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Life has been in an upheaval lately, and in about a week and a half I should have awesomeness to share. In the meantime, I thought I would share this neato color vision test that I found to be really difficult. Despite my trouble with it, I got a 28, which is on the better end of hue discrimination.
Go ahead and visit X-Rite now and let me know how you fared. I’m better with reds than greens. What are your stronger areas?
And the winner is……
Drumroll, please………. (I promised The Hippy I would pull numbers out of an actual hat, but I didn’t want to waste that much paper!)
Ali of Thrifty Mom! Congrats, Ali! You’ll be getting an email from me soon. Here’s what Ali said about summer:
I love elephants and that one reminds me of Florida.
I like summer because the kids and I can take it easy, plus berry picking and used book sales and my mom comes to visit!
You may notice that my giveaway post had 161, but my max number was 133. I went back and forth over how I would handle the comments, but in the end it came down to the fact that the people who didn’t leave a comment about what they liked about summer didn’t get an entry. I had to be fair to the people that took the time to read my post and find out what the requirements for entry were. It’s not like I was asking people to write haikus or anything!
At any rate, I’m glad summer is here. I’m looking forward to tending my garden, geocaching, selling a couple times at the Farmer’s Market, my neice’s birthday, and holing myself up in the basement to sew.
Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day
***Sign Up is now closed. Thank you to all who entered!***
Welcome Sew, Mama, Sew visitors! I hope you enjoy your stay. Have a look around, the giveaway will still be here 
What’s up for grabs, you ask? Since this last weekend was the unofficial start of summer, I thought I would giveaway something summery. Whether you live on the coast or in the center of the country, I firmy believe there is a surfer in all of us. To celebrate that, I created the Surfer Nelephant.
He’s yours for the low, low payment of leaving a comment about what you look forward to the most about summer. Because I can’t possibly tell someone their idea of a good time is better than anothers’, I will choose the winner at random. I just want to feed off your excitement.
You have through May 31 to enter, which is fortunate because I won’t be at my computer, and therefore will be unable to post anything that might bury this lovely giveaway. I will announce the winner Monday, June 1. And, yup, I’ll ship internationally.
(PS: Thank you, Larue, for enlightening me to this!)
Coming to a Blog Near You!
At Larue’s urging, I will be participating in the May Give-Away Day on Sew, Mama, Sew.
I have an idea of what I will be giving away, but I’ve got a little less than two weeks to completely change my mind.
Nelephants on Parade
There’s a new visitor to my Etsy Shop. I’ve officially named my stuffed elephants Nelephants. I’m trying to crank these out with so far only a small amount of luck. Two things help: paying attention when putting the ears on and not trimming the seam allowance so darn close to the actual seam. From here on out I expect my Nelephant making to be far more successful.
It’s the Yin-Yang Nelephant!
Dark, Evil, Male
Light, Good, Female
I think Nelephants will always be referred to as male. They will always be “hes” in my book.
Better than last year…
Danger Kitty Designs, The Cozy Corset Cuff, and Artistic Edition will be at booth 21. I promise it will be warmer and much more inviting this year.
I’m back!
But too tired still to do a real post. Can I have a post-vacation vacation? Too bad I have to go to work in a few hours!
I just wanted to mention another great giveaway being run by Chocolate and Steel. I really can’t get enough of that jewelry! The giveaway is here, so don’t forget to sign up–you can have up to three chances to win!
I lied: A contest!
While I’m on vacation, head over to the Sunday Baker blog and check out her great posts and the great giveaway she’s offereing! There’s always something great going on over there.
NOW I’m on vacation. Right after I go to work…
X-Post Announcement
I’m in Florida. No posts til I return!
Not my giveaway…
But a pretty awesome one, I must say. You can enter Chocolate and Steel’s giveaway here.
That’s probably the coolest piece of jewelry I’ve seen in a long time. I’m glad I came across her blog, or I might have given up on cool etsy jewelry all together (I’m picky, it’s nothing against Etsy).
