And the Winner is.....

I am so excited to announce the winner of my first giveaway ever! 

These homemade hand sewn pumpkins are going to make a great addition to ....

#9 SHANA! Shana said...I tweeted 

Shana please contact me @ Bugcreator at yahoo dot com to claim your prize!

& if I don't hear from the winner by 10/11 I will do another drawing! 

Thanks to everyone who participated and I am looking forward to my 100 follower giveaway! Tell your friends all about Bug Creator !

Just a short ...

Tomorrow is the big day... My first ever craft festival... I did not want to make too many different items to take so I have 8 different items but several versions of each item... it is great! I did not get to make my monsters though. I was going to do them tonight and I got sick as a dog. I am talking I have been puking and other more TMI things all day. I can't move without being sick. 

I am hoping this is just a 24 hour bug so that I can function tomorrow and be friendly. 

Don't forget the giveaway ends at 12 midnight saturday night EST. Get your entries in before than! 

If your local and want to come visit... The Sum-Nelly festival is 10/2/2010 in Northwest Georgia... A small town called Summerville, GA. It attracts hundreds of visitors every year! There is arts and crafts...food...music...etc... 

It is at Dowdy park across from ingles shopping center. Hope to see you there! 

P.s. have I mentioned that I am sad that national sewing month is officially over? 

Giveaway ends in 2 days!

Don't forget ladies and gentlemen! The giveaway for these adorable fabric pumpkins...

ends in 2 days on 10/02!!!

Sign up real quick it only takes a minute! I don't have very many entries so your odds are pretty darn good! :D

National Sewing month Giveaway! (open to the US & CAN)

Don't forget to LINK IT UP... open until wednesday! We love to see your projects!!!

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GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED!
I know you have all been anxiously awaiting this!!!

The national sewing month end of the month giveaway is here!!! 

What am I giving away?

Why a set of these adorable little pumpkins!

Aren't they cute? 

Here's how to enter.... 

1. Leave a comment telling me why you want these adorable babies to come live at your house.

2. Twitter it and leave me a comment with a link to it 

3. Facebook it and leave me a comment with a link to it

4. Blog about it and leave me a comments with a link to it!
{This giveaway is open to US residents & Canadians!}

That is 4... count them 1...2...3...4 chances to enter! Now considering I only have roughly 100 followers total between feeds and Google those are some pretty good chances! 

(remember to leave separate comments for each thing!)

The giveaway will be open until the 2nd. I will announce the winner on the 3rd.

 (Only because I have the sum-nelly festival on the 2nd and will be very very busy!)

What is a Sum Nelly festival? It is a 4 week event in the month of October... Every weekend there is something different! The 1st and 3rd week are arts and crafts...(we will be there for both)It is located in Summerville, GA. 

If your local I look forward to seeing you there! 

I will be there under RyBug Designs with my friend Emily from Paper Pixie Crafts!

(and possibly Bug too)

Wrist Cuff Tutorial

Just in case you missed my guest post on 733 I thought I would bring the tutorial to you! So here is the wrist cuff tutorial in honor of national sewing month!

This is a great scrap buster!
Today we are going to be making some pretty awesome boy {or girl} wrist cuffs! 

These are the best because you can whip them up in 10 minutes as a last minute gift, addition to a costume, or any other number of things! They don't even have to be perfect and we welcome disasters because it makes it that more interesting! 

So here we go...

Supplies:

2 or more kinds of fabric... These can be long scraps or pieces you cut..

Velcro

thread and a sewing machine of course! 

I used an old leather jacket and some blue scraps I had laying around...

Step 1: Measure the persons wrist you are trying to fit or if you can't make a good guesstimate!

Cut out 2 long pieces approximately 2 inches wide from your base fabric... 

Step 2: 

cut out a piece of a topper fabric and cut it out slightly shorter and less wide than the base fabric than sew it on with some fancy sewing squiggles.(you can use your quilting foot for free motion if you want here... experiment! You can't mess up!)

Step 3: 

Make sure you sewing around the base fabric as well after your fancy squiggles..You should finally have this!

Step 4:

With wrong sides together sew your two pieces of base fabric together....My two pieces were not quite the same so I had to cut some of the top but that is okay! Because remember? We welcome disasters!!! 

Step 5: VELCRO!!! (or you can use snaps)

Sew two squares of Velcro on so that it can be closed around the wrist

You should now have this awesomeness that if your little boy is anything like my nephew has been loved from the minute you started making it... (my nephew stood behind me the entire time saying how much he loved it and could he have it)

And he found out it was his... Can you tell he loves it?

Doesn't it look awesome despite its flaws?

The best part is you can layer fabric and do all kinds of designs! 

