Snazzy Saturday

Short and sweet this week my friends. I'm headed out to a music festive with the family tonight. So... Here's my awesome finds for this week.

EIGHT LETTER NAME TRAIN personalized custom hand painted keepsake toy by VibrantTrains

Personalized Cherry Blossom Family Tree - Canvas Cloth Print by CookiesForSale

Monica by FolkArtbyKerry

FLOWER GARDEN black stained glass necklace pendant by Functionslust

Sofia Maria round copper pet ID tag by makeyourdogsmile

Johnny Cash......Original Gaffiti Stencil Style Painting on Wood Box by thefactory10

It's all Lovely isn't it?

Go check out these awesome shops and see some of the GREAT work that Etsy sellers have to offer.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Frugal Friday finds ( =

It's Tax Free Weekend in TN! ( = Go get you shop on. More info from the Mall here.

*Freebies by mail:
-Post-It Super Sticky Notes 


*Coupons
-JC Penney coupon for $10 off a $10 purchase and free S&H through the end of August!  Read the details here.
-If you are headed to the mall this weekend be sure to stop by Bath & Body Works for a free bottle of Dark Kiss Body Lotion. No purchase necessary. Offer good thought 8/8/10. Here's the Bath & Body Works coupon.

Have you heard about IHOP Pancake Revolution? Sign up here and get a free meal for joining, and they will send you another on your birthday too. Also kids under 12 eat free from 4-10 all this month.

Rack Room shoes has a 20% off a $60 purchase coupon on coupon.com. Click here to print the coupon.

Get a year of Womans Day for $4.69 from Best Deal Magizines.

They have a huge list of subscripting for $4.96, including Parents, Budget Traveler, Marie Clare, and Seventeen. Click Here to see the full list of subscriptions.

Be sure to check out The Create for less website. They are celebrating their birthday with a $1 sale. They have all sort of craft supplies- so go stock up.

Heres some crafty online coupon codes to save you some mu-lah:

Joann.com

FREE SHIPPING ON $50- expires: 10-31-10 use code: AP227

40% OFF ONE ITEM expires: 10-31-10 Use code: AE227

Fabric.com

10% OFF clearance- use code: FIRST

FREE SHIPPING- Use code: JUNCTION

First order ships for $2.95 for New Customers- Use code: TEN

It's Friday! What are you doing this weekend?

*Tomorrow is National Bowling Day! Bowl for free at participating alleys. Click here to find one near you and get your coupon. 

*David Alan Greir is at the Comedy Catch this weekend. 7:30 & 10pm show Tonight and Saturday and a 8pm show on Sunday. Ticket info here.

*It's your last weekend to catch "The Book of Liz" at the Chattanooga Theater Center.Here for ticket info and times.

*Don't forget about the Hot Fun in the Summertime Rythm & Blues Tour at first Tennessee Pavilion tonight. $25 at the gate, gates 6, show at 8. Bring your lawn chair.

*Chattanooga Lookouts vs. West TN Diamond Jaxx tonight atAT&T Field 7:15

7:15pm

*Smoke on the mountain is at the Colonnade center this weekend. It's a great show. Check out tickets and show times here.

Most of you, I'm sure, will be taking advantage of the Tax free weekend. Be careful out there and have fun.

Ta-DA bib on a Thursday?

We're "Ta-Da-ing" on a Thursday since we accidentally did our tutorial on a Tuesday. lol ( =
Is it just me or did anyone else notice? I think my new blog format might be a little more tedious than I planned. I'm thinking of adjusting it. Any ideas?

Anyway- back to this week's Ta-DA!
Here is it... My bib from the tutorial on Tuesday.
 It was the first time I have ever worked with minky fabric so I was pretty happy with the outcome. I also decided to use a pearl snap instead of Velcro. I didn't lengthen the pattern this time but next time I will for sure. I'll have photos with a cute little model soon enough- but for now... these will do. Here's how it came out.

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Another week in review.

     Friday was my 21 birthday! ( = I was spoiled last weekend with going to dinner, shopping for new clothes and going to see Grown ups. I love Adam Sandler and I though the movie was wonderful. I laughed and I cried. It has a great message about family and friends and is really cute. We'll be getting it on DVD when it comes out for sure.

I though last weekend was my birthday treat but I was lucky enough to get another great weekend again! After all of the sewing I've been doing lately it was nice to be surprised with a special birthday date. Dylan and I had a wonderful dinner at Abuelo's In Chattanooga. It's really yummy and If you haven't signed up yet- go put your name in to receive their emails and they will send you free dinner certificate for your birthday and anniversary. We recommend their chicken and shrimp. ( = They are a chain of restaurants and are in several states. Click here to find locations.

