the birds...

hello! can you believe its December already!? MADNESS.

anyway, heres a blog post about another giveaway i WON, yey! this time its a sweet 'birds' book with lots of jewellery and accessory projects in it, which i won c/o a competition from the Craft Institute via Making Jewellery Magazine's facebook page!

it was a blog competition and to be honest, id forgotten id even entered it, and then the book came in the post, it was such a surprise! i cant wait to make something using the book as inspiration!

heres the book:

and here are some pics i took when it arrived:

it features some really great little jewellery/crafty projects!

THANK YOU, 'Making Jewellery Magazine', and i hope you readers like the book, if you do, you can buy a copy of your own from amazon, here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Birds-Magpie-Sophie-Robertson/dp/1861089767/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385993464&sr=1-1&keywords=birds+jewellery

once again, youve got to be in it to win it, people, so get entering those giveaways!

check out the Making Jewellery facebook page, wont yah: https://www.facebook.com/MakingJewellerymagazine

"liebe das jewellerie machen"

♥

Giveaway Goodies from Twinkie Chan

yes, thats right people, i have won ANOTHER giveaway, but thats a good thing. it is.

this one comes courtesy of Twinkie Chan, from San Francisco  who makes amazingly cute and kawaii goodies, crocheted by her own fair hands. here is the link to the giveaway i entered on her blog: http://blog.twinkiechan.com/2013/08/21/summer-sweets-giveaway/

in the giveaway i won an ice-cream t-shirt by 'Yummy You!', a cute pink print by 'Tiffany Star', a crocheted candy floss [or cotton candy as Twinkie would call it!] pen, a crocheted mint choc chip hair barrette, which is AMAZING and some cute little badges too! YEY. here they are. dont be too jealous:

here is the tshirt, how CUTE!?

heres me wearing the tee [and it happens to be one of the only good pics of my skull/roses tattoo too!]

 here is the print by 'Tiffany Star', its so sweet and looks very 3D!

here are the amazing crocheted goodies from Twinkie herself!

a 'cool' patch and some cute badges, YEAH!

a BIG thanx to Twinkie Chan for sending me these goodies, i love them all very much!

i do hope you all love my kawaii treats, do check out Twinkies website for links to all the products: http://blog.twinkiechan.com/

do also follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/twinkiechan

and facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinkiechan

"ich liebe das kawaii"

<3

to the moon and back...

horay! indeed

here is ANOTHER blog post about ANOTHER compeition/giveaway i won via twitter. i seem to be very lucky thesedays, but, youve got to be in it to win it, as they say, hehe!

ok, so this giveaway was hosted by HI! magazine and was a competition to WIN a cute illustrated journal by talented Scotsman Neil Slorance [who ive been following on twitter for ages!]

the journal is called 'The Amateur Astronomer's Journal' and here are some pics of my cool competiton prize...

i always know when somethings come from a twitter-based giveaway, as it says something like this on it, amazing:

here is the cover, good isnt it...

 Neil had said on Twitter that he hand writes a message into each of his journals, and mine says "well done" and has a little rocket doodle, aw!

 this is a section of one of the pages and i just love her face!

 this section is about sandwiches, its funny:

and dont you forget it...

so yeah, i hope you like my little journal, cos i do. i love Neil's style of drawing anyway, so i was pretty happy to win this bad boy!

like i said, i won this on twitter c/o HI! magazine, who you can follow too, right here: @hihimag

 and also do follow neil on there @osmart and check out his SHOP where you can buy your very own copy of 'The Amateur Astronomer's Journal', here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/artbyneilslorance

"liebe das illustratoren"

♥

hip, hip, Rosehip

hello.

heres a post about the lovely gift tags i WON in a giveaway from an awesome company called 'Rosehip', who make 'modern british stationary and paper products'.

i won them by commenting on a blog post, and im so happy that i did, as i commented that id like to use the tags as 'backing tags' for some of the jewellery ive made using vintage and new buttons.

here they are, along with a little handwritten tag from Silkie [which is an amazing name!]

here is what ive done with one of them, ive added one of my own 'Moo' Minicards too:

and here are some button pieces im gona use some of the other tags for very soon! how exciting:

so, i do hope you liked this post, and my cute gift tags! i hope its ok to use them as tags for my jewellery. im sure it is!?

check out the Rosehip website here: http://www.rosehipcards.co.uk/

and follow them on twitter, too: https://twitter.com/rosehippaper

"liebe das gift taggen"

♥

this is easley a great giveaway!

... i apologise to Tim, as im sure hes had many 'easily/easley' puns over the years!

anyhoo... heres a little blog post about a little giveaway i won c/o of talented designer, illustrator and photographer Tim Easley:

i saw a tweet from Tim, and i believe it was an RT based competition to WIN one of his awesome printed tote bags {which you can buy here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/87583059/life-of-a-pencil-tote-bag-screen-printed?ref=shop_home_active}

from the packaging alone, i knew there would be something AWESOME inside [the envelope even said so]

'clare the bear' is LOLS.

ok, here is the awesome tote bag and a little badge too, awesome:

i do ♥ pencils, so this is alllll good for me! thanks so much, Tim!

check out the rest of Tims shizz here: http://timeasley.com/

and follow him on twitter here: https://twitter.com/timeasley

"ich liebe das giveaway"

♥