Seams Simple Enough WINNER announced...finally

Seams Simple Enough winner!!!  

{EEK!  Yes I know this is 4 days late!!  This is what I get for procrastinating.  Sunday night I thought to myself "I will get up and do it first thing Monday while having my coffee... only to wake up and have no internet....for days!  Internet is back (hallelujah) but that left a few days with just the basics of business getting done because I would have to drive and steal...errr... use the wireless at Starbucks, Einstein, etc... with 2 pissy babies in the backseat.}  Soooooo my apologies!!!!

I hope you all checked out Seams Simple Enough and her adorable sewing patterns.  I told you, she is new on the block but has some awesome stuff to offer with more in the works!

The winner (according to Random.org) is.....

#7 

Sara Nicole said...

i think i'd want the teddy bear hat

Congrats Sara Nicole!  Please email Stacy at seamssimpleenough@gmail.com to claim your prize!  

Thank you everyone for playing!  If you didn't win you can always head over and buy one of your very own!!

Also for those of you that don't sew....she has a few hats ready to send your way!  Check them out!  Adorable and a killer price!

Tell it all Tuesday

Welcome to tell it all Tuesday!

{step in, confess, feel better}  Remember this is a safe place to confess, no judgement!

I'll go first!

1.  I was cooking and like 10 minutes in I could not figure out why it was taking so long to heat up.  I forgot to turn the stove on.  DUH  I did this again 2 days later with the oven.

2.  I started a diet last week.  Today is day 6, I feel fine but I am frustrated I am not losing faster.

to see the rest check out the comments here and Inner Hooker on facebook!

Seams Simple Enough...doesn't it? and a giveaway!

Welcome to the first giveaway of 2012!  I've promised long ago that this will never be a giveaway themed blog but I do like to offer something once or twice a month especially when it involves promoting other small businesses!  I have some great things lined up so I hope you'll stick around!  

Onto the good stuff!  

Welcome Seams Simple Enough!!  Seams Simple Enough is new to the online selling world and is here to celebrate their public grand opening and the release of their newest sewing pattern.  Her newest pattern is for a Bumbo seat cover pattern and let me tell you this baby fits like a glove!  PERFECT FIT!  No loosey goosey areas at all!  I wish my boys were still little enough to sit in a bumbo!  I could have used a cover for sure, I hated when their little legs would stick a little to the seat.  With the cover that is a thing of the past!  Toss in the fact that you can make them whatever print you'd like!  Favorite colors, match your nursery, embroider a name, possibilities are endless.  Seams Simple Enough??  Yep, even a beginner can do this!

Bumbo not your need?...she also has hat patterns for these upcycled sweater hats.   Can I please have the hats and those sweet babies!  These are perfect for newborn photos and everyday wear!  They are the most precious hats!  The pattern includes sizes from newborn - child and is geared for the beginner sewer. 

Three lucky readers are going to win a pattern of their choice!  

Here's how to enter!  Be sure to leave separate comments for each entry option!!

1.  Follow Seams Simple Enough on Facebook, be sure to leave some love on her page!  

2.  head over to Seams Simple Enough's shop and tell me which pattern you want to win!

the extra ways to enter!  Not mandatory to win but extra chances to win are always nice :)

3.  Pin it!  If you are on pinterest pin your favorite pattern from Seams Simple Enough

4.  Post on your FB and/or Twitter promoting Seams Simple Enough.  Be sure to tag them with the @ 

Again, be sure to leave different comments for each entry!  

Contest is open from now until Thurday January 12 at 11:59p.  Winner will be announced Friday January 13.

Now, get to entering!!

Housewife Wednesday

We are four days (not even a full 4) into January and I still haven't typed up my resolutions to post here.  Sigh.  Maybe that's a sign that I may actually keep them this year??   I am determined to make a few changes and set totally realistic goals so here's to hoping and trying!  

One area I am determined to improve in is my housewife skills.  I hate cleaning.  I am a clutter keeper.  I move my piles around, I do binge clean but it never lasts long.  I have to figure something out that works better for me.  I stumbled upon a blog called A Slob Comes Clean.  A woman after my own heart!  Seriously if I didn't know better I would have thought I wrote it!  I spent a few evenings reading her blog and was totally inspired to become a reformed slob.  I am nowhere near reformed.  In fact I have done good the last 2 days because apparently even though they were my resolutions I needed to procrastinate on them the first few days of the year.  

In hopes of sticking to this I am going to do my best to check in every Wednesday and fess up for the week before.  Hopefully more cheering myself on than fessing but I'll be honest about how the weeks goes.  Promise!

Sunday:  housewife fail.  Not completely but I didn't do my chores at all.  I picked up and I cooked dinner so all is not lost right?

Monday:  Success!  Morning and night chores done, and I cooked!  Go me!

Tuesday:  Success!  Morning and night chores done AND I even cooked dinner!  yep, TWO days in a row!

