Wow, is it Tuesday already?
I've been working sooo much (during Market season, sleeping doesn't seem to be a priority anymore!), and I'll let you guys take a little look at our work in progress here at Art Gallery Fabrics very very soon…
But first things first!
It's Giveaway Tuesday, and you know what that means, right? New winners and new prizes to be announced, right about… NOW!
The lucky winner of the QUILT FABRIC KIT from my Belle Epoque collection is…
Congratulations, Vicky!! You're this week's 1st prize winner!!
Sharing the podium with Vicky, is 2nd prize winner…
Karen, congratulations! You now own a ASSORTED FABRIC BUNDLE, hope you have fun with it!
Please get in contact with me so we can arrange the shipment.
And THANK YOU all very much for participating… and don't give up! You all have a chance to become next Giveaway Tuesday's winner! And what will you be getting?
One ready-made Travel Set, including a laundry bag, a shoe bag (that can fit up to 2 pair of shoes) and a stylish tri-fold lingerie bag with many roomy pockets for all your intimates!
2nd and 3rd winners will both get one Travel Set Sewing Pattern, which will explain in detail how to make the three bags… so now there's no excuse to have a messy suitcase!
To enter, leave a comment telling me the most ridiculous, hilarious anecdote that ever happened to you while on a trip!
Can't wait to hear all your crazy stories, and good luck to you all!
Back to work now!
Love,
Pat.
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22 responses to “Giveaway Tuesday!”
We were traveling over the Smokey Mountains one summer and stopped to take in the gorgeous view. We all hopped out of the car and closed the doors. Unfortunately the doors all locked and we had left the key in the ignition! It was very COLD on the top of that mountain. The children and I hovered together to stay warm. The window was cracked open, but try as he could, my hubby could not open the car. Another car stopped and there was a small girl with them. The little girl was able to reach her hand through the small open window and touch the locks. It was a funny thing to happen and a sweet memory for our family. But it also taught me to make sure someone always has another set of keys ;-)
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I am so excited to win the fabric bundle! Thank you so much!
Karen
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Funny traveling story (at least now it’s funny). I was traveling with a group from Las Vegas to Tahoe for a darts tournement. We were about half way to Tahoe and stopped for breakfast.
Note to self… if you’re going to smack the bottom of the ketchup bottle to get it to flow, 1) make sure the top is on, or 2) point it at the plate even if the lid is on. I didn’t check the lid and it flew off and Ketchup shot out, landing in the ear of the very nice young man I was traveling with… just as a car backfired outside.
The whole table of people FROZE… and one by one started snickering and giggling. The giggles rose to full on belly laughs. I was petrified, mortified, and wishing I could close my eyes and vanish. The guy sat very still and silent. To my great relief he started chuckling. He didn’t get mad and I DIDN’T have to walk all the way back home.
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You can’t buy them in the US (hazard from the toy hidden inside??), but my husband fondly remembers eating Kinder eggs when he was younger, growing up in Germany. So when the opportunity presented itself a few years ago, he went a little hog wild in a German grocery store and bought approximately 40 Kinder eggs to take as souvenirs. These were packed into a plastic storage box and carried with extreme sensitivity with us back to the US. Needless to say, the copious quantities of chocolate eggs aroused the suspicions of the USDA inspectors when we went through Customs on our way back. The inspector, thinking we meant to sell said eggs, asks my hubs what he’s planning to do with the eggs, to which his cheeky 25-year-old self replied back “eat them, of course.” And then the matter was settled, the inspector could read the sincerity on his face! :) Still makes me laugh to think about it!
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i cant think about any thing hilarious right now but i can tell you about this great family trip we had on saterday over a year ago: we pland to meat with our frinds around the area they live in. and since it was spring they told us to bring bathing sutes. we thought that they are planning to wash in some small stream river and we realy wernt in the mode for that..
so when we got there we saw peradise! i huge deep river with the most beautiful vew! i couldnt belive how wrong i was and what i was missing since i had no bathing sute…
but i went in with my clothes on. i was still skinny at the time, just 3 monthes pregnant…
now i couldnt do that becues of all the extra weight i gaind this last pregnancy… the things we go throgh for our children…
thanks!
