Fabric giveaway! Hurry up!

My good friend Randi is hosting her GRAND OPENING of her brand new fabric line online at Etsy! Go by her blog today and enter to win some free fabric :) xoxo melzie

Lets boogie!

Yep thats me! My washer thawed and didnt bust yay yay woohoo :) This is the 3rd time this year its frozen and not busted! I attribute all that to prayer. Yes folks I PRAY pretty much without ceasing when my washer is frozen :) Hubby prayed this time too and well ya know where two are gathered ;)

For those enquiring as to my ebay link, I'll post it on here when I get some stuff on :) Probably be next week sometime thanks for being interested :)

Well we got our income tax refund, had a huge fight about it (money sheesh you'd think the love of it was the root of all evil or something). Anyways, once we sat down with pen and paper and actually COMMUNICATED (foreign concept here sometimes) we paid all our had to be paids, our bills are pretty much caught up, paid off our computer (yay!) etc we have about $800 left. So we decided to split that down the middle. COMPROMISE (another foreign concept we are embracing lately lol).

There's been a stomach virus here, Wildchild was up all night and morning visiting the porceline god. So far Lovey, Mom and Wildchild have succumbed. Hawger had a touch of it hopefully thats all and Hubby (evil laugh) is next LOL.

Wish my sweet lil Hawger man luck he goes Thurs. for his Kindergarten shots. (AND McDonalds AND new Hotwheel car he reminds me every time). I cant believe he'll be 5 in less than a month.

Well thats all folks :) Have a great Tuesday! xoxo melzie

Replies to comments w/no email link :)

Kim-yes I have read all the Odd Thomas books :) I LOVE them, I also love the Christopher Snow series by D.Koontz. I am really a sucker for any series LOL. But my list is books read in 07 I want to keep a tally and see how many books I read in a year. Thats the only reason they were not included...but I should note that it IS part of a series for anyone who may not know.

Laura- if you will email me (link on sidebar) I will send the link to you when I get my stuff on ebay which will be in the next week or two, hubby will help me and I havent even STARTED looking thru my fabric yet. Not a quick process probably.

Thanks for reading my blog ladies ;) xoxo melzie

I think I've found the READ OF THE YEAR

Have you ever read the Yada Yada Prayer group series by Neta Jackson?! If you HAVE then WHY didnt you TELL me how good they were?! If you HAVENT well GO GET THEM! I've read #1&2 (library) but they dont have any more of them. OMGOSH they are SO GOOD I was sad when I finished #2 I want them to go on and on and on :) And THAT is a compliment to a TRUE GOOD BOOK. I will definitely buy these and add to my reread collection :) They inspired me to grow as a Christian. I added a books read in 07 list on my sidebar, I am always taking recommendations! I like Christian ficition, romance (not smutty though), mild sci-fi fantasy, etc. I do NOT like hardly anything on Oprah's list LOL so those type of books I dont care for. I dont like anything crude or graphic.

I actually started cleaning today (finally). I also decided to ebay a big chunk of my fabric. I bought A-LOT OF FABRIC in the last year or two but for pennies on the dollar, (sales, clearance, and my mom's discount) and I'll never use all of it never ever. I think there is so much junk in my sewing room I cant work in there kwim? And I want a new tv :) So to ebay we will go!

This week my focus will be cleaning house, next week I will start to make enquiries towards going to college next fall, I want to go for social work degree, with alot of criminal justice sprinkled in, I want to work with victims of abuse, be it child abuse, s*xual abuse, domestic or elderly. Anyone of those especially touches my heart.

Thanks to all who've hung with my blog over the last few weeks :) I promise to be a more faithful blogger :D xoxo melzie

Misc musings :)

Well school started back today! The return to (relative) normalcy is soooo welcomed. Even the kids were somewhat happy to go back lol. It gets old hanging out with mom and cleaning house every day.

