McVal's Acceptance Speech for the SITSday Oscar: Thank you! Oh! Thank you! I can hardly breathe! I feel so lucky! And this statue - it's so heavy! Oh, thank you again! I just want everyone to know that even in my wildest dreams, I never would have fantasized that this could ever validate my mediocrity.
And to the other brilliant nominees, I want each of you to know how totally wonderful your comments make me feel right now! You know when they first told me I was nominated, I just had to take a minute and laugh about how generous my fans have been. I guess it all just makes me feel kinda humbled.
You know, there are so many stalkers to thank! First off though, I want to thank the wonderful ladies of the SITS Academy, who looked deep within their email inbox before giving me this fantastic award! Also, I want to thank God, for being such a powerful force in my life. And to Mom & Dad, who taught me to look in the ordinary and find the extraordinary! And finally, to my crazy kids and husband - I couldn't have done it without you and your antics that give me blog fodder every single day!!!
Thank you America, and good night!
Ok - ok - this WOULD have been my speech if I was at the Academy... Oh - and apparently it can be yours too! I found a brilliant award acceptance speech generator that is kind of like a Mad Lib... Check it out HERE. Some of the options they give you are kind of weird... so please edit...
For those of you that don't know me and don't know why you're here... I'm a wife, mother of 3 teens, keeper of 3 dogs, 3 hedgehogs, any candy and telecommuting computer programmer who loves to sew my spare time. My kids are slowly draining my sanity and are enjoying it. Our dogs are quickly draining my sanity and enjoying it. The hedgehogs.. well - they just smell.
The wonderful ladies over at SITS (The Secret Is In The Sauce) are fabulous! They have built a supporting group of followers that are trained to leave comments wherever they see a SITS button! Go check them out! LOVE YOU SITS GALS! and they are featuring me today!So to help you get to know me... Here are the supporting cast of this family...
Me My honey! My son... My daughter My other daughter
Our dogs Sorsha Duke Ellie
My sewing projects Tons Tons and more tons. Some made it into giveaways!
Feel free to browse around and get to know me better! Thanks so much for making my day so special!
Have a wonderful day!
Val
196 comments:
YAY!! Enjoy your day!
Congrats on your SITS day!
Happy Happy SITS day!!!
Congrats on your special day! I am off to read some posts.
Happy, Happy SITS day. I enjoyed your first date story! LOL.
Congrats on your SITS day! Enjoy :)
So impressed by your skills! And hedgehogs, really? LOL
Enjoy your SITS day!
Congratulations on your SITS Day.
Love your sewing blog...I'm a Sew-SITSta, too...
Happy SITS Day! I wish I could sew
Congratulations on your SITS Day!
I love how you describe everyone in your family as draining your sanity and enjoying it... and then say the hedgehogs just smell, that made me giggle! :)
Congrats to you on your SITS DAY!!! I really enjoyed reading your post...lol Have a Gr8 Day!!
Came from SITS to say congrats
Happy SITS day! I love a good sewing blog! Enjoy your award!
Happy SITS Day and Happy St. Patrick's Day. It must be difficult to choose an appropriate color for today's drinks. Pink or Green? Choices, choices. Enjoy your day and all the wonderful comments.
Hanneke
I love seeing when bloggers I've already "met" get their SITS days-- it's a rite of passage, it seems!
With regards to your previous post, I'm interested to see how your daughters' Easter dresses turn out!
~Elizabeth
Confessions From A Working Mom
Happy SITS Day!! :)
Congrats on your SITS day girl! Oh enjoy it, you will get so much love! Sewing?!? Oh I WISH I could! It's something I swore I'd learn one day and break down, get a machine and do something fun.
But...so far no sew. Pfft. Hedgehogs?! Awesome!!!! xx
Happy SITS day. I wish I could sew. Learnt at school but i've slowly forgotten. I'll be taking a good look around.
That's a lot on your plate. I just have one husband, one daughter 2 dogs and 2 cats and I am exhausted.
Congratulations on your SITS day
Yea! So glad to see that you are having your day in the spotlight! Enjoy it!
Congrats on your moment!
Yay! Happy SITS Day! Enjoy your day. :-)
Congratulations on coming to the head of the line. Have a wonderful day!
Lovely speech. It really shows how much you practiced ;)
Hope you're enjoying your "day in the sun" so to speak :o) I'm enjoying your blog... which is really something seeing as I'm not a sew-er (seriously, buttons confound me)
Have a great day!
