LAST DAY OF THE REINDEER GAMES - TWO GIVEAWAYS - ONE FOR THOSE THAT PLAYED AND ONE FOR THOSE THAT WISHED THEY COULD HAVE!

Here is Rudolph, you can find him here   Caroll was so sweet and downloaded him for me, why she can get in google doc and I can not.....Hummmmmm

You can find Carroll's here.  Caroll has been totally amazing.  She has been my babysitter this last two months while I have been in transit and moving.  I bet she felt she didn't sign on for that.  Thanks Caroll, it has been so fun doing this with you.

I would like to thank all of you for coming by and participating.

Here is the giveaway, I added a spool of Gutermann thread and two emery boards.

This part of the giveaway is for those that actually made reindeer, so I will give those people time to get their pictures on flickr or you can just comment and lead me to your squares or email me.

Now the rest of you....you are thinking....  But Barb....I had too much going on to do those Reindeer, too many UFO's and I just couldn't start another project.  Well....this next giveaway is for you.

These Charm squares.......just leave a comment, tell Caroll what a fabulous job she did in drawing the reindeer, if you want you can tell me how clever I was to think of the idea (laughing here).  Stroke our egos....HA!!!  No seriously, just leave a comment.

Thanks again, it has been fun!

UPDATE....

Here is what I have cut out so far.....found it is so hard to be neat when the piles get to high.

Here is Caroll's second reindeer

Here is Prancer
Can you believe that I did these in the car coming from Virginia? Every once in a while my stomach would turn but I was determined.....

Stepped on a water bug this morning....not to happy!! Did the skin crawling dance for a while.

WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?

I finished this reindeer the night before I left....uploaded on flickr and I invite all of you when you finish your reindeers to upload as well.

Now to show you what is in my wallet. My husband's eyes bugged out when he saw all of these pouches,bags...and I didn't show you the two cosmetic bags in the bathroom right now. He just laughed...but I laughed at all of his electric cords in his suitcase. At least my stuff in organized in one compartment.
A pouch for my jewelry, kindle cord and camera cords, bag for medicine (gotta have headache medicine), bag for embroidery, computer cords etc....the list goes on.

Now to give my husband credit, he is so organized and all of his things are wrapped nicely with rubber bands around them (so much better than what I would have done...the cords and wires would have free range with me and get tangled up).

Oh...that pink bag is my camera battery charger (yes...I did finally find it the day before we left)...sheweee how I looked for that. I kept thinking if I could only remember what color bag it was in. Now I know and it is documented.

What do you see below? I am trying to support my friend Caroll in her embroidery reindeer games. I sit here wanting my machine so badly....but keeping my hands busy doing this is therapy for now.
What you see below is some awesome Batiks fat quarters, eight of them. I got them at JoAnn's for five bucks. Oh yes....the package had been damaged. When I saw the price my eyes bugged out, I looked around like I was stealing .... snatched up the bag of fat quarters and ran to the counter...didn't want anyone to change their minds .... I also got the 2" Go cutter strip die for 19.00, I purchased it for a friend. What was I thinking? I didn't buy me one...I went back a few days later and it was regular price.....I felt my boot on my bootie for not getting one earlier.
The weather in San Antonio is totally wonderful....it feels like home.

COURT JESTER

This is a new pattern of mine inspired by a cake Paula Deen made. I loved it so much that I made my own version.

Yes, it is a little wild but aren't Court Jester's suppose to be wild? A big thanks goes to my mother and Beverly for the border fabric, it matched up just perfectly and the majority of the fabrics I purchased at Inchworm Fabrics.

You can find the pattern here and soon at Inchworm Fabrics.

I decided to embroidery the reindeer while I am away for ten days. It should be fun to play along with everyone else.

If you will notice the new Page I added at the top, REINDEER GAMES. You will be able to go there and find what you need instead of having to scroll through my blog for any information. I also downloaded the patterns to google doc for those of you that have had trouble downloading the pdf. You will be able to get the link in that page as well, along with Caroll's information.

Thanks so much for joining us and stay tuned next week for the 2nd reindeer.

I will visit you in my travels.

NEW HEADER AND BLOGGER BACKGROUND

Today I get to tell you who made my blogger header and background.... are you ready?

 I am sure some of you already know, if you have been over to sew cals, then you have seen what she has done with this new software "MyMemories Tutorial to Create Blog Headers". She is also have a giveaway of this same software.

She wanted an experimental blog and well.....I was her guinea pig...whohoooo, am I a luck gal or what?

I so enjoy my new header and background, Sew cal did an amazing job.  

I am almost certain that most of you are familiar with her and her wonderful insightful blog but if not, you certainly have been missing out.

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I have decided to just grin and bear this new blogger, was told that we were going to lose our old blogger anyways....is causing me some frustration but I am sure once I get use to it, all will be well.  You know us old dogs, it is hard to teach us new tricks.

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Husband is home today and once again, he wants to go running around. ...this old dog is tired...... so he says....we can make a trip to JoAnn's...I am laughing because he just wants me in the car with him.  I will let you know later if it worked!

Will be gone for the next three weeks (I can tell you that because someone will be in this home, be it my husband or son)....but will be posting for the Reindeer Games. see my side bar button. Caroll has been in and out, I will be in and out...we discussed postponing the games but hey...if you all are willing to work with our comings and going and any mishaps...then we are willing to continue on...I believe we will begin May 11th.   

Get your background fabric ready, your scraps of browns and a few Christmas scraps (remember Inchworm fabrics has some cute Christmas snowflake fabric).  Shameless plug for my sister.  I will let you in on a little secret, my blocks are 12 1/2 and you need nine of them.  Just so you know.

The question is....do you want to see the whole quilt before you commit?  Do you want it all to be a secret until the end?  What do most BOM's do?  Ours will be bi monthly (BMB)....and Remember, Caroll's quilt will be different, we are going to give virations.....