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I haven’t celebrated Halloween in years. I was a very unoriginal and uncreative witch a couple of times as a kid (white face paint, black toga, black pointy hat, and my black leather school shoes) and I’ve gone around the neighborhood trick or treating maybe three times in my life… but that’s it. Halloween isn’t really a big deal for me unlike some people who celebrate it well past their childhood. I know Halloween is a huge event for others so here are a couple of treats (no tricks) for you.

First, are you on Twitter? Because I am. And I have a nice, Halloween-y Twitter background with smiling pumpkins and candy corn.

Want it? You got it.

Just right-click on the image above, save to your computer and in your Twitter settings, go to the Design tab and change your background image, pointing your browser to the image file you just saved. Be sure to turn on tiling.

Don’t have Twitter (what’s wrong with you)? No worries, you can also set the image above as your desktop background in your OS settings. Again, don’t forget to turn on tiling. Or you can download wallpaper fit for your screen resolution:

Sweet Tooth
Choose your resolution: 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960 | 1440 x 900 | 1600 x 1200

See mine?

I cleaned up my files and folders on my desktop just for this screen grab so you better go download. However if Halloween is not your thing, I have regular, non-holiday wallpapers over on my Downloads section and I’m looking to add more to those if time permits. In the meantime, happy Halloween!

Tags: candy, candy corn, corn, dark, download, free, freebie, halloween, october, orange, pumpkin, scary, spooky, squash, wallpaper
Posted in Blog on on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 1:45 am | 2 Comments »

Readers, we have a giveaway.

I am giving away a set of sushi stationery to 1 lucky person who leaves a comment on this particular post on Salad for Breakfast. Just read the full details and mechanics of the contest on that site and join away… Sarah of SFB will be using a random number generator to pick a winner but I might just pick out another consolation prize winner myself. Wink, wink!

This contest runs until July 9th and is open to EVERYONE. Goodluck!

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Also check out the Google Friend Connect widget thingee I installed on the right sidebar. What it does is it lets you “follow” my blog and receive new posts right on your Blogger dashboard/Google Reader when I update! That means you don’t have to come ’round this site to check for new posts (and find none). Instead, you’re updated a few minutes after I hit “publish” on this blog.

Please join as it’s really sad seeing only two followers (and I’m one of them, too). I just discovered there’s a small number of people already following my blog via Google Reader, though. I’m surprised. I thought I only had two visitors or something. Won’t you come out from lurking and introduce yourself? :)

Tags: contest, free, freebie, giveaway, notebooksetc, saladforbreakfast
Posted in Blog on on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 5:29 pm | 2 Comments »

I’ll admit it: I like doing giveaways because it drives traffic to my site. More traffic leads to more exposure which may lead to more sales. I checked the numbers for the last giveaway (the Irish Bear for St. Patrick’s Day) and the views and downloads were climbing for both the PDF pattern and the wallpapers. So here’s another couple of freebies just in time for Easter!

First up for the stitchy people– a free Easter bunny in a basket PDF embroidery pattern (or coloring page)!

Print this out and transfer onto your fabric by taping the page up to a brightly-lit window and tracing the outline with a fabric pen. You can also use transfer paper to transfer the illustration on to your fabric.

And let’s not leave out the crafty paper posse as I also have free printable Easter stationery sheets:

Free Easter stationery sheets – Click to download the PDF (5.3 MB)

This stationery page fits three sheets on a letter-sized page. Just print it out as many or as little pages as you need using your colored home printer and cut along the provided lines.

Both downloads are in .PDF format. You will need the free Adobe Reader to view these files.

With Easter just a few days away, these are perfect for those last-minute Easter shoppers who missed out on scouring their local shops for Easter goodies. They’re all here and they’re even free! Do keep in mind though that while these are free to download, they’re only for your personal use and by no means will they be used for commercial purposes. I still retain copyright to the artwork.

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Also check out the matching Easter goods you can get at the following Etsy shops:

Egg-citing Easter Print and Cut PDF Stationery Set – Click here to purchase on Etsy ($4.50)

Enjoy and Happy Easter!

Tags: Art & Illustration, bunny, chick, coloring, craft, crafting, cut, cute, download, easter, egg, embroider, embroidery, etsy, for sale, free, freebie, goodies, notebooksetc, page, pattern, PDF, print, printable, sew, sewing, sewitsforyou, stitch
Posted in Blog on on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 at 5:13 pm | 2 Comments »

I’ve made a few embroidery patterns for Sew It’s For You’s Etsy shop and we’ve decided to make a new pattern available for download just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. We don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day here in the Philippines so I had to ask Julie what the holiday involves. “St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday,” she said. “Loads of 4 leaf clovers, leprechauns, green beer, pots of gold, rainbows, drunk ass people…” O-kay, got it! I wasn’t sure I wanted to draw “drunk ass people” on something that might possibly be embroidered on baby burp cloths, so here’s an adorable, family-friendly St. Patrick’s Day PDF pattern for you, free! You can use it as an embroidery pattern or print it out as a coloring page for your kids (or yourself).

I like the little bear dude a lot (he’s a character I’ve been drawing since my college days– I will have to dig out my early 2002 sketches of him when he looked a lot different from today) so I colored him digitally and turned him into a nice wallpaper also free for download.

Click to download the image above as a desktop wallpaper at the following sizes:
1024 x 768
1280 x 800
1440 x 900

Enjoy!

Tags: bear, coloring page, cute, download, embroider, embroidery, free, freebie, holiday, ireland, irish, paddy's day, pattern, PDF, st. paddy's day, st. patrick's day, stitch, wallpaper
Posted in Blog on on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 4:24 pm | 5 Comments »