gorgeous jewellery giveaway

fantastic blog giveaway

head over to Rachel Lucie Jewellery Designs blog

you can win a pair of gorgeous hand crafted earrings
by just leaving a comment

http://rachelluciejewellerydesigns.blogspot.com/2010/06/rachel-lucie-blog-giveaway.html

closing date 30th June
12 midnight GMT

good luck
:o)

giveaway winner!

and the winner of my hundredth post blog candy is . .

lucky number 32

thank-you to everyone who entered my button jar giveaway - i got 53 comments!
2 comments were from one person so i put vintage bingo numbers 1 - 39 and 41 - 53 into the lovely drawstring bag made by Alex from the cupcake swap and my son drew number 32 from the bag - so JuanitaTortilla you are the lucky winner!

juanitatortilla said...

'Twas through the Colour Swap by Kids Napping I'm Scrapping! That's how we met.

Too bad for you, you're now stuck with me, haha!

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i will send of your winnings tomorrow!!!

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i finished my first ever ATC swap last week and sent it off to my partner in America so i can't show it yet - not only was it my first ATC {artist trading card} but it was also embroidered - i found out about it through PennyNickels http://donkeywolf.blogspot.com/ who organised the swap on flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/phatquarter/ ***WARNING*** this group is not to everyones tastes as it has some explicit stitching and expletives included in the very very talented embroideries - i LOVED textiles at school and always enjoyed embroidery so although my embroidery skills were rather rusty i soon got back into the swing of it and really enjoyed making my ATC.

here is the back of my ATC !

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ooh look at my new very fancy buttons!
they are in fact doll's house plates stuck to button backs
but i think they were altered a long time ago,
i love 'em but they will be in my shops soon!

i won blog give aways!

firstly i won this pretty wool flower brooch
from Dria
http://driasdelights.blogspot.com

she is making some pretty funky sock monkeys at the moment
they are very cute!

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and then i won this St.Patrick's day giveawy from
MATERSUM
she has a shop on etsy
http://www.etsy.com?shop.php?user_id=88235

thanks to Vonnie for pointing me in the direction of this giveaway!!

it does make good sense to use washable cloth pads

it is very well made

and even pretty!

I found it quite amusing gauging people's response to the pad
my Mum said "eurgh i remember my Mother telling me they had to use rags"
my daughter was much more open minded and interested in the concept
i guess it's a generational thing -
i'm in the middle - a bit "eurgh" and a bit "ooohh"
we shall see!

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thanks again to Dria and Matersum
it's always nice to get a present - especially through the post!