A winner has emerged!

 

 

 

Congratulations to Janarama on winning my drawing from the Don't Let the Door Stop You Blog Hop!  An email has been sent her way and I await an address.  I hope she will enjoy the little extras I'm going to put in there.  :)  Do visit her at sewpeacetopeace.blogspot.com when you get a moment.  She told me her inspiration comes from books, magazines, blogs, and all over the internet.  I was amazed at how many of us are influencing each other through our blogs, it makes me very happy to think I could inspire one of you.  Thank you all for visiting, come back again soon!

Super Bowl Sunday

Thanks for visiting my blog for the Don't Let the Door Stop You blog hop, my post for it is one down from here.  I just have to say, WOO HOO SEAHAWKS!!  and share some pictures from yesterday.  We had a blast, and a lot of delicious food.

This was actually a last minute request by my dad Thursday afternoon to be able to take to work Friday morning, so it's a little more simple than I'd normally do, but looks great!

I've started requesting that I make/bring the vege tray, so I know there's something I will eat and that other people will eat.  Plus, I actually prepare them from fresh veges...

 

We took over mom and dad's living room. (You can see mom's quilt draping on the couch, it's a recent finish so I point it out to everyone)

 

Here's Grandpa and Uncle Jerry.  They maintained that position pretty much for 3 full hours, except to get up and eat :)

Can you tell we're watching one of "those" commercials?

Konnie the cat was totally into the game, as you can see.

 

 

Yay team!  We're so proud of the Seattle Seahawks, and are very much looking forward to next season!  Thanks for letting me share my excitement with you :)

 

~Brandy

 

Don't let the Door Stop You... from visiting!

Hello and welcome to my blog!  I am very happy to share my projects with you today.  As a thank you for stopping by, I have a giveaway at the end of my post.  Thank you to Mdm Samm and Carla for encouraging our creativeness.  I am really enjoying seeing the projects from both the Door Stop and She Who Sews hops, and I hope you are too!  Please remember to visit the other people who are showing off today as well:

 

Just Let Me Quilt
 Quilted Delights
 Meadowbrook
 Hill Valley Quilter
 Pampered Pettit
 Life in the Scrapatch
 Seams To Be Sew

 

And check out tomorrow's She Who Sews bloggers:

More Stars in Comanche

 

Stitchin’ By The Lake

 

selina quilts

 

Jane's Quilting

 

Baa's Amazing Adventures!

 

Quiltscapes

 

 Grandmama's Stories

Now I had a pretty good idea that I wanted to make some fatty sort of animal figure for my door stop, but I just didn't know what I wanted.  When I googled "door stop" a lot of random pictures showed up, one of them being a block of cheese.  That elicited a reaction from me (uncontrollable giggling) so I knew I had to make one, and then the night before last, true inspiration struck!  And so I give you...

Cheddar the Mouse!  ...and his blocks of cheese :)

 

close up so you can see his whiskers (hubby's brilliant idea)

sneaky sneaky

The blocks of cheese are made of bass wood, then drilled with different sized drilled bits. And I only had to have help getting the chuck to let go of the bit when I first started drilling!

 

 

I hadn't realized until now, but I've been in a mousy kinda mood with crafty things lately, here's an example, some pics from Christmas:

 

does he look surprised or is it just me?

Mom, me, and Grandma Kathy assembly-line-making Christmas mice

Colonel Cherry giving orders to his mouse army; really, they seem rather shocked with what he's saying hahaha

 

 

I had a really fun time bringing my ideas into being, and I appreciate you visiting my blog today.  And now for the GIVEAWAY!  To enter, leave me a nice little comment about what your most inspired project has been in the last couple months, and what the inspiration was, I just love to hear what inspires people.  For example, mine is the small hearts wall hanging I talk about in the post below, and I was completely inspired by the colors of the collection.  (And please remember to leave an email address if you are a no-reply blogger.)

 

Your potential prize is a couple of very Spring-like patterns from Planted Seed Designs!  Thank you again Gerri Robinson for your awesomeness!

 

THIS DRAWING IS NOW CLOSED, CONGRATULATIONS JANARAMA!

 

 

Feel free to visit again soon, I love chatting about my projects and sharing them with you all.

 

Thank you for stopping by, and have a wonderful time hopping around!

 

~Brandy