Giveaway Greetings

Hello there & a special holiday greeting to all American readers!
I hope you have had a wonderful week whether you were soaking up the sun...

 walking in the rain

 or building castles in the sand

With the children out of school for the summer, I've been doing all three this week - which was lovely, but it means I am a wee bit behind on lots of other important things, like blogging & catching up on all the fun on Flickr.... 

But back to the giveaway. Thanks again for all the lovely blogiversary wishes (especially to Judith & Amy!!) & congratulations to number 72 

who was
gccmom29 June 2012 23:12
What lovely things. Congratulations on your blogiversary! Fudge is my absolute favorite candy!!

Could you please email me your address so I can get this lot of lovelies off to you

If you didn't win this time, don't forget I'll be having another giveaway at the end of July & it might just be your lucky month!
While I was away, we stayed in an old converted monastery deep in the mountains of the tiny island of Majorca

The scenery was stunningly beautiful & I tried to capture it on Instagram

At every turn there were wee courtyards, cobbled streets, a wonderful sense of history 

and most importantly, NO RAIN!

I'm off now to see how Andy's getting on at the tennis, but I'll be back with a tutorial next week & some exciting news

Hope you all have a lovely rest of your weekend & if you have any instagram tips, do please let me know

Take care

Karen

We have a winner!

Hello there!
I hope you had a good week & are enjoying a great weekend! Here on the North Coast of Ireland the sun has been shining & the sun daisies have come out

the farmers have been out cutting the hay

the boys have been camping in the garden

and I've been doing a wee bit of painting.....  transforming this

to this

I've managed to get a wee bit of sewing done too... another notebook cover

But less about me & onto more important things, like the winner of the SMS Giveaway..... Thanks so much to every single one of you who left such nice comments... I really enjoyed reading each one of them & am so thrilled to have met so many new stitchy folk! So.... according to random.org the winner is

Congratulations ravensrascals! I will email you to get your postal address, but for everyone else, please don't be too down-heartened. Believe it or not, I have NEVER won a giveaway :( so you are not alone... But, more importantly, every month for 2012 I have been running a giveaway, so you will have a chance to win something nice in June (& July & August!)

Meanwhile I hope you have a lovely weekend & maybe have time to enjoy the sunset!

Take care

Karen

An Irish Road Trip: Giveaway Winner

Hello there!
I hope you had a wonderful Easter - a bit of sunshine, the children off school, eating too much chocolate, happy times with the family.... I did manage to get a bit of sewing done though....this is a new pattern I've been working - its for a knitting bag:

Inside there are lots of pockets for needles & a wee purse to hold row counters (I used Rashida Coleman-Hale's snappy coin purse tutorial)

I love these fabrics - they're from the Backyard Baby range which I got from Annie at The Village Haberdashery (she's also got the Flea Market Fancy range if you live in the UK)
But back to business: to-day we celebrate the Titanic, possibly the greatest piece of engineering to come out of Northern Ireland, and to remember the devastating loss of life in its tragic sinking 100 years ago when it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage.

Most of us in the North of Ireland live within an hours drive from dramatic coastlines & incredibly beautiful beaches like the White Rocks which is about 5 miles from our house

Which leads me to the Irish Road Trip Giveaway.... according to random.org the winner of these 40 "shades of green" fabrics & the yummy Avoca recipe book is:

Congratulations Indianna! Would you mind please emailing me your address so I can get this lot of lovies off to you

Thanks so much to you all for the lovely comments....I loved hearing from you & hope you all have a wonderful rest of the weekend
Take care
Karen