Here is a great thought for the holidays and the rest of the year.  Buy Handmade.  Give Handmade.  I took the pledge and am going to give it a darn good try.

Thanks to Lizzy House for writing a bit about the "Buy Handmade Pledge" on her LizzyHouse blog.  I met up with this young talented girl at Quilt Market--she showed me her "play" book and ...I think she will have a fabric line in her future!

You will be hearing more about Lizzy, an artist and student at Brigham Young University in Idaho as I have convinced her to help me re-vamp my blog with a new logo and look.  Lizzy did this logo for her mom Cherri's quilting/pattern business.  Cool huh.

I am hoping for a "blog makeover" (not anything like THIS makeover) to take place about the same time I hit the one millionth page view...before the end of the year.

Wow, I never would have thunk a million page views could have been possible.  Thanks for reading and commenting for coming back to read what I have to say!

The best part of all is meeting so many of you and being inspired by your creative handmade works.

(graphics and art thanks to www.buyhandmade.org and Lizzy House)