My daughter is graduating from high school tomorrow! We’re proud and sort of stunned, all at the same time. I guess that’s how this works, huh?
HOW is that possible? I’m still working on figuring that one out! I’ll let you know when it actually sinks in!
To celebrate her accomplishment, my family and I are taking two weeks off to spend time together before she gets ready to leave for college in the fall.
Because I want you to celebrate, too, I’m offering 20% off your purchase of $5 or more in my ETSY shop, just use coupon code VACATION! Offer valid only on ETSY. My store closes until June 18 starting tomorrow making this offer TODAY only!
Now through Friday March 30, Poppies from the Past is half price (that’s just $4!) with coupon code SPRINGPOPPIES. Not valid on etsy or craftsy.
This offer can be combined with the 15% off coupon (see below).
Happy Spring Shopping!
Poppies from the Past: PDF Instant Download
Reminders:
In honor of my participation in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop, get 15% off your TOTAL PURCHASE from the Sewhooked Shop during the month of March with coupon code MARCH15. Not valid on etsy or craftsy. ENDS MARCH 31.
The Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day blog hop is coming April 1, 2012! We have a full compliment of designers ready to share awesome Garden Party-themed FREE paper pieced patterns with you!
Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!
In honor of my participation in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop, get 15% off your TOTAL PURCHASE from the Sewhooked Shop during the month of March with coupon code MARCH15. Not valid on etsy or craftsy. ENDS MARCH 31.
The Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day blog hop is coming April 1, 2012! We have a full compliment of designers ready to share awesome Garden Party-themed FREE paper pieced patterns with you!
Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that am taking part in a Tutorial Blog Hop during the month of March that is brought to you by 10 STITCHED instructors, myself included!
STITCHED is a subscription-based community with a slew of awesome instructors, workshops, prizes and more!
Each one of the tutorials in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop is unique and FREE, so definitely check out each of these blogs, learn something new and have some crafty fun!
In honor of my participation in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop, get 15% off your TOTAL PURCHASE from the Sewhooked Shop during the month of March with coupon code MARCH15. Not valid on etsy or craftsy.
The Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day blog hop is coming April 1, 2012! We have a full compliment of designers ready to share awesome free paper pieced patterns with you!
STITCHED is now open for business and I’m celebrating! Join myself and 19 other fabric artists for 20 unique workshops with loads of members-only content!
Now through midnight, get 50% off your total Sewhooked Shop instant download purchase! Use coupon code STITCHEDJAN1 for half-off your entire PDF order!
Look for a new block the first Wednesday of each month, with each block being a surprise as we journey with Bilbo!
Fandom In Stitches patterns are designed by fans, for fans and are free of charge.
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Find myself and the other Talk To Me Tuesday vloggers every Tuesday as we share our crafty goodness, ideas and challenges on the TTMT Livejournal Community and on our YouTube Channels.
There are lots of very crafty ladies currently making TTMT videos. The variety of talents is endless and always inspiring!
In November of 2012, I will celebrate my tenth year as a Linus Connection volunteer! I have spent almost all of those years at the Linus webmistress and am now on my second go as a Board Member.
I’m currently in charge of blanket packing and distribution during our monthly meetings, which simply means I make sure each facility gets what they need from the donated blankets we receive. I also write all the blog posts for our group, as well as take care of our Facebook and Twitter pages.
You will hear me talk about “Linus” a lot. When I do, I’m always referring to The Linus Connection of Central Texas, a small non-profit based right here in Austin.
My personal goal is 2 blankets a month, or 24 blankets per year.
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In 2012, I will continue to collect Stars for Linus (see above!). In 2011, we donated 3 Stars for Linus quilts to The Linus Connection. This year, let’s try to make it 4!
Each quilt block needs to be 12″ (12 1/2″ unfinished) and made in bright colors with a light background.
You can find my mailing address on the Stars for Linus pattern. For best results, print without scaling. If your pattern scales down, simply make the borders a little bigger and then square up to 12 1/2″!
