one shabby chick

A new week

First off, I'm actually announcing a giveaway winner on the day I said!! Can you believe it?! OK the winner of the Gypsy Caravan charm pack is....

#23 - Valerie Boudier! I will send you an email soon!

Stay tuned tomorrow - there's a  fabulous giveaway from another new sponsor!

Finished up 3 custom orders and need to ship them off:

We had a great weekend...I worked on a bunch of pillows/iPad covers (I am finishing them up today hopefully) on Saturday and had some great food from the local farmer's market (and our friend's food stand).

Yesterday we had church and then came home and just lounged around. I was supposed to have a soccer game but a lot of people had plans so we were only going to have 9 at the most and who wants to play short on Mother's Day? So we forfeited the game and all got a Sunday off.

Hubs and I watched a few (3!!) movies - ha ha! The Vow, Underworld: Awakening and Contraband - and I even got a surprise dinner of Thai food (he had a friend deliver it for him - so sweet!).

(pay no attention to the fact that I STILL have not painted the kitchen - it's on the to-do list this summer!!)

My iPhone was my Mother's Day present but I couldn't help buying myself a little fabric goodness and it came today: a Suzuko Koseki bundle from this Etsy shop.

Now I have to decide what to make with it!

I have some iPad covers and guitar and camera straps going in to the shop in a bit - the pillows will be in there tomorrow at some point.

Hope everyone is off to a good week - my kids are excited as Friday we are heading here with our homeschool group!

Shop Update

I'm back!

The craft fair was great - thanks to all the loyal customers and blog readers who stopped by and said hi!!

The weather was amazing - the only bummer was no one could get any reception so the Square wouldn't work!

But I found out you can manually enter numbers in so that was a blessing. Just make sure you have the cvv code and their zip code too (don't ask how I know this - let's just say I'm happy I got people's phone numbers - lol!)

I've uploaded all the goodies into the shop too and it's nice and full. And I'll even throw in a little bonus - 10% off with coupon code SMILE (not applicable to custom orders - thanks!)

I have lots to share - and lots of emails to return! I have a tutorial to type up too! OK hope everyone has a great start to their week!

good and bad

We had a great weekend.

I sewed all day on Saturday - got on a bit of a "I need to finish this quilt now" kinda thing.

*edited to add: The fabrics I used in this quilt are Summerlove by Pat Bravo and the Kona solids I used are white, cyan, pink, sand and papaya. *

And I finished it all except for the binding.

* I started off using this pattern but then wanted the blocks to be bigger so I used this tutorial for the rest and then just cut them to different widths.

Sunday we woke up EARLY (4:20 am) and went down to Waimea Bay for our church's Sunrise Service. We help in Children's Ministry so we had to be there at 5:45 (we got there before 5:30 - ha ha!). Then we cleaned up and had a water baptism and I had to leave in a hurry to make it to my soccer game at 11:00. Only thing is, in my hurry, I LOST my cell phone.

I lost it somewhere at a public beach - got a ride with my sister so I know it's not in my car (or hers) - I had a ton of people looking for it and we couldn't find it. No one called me from it either so I think it's truly gone...

Oh well, I switched my number over to another one I have for now and if no one returns it....I may get an iPhone - silver lining for sure!!

OK - on to the winner of the giveaway....

#20 (that's my soccer jersey number) - Emily V!

Congrats - I'll send you an email soon!

I also sewed up a few more zip pouches and added them to the shop. I'm doing a craft fair in a month and need to get in gear for that.

Hubby has a soccer game tonight in town so I'm off to get ready! Guess not, third child down with wheezing/asthma and oldest has a bad cold - I'm staying home I guess...boo!

Mason's Roost

I've talked about my friend Carly and her baby little boy Mason here before.

Carly recently opened up a cute shop on Etsy called Little Light Prints!

I thought it would be fun to have a little giveaway and so she's giving away a print to one of you - your choice!

So head on over to her shop and leave a comment telling me what your favorite print is.

I'll pick a winner on Monday, April 9th. Comments are now closed!

Shop Update

Popping in here to let you know I loaded some new iPad cases....

and word pillows into the shop tonight:

Hope everyone had a good April 1st....Hubby announced on FB that we are moving to Costa Rica (it was an April Fool's joke - his poor family bought it - I felt so bad!).

We ended the day at an awesome slip and slide b-day party...everyone is now exhausted!!

A few quick things

Hope everyone is ready for a fun weekend - we have a few birthday parties to go to and I plan to quilt that custom twin.

I keep getting emails asking about whether people can use my tutorials to make things to sell and I figured I should write something here so everyone will know.

Yes, by all means, you are welcome to use any of my tutorials to make things and sell them (not commercial sales but you know what I mean - ha ha!). I just ask that you credit back my tutorials when you do...thanks!

