Simply Handmade Magazine Submissions + THE News!

 
It's that time again! The submission categories have been posted for the next issue of Simply Handmade Magazine! We are now accepting submissions for the September/October 2011 issue and the deadline is 11:59PM MST on March 25th. Here are the seven categories we're looking for this time:

Back to School - Organization projects to keep papers straight, ways to display children's artwork or A+ tests, frames for school pics, lunchtime love notes, or anything else school-related.

Beautiful Basics: Burlap - This versatile material is popping up in all kinds of home decor and other craft projects. What have you made with it?

Fabulous Florals - Whether they're stamped, printed on a transparency or paper, or part of your favorite fabric print, show us what you've made using floral designs.

Halloween Fun/Decor - Devilish decorations, spooky sweet containers, frightening party favors - all the ghoulish and ghostly things you craft by hand during the scariest time of the year.

On the Wall - Painted canvases, DIY frames, quilted wall art, shadowboxes, embroidered designs- anything and everything cool that you might hang on your wall.

Punches - We're looking for great projects that use that standby - the punch. Old or new, shapes or borders... we'll even count decorative scissors! And don't forget about what you can do with plain old hole punches. Get creative and use them as a mask, or repeat punched shapes for a stellar design.

Sparkle & Shine - Anything with glitter, metallic paint, shimmery mist, etc.

The Boutique - Have you made something absolutely adorable, but it doesn't fit our current calls? Send it anyway, we're always happy to see all kinds of fabulous creations!

As always, please send each submission in a seperate email to creations@northridgepublishing.com.

Remember, only submit projects that you'll be able to send in to be photographed, should your work be chosen for publication. They will be sent back to you, of course!

Be sure to include a photo of your project and your contact information in your submission email – name, address, phone number and email address – as well as a complete list of the supplies you used to make the item. For example:

Happy Birthday Card
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
Patterned paper: Chatterbox
Decorative brads: Making Memories
Ribbon: SEI

If we choose your creation for publication in an upcoming issue, we’ll send you an email requesting that you mail it in for us to photograph.

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Gosh, I know I haven't updated my blog much recently. When I do, usually it is to showcase someone else's handmade creation that I have bookmarked in my Etsy favorites. I used to post pictures of projects I created and updates about current events at the Gates house: photos from places we go, etc. I'd like to get back into doing that again, especially now, since I showcase the work of others each day at my new blog, http://ChicYourWeek.com.

If you haven't yet visited Chic Your Week, I invite you to! I have had the concept in my head for quite some time: I post one chic photo at 8am EST, seven days a week. There aren't any words or even blog post titles for that matter...just something pretty to look at each morning. I've bookmarked literally over a thousand images over the past year and it is time I bring them out of their file and into the blogosphere!

Now, Chic Your Week is news, but it's not the news.  Sometimes I post about things we do as a family or tweet about funny things our son has said (http://twitter.com/delaneygates), and I don't want y'all to wonder who in the heck I'm talking about when I start doing the same for another little one at the Gates house in a couple of months! That's right, we're expecting a little girl!! Priscilla Renee will be here sometime around April 10th! After years and years of Nerf gun fights, G.I. Joe figures and spy gear, I will have a little girl to have tea parties with, play Barbies with, and buy pink ruffled clothes for! (Me? Excited? Nah...) ;)

So, right now, I'm VERY pregnant- 29 weeks and one day to be exact. My stomach is HUGE and I'm still not used to sleeping on my side, but all in all, it's been a really easy pregnancy, thank goodness. (Except for the first couple months; the morning sickness was much worse this time than with Connor.) Thankfully, the time has flown by! I can't believe I'm already over two thirds of the way through. Priscilla will be here before we know it! In fact, we put together the bassinet over the weekend. (Actually, Jason put it together and I added the ruffled cover and the baskets underneath. Lol.)

I've been keeping my creative side busy with the Army quilt I'm hand-stitching and projects here and there for Simply Handmade. In the very near future, I'm going to take a photo of each of Priscilla's outfits, so I can make matching bows for them. Anyone know the secret for staying creative while exhausted? If you do, please be sure to share it with me in a couple months.

Well, now you know the latest! :)

~Delaney

 

Comments

[Amy Noorda]

Congratulations Delaney! That is so exciting! Love her name too. Adorable.

[Sherry Williams]

Hi Delaney. No wonder you are not blogging...business, babies...
I am so happy for you. Congratulations to you and your family. I hope you have wonderful days of rest and craftiness and good family time until you welcome your sweet baby girl.
lovely name you've chosen too. :)
sherry w. in md