Look At Me Go!

I've been stitching up a storm - I'm loving this new rhythm. Maybe it's the sick me that allows me to stitch. Most of the time I'm running around like a blue-bottomed fly, but the sick me lies on the couch stitching and falling in love all over again with Gilbert Blythe. You try and tell me you're not a sucker for this classic.

See my colouring in? Well I was only going to do a few petals, however, once I started, that gentle rhythm took over and now that I look at it... Well I think it would look like I'd just been a little lax with my stitching and couldn't be bothered. And my friends - that would never do. Onward stitching soldier.

Matt tells me it's starting to take shape like a stained glass window. I love this. I love stained glass windows (there's nothing like that perfect hue of blue bright and bold with sunshine bursting through - take a look when next you're inside a church).

Anyway - I know I've piqued your memory - go on, here you go.

PS - If you haven't already - enter my Kimya Dawson giveaway. You don't have to have a blog - just a way for me to contact you. Don't be shy!

Get Your 'Butt Over Here: Giveaway - Kimya Dawson & Friends

So I told you a while ago that I'd be running a giveaway. You might have been thinking, yes, well we'll see what she wants to give us. Maybe you thought it was going to be a banana skin from the bin? Perhaps that creepy little Laura Palmer doll that has now taken up residence at my sister's house (though she doesn't yet know it)?

Nope. You're wrong. Wrong. Wrong again.

This is such an exciting giveaway.

My good friend over at Popfrenzy has given me six copies of Kimya Dawson's: Alphabutt.

If you don't know about Kimya Dawson, well you really should. She's super good. Clever. Witty. A funny, talented, guitar strumming chick. Perhaps you recognise her name from this movie?

Alphabutt is a great mix of songs to please your smalls and make them laugh (and yourself - hey I listen to it all the time).

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For a chance to win one of the six CDs please leave a comment on this post. In your comment please tell me what your favourite song was when you were small.

Mine - Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite. Well I had many, but this one always made my imagination go wild.

I'll be drawing the winners on Tuesday 2nd December. Plenty of time for you to enter, yes? Alas my dear readers, this is for Australian readers only (sorry).

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Psssst! Pop on over to Popfrenzy for plenty more musical inspiration - you might just get some cool Christmas ideas.

Pretty Things

A while ago (too long ago) I was lucky enough to win a giveaway over at Flossy-P. If you've never been to visit Flossy-P, go now. She's a super cool gal who creates beautiful illustrations. She's one clever cookie. If Flossy-P lived next door, I'd bake her cookies, pick her flowers, pat her cat. Instead she's hanging with her over-55 friends, and I'm hanging with my silver foxes. Makes me think of this. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you know, it'd be fun to hang with some contemporaries.

So Flossy-P bestowed on me such a cute prize. A Happy Happy Garden Card Pack (see the picture above) - five sweet cards for me to bestow on gardens around the 'hood that I deem worthy of loving (perfect for my walks, huh?). Cool idea, huh? And as a bonus, a great bookmark (which is timely, because I've been using bits of torn newspaper), and to top it all off - it was packaged up so nicely, I just didn't want to open it.

Anyway you can head over to Flossy-P's shop and get your own hit of Flossy-P goodness. Get it while it's hot, piping hot.

Merci, Flossy-P!

The Big Stuff Winner - Non-Beijing Stylie

So, as you will gather from the last couple of posts, I've broken my dry spell and started winning things. You don't know how much this thrills me, but it thrills me. Oh yes it does.

Last week I won the mother of all giveaways from Bec at The Small Stuff.

Please excuse my photo, Blogger is back to rotating them again - weird.

But as you can see - all those goodies made this gal so excited, I had to keep revisiting them all day. I've already got plans for those delicious vintage sheet fat quarters... Mmm.

My three year old got to the package before I could photograph it, but it was so beautifull wrapped..

Anyway, thanks to Bec, and please head over and visit her - she's got a fantastic range of beautiful bags. (Plus she's got a brilliant post re: chocolate and slave labour - it's a good read).

Lucky Dip

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And the lucky winner is Nanette from Rummage!

I'll post it out later this week for you - something old, something new...

Thanks everyone else who entered. It was fun!

Tomorrow I will catch up with This is... Sorry I'm running so late with everything!