October 2012

V and Co: how to: no raw edge appliqued fall wreath pillow

hey guys, so funny how i said i would be back on wednesday with a fall how to …and here it is thursday. well we had some technical difficulties over here yesterday called “life” and i spent most of my day shuffling children from dentist and doctor appointments that by the time i finally sat […]

V and Co: meet the Beast

some of you know that i call my children “noisemakers”. which btw thank you for your kind words on motherhood and the spectrum of emotions that it brings. 🙂 i’m having a pretty awesome week so far…but it’s only monday so we’ll just keep plugging away! 🙂 okay, so some of you know i call […]

V and Co: just one of those weeks

no need to cry over spilled milk  i’ve had one of those weeks. i think it started with having a 4 day weekend this last week. it got me off my groove.  i was always a day behind. i was thinking it was wednesday and really it was thursday. what??? where did that day go, […]

winner and hey look i’m going to be in austin!

yup this picture has nothing to do with the giveaway. but it has everything to do with the fact that in November (first weekend) i will be in austin, texas teaching a class on creating big style with a little bit of texture. (kind like an extension of my craftsy class) i’ll be teaching at sew […]

V and Co: how to: make a spiderweb table runner

 we are “enjoying” the last day of our four day weekend over here. give a girl a month and half of all 4 kids in school and my how i forget so quickly how it is to have them around.every.waking.moment.of.the.day. anwho   last year i was all humbug about the holidays. i think i was […]

V and Co: im in another book…and giveaway :)

 welcome to all those of you who are new to my blog for this book blog hop! i’m vanessa and this is my blog. i am a mother to 4 vivacious noisemakers i call my children, three boys and a little girl. been married for 14 and half years to a pretty funny guy (but […]

winner of skip the borders, and bats

we have been making our house all octobery over here. one of the things we’ve done is putting up the martha stewart bats (and using them as a template to make a bazillion more of them for a much cheaper price) currently i’m working on another octobery project…watch for it soon. 🙂 okay for the […]

V and Co: skip the borders book giveaway

welcome to skip the borders blog hop i am Vanessa and this is my blog. 🙂  today i get to talk a little about this book and how julie has made some great patterns sans the borders. here’s the whole line up of people in the blog hop Full Schedule Generation Q Magazine – Monday, Sept 10th […]