And I added a little sidebar thingy that will hopefully make it easier to follow me no matter what blog reader you use - let me know if it works ok....I'm not super tech-savvy.

I uploaded some ipad covers and guitar straps into the shop yesterday.

And finished the quilt I was working on. Here's a sneak peek:

and the back:

And I'm so happy - I booked my airplane tickets to go to Sewing Summit in October! I'm actually going to Seattle for a few days first as one of my best friends lives there so I get to spend a few days with her and then fly to Salt Lake - I am beyond excited!! Best part is - I used miles for both tickets - woohoo!!

Any of you going? 

Chugging along

Do any of you ever over-commit yourselves? I'm sure you don't right? It's only me - lol!

I'm slowly chipping away at my lists of things to do.

I'm in a fun little doll quilt swap with a few friends and boy did that deadline sneak up on me.

It's done now - whew!

I'm also working on a pattern for an online magazine - the deadline is Friday but I only need to finish up the binding, wash it, and take a few finished pictures.

(I used flannel on the back so it's so soft)

I had an order for a custom guitar strap which I mailed off today and  I made a few more while I was at it...

I thought Curious Grey would be perfect for some guitar straps.

And a Batman one - just cause. Need to get the hardware on these and then they'll be headed into the shop.

And these two pillows are in the shop right now...

I love these word pillows - they are so fun to make. I ordered some fun Japanese newspaper prints and will make some more when they come.

I have a big twin quilt that I need to quilt this week - Just need to work up the energy to lay it all out and baste it.

A few more items are on the list too...making myself tired just thinking about them.

Not to mention school, house stuff and laundry...always laundry.

I do have a question for any of you that homeschool and have kids with dyslexia. What curriculum do you use to help them with reading? Is there anything you've found that works particularly well? I'm on the lookout for my nine year old...thanks!

Timeline

I updated my Facebook page with a custom timeline cover from Sugarflies Designs.

So cute yeah?

I'm trying to be better about posting there and adding pictures and stuff.

Made some more typewriter zip pouches for the shop this weekend.

And a sewing machine.

Have a few pillows that are close to completion too...

The hubs is back to a normal work week and we are back to our schedule - I love having a normal schedule....

I have about a million things I want to sew right now - so many ideas in my head.

I made a want-to-do mosaic:

1. Fish Baby Log Cabin Class at Stitch Lab, 2. juice bar mini, 3. Juice Blocks, 4. Far Far Away III patchwork quilt, 5. Design Studio - Sew Out Loud QAL Block #5, 6. pillow top, done!!, 7. Traveling Quilts!! :D, 8. granny square pillow, 9. Sprout Blocks, 10. Zig Zag Baby Quilt, 11. Valentine's Pillows, 12. granny square progress

I also want to make a herringbone quilt.

And this one.

Try some more paper piecing (how FABULOUS are these blocks?!).

Finish up some ufos.

Try to make some clutches.

And about a million other things too...I need to clone myself :-)

Walking Dead

Anyone watch that show? Hubby is a big fan but it's just way too gory for me.

Anyway, Hubs is working nights this week doing a tile job in a local coffee shop (so he has to work when it's closed).

Poor guy - he has been walking around so tired. We try and keep as quiet as we can and he usually wakes up around 11 am or 12. Think it's just 2 more nights - and then he goes back to work on Monday.

So I have been doing some night sewing this week - finished the top for a custom order and now am waiting on some thread to quilt it.

I also need to finish up this little house pillow and a pillowcase with two birds appliqued on it for the same order.

Got a new shipment of zippers - love this shop! Don't they look like a big pile of candy?

Finished up Ryan's row for the Bee Bee.....

And I finally have a winner for my giveaway - I kept forgetting - sorry!!

The winner is.....Eve Berry! Sent you an email Eve.

Hmm...what else....

I changed my name in my Etsy shop - I couldn't get One Shabby Chick {it was taken} so I just added Hawaii to the end.

I bought a new little banner for the shop too - and I have someone working on a timeline for my FB page since I don't have photoshop and have no idea what to do anyway.

It's super cute - can't wait to show you guys!

OK hope everyone has an amazing weekend....I must say - I'll be sad to see Hubby go back to work on Monday (even though it will be nice for him to get a steady paycheck again).

I've loved spending so much time with him this year - vacation and then a few weeks off work....it's been great for our family.

Destash

Wow - what a busy weekend...and to top it all off my camera was refusing to upload any photos!

Luckily I picked up a card reader and can use that instead.

I spent Saturday morning making fabric packs for a shop destash....and they are all in the shop now.

I finished up my pillow for the pillow swap and mailed it off today.

Hubby is working nights this week so there could be some late-night sewing.

Have to finish my Brrr! quilt and a cute pink quilt for a customer....

And I haven't forgotten about that giveaway - I'll announce the winner tomorrow!!