The single best giveaway for the new year!

There's a fantastic giveaway going on that I'd truly love to win.
But maybe, if you know about it too you could win it instead. ;)
Leona's Quilting Adventure
She's giving away these fabulous things:
Fast and Fun Pillow kits.

Pic from Leona's Quilting Adventure

One Thimble Blossoms Dainty Table Topper pattern.

Pic from Leona's Quilting Adventure

Eleven, I repeat Eleven(!!) Gorgeously Pink fat quarters.

Pic from Leona's Quilting Adventure

I followed, I blogged, I tweeted and I shared I hope you do to!

Bag Giveaway drawn perhaps from inside the ark!

Over the past couple of days a massive storm front washed out the centre of town. The rain was so heavy at times you could not hear each other shouting in the same room! Storm water poured into my friends shop and into their storage room damaging all the stock and sadly, peoples christmas layby's. It also filled the carpark under the mall like a swimming pool up to the roof of some unfortunate peoples cars. It was one hell of a downpour! Down our end of town the street gutters backed up and water covered the road, but we were lucky!

Road near our house

Today however despite the sun being out in force, all the rain water has come on down the creeks and river and been released from dams.

Water is moving slowly towards us

We are in the midst of packing up our most precious belongings into plastic containers that we just had to run out to buy. The containers are being packed  "just-in-case" as the flooded river waters come ever so slowly but menacingly towards us.

Who can believe we were so recently in drought

Currently we are scheduled for a 9.6 metre major flood tomorrow, peaking at 10 metres on Monday morning. If the Levee's hold I think we will be OK but pray for no more rain though as I'm nervous about it enough! Our phone line is all crackly and unusable for calls today, so our internet is up and down, and not expected to get any better til this flooding is all over...with more rain over the next 10 days likely!
The north & east of town have been evacuated today with roads cut off and flooding to their houses imminent as they have no protection from the Levee banks it's not going to be good news for them and I am praying that they will all have the strength to get through this.
What a sucky thing to happen right before Christmas!
GIVEAWAY! - bag and zippy pouch and the winner is...

Comment number 4 which is
Clare !!!

Clare said...

congrats on reaching a year of blogging - here's to many more years of sharing to come!! I enjoy catching up on your sewing adventures on google reader and will try to find a few mins to add a post in my blog about your giveaway. oh and I just LOVE the 70s vibe of the bag - takes me back to my childhood.

Thanks everyone for your comments, To the lovely Clare, Paisley coming your way! 

The Whoops I almost missed it Giveaway!!

Whoops I missed it! I'm a little late, but thats not unusual;) I knew it was sometime around now, but last night I actually checked and...
One year and a few hours ago I started this little blog.
To celebrate I believe it is customary to give stuff away!

GIVEAWAY! -closed 4/11/10 drawing @ 3pm
You can enter multiple times all you have to do is:
1. Follow me and leave a comment on this giveaway post letting me know. (1 entry)
2. Blog about this giveaway on your own blog and leave the link in a comment here letting me know. (1 entry)
3. Add this blog to your blogroll and leave the link to your blog in a comment here letting me know. (1 entry)
Check back here next Saturday to see if you have won.

Bag Giveaway!!!

I sewed these up late last night and finished them off this morning so that I could give something away in celebration of a year.
One fairly large shopping bag and a matching little zippy pouch.

Zippy pouch with strap and Vintage Metal zipper

The jeans zip I used for the zippy pouch is vintage, it was unused and still in it's cardboard wrapper.

I have lined them both in a newly purchased navy blue poplin and used a scrap of ricrac I had left over, but other than that they are vintage, vintage vintage!

I have no idea exactly how vintage this paisley fabric is. But at best guess I do recall in the 70's Mum had made 3 large cushions from it. The bag and pouch are made from the unused fabric left over from making those cushions. Mum made the cushions for the back seat of the ancient Holden which had blue vinyl seats. The seats got superheated in summer and I remember if your leg slipped off the edge of the cushion the vinyl seat burned!! Now I look at it I cannot imagine this fabric going too well with an azure blue vinyl, car interior but, well there ya go! I love it's colours! and it's vintageness screams out to me and I wish there was more of it!

I've entered a Lovely beaded giveaway

A lovely lady playing 20 questions along with Meet Me at Mikes came along and commented on my 20 questions blog post from the other day and when I went along to look at Christines blog Crafty Geordi, I saw she was giving away some wooden beaded loveliness.

Pic from Christines blog Crafty Geordi

Now while I hope to win and have the wooden beaded loveliness all for myself, you should all pop along and post something, and follow her and maybe you could make a new friend and win some wooden beaded loveliness for yourself.