7 Gypsies Goodies

Last week I received my loot from 7 Gypsies that I won on their recent blog giveaway.  Look at all the goodies they packed into this box! I love that they used sewing pattern tissue paper to wrap the contents. Just love it all. Now I need to find the perfect project to incorporate these treasures!

Catching Up

Has it really only been a week since our little one was born?  Time flies when you're having fun. It was truly a joyful, wonderful week and we feel so blessed.  And the joy continues as we expect another grandson in three months!

Other great things have been happening as well. Two weeks ago I won a giveaway on Lorraine Stobie's blog, Creative Daily.  This is the lovely art quilt I received early this week.

It measures about 7" x 8" and has gorgeous colors and textures.  I also received this beautiful stitched fabric postcard.  I think it's felted fibers and just sparkles.

Even the envelope was handmade - painted, stamped and stitched. Awesome!

I also found out on the very day of little Carl's birth that I had won a giveaway on the 7 Gypsies blog. I adore everything they make so I am sure to not be disappointed when this prize arrives! Can't wait!

Now back to reality. I'm working on some invitations and decorations for my other daughter's baby shower, helping my son with some prototypes for an entrepreneurial project he is undertaking and designing some new classes for The Little Blue House. It's also almost time to start designing for the next  Front Porch Kit!  And I must find time to get back to Austin soon to visit the baby!

We have a winner!

Congratulations to Betty for winning my "100 Followers Giveaway!"  I put all the commenters' names in a hat (well, really a box) and drew Betty's name!  Please contact me by e-mail with your information and I will get this to you asap. (You can click on my profile and then click on my e-mail.)

Thanks to everyone who took the time to make lovely comments this past week. I love getting feedback and hope it makes my blog a better place.  Have a great week!

I won!

This has been my lucky spring - I have won several blog giveaways including a recent one from Tim Holtz.  But I have to say that this prize package is the biggest to date and pretty awesome!

I followed along on Donna Downey's Inspiration Week posts a few weeks ago. (Click the highlighted link to see a recap post of the entire week.)  Every day of the week she posted a video showing her working on pages in her 6" x 12" canvas album.  It was fun to see the process and how the pages developed.  And every day she picked one winner from that day's comments to win the products she used on that day.  I could hardly believe it when I won for Day 6 out of about 350 responses!

My package arrived yesterday and I was wowed by all the products.  Included (as seen above) was the entire album, Portfolio water-soluble oil pastels (24), 4 charcoal pencils, black Staz On,  Vintage Photo Distress Ink, 4 Neocolor Caran d'Ache water-soluble wax pastel crayons, 2 bottles of Golden fluid acrylic paints, 1 bottle of Helmar 450 Quick-Dry glue, a water pen, ink blending tool and a package of hollyhock flocked rubons.  (Oops, just noticed that I forgot to add the stamp set to my photo - also included was this huge flower and flourish cling-mounted Stampendous stamp set below. That flower is 5" across!)

Isn't this fantastic?  Can't wait to sit down and play!

Look what I won!

This wonderful package of goodies came in yesterday's mail from Eclectic Paperie, an online store that carries so many great products!  I participated in their blog hop a few weeks ago and was one of two commenters to win!  I couldn't believe the generous prize - a package of Tim Holtz Salvage Stickers, a TH travel label cling-mounted stamp set, #10 manilla tags, three colors of baker's twine, a package of Wendy Vecchi pocket watch Art Parts, and a handmade tag!  THANK YOU so much to Eclectic Paperie! I am going to have fun with these products!