The world of WIPs and a Giveaway! CLOSED!

Congrats to our winner, comment #6, Shannan B who wrote " I need to clean out our storage room. It's been on my list forever, but I just shut the door and try to block it out!"  


Stay tuned, we'll be giving away not only tickets to Barnum and Bailey's Fully Charged but we'll also have tickets for Lego Fest Cincinnati coming very soon!!

Since we were on the subject of battle with organization let's talk about WIPs.  Works In Progress.   Yet another organizational problem (at least if you are me).  We all have them, there's no denying that...even if they aren't crafty WIPs, you still have them around the house.  That closet you got the extra hangers for but never organized.  The gallon of paint and fun wallpaper you got to redo the extra bathroom.  Personally I think if you don't have at least one WIP hanging out in your house that you must be too organized and efficient.  I tell myself this so I won't feel like a total project failure. 

You see...I've had this pile of fabric on my craft/sewing table since last October...

 ....no joke.  I wanted to take part in a craft fair at the beginning of December but one thing after another got scooted to the "must do NOW" list in front of the "WANT to do now" list and as a result  I have this pile of fabric STILL sitting on my table...looking forlorn and unloved...yearning to be made into something fashionable or fun or functional.  Okay that may be exaggerating, but you know what I mean...right?  So instead of doing all of that organizing that I want need to do this weekend I plan on doing something I actually enjoy doing instead.  Sewing!

And yes, I know that I have other stuff I really should be doing, but occasionally you have to do what you want to do instead for sanity's sake...I mean, the fact that my kids get caught in an avalanche of Legos and Nerf weapons when they put their jammies on at night is just part of growing up if you ask me, and who cares if we only have 4 clean towels left, that's one each!  I still feed everyone on a regular basis...mostly.

So since I'm feeling a little bit guilty about playing with my "toys" instead of working I'm going to give myself a really good, legitimate excuse for crafting instead of doing housework:  My readers need a giveaway!  I mean, we had Disney Live! tickets, then we had Nuclear Cowboyz tickets and soon we'll have even more fun tickets!  But what about NOW?  We need something to tide us over...yes?

I made this little Kindle Fire cover for my hubby for Christmas to help him transport his new Kindle from here to there without being damaged.

He wasn't a big fan of the mushroom motif...can't really say I blame him.  Hard to look manly in the office with this cover (even though I love love love the fabric), but it was the manliest fabric I had at the time so I whipped it together just to tide him over.  He did eventually get his manly cover and he's much happier with it.  However now my sad little mushroom Kindle cover is lonely and in need of a good home.

Don't have a Kindle?  I might be talked into whipping up another of these Smart phone cases I made for myself when my new phone came. (By the way, please forgive the awful photos...I don't remember the last time I was able to take a picture when the sun was actually present...this is the rainiest January on record!)

Have no use for a case for your technology of choice?  How about some cute handmade napkins!  We have a set we use every day (I LOVE them! No more paper napkins to toss into the landfill...we just keep them in a container on the table, use them until they are dirty then toss them into whatever load of laundry is going in at the moment.  Love it!) but I can make the extra fancy kind below if you'd like something special.

I'm just in the mood to sew up something cute and you are going to reap the benefits! 

So for this giveaway you'll get to choose one of the sewn projects above, fabric choice will be my own but if you have an electronic device that requires a specific fit I'll get specifications from you on that when the time comes.  (I will take gender into account when choosing fabric..don't worry guys, you won't get a pretty floral ipod case...unless that's your thing).

To enter you just need to do one (or both) of these two easy things:

1. Please 'like' In a Galaxy blogspot on Facebook.  I try to post my fellow bloggers giveaways on my page plus you'll keep up to date on my next big giveaway there as well!  Don't do Facebook?  Please subscribe to my email updates over in the right side bar .
2. Tell me what WIPs you have of your own that you just never find the time to get working on.  Just looking for some reassurance that I'm not the only person out there with a ton of projects that I need to make more time for.

And that's it!  Two ways to enter mean two chances to win!  Winner will be chosen on Wednesday, February 1 at 2 p.m. and notified by email and Facebook.  Please make sure that either your email is attached in Blogger or you leave me your email with your comment so that I can notify you.  Winner will have 24 hours to respond or another entry will be chosen.  I will ship this item to anywhere in the world!  Good luck!