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http://lifeforward.onsugar.com
Congratulations!... Love the music... Looking forward to following your blog... just this week I borrowed a friends sewing machine so I could sew into my mixed media art... haven't sewn since I was about 12.
Enjoy your day
http://thecookinglady.com
Happy SITS day!!! I hope you enjoy your day! Your dog is adorable..lol
Congratulations!
congrats on your SITS day :D
congrats!!!! i love sewing but am not nearly as good! lookingforward to seeing more of your stuff!!
Julia
www.workwifemomlife.com
Congrats on your sits day!!! YAYY!
Congrats on your SITS day! Nice blog!
Happy SITS day!!
Congratulations on your SITS day. Loved the acceptance speech!
Congratulations on your SITs feature!! I hope you enjoy your day in the sun:-)
In my head you are saying this while crying with your elbow length gloves and a hairsprayed into submission updo. Anyway...HAPPY SITS DAY!!!
Hey,
I'm already a follower of yours and it's sew cool that the SITS girls decided to choose a sewing blogger to feature! Maybe it's because you have an Irish Word of the Day widget in your sidebar, oh and your great kids and dogs and funny posts! Congrats on your day in the sun!
Anna
Good morning and aren't you talented! I love to sew, too, but I don't have your sill, lol.
Congrats on being featured!
Happy SITS Day to you!!
I wish I knew how to sew.
Congrats on your SITS day! And it's always good to learn there are other moms equally crazy as I am. Though I don't have 3 hedgehogs, you may have me beat there.
Happy SITS day. Also, anyone who thanks their stalkers and talks hedgehogs is OK by me!
Congrats on your SITS day!!
Happy SITS day!!!
I'm loving your blog! I try to be crafty... doesn't always work though LOL :)
Congrats on your SITS day!! Enjoy!
P.S. I can't even sew a button on :(
Congrats! Stop by my blog and say hello too. All the best! Jenn
Happy St. Patrick's Day! And Happy SITS Day! Hope your day in the sun is a wonderful one!
Cngratulations on your SITS day! :)
I totally already knew about your blog though ;)
I feel so special for already knowing about you!
Enjoy your day!
Happy SITS Day. enjoy.
I just left a comment and it's gone! Oh, why am I blogging before having my coffee?! I know it's going to appear right after I post this 2nd comment and everyone will think I've lost my mind.
Congratulations!
I don't sew. I staple or simply go around with the hems of my pants dragging on the floor (Solution that's easier and more fun than sewing? Buy taller shoes)
I also make Sexy Nerd do my sewing for me...usually he refuses though.
LambAround
Congratulations on your SITS day! i love to sew also, but something else always gets in the way! have 3 quilts and other projects trying to finish this year.
Happy SITS day!
happy sits day!! keep on sewing! anne
Congrats on being featured! I'm looking forward to browsing through some of your sewing projects later this evening (post work day). My mom is going to teach me how to sew soon, so I'm looking for fun things to add to my to-sew list!!
sew nice to meet you!! i have no clue how to sew. I think my mom tried to teach me but I couldn't even learn how to crochet or knit so I think I am a hopeless case!
Happy SITS day! Who says IT folks are not creative? Sewing is an art form.
Have a great week!
Heidi
We do owe all of our success to the kids and dads that give us blog fodder!
Happy SITS Day and Saint Patty's Day!!
Love the music on your site, it just TOTALLY perked me up. That is so what i am missing at my desk at work!!
Sadie at heyMamas
Hahaha, love the speech! Congrats on being the FB today! Enjoy your time in the spotlight!
Happy Sits day & st pattys day. I wish you could teach me how to sew.....
Happy SITS day! I love that you have hedgehogs as pets. That is soooo cool! Great speech, BTW!
Congratulations on being SITSta of the day! I love sewing and wish more people would do it then we might not have little girls dressed like hoochies because McCalls & Simplicity would make some age-appropriate patterns and...sorry, off the soapbox and onto to perusing your blog. Congrats again!
Happy sits day!
Happy SITS day! It's nice to have a sewing blog featured (I don't have one, but do lots of it non the less.
Beautiful! I'm a life-long sewer, couldn't be without my sewing machine.
Happy SITS Day, and keep up the great work!
Your kids are gorgeous, btw!
Bonjour McVal,
Its "SEW" cool to meet you! You know what they say about parenting: its a sentence with no parole. My kids are older too. Well, I hope you enjoy your day!
