Craft-A-Little

I know that I still owe you some pictures on my last post!  I finished a lot of things!  I really need to get my electronic situation worked out!  Anyway, I have some things that I want to update you on- even though there will be no picutres in my post again. 

• First- I have joined in the Joy in the New Year Challengethat Jaquie is hosting.  I am excited!  I will put my list of what I need to accomplish up in the next couple of days.
• There is also a give away over on the Flea Market Fancy Freaks blog- this is an exciting one since this fabric has been discontinued and is really hard to find!

• I got another book from the library- this one is is Artisian Bread in 5 minutes a day.  This one is on my Christmas list already and I haven’t even baked anything out of it yet!  I did buy a dough container and yeast today at the store.  So I will put my 5 minutes in today and tomorrow I will have fresh baked bread!  I plan on making some sandwhich bread- I don’t want to buy it anymore.  It is too expensive.  Especially since I like high quality bread. 

Ok- I have some knitting that I need to  finish by next week!  I had better get some work done on that while Little Helper is napping!

First I want to say thank you to everyone who entered!  I also want to thank everyone who took a minute to visit lemonade crafts.  She really like having some visitors!

So now lets get down to business.  I am sure that everyone wants to know who won!  I printed out sheets with the names of everyone who comment and then “let” my IT guy/husband pick one out of the basket.  And he chose…

Stephanie of MooBear Designs!

Well, then I decided that it wasn’t fair that I didn’t get to pick a winner too.   So I picked…

Deb D!

Right after I complete this post, I will be contacting both Stephanie and Deb D requesting mailing addresses. 

In an effort to keep the fabrics a surprise until they get them in the mail, I am going to wait to post the actual prize until they have received them!

One hour and 26 minutes left to enter! 

I will draw the winner tomorrw night!  Just want to let you know that my IT guy/husband is going to be doing something to my website tomorrow night to fix it so it works better (it keeps breaking on me!).  He says that you may not be able to find my blog for a day or so.  If i am not up, just come back on Wednesday!  I will be back!

So I have officially decided that I need to stop searching around on the internet!  It is killing me!  I was reading around tonight and I found some information on SEWN.  It looks to be similar to Ravelry (a site for knitters and crocheters), but for sewers.  There is a blog kick off party that is going on now!  Here is a little info that I copied from their site:

SEWN is new and innovative online quilting and sewing community for all lovers of fabric crafts. We have Tips and Innovative Tools to help with your projects, an Advice Centre for all your sewing questions, online forums and chats, and information on your local shops, sewing groups, quilt groups and classes.

I feel like I must be the last one to know about this, so this is probably not news to any of you! 

Anyway,  I love entering giveaways so much, that I thought that I would do another one!  (plus, I won a giveaway during the SMS giveaway- http://pinkchicks.typepad.com/- and I am pretty pumped about that, so I want to continue to pass on the excitement!)

So what am I giving away??  I am going to give away 2 fat quarters of fabrics that I haven’t chosen yet.  I promise- they will be good- I just have to look and see what I have.  I might even go shopping for something new!  When I do choose something, I will post a photo.  Unless you want me to keep it a surprise??  You tell me!

Here are the rules…Just leave a comment here sometime between now and midnight (CST) June 7. 

If you want an extra entry in the drawing, hop on over to http://lemonadecrafts.blogspot.com and leave a comment on any of her posts.  (you don’t need to  come back here and tell me you commented- I will just check out her comments)

I will draw a winner on Monday June 8 (probably in the evening- I work during the day).  Please be sure to leave a way for me to contact you if you win!

(Update: I am feeling crazy and generous this time- I will ship internationally!)

#10!  Jessica (Hannah’s mommy)

jessica (hannah’s mommy) says:

May 27, 2009 at 3:50 pm

I don’t exactly have a favorite brand. But I absolutely love country inthe springtme type of everything!!

Jessica- please contact me (in the next 48 hrs) with your mailing address and I will get this little fella on his

Thank you to everyone for stopping by and commenting!  I had so much fun with this giveaway, I look forward to doing another! 

I hope some of you come back to read again on another day!

Happy Giveaway day!  Today is the day of Sew Mama Sew’s giveaway!  I am so excited to check it out and see what everyone is giving away! 

Well, for my first giveaway, I will be giving away a small handknit bear!  Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture right now (I am having camera trouble- as in, I can’t find it!  We are in the midst of a move and maybe it was packed??).

(I found my camera!!)

Anyway, he is a small brown bear that I knit using a pattern from Susan B. Anderson’s Itty Bitty Nursery.  There are a few slight adjustments to the pattern, but he is quite a cute little guy!  I will try update this post with a picture later tonight. 

So- onto the business end of things!  What do you need to do to enter?  Leave a comment with your favorite brand/designer of fabric/yarn/crafting supply and what you like to make the most.  Please leave your comment by the end of the day on May 31!  I will be drawing the winner on the morning of June 1.  Good Luck!

**Sorry to all of you international readers, but I am not able to ship outside of the USA.

Ok, this one is a giveaway, but I am not the one giving!  There is a new line of yarn being launched by Blue Sky Alpacas called Spud and Chloe.  It is launching in June 2009 and various bloggers are getting their hands on some and doing giveaways!  The latest one that I found is over at Skeins Her Way.  Hurry up, because you only have until Monday at midnight!

(Oh- and make sure you tell her that I sent you- we will each get an extra entry!)

Sew, Mama, Sew is hosting a giveaway on May 27!!  I am excited to participate.  Now, to figure out what I am going to giveaway…