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My friend and I used to live at the Grand Canyon in AZ. We took a weekend trip to Las Vegas, and it was a great time. Apparently so great that we were late getting back to the airport for our return flight, so we ended up having to take a bus back. The bus ride was, shall we say, interesting? We’ll never miss a flight again after that experience!
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When I was a kid we were in a country where nothing was written in English and we barely understand anything. So while we’re at the train station running to catch the train about to pull out of the station, I kept trying to get my dad’s attention to tell him something really important but he wouldn’t listen. He finally realized what I was saying after he had loaded my sister’s, my mom’s, his and my luggage and himself unto the train and the doors shut. So I laughed as we waved goodbye to him traveling out of the station on the wrong train. Luckily it was a local train and he got off at the next stop, carrying all of the luggage over the pedestrian bridge to the other side of the tracks and back on the next train. Needless to say we missed our real train and had to wait 4 more hours for the next one to come.
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We live in Canada, and every couple of months my very kind husband drives me on a Joanns run to Niagara Falls. Last year when we hit the border they asked us, as they usually do, why we’re visiting the States. I replied jokingly, “My husband is dragging me to a quilt store AGAINST MY WILL!”. The look on hubby’s face was priceless, and I wanted to crawl into a hole! Fortunately the border guard laughed and waved us through :) Hubby has requested I not use that line again at the crossing, and I promised I wouldn’t :D
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One early Monday morning coming down the mountains in Flagstaff, Az in my VW bug with my 2 children asleep, I ran into an Elk that was standing in the middle of a dark road. I swearved to miss it but just clipped him with the right front fender. Needless to say he dented by fender and took the turnsignal light on top of the fender with him. When I think back about the early morning I wonder if the elk still has the turn signal blinking in his behind! lol
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Thankfully, our vacations tend to go smoothly. For me, the “worst” vacation moment was when I was 10 years old and started my period while visiting family on the East Coast. So embarrassing for me to tell my aunt I’d made a mess in her bed and to realize I was now a woman! Thanks for the giveaway. These are lovely!
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Funny and adorable, but very, very true story. I was waiting at Adelaide airport (Australia) for my flight home to Perth (Australia), and two young children – maybe four years old or so – were chasing each other around the block of chairs I was sitting on, giggling hysterically in the way only a pre-schooler can, and it was entirely contagious. The mother of the young girl stopped her, and asked her what her new friend’s name was, so she turned and asked him. He stopped, turned to his own mother and asked, “Mummy, what’s my name?” A dozen people nearby roared with laughter – it made my (rather distressing) flight, and my day. It was more than 15 years ago, but I still remember it to this day :)
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Last summer on a family trip out west to Banff the strangest thing happened to our 11 year old daughter… she was sick and when the guys were off touring, the girls stayed behind in the hotels. There were at least 5 or 6 days with her being sick at the end of our vacation and all I can say is that she was not only car sick but mostly home sick!! No sooner were we home, when she made a miraculous recovery!
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Wow! I just found your blog via Craft Gossip! So glad I’m here. Several years ago I traveled to Tijuana. First time on the West Coast so I just had to get Postcards to send home. I won’t say I’m bilingual but I can usually carry on a Spanish/English conversation. I decided(while having a blonde moment) that I’d ride the public bus…I’m not sure the taxi drivers really have driver license! I told the driver I wanted the bus to the Post Office. Shackng his head yes he understood my request, he directed me to the next bus. Now, if you’ve never been on a public bus in Tijuana it is a true experience…following me on to the bus was a Mariachi Band…So, as we pulled off they started up. Wow, entertainment as you traveled around town, how cool. I suddenly notice we were leaving town heading for the hills. Rather nervous, I asked the teenager next to me where were we going and she stated, “Postal”. Thank goodness she spoke english. I asked her if the Post Office was out side of the city and she just started laughing. She explained that Postal was alittle village just outside of the city limits. Not the Post Office. Which in spanish is called the el correo. Oh was I a wreck. She had the driver stop, and put me on a bus returning to town carrying a note to give to the next driver. I felt like a true tourest!