Best regards,
Anne-Marie
Congratulations. That speech is hilarious. Way to be creative about your award. Congrats!
~Kathryn
Happy SITS day!! Going to go browse around :)
Sounds like you have a busy house to take care of. I hope you enjoy your special SITS Day!
Hope your SITS day is all you hoped it would be! I just left a comment on your post about Branson. Hope it helps. Love the blog and wish I could sew! I have all boys, though, and I'm not sure WHAT I would sew, but I still wish I could! Have a great day!
happy sits day! enjoy your special day!!!
Happy SITS Day! Loved the acceptance speech!
Grats on your SITS day! My kids have asked for hedgehogs-I'm leery though. I'm impressed with your sewing! I crochet, but sewing is not for me!
Congrats to you on your SITS day!!! Love your site. Btw, we have the Rock em Sock em game here too... wasn't that game invented when we were kids?? Great idea to have an emergency stash. I'm going to do that! Have a great day!
Cheers & Happy St.Pats Day,
Steph at www.southernmomentum.com
Happy SITS day! You are an amazing sewer! I'm always curious if people who possess your talent want to be on Project Runway. :) Hope you have a wonderful SITS day.
Happy SITS day!!!!
Congrats on your special day! I really like your blog.
Happy ST. Patty's Day! And Happy SITS day!!
Look forward to reading a few more of your posts.
Congrats on your SITS day! I wish I could sew!
Congrats on your SITS day!
Happy SITS day! I am just now learning to sew and blogged about my first project just yesterday! I'm now a follower!
http://www.callmelaurajane.com
Yay! Happy SITS day to you! I wish I could sew...the only thing I can really sew good is a...button...lol...love the blog...
Congratulations on your SITS day!
I envy your talent -- my Mom also made my clothes when I was little and, unfortunately, I never had the intestinal fortitude to learn her skills.
Your daughters will one day, if they don't already, know how blessed they were to have such a hands-on Mom.
Enjoy your day!
Peace and serenity,
~Jo
'The End Of The Rainbow: Life After Bankruptcy'
Congrats on your SITS day, I can't sew to save my life but I am an advanced knitter. I love doggies as well and just took an Essential Oils for Animals class that I will be posting on in the next week or so.
Congrats! Love the speech! I can't wait to look around your blog and check out your projects. I've always wanted to be able to sew well and just never had the time to work on it. Maybe when I retire?
Jennifer
http://giveawaysforyou.blogspot.com
Happy SITS Day! What a cool blog! Nice to meet you!
Outrageous joy,
Kathy over at Everyday Bliss
happy SITS day! i've been wanting to learn to sew...i think you've inspired me :)
Hello, nice to meet you! Happy SITS Day!
Happy SITS Day!
Great introduction - possibly one of the best I've ever read! So much fun!
Congrats on your big day! Loved your intro!!
Happy SITS day. It was nice meeting you... the speech was a fun idea!
Happy SITS day! peeking around to get to know you! :)
Congrats on your SITS day! I'm a new reader. And I am so jealous you have hedgehogs!!!
You can find me at www.lifeinourshoes.com
Stopping by from SITS
Love your sewing projects!
Have a great St. Patrick's Day
Happy SITS Day! I love your speech, it's hilarious! I'm off to poke around your awesome blog a bit more...
http://poppingbubbles.net
Enjoy your SITS day! :)
Love your acceptance speech! Happy SITS!
Enjoy your day...and your dogs are so adorable. I used to have a Basset and still think they are one of the sweetest breeds around (stubborn and mischievous, but sweet).
Congrats on your SITS day!
Happy SITS day! I've just started sewing myself, so I will have to check back and see what you're up to!
(And that's ok that your blog isn't ALL about sewing...we have lives, right?!)
Happy SITS day!
Happy ST. Patrick's Day!
Likey the festive green background!
Congrats on your SITS day!
Congratulations on your SITS day!!
Happy SITs Day! Very cute hat you made. I just started sewing last year and have never made something like that. Impressed! Wish I had won it!
LOL!!! I love your speech! Congrats on your day!
Sheesh, took me forever to get down to the bottom to comment!! LOL Happy SITS day!
Congrats on your SITS day!! Hope you have a great one!
HAPPY SITS DAY!!! xoxo
Happy SITS day. I love to sew quilts, but have little time these days. Perhaps your blog will inspire me to take it up again. :)
Congratulations on your special SITS day!