Share your story of quilting on your own blog and post your photo in our flickr group!
Well, I guess that about sums it up! This week I’m planning a look back at 2011 as well as my 12 for 2012 post. I hope you are having a very happy new year!
Don’t forget, now through midnight, get 50% off your total Sewhooked Shop instant download purchase! Use coupon code STITCHEDJAN1 for half-off your entire PDF order!
Well, how much fun has it been getting to chat with you all about the album themes you like from My Memories, all the while knowing that you might win some awesome software?
I don’t know about you, but I thought it was pretty darn fun! If you enjoyed it, let me know, because we have the opportunity to do this again in the future. Fun, huh?
And now, my super-secret, high-tech, new-fangled way of choosing winners.
Or not, but this is the best, most fair way I’ve found to do this!
Without further ado, the winner of the My Memories Free Software Giveaway here on Sewhooked is Adrith! You can see at a glance my super-futurist method of choosing a winner. 😉
If you didn’t win, you can still get $10 off your purchase of My Memories Software with coupon code STMMMS23344. The software is $39.97 USD, making ten bucks off a huge savings!
A huge congratulations to Adrith, and thank you to everyone else that played along. This was a lot of fun for me, I do love giving away freebies!
When I was presented with the opportunity to play with fun new software AND give a copy of that software away to one of my readers, all for free, I thought it might be to good to be true.
Was it?
No, indeed!
Not only do I get to give one of you fabulous people free software, I have a coupon for $10 off of cool crafty, and super-reasonably priced software for every Sewhooked reader!
That’s a win-win situation!
My Memories is scrapbooking software. Now, I’ve never been much of a scrapbooker in real life, but I love digital photo manipulation. I’ved used online solutions through stores with photo processing and such to create cards and photo books, and I have to admit, this is way, way cooler. It’s a crazy versatile software that allows you to do all kinds of cool things with your photos.
I have oodles (and oodles!) of digital photographs. Up until about 2005, I kept them in tidy albums, organized by dates. Then this weird thing happened.
I got my first digital camera. ..
At first, I continued to have my photos printed, but eventually, I realized I was taking way too many pictures to do that. So I began archiving them on a multitude of discs, then eventually on an external hard drive. Have I gone back to dig out those discs and look at those photos? Do I regularly visit my million and one photo files?
Sadly, no. I have thousands of photos that are just sitting, collecting virtual dust instead of being easily accessible. So what the heck, why not try a little digital scrapbooking?
Of course, the first thing I did after downloading my spiffy new software was to download all the FREEBIES! Free paper designs, templates, cards, gift tags and, and, and! What? I like free!
Once the freebies were installed, I started playing. Papers and embellishments and text, oh my…
My darling daughter’s Sweet 16 Birthday.
Once I started playing with My Memories, I had a really, really hard time stopping. It’s super easy to use, and after just a little trial and error, I got the hang of where most everything was. There are all kinds of cool embellishments and such built in to the software (note the spiffy pencil and clips in the image below) and the software accesses your font library, so if you have a million and one fonts like I do (DaFont free fonts for the win!), the text options are endless.
My son with all the awards he won at the end of the last school year.
See, I told you I couldn’t stop! I’m an absolute novice here, but I’m super happy with these results. There are SO MANY FUN TOYS!
My ramblings not explaining it? Watch a little video!
Now, the fun part for you! Enter to win a FREE COPY of My Memories right here on Sewhooked! All you have to do to be entered to win is to visit the My Memories website and check out their Album Themes and tell me the name of a theme that you think is really fun or cool or pretty, or crazy, or just plain interesting. Then, leave a comment with the name of the theme so I can check it out, too! (Note: If you read this on your feed or on Facebook, please visit the original post on Sewhooked in order to be eligible to win.)
On Wednesday, September 21, I will choose a random winner and that person will receive a coupon for a free software download! How cool is that?!
Just can’t wait? Get $10 off your purchase of My Memories with coupon code STMMMS23344!
In 2012, I will continue to collect 
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