Even let your kids design their own! 

If it frays... fine! More character!

Now go make some of these lovelies for kids you know! Even teenagers love them! 

And don't forget to stop by Bug Creator and check out my other tutorials we have some neat stuff going on for National Sewing Month! 

Thanks for having me 733 readers... Hope to see ya soon! 

& BIG thanks to Kimberly for letting me stop by and putting up with my crazy lateness! 

Wrist Cuffs Tutorial & 733 Guest post

Hey everyone! Here we are continuing with our National Sewing Month celebration! 

Today I am guest posting the tutorial a day early over at 733 with Kim!

I am so excited to be guest posting and you will def want to see this tutorial! It is great for boys & girls... Young and Older!! 

Check it out! 

NSM Bicycle Bucket Tutorial

As most of you know already... This tutorial is not made by me! 

I am currently on a impromptu trip which began Tuesday morning and should end Thursday evening...

A friend of mine and her 3 kids are stranded 7 hours south of me and are going to come live in my area... So I am off to rescue them and spend some time with family! 

However I would NEVER leave you guys without a promise tutorial! 

So we are going to do a tut feature... I found this Monday evening while browsing around! 

It is ingenius! I never liked those plastic baskets that come on bikes... these are awesome... AND WASHABLE! 

Bicycle Bucket Tutorial @ Noodlehead

{& another version of Noodleheads bucket}

Aren't they amazing? 

So head on over and show your appreciation for such an amazing tutorial and get to sewing!

Impromptu Trip

Just wanted to let everyone know I am going on a impromptu trip out of town! Therefore my tutorial will not be forth-coming this week :( 

A friend of mine is stranded with her 3 kids about 7 hours south of me... SO I am going to go get her and the kids... go to visit some family for a bit and than head back home! 

I have a post scheduled to go up with a link to an amazing tutorial I found today that I think will satisfy your need to create! 

Happy national sewing month! I will be back next tuesday with a tutorial a bit early ... I will be posting at 733's blog! Excited? I AM!

And because every bloggy needs a picture :D

{he loves helping mommy bake cupcakes}

Quilted Carseat strap covers tutorial

Welcome to National Sewing Month!!! 

National Sewing Month is celebrated for the entire month of September! So for the month of September we have some exciting things going on around here! 

For one we have a giveaway at the end of the month! What are we giving away? Sorry can't tell! It's a surprise! 

There is going to be a new tutorial once a week on Wednesday!

I will be guest blogging over at Seven-Thirty-Three &  at Keeping It Simple!

It is going to be a crazy month folks! 

Don't forget to check out what is going on over at No Big Dill w/ Katy... She has some awesome ideas and plans!

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So let's get down to our first tutorial... Today we will be sewing the absolute essential piece to any babies car seat! 

Strap cozies!

{This tutorial is continued under the "Continue reading" so that this blog can be more reader friendly to those who have slower connections}

2 days and counting....

2 Days and counting until we kick off.... NATIONAL SEWING MONTH!

This month I will be posting one tutorial a week! 

The first tutorial will be posted on the 1st. I am so excited! 

I am going to be opening a Flickr group (if possible I am trying to do that now) so that we can see all of your creations! 

The last week of the month I will be doing a GIVEAWAY!

Yep my first EVER giveaway!

I am excited for this too!

So check back and be sure to tell all your friends about it! 

There are lots of new and exciting things going on around this little corner of the bloggy world... 

What's new around your corner? Are you doing anything exciting for NSM?

& because every blog needs a picture!!!

{Post coming soon}

September= Awesome

Do you like amy butler fabric? Me too!! Girl from Tulsa @ feather and cloth is giving away a full fq set of amy butler fab!
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September has always been a good month for me! 

Why do I love September?

-Starts to cool down because fall is on its way

-Means daylight savings time is closer and I love me an extra hour!

-Halloween is almost here and it means it is time to start thinking costumes

-We are that much closer to Christmas which is my fav holiday EVER.

And now I have a new something to add to that list...

{View from my sewing machine into the back 3 acres}

NATIONAL SEWING MONTH!

{nationalsewingmonth.org}

Yes folks there is a WHOLE MONTH dedicated to... SEWING! 

Now I might just be the last person on earth to know about this but when I read about NSM on Katy's blog No Big Dill... My jaw hit the floor. September just got THAT MUCH BETTER! 

With only 5 days left I am putting my machine in gear and my camera to work.... I am hoping to be able to offer 1 tutorial a week!

-crosses fingers-

I am also going to be doing a giveaway the last week of September! 

A friend of mine may be joining in but no promises yet! 

I can't wait to see what September brings! Can you? 

Am I the last person on earth to know about NSM? What are your plans for NSM?