I finally got around to taking a photo. Hopefully you can make out the bag and 5 accessories, even though it seems a bit of a mish-mash of colour! I guess those are the perils of loving bright colours… Oh how shall I ever cope? 
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In case you were wondering, Char drew the winners of my recent Mini Quilt themed giveaway on her blog.
The winner of the book was Traci in Northern Ireland, and the winner of the mini quilt was Heleen in The Netherlands! Congratulations girls! I’ll be posting your prizes to you later on today.
Thank you so much to everyone who entered and helped Char celebrate one million visitors to her blog!
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My computer has just had major surgery. After months of slow decline, it was decided that a full reinstall of Windows was needed. So now I’m rocking Windows 7. Meh. I’d rather a Mac, but my hubby has always been a Windows man, and he’s the I.T. guy, so what can I do?
I’ve taken the Blogging Without Obligation pledge, but I still feel a need to tell you why I’m so quiet at the moment. After my computer was released from the recovery ward, I have been spending a considerable amount of time aiding its rehabilitation. This means reinstalling programs, bookmarking everything again, putting in LOTS of passwords {honestly I don’t know how one is supposed to remember so many passwords} and so on.
First 3 things to install:
Firefox
iTunes
Photoshop
These 3 programs are the backbone of my computing requirements. Do you have a program or programs you can’t live without?
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Week Eight of the {Make} A Bag Sew Along.
The last project in the sew along is a keyring decoration. What could be more fitting than to make a teeny tiny tote as a little celebration of all this bag making! I just love this little project – so easy and fast to make and cute as heck!
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Hello lovely people!
We are nearly finished our {Make} A Bag Sew Along, and I thought I’d let you all know what I’ll be doing next. I’ll be donning my backpack and taking up my walking stick fashioned from an old branch, and I’ll be going exploring! The wonderful and beautiful world of mini quilts will be the subject of my exploration. I’m so keen to start playing around with different quilt blocks, colours, styles, layouts and quilting methods. Making mini quilts will really allow me the opportunity to do a lot more exploring as everything is on a smaller scale and therefore faster to finish. And of course, it would be no secret by now that I love making tutorials, so expect to see a few of those scattered here and there along the way. I do hope you’ll put on your hiking boots and join me on this adventure. It’s going to be so much fun!
I mentioned in my last post that Char of Crap I’ve Made is celebrating ONE MILLION visitors to her blog by holding a whole week long of giveaways. So awesome! I thought I’d throw my little hat in the ring and offer two prizes as part of this mega week:
As you can see, I am already getting into the mini quilting mood with this giveaway! My giveaway is open worldwide, and you can enter by clicking below:
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Don’t forget to check out all the other cool giveaways!
Go on… Go read some crap!
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Week Seven of the {Make} A Bag Sew Along.
This week we’re making a little pouch. Since the top of the pouch is sealed with velcro, it is perfect for your bits and pieces you’d like to put in your bag which you don’t want cluttering up your bag or rolling around loose in the bottom. This could be anything from little treats/snacks for the kids to receipts/small pieces of paper to chewing gum, etc.
I wanted to have this tutorial up yesterday for you all but our power was out nearly all day! So this meant no sewing and no computers. It was good in a way however. My oldest son Isaiah was home sick from school. He couldn’t use his computer or watch TV and was so bored he actually had a nap for a couple of hours! At 10 years old, this is something he NEVER does anymore. It was a much needed rest for him. I was happy about that.
Ok, ready to start sewing?
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Today’s corkboard features some more lovely projects made by you! We have a gorgeous colourful bag by Tiffany, a starry bag with dreamy quilting by Nancy, and some very cute little accessories made with some fabulous ribbon by Debbie!
{If the creator has a blog, their photos will link to it…}
UPDATED on 26 July: Nancy just emailed me to let me know that her tote won a blue ribbon at the fair! Isn’t that great? Congratulations Nancy!
If you would like your photos featured on my ‘corkboard’ please email them to me with whatever you’d like to say about the project, and if you have a blog please include the link.
All this prettiness inspires me, I hope it does the same for you!
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My name is Kelly. I am 372 months old, according to my mother. {I keep telling her she can stop counting in months now.}
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