Winding Vine Giveaway

I was the extremely lucky winner of a recent giveaway by Patti, the gifted proprietress of Winding Vine. If you aren't already familiar with Patti's work a quick look at her blog will convince you that she is an amazingly talented artist. 

I knew what wonderful things were tucked inside and they truly felt like they were all chosen with me in mind. It almost felt like they should be tucked among the other presents under the tree, but who could wait knowing what treasures awaited?

The little pouch is beautifully knitted and felted and finished with a very sweet button. It's the perfect size to hold business cards or a gift card for a lucky person--lucky for me it came with a gift certificate to Winding Vine! And this adorable peat pot contains a little battery operated votive--how cute and warm it looks tucked among Christmas greenery! Blessings--yep, that pretty much sums it all up.

Also included was this sweet spotted deer. He looks perfect with my chalkware! Thanks for this giveaway, Patti, I love it all!

And the Winner is....

Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter my giveaway. I really enjoyed visiting everyone's blog and reading all the wonderful quotes you shared! There is so much to love about autumn and so many ways to express all that is fun, beautiful and bittersweet about the season. I put all the entries in a Open Office Document

cut each entry into strips and Cookie added her rub of approval for the process

 and this morning DH drew the winning slip 

  which belongs to  

Hilachas, my blogging friend from West Texas. I had no idea what Hilachas, her blog title meant, but as she explains "Hilachas is the Spanish word for those little loose threads that fall all over the floor and sewing area as you finish sewing and snip the tail end of the thread off the sewn area." I know I've left plenty of those behind in the past. Congratulations Hilachas!  I will probably do a winter time giveaway after the holidays, so stay in touch!

Fall Giveaway at Cottonwood Lane Primitives--Ended September 22, 2011

Giveaway Ends September 24th

I really enjoyed my last giveaway and the opportunity it provided to meet many new blogging friends, so I'm doing another one in honor of fall. I don't know if you love acorns as much as I do, but I loved this design with the acorns dancing along the edge by Jan Goos and thought it would be a perfect little mat to enjoy throughout the fall season. The photo above was taken under my Ott light and is the best representation of the background color.

Braided Wool Edging

 Here's the details: 

1. The giveaway is for the the 17" mat only.
2. Please post a comment on this page and let me know you are a follower.
3. You get a second entry if you leave a favorite quote about fall or Halloween.
4. A third entry if you post about this giveaway on your blog.
5. If you post anonymously, I won't be able to contact you if you win unless you leave an email address. You don't have to have a blog to win, but I do need to know how to get back in touch with you.

Good luck!

Freebie and Giveaway Alert!

I'm cleaning out some of my crafting stash and would love to find a new home for some lovely, Bethany Lowe tissue paper garlands. I bought them several years ago and ever since they've been stored away in a bin, never to be used. I don't want it to go to waste for another year, so if you can use this I'd love to send it to you. I'm not charging for the tissue, but would appreciate being reimbursed for the postage. I have four 9 foot garlands. Please email me and this will be first come, first served. THANK YOU! ALL THE GARLAND HAS BEEN SPOKEN FOR.

Also, want to alert you about a wonderful giveaway at The Primitive Hutch. Robin has a very sweet gardening doll that she will be giving away on July 1, so be sure to hop on over to her blog and register to win!

Giveaway at The Primitive Hutch

The Winner is...

First of all, thank you to everyone who entered and left such nice and helpful comments. I learned a lot and enjoyed finding a lot of new blogs to visit. Wow, there is a huge amount of talent and good hearted people in blogland! As I mentioned, I compiled all the entries into a document and cut them into strips.

The strips were thoroughly mixed.

 Cookie supervised this formal ceremony, as was appropriate for a tuxedo wearing cat.

Son Mark, a totally impartial judge who doesn't have a clue what Mom is up to but obliged me anyway, carefully selected one strip.

The winner is Barb from Barb's Heartstrokes! Yippee Barb!

I'm still receiving nice comments from people who are finding their way here and I appreciate that very much! Apparently all the sudden traffic crashed my follower gadget, though, so even though the gadget is still in place the thumbnails of followers is blank. Has anyone else had this happen?

Giveaway Has Ended--Processing Entries

Thanks so much to everyone who has entered my giveaway. I am still processing entries, so if you haven't heard back from me yet, please don't think your entry has been lost. I'm responding to everyone who entered and paying reciprocal visits to blogs which takes a little bit of time. I appreciate everyone who took the time to stop by and get to know a little bit about me. I believe blogging is about community so I want to do the same for you. As I read the comments I'm creating a document with a line for each entry.

Entries Processed as of Wed. Morning

If someone has a fairly common name, such as "Linda", I note the date and time of their entry by their comment line so I'll be able to identify the specific person whose entry is drawn. These entries will be cut into slips and I'll ask an impartial party to draw out a name. I anticipate the drawing will take place tomorrow (Thursday) and I anticipate mailing the penny rug on Friday.


If you don't win or didn't get a chance to enter I anticipate doing another giveaway in the fall. It's my favorite season and I have a lot of autumn colored wool that needs to be used!

Giveaway

One of the reasons I began blogging was to connect with others who enjoy crafting. I enjoy being part of a creative community and really enjoy getting to know and being inspired by other crafters. What do you like to see or read on blogs? Do you like to get decorating or gardening ideas, see finished projects, learn new techniques...? Help me be a better blogger by leaving me a comment and letting me know what attracts you to a blog. If you enjoy seeing fancy, decorated cookies, you'll probably never see that here, but I do want this to be readable and worthwhile, so please give me your thoughts.

Celebrate! Penny Rug

The Giveaway: I'll give away this penny rug when I reach the magic number of 100 followers. This is a Maggie Bononomi design and I thought the little stitched "Celebrate!" banner made it appropriate for this giveaway.

The Rules:  You'll be entered in the giveaway if you leave me a comment. Two entries if you comment and become (or already are) a follower. Three entries if you post about my giveaway on your blog. Please let me know so I'll give you credit for that.