overheard from the other room

"so it's friday night and your mom is making me go out on a date tonight" said the dad
the 9 year old son looks up a little nervous and answers: "oh yeah? with who?"
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got to love the noisemakers.
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no worries the dad explained it to the 9 year old son it was with his hot wife.
darn right.

"THE" chair is done... for now

because a girl has the right to completely change her mind about anything...how ever many times she wants you may get something that she was happy with that looked like this:...to be undone and re-done in yellow gigham, undone of that and then re-done in a blue with a print of some fruit on it (shut it...it was a good idea in theory...okay maybe it wasn't even good then)...to finally give out a big sigh of relief when in the "big city" she was pulled by gravity towards "camille's red polka dots" only to fall (even more) madly in love with the fabric in person.

so i ended up with this. i've decided that i'm a red and green with a dash of blue kind of girl. and as much as i would of liked to of taken the plunge and painted it a lovely, lovely robin's egg blue, i think i may just need to warm up to it. so for now it is done. and for now i like it.

and that my friends is where i plant my butt to read your comments. have a happy weekend.

i'm speechless...but i'll push through that

wow people! i mean WOW PEOPLE! seriously you guys like your moda and it shows! the man formerly known as GI Joe husband would like to know where the heck you all came from! i told him EVERYWHERE!(though i don't think that's what he was asking) HELLO AMERICA, CANADA, UK, ITALY, FRANCE, HUNGARY, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, SPAIN, and SOUTH AMERICA!!!!... did i miss anyone? the final count was in the 780's there were a few repeat comments here and there which i deleted (why does blogger do that sometimes?)and then there were the people who linked me and commented in one comment (no worries you got two entries) i've been putting everyone on Microsoft word as you guys came into the giveaway.

i decided that go the safe route and go with the random.org number picker outer thingy.

here's your random#:333

jessica from washington

you are the lucky winner to these two lovely honey buns! lucky you! hopefully you don't know too many people who entered cause i think there's going to be a hoard of disappointed angry crafty people. quickly run and hide! ;)

oh okay i'll give one more thing away next winner is random #732

living with a joyful heart from conneticut you win a moda recess charm pack like the one i made my celebration flag banner out of!

ladies if you'd please just email me your addresses that would be super.

now the rest of you: if you'd like you can jump over to my etsy store and check out the rag rug kits i've just put together (yes i do over seas orders just convo me) there's not that many you might want to run not walk... you too can be on your way to making a lovely rag rug for a third of the price you would pay for an already made one from say pottery barn or the warm biscuit co.
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thank you all for playing! we'll see when i can get rid of this headache (and forget about it!) from staring at the computer screen and reading all your dang entries (i read every single one of them people except i couldn't understand one from a lovely french woman who left me a comment even linked me mind you! it looked like she was saying lovely things about me but what do i know?! doesn't anything french sound pretty when said or written?) to do something like this again! i'm off to soak and rest my eyeballs.

:: a "sweet" and "swanky" giveaway::

alright here's the deal:

since so many of you were so kind to say some really nice things about my tutorial over at the moda bake shop, i in turn want to do something for you guys. here's a giveaway of two lovely yummy honey buns. they are "sweet" (the one i used on my rag rug tutorial) and "swanky" that just screams spring. now don't expect a giveaway every single time or anything, i'm not made out of money,so you might want to get your chance now!

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here are the rules:

1) leave me a comment (could be anything like "hey i think you are pretty darn cool" or "i want that" really you can't go wrong)

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2) if you want a second entry link to my post with this picture on your blog, then come back and let me know you linked it.

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3)make sure there's a link back to your blog (or an email address) so if you win i have some way of contacting you!

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4) i will pick a winner this THURSDAY the 5th at 10 am (mountain standard time)

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so there you have it, two tries to get you some yummy honey buns. i'll be over here working on some "new stuff" all week long (can't wait to show you next week). and periodically i'll try to check you guys out...and i'll see you on thursday with a winner!

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edited tuesday march 3 before the kids go to school: holy shmoly!!! took a day off of blogging to work on things with all the intentions of checking out everyone who left me a comment today...uh...you guys are making that a little hard seeing that there are not enough hours in the day and i'm not willing to leave a permanent imprint of my butt on my computer chair! i'll do my best to check out the links! THANK YOU ALL FOR PLAYING! how fun! see you thursday.

okay i'm closing down the giveaway @ 9 am so that i have an hour to finish up the last bit of counting and "microsoft wording" the rest of the contestants i'll be back at 10.

welcome home 142nd from afghanistan

welcome home! it was great seeing you there this morning. hope you have a wonderful time re-integrating with your families!
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ladies you looked hot, and your husbands are some pretty lucky guys! love you guys.