to our blog! It is our day for the Fourth of July Blog Tour. I'm sure we have some new people visiting today, and we are so happy you are here. For all of our "regulars", we are always happy you are here! Our project is simple- I'm sure you can finish this by the end of the day! We …
Old School + A Contest
With e-mail, texting, twitter and facebook, does anyone ever write anymore? I've just received 2 party invitaions by e-mail this week plus a save the date for a wedding. Don't get me wrong, I love technology- but I remember when I was little, one of the best parts of the day was walking out to the mailbox to see if we had …
3 Bits of News
New News, New News! 1. We are in a book – Countown Calendars to be exact! This is a fun book from CT Publishing. You guessed it right, it has projects all pertaining to counting down to an event. Check out the Book Trailer above to see some of the projects. Be sure to watch the entire video. You know why???? Because our project …
So the big joke –
at our house is my flowers. I always have high hopes every year. I so desire to have beautiful, abundant pots of flowers scattered throughout my yard. And everyone in my family knows that by the time July 4th rolls around all that will be left of my flowers are just brown stems sticking out of the pots. This year, …
How To Get A Free Charm
We announced a few weeks ago that our first book "The Simple Home" was due out in August. If you would like to preorder the book, you can on our Etsy site now. But the best part is, for every copy that is pre-ordered, you will receive one of our charms- it's the house one, in honor of the book's title! …
Eleven.
Eleven years ago my favorite girl in the whole world was born. Eleven years goes by so fast. In eleven more years, she will be 22. Please let the next eleven go by more slowly. Jordan celebrated her birthday last weekend with her favorite activity- showing livestock. And since watching her is my favorite activity, it was one great …
Finally…
We have the Hometown patterns finished! If you forgot what they look like, here is a little refresher: They are on our Etsy site now! Have a great Wednesday.
Wow!!!
The first week on Facebook- not so bad! Thank you to everyone who "liked" us. Now I'm just trying to figure out what we will do with it besides alerting you to our blog posts. We have a few ideas and so appreciate all your tips! Now to the winner of the charms: Mama Spark who wrote: I am going …
Not Holding Out Anymore…
Most of you know I don't do Facebook. I know, I'm old-school, behind the times and generally just not with the program. I still don't do Facebook. If I had a dollar for everytime someone said to us, "Sweetwater should have a Facebook page", well you know, I would have about 9 dollars. And I think to myself, why? We barely have …
The Winner…
Of the Hometown scraps is Jenny who wrote: i love Sweetwater's style. You ladies really take the cake. The clear, simple, pureness of your fabric just is perfect. for me. I would love some hometown scraps…my most anticipated purchase of the year…ive never bought a fq stack, but i think ill need to make an exception for hometwon due to …