a few things if you will

if you are looking for the sew mama sew giveaway day post...check it here. winners will be picked at midnight tonight, sorry i have to close it then because i need to go to sleep because i'm leaving in the morning. early.

now onto the other things going on.
yes it's true i'm going to market. i've not spoken of it in fears that i would jinx it. but here has come the day that i'm packing and getting ready to go. weeks of working behind the scenes (aka the blog) and still nothing to show you. but i'll show you some things soon. i've been visiting the bathroom more than normal thanks to my nerves, and i don't even have a booth. sheesh. i have no idea how designers do it. fabulous bowels they must have, or pepto bismol stock they must own. (sorry i'll back off the yoda talk sometimes it just comes out.)

so for the next couple of days my husband will have full control over the remote, and other bloggers will have full control over my blog. well just the tutorial part of it. they are some nice girls to help this gal out for the rest of the week so make sure you are nice to them and tell them how wonderful their work is.

i'm looking forward to sleeping on the plane. but lets be honest i probably wont. i should buy a book or something. you know those things i used to love to read when i had more time and not trying to make two quilts a week and tutorials for the blog, and keeping the noisemakers and the husband happy and fed, and doing a lot of community council stuff, and trying to keep up on the monster my laundry has become, and lets not forget making sure the skid marks on the toilets get cleaned off if by chance someone comes over to use out bathroom.
books, yeah those things. it's probably a good thing to try to read so i don't fall hard asleep and get off on the wrong stop and end up in turkey instead of minneapolis. i'm just sayin.

this last week we saw some gorgeous weather. we havn't had that and it was lovely to have. we as a fam worked on the yard all.weekend.long. we've prepared the garden...(it's growing btw, but still too cold to put outside over night) it made me remember how much i LOVE to work side by side with the husband...and how useless the kids are when you need them to focus on yard work. its okay though they got some vitamin D on their skin, and we BBQ'd with friends to celebrate our coming-along-after-the-winter-woe's backyard.

at some point this last little bit (all my days are mushed together) the two younger kids and i took a bike ride while the other two were still at school. on our way home from roaming around a bit, we turned our corner and the third boy noise maker skids on his breaks and then proceeds to move on in a snail like pace. i watched him do the whole thing and so i asked him why he stopped and why he was going so slow.
he simply answered "because mom, it says the speed limit is 25." of course.
love my kids. have i said that lately?
it took just a little bit of sunshine to make my spirits soar to the sky. gosh i miss the sun.
now. off to keep packing and pretend that i'm okay with the house (which i am SO not but whatever. i don't have time)

so keep me in your prayers that i don't miss my stop, my husband doesn't delete my shows, and that i don't crap my pants at market.
thanks in advance.
we'll talk soon.


oh OH and check out this kit that the crafty girls workshop did of my pattern over at the moda bake shop. you get the pattern and the fabric for a really great price! good stuff people. goood stuff.
okay now logging off.

giveaway day at sew mama sew

Giveaway closed...I'll pick a winner later today when I get internet! See you later thanks for playing!

yes this time around i'm participating:
sew mama sew giveaway day


and here's what i'm offering:

three free patterns from my shop.
to three lucky winners.

and some fabric:
one winner will win one verna charm pack
one winner will win one simple abundance charm pack
oh and yeah remember my baby life quilt over at the moda bake shop? i'm giving away to one other person my left overs scraps ranging from layer cake squares, to half a yard in fabrics from this line.
seeing that all three of these lovely fabric lines are coming out with new fabric lines later on this week i'm destashing to make room for um of course their new lines.


leave me a comment to enter.
you can say whatever you want like "hey yo, me likey." or "dude, love your blog." or "just give it to me already." or you can tell me something about yourself.
don't care but you get one shot so make it good.
i'll pick the six winners on the 20th. (international entries available to win patterns only)
:) we'll talk soon.
best of luck!

