Primitive Mom of Two

Yes folks, I am a day behind schedule on this but it's here, ready and waiting to be given away. I am so excited about this giveaway because I get to showcase some of my favorite people and their wonderful etsy shops! Some of them donated and others I bought little things from to include in this giveaway. Now you wanna know what's in the giveaway right...what kind of little goodies will you get this time....well here's the first Pic. Now I hope you love the model as much as I do....story of the model will follow.

Now as you can tell, we have a cute teddy bear as our model. I was trying to decide how to arrange the goodies for this giveaway and muttering to myself (yes I do talk to myself...shhh don't tell anyone) as my youngest walked by me. He said mommy use Mr. Bear....I thought...yeah I'll use Mr. Bear. Now Mr. Bear has had many names in his life time, Pandy, Mr. Panda, Teddy, Teddy Bear....and so one, I never stuck with just one name. You see Mr. Bear is 28 almost 29 yrs old *gasp* yup, my dear old Daddy gave me this bear when I was about 2 yrs old. He bought it at Big Bear (imagine Farm King) and I have had him ever since, he has been through multiple moves, and gone through hell and back and is still stitched together just fine. He was proud to be used as my model for this giveaway.

Now to the listing of things you will find in this giveaway...Well here goes.

1. Crocheted newsboy cap in a spring pink ....made by ME

2. A necklace made with a fused glass pendant made by etsy's KanYoFuse (someone I consider a friend and awesome artist) he provided the pendant and I created the chain it hangs on. (As you can tell from my shop I am addicted to his pendants)

3. We also have a single pendant without chain or beading donated by KanYoFuse as well. (if you would like a beaded chain for this we can chat about that after the drawing)

4. We have a cute pair of hairclips made by PandaCub, i thought they were so cute I just had to get them for this giveaway!

5. We have 3, yes I said 3 frayed knots from EZ over at FromMyHandsToYours...I have one of these myself and love them, it is so awesome of her to donate 3. I know you will love them as I do.

6. We have a tealight made by Aromalite (we love to call her Roma on our forum thread) now I admit I received this as a sample in one of my orders, but I love her candles so much I wanted to spread the love a bit, so I pass it on to the winner of this giveaway.

7. Next we have the cutest Spring bookmark from PinkrosesSupplyShop. This is so darling, I couldn't get a picture to do it justice, she layered the flowers and the bunny onto the bookmark, almost a 3d effect...great work!

8. Lastly we have a ribbon book mark made by BrigaBauble, again this came to me as a thank you gift when I purchased a necklace from her, but it is soo pretty that I just hate to keep it for myself. I read so fast that I rarely even use bookmarks, so it's your lucky day!

9. Not pictured.....a surprise addition....will be revealed after the winner is drawn.

Now in the coming weeks you will see features on each of these shops, either by interview or just a quick blurb about what I love from their shop. So now you want to know how to enter???

1. Leave a comment on my blog is 1 entry.

2. include a favorite item from one of the shops listed (including mine) and I'll give 1 entry for each favorite item (1 per shop please)

3. follow me, and leave me a comment telling me that you are following me is 1 more entry.

4. Make a purchase from any of the shops listed and you earn 10 more entries (please leave a comment with the transaction link or number as I will be checking with the shop owners for verification)

5. Finally, follow me on twitter and I will give you 1 more entry!

Now you can rack up a total of 20 entries!

What a way to start off Spring, with this great set of items! (total value $75.00) Contest will end on April 13th, I will tally up the entries and the winner will be posted on the 14th, and the package will be sent out as soon as I receive a mailing address from the winner. Now don't forget to leave me a way to contact you, either by email or etsy shop address.

I will leave you with a couple more photos of the giveaway goodies and good luck to everyone who enters!!!

Well for me it's for catching up on all that didn't get done during the week. Especially in blogland...i catch up on all my favorite blogs and in doing so today I found out that Rose over at Life Love Yarn gave me a wonderful blog award.

Well it's that time again, Family Friday! Yup where I get to gush about all the things my friends and family have done!

Well, Connor received another strip on his Jr.Gold belt last night. Sensei said he had a GREAT night in class. I am sooo proud of him! Plus he has another spelling test today that he is completely prepared for. His thirst for knowledge grows and grows each and every day!

Jackson and I have been butting heads all week, he is becoming little mr. independent and is having difficulty with the fact he isn't big enough to do a lot of what he wants to do by himself. It kills him to see big brother getting to do things by himself and being told he's not big enough yet...lol But we are workin on it.

I have to give props to one of my best friends from grade school Jenn. You have heard me talk about her graphics and design abilities, but today I want to give her props for donating blood. you see Jenn doesn't like needles, at all, but she mustered the courage to go and donate at the blood drive at her work. (granted a paid hr bribe from her boss helped out) but I am so proud of her!! She wrote about it on her blog..take a look..www.thevillagepeddler.blogspot.com and give her some commentin love.

