Winnah Winnah, Chicken Dinnah!

 Random pick for the Roly-Poly pattern was Dee. 

Happy Stitching him!! :)

Of course, letting one pattern go created a disturbance in the force *shifty eyes*.............

Which I filled with not one but FOUR new patterns. 

DAMN IT! I'm doing this wrong, aren't I? Grrrrrrr.

Winnah Winnah, Chicken Dinnah!

Here are the winners for the December Giveaway-palooza:

My super scientific method to picking names is to sort them by name/date/subject, click click click click the sort randomly, so they are sorted differently each time, use the the random number generator to grab the winning number and then count down (or up) and there you go. I figure that way it won't matter if you entered in on the first day or the last because it's all mixed up and different each time. 

 

There was only one person who specifically requested a particular item so I put the other 3 items on a slip of paper, folded them in half, tossed them around like a carnie running a racket game and randomly picked them 1, 2, 3 to match the rest of the names. 

Congrats to the winners and thank you to everyone who played along. I do love a chance to give back. I've had a great year with the blog and the shop and that wouldn't be possible without all of you so *MWAH* for that. :)

Big Whopping December Giveaway-palooza!

 December is the month for gifting giving so let's give some stuff away!!!!

Here's what you can win:

A wire wrapped pendant with either a penguin or Santa focal bead (made by moi), with matching cell phone lariat. (Which you can put on anything - including a pair of scissors. Or take the lariat off completely and put it on a chain.)

A pair of hand made wool socks, knitted by me last month. They are a titch too big for my size 7.5-8US feet so they will fit all the way up to 9-9.5US I would think. Made of 75% wool and 25% nylon Opal yarn which is pretty indestructible and close to impossible to felt. (Seriously.)

A hand stitched, by me (imagine that!), Blackbird Designs stocking from the December booklet, so it will go nicely on a Christmas tree or just for wintery decorating in general. 

So FOUR separate things to be won by FOUR separate people.

Here are the deets to get a chance at them:

1.) You must send me an email to enter. It's open to all for free, even people outside the US.

2) If you are a follower of this blog, please let me know in your email and I will enter your name in an extra time for that. (If you're not currently a follower but would like to be, just hit the 'join this site' button in the little widget on the right there, sign in with your Google account and voila! Easy peasy!)

3) If you post about this giveaway on YOUR BLOG, please put that in your email entry and I will enter your name in again for that.

4)Absolutely no resale of any of the items. If you can not use them for your personal use or as a gift to a loved one, please do not enter.

5) Winners will be chosen on Monday, December 19th. I will contact them by email and the packages will go out as soon as I have your mailing address.

Sooooooooooo, that's a total of THREE ENTRIES you can try for, for those of you who are counting. Combined with four items you have a chance at..........not bad odds I would think. :)

Odds and Ends:

If you have a preference to win one particular thing over the other, feel free to put that in your email but no guarantees that is what you will end up getting. Example: if all four chosen people pick the same item as their preference, I will randomly pull from those four names again to see who get's that item, etc.so everything is fair.

The only exception to the above is if you absolutely can not use a fabric based item (the knitted/stitched socks) due to either a wool or cat allergy. (I have three Himalayan cats.) In that case, let me know and I will take you out of the running for the socks. 

(Actually, in that case, I weep for you because a life without woolies or foofy kitties? *shudder* The horror! lol)

GOOD LUCK GUYS!!!!! :)

Something new, old and FREE! :)

Something new:

 Welllllll, someone asked for a pink owl, to go with the purple one.........and that just seems to have spawned a few, uhhhh, other colors as well. (Plus a Christmas one is not pictured here.)

 Some glorious new thread packs in pumpkin oranges and christmas colors from the Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe. (Seeing as I feel like I work mostly with Xmas or Halloween stuff......these will be much loved.)

Some glorious new sock yarn, courtesy of the Cookie A Sock Club for October. (Not pictured are the two new patterns that came with.)

Now for the old stuff. 

An old pattern, courtesy of my recent re-organization of the stash patterns. It came with the threads (though I seem to be missing a 1/3rd of them?) and I had even started it a teeny tiny bit. (There were a few lonely orange squares already put on the linen, from god knows when.The pattern is marked from 2002 so.........could be that long ago?) 

 I decided to 'rescue it' and put a little more effort into it than that. The whole thing is done over one though *cough* so don't look for me to be finishing it anytime soon. :)

This pattern was found, also when reorganizing. Not only did it come with the DMC threads - it also came with the FRAME. So there really was no reason at all for this to be languishing in my stash for near-10 years!!! I'm not sure where to put it just yet but I'm sure I'll find a nice place for it sooner vs. later and it feels good to have finally finished it. (Especially considering it only took a couple days to whip it up!)

