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!

New Giveaway for December!

But firstly - I put the Harry Potter set up for ordering today. Did another set up this weekend and figured out the pricing. It's about where I thought it was going to be (which to me, is very very reasonable) so no surprises there. :)

Now onto to the giveaway! I plan on doing two this month: one beady one and one stitchy one. This first one is the beady one.

A cute lil Frosty type Snowman, all wired up on a lariat and ready to be attached to your cell phone, to anything else that you'd like, or take it off the split ring all together and pop it on a chain to make a necklace out of it.

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.)

3. I will draw the winner on Sunday so you have all week to enter!

GOOD LUCK!

Mischief Managed!

I've been meaning to do a Harry Potter themed-set since forever but I finally hunkered down this week and nailed one down in between working on custom orders.

I think................I like it. lol

Took a couple tries on everything (except the 'house colors' stripey beads) to tweak the details - Hermione's hair in particular was a humdinger to work around the bead hole nicely. But I think it has all the important bits, right?

The husband thinks they look rather glum but, ummm, he did see the same movie I did, right? To say this last movie is glum is an understatement! (The words bleak, depressing, oppressive, and downright morose also come to mind............GOD I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT AGAIN THIS WEEK!!! lol)

I'll have a set up for sale sooner vs. later - I just want to work up another one to really get a sense if 1) I want to make any additional changes and 2) how much time it takes to do it all in one bit for pricing. I'm not sure I'll include the Deathly Hallows symbol though? Yay or nay on that? It adds to the price (which won't be too cheap because these are tricky to  make) and I'm not sure it's really needed. All the other beads cover ALL of the movies/books, while that one is particular to just one bit. Oh well. We'll see how I feel when I come to it. :)

Hope everything had a nice Thanksgiving weekend and/or just a nice weekend in general! Our weekend was full of work, work and more work but the holiday itself was blissfully quiet AND lazy. It was quite nice! I didn't burn the house down or anything making dinner so that's good too. lol 

I definitely didn't overeat at all but I did eat 2523623512341234234123 more carb grams than I've been used to of late. Oof. HELLO BLOATY  McBLOATerton. Not loving that. Back to low carbing............right after we have pizza for dinner tonight. lol (What can I say? We ran out of leftovers already and I wasn't mentally prepared yet for cooking dinner again.)

Some stashing & Potter thoughts.

I wavered so much on getting a skein of Bugga yarn at that Stitches East because it is sooooo hard to get a hold of, and ultimately decided not to get one because, really now, I don't neeeeed anymore sock yarn. 

Well, what do you think popped up this week in the last package of this year's The Loopy Ewe Sock Club?

A skein of Bugga!

And all was right with the world. lol

It's not a color I would have gravitated to on my own but I do like it. (I just never seem to make a grab for many blues when it comes to yarn.........not sure why??)

I also got the two newest Lizzie Kate patterns this week. I love the colors and the fact that they aren't your typical 'holiday' type colors, you know? They're very bright and bordering on tropical and I really do hope to work up at least ONE of these soon. I wasn't planning on working up the scissor fob as an actual fob (I think it would be just darling as a ornament or cube finish) but OMG HOW FREAKING CUTE ARE THESE SCISSORS?? I've never seen these kits in person before so I was not in anyway prepared for how_freaking_small these scissors would be. They are like scissors for fairies! Or garden gnomes! Sooooo cute! I think they would drive me nuts if I tried to use them with my big, beefy, Irish potato-picking, in-no-way-graceful peasant hands but +9823 points for cuteness! lol

I was just organizing the 'stash to see what I had/wanted to do for a couple Xmas stitchies and, wow, I need to cull the stack a little. Stayed tuned for a giveaway of goodies soon!!! lol

Oh yes. We went to go see Harry Potter last night and..............it was really really good but really really unrelentingly dismal. Wow.  0_o The book was pretty intense (I remember having to throw it down here and there and walk away because it was just too much at certain points) so I should have expected that but the movies, by and large, are more about CGI effects than intense emotions so it was surprising to me, I guess. (The book, as always though, is still a hundred times better. Heh.).

This is full of WIN though:

Don't look at me Bill, I'm heeeedeous. lolol

*squeee*

Almost here almost here almost here almost here.........

I probably won't get to see it until next Wednesday though so I have to hold on just..a...little...longer....
This post is mostly an excuse to get OMG EXCITED and use ridiculous post tags. (I do so love ridiculous post tags. It's bordering on a hobby of mine at this point. lol)

Holllllly heck I don't know where this week has gone. :(

Just POOF! and it's suddenly Friday? I need to make a to-do list for next week, methinks, so I don't get off track again and lose another week to the nothings. lol

Notable things for the week:

OMG NEW HP TRAILER.

What? You didn't watch this obsessively ten times in a row? Oh, maybe it was just me. lolol I even watched it a couple times on my tv to get the full 42-inch HD effect (because all hail the TiVo wireless service that streams all sorts of internets). I don't even know why I get so excited about these trailers because the movie is never ever even close as good as the books. I KNOW THIS and yet I still get excited. There is FiendFyre! And Shell Cottage! Walk in the Forest! Snake in a Old Lady! UGH. Is it November yet? lol

Hey, if someone's cell phone accidentally pants-dials you what do you do? Ignore it? Think the person in question has been kidnapped and get the state police and rescue services involved?

.......................Wait.....what? Yeah, welcome to my world. We went out to eat out-of-state the other night and the hubby's cell phone accidentally crank called his mother a few times while it was in his pocket. She took this to mean we had been abducted, like for REAL, and had 911 emergency services rushing out to our house like woahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Now you have to understand - this is a very quiet neighborhood. Very. Quiet. There is NO thru traffic on this street and I've only seen a police car once in my 7 years here and that was when One Eye John took ill. (His actual nickname - I swear I'm not making fun.) So when we got out of the restaurant there was a blizzard of voice mails from his mother, the Connecticut State Police and neighbors to deal with. CRAZY STUFF, man. And, per usual, we forgot to lock our sliding glass doors so I'm not even sure the police didn't come in the house on their own when no one answered the front door. Grrrrr. (Actually, we're lucky the front door was locked. I forget that one too sometimes. *sigh*) I'm glad to know that if something happened, people would notice but I'm not sure I needed firsthand knowledge of this. Hmph.

Sooooo, that's my crazy story for the week. Bet you can't top it. Here's hoping the holiday weekend is boring and drama free! lol

Have a great weekend, guys. :)