http://ajpadilla.com/patterns/bom/christmas-all-year-round
Lots of the projects are free. Look around her website – Angie is some talented lady!
Sign up for Angie’s newsletter and she will send an email each time she puts up something new --
http://ajpadilla.com/newsletter/subscriptions
OK, I admit it – I enjoy reading celebrity gossip & seeing the outrageous things that celebrities do and get away with. Now, PopEater (that online deliverer of all things gossip) has an app for the iPhone/iPodTouch.
Go to popeater.com for the download and to read all about this new app or go to iTunes and search the app store for PopEater.
I can read the juicy little tidbits right on my iPod Touch if I’m in a WiFi area. If I’m not, the app auto-saves the entries for me so that I can view them when I need to pass the time in a waiting room.
Oh – it’s a free app! I refuse to pay for any celebrity gossip …
Start off with a plain paper bag and iron on some shapes. I got the plain bag at Joann’s. I’m sure the Party Supply stores would have plain bags, also. The above bag was from last year for my grandson.
I found the above design by searching for “pumpkin carving stencils”. The design I downloaded was not the right size for the bag, so I took the image into EQ6 and drew (traced) it from the design. The beauty of EQ6 is that you can make the design to your specs and I could put the moon and bat where I wished. I made the windows and door “crookedy”. And could print out the templates any size I wished.
I cut the shapes from fabric fused to “Wonder Under” (or “Heat & Bond”). Same as you would if making an appliqué for a quilt. Then iron the cutout shapes to the bag – no sewing involved.
I’m going to make another decorated paper bag this year cuz last year’s was neat. I think I’m going to use the skull stencil I found at
www.sun-sentinel.com/halloween
Another source for images to use on the bag would be from a Desktop Publishing program on your computer.
Gift bags with ironed-on stencils can be used to decorate plain bags for any occasion. And makes them very personal.
Happy Birthday, Tim!
Ya never know what’s lurking in the bushes these days! The little wool pumpkin above is something I picked up at Joann’s the other day – half price.
And the pumpkin that is in the header at the top of the page is a little something from DH. The fall season never gets off properly until I get a little pumpkin from him. I have it setting in the window above the kitchen sink, except when I took the pic of it. It makes me smile. Hope it does the same for you.
Twitter is really good for some things and the Houston Quilt Market & Festival is one of them. I just found out PlanetPatchwork was tweeting from Houston’s Quilt Market last week and will start tweeting again for Quilt Festival which starts Wed. Oct 14. They really did a good job of sharing a lot of pics they took at Market of things they found interesting. Their Tweet Home is http://twitter.com/planetpatchwork. You don’t have to be a member of Twitter to read the tweets.
I liked the “Zipper Mouth Pillow Creatures” from Indygo Junction - http://znl.me/L048S
For those of you who are not familiar with Twitter, here’s a few hints – On http://twitter.com/planetpatchwork page, you will see a list of very short comments (tweets), usually having a red “http://…” link. Click on that link and you will see a photo for that tweet (comment).
Near the top of the page, you will see #quiltmarket in red, click on that link and it will take you to a page of tweets from different people from all over.
Also near the top of http://twitter.com/planetpatchwork page, you will see #quiltmarket in red, click on that link and you will see the beginnings of which I’m assuming will be a long list of tweeters at the Houston Quilt Festival starting Wed. Oct 14 thru Sun. Oct. 18.
Ami Simms will be tweeting from Houston, too. She said she will try & put up pics of the new owners of the ALZ Quilts that they will be selling and auctioning off.
Here’s Ami’s Tweet Home -- http://twitter.com/aaqiupdate
Here's a list of all the ALZ Quilts in Houston -- http://www.alzquilts.org/hoinqufeo15.html
The tweets are just so easy to read from my iPod Touch and a nice comfortable chair.
Do you know of anyone else who will be tweeting from Houston? I will put links at the end of this post.
A good ole blogging buddy o’ mine - Sunnie, is taking us behind the scenes at the QuiltFest Quilt Show in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
There is so much that goes on, that we don’t see – or aren’t aware of – that makes the quilt show that we love to spend time at.
Sunnie has conveniently named each of her blogs about QuiltFest with the prefix “Quilt Show Countdown”. You can start reading anywhere, but I would suggest starting with “Take In Day” .
If you’re anywhere near Jacksonville, you might want to take a run on over to the Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water Street and see what’s going on from Thursday the 24th through Saturday the 26th.
Two years ago, my DH did a little Christmas Shopping at Sears. He wanted to charge an item on his Sears card but the clerk suggested he sign up for a new Sears Citibank Gold Master Card and would get 20% off his first purchase. DH thought that was a good deal and signed up. The clerk also said that this new Sears Citibank Gold Master Card would eventually be replacing the old Sears card. So, he now had 2 Sears charge cards!
We have never used that Sears Gold Master Card since then and in fact, when we got a new card in the mail this past July, we did not activate it and we cut it up and threw it away.
Then yesterday, we got a letter in the mail from Sears Credit Card Services and it said “Due to this challenging business and economic climate, the cost of doing business has dramatically increased. As a result, we are making rate and fee changes …”
Sears is now going to charge $45 a year as a “membership fee” for that Sears Citibank Gold Master Card. $45 for what – to have the privilege of buying something and charging it on their card? I don’t think so.
So, we called today to cancel the card. BUT, our credit score will probably be affected by the canceling of a credit card.
How are the credit card companies getting away with this? Cancel a card and they subtract points from your credit score?
Didn’t those banks get money from the government? Why do they now need to charge service fees for their cards? Aren’t the current percentage rates they are now charging enough to cover their expenses and then some?
The $20 savings that DH had on that initial purchase sure wasn’t the bargain he thought it was. He signed up for that credit card in good faith.
Oh, boy, people … be careful out there!