Now for the free:

If anyone would like to stitch that last pattern, let me know in the comments and I'll send the pattern out for free to the first person who wants it. It uses just basic DMC threads so you won't miss the ones that came with it, plus it's ripe for picking your own colors to suit your own tastes.
Goes to Patty C. Enjoy!! :)

Winnah Winnah Time!

The all-knowing random number generator has picked the winner for the Harry Potter giveaway and it is *drum roll*.......

 

Annie of Annie BeBop's Coloring Book!

 

Congrats to Annie and thanks to everyone who participated!! You know I just love hosting these giveaways. :)  It's fun all around so I'm sure I'll have another contest soon enough.

It's a Harry Potter Day Giveaway!

In celebration of today being a worldwide holiday for everyone for reveling in all things Potter-related ...........or not............ok, maybe this holiday 'thing' is just in my mind. 0_o

Ok, so who is going to see it this weekend? 

I, ummmm, kinda saw it last night..........at the 12:30am showing. I haven't been to bed before 4-4:30am in at least three months now so why not go for it. WHY NOT I SAY!?!?!? It's only fun and games until you're crawling home at 3:30am. Hell, we got there early enough to go see another movie FIRST just to up the ante. (Horrible Bosses? One of the funniest movies I've ever seen in my LIFE. The entire audience was ROLLING around laughing from start to finish. Though it is a 'hard' R so stay away if that kind of thing doesn't appeal to you. Heh.) Gosh, this movie is the best book adaption yet - they really did save the best for last. 

Here is one small clue as to my favorite bits:

 But anyhoozle-doozle, I thought I would have a proper HP giveaway to send things off in style:

Just a boy and his owl (though let us not speak of what happens to the owl), wired up here on a cell phone lariat but you can easily remove that to put this on a chain, etc. if you'd like.

The deets:

1. To enter the giveaway all you have to do is email me. ( I will ship it anywhere in the world so everyone is welcome to enter.)

2. If you are a follower of this blog, let me know and I will enter your name in twice. I do so appreciate my followers and the comments I get here so of course you guys get extra special attention. :)
(If you are not a follower but want to be, just click the 'follow' link on the right side bar. Everybody has a Google account at this point................right?)

3. I will draw the winner next Wednesday, July20th, because it's summer and it will give more people a chance to enter. (I know we're not all on the computer 24/7 once the sun is shining.)

And that's it. Easy-peasy, right? :)
GOOD LUCK!

Winnah winnah time.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I mostly worked and looked in horror around the destruction that is my house at the moment. (Work has begun on bedroom two. One day this flooring project will be complete and I will no longer have great stacks of stuff to gingerly make my away around in the other rooms....and hall...and downstairs.... And there will be no more $11-projected trips to Lowe's that turn into $275 fiascoes. lol)

And I managed to finish these:

Oh boy socks,  you ruin me sometimes, you do. With your......largeness and neverending-knitting-itis. 

I'm slightly annoyed that I went to the trouble to try and match the stripes as close as possible and the two skeins of yarn ended up being slightly different colors. (One is a little darker and more specklier than the other.) Dye lots be damned, eh? Seriously.........why bother PRINTING dye lots on the side of the skein if it's all a crap shoot anyway? (Looking at you Cascade Simple Stripes!) At least it wasn't as bad this time as the pair for my mother I really got hung on earlier this year. (Now THOSE I was really butt hurt over.)

The foofy feet in the upper part of the photo belong to Old Man Mooshie. I tried to move him along from his usual daytime sleeping spot to get more light for the photo and this is the face I got:

I believe the exact translation of that face is: @&#%!@$!@%!@$!@#

Nice, Mooshie. Nice. Pfffffft to you too! lol

Okay, winnah winnah time. I plugged in the number of comments into the random generator and got:

So the winner for the Uber Jack pattern is Staci of Snippets and Stash!

 Thanks to everyone who played along. I'm sure I'll have more patterns to pass along in the future as I'm of the mind to not hoard keep every last project I finish anymore. I just have waaaaaay too much stuff stuffed away in my closets!!

ORANGE you glad it's almost the weekend? (Small giveaway at the end.)

 It's been an orange kind of week, thanks to my finishing my BC Uber Jack and the newest sock club yarn from Cookie A. I know orange isn't for everyone but I think it's kind of dreamy when it's peachy/Creamsicle in tone. Or an autumny pumpkiny kind of orange. Ok, basically any orange except for traffic cone orange is cool with me. (What can I say? I like color.)

Thank you, Cookie, for your adventurous spirit and eye for color. I *love* this yarn!

Jack is none too shabby in the orange department either though. Did you catch how close I am to the edge of the linen in the first pic? Heheheh. I was determined to use this piece of scrap linen for some reason (me = stubborn idiot) and it was close. REAL close! I figured I could just leave out the vine if I needed a little more room at the end there. I'll definitely have to measure for a frame verrrrrrrrrrry carefully though if I go the framing route. :)

I don't see myself using this pattern again (I only redo smalls) so if someone wants it, leave me a comment and I'll pass it along to you for free. I'll pick someone randomly in a couple days if there is more than one of you who do. 