Yeah Congrats on your SITS Day!!! I enjoyed reading your blog and i'm now following!
Brooke :)
He he he Love the speech! That's awesome! Happy SITS day! It's the best day EVER! Off to read your posts!
Kerri
www.sickofmg.blogspot.com
Happy SITS day! Lucky you!
I am sew :-0 happy SITS sent me by. Enjoy your day today. Pop over for a visit sometime!
- Cougs @ www.cougar-tales.blogspot.com
I admire anyone who can sew. I completely lack that skill :)
Happy SITS day to you :)
Your acceptance speech cracked me up! Congrats on being the featured blogger today! I enjoyed taking a look around. Your dogs are so cute!
Happy SITS day and congratulations on your wonderful achievement! Wishing you many more to come.
CONGRATS on your SITS day!
I would love to see photos of your hedgehogs. And/or a story in the future, very interesting!
I like your crafts, your pillowcases are lovely.
Tanya @ thelocal.com.br
Look at you, girl! Congrats on your SITS day! ;)
Dropping by from SITS to say, "CONGRATULATIONS on being the featured blogger!" Hedgehogs, what an interesting pet. It is nice to "meet" you.
Kindest regards,
Brook
Congrats on your SITS day award!
WOW what an exciting and busy life- I am tired after reading all that you do. I can not sew to save my life (wish I could but am hopeless)
Happy SITS day and what a terrific speech!
Congrats on your SITS day :) I love the name of your blog!
Happy SITS day! I'm so not a sewer - but I sure wish I was!
Congrats on your SITS day!
Congrats! Very cute blog. I wish I could sew!!
Congrats on your special SITS day! Love your blog - I'm following you now. :o)
Sandie Russo
http://zaftigdelights.blogspot.com
Congrats on your recognition!
I didn't even know what SITS was! Now I am going to have to check it out, since they clearly have great taste!
Loved your speech and thanks for the link, that's too cute.
Congratulations on your SITS day!
Happy SITS Day to you!! I love SITS... I am new but you meet so many great bloggers!!
Your speech is a lot more gracious than the speech made by the woman who won the Academy Award. She actually said, "I already have two of these". Geez! You can think it, but don't say it!
I hope you win next year!
Happy SITS Day! I love people who sew. I wish I could be that patient. I just want to get to the good part of having a completed project hehe.
Congrats! Hedgehogs? I never even thought you could have them as pets.
By the way, I'm not the singer Enya (otherwise known as the bane of my existence). Sorry, I see she's one of your favorite singers.
Hope you bask in all the sunshine of the day that's all about you!
www.almostcrunchy.com
It IS sew your day! Awesome. Hope you enjoy it.
Happy SITS day AND Happy St. Patrick's day! You're already green, so you fit right in! I love some of your sewing projects and you are totally tempting me to try to whip out some of my own. We'll see :)
Congratulations on your SITS day, I look forward to reading more. ;)
Happy SITS day!
I hope you are having a great day! I loved my SITS day but it took me weeks to catch up!
I've missed seeing you around.
Congratulations on your award! You have a great sense of humor. I recently signed up for a sewing 101 class, showed up that day, and was told they cancelled it and never called me. Grrr. Rescheduled for May now.
Congratulations on your SITS day!
Happy SITS day!!!!!
I'd love to sew but I'm so busy, busy, busy with my 2 toddlers that I can barely find any time for blogging ;) May be one day when they start school I'll be able to try sewing:)
Sew cute! Congrats!
I am so jealous that you have three dogs! And three hedgehogs? Are the cuddily? What's a hedgehog like as a pet?
can't wait to look around.
Congrats! Great blog! The last thing I sewed was a pair of yoga pants (re-purposed an old t-shirt). http://twitpic.com/ylrz6 Anyway, glad I found you here ... I am already inspired. ;)
Congratulation enjoy your Sew very special day!!
Happy Sits Day~ wish I could sew~ I have 3 girls and it would come in so handy! Have a great day!
Enjoy your day!!
PS: I LOVE the music around here. :o) I'm gonna be checkin' out your playlist..oh yes I am!
Happy SITS day!!! I love the music, one of my favs.....
May you have a wonderful, wonderful day!
Ahahahahaha!! I love this post! I love your blog! Congratulations on your SITS day, I can't wait to read some more about you and your awesome family. Oh, and the smelly hedgehogs, too :D
Happy SITs day! Enjoy the reward....
Happy SITS day! I love to sew, too!
