And the winner is…


November 20th, 2008

Jen of hawleyfocus.  Congratulations!  I’ll do my best to get the purse in the mail to you tomorrow before we leave on vacation.  Hope you enjoy it.  And thanks to everyone for your wonderful comments.

Gratitude Giveaway


November 17th, 2008

In honor of Thanksgiving, and my desire to express my gratitude, I’m having another giveaway!  This is a blue purse that I made for the craft bazaar that I participated in a couple of weeks ago.  It obviously didn’t sell (not much did) so I’m passing it on to one of my friends/family.

It has a magnetic snap closure and a couple of pockets inside. It’s about 15.5″ across when laid flat. If you’d like to win this bag, just post a comment by Thursday (the 20th) afternoon. I will randomly choose the winner that evening so I can get it in the mail Friday, before we leave on our trip to Washington.

In other news…
Caemlyn participated in another swim meet last weekend and is steadily improving her times. She even swam in her first IM. Way to go babe!

50 Free

50 Breast

I tried my hand at another homemade craft that has turned out quite well. I made cloth curlers for the girls. I tried them out with Caemlyn first with lovely results.

I only made 10 so far, so not enough to do all of the girls at the same time, but they’ve worked well in Ada’s and Kezia’s hair as well. Didn’t take pics of their curly hair yesterday though, sorry. They are all begging me to make more though so they can all have curls more often.

Halloween


November 4th, 2008

We had a very nice Halloween, and the kids looked cute as ever in their costumes.  Thursday night we went to the ward Trunk or Treat and chili dinner.  Friday night we decided to skip our annual Trick or Treat at the hospital and stuck to the Trick or Treat on mainstreet.  After dinner, the older kids also did a loop of our neighborhood.  We have way too much candy!  More importantly, on to the pics…
Tyghe as the Big Bad Wolf
Big Bad Wolf
Ada as Belle (I made her entire costume from scratch - no pattern at all. Pretty proud of myself.)
Belle
Kezia as Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
Zephram as a sage (totally his idea)
Sage
Caemlyn as a black pixie (she made her tutu and we both made her wings - that don’t show up too well in the pic)
Pixie

I was glad when it was all over as I had lots to do to get ready for a craft bazaar that I was participating in yesterday. Didn’t sell much, but I do have orders for several items from friends. Not sure what to do with some of the extras (that aren’t going to the kids) - maybe anther giveaway???