Winner of the Holstein Pattern Apron Made By Me and Ranting at the Fabric Store

Yes, yes, yes... I am totally behind schedule. Don't you hate it when work gets in the way of blogging???? Well, I finally got to drawing the winner of the Holstein cow patterned gardening apron...

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All you women in the vicinity of Utah need to wear hearing protection since, POOBA won herself an apron, finally. She will be screaming like a school girl at a Duran Duran concert over this result. OK, so I am dating my self with this reference, but I really don't know who girls are screaming over these days.

This fabric was out of stock at JoAnne's for a few weeks, but finally, I was able to obtain it, so I can make the apron now. I think they were intentionally holding out on me, or trying incite me to a tither, since the cashier informed me a few weeks ago that, "...sometimes we don't get certain patterns back in stock very often..."

I was all, "WHAT??? You have to be kidding me!! I need to make two aprons out of this material. I HAVE obligations with this material!" I am sure I had the crazy 30 something going on 40 look on my face with raised eyebrows and a wavering voice.

And as I ranted at the clerk standing behind the counter, she appeared to be enjoying herself, giving me her best indifferent facial expressions... This was not helping matters whatsoever.

Because I am psychic, I know that she started thinking to herself, "Get this lunatic woman out of my face. Maybe I'm gonna have to call for security. Wow that would be a first." I think her eye roll tipped me off to her true evil nature.

"When will you know if this fabric is going to be restocked?" I quizzed this young 20 something in my imperious tone.

"We get new fabric restocks on Thursdays," she informed me briefly, hoping I would just go away. Then she added as a second thought, probably because I was scaring her, "If you had the stock number from your last receipt we could order it for you."

Sighing heavily I admitted,"I don't have the receipt any more. Of that I am sure." Then not wanting to be taken down by my own incompetence in saving receipts I querried, " Can't you just look up the patterns on a computer or something?"

Then with a dumbfounded gaze the gal said, "Oh no. We don't have access to anything like that."

Note to JoAnne's Fabric: Make computers available to your staff to facilitate the ordering of fabrics that are out of stock. Have you people not yet heard of "The Internet?" And yes I know JoAnne's is on line and I looked there for the fabric and it was not listed ANYWHERE! I know how to search for stuff too...

Well, I can always rant here properly, right?

Congrats Pooba! I will make your apron in the week comming up!

Gardening Apron Giveaway from ME!

Did my fellow Apron Goddesses like this gardening apron??? The one made from this fabric here:


And the finished product looking like this here. There are three huge pockets in the front where the bovine ladies are gazing at you. I have been stashing and carrying irrigation emitters, garden snippers, electric fence insulators and you name it while I do repairs at our property. This apron has been greatly useful for me.



Well you can have your very own in the spittin' image of this one if you sign up below in the comments. Ya can't have mine, so I will have to make one just for you!

To enter you can visit my other blog Our Simple Life and browse around. Here are some suggested links in no particular order of my personal preference. Say "Hi" at one post at OSL and come back and comment here that you want to be included for the gardening apron:

Sir Mix-A-Lot is Alive and Well at My House
"How to" by My Son Wyatt
The Rooster Report
The Half Moon
Two Dead Cats, Why Me?
Rain and Puddles
Love, When You Least Expect It
My Husband is Strange

Want more entries? Post about this giveaway at your blog site. That counts for five more times in the drawing. Please leave the permalink in your comment too.

Finally, if you really want to increase your chances to win you can have 10 more entries if you send in your picture with you wearing an apron. Adult photos please and no headless horsewomen!!! A little story about your apron consisting of a few lines would be good too. And as always I will write about your blog when I post your Apron Goddess photo.

So who wants to garden? Anyone? Anyone??

And to anybody who gets this far down in the text, I will freely admit I made an error in scheduling my sponsors so have resorted to promoting myself... Next week we have another great giveaway featuring a bundle of four aprons including ones for your daughters!!!!