Now for my DH, I have to write a short note about him too. you see I have been complaining that my computer has been running slow while i am on the internet, we checked it out, ran all the scans, did the repair things...and well it comes down to I have very little memory left, with all the pictures and editing I do for my etsy shop, so he went out and priced external hard drives when he went to Ft. Knox the other day and found a great deal on a huge external hard drive, but the best part is...he didn't just go ahead and buy it!!! yep he researched, priced, and then told me his findings....woohoo. I know this doesn't sound huge but with his work schedule and demand of the military I am usually the one who has to do all the research and stuff....so Yay to DH.

And finally a little pat on the back for me. My etsy shop has been doing well, but what I have up at the local store hasn't been moving well at all. Well this morning I woke up to an email saying that 2 yes TWO of my necklaces sold yesterday...woot!! I was soo excited! That just started my day out perfectly!

Today's agenda is boring, clean, clean and more cleaning. It's raining outside so what else is there to do. I also need to work on getting stock made up for the strawberry festival here in May...yay!

Happy Wednesday my blogland friends!! I send thoughts of sunshine and beaches out to every one of you as it is cloudy and rainy here. So what are YOU workin on today.

Today is my catch up and finish day. I am part of a laundry room swap and I am putting the finishing touches on the cool things I am sending to my partner. Now I can't show them as of yet cause she just might stop by and see them, and that would so ruin the fun surprise, but I promise once she has received them I will definitely post what I made!!

I also have to work on putting the two borders on my quilt top. I also somehow had 1 extra block for the quilt so I am going to make that into a cute little pillow and put it in my shop. I think i am also going to transfer some stitchery patterns to muslin today. Since my shop is stocked with jewelry I decided it was time to work on some other projects and I am in the mood to do some stitching..wee. If you have any great sites with free patterns please post them in your comment, I am lookin for some great fun and easy patterns to do.

And of course the never ending job of cleaning will take place again today. Plus I have a couple of packages to put together and get to the PO...I love going to the post office, means I made a sale and someone will be getting a fun package in the mail. I have made a goal to get to 35 sales by midnight tonight, I am two sales away....woohoo....want to see everything I have up? then come on over and check me out. http://www.primitivejunki.etsy.com/ (yup more shameless self promotion)

I am also featured on anther blog and am giving away a great bracelet that I made JUST for the giveaway, hop on over to ROSE's and make sure to enter!


So until tomorrow, (or maybe just later today) Happy crafting and sunshine thoughts!

Well I know I am a bit late, but here is today's Tidbits.

now we have all heard the things we can do with Bounce Sheets, but do they really work, can a bounce sheet really do all that stuff? Well i did some Internet research and good ole snopes.com came to my rescue. Here is a list of things we hear a lot that Bounce can do

1. Get Rid of Ants
2.Takes odor out of musty books
3.Repels Mosquito's
4.dissolve soap scum from shower doors

and the list goes on and on and on...well someone over at Snopes.com tested these out and well you have to go take a look at their results...http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/bounce.asp

I know not as informative as some of my others, but it's late and well i'm too lazy right now to type it all out and such. So Thanks Snopes.com for coming to our rescue and setting us straight on the truth about the bounce tidbits.

have a great night, it's time for me to catch up on all the blog reading I have neglected and then to crash in bed.

Till tomorrow!

Yep that's right I have been featured on another blog.

Brig over at http://brigabauble.blogspot.com/ has written a wonderful piece on me and my etsy shop! Check it out, leave a comment, and enjoy the wonderfully written piece she has on ME!

can you tell I'm excited???

Good morning everyone in blog land! Well it was another monday madness morning! I swear I need to invent an alarm clock that turns on my bedside lamp as well. Some wee little hands must have played with my snooze setting on my alarm this weekend as it went off once, i hit snooze (usually 5 min) and 59 min later it went off again!!! Thank goodness my alarm is set way early!! We got up with 30 min to get out the door for school. No tardy for Connor..yay! Poor guy's allergies are acting up for him right now though, so a dr appt has been made for this afternoon to get him a prescription because benadryl just isn't cutting it.




Well only one more week till the big Easter/Spring giveaway here on my little primitive blog. I am so excited for this as I have enlisted some fellow etsy artists for this one. I have been slowly receiving their donations and I wanted to show you what i have so far.






To start with I received this cute book mark from Judy over at PinkRoses Supply Shop. Who wouldn't want to have this to grace the pages of their book.

Next we have two great pendants from my buddy Kevin over at KanYoFuse. One I decided to add to with a great beaded chain. The other you will notice I have a special model for. :) Now the pictures do not do these pendants justice, and I will work on better pictures for the final giveaway photo, but I really wanted to show off what I had received so far.

I still have a couple more items that should be showing up this week, plus my additions to the pot. But you'll have to wait and see what those are when the time comes....hehe so keep a look out this week for updates as I receive the items in and the contest will start next Monday!

Have a great day and enjoy the warm weather if you have it!

Good morning blogland! It looks to be a bright and sunny day! I wanted to share with everyone that BOTH the boys got a stripe on their belts last night, That makes Connor's first one on his Jr. Gold belt which he just received last Thursday and JJ's third one, only two more till he gets to practice for his Jr. Gold belt exam. Yippee they were soooo excited, Sensei Kirby said they both had a great night last night. Yep you are reading the words of a very proud MaMa today!


