Give-Away Day/Week

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.

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How super cute and clever! My favorite blog is SouleMama, so real and down to earth. FamilyFun.com is a great place to find good crafts by age group! Now for my favorite…I have to say the walnut babies, crazy cute and whimsy, but I am also digging the pasta, either way lots of fun! Thanks!

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I love the walnut babies. My daughter and I stuffed a wad of pink flannel in milk weed pod and called it a baby, but yours are much cuter!

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Crafty-kids blog/resource:

http://www.pudgybunny.com/index.html

Regular grown-up crafty locale online:

angrychicken.typepad.com

The walnut babies…We lost a wee one this fall, and I’ve been trying to think of a way to “give” that babe a wee ornament (we give each of our children ornaments for Christmas), for us to have every year…and a walnut baby would be..perfect….

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my favorite blog is a quilt is nice http:\\aquiltisnice.blogspot.com

and i would love a walnut baby in my xmas tree this year!

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I have been a fan of your blog for a bit. You are incredible. I MUST HAVE THE RAVIOLI. You see, I am making plush food for my daughter’s kitchen set she will get this Christmas. She has to have that ravioli! It is so cute. And now that I know it exists, I simply have to have it for her kitchen. Oh it is so so so darling. Of course I adore the walnut babies. How do you do them so tiny? So sweet.

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I am not trying to enter twice, I just got so excited. I forgot to tell you my favorite sites!

howaboutorange.blogspot.com
softiescentral.typepad.com

and for games online for preschoolers I love starfall.com. It is fun to do the ABC online game. It is pretty cute.

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I love the walnut babies. My daughter loves Thumbelina and she would just go crazy for these Thumbelina like babies.

My favorite crafting blog: http://blog.craftzine.com/

My favorite blog for ideas to entertain my 3 yr old: http://www.kaboose.com/

I feel for you. I also craft in spurts. Mine mainly occurs after bed time. I have a 3 yr old and a 7 mos old, so the little pieces are very interesting to them both. 🙂

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Love the walnut babies!!!
My favorite blog is definitely Sew Mama Sew! There are always so many fantastic ideas, most recently the holiday gift giving ideas for different types of people!

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I’d like soooo much to win your great giveaway,I’m simply in love with your delightful walnut shells …so I’ll keep my fingers crossed, goodness knows if Fortune, in the day before my birthday (yes, yes, it’s tomorrow, 4th of december! :o)…), will smile on me! ;o)

A big hug from Italy and thanks again so much for this chance!

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I would love a walnut baby!

My fav craft blog right now is Sew mama Sew, but after this day I have a ton more to read!

Right now I spend a lit of time on http://www.northpole.com with the 5 and 2 year ols I nanny for. Maybe it has some good ideas for you?

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Oh my goodness! What a great giveaway! I would have to choose the raviolis for my daughter to add to her felt food collection!
Hugs from Laurraine in Canada

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So glad to finally find this site bursting with creativity! I always thought walnut shells were too tempting to be thrown out and this must be why. From where does this type of inspiration flow?? My fingers are too old and clumsy to make anything so delicate.

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