The Teacher's Pet

The A to Z - of Me!

Happy Monday everybody!  I thought I'd start the week off with a little fun stuff.  I saw this on a blog recently (sorry - can't remember where) - and loved it!  I thought it might be fun to post - and see who else will follow and post their "A to Z" as well!

A~ Age: 39 and holding.  Nuff said.

B~ Bed: Queen  - canonball poster

C~ Chore you hate: ummmm - does all of them count?

D~ Dog: Four!  Mia - German Shepherd, Maddie - German Shepherd, Ella Fitzgerald - Welsh Corgi and Abbie - Louisiana Catahoula

E~ Essential start to my day: Coffee - can't get my heart started without it!

F~ Favorite color: Buttercream

G~ Gold or silver: Gold

H~ Height: 5'-7".  I think I've shrunk.  I know for sure I used to be 5'-8" a few short years ago.

I~ Instruments I play:   piano.  With a grandfather who was a music professor (piano) at LSU - what else was there?

J~ Job Title: Chief cook and bottle washer, wife, Mom, pattern designer, fabric designer, Creative Grids ruler designer, author, zoo keeper

K~ Kids:   1 - and she's the best daughter a mother could ever have

L~ Live in: South Louisiana - home of the #1 LSU Tigers!!!

M~ Make of car: Toyota RAV.  Dreaming of a Sequoia

N~ Nicknames: none that I can share

O~ Overnight hospital stay.: Oh yes - - several.  Thank goodness none in the recent past

P~ Pet Peeve: don't get me started

Q~ Quote from a movie: After all, tomorrow is another day

R~ Right or left handed: Right

V~ Vegetable you hate:  brussel sprouts

 

W~ What makes you late? you mean besides myself?  Usually a phone call.

X~ X-rays:  oh yes, and MRI's and cat scans

Y- Yummy food that I make: Awesome chicken and sausage gumbo, crawfish etoufee, acorn squash lasagne, regular lasagne, chili and anything sweet

Z~ Zoo Animals: the tigers are my favorite, but they run a close race with the elephants.

 Your turn!!

 With a warm heart,

Kathy

 

S~ Siblings: Two brothers

T ~ T.V. Shows:   Revenge, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, Rizzoli and Isles, Criminal Minds and True Blood

U~ Underwear: t.m.i. 

thank you - thank you - thank you!!

Thanks to all of you who visited us on Cyber Monday and placed your orders.  Please know that we value and appreciate each and every one of you, and are working super hard to get your orders out the door and on their way to you!

Your emails have been so kind asking about what's coming up next here at The Teacher's Pet!  Well - we are furiously working on our several things - - our newest collection of fabrics that will show at Spring Market 2012 in Kansas City, the following collection of fabrics for Fall Market 2012 in Houston, new fat quarter patterns to support our Creative Grids Fat Quarter Ruler, not one but TWO new books for Martingale, coordinating our trunk shows, scheduling new engagements for 2012 and 2013 and a wazoo of other surprises that will be revealed in the near future.  Needless to say - we're full to the brim and having a wee bit of a hard time trying to juggle all the activity with the holiday activities - but we'll get there! 

So how's your holiday activities going?  Are you full to the brim too?  Inquiring minds want to know!!!

With a warm heart,

Kathy

Cyber Monday

First - a HUGE thank you to everyone that placed orders on Black Friday!   I've been puttin' the pedal to the metal all weekend getting these orders filled and ready to ship out tomorrow!  If a little luck stays with me - all will be done and out the door tomorrow morning!

And speaking of tomorrow - Cyber Monday is in play!

All orders placed tomorrow on Cyber Monday will get FREE SHIPPING - WOOHOO!!!! AND- a little lagniappe in your orders as our way of saying thanks!

So grab a cup of coffee, kick up your feet, and head on over to our website:

http://www.the-teachers-pet.com   for some fun shopping - internet style!!!

With a warm heart,

Kathy

Happy Thanksgiving part 2!

Today I am reminded that I am so, so thankful for so many things.  Here's just a few!

A wonderful husband that I'm fortunate to call my best friend for 34 years  - - -  the best daughter any mother could ever hope for in every way - - -   a "job" that I love where I'm able to release my creative spirit each and every day - - - treasured friends that keep me nurtured, grounded, and soothe my soul  - - - and my little zoo of treasured puppies and kitties here at home that keep me marveling at the miracle of God's creatures. 

