April Giveaway

It's the beginning of a new month, which means........another giveaway! April's giveaway is this recycled rummikub necklace:

If you'd like to enter to win this necklace, all you have to do is leave a quick comment below!  easy-peasy!


The winner for March's giveaway was: Janet!

March Giveaway

Here is my March giveaway - a recycled glass cube necklace:

I'll be randomly drawing a name at the end of the month....if you'd like to enter, all you have to do is leave a quick comment below!

One World One Heart Giveaway

Hello - welcome! I'm thrilled to be a participant in the "One World One Heart Giveaway" Last year was my first year, and it was soooo much fun. Be prepared to sit at your computer for hours browsing through blogland, and discovering some very talented people out there. Click on the OWOH icon on my right side bar (or here) to find a list of all the blogs participating in this event.
Here's how it works: starting tonight (at midnight) the list of participants will start to be loaded up onto the OWOH site. All you have to do is have a little browse through the blogs (be prepared for eye candy overload - have the tea and cookies ready). If you'd like to be entered to win a person's giveaway, leave a comment on their post (ends Jan 17th). Easy peasy!

I have 3 giveaways. The first is this trio of recycled items: a recycled lid that I turned into a butterfly themed magnet, a recycled scrabble tile that I turned into a crow themed brooch pin, and a recycled rummikub tile that I turned into an owl themed necklace.

My second giveaway is this necklace that I made out of a recycled china plate piece.

My third giveaway is this beeswax coated, collaged bird ornament that I made out of bits and pieces of old ephemera, postage stamps, wire, sparkle and pan pastels.


If you'd like to be entered to win one of these, all you have to do is leave a comment below!


Here are the winners!

Draw #1 went to #49 - "Janine":

Draw #2 went to #237 - "Jen":

Draw #3 went to #179 - "Ladybug":

January Giveaway

Here's my January giveaway:

It's a little encaustic piece that I made in December. It measures 3 x 5 inches, and is made from layers of 1930's court ledger paper, handmade paper, image transfer, and pan pastels......with layers of beeswax in-between, and on top of it all!

If you'd like to enter to win this, all you have to do is leave a quick comment below!

And the Winner Is.....

....number 29 - "CMEH" (Candace Henderson)!

Candace won this dragonfly necklace in the "Sew, Mama, Sew!" giveaway.

Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day!

Here's my giveaway item for Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day! It's a glass necklace that I made with a dragonfly image.

If you'd like to enter to win this necklace, all you have to do is leave a quick comment below!

Oh! I forgot to mention, that the deadline is Saturday Dec. 18th, at 12 midnight - then random.org will decide who the winner will be! cheers!

Only One More Day

Only one more day until the One of a Kind show!!!

Last night I was able to start setting up my booth. This is the first time for me doing such a big trade show, and I have NO idea what to expect!

This is what we show up to:

First things first - carpet down.

I don't know what came over me, but my booth is one big shade of BROWN.

Covered up and put to sleep for the night!

So I FINALLY did the draw for the November giveaway! #4 - iam_artisan won! This month I'm joining in with Sew, Mama Sew!'s "Giveaway Day" on Dec. 13th, so I'll post my December giveaway then!

November Giveaway::

Oh I know this is SO late, but here is the November giveaway! I thought I'd do a holiday theme this month, so that the winner will get them in time to wear them for the month of December!

The giveaway is an altered Scrabble Tile holiday necklace, with 3 altered bottle cap brooches. All you have to do is leave a quick comment on this post to win!

October Prize Winner:

I've been "missing" for a week, and November 1st came and went without me drawing the October giveaway winner! Here it is, out of 11 names entered, number 2 was the magic winner: Cindy! I'll post a new November giveaway tomorrow, even though it will be a week late!

Here's some of the things that we've been up to this week:

Some outdoor play. Can you believe that I just cut off about 6 inches of her hair?!

The regular Saturday soccer:

Finished off these custom pieces for my Mother In Law. The one on the left is a photo of her mother, and the two on the right is of her and her husband (in the 80's).

Saturday was my first craft fair of the season, out at St. Thomas Aquinas. It was the day after daylight savings and I was tired at the end of the day! I better get used to it - I just committed to doing the One of a Kind Show.....if I think 10am to 4pm is tiring, 4 days of 10am to 9pm is really going to do me in. (ha! who am I kidding - I thrive on that kind of busyness!)

I've been buying these teeny-tiny sugar mandarin's for my kids' snacks. Look at how perfect this little gem is! They're only the size of a walnut.....so cute.

October Giveaway

October's giveaway is this beeswax coated collaged "Witch Crow" decoration! Enter to win by leaving a quick comment on this post, and on Nov. 1st a winner will be drawn via "random.org"!


Last month's winner of the book giveaway is: Heather Acton!

Last Day to Sign up for the September Giveaway!

Tomorrow's the draw for my September giveaway!

Each month I have a giveaway, and anybody that signs up to enter the draw on the actual post, as well as all of the blogs' "followers" are entered to win! This month's giveaway is this book: "Simple Gifts 50 Little Luxuries to Craft, Sew, Cook & Knit", by Jennifer Worick. P.S. You can sign up on this post if you wanted to enter!

Here's some preview photo's from inside:


My personal favourite: "Salted Caramels"......not that I can eat them with my braces......one more year (or so)!

Here's my daughter goofing around while waiting for her brother to finish his soccer practice. She's more into being in the garage, monkeying around with dad than her brother is!

I just received this artdoll in the mail today from my September swap partner. She's just darling in person, and is the first Halloween decoration up this year!

Tomorrow a new swap theme will be announced for the "FantasticFlat_Paperdolls" group. Think "Autumn" and "Wings".....