Enter To Win Fabric!

Winfabric.com is giving away 2 yards of fabric every week! They have MANY Asian fabric to choose from plus 5% of all sales go to charity. Click the banner below and have a look!

The Mighty Messenger Bag: It's Reversible!

A reversible messenger bag that can be used as an everyday carry-all or a diaper bag. This design was quite popular at my last show, and now I've been able to list a few in my etsy shop:




















Remember that great fabric I won a while ago? This bag's flap is made from that fat quarter of Heather Bailey's Pop Daisy in Rose I received!

New Fabric

The mail carrier brought me an envelope of delightful fabrics today from Krista, owner of Fabric Closet. A big thanks goes out to her (when she is back from vacation) for providing these four fat quarters for a giveaway that I won! The giveaway was offered on a blog called A Heart For Home. On this blog Allyson writes about her family and faith plus she offers recipes, crafts and some great giveaways. Her latest recipe is for foccacia bread which sounds great. I wish someone would make me some...
Anyhow, here are the fabrics from Krista's shop that I chose for my prize.
Heather Bailey's Pop Daisy in Green
Heather Bailey's Pop Daisy in Rose
Sandi Henderson's Playful Paisley in Aqua Farmer's Market and
Michael Miller's Clementine Boho Blossom

Dishpan Hands

What a fun night we had last night watching the Super Bowl with family and friends! We had a wide variety of foods and drinks and a great big chocolate cake from Costco. I was too full to eat cake last night so I had it for breakfast today (bad girl!). The Steelers got the job done and all is right in the wide world sports.
Of course, the party aftermath is not so fun. Like waking the kids for school at 6:30 am after letting them stay up late last night. They reminded me of zombies when they stumbled out the door at 7 to catch the bus. Also not fun is having to make a lot of trips up and down the stairs to carry dirty serving platters, utensils, and crock pots up to the kitchen to clean them. My hands are starting to feel like sandpaper. Time to find my good Neutrogena skin repair lotion!
Between loads of laundry and party clean up, I did manage to take photos of one bag that I've just listed in my shop. It would be a cute gift for Valentine's Day or Mother's Day. It is pink and brown with a little yellow thrown in for fun. It is just one of eight bags I made with Flutterby fabric from Moda; this print is hard to come by as it sold out quickly when it first launched. This is the only one in this line of my bags that is mainly pink.

The bag has three pockets on the inside and ties closed with matching brown fabric ties. The back is solid brown corduroy to match the bottom and straps. Click the image to see it in my shop "Maggie Sue Designs".

winner

I won a yard of fabric today! Nathalie Brault, shop owner of Recupe Fashion, hosted a giveaway on her Women-prenuers Galore blog earlier this month. I found out today that I'm the winner of a yard of Alexander Henry fabric donated by Dawn Hansen, shop owner of MsFabric. So tonight I'm sending out a big THANK YOU to both of them~ and I'm looking forward to getting my prize so I can put it to good use! If you get a chance, please check out their shops :)