I spent all of Christmas sick as a dog and all of new years hormonal as heck. Now I am feeling more myself again :) I can smell, I can hear, I can breathe w/out coughing and I can handle the little stresses without my head spinning around and smoke rolling from my ears :) We (as in hubby and me) are trying to work up a budget that includes letting him race. Problem is we literally live paycheck to paycheck there is NEVER any left over. There's only marginally ever enough and we stay about a month behind. Time for melzie to face facts and go back to work. I love staying at home, but I've got to resign myself to the fact and somehow embrace it. I am going tomorrow afternoon to apply for two decent jobs I know of open, one is a secretary to the city manager and assistant to the city clerk. I could definitely do that job, but the payscale is awesome which means there will be alot of not only qualified but probably OVERqualified applicants. That wont stop me from applying but still... The other one is at a factory, which makes men's suits. They probablyyyyy wont hire me because when Lovey (middle child who is 10 now) was 3 I worked there for a day and a half LOL. I panicked because his sitter (he is special needs remember) forgot to go physically get him off the bus on the first day I worked, and he fell off the bus :( So mid-day of the 2nd day I worked I left at lunch and came home and never looked back. Year before last I worked for about 6 months and we actually went in the hole trying to pay daycare for Hawger. With only hubby working we still get state health ins. for the kids, and Lovey gets SSI disability for his special needs. Some months he gets less than $100 depending on hubby's overtime etc. If I get a job it will have to be really good because we are right on the cusp now of losing state ins. and we'll definitely lose Lovey's SSI so I have to compensate for all that, plus pay a part time sitter for Hawger plus gas, eats, etc all the expenses that go along with working and before you know it I'm working for peanuts but stressed to the max because my kids miss me, my house and laundry misses me etc on and on and yada yada SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO waht a run on sentence. Its exhausting. :(

Ok enough of that. Want to see some pics? I know you do :)

here is Hawger, looking OH so cute today :) Right before he left he said "I'm glad I got to see you so much" :) I'm glad I got to see you so much too for vacation Hawger :*)

Started Lovey's quilt finally. I am sewing strips then I'll cut and resew, just into a checkerboard pattern. Gratitudes kicked my butt I needed something very mindless to work on :)

And this will be my next purse I think! Although I like the paisley's better I should have shown it on top not the pinks.

Anyways, wish me luck on this whole job thing, I'm trying to stay positive! xoxo melzie

Bargains and holiday wishes :)

Went to Hancock's today, got Amy at the Calico Cat some of that owl/cat fabric she had asked me to purchase on her behalf (who knew it was so obscure?). I also got a kit to make this wall hanging found HERE. I got the owl/cat fabric for 40% off and the wall hanging kit was regularly $26.99 and I got it for 13.59, it was on sale for $16.99 but I got my mom's employee discount off the whole enchilada which is 20% more. SO for $26 I got both items :)

Well POKE A FORK IN ME I AM DONE DONE DONE! Shopping that is. I dont care if we have to eat ramen til January I do not want to set FOOT IN ANOTHER WALMART TIL 2007 lol. I bought me a 6ft pre-lit tree at Big Lots today for $12.50 (50% off of $25). I saw on a blog somewhere someone had a tree with their Christmas cards hanging with ribbon from a tree. TOO CUTE. My cards pile up on one of those generic card hangers, they fall off, covered up etc. I am putting this tree in my room with my specialist ornaments from online exchanges with my mommy group on it also :)

One thing I enjoy as I settle into my 30's is realizing I cant lose myself in wife/mommy/friend/sister/daughter mode, I have to do somethings for MYSELF and my OWN mental wellness :) That tree is one of those things.

I hope you all enjoy the week ahead, take time to drink hot cocoa, to see some lights. I am hopefully going to get to go next Sat. and volunteer at a local church handing out christmas baskets of food stuff for the needy for Christmas dinner. I've been on the receiving end of that a few times and I am SO EXCITED to go be on the giving end :) I cant afford to give alot but I have time to give for sure.

Merry Christmas to you all, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS :) xoxo melzie

Hedgehog! Fabric info for what its worth :(

Ok this fabric is not coming up anywhere online. I called my mom and she gave the name of the line is "Memories of Japan", the one I bought was "B-2nd panel". Here is a picture of the selvede info (blurry but still non helpful)

The SKU# is 1873397

Keep in mind this is Hancock Fabric's the chain, not Hancock's of Paducah although just to be sure I did go there and look too. Sorry not more helpful! xoxo melzie

OMGosh ALMOST FORGOT

Yes yes I know I am post happy today :) Now I might go like a week and not post any. Not a consistent blogger I guess lol. I almost forgot...

To show you the BEST FABRIC EVAH! I tell you what..I would have seriously have wrote a BAD CHECK if need be to have bought this. There is NO WAY I could have departed the store (Hancock's) without it. As Garth (Wayne's World) would say "it will be mine...oh yes, it will be mine" ;) I even told the manager THIS IS THE BEST FABRIC EVER. ROFL. Ok on with the pictures-





I swear I almost FELL OUT when I saw it.









Tell me true have you ever SEEN CUTER FABRIC?





There are 4 pictures on each yard panel, 2 cats and 2 owls.




Is there anything cuter than OWLS? I love them :)

WHO WHO WHO? ok carry on ;)