Here's hoping that you and yours have a very blessed and loving Thanksgiving!

With a warm heart,

Kathy

 

Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday!

Sorry to be in absentia for so long - - but we've been absolutely swamped since returning home from Market and Festival!!  We've been scurrying around here like little mice trying to get everything done that needs to be done while filling orders as fast as we possibly can!!

We just wanted to take a moment to wish you and yours a happy and healthy Thanksgiving day, and hope yours is spent in harmony with friends and loved ones.  Don't forget - it's officially a calorie free day - so load up my friends and enjoy!

And as for Black Friday shopping?  Not for me - no way!!!  My boys are playin' -  LSU vs. Arkansas at 1:30 pm central time - now THAT'S the ticket!!!   But just in case you feel the need to do some shopping on our website on that day, all orders received between 12:00am and 11:59 pm on Friday the 25th will receive a 25% discount when their order is filled.  Just on that day - during those 24 hours!

We'll talk soon - -

Kathy

 

Annnnnd We're Off!

Almost off - that is.  We're leaving bright and early tomorrow morning for Fall Quilt Market and Festival.  It's going to be a long absence - 11 days - so I hope I have everything packed.  If not - oh well, I guess I can do without whatever it is!

While at Market, we'll be participating in Aurifil's first ever Quilt Market Booth Hop along with these fun folks:

Laundry Basket Quilts # 564
Blackbird Designs #369
Bigfork Bay Cotton Company # 1544
Chicago School of Fusing #1015
Jill Finley #139
Lunch Box Quilts #650
Gudrun Erla #1425
QuiltMania #644
Studio Kat #201
Perkins Drygoods # 1906
Me and My Sister Designs # 569
Sarah Fielke #948
Michell Marketing #1728
Crawford Designs #2024
The Teacher’s Pet #749
Gina Reddin #1065
Easy Peazy Quilts #1215
Outside the Line Designs #2060
Nancy Rink #1706

Yup - that's us right there - Booth 749!  Shops will obtain an Aurifil hop card and visit all the booths on the list, getting their card signed along the way. (Just one card per shop - please!) - and then drop their completed card off at the Aurifil booth #1356.    Each designer participating will be offering a prize - so there will be lots for folks to win.  I'll be offering a fat quarter bundle of our newest line for Red Rooster - "Abigail" which will be showing at market for the first time.  I'd love to show you the bundle here - but unfortunately (or fortunately??) it got packed - and before I could snap a pic.  BUT - I can show you the grand prize - - -

An Aurufil Suitcase!!!  I have one of these beauties - and believe me I couldn't live without it.  No matter what thread I need to match a fabric - I go to my suitcase and its there.  There will be one happy camper when their name is drawn for this prize!!!

We have LOTS of new patterns to debut this time - - some that I've already shown you.  Here's a sneak peek at what's to come - I'll be talking more about these in detail in the weeks to come (after returning and recovering from the trip, that is!)

Fat Quarter Four for the Crib

Fat Quarter Four for the Table

Take 5's Totally Awesome Tote (made with my Abigail fabric)

Take 5 Deserves an Even Break (small above and large below(made with Abigail) versions)

Fiddlesticks (made with Abigail fabrics) and last but not least - -

The Sweet and Sassy Gift Sack!!!

All of these patterns were made with the assistance of this (ahem!!) AWESOME ruler:

The Creative Grids Fat Quarter Cutter Ruler - designed by little ole me!  I'll be demo-ing this fun, fun ruler in the Checker Distributors/ / Creative Grids booth at 11:00am on Saturday and Sunday.  Hope to see lots of shops there!

Time to go - heading out to pick up the rental van and shove  pack it with as much as I can get in there!

Leave us a comment over the next 11 days while we're gone - and we'll choose a winner for a set of the new patterns!  Just tell us which one you would make first - and why - and we'll send a set to one lucky winner!

Till then - with a warm heart,

Kathy

 

 

 

 

 

Come Be Our Guest

Since I'm a guest too at Madam Samms today - let's go take a look:

http://www.sewwequilt.com/2011/10/53-guest-kathy-brown-teachers-pet.html

You just might win 8 yards of my current collection "Emma Grace".  Yep - you readd it right - 8 yards!!!