Abuelo's

We also went to see the new movie Charlie St Cloud. I LOVED it! I've never been one of the crazy Zac Efron fans but he really was great in this movie. I kind of wish I had read the book now. I'll have to pick it up one day. Oh- and after you see the movie you'll understand why I'm wanting a St. Jude pendant now. ( =

And while we were in Chattanooga- Dylan let me go on a Hobby Lobby shopping spree! Man- I could live in Hobby Lobby. He hates the place but I always dragging him around for an hour or two. ( = I found some really cute fabric and other crafty stuff.

I spent saturday sewing my heart out to make sure everything was ready for sundays photo shoot. Mom and Dad droped in on my sewing madness to wish me a happy birthday and deliver me a cute pair of PJ's and a yummy candle.

btw isn't this stick figure girl cute?
 She's from Stickfigureson Zazzle. 

On Sunday.. It was photo shoot time. It was extremely hot and I was surprised at how well my little models cooperated. I couldn't have asked for better parents to work with. Thanks guys! 

I'm still working on editing photos- did I mention that we took a zillion of each outfit? I hope to get them edited and posted soon. Maybe I will enlist the help of my photographer friend to help me "edit out the shadows" as she put it- hint hint! ( = 

Isn't she cute? I'll have better photos soon- promise!

I spent Monday night and Tuesday with my friends Meg & Ry. Poor Meg had to have last minute gallbladder surgery and her little Ry wasn't to happy about spending the night with out his mama! I'm not to much help on the baby side of things- since I'm pretty much clueless but we made it without Meg having to do a lot of baby lifting. Heck- we even made it though Walmart with a baby, a buggy, and 2 electric carts. HaHA!

 Hope you get to feeling better soon Meg.

Meg & Ry

Today was interesting. I had one of those lovely Dr appointments that we all love. I went for my first visit with my new GI doctor that my insurance insist that I see. ( You know- the one mentioned here for misdiagnosing Meg recently) Anyway- he was short & to the point, and a bit impersonal. Excuse me but if you want ME to let YOU stick a camera *you know where* you should be a little nicer to me! GRR! ( =  Anyway- he's sending me for more test next week- I'm going to give him a chance and hope that he can finally figure out what's been going on with my belly. AND... TO my other Dr that I was supposed to see for blood work today- THANK you so much for deciding to vacation out of the country for 2 weeks and fail to let me know you needed to reschedule... AGAIN!

BUT on a better note- At least dr trip to Rome turned in to something fun. Dylan and I spent hours roaming around Barnes and Noble. They have a ton of sewing and crafting books right now- If only I could buy them all!

While I'm interested in crafts- Dylan's interested in weird stuff like this...

This is a book he picked up today and decided we had to have it. It's by the guy that wrote Fight Club and is a collection of gross short stories. I must admit though- I read a few pages of it and apart from being gross it's kinda enthralling. If you have a twisted sense of humor, like urban legends, and have a strong stomach... you might pick it up too. We'll post a review after we finish the book.

After a few hours our tummy drew us out of the bookstore and off to find a yummy lunch. After lunch we stopped by the store Tuesday Morning. Guess what? They have craft stuff! A killer prices! I got some really cute stuff and can't wait to find a clearance die cut machine there... They had the slice machine but it was still over $100 so I'm holding out for a store return. I'll find one soon... I have a feeling. ( =

Check out their website and sign up to get the scoop on what they are getting in stock next.

From Tuesday Morning's Website- Go check it out.

And.. That's a wrap of my week. Tomorrow Dylan goes back to work and I'm going to force myself to  clean up this mess of a house that I have turned in to a sewing factory this week.

I hope you all are having a lovely week!

It's Tuesday again- bib tutorial and pattern

It's been an eventful week so far- photo shoot, a funeral, my hubby hit a deer, I turned 21, and one of my friends had surgery- but more about all that in my week in review. Back to tutorial Tuesday and the fact that I 've been super busy. 

Vanillajoy

I'm planning another photo shoot with a darling little baby girl and I plan on making her some cute minky bibs.  I managed to go buy minky dot and cute fabrics to make these fabulous bibs- but never got around to actually making them. SO- I'll post photo of my own bibs when I get them made but in the mean time I'll share with you the pattern that I plan on testing out. I've seen several different patterns floating around the web but this one I think is the best one I've seen. I linked to the chickpea studio pattern from vanillajoy.com . Kelsey at Vanillajoy used flannel for her little drooler and the turned out cute but I'm planning on using minky fabric like Leigh Ann from Spincushion did in her Baby Breakfast Bib Tutorial. I think I will lengthen the original pattern from Chickpea and use a velcro closure with a fake button. I've never worked with minky before so I hope that these turn out cute. Any tips for working with minky dot?

Mr. Monday 8/2/10

Go check out Mr. Monday and his rants on the best stress reliever. ( =

Photo shoot success!

Our 1st photo shoot for Paperpixie was today. We had 3 adorable little models who were cute cute and super easy to work with. So far- the photos look great! I'm looking forward to editing them this week and sharing some of them with you soon. A big thank you goes out to my mom for all your help today and to my model's parents who were so kind to let us photograph their little darlings. ( =