I'm Late~ I'm Late~ For A Very Important Date !!!!!!!.........the winner is........

Now ya'll didn't really think I'd tell ya' right off the bat who won now did ya ? lol .......First I have to apologize for bein' late !!!! Then I have to thank everyone for entering and playin' along with the scavenger hunt, the word game, postin' the giveaway on your blog and well Thanks For Making This ONE FUN giveaway !!!!! I honestly love doing them and like many who have done giveaways before me.....I truly wish I could give EACH and EVERYONE one of ya'll a lil somethin' ! Now when I hit the powerball we'll take that up lol. I ended up with 157 entries. Now that included everyone's original entry, entries for postin' on your blog and then the scavenger hunt, the word game and last night's lucky 7 who commented also got another entry. Giving us the grand total of 157. I used random.org to pick....and Jess says to tell ya'll NEXT time he gets to pick cause........well he just wants to draw a name outta' the bucket lol. We'll see ;0} O.k anyway........The winner of my Blogaversary is..........no peekin' at the name yet ! we gotta drum roll first !!!!!!

drum rolllllllllllllllll

ratatatatatat

bam bam bam bam bam bam

brrrrrrrrttttttttttttt

now the cymbal part lol ting ting ting ting

almost there......

Congrats # 26 Wooooot Wooooot Way To Goooooo

Your the winner !!!!!! Aren't you excited ???? Come on jump for joy......yipppppeeeeeee ......Oh wait #26 you don't know who you are yet do ya ? {wink} sorry I got excited hehehe

#26 is

Debbie from Goat Creek !!!!! O.k. now we can happy dance !!!!

Congrats Debbie =0} Email me your addy so I can get your goodies out to ya'. I hope you enjoy them. Now there are a couple suprises in there that I didn't take pics of ;0} So you have a few surprises ;0}

And since it's my blogavesary we ( me and Kenzie my daughter) decided what the heck lets do one more 2nd place winner.....

So we did and that winner is # 118 Wooooot Wooooot Congrats 118 way to goooooo yippeeeeee......come on get excited !!!

Oh wait I did it again huh ? lol o.k o.k. # 118 is......

Pam from Prim In A Small Town.....Woooot Wooooot Congrats Pam !!!! Send me your addy and I'll get this out to ya asap. Happy Dance !!!!! Now your goodies will be a total surprise and I hope you enjoy them =0}

I will be doing another giveaway next month to celebrate my B~day  March 7th so be watchin' for that one. I will probably start it early so I can do all the fun extra entry games cause ya'll know I love doing that and I hope ya'll enjoy 'em too !

Now I need to hurry and get this posted but I gotta show my wip from today......This is why I'm a lil late getting this post up. I was on a roll gettin' things finished up today and lost track of time.

Anyway here is a few pics of "Hetty" that's what I'm callin' her. She is a pattern by Jackie Schmidt of TFC Folk art called Hannah.

Ignore my mess in the background lol......This is Hettie trying on her new dress and pre painting her body....

Here she is after paintin', bakin' and trying on her Bonnet.

Not sure if I wanna do a face on her ? What do ya'll think ? I'd love to hear what your ideas  =0}

I'll probably add her to my side bar for sale after she is all done up. IF I can bear to part with her lol. I gotta work on that !!!!!

I also gotta work on this.........

Look at that mess !!!!! Do ya'll do that when ya' get ta' craftin' ???

Heck it's like I gotta pull everything out ! Don't know why I do that lol. I even whack my head on the doors cause I forget to close 'em....just like in the pic lol. Everything has a place so IF I'd train myself to put it back when finished well......maybe I wouldn't have such a mess huh ! Look at the next one lol.....

Ahhhhh I feel better....I've come clean with my BAD habit !!!!! lol

I have to take the lamp shade off for better lighting cause my eyes aint what they used to be.....aint what they used to be......many longgggg years agooooooo ! O.k. girlies and (fella's if your readin')

I best get movin' I got stuff to finish and a lil pickin' up to do. I'm off work tomorrow so I better not tidy up to good cause I'll just be draggin' it all out again ! Till next time my Prim Friends......

Huggs n Blessins...

~Hurry~Hurry~ Hurry~ There's Still Time~Eve Of The Blogavesary Drawing~

Hi Ya'll

 Hope this post finds ya' in GREAT spirits =0}

Just wanted to letcha' all know that IF you haven't signed up for my giveaway yet......there is still time ! If you haven't submitted your wooden mustard item yet......well you can still do that too....And if you haven't sent in your words list (see post below) well......yepp you still have time to do that too ;0} Girlies I gotta tell ya' ya'll REALLY put on your thinkin' caps for the words ! I was like a proud mama opening up all your emails and readin' your lists ! You know how ya feel when your lil' one comes home with their A+ on their weekly spellin' test lol. Wooooot Woooooot pats on the back for ya'll ! I won't mention names BUT one of ya'll sent in 43 words !!!!! And yepp everyones words were accepted. I'll tell ya' all tomorrow after the drawing how many word possibilities their are. I'm gettin' excited to see who wins !!!! I will announce the winner around 5:00 or so. If I can wait that long lol.