With a warm heart!

Kathy

 

Happy - Part Deaux!

Or Part 2 for those of you who don't speak (read) Cajun!   Here in Louisiana - we "change" the spelling of a LOT of words to fit our states' French heritage.  For example - when we write GO TIGERS!!! for LSU - 99% of the time it's written as GEAUX Tigers!!!  At Christmas - many "Ho-Ho-Ho's" are written as Heaux-Heaux-Heaux!!!

Anyway - tomorrow is a big day here in big Baton Rouge!  My boys:

 
my #1 ranked LSU Tigers are playing the Kentucky Wildcats in a big SEC game in Tiger Stadium - otherwise known as Death Valley!

 
The game will be televised tomorrow at 11:30 - so I'm looking forward to an awesome weekend again!  LSU football + working with this GORGEOUS group of fabrics:

 

 

 
 (I'm still not believin' that these are mine!!!) + a cool front that came through today (weekend highs in the upper 70's and lows in the 50's) - - well I'm just about sure that my weekend can't get any better or happier than that!!!

Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE these guys and the "work" I do?  I'm one very fortunate gal!!! 

Hope your weekend is looking as good as mine!

With a warm heart,

Kathy

 

 

Happy! Really, Really Happy!!!

Ya know - there's an awful lot of things in this world that can make a person happy.  Really happy.  Really, really happy.  Sometimes all you have to do is look at something and it makes you happy.  So I did.  And it did.  And so I decided to play.  With this: (please ignore inept photographer skills!)

 
And to think it's all because of this ray of happiness and sunshine!

Hope you're having a happy day!

With a warm heart,

Kathy

Winners - Winners - Gator Dinners!!!

We've come to the end of an exciting week here at The Teacher's Pet homefront.   There's been LOTS of sewing with this:

 
(I still can't believe this is mine!!!!)

 

A whole LOT of this going on:

 
and a thousand little tasks completed as we try to gear up for fall market.  In between all of those things - we had fun with YOU! 

Sharing our new patterns and exciting debut of our ruler has been a blast - and since it's Friday - we're ready to announce the winners of these lovely little gems!  So - without further adieu:

The winner of the Fat Quarter Cutter ruler is:  Mary Ann who said:

The color coded lines...a wonderful idea! Its so frustrating to make mistakes while cutting and its always the fabric you are trying to eck out the final few pieces. Thank you for the give away.  

The winner of the Flip Flop Mops pattern is:  Gretchen who said:

Definitely *need* this ruler. I love precuts and love making quilts from charm squares & jelly rolls.

The winner of the Press 'n Go pattern is:  Joann H. who said:

The markings on this ruler look great. Sometimes I find it confusing because there are too many lines and markings, but this is very clear. I especially like the "color-coded" markings! Great job and THANK YOU!

The winner of the Check It Out pattern is:  Auntie Pami who said:

Love the gingham!

The winner of the Bali Breeze Table Runner pattern is:  Kay Mc. who said:

Your new ruler looks great & I will be sure to look for it. I also like your oh so clever patterns.

The winner of the Sunflower Pincushion pattern is: Leslie Schmidt who said:

That looks like a very versatile ruler, and Creative Grids are excellent! Congratulations on becoming part of the team. The gingham quilts are so cute! I think they would be fun to make. And your flip flop mop is a great idea. Does it come in jumbo sizes to fit my feet? 

And the winner of the Frost Bite pattern is: Pam who said:

Fantastic! I am a collector of rulers old and new. This is going to be FUN!! Pam in Chico

YAY!!  Congrats to all the winners!!!  If y'all will send me your shipping info - I will get these patterns and ruler out to ya right away! And don't worry - no 'gators included!

 

In other exciting news, I got word from a  very special friend yesterday that a very special package is headed my way tout de suite!  I'm so honored to be one of the folks who will get to play with some of this gorgeousness:

 
Just imagine - getting to work with my very own fabric from such special folks and then getting to work with fabrics from one of my besties as I prepare for market - - - along with getting to watch my boys

 
put the hurt on West Virginia tomorrow night, well, it just doesn't get much better than this!!!

Hope your weekend plans are looking just as good! 

With a warm heart,

Kathy