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Baby Contest Winners
May 31, 2009 in Crafts, Creativity, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, Scrapbooking
Look at these wonderful Baby project ideas.
Michelle from Monroe, WA constructed a magnificent gift basket. The face of the basket is covered in Mother Goose scrapbooking paper and embellished with ribbons and the word BABY on the handle. It's filled with an assortment of baby gifts. What an impressive shower gift.
Teresa from Hudsonville, MI sends us a series of
framed prints all mounted on a yellow gingham ribbon. The art is all cut out from our Nursery Scrapbook paper.
And Louise of Denver, CO sent us a quick and darling idea for a Shower Invitation.
Thank you for sharing your creative projects and please enjoy your drawing prizes.
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Birthdays are the Best
May 27, 2009 in Crafts, Creativity, Friendship, Quilting, Scrapbooking
My super creative team at the office surprised me with a super creative birthday gift this week. Each of them made a wool flower that somehow reflected their own style. The colors and techniques were a personal stamp. Jackie included a ring of wired beads, Kris used scrapbooking supplies and staples to attach her layers together,
Nancy used her favorite color of purple, Gil- Jin showcased her exquisite blanket stitching, Kathy used feminine colors with a pretty flowered button, Monica whipped out a glue stick and tie-dye, Mandie’s was decorated with Margarita glasses, Carolyn used her favorite orange and a big stitch edge and Tom’s was funky with cool stipple stitching. Then they each inserted a (color coordinating!) gift card to one of my favorite places. You know like Nordstrom, Starbucks, AMC, iTunes, Macy’s, Pier One Imports, Mel’s Nursery, Target and the coveted Punch Card for 10 dozen organic eggs from Kathy’s hens. I am set! Thank you for the fantastic gift!!
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Baby Contest Reminder
May 22, 2009 in Crafts, Creativity, Friendship, QuiltingContest Due Date:
May 28, 2009
We’d love to see your baby-themed projects that use Debbie Mumm® scrapbook products.
Whether
it’s an announcement, shower invitation, decorations, scrapbooking
pages or any Paper Craft, please send us photos of your projects and
for every project entered, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a prize
package of scrapbook supplies. Three winners will be drawn.
By entering this contest, you are granting Debbie Mumm, Inc., permission to use submitted photos on this website for future articles.
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KRIS WINS!!!
May 21, 2009 in Current Affairs, TelevisionPermalink | Email this | Comments (1)
Meet Nancy
May 17, 2009 in Staff
Nancy has been working with my studio for 14 years! She has been our hand quilter and for the last many years our primary seamstress. I’ve never seen anyone happier than Nancy with her pedal to the metal and making her sewing machine smoke. Nancy is so patient with me when I’m trying to land on the perfect fabric combination for our latest design. But when we land, she hardly lifts her head up again until she gets that thing pieced together. Have I mentioned she’s fast!?! Nancy is great at helping with new designs too. She really likes working on Electric Quilt, a computer quilt design program. Because no one understands quilt construction better than Nancy (since she’s the one piecing them together) she does an excellent job proofreading instructions, creating diagrams and brainstorming the easiest and most efficient way to construct a project.
I have never met anyone more resourceful than Nancy with fabric leftovers. She has made more scrap quilts, totes and baby quilts with leftover pieces and blocks than some people have made quilts period. One day I asked Nancy how many quilts she thought she had made over her lifetime. After trying to calculate, we determined it was too many to possibly count. You might have guessed that when Nancy isn’t at work making quilts, she’s at home making quilts! She belongs to an active quilting group that meet every week. There are about a dozen regulars and they usually keep busy on individual projects. She organizes their annual retreat that they call “Somewhere Seminar.” (private joke J)
Nancy has 2 grown daughters and a college age son attending school in Alaska. Over the last 4 years Nancy became a Grandma three times over and is always sharing cute little stories about a recent phone call or visit with them. She’s looking forward to a tea party with her Granddaughter Olivia on her next visit to Michigan later this month. Her middle daughter is a professional athlete and participates in Adventure Racing all over the globe. Naturally, Nancy is very proud of unique accomplishments and gives us reports on her latest adventure. Nancy says that when she’s with her daughter Jari, she is so inspired that she feels like she could climb Mt. Everest too. Don’t get me wrong, Nancy is no slouch when it comes to being active. She’s an avid walker and biker. She rides regularly for fresh air and exercise but has also done several long distance trips including biking the San Juan Islands and their own “Tour de Palouse.” Her longest rides have been 160 miles over 3 to 4 days. Phew! Her big dream is to someday do a cross country ride.
