Handmade Pay it Forward

For those of you who have followed me for the last few years, know that I enjoy making things from aprons to snoods.  I've been wanting to host a give-away, now I have the opportunity!  Andy over at Declared Unto Him is hosting a handmade give-away where the first five people to leave a comment would receive a handmade gift from her... in turn the five would also post & host a handmade give away.  I was blessed to be one of the first five to comment.

So, if you would like to be a blessing to someone else AND receive a handmade gift from me just leave a comment.

Where did this give away originate anyway?  I had to find out so I started back tracking. Andy hosted this give-way and was one of the five from tribalmama, tribalmama was one of the five from Lazy J Bar C Farm, Lazy J was one of the five from Giggles and Rasberries, Giggles was one of the five from Sky minded and Growing, and finally Sky was one of the five from Alice @ The Life of a Novice. Thanks Alice and Thanks Andy for the opportunity to be a blessing in others lives!

Remember the two rules:
1.  I promise to make something and send it (before the end of 2012) to the first five people who comment on this post.
2.  If you are one of the first five, you must promise to re-post the rules on your blog and send something to the first five people who comment on your post. The item must be hand made by you and the recipient must receive the gift before the end of 2012. The item may be as simple or as complicated as you would like. You just have to promise to follow through. Have Fun!

Cross Sttich Give-away

Hearts in Training is having a give-away!

Isn't this a beautiful cross stitch pattern!  

I just learned how to

cross stitch this year and would love to 

have this pattern!  If you too enjoy or would

like to learn to cross stitch hop on

over to Hearts in Training

and enter the give-away!

Sarah's gifts

So I've finished Sarah's gift, the mini sewing kit. Here is the cover, I outlined

the design with aqua beads. on the first page a pair of stork scissors held

in by a pretty snap bow

the second page hold straight pins, measuring tape,

needle threader, and thread third page holds a note pad with pencil, all sewing kits

should have this much need tool

pre-threaded sewing needles
must not forget buttons and lots of safety pins.
Safety pins was something I always carried
because there was always a need for them
Well that's the mini sewing kit...hum, I do think I might
make me one ;-D

I Won a Give Away!

I won this great DVD

'The Creation Adventure Team; Six Short Days,

One Big Adventrue'

we've already recieved it in the mail

and my girls have already watched it umpteen times...lol

Thanks to Michelle at 'Delightful Learning'

Congratulation to Sarah

she is the final winner of my

blogoversary give-away

This is what she has won

a square pin cushion

it's very pretty and practical

and a mini sewing-kit that she

can carry in her purse

The pictures above are not the

actual gifts but pics

of the gifts she will receive

I've had a rather busy week

so I've not yet made her gifts, but will

start right away :-D

here is a link to the mini sewing kit

it is a very 'manly' sewing kit, but

Sarah's will be very

'womanly'

Congratulations Sarah!
Hope these gifts will give

you much joy

in your stitch'n

Final Give-Away

This was posted in April of this year. The next and

final gift has something to do with this post.

If you can guess what the gift is your

name will be added twice to the drawing.

Come on and make a guess :-D

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My little Southern Bells These are the dresses I was sewing...
We found some straw hats and put strip of matching fabric around it

The waist band, cuffs, and strip of fabric around the hat all match.

The Third Winner Is....

Today's Winner Is....

Mrs Bridget @ The Lords beautiful Things

and the free give away is what

every 'Keeper of the Home'
needs
a kitchen Apron!

This is the back with a pretty lime gree tie

Congratulations Mrs. Bridget
I hope you have many wonderful
hours of cooking
in your new
Four Corner Apron

Do you like purple and aqua?

Second week's give-away Winner!

This weeks winner is....

Michelle at Delightful Learning

This is what Michelle has won...A set of Pretty Pink decoupage laundry pins with a
carrying bag that ties
on like an apron.
This is a close up of the laundry pins.

Congratulations
Michelle

The Winner is....

So this is it...a hand sewn gardener's apron, or if you don't garden you can use it for just about anything, from cafts to cooking. It has three large pockets and two thin pockets for scissors and or pencils. There are four yo-yo flowers, one on the end of each tie, and two in front

I wrote all eight names on paper...

put them a straw hat...

let AbbyYah toss them about...

And she picked a name...

Ahavah is the winner for this weeks drawing!

Congradulations

Ahavah!

First Year Blogging Give Away

OK, this is a post from March 30 and the gift is associated with this blog...the give away has officially begun...start your comments and guessing! Alright, so today we worked the soil. My dm was already digging out the weeds when we arrived. The complex we live in has no place for a garden, so my dm has a fenced in area at her home that she has aloud us to use. LOL, I thought that I was going to be able to plants LOTS of veggies...after reading a few articles on planting and talking with my dh, I now realize that we can maybe plant about maybe eight different veggies, I wanted corn but corn would take up too much space...so, I think we'll be planting tomatoes, snap beans, oakra, zuccini, cucumbers, bell peppers, peppers, yellow squash and maybe eggplant.
This is love...my dh working hard, breaking up the ground. Actually he said it wasn't hard at all because the ground was soft from the rains.
here is AbbyYah, she was gathering up the dug up weeds with their roots...she said it wasn't much fun. We told her it gets better, soon we will be planting the seedlings then the fun begins
:-D




3/30/09

Todays the day...

Today it has been one year of blogging for me....YAY!! And to celebrate I'm going to be giving away four gifts. One gift each week for a month.

Rules...

1) Just stop by say hey!

2) If your new introduce yourself

3) If you visit frequently say so

4) And if your a lurker come out of hiding and leave a message :-D

That's it!

At the end of 7 days I'll let one of my girls draw one of the names listed out of a hat.

I'll announce the winner the following day.

Gifts..

Just a hints: each gift will be associated a blog I've posted in the last year.

Three are hand crafted and one is a purchased item.

I'll re post the blog that the gift is associated with for that week.

Hope to hear from y'all soon!

More days...

My One Year Blogoversary

It will be one year that I have been blogging , and to celebrate I'm going to have a weekly give-away for four weeks...deltails to come in three days.