Note: please make sure your email is EASILY found though, either from your profile or by typing it out in your comment. Hunting for contact info on the internets makes me a grumpy bear and you can't make me do it. Nope. I'm a princess/brat that way. :)

Winnah Winnah Chicken Dinnah!!!

The all-knowing random number generator has picked the winners for the bead giveaway and *drum roll*.......

Krista gets the first bag...

And Gracie from Needles Pins and Dragonflies is the winner of the second bag!

Thanks so much to everyone who participated. You all make these giveaways such fun and I love to do them! I won't have anymore bags of extra beads to give away now for a little while but I'll be sure to wire up a little sumthin-sumthin to give away before the summer is out. :)

WHO'S SPOILED ROTTEN? WHO?

Oh, that would be YOU. Well, that is if YOU entered my giveaway. 

I've already gotten so many entries I thought it would only make sense if I...............

.......pulled another scoop of beads out of the nether regions of my bead boxes so I can draw TWO names. :)

It's not quite as big a bag as the first one because I honestly don't have any more filler beads to throw in there *but* I did manage to find a few more fairies to giveaway. 

That's it for REALS now though. I won't have any more 'bagged' extras to giveaway probably until the end of the year or so. I need time to build them back up again. :)

New beads and a new GIVEAWAY.

First things first, I posted a few new things up today including a couple 'new baby' sets. 

Is a 6 toed footprint bead weird? I think it is but I couldn't squeeze 10 toes on a 15mm lentil very neatly. Or consistently. (AND I have to do it on both sides of the bead!) So I took a little creative license and went with the more aesthetically-pleasing-and-easier-to-make-but-clearly-alien-baby route of 6 toes. Alien babies for the win.

Now on to the giveaway part.......

I have a bigger and bigger pile of 'extra' beads growing on my work desk here and it's getting ridiculous (or has been ridiculous for a long time and is now becoming RE-DONK-U-LOUS) so I pulled together a big bag of them to giveaway to whoever wants them.

It seems so unassuming in bag form, doesn't it?

Oh, but when it spills out.....................hello beady glassy shiny goodness! These are extras, a couple are plain ole wonky but most are what I would call 'pretty good'. (There are 4-5 Fairies in here too! AND a sterling silver cored Pandora bead!!)

Don't feel you have to have a PURPOSE for them to enter the giveaway either. Out-and-out bead hoarders just for the sake of hoarding are always welcome. :)

The deets:

1. To enter the giveaway all you have to do is email me. ( I will ship it anywhere in the world so everyone is welcome to enter.)

2. If you are a follower of this blog, let me know and I will enter your name in twice. I do so appreciate my followers and the comments I get here so of course you guys get extra special attention. :)
(If you are not a follower but want to be, just click the 'follow' link on the right side bar. Everybody has a Google account at this point................right?)

3. I will draw the winner next MONDAY because it's summer and it will give more people a chance to enter. (I know we're not all on the computer 24/7 once the sun is shining.)

And that's it. Easy-peasy, right? :)
GOOD LUCK!

Valentine's Giveaway Winner

....is.....

Terri of Dixie Samplar Designs!

Congrats on winning your own bag of teeny buttons. :)

Can you believe there are over 120 buttons in that little bag? 

I had a grand old time sorting them out,  let me tell you! I made sure there was at least one pair of every color I had, with extra pairs of colors/things I thought might be more generally useful like black/white ones, stars and hearts. Oh, and there are plenty of polka dotted ones too, just because! Have fun with them!!!

A small confession. (With a free giveaway at the end so stay til the end!!!)

When I said I had 'bought a bag' of teeny buttons on Etsy a couple weeks ago I wasn't being honest.

It may have been more than one bag. 

It may even have been more than several bags.

In fact..........I may have a teeny problem with collecting teeny buttons.....

But, oh, what a glorious problem it is!

Let's just relish in the teeny button pr0n, shall we? 

(Feel free to click on these to get the biggun' pictures for the full pr0n effect.)

My favorites might just be these micro-sized TEENY-WEENIE buttons. *swoon*

But the polka dot ones are a close second. 

I know there are a lot of stitchers who love teeny buttons for their projects just as much as I do so if you are one of them, leave a comment on this entry and I will pick someone randomly on Valentine's Day to receive a little bag of their very own teeny buttons to swoon over. Just a quick and simple giveaway to spread the love.

As always, followers of my blog will get entered in twice for being such cool characters. :)

(But feel free to spread the word to your own blogger friends if you wish - it's open to all, anywhere in the universe.)