Not sure what the movie for tonight is, but we will most definitely be doing some type of movie and popcorn as their reward.

I also want to brag on Connor a bit. In his kindergarten class he has a Monthly chart that is in his folder, each day the teacher writes down any issues he may have had for the day or puts a smiley face if he had a good day...Well so far for the month of March Connor has had a smiley face for everyday. I gave him a challenge, get a smiley face every day this month and mommy would get him a Wii game that he can play online with YaYa and PapPa! Needless to say he is working really really hard. Also today he has his first Spelling test, we have been working really hard this week on his words. His list is as follows

Hello my blogland readers. I have been MIA the last few days and I apologize for that, things have just been hectic around here! But I am back on track and back to my blog posting! Today's theme is of course Whatcha Workin on Wednesday, or better yet, what have you worked on since last Wednesday.





Well I had quilt class last night and our quilt tops are coming together nicely. I got two rows sewn together last night and have 3 more to go for next weeks class. Only two classes left for me, next week we will be putting the whole thing together getting it ready to learn to quilt it and the last class we actually learn the whole quilting process. I am excited for that. Below is my quilt so far. I think it's going to come out well and be perfect for hanging in front out our fireplace here in the living room.

Yep, I am soliciting votes. I entered an item I made into a spring contest one of the gals on Etsy started. The voting starts today and ends the 10th you can go to her blog Here http://missknitsetsy.blogspot.com/





Below is what I entered into the contest. Lots of prizes will be given away and I would love to be one of the winners. hehe

So Please Vote for me.

That would be from my son Connor! Yep he had his official belt test in Karate tonight and passed! (see picture to the left) He is now officially a Jr. Gold Belt!

Then little brother also got 2 stripes on his white belt. 3 more stripes and he gets to test...(it will still be a while, but he's so psyched) (see picture to the right)

just a quick post :)

Well I thought I would give all my readers a treat today. I wanted to showcase some of the blogs that I follow. There were some great posts today!

Ceridwen over at WanderlustBling has a great post today about some wonderful splurge items she found on etsy. I especially liked this post, but I am biased because she featured my lap afghan in the post. She also featured three other etsy artists and their great work.

My friend EZ over at Kiss My Asana...a personal challenge posted a great video demonstrating the correct way to backward bending in yoga...definitely something to learn. She is a fantastic yoga instructor and student. I am amazed anytime i see her doing her poses. All I can say is WOW

Gayle over at Flamingo Junction has a weekly Earring Grab Bag giveaway and guess what...I WON this week!! I love checking in on her to see what she has created or what she's up to. Stop on by and keep track and maybe you too can win a pair of her great earrings.

Finally Eliza over at The Bear Bunch and her hubby always seem to have such funny and interesting posts. I love to see what comments they make on every day findings or occurrences and the story's about little Mikey Bear and too cute to pass up!

So stop on over to see some of my friends and what they are up to! Now I am off to make supper for my troop before they get back from Karate class. (yay for the day's Daddy makes it home to take them)

Happy Blogging!

Last night I learned how to do triangles. Now I have to say they are not my favorite to do, but our teacher did show us a fairly easy way to do them. It will definitely help me to work on keeping my seems straight. So the two blocks above will be what creates the quilt. A total of 25 blocks will make up the lap quilt I am doing, plus and inner and outer border, then backing and binding. I meant to take my camera to class last night and take a picture of the finished example she has on the wall, but forgot to. I will try to do that next week.

Once again I am featuring a store that is on the WITB round 3 with me. She has a very creative shop, all items are upcycled from something else. Here is what she said when I asked her a few questions:


What made you want to open a shop on Etsy?
My daughter and I made a skirt out of some of her old clothes a few years ago and it turned out really nice so I got hooked on making them for her and I went crazy and had way to many so when I saw so the etsy site I decided to try to sell some of them.



What is your favorite thing in your store and why?

I do not have a favorite but right now I do like making the cuffs the best.

What keeps you going when things get slow?

I just think about the sales I had and know that some one some where is wearing something I made.


What advice would you give someone who is thinking of opening a shop on Etsy?

Just to enjoy yourself there is so much more to etsy than making money keep it fun.


Give me two of your favorite stores on etsy.
Oh I do not have a favorite . but one of my favorite things to do is to look at the recently sold items I love seeing what people are buying .


Thanks so much! Don't forget to check out our WITB thread either, every post is an entry to win one of 50 $20 gift certificates, the more you post the more chances to win. And if you have an Etsy shop and want to join us, please feel free to! It is a great group of people and we are still working out way to those 50 shops. Check us out HERE

Good afternoon everyone! I have decided to make Sunday's a Super Star Sunday. I am part of this great thread on Etsy that gives an opportunity for anyone to win one of 50 $20 dollar gift certificates to participating shops. It is located HERE. Such a great group of creators I decided to feature one of them every Sunday. Today's feature is on

These are her zoo animal crayons, aren't they just the cutest? So hop on over and check out her shop! Tell her I sent you and show her some love!

Have a great weekend!