THE WINNER IS...........

This morning my grandson Ian helped me with the drawing. We mixed and mixed the entries. He picked the first one out and.......

THE WINNER of the Original Lilly and Her Chicks Tea Towel is..............

Mary Roots

She said, "Your blog is such a blessing to me and the pictures are very beautiful."

Thank you Mary for commenting on Prairie Flower Farm blog.

All of you that signed up did not know that I had plans for

7 more bloggers to win a giveaway. I wanted it to be a SURPRISE and so here goes!

Piece of fabric from our "WINTER IS IN THE AIR" fabric line.

2nd place...

A Sprinkling said, "What a cute towel! I don't have anything like this and would love to see it hanging on my oven!"

3rd place....

Kentucky Farm Girl said, "What an adorable give away! I would love to be entered!"

4th place......

Keep it Simple said, "Cute, cute, cute! Enter us into your contest. I don't get much traffic, but I'll post about your giveaway over at our place."

PRIMITIVE ANGEL ORNAMENTS

A favorite past time of mine is to make ornaments. I had these on hand and thought it would be fun to give them as 5th, 6th, and 7th place winners. The winners are....

5th place.....

La Gitan Mystique said, "I just love all things kitchen and chicken themed as well. What a sweet giveaway you are having. Please sign me up. I'd be so tickled to win the tea towel. My blog is new so nothings there yet, but I am looking foward to getting it all going.
I will get signed up for your email subscription." Gina

6th place....

Aquarian Bath, "beautiful towel. I love chickens and would love to win."

7th.....

The Schmidt Family, "Wow thanks. What a darling towel. I have the pattern and might try it myself sometime!"

I also want to thank Sarah from Sewn for the wonderful opportunity. She gave all of us the chance to spread our wings and go and do something that would bless so many bloggers all around the world. It makes us all a little bit closer don't you think? May we keep her in our prayers as she works on this new adventure. It will be fun to see what she will do. Blessings to you, Sarah!

Thank you alllllll for coming to my blog. I wish you all could have won. It has been a true pleasure to meet you. I loved going to each one of your blogs and "oohed" and "aaahed", they are all beautiful. It is truly a gift that we all can have the opportunity to have blogs to share with others. I have been so encouraged. I hope all of you who came to my blog, "Entered and left with a Happy Heart".

Blessings,

Linda

At Noon Central Time!

At noon Central Time I will announce the winner! Please check in. I am getting ready! 

I will have 6 extra winners that will win small gifts!!!!!!!! I want you to all know, that this has been a real blessing to me personally. Thank you for all that entered and left comments. I am excited for the future and have some interesting plans for the blog! Keep coming back.

Blessings,
Linda

WE ARE IN A MAGAZINE!

Peace Creek Collections Article In Girlhood Home Companion

Don't forget to sign up if you haven't already, for our giveaway on Monday. Scroll down to June 1st post!!!!!!!!

The garden is almost planted!!!!!!!!!!! I found a little time to look at the two articles our family wrote for The Girlhood Home Companion. Jill and her family have done a wonderful job putting the magazine together. The color and arrangement was just breath taking. We were honored to be able to do this! Our fabric was featured that came out this last spring. You will be able to find Farmer's Market at JoAnn's Fabric or Hancock Fabrics near you. When I get some time I will be making curtains for my chicken house with the Farmer's Market fabric.. Can't wait for things to slow down. Like when will that ever be the case : )! We will also have a Harvest Thyme Collection, that will be out for Fall 2009. I will write later. I just love Remembrance Press and all they have available for every age lady.

I have not talked much on my blog, that I design fabric for a company called Fabrics by Spectrix. Designing fabric was never in my thoughts. One day a friend from a distributor called and asked if I would like to do fabric. I was 42, had just had brand new baby girl, just been put in Country Women and "ton's" of mail in the mailbox. We prayed about it and decided to go ahead. It was very hard at first because I didn't know how to paint ( I painted by cutting out stencils) or do fabric. I told the Lord I really needed to learn to paint and in a day I was painting. The fabric company worked along with us and it ended up being very interesting. We have gone to the mill two different times over the years. To watch your designs be put on fabric right before your eyes was just toooooo fun! Our name will be along the selvage edge with Peace Creek Collections by Linda Stubbs. Over the years our daughter Tressa has also done 3 designs.

We also have our own pattern company called Peace Creek Collections. Over the years with the economy, caring for my husbands dad, farming and the Estate, our business has slowed down . We are featured in Keepsake Quilting with our quiet books, so that has kept me busy. I just didn't have the time to design on a large scale. Now that we won't be farming in a big way and we have a blog I will be designing more. I get really excited about where the Lord wants to take us. We have some of our patterns up along the side in e-patterns and will soon be adding to them.

