Milestone Press Master Planner winner

And the winner is............

Lauren

SAHM I am

Thanks to everyone who entered this awesome giveaway. I will be in contact with the winner by email and thanks to Milestone Press- The Master Plan Family Diary for 2014 diary will heading your way in the post!

Thanks again Milestone Press!!

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Photo Friday

Time for a new quilt and enjoying the spring flowers and sunshine.

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Milestone Press Master Planner (+giveaway)

I just received my new 2014 Master Plan Family Diary from Milestone Press in the post. Mr B orders me one every year!

I have previously had black, pink, blue, lemon and now mint!

I use my Master Plan Diary every day. It has spaces for birthdays, meal planning and of course you open up a page and can see a whole week- prefect for us with the boys now at school and all the extra activities and play dates and it helps me keep track of scheduling 4 people!

It comes with a plain white paper note book at the back and cute little note books as a free gift. Very handy for creative thoughts!

Other features of this Planner include school term dates and a month by month plan.

I find having the elastic that closes the planner amazing so extra paper I accumulate doesn't fall out (and yes I honestly have that much extra stuff in my master planner)

The past year's planner ran October 2012 to December 2013 and the next year is the diary runs September 2013 to December 2014. I tend to use the spare months that I don't need when I start in January as extra note taking pages.

(*Disclaimer- all views and opinions in this post are my own)

Sine I love my planner so much I have one Master Plan 2014 Family Planner  in the colour smoke to giveaway thanks to Milestone Press!

To enter this giveaway all you need to do is leave a comment and tell me what you plan to do in 2014 to be organised or even a quick tip that helps you get organised. I will pick a winner and contact them for their postal details and they will be sent a Master Pan 2014 diary in the colour smoke. (this is open to Australia and NZ) Entries close at 6pm Friday 6th September.  ***GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED***

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Photo Friday

Enjoying the sunshine! Its Friday!!!

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Photo Friday

Busy sewing for Elements Market tomorrow!!! 

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Hexagon duvet cover is done!

I started with hexagons BUT decided against unpicking all my hand stitching so I started with a single stack of hexagons and a new plan

 + =

 161 hexagons later

I had to figure out where they all go once I hand stitched 343 together on to white blocks of fabric

then I started start sewing row 1-7 

and ironing them all in the right direction to create amazing  french seams

and this point I stood back and went  "ohh" and "ahhh" and admired the seams

and still more sewing

and then I may have run out of white thread.... BUT a thread fairy dropped some off to me so I could finish *thank you*

and last but not least hand sewing it on to the white duvet cover- over 8m and more thread later

I'm feeling rather proud of myself to see it all done and our our bed!

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