In the winter, when Nancy lets herself away from her sewing machine, she straps on Cross Country skiis and heads up to her favorite trails on Mount Spokane. Nancy enjoys music and her favorite artist is Fernando Ortega, a contemporary Christian singer. As a matter of fact, I’ve heard Nancy sing and she has a pretty nice set of pipes herself. It’s a little joke around the office that you can set your clock by Nancy because at the stroke of noon she’s the first one in the lunchroom. Always in a good mood, Nancy is a true pleasure!
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New Book!
May 12, 2009 in Books, Crafts, Creativity, Decorating, QuiltingCreating Memorable Year-Round Celebrations with Quilts and Crafts
I am so excited about my brand new book, HomeComings! We had such a good time designing and creating the projects and then planning and taking all the photos outdoors. Our theme is “creating memorable year-round celebrations with quilts and crafts,” and this 96 page, soft cover, book features more than forty quilt and craft projects to set the scene for seasonal celebrations. I hope you will love this new book as much as we do!
One of the most satisfying things in life for most women is gathering family and friends for a holiday or special occasion celebration. Those events when people come together from far and near are the most memorable and joyous of occasions. Preparing for these events is a big part of the fun and this book is loaded with projects and ideas for setting the scene for joy-filled reunions and homecomings.
We followed the seasons in this book and springtime projects include a beautiful basket quilt and colorful flower-filled lap quilt as well as a selection of pillows, a door banner, and Earth Day Wall Quilt.
A 4th of July celebration is the focus of the summertime section and includes festive patriotic décor including a lap quilt, Americana Wall Quilt, a door banner, and variety of pillows for charming indoor or outdoor décor.
Halloween happenings will be hauntingly fun with a Black and Patch Lap Quilt, black cat pillow, pumpkin table runner and other clever projects.
Quilters and crafters will reap a bounty of projects in the Harvest Celebrations section. An eye-catching appliquéd wall quilt, Harvest Lap Quilt, table quilts, dimensional pumpkins, and a beautiful welcome banner set the scene for autumn activities.
A joyful celebration of projects is included in the Holiday Traditions chapter including bird banners, a log cabin lap quilt, snowman door banner and holiday décor projects. See all the chapter introductions by clicking on this link, then clicking on each photo. I think you’ll find many fun projects that you’ll want to make for your next family celebration!
Have fun.
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Happy Mother's Day!
May 10, 2009 in HolidaysPermalink | Email this | Comments (1)
Baby on the Way Contest
May 6, 2009 in Crafts, Creativity, Friendship, Quilting We have a baby on the way in our office!
Our CPA, Mandie, is expecting a little boy at the end of the month so we are looking for scrapbooking ideas.
We’d love to see your baby-themed projects that use Debbie Mumm® scrapbook products.
Whether it’s an announcement, shower invitation, decorations, scrapbooking pages or any Paper Craft, please send us photos of your projects and for every project entered, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a prize package of scrapbook supplies. Three winners will be drawn.
Contest (and Mandie’s) Due Date: May 28, 2009
Send photos of projects to contactus@debbiemumm.com
By entering this contest, you are granting Debbie Mumm, Inc., permission to use submitted photos on this website for future articles.
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Project Pics!
May 3, 2009 in Crafts, Creativity, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores I always love it when you send me photos of your projects. I recently received photos from Kathleen of Naples, Florida (it’s been a big Florida week) of the Easter table display she created. Kathleen recently got back into sewing and made up a darling tea cozy and table runner that coordinate perfectly with the mugs and egg cups in her setting. She even planted real grass in the egg cups – Clever! Kathleen – thank you for sharing how you used my products in your home and I hope sewing and decorating continue to add pleasure to your days.