When we did the International Quilt Markets, meeting people was one of my most favorite experiences. The lives and stories of the people I met were wonderful. I never thought I would be a pattern designer or a fabric designer, but I enjoy both. It has given me the means to stay home with my children. I have 5 on earth and 2 in heaven. I also have 9 grandchildren that make my like fun! Please if there is anything I can do to help, let me know.

Blessings,
Linda

Still Time To Enter

Scroll down to June 1 post and leave a comment. You still have time to enter the giveaway!!!

Blessings,
Linda

"SEWING APRON DAY" And A Few Other Tidbits

SEWING APRONS FOR FARMER'S MARKET

Good Afternoon ,

Please everyone, you still have time to sign up for my drawing if you haven't already. : ) Last day is June 8th. It has been just delightful! All the nice comments being left have blessed my life.

Our family was out traveling a few weeks back and I just had to STOP at one of my favorite quilt stores in Salina Kansas, called The Quilting Bee. I found the most adorable pattern Lilly Apron. I thought this would be sooooo cute for my daughters and myself to wear when we

do Farmer's Market. I let the girls pick out their own fabric. From top red square (surprise?) is mine, bottom left is Tressa's and bottom right is Taylor's (hers is brown and green, even though it looks black). I will let you all see when the aprons are done.

I wrote Michelle, that owns Busy Bee Quilt Designs, to get permission to put her information up on my blog. You must go over and see what she has. Her website is so beautiful. You will enjoy looking, if you like quilts, cute bags and the Lilly Apron. I thought it was so funny that my chicken and tea towel was named Lilly.

This is my" Little Garden Girl" who keeps watch over the Prairie Flower Farm.

I am finally getting some other things finished around the farm, since we have most of the garden and trees planted. Now we just sit, pray and wait for the Lord to help everything grow. I already have tomatoes on the vines. The basil is doing well and we will be making up pesto real soon for our foccacia bread. mmmmmmmmm can't wait.

I hope you can see this little rake. I was just talking with my hubby the other day saying that I wish someone would design a little rake. I had forgotten that I had bought one that was just for decoration. Yes! I am using it now when I weed the peas. It works fantastic.

I wanted to see if these strips really work. If you have tried them let me know. I wasn't sure so I thought I would try. As you can see by the little lettuce it worked great. I think it was well worth the money. Just thought you might like to try it if you haven't I have two trays in with flowers and herbs. I let you know how they work. Enjoy all your gardening.

My baby ducks are getting huge. They wander around eating my grass and maybe bugs? I don't know for sure if they eat bugs. You can let me know. Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. If you have children or grandchildren the ducks need names. You can help them leave a comment. I think they are both girls. Thanks so much, it will be fun to see what names come through.

All Sewn Up Party and Prairie Flower Farm Giveaway!

We will giveaway the "Original Lilly & Her Chicks tea towel Party on June 8th JOIN UP!

Hello everyone!

Well, since I started my blog, I have wanted to have a giveaway............. sooooooo here goes. I was blog surfing again.......... and came to a fun blog called A Thread of Red. I signed up for her free giveaway. Go to it and say I sent you please. Then I went to another blog called The Last Piece. Just what I needed to get myself started on a give away. You will see by the blog that Sarah is soooooo excited and so are the rest of us! Read her May 1 post. If you want to enter into the free giveaway to SEWN click here.

I am going to enter into the party. If I had more time I would of been able to get some fabric together from fabric I designed, but due to time I had to do something else. Anyway I have decided to giveaway the "Original Lilly and Chick tea towel" that I designed and stitched for my blog free giveaway when we first started. You can get the free download if you want also.

To enter our giveaway you will need to leave a comment at the end of this post with your email address included. If you are an email subscriber or follower, you will be able to have a 2nd entry. The drawing will be held on June 8th. I will have the package ready. I think I will put in a cute little something besides. Blessings to you all who enter!

"Home Depot 100.00 Gift Card Giveaway"

Went to this really beautiful blog this morning and saw a free $100 gift card give away. Garden Chick would appreciate if everyone would get the information out. The contest runs from June 1 through June 21st. The post is Monday June 1. Wow if you could win how nice would that be? The blog is called Garden Chick - in My Garden click here

You will also have to look at her May 6 post on Create a Healing Garden. I loved the pic's and info. I will be posting tonight a chance to win the original Lilly and her Chicks tea towel. I will tell you all about it as soon as I can get the post done. I am really excited and have wanted to do this since I started the blog. Now it is going to happen. Keep watching...........

Blessings to your day!