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My best travel story I don’t even remember. We were moving across country (I was about 2), and visiting the Grand Canyon. I tripped and fell (nowhere near the edge–don’t think my parents trusted me enough to walk there) and busted my lip. I was inconsolable until someone offered me a cherry popsicle. Ice and red coloring to hide my blood from me? Worked a charm.
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Flying back from Ireland over 8 months pregnant, on the last day Aer Lingus would let me fly (only w/ medical records & a note from my doctor), the flight attendants were VERY solicitous – they were so afraid I’d have the baby during the flight!
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I don’t get to travel much, but had an unforgetable experience going to Mount Ophir in Malaysia for a mountain climbing trip. I’m not a sporty person nor too fit in stamina, going up and down the mountain was sure a big challenge. The guys had to “pull” me up the mountain, and on the way down, they literally hold my backpack on my back to prevent me from accidentally rolling down!
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I went to a day on the Hill in MN with 5 other people and we had to stay in a hotel for a night. We had double occupancy to our rooms. When my roommate and I went to go to our room we took the elevator. Half way up the lift stopped. We had to wait 45 minuets to get out. When we got to our room we had 15 minuets to meet the rest of our group. We refreshed ourselves and went to leave and the door handle came off in my hand. We had to wait another 20 minuets for the handyman to let us out. The hotel put us up in another room and by that time we were so tired we just ordered room service in the house and went to bed.
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When I was 16, my family and I traveled to Ireland. The group consisted of my mother, father, two sisters, and myself; apparently it was suspicious for my dad to be traveling with a group of girls, because he was stopped and searched by airport security at EVERY airport (and we went through several). It’s funnier to hear him tell the story, because he just couldn’t believe that he had to empty his bag at each security checkpoint. His carry-on bag was a giant mess for the entire trip! We still laugh about it.
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Traveling with my daughter on the bus for 9 hours from Nevada to Utah, we were about 6 hours in the trip and she had been talking constantly. I tried to sleep, but she kept waking me up. She asked “Are we there yet.” The passengers all started laughing and she said, “Why are they laughing at me?” and started crying because she didn’t like them laughing at her. I explained that they weren’t laughing at her, but about the comment she made. ARE WE THERE YET.
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For many years I’ve taken the train back and forth across country. On one of my first trips, I remember my family accompanying me to the platform with my father and brother-in-law walking after me into the train carrying my luggage. Meanwhile on the platform my mother, grandmother, sister and baby nephew stood waving and smiling at me. Those smiles soon faded and I realized the train was moving forward with me and my very surprised Dad and brother-in-law on board. The conductor wasn’t very happy and told them they’d have to ride to the next stop (45 minutes away) and then take the return trip back to the platform. AND of course my dad had the car keys, so that meant my family left back at the station platform had to wait it out. Opps!
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I was 10 and my older sister and 2 younger brothers and mom and dad were going to Disney Land. The vacation didn’t start off well when we got about an hour from our house and had to stop for one of my brothers to use the bathroom- dad locked the keys in the car and we had to wait 2 hours to get the locksmith out there to get the keys out. Our trip seemed to go as normally as it could have after that until we got to California. We had a station wagon and it had a seat in the very back that faced backwards instead of to the front{anytime you sat back there you got sick} We had a great time at Disney Land, on our way back to the hotel I saw the luggage rack that was ontop of the car go flying down the highway. I yelled that our luggage rack was flying down the highway causing sparks to come up from the rack and they didn’t believe me. Well finally my mom turned around and said that she could see it! My dad then flipped the car in reverse and started going backwards down the freeway well I was no longer facing backwards as all of the traffic was coming at me!! My dad pulled over to the side of the road where the luggage rack had stopped ran accross the highway and got it and shoved it in to the back with me. It was the craziest trip I had ever been on. After that we started calling ourselves the Grizwolds;} At least we can laugh about it now;}
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Not a anecdote, but a vacation joke: There are always fortune-tellers at the seaside. Two of them one sunny summer day: ‘Lovely weather,’ said the first fortune-teller. ‘Yes,’ said the second. ‘It reminds me of the summer of 2012.’ ;)
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