The Best of 2011 I was going to write a whole long Happy New Year post, but what it comes down to is that 2011 was better than 2010 health-wise for me and  I expect 2012 will be even better. That, along with all of your support, has allowed me the opportunity to do something

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First of all, thank you all SO MUCH for visiting my blog. I hope many of you will return soon! Since there were so many of you, I’ve decided to give away a second prize! I made two of the blue notebooks, so I will be giving away a second one as well! Here are

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***Quick update! WOW! 240 comments. I’ve enjoyed reading all of them and I will post the winners this afternoon! I’m so excited to have so many new visitors that I’m also going to give away a second notepad. Thanks for entering and good luck!***   Today is Sew Mama Sew! May Giveaway Day!    Hi

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The Chicago Red Eye newspaper did a poll and the winning name for the blizzard was snOMG, which is entirely appropriate considering the role social media played in the storm. #snOMG trended for days on Twitter. Since we are so far west, we did not get any lake effect snow. We ended up with 18

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I want to quickly share the little tutu I made last night for a birthday gift. The birthday girl is in ballet and into Disney princesses and apparently she would wear a tutu every day if her mom would let her. I hope she likes it! I used this tutorial, which was great! Now, if

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