I am hoping to keep this up this week while also purging rooms along the way.  One of my biggest problems is that nothing seems to really have "its" place.  Things just sort of get stuck somewhere or piled up.  I need to find homes for things or get rid of them.  I also need to add more and think I'll do it by day like Monday: bathrooms  Tuesday:  Entry, etc... so each room is getting cleaned well regularly.

Clearly this is a whole new world to me.  Don't judge ;)

Any tips or tricks??

Tell it all Tuesday

Tell it all Tuesday is making it's blog debut! TIAT was started many months ago on my Inner Hooker facebook page.  It instantly was a hit!  Lots of confessions, some silly, some serious.  It was very clear that we all needed to share something from time to time.  Even those that don't share say they read the confessions and find some solidarity, people that feel just like they do!  Once the "stalker feed" was released on facebook (the constant feed on the right that tells everyone, everything) some people were apprehensive to share for fear of their family and friends seeing.  I have loved TIAT and hope that it continues to have a decent following on facebook but I also want everyone to have a safe space to share.  Here it is!  I will post a blog weekly for sharing.  You can leave a comment here and no stalker feed to pick it up and tell!  You can sign in as yourself, or share anonymously.  You don't even have to have a blog.  

Just a friendly reminder:  PLAY NICE!  We are all doing the best we can in this life we should support each other instead of judging or bullying.  

Now, confess on!

Holiday Gift Exchange, my favorite purse, and a new pattern

A few months ago I saw this purse on Pinterest. 

 It was love at first sight. Truly I dreamt about this purse!  I could not get it out of my mind!  Of course it was one of those pins that link to the blog in general and not the post that the actual picture is in {why do people do that!?!?}.  I spent a few nights scouring the blog for this picture and finally found it BUT there no explanation of where it was from or anything!  I decided to email the blog owner....yes, I told you I was obsessed.  In fact at this point in the hunt I am pretty sure I had convinced myself that I actually NEEDED the purse to continue on with my life.  I emailed her begging and pleading her to share where she got it.  No luck.  She found the picture on google and had no clue where it came from :(  {thank you nice blog lady for at least emailing me back!}  

Sigh...being the crazy obsessed resourceful woman I am I knew what had to happen.  I had to make it myself!  Insert a few months of getting sidetracked, other projects and patterns pushing this one further down my to-make list.  

November came and with it Linda from Craftaholics Anonymous and her semi-annual gift exchange!  I signed up a little nervous but ready.  In true Scotti fashion I waited until the very last week to get serious.  I was totally at a loss for ideas.  I hadn't had much time to chat with my partner and didn't get a really good feel for her.  I knew a few things, we are both busy ladies, have 3 kids, she enjoyed photography, sewing, cooking, etc... and is in school.  So needless to say she dabbles in it all.  More thinking...more stressing....more wondering why I torture myself like this...AND THEN IT HIT ME.  My favorite purse would be perfect!  

A few late nights and I did it!!  I was so excited and really wanted to keep it for myself but I did wrap her up and send her new home in Washington!  I hope she is loved!  

Now to make one for myself!  I am holding out until I can buy some single ply handspun.  Wouldn't that be lovely?

Side note: do you think I could buy some fabulous shoes as a business expense to recreate the original picture? 

What is that you say??  You want to make one too???  Pattern can be purchased here! 

Diamond in the Rough purse pattern

I am in love with making purses!  I can't wait to start my next one!

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A Thank You & a Present

Have I told you lately that I love you

Have I told you there's no one above you

Fill my heart with gladness

Take away all my sadness

Ease my troubles, that's what you do....

{imagine me singing it in a lovely voice.  you'll have to imagine really hard because I am no song bird}

It's been awhile since I expressed my gratitude for you all!  Seriously though, you all are awesome!  Without you Inner Hooker wouldn't exist.  I am forever grateful.  I have met amazing buyers, photographers and fellow business women along the way!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Onto the goods....

I am so in love with this faux knit look!  If you haven't checked out the hat do so!  It's one of my new favorite 2 day hair hats :)  I really need to get some legit pictures because my dim, sort of out of focus, on my forced daughter pictures just don't do this little baby justice.  

One of my prototypes came out wrong, less than perfect.  {which is the point of prototypes isn't it?}  Anyways....immediately I saw it.  I must stuff a newborn in this hat and make it a cocoon.  Brilliant right?  ok, maybe more resourceful than brilliant.  Or maybe I just like newborns stuffed in things.

I wanted to share it here with you!  Yep, share!!  As in for free!  No monies!  Now, this won't be available forever so download yours now!  Just a little thanks to all of those that have been around for awhile!  

Enjoy!  

Pattern was up and free for a few months!  Thank you again!  I hope everyone that downloaded it enjoyed!

If you'd like to continue to support this work at home momma you can find the pattern for purchase here


Faux Knit Cocoon (Crochet photo prop)