remote civil wars

we seriously need new pictures of us this was almost taken two years ago

so i don't know about you but my husband has some kind of weird attachment thing going on with the remote control.

for example as his butt is getting ready to hit the chair or bed the remote needs to be within range if not already in his hand. if even a nano second passes after his butt hits the chair/bed the panic sets in. there has been a time or two where i just stand and stare at him as the panic mode button is hit and the baseball hat flies off his head and falls to the ground, pillows are strewn about and a high pitch "where is it? VANESSA! where is it?!!!" which in our family the first thing that comes out of our mouths when someone asks where something is, is "did you check up your butt?" to which he answers "vanessa, i'm not joking." to which i answer back. "yeah neither am i." yes i know not the kindest thing to say...but funny.

well i've learned in our 12+ years of marriage that this pathetic ritual that happens every single night is just part of the man i married and love. and yes, i do the good wifely duties and LET him have the remote. it stays on his side of the bed, it stays in his hand while fast forwarding the commercials, and it stays in his lap nice a warm during the shows. basically i shut up and put up. because it makes my man happy.

every once in a while i get the honor of fast forwarding the commercials to which i usually get a scoff of "did you want to fast foward through the whole show." and i'm all "do you want to ever get lucky again?" but i just think that i don't saaaaay that. so i "good wifely" hand over the remote control and give all control back to where he THINKS it should go.

well everything changed just one week ago today.
let me set the scene:

the husband and i are in bed, i'm binding a quilt, the husband is adjusting the pillows ever so slightly so he can be in optimal relax mode.

the husband starts one of his shows and gives out a sigh of relief. i look up and look what's on roll my eyes and keep binding. knowing that he'll get to "our" shows after a few of his regular happy making shows.

in the middle of the show he stops it, starts fiddling with the remote and i look up.

just in time to watch in slow motion as he had hit "select all" and was ready to hit "delete".

as i yell in slow motion mind you "WHAT IN THE...WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!!!"

to which he turns to me in slow motion and yells back "WHAT IN THE...WHAT AM I DOING?!!!
CANCEL!!! CANCEL!!!!"

we stare at eachother and stare at our now completely empty DVR'd section (and i should note that we had a weeks worth because we didn't get to sit very much last week)...and i again ask "why? why would you erase EVERYTHING?"
he answers back "it was a MISTAKE! i meant to erase all of that one show because it was a repeat and i didn't need to watch them. OH WHAT HAVE I DONE?!!!!"

in the 12+ years of marriage to this man i've never seen him cry. that night was the first night i saw almost actual tears.

we sat in silence for a minute. neither of us wanting to talk. both of us in shock.

i break the silence with a "give me the remote."

head hung low, not even a mutter of complaint he handed over the remote

honestly, it was like Lee surrendering to Grant.

oh and you bet your bottom dollar i don't let him forget it either. like when he was making a hot dog in the microwave. i made sure to add a little "now don't hit delete before you hit start. that won't cook the hot dog."
or like when he starts to complain that i've decided that we are watching our shows first. all i have to say is "um yeah who hit delete? keep your pie hole shut." and we go on our merry way and continue to watch GLEE.

victory is mine.

embellishing shirts over at luv in the mommyhood

please go find me and my embellished shirts over at luv in the mommyhood and join in with me in sending "baby get out of my body" vibes over to shannon, so she can get back to blogging. sheesh already.
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winner of burgundy button's giveaway

apparently there are many of you that remember your mothers having wall paper or sheets or dresses in fabrics some of you remember your mom's loving the beach, sewing, cooking, gardening or just being plain ol happy.

how wonderful! i just ask that my kids don't remember me being crazy.

our lucky # this time around was 161 and that person is:

audrey said...

already get the newsletter!

May 10, 2010 7:10 AM

yay audrey!

contact me and i'll get you your winnings!!!

thank you all for playing. monday i'll have another giveaway for the big sew mama sew giveaway day. so come on by.
we'll talk soon.
;)