things catching my eye

I've just seen a few things lately that I wanted to share with you!

Happy Zombie's BOM quilt (with a link to the site where they are starting a new quilt for this year! Yay for snowmen!).

Vicki and I are on the same page with this.  But she wrote a post and referenced Amy's post, so I don't have to!  Please - I love to email you back when you leave a comment - consider changing your email settings in your blogger profile.   :)

Have you seen Laura Gunn's new collection, Poppy?  Oh. My. Word.  I want that bedding.

And on a more serious note, we have no idea what it's really like after the earthquake in Haiti.  Get your Kleenex out before you read this.  It was written by a young woman traveling with the humanitarian group with whom my dear sister-in-law went.  We have so much to be grateful for.  So so much.

a little spotlight

Have you been to this blog yet? I just discovered it a little while ago and Jodi has all sorts of fun things to look at. From cool blog finds, to fun projects that are easy to do, giveaways and tips on using Blogger.

Blogger has some great tools - and I figure most people who are blogging know about them, so even though the techy-geek inside gets really excited about a new trick, I never write about it. But she did! And I wanted to share with you.

1. noreply- comment: I get really sad when someone leaves a comment (which gets emailed to me) and I can't email them back because they don't have an email address attached to their profile. She explains here how to fix that! And it doesn't mean your email address is published for the whole world to see - just the person on whose blog you commented.

2. Scheduling posts: How about only having a little time to blog - you can work up several posts and schedule them to post on different days through Blogger's Post Options. She explains this too!

3. Following and Labeling posts: The followers feature is fairly recent. She explains how to put it in your sidebar as well as the importance of labeling your posts.

4. Embedding links: I've had some people ask how you set up links within a post. Super easy!

• Select the text you want to be a link,
• Click on the link button (to the right of the text color button)
• A box will pop-up where you can type/paste in the web address to where you want the link to take your readers.
• The selected text will then become a different color and underlined all on it's own!

Some of this may seem elementary, but I just discovered Google Reader with in the last year, and it changed my whole blogging experience! Hopefully this is helpful to some of you too!

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In other blogging news:

Are you following Lollychops Big Time Bunny Week??

Make sure you check out the posts for each day this week. She has lots of free downloadable patterns, labels, etc. Her projects are fun, she is hilarious, and your day will be brighter and better for visiting her sweet, crafty site.

** these two lovely ladies had nothing to do with these posts, I just love them. There wasn't anything in it for me. Just sose ya know.

free stuff i've found

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My friend Mary pointed me in the direction of this wonderful little blog called Heirloom Paperie. She designs paper products that you can purchase, download and print. She features Free Template Tuesday! This one came yesterday! How cute are these little labels? (click on the image to go get the PDF)

image from Heirloom Paperie

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Fabric.com has FREE shipping on orders over $35. They have one of the best selections of Amy Butler fabric I've found. And there is almost always a coupon to use. I may or may not have ordered some more Amy Butler fabric yesterday. And then I may or may not have found another site, Quilt Art, (thanks Quilt Dad!) that is having a 50% off sale on EVERYTHING, including pattern books. That means 5$/yard for designer prints! Let's just say I'm looking forward to the mail . . .

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While on a little drive to get out of the house for a few minutes I saw this out in front of someone's house.

With this price tag on it.

It's now joined the other misfits in my garage waiting to be sanded and prettied up! I needed a new sewing table and had one picked out at IKEA - I just saved $100!!


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I won a pattern giveaway on the FreeSpirit Fabrics blog! This came in my mail yesterday:
image from HeatherBailey.com


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My friend Robyn has a blog called The Grotto where she posts all sorts of fun things, like giveaways and product reviews!



It's nice out today, I'd better go dust the sander off!!