Comment this week, get a chance to win free stuff! I know, I know, the Sew Mama Sew rules specified Give-Away *Day*, but this is a weekly-ish blog, so that just wouldn’t be fair around here. So comment anytime in the next week, comments will close after my daughter goes to bed on Tuesday the 9th, and a winner will be announced the next morning, after I get through reading the comments.
But not just any comments, your comment must contain the name of your favorite craft blog, and if you want to get a double chance to win, also include the name of your favorite blog or website for fun educational games or crafts to do with two to three year olds. Because that’s what I need more of around here. :-) I don’t expect everyone to have one of those, that’s why it’s the bonus chance. I’ll print out everyone’s names once or twice (or heck, maybe three times if I really like your blog suggestion) and have my daughter draw one of them out of a hat. So it’ll be random, but perhaps skewed towards my favorite responses. Because I get to make the rules. I never get to make the rules… hahahahaha er, maybe I need to go to bed. But I’m not done yet.
What do you win? What do you want to win? You should put that in your comment too, because I’m curious what everyone would pick even if they don’t win. Your choice of one of these super cute walnut babies (100% wool felt, cotton embroidery floss, polyester stuffing & one genuine local pesticide free walnut shell) to hang on your christmas tree or tuck in a doll house (that’s what my daughter does), or a set of 12 felted ravioli (ecospun felt made from recycled plastic bottles and cotton filling). I’m obviously scatter brained, because my natural fiber craft is stuffed with polyester, and my plastic felt is stuffed with cotton. That’s just what you get around here.
I wanted to start an Etsy store, that was my motivation for finishing these four walnut babies (I would have made the babies, but never lined their shells properly because that isn’t as fun). But in the end it takes me too long to make them to sell for any reasonable price. From start to finish they take me three hours I think, tiny tiny stitches, although it’s a bit hard to time, since I have a two year old my crafting is done in 20 minute intervals half of them at the playground. But if I were to follow pricing formulas, just for wholesale I should be paying myself something like $10 an hour which works out to $30, then with outrageous x2 or x3 calculations for retail that would come out to something utterly ridiculous. I’d be perfectly happy with the $30, but I can’t imagine anyone paying that. So instead I’ll give them away. Because free is better than underpaid, or, um, something. Yah, it’s past my bedtime. Maybe I’ll open an Etsy store next week, but really, I already have at least two jobs and I need to be kinder to myself.
Walnut shells. What would you do if you had a bag of walnuts from your friends tree? They must be crafted with. Next I want to make sailboats. Too many projects. Too few hours until my daughter wakes up. Must go to sleep.
So leave me a comment, I *will* ship internationally, make sure to get your email address right, give me a craft blog and an education blog and tell me what you’d pick if you win. I’ll email the winner for your address on the 10th. And check out Sew Mama Sew if it’s still December 3rd to see a list of other blogs having give-aways.
What cute items up for grab! I love the ravioli, but I think I’d have to choose a walnut baby. Those are sooo adorable. I have to say my favorite craft blog has to be a sewing blog http://afterthedress.blogspot.com.
Since I don’t have kids I’m not exactly sure what crafts are age appropriate for 2-3 year olds, but I love http://www.skiptomylou.org/ who’s always posting crafts to do with kids! So I’m not sure if that’ll count for a bonus entry, but even if not, check it out, it’s a pretty cool site.
I would love the ravioli for a christmas present, but I’d love the walnut baby too. the sewmamasew blog is by far my fave, but for activities let me suggest a few…
crafty crow is #1 for kids ideas!
montessoribyhand + sewliberated
montessoriblog.com
and librivox is such a fun site.
More activities at
learntoreadfree.com
starfall.com
pbskids.org
starfall.com
I want the purple Walnut baby!!!!
I just love the walnut babies! One of my favorite craft sites is craftster. I check out the forum regularly to see what others are making, ask questions and find tutorials. My favorite kid site is http://www.kinderart.com/ It has tons of great craft activities to do with little ones.
Adorably cute babies…. Even, if I dont win, I will try to make them myself.
Blogs – I usually jump from one blog to other via blog rolls. Its a lot more fun!
Merry Christmas
The walnut babies just couldn’t be any cuter!
http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/
Bella Dia
Impress Your Kids
Jessica’s Quilting Corner
Kiddio
Muses of Megret
Montessori Mama
Ohana Mama !
Our Crafts -N-Things
Our Journey To Ohana
Oh Sew Sassy!
Plains Life
Ramblings of a Crazy Woman
Reading Coach Online
Rubinology
Scott Family News
Sibling Revelry
The Crafty Crow
Teaching Tiny Tots At Mommy School
http://paperboxworld.googlepages.com/home23
http://www.sanrio.co.jp/characters/shinkansen/papercraft.html
The last two are boxs that you can make… just click on the train
and then print out.
Have loads of fun!
I love all of your cuties and pasta!
Thanks a million!
Rane and kids
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p.s. if these did not work then e_mail me and I will send the
addresses I hav tried to post this 5 times and it wont let me so
I have made the list alot smaller and changed the way I am posting
them. If you want more bloggs let me know.
I love the walnut babies. How cute. Thank you for offering this.
I love the walnut babies! My daughter (6) would have a fit over them. Our favorite craft / project site is http://dltk-kids.com personally. Of course, we’re not big “crafters”, so what’s on that site works well for us *g*
Okay, let’s see if I can get this right:
Craft blog: crazymomquilts.blogspot.com
Ed./Toddler/Preschool Crafty blog: http://belladia.typepad.com/crafty_crow/
What I would choose: Ravioli for my 3-yr-old’s kitchen
Walnut babies, please. oneprettything.com has loads of stuff from loads of other websites, like a yellow pages of crafts.
Thank you for doing this.
fav craft blogs – tinyhappy.typepad.com, indietutes.blogspot.net – and any blogs with great tutorials for the beginning sewer, i look at what other great bloggers are reading to find more great blogs
preschool and kids craft sites- starfall.com, sesamestreet.com, letteroftheweek.com, craftsforkids.com, familyfun.com, childrensrecipes.com, kiddierecords.com, seussville.com, edemberley.com, the toymaker.com, janbrett.com
hope that some of the above are good for entertainment! can’t decide which i like better the walnuts or the ravioli, i do know my 3-year-old son would be happy with either.
thanks and happy surfing!
I would love to win the walnut babies, my son would love to play wiith these.
My favorite craft blog is Puking Pastilles, because she has a tutorial for making superhero capes, and I am eternally grateful!
I really like both your prizes, but I would have to pick the walnut baby because I’ve been crazily making felt food for the last 2 months.
My favorite crafting blog is http://spamantha.typepad.com/diary_of_a_mad_fabriholic/
She quilts and knits (especially socks) and loves Kaffe Fassett fabrics, so the pics are great.
The wonderful Ravioli! So cute!
I love Soule Mama http://www.soulemama.com for crafty goodness.
Fun! Kids Craft Weekly. http://kidscraftweekly.com/ I consider it kinda educational