Mary's Granddaughter Giveaway

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Check out this cute giveaway from Mary's Granddaughter! You have until May 26th to enter for a chance to win a sweet brooch or adorable Greta doll. You can enter up to 5 times, so pop on over to her blog now!

Vote (Again!): A New Etsy Community Poll

Okay, I hope you guys are not sick of my posts about this... Lately I haven't found much time for blogging, and I feel kind of bad about it. I have a few posts I am working on, but my work hours have been a little crazy recently. Yet somehow I still manage to find the time to ask you all to vote for me!

Thank you for those of you that voted for me in last week's Etsy Community Poll Vote! Sadly, I placed 5th or 6th from the LAST place! Hopefully I will do better this week, as this time the theme is "May Blooms." Since I did pretty poorly last time, I think they might have felt bad for me and placed me in this week's poll too, hee hee. Or I just got lucky. Here is the link where you can vote. Top vote getters get placed in the Gift Guides. Poll closes May 25th!

Vote: Etsy Community Poll

One of my gift bundles is included in this week's etsy community poll! The theme this week is gifts for your teacher. One of my pick-a-pack bundles is up for voting, and at the moment, I am trailing far behind! So please, if you wish, vote for me! Top vote-getters get placement in the etsy gift guide. Thanks, and cheers! (p.s. voting ends may 18th)

Giveaway Winner

Thank you to everyone that entered my little giveaway! Your comments are very helpful to me and very much appreciated! I have picked the winner using the random number generator at random.org. And that number is 5--the winner is Mallory! I will be contacting you for your address soon. Thank you again to all!

Giveaway!

I've been participating in giveaways on other blogs every now and then, and I thought perhaps I should host one right here, on my own blog! I always enjoy doing them and reading people's comments, so why not?
I will be giving away a little tennis-screenprinted gift set! It includes 1 pocket size moleskine cahiers journal, 3 notecards with envelopes, and 4 matching round stickers. To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment for me here! Please visit my shops, links which can be found over on the left (or here and here), and let me know your favorite item from each of my two shops. This is a really good way for me to get feedback regarding what people like, and what isn't really working. If you wish to leave a comment with more than one favorite, like your top 3 for example, please be my guest! Or if you even want to let me know what you dislike, don't be shy (just please don't be mean either)! This really helps me a lot! I know what I like, but it can be hard to judge what items will be popular and which won't. And frankly, I could really use some feedback!

Feel free to blog about this or spread the word if you wish, but only one entry per person, please. This is open to anyone in any part of the world--I will ship anywhere! Also make sure you leave a way for me to contact you, an email or link back to your own blog. Giveaway will be open until midnight EDT, on Sunday, May 10th. I will pick the winner via a random number generator thereafter.

Thanks so much!!

A Lovely, Little Blog Giveaway

I am very delighted to be participating in a giveaway hosted by the super sweet Chelsea of A Lovely, Little Blog. You can win a set of notecards and a magnet set (something from each of my shops). And I am amongst great company here-- there are 5 additional shops participating, and all of them are just wonderful. There will be several winners, so hop on over to Chelsea's blog to enter! In fact, I would like to enter as well, because there are some lovely items indeed! But I don't think I should, lest I win my own stuff. That would be dull. The giveaway only runs for a couple of days, from now until May 7th, so don't delay!

Pretty Things

Last week I was incredibly lucky to score almost 50 stems of tulips. Aren't they lovely? My boyfriend's studio is next door to a commercial landscaping company. Apparently they dispose of large numbers of plants and flowers on a regular basis! I went over to his studio and dumpster dived for flowers! Okay, well sort of. The dumpster was overflowing with soil and plants and flowers, so I got up along the edge of it, and walked around it pulling tulips out. They were still in the pots. We cut most of them for placing in water, but kept one pot which was fairly intact. The blooms are all gone now, so I have about a dozen bulbs. Anyone know how I should store them?

This photo shows only about one-third of all the blooms we had! I don't think I've ever had so many flowers in my home at once. I placed some of them in little glasses and spread them throughout the house. I just love spring flowers!