Love the header pic. Please don't tell me that was your car! Congrats on today! Enjoy it!
Enjoy your SITS day!
HAPPY SITS DAY!
enjoy all the visitors and comments! :)
Congratulations and Happy SITS Day! I'm on my way to check out some more of your sewing posts, since I'm just getting back into sewing myself.
Happy SITS Day. Congrats on your feature.I am off to look around more. Hope you have an awesome week.
Happy happy SITS day. Love your acceptance speech ;-) That is so cool your daughter has a sewing blog too. Start 'em young!
from Babes about Town
http://babesabouttown
Congrats!!!!! You get to have your special day on St. Patty's Day...lucky you!!!!!
Visiting from SITS:)
Congrats on your special day. I SO appreciate people who can SEW. (I can't at all!!) Looking forward to checking out your site. Cheers!
Visiting from SITS! Congrats on the feature! I am sewer-who-never-has-time. :) I feel you. :)
Congrats on your very own SITS Day! My mom always made all of my clothes and my sister's clothes when we were growing up. It seemed so labor intensive but she really loved it.
Happy SITS day to you! Enjoy your day!
Your speech was "sew, sew" cute! (Okay, I know that was cheesy!)
I am just learning how to sew and having a grand time getting to know the seam ripper. Still trying though!
Happy SITS day!
Happy SITS DAY! ENJOY!
Congratulations on being a featured blogger!!
Lori
Congrats on your SITS day! Enjoyed poking around your blog...
Excellent acceptance speech! If you like Academy Award parody/spoof stuff, you're bound to like this:
http://www.cracked.com/video_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.html
Happy SITS day!
HAPPY SITS DAAAAY!!!!
I love your acceptance speech - happy sits day!!!
Happy SITS Day! I loved the speech, LOL!
-Dawn
HAPPY SITS DAY!!! I want to learn to sew and don't know where to begin. I have made a simple dress and pillows years ago and forgot everything...I would at least like to hem a dress or pair of pants (:
xoxo
Congrats on your special day!!!
Lovely stuff! I must pull out my sewing machine and give some of these a try!!
Congratulations & Happy SITS feature day!
Congrats on your SITS day feature.
Wow, you have done so many projects! As a mom who sews for my little kids you've really encouraged me. I always fear that when they start to get older they're not going to want me to sew for them anymore :o( sniff, sniff...but you've shown me that there is hope after teenager-hood is reached! YAY! Happy SITS day!
stopping by to congratulate you! bravo!!!
Happy SITS Day! Wow, you have a speech! (Clap! Clap! Clap!) Congrats.
Happy SITS day.
Happy St. Patricks/ St. SITS day! I hope you enjoyed all of the loving attention from your SITStas!
ps: sewing is the best hobby ever!
Happy happy Sits award...I'm SEW excited for you.
I'v been looking around and I love your blog! And your work is very nice...I can Sew a dang thing!
Love meeting you SITSta!
Hope you enjoyed this day. Nice green color for St. Patty's Day, right?
Stopping by from SITS. Congratulations!!
Also, I just became I follower. Stop by my blog when you have a moment.
All my best.
Congrats on your SITS day! Great blog----I used to be a sew-er, but it just takes too much time and costs a bit too much....
Hope you had a great day....
You are so funny. I totally voted for you, LOL!
Happy SITS Day!
Hmmm... hedgehogs... I wonder if I can get one or two of those here in Belize! They would make a great addition to the 16 animals I already have. lol
Cheers :-)
- CoconutPalmDesigns
Yea for you! You totally deserve it!
Congratulations on being featured by SITS. I have no idea what that is, but it does sound as if you have reason to stand up and take a bow.
Come join us for a drawing. Three books to be given away. Sometimes, being a follower is the most fun.
~ Yaya
Yaya's Changing World
Cue the major hand clapping of the audience! LOVE the speech! :-) Something I surely would do. Happy day to you even IF I'm a day late. I swear I'm sure I'd be late to my own funeral!
happy belated SITS day to you. I did not know that hedgehogs smelled. ;)
Late to the party but wanted to wish you a happy SITS day for sure! Enjoy your holiday and I'll be back for more!
haha - sounds like my life! the sits day is so fun when it happens! looks like u enjoyed yours! i could do with a cabin in the woods right about now!
I know that I'm running late in visiting you and for that I'm so sorry.
I so love your blog and I'm glad that you had such a great day! I'm following you now.
Kim
The Misplaced Midwesterner
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