A bit of a giveaway/competition....

Hello everyone!

To mark the end of the holidays I thought I would come up with a little competion/giveaway for my lovely readers!  A few months ago I was lucky enough to visit one of my favourite countries....ah, but which one?

The blogger to correctly name the country of my visit (photos below) will win one of my handmade lavendar hearts in a colour of your choice! And a couple of other surprise goodies!

Rules (such as they are):

• you must be a follower of this blog
• Deadline for entries - midnight on 5th September
• If more than one blogger names the country correctly, the names will go into the hat (or similar recepticle) and my trusty helper (aka my daughter!) will draw the winner

Clue - its not in Europe.....and thats it!! Simples!!

OK, here goes with the picture clues:

Well, where in the world is it?!

Have fun, and good luck!

Helenxx

My first ever giveaway win!!

Morning!

Recently I was lucky enough to win my first ever giveaway, organised by the the lovely KC's Court!  Oh boy, was I excited!  And the prize?  Well, take a look:

A Knit Your Own Royal Wedding book!  I was out of the county at the time of The Wedding so this is a lovely souveneir!

But, in true bloggy kindness-style, not only did I receive the book - included was some yummy yarn as well:

This yarn is so lovely and soft I just have to keep picking it up and handling it!

However, this is not the end of the tale....as my regular readers will know I have been under the weather this summer, so my bestest friend Sue got involved, and to cut a long story short, the parcel was sent to her as she knew I wasnt reading blogs at that time so would not have known that I had won! 

Thank you so much Julie for this lovely giveaway - and for taking the time to sort it out for me, and of course big thanks as well to Sue for sorting me out once again!

Just got to love blogging!

Helenxx

Belated Moonstruck giveaway

Hi everyone!

After a considerable delay, I finally got to draw the winner of my first ever giveaway.

The winner is:

Leah at Faith76 - Congratulations!

This will be on its way to you asap!

Will  be running another giveaway in the autumn hopefully so watch this space!

Many thanks to all of you who joined in!

Helenxx

new uses for crochet flowers - and a giveaway!!

Hello everyone, hope your weekend is going wonderfully!  Havent we been enjoying some lovely sunshine?  I had a great day yesterday as I hosted 2 moonstruck birthday parties (for the soon to be 13 and 15 yr olds).  I can imagine you are saying to yourself "is that woman mad???? Enjoyed hosting kids parties???? You are having a laugh!!!!")  but if I tell you that the young 13 year old ladies had a craft party

and the 15 year old lads had a PS3 tournament party (1 involved a lot of input from me but was a ball as it was great to see the girls enjoying the crafts whereas the other involved throwing a few pizzas in front of the, it has to be said, very polite young gentlemen) then you can probably see my reasoning!  And once the girls parties had finished, my daughters lovely friend stayed to carry on the crafting (mixed in with tennis and badminton) whilst I sat in the garden with my hook

Can you see the little pile of granny squares in the foreground - more info to follow soon!!

So in true crafty moonstruck style, daughter asked me to make something for the young ladies to take home - she loves my crochet flowers, so I made a few:

salmon pink and lavendar:

spring green and purple:

lavendar and blue:

But rather than making them into corsages this time I attached them to headbands:

And it turned out that the girls could also wear them as necklaces and bracelets - multi-tasking with fashion at such a young age!!!!

I loved the look of all the flowers bunched up together:

"Wouldnt they look great wired onto florists stems and made into a posy" said my lovely friend Sue.  We were also chatting about the totally amazing fact that I have now got 47 followers!!!!!!!!!!!!!  "why dont you do a giveaway for when you reach 50 followers?  And you could make a bunch of these flowers for the prize?"  Now, I have known Sue for quite a while (!) and when she has an idea like that you can bet it is spot on.  So there you have it dear bloggy friends - A GIVEAWAY!!  The small print then:

you need to be a follower!
please leave a comment saying you are interested in the giveaway
My little blog needs to have hit at least 50 followers before the deadline which is 21 July (thought I would make this quite a long deadline as I know lots of you lovely people have holidays to look forward to!)
And thats it!

Well, Im off now for another coffee and then its hanging more washing out...

Have a great Sunday!

Helenxx