This week we are giving away a set of three custom kitchen towels from our gift collection. We will select one random winner next Tuesday. If you win, you get to choose the design of your choice. (Pick your favorite here.) You can keep them for yourself, or they make great gifts (Christmas is exactly four months away!). Enter by answering this question: …
What To Do With An Old Baseboard
Two years ago we renovated a 100 year old house for a retreat facility and called it Sweetwater House. A lot of changes were made in the process of tearing out and putting the house back together. There were also a lot of materials left over that we saved to use someday. Well- this weekend I decided to make a …
Cutest Little Charms
I just got done ordering 3 of these cute, cute charms and just had to share them with you! (Not to mention that they are made out of fabric from our authentic line) We can't wait to get them in! Amanda Herring from The Quilted Fish (fun cute patterns and website!) posted information about these charms on her blog. Her friend Missy makes …
Corn, Corn, Corn, Corn
OK you can say that I am spolied but I have a thing about eating canned corn or frozen corn from the grocery store – I just can't do it! Canned corn always reminds me of the school cafeteria – something that does not bring back pleasant memories for myself. So every year I gather up my family to clean, cook, …
Eight Free Patterns To Two Lucky Winners!
We know some of you have already received pre-cuts from our Authentic line. So—we thought you might like to win some patterns to go with it! This time we will choose two random winners. Each will win the entire collection of Authentic patterns: Here is how to enter. We just received our first samples from our next collection of fabric due …
Holey Jeans and Contest Winner
No, holey jeans has nothing to do with the contest winner who by the way is #17 who happens to be Asiyah who wrote – My grandmother raised me so my favorite childhood activity was tending to the garden with her. I would love to win this because of that memory and also because we just redid my daughter's room …
Frequently Asked Questions
We love when people ask questions- and it seems we get a lot of the same questions over and over. So I thought I would start with the most popular three. If you have a question, let us know. It may be featured in our blog! 1. How did you come up with the name Sweetwater? This is by far …
Back to Life – Back to Reality
Yes, my vacation is over. As mentioned on the previous blog, I spent my vacation at the county fair. I was there every waking moment and now that I am back to work I really want to go back to the fair, but reality sets in and I know that is not possible!!! Before the fair began, my mom had these …
Where have we been? Plus a new contest!
Okay, I know we have been missing for the last few days. Anyone that knows us knows that our life comes to a screeching halt the first week of August. My sister and I grew up showing livestock and this is our favorite week of the year- county fair. Of course, we are way to old to show, but this year has …
Our Logo Contest Winner + A New Baby Quilt
Thought you would like to see the logo our contest winner, Barbara chose for her company: and here it is in her chosen color of green: She wanted a clean, graphic and modern look. I think it turned out terrific and can't wait to see it on her site. I mentioned before in an earlier post that Barbara …