Speaking of giveaways........I wanted to share with ya'll my awesome patterns I chose in Carmens giveaway over at

(link ~>) Olde Farmhouse Road

If you've not visited Carmen's site you really need to check it out. Girlies she has some of the most adorable patterns ever ! And she just added new ones to her pattern site (link~>)

Little Country Blessings  Lemme' tell ya'll I had a hard time pickin' which ones I wanted. I finally had to get my daughter to help me pick. The boys weren't too excited about the notion of helpin' lil ol' Mom pick out patterns the lil whipper snappers. Anyway I best just get ta' showin' ya the pics of the patterns ....cause I do tend to get a lil typewinded ;0}

Can't wait to make this one.

This is gonna be fun to make for Halloween.Awesome pattern !

I want to start this one like NOW lol

 You can never have enough Santa patterns and this one is one of my top favs.

My pics just don't do justice to show off Carmen's primtastic patterns. Love love love 'em !!!!

Well I'm off to try and finish up some projects. I'm kinda pooped from work today. It was busy busy busy. So busy there wasn't even time for me to take a lunch break or any kind of break. Which is good cause we need all the business we can get ! And it sure makes the day go by faster, but takes a toll on the poor ol' feet and back and hips and .......well you get the picture lol.

O.k. tell ya'll what for those of ya' that's read my ramblins this far lol.....The first 7 ( I love the #7) people to comment on THIS post will get an extra entry......So get ta' postin' !!!!!! Come on what are ya' waitin' for ?????  Speed type ;0}

Till next time my Prim Friends.......

Huggs n Blessins

1yr Blogaversary Giveaway Reminder~Ramblins & What I've Been Workin' On

Hi ya'll hope this post finds ya'll in GREAT spirits.

If you haven't signed up for the 1 yr Blogaversary Giveaway yet be sure and click the link ~~~> Blogaversary Giveaway to sign up for it. Winner will be drawn this Sunday afternoon. I have another item added but forgot to get a picture of it...shucks. Well maybe we'll just leave it a suprise for whoever wins ;0) I have everyones names written down, and I assigned numbers to your entries for the original giveaway post. For those of you who sent in the mustard wood item pics I also assigned a number in the order I recieved them. I am using a number generator for this giveaway. I am going to give everyone another chance to get a few more entries. So if you missed the last chance......you get another try =0)

This time take the word Primitive and see how many words you can make out of it. For every 10 words (must be at least a 2 letter word and up) you can come up with I will give you an extra entry. So if you find 30 words that's 3 more chances. Wooot Wooot

And believe me there are a lot of word possibilities there lol.

For this chance at extra entries email me your list of words to WillowBendPrims@yahoo.com

Also let me know in your comments to this post you are playin' along so I know to be on the lookout for your email. Sometimes I forget to check my spam folder for awhile and some emails I get from Prim Pals end up there =0(

Ohhhh and do ya'll like doin' things like this for extra chances to enter giveaways ? Just wanted a lil feedback for future ones. I really love to share my love of prim things with ya'll and trully enjoy doin' giveaways. I wish I could give every one of ya'll a lil somethin' !

This is one of the things I've been workin' on gettin' together.

I bought one just like this at an antique store last year. It recently got knocked off and broke a piece of it. =( (concrete subfloors stink !) So we used the unbroken pieces to draw up a pattern to make a new piece to fix it. Well hubbs cut it out for me and I did the prim'n. I saved the pattern as a pdf file and thought about sharin' it with ya'll that like to do your own "do it yourself " woodworkin' projects.

Then I wondered would that be o.k. to do ?

Seein' how it's not my pattern, I have no clue who made it, how old it is for sure and I didn't wanna do somethin' I shouldn't sooooo

I'd love your input on this. What do ya'll think about it ?

O.k. now on to the project......

The Base .... Now after I paint it I go back and go to town with sandpaper. Really get in there and sand ;0) I make sure and get edges really good and any other areas that should look (or you want to look) like they are worn with time.

 Back panel

one of the side pieces

Putting on the stain. I used..... ok my CRADT kicked in....oh wait I have a pic of it lol.....

(cradt = can't remember a darn thing ;0)

That poor label has seen it's better days ! It's folkart walnut stain.

The longer you leave it on the darker your results. You can test it out on a scrap piece beforehand to get an idea how light or dark you really want it to look. Play around with it.

Wiping off the stain. I left mine on for a few minutes and then wiped it off. I didn't think it was dark enough so I did it again. You can use an old rag or sometimes I use paper towel or even coffee filters. I love seeing the results after this stage.

I think it turned out pretty darn good don't you ?

Pic below is it all put together......

And ya can't even tell where the new section is ! Wooot Wooot Good cuttin' there Hubbs ;0) and yepp sometimes Hubbs does read my blog. So my racing heart post I probably woulda' eventually been caught bloggin' and NOT removin' the stuff from my wall that was to be painted lol. Speakin' of.....Hubbs got the light rewired so all I need to do is paint and stain it and it'll be ready to go up ! Yeahhhh.

Hope you enjoyed seein' what I've been up to. Will share living room pics maybe next post. We got that...well I got it all painted lol. More on that later ;0}

Oh and be sure and check out this awesome giveaway as well.....

 It's being hosted by Shabby Kat

here's the link ~~~>shabby kat primitives sundries n such

Her Prim goodies look soooo divine !!!!

I have to be at work at 11:15 and it's 10:30 now so I guess I better get a move on. Hope your day is off to a wonderful start !
Till next time Prim Friends
Prim Huggs n Blessins