I was the SITS Commenter of the Week

I was the SITS commenter of the week! How very exciting and oh so cool. To all the wonderful SITS bloggers I have met I have enjoyed reading your blogs and *meeting* and getting know y’all. For those of you saying what is SITS. It’s a group of more than 6,000 women bloggers dedicated to supporting one another by leaving comments. I have found and discovered some great blogs since. If you new to blogging or a veteran blogger interested in expanding your readership, the SITS community is for you! Here is a link for those you new to SITS.

I try to go to SITS Monday through Friday and comment in the blog role. There are great giveaway links and other things posted on Saturday and Sunday so check back then too if you can. 5 days a week is my desired goal. When you go to the main SITS page add a comment to the blog role. And visit the featured blogger of the day. I also read in the blog role the links and I click on the posts that sound interesting and I go comment. If the blog is about things I am interested or the blog write makes me laugh than I follow them. When someone comments on my blog I check out their blog and give them a friendly comment back. It’s like a cyber hello!

So now that we have the down and dirty on being in the SITStahood and what it's all about on to the comments part. This is how I came to be the commenter of the week. The featured blogger of the day was Busted Plumbing When Mother Nature kicks you right in the ovaries. Please check out Kate’s blog. I love the logo with the sexy plumbing lady sans plumber crack! From the adventure of trying to get pregnant to know being pregnant it’s a great chance to take a journey on another women’s adventure. This is one of the things I love about having a blog and reading blog. You feel like you are going through life with some fantastic women you've never met. Kind of neat and strange.

“Your blog made me laugh out loud a few times which is a great reason to follow you. Plus I need to keep up with the rest of your amazing journey on becoming a mom! And I would love to see a photo of you shopping out in your scuba gear! Congrats on your baby boy how exciting and so very special.”

Posted from SITS on Saturday August 7 2010.

I made the above comment on Busted Plumbing’s SITS Day post. Your SITS day is when you are the featured blogger of the day. Don’t you want to be one?

When I get my SITS shirt I think I should post a vlog…don’t know what a vlog is? I am the educator of the day today. Now I just need my apple. A little secret I didn’t know what a vlog was until last week when SITS educated me about it. A vlog is video blogging. You can learn more about it here:

Have a super great week!

Memento's New Blog Makeover

Check out my new Blog. I LOVE IT! Hilary with Simply Yours Designs created it for me and she did an amazing job. I showed her my logo and website and she created something that I think looks so Mementoish. Thank you Hilary for doing a fantastic job. Please check her out if you are looking for a swanky blog makeover.

Sorry for my 1 month disappearance from my blog and from visiting my favorite blogs and SIT'S. I have been busy with lots of things that I thought I would share with y'all. I have done lots of orders in the past month and here are some of my creations.
























I embroidered 7 duffle bags for a cheer team. I have created some new Mommy & Me Apron Sets that I love. These aprons have pockets on the child and adult aprons.





I created these aprons for EAD Designs. I think they turned out great.




We have also been in the works of creating the ultimate workspace studio. I will post the before and in the process photos. We are still waiting on the countertops so the final photos will be posted once it is finished. Please don't laugh at how messy my space is. I didn't start taking the before photos until we were already in the middle of things.










My husband is an amazing man and he is very handy. He made the work table which I LOVE it is the perfect height and nice and big with lots of room. He used IKEA kitchen cabinets. The wall and floor cabinets are also from IKEA. I love my new space it is so much easier to find things and I have lots of space. I have a designated sewing and serger table. The first thing I made on my new table was this dress for Liberty's first day of school.






























And on the not so fun side I have had a cough for 6 weeks and I am on my third something or other I have caught. I was on antibiotics until I had an allergic reaction to them. I started a new antibiotic yesterday and it seems I am allergic to it as well. Hard to get better when you can't take the medicine! I have never before reacted to medicine and now in 3 weeks this has happened twice. Between trying to get orders done, and being sick I feel like I am that hamster in the cage running in the circle wheel. I keep trying to get more things done but they just don't happen. So thank you for reading my long awaited updated and let's hope that I am back in the swing of things now. Thank you to all my new and repeat customers. I have had my business for 2 years this November and I enjoy it so much and I am thrilled to see how my name is getting out there and my business is growing.

Thank you sincerely.
Terri

Random ~ Update, Some Blogs to follow, New Designs, & Cookies

Thank you all for the great comments and emails about my adventure this past week. I will give you a little update. Today is Sunday and since Tuesday (my dental apt.) I have flossed daily, brushed my teeth twice a day with my new Oral B electric toothbrush and used the Crest Pro Health mouthwash. I also switched toothpastes. My whole life, or at least the majority of my 33 years I have used Close Up. It is a cinnamon flavored toothpaste. Most people probably have never heard of it! I am not a mint flavor girl and prefer the cinnamon taste. Whenever I tried others I felt like my breath wasn't as fresh come morning. When I was at Target getting my new dental regime arsenal I saw there were at least 5 kinds of Crest, Colgate and Aqua fresh toothpastes but only one type of Close Up. It made me think maybe I should give up my cinnamon toothpaste and go for a 12 hour minty brand. So far so good. I will let you all known the results of my new system once I see the dentist again in 4 months.

I enjoying writing my blog and I try to dedicate time to it. I also enjoy reading and commenting on lots of great blogs written by some very talented women.


A dear friend of mine, Emily has recently created her blog, Emily Hagerman Design. She is a very talented woman and I highly recommend you follow her blog to learn more about her amazing design skills. You can see some before and after photos of a house renovation and some great insight into the world of designing and redesigning.

A different Em from Life Liberty and the pursuit... has a great post on her blog right now about healthcare. I have had a post for my blog in the works but it is still in the works. It seems to get fueled when I get frustrated or fired up about the direction we are going right now. So check hers out and stay tuned from my take on why a socialized health care system is not the best option.

I found Em from SITS (The Secret is in the Sauce) if you blog or are looking for some great blogs to follow then SITS is the place to look. This amazing Sitstahood of women is a group of bloggers dedicated to supporting one another by leaving comments. Lots and lots of comments.

Another blogger that I discovered is Melissa's Heart & Home. Melissa shares some of the neatest home decor items and where she finds them so we can all try to make our house as pretty. She is very sweet and I enjoy checking in to see what she has discovered.

Did I did warn you that this post was random? I did a market tote this week in a design that previously I had only done on a cosmetic bag. It turned out amazing. I love it when my customers bring me an idea. Thank you Shannon for a great idea. One of my best selling items is the Mommy and Me apron sets. I received this great idea from a customer also. Thank you Kim Marie for starting a great gift item for mommies and their daughters.

Speaking of little kitchen helpers. I made cooked with Liberty my 3 1/2 year old. It is not the first time we have baked together however it is the first time that she stayed and baked the whole recipe. Of course there was more of a mess on the counter but for the most part 90% of the ingredients made it into the bowl. She did dip her fingers in the measuring cups of brown sugar, white sugar, butter and flour, not to mention he chocolate chips. It’s a good thing the cookies were for us only and not to be shared with the masses. We would have some quality control issues. We had a great time and it was fun to bake with my little helper. We made Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. If anyone has an amazing recipe for THICK CHEWY oatmeal chocolate chip cookies PLEASE share it with me. I have tried and searched for so many. I am looking for a thick chewy bite down into it type of cookie. Not a flat one. Speaking of recipes I have a great recipe book for baking that has an amazing pecan cookie recipe that I am in the works of asking the author if I can share her recipe and plug her book. So stay tuned for that too.

Okay I think I should sign off for now but I really do have lots more I could share... but I will save it for another day! Thanks for stopping by.