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I've been doing Swag Bucks just over a month and have earned $20 in Amazon gift certificates!

Disney's Give A Day Get A Day

I went to Joann's today and bought some fleece for the family to make blankets for Project Linus. It's a project I've been wanting us to do anyway, so when I found out it was one of the organizations offering free Disney tickets for volunteering, I figured this was a good time to do it!

Lydia picked out a really cute Strawberry Shortcake fleece for her blanket, then since the other kids didn't think a trip to Joann's sounded like a fun way to spend their day off of school, we picked out everyone else's too. Arminda will be making a zebra blanet, Corey a dinosaur, Brian a hunting dogs blanket and Lydia picked out a cute golf fleece for me to make something with.

It was so much fun picking out things we thought other kids would like. Lydia put a lot of thought into it, and we talked about how nice it will be for the kids to be able to cuddle up in the blankets we made. I was glad that Lydia saw that the free tickets were really secondary to helping out someone else. (although, the free tickets are a very nice bonus!)

I will post some pictures when we get them made.

Time for a change

Like my new background? I thought is was cute too. I found it at Shabby Blogs
The best part? It's called Lydia's Apron!

I just finished sewing up a few things. I am a tester for CarlaC and I just sewed up this adorable springy dress for Lydia. I used SisBooms Casey Scroll in this fabulous pink! I added a sash to the dress. I'll be making more of these! You can buy the pattern at CarlaC's site or on YouCanMakeThis .

Then, yesterday, I made a dress for my niece, Tessa, for her Father Daughter Dance. My sister is a wonderful sewer herself, so I was honored that she asked me to make it!

I used CarlaC's "The Precious Dress" pattern (which I like to think of as "The Lydia" ) unfortunately, the card reader on my computer is not cooperating with me at the moment, so I don't have a picture. I'll update with one as soon as I can. For now, you will have to take my word for it that it was pretty cute!

Edit: My sister uploaded a picture of the dress, so I stole her picture!

giveaway

I don't have much go post, so here's a giveaway for you!

It's for a pampering beki item!

http://shealynnbenner.blogspot.com/2009/09/pampering-beki-giveaway_15.html

Another cool giveaway

This is a really fun blog, she is always posting neat ideas and tutorials! She is having a giveaway, so go enter!

http://treasuresfortots.blogspot.com/2009/08/girl-bento-box-set-giveaway.html

EA Sports Giveaway

Go here to enter to win an EA Sports for the Wii
http://budurl.com/jc4c

Long Time No Post!

Wow, it was October when I posted??? Goodness!

Well, the other day, Armnida had a Famous African American Wax Museum at her school. Each kid in her class had to pick a famous African American to be. Then, they dressed as the character and stood out in the hall at school. People would then come and press the "buttnon" on their hands and the kids gave a short speach about the person. It was really a lot of fun! Arminda chose Serena Williams. I made her a skirt using CarlaC's Perfectly Preppy skirt pattern, available on http://www.youcanmakethis.com/ and Carla's raglan t-shirt pattern. Ok, I actually made the t-shirt earlier in the year for something else, but I did make it.