you know what this blog has been missing?

This boy.

He's getting so silly, and refuses to look at a camera. That's getting old quick.

He even came to visit me at school yesterday to bring me lunch!

I love that boy.

DING! DING! DING!

We have a winner!
According to Random.org, the winner of the awesome quarter yard fabric bundle is...

... comment #14 - miamihoney!

(I have sent you an email- so please check it for further instructions!)

Thanks for entering, everyone- and thanks for the beautiful fabric, Down Shadow Lane!

Now get off the computer and go have a fun Saturday! :)

I'm embarassingly predictable.

This was my cart from Fabricworm a minute ago:

grey.

yellow.

grey.

yellow.

then i started thinking about the fact that my house is a little:

grey.

yellow.

grey.

yellow.

yikes.

the play/sew room is now ready for playing and sewing!

*If you're looking for the Down Shadow Lane Giveaway, it's in this post.*
***The giveaway ends tomorrow night so go sign up!***

This past weekend we almost finished the mini-redo of the play/sew room! We patched the walls, painted the room, hung shelves, made some new wall art (the Seuss fabric hoops) and organized, organized, organized!

I say "almost finished" because you will notice in these pictures:

A) There are no blinds! The old ones from the previous owners literally fell off the window. Strings snapped, huge disaster. But I'm ok with it because we planned to slowly replace all the blinds in the house with the 2" faux wood kind (I say slowly because that 63" window? $80 worth of blinds. YIKES!). The new blinds are here and will be hung this afternoon!

B) There's one more big blank space on the wall (to the right of the shelves)- but I'm ok with that- I hope to one day put a quilt wall hanging there!

Either way, I love the way it is now- so bright and cheerful!

(Hmm... I just realized that I might as well call this the IKEA room)

I love this idea that's been floating around the internet and it seemed like a great way to bring a little "theme" to the room without going overboard (or using too much of my precious Seuss stash!)

Did you get a look at those IKEA shelves? They make me so happy!

We put them both up there in the corner for my sewing supplies that are most often used. Thinking way ahead, we think that they'll also work there in the corner with a changing table underneath them, should this room ever becoming a nursery.

My silhouette and I went to work labeling and organizing everything.

Between this room and the mini-bolts in my fabric cabinet, I am so excited! I love getting organized, it's just keeping it organized that's the problem! I'm hoping having everything out of reach of tiny hands will help!

wordless wednesday

happy birthday to me.

(I'm not so good with the "wordless" part, am I?)

down shadow lane fabric bundle GIVEAWAY!

Here's a riddle for you:

What do the fabric behind Noah's library bag,

these pants, and a few of the fabrics in that stack of fabric in my header have in common?

All that fabric came from Down Shadow Lane!

Down Shadow Lane is an online fabric shop, run by Jen, a stay-at-home-mom from Arizona. I won't lie, I orginally found her shop by searching for a certain fabric and just pulled up the shop that had it cheapest- I wasn't aware of everything else this shop had!

Down Shadow Lane carries all of the designer fabric names that you read of all over the place- Amy Butler, Anthology, Michael Miller, Denise Schmidt, Anna Maria Horner, Joel Dewberry- at great prices. You name it, it's there! She has yardage, fat quarters, patterns, scrap packs, amazing sales - and the bundles... oh, the bundles!

I have ordered a good bit of fabric from Down Shadow Lane and let me tell you- it is always top-notch stuff and arrives quickly and folded ever-so-neatly (I'm a sucker for good folding!).

The good news for you, my friend, is that Jen has oh so graciously offered up this awesome 1/4 yard bundle of Sugar Pop for Moda in brown, chartreuse and aqua to one lucky reader!
(that is, 1/4 of a yard of each of these prints)

(um, drool. )
mod blossom in brown
mod tree in chartreuse
large floral in aqua/brown
buds in brown
mod blossom in cream/chartreuse
mod tree in brown/aqua

Would you like these pretty fabrics to make their way to your mailbox?

You can make that happen 2 ways:
1. Comment on this post telling me what you would do with this fabric should you win. Do you have a quilt pattern in mind you'd like to try or maybe you want to make a gathered clutch? Tell me about it!

2. Head on over to Down Shadow Lane and add them as your favorite on Etsy, then leave me a separate comment letting me know you did!

Please make sure you leave me with an email address so I can get in touch with you if need be. This giveaway will close at midnight on Friday, March 18th and I will announce the winner sometime on Saturday !

Good luck!

what's that I smell?

*sniff sniff*

... smells like
a giveaway!

a bright, pretty, yummy, "ooh I want that!" giveaway!

**stay tuned**