself a tad more refined).  They're in really good condition because I'm anal about taking care of my stuff.  Yes, I said anal.  It means 'particular', you philistine.  Snicker if you must.

Here are the rules (stop whining!):

1.  You gotta be a follower.  I won't make you drink Kool-Aid, but you gotta follow my blog.  Telling me you follow along through some blog clearinghouse DOES NOT COUNT!!  I must see your shining, happy face in my followers group on the right side of the screen.  Just sayin'!

2.  Leave a comment telling me you're a follower to be entered.  Dropping a comment about how fabulously funny I am won't hurt your chances either.  Just kidding.  Oh, hell...no I'm not!

3.  If you're a no-reply type, I gotta have a way to contact you.  Leave contact info.

The giveaway is open to international friends too so don't fear I'm gonna go all cheap on ya and refuse to shell out to ship to wherever you call home!  I might go all scientific and use a random number generator to pick a winner or stay totally redneck and have one of the Co-Defendants choose a number from a hat.  Either way, it'll be fair and square.

And because I hate long engagements, the giveaway closes Monday May 28th at 9 a.m. Texas time.  Don't dawdle!

As always, thank you FBFs for your comments and encouragement.  I'm having a lot of fun!

Happy quilting, y'all!

  

Giveaway winner...Name My Quilt!

I do so loathe trying to come up with names for my quilts...somehow, 'Thank you, Lord, I'm done' just doesn't seem to cut it, so they usually wind up nameless!  I had two suggestions on the blog for naming the junk food/veggie combo quilt in honor of my Nana, Cleo.  I came up with 'Sweet Memories'.

Here's P drawing the winner's name....

It's Shifra AND Etty from Quilting Corner!  Come on you guys...you think with TWO comments for the post I'm gonna make the kid CHOOSE?!?  

So, now you ladies have to decide: 'mild' or 'wild' fabric?

E-mail me at bowenstephanie74@aol.com to let me know your preference.  And many thanks for your input...Nana would be tickled pink!