Lucky Me!

I was lucky enough to win a giveaway for one of Hannah of Chicken Willow's beautiful iPad cosies a few weeks ago. Now I don't actually own an iPad but it looked so beautiful I couldn't resist entering the giveaway. Look at that gorgeous fabric and how well it's made.  Just amazing!

Click on this picture to enlarge it and check out that beautifully neat stitching!

It has been reinvented as a camera cosy. I regularly take my camera out with me in my handbag and worry about it getting bashed about. Now it will be all snug in that fleece and I'll be able to grab it a lot quicker too so thank you Hannah!

I was also lucky enough to have my friend Joanna at Little Minx think of me while she was out op shopping. She found this incredible 20m long tape measure and wondered if I might like it. That would be quite an impressive tape measure rose brooch! I'm really looking forward to the challenge of making it. I think it will have to be a display piece as I don't think even I'd be game to wear something that big! Thank you Joanna.

Joanna's planning a Rosy tea party for her little girl's birthday and has been out collecting the most beautiful teacups and saucers for the party. I can't wait to see the party plans unfold over the next few weeks. It looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

There's a peek of sunshine through the clouds out there today. I've actually managed to get some washing out on the line today. It's been so wet lately. I really can't wait until it gets a little drier and warmer. Come on Spring. Hurry up!!

Home

I'm back from my holiday and before you think it, no I didn't bring this rotten rain with me. I do think the weather gods conspire to throw torrential rain at you when you return from holiday. It adds to the whole depressing experience!

Don't you love the little trail the short one has made walking back and forth to the water to fill her bucket? I suspect the taller one was doing a little bossing around don't you? Needless to say, we had a wonderful time with my family and I even got some hand sewing done whilst watching endless episodes of Australian MasterChef with my Mum.

So I now have ridiculous amounts of unpacking to do, which is very depressing but a certain someone decided to put a great big smile on my face this morning. Look what arrived for me in the post today.

It's a wonderful parcel from Megan of Mousehouse. I ordered these gorgeous personalised applique pillowcases from her just before I went away.

They came so beautifully wrapped and with some gorgeous tags and a very funny card (it reads, my life would be so much nicer if only my Mother would stop knitting). Thank you Megan, you really put a smile on my face and I can see a lot more orders coming your way for these pillowcases. They are divine!! Megan is having a giveaway on her blog which is definately worth entering. Pop along and join in now.

My facebook giveaway closes at 6pm today, Kiwi time, so if you haven't already, head over there and make a last minute entry.

Cotton Kiwi Facebook giveaway

Thank you to everyone who popped over to my Facebook page yesterday to help take me to (and over!) the 100 fan/liker mark. I'm having a giveaway to say thank you to the facebookers so if you haven't already, pop over to my page and 'like' Cotton Kiwi, then leave a comment telling me what it is you like about Cotton Kiwi goodies to enter.

The prize includes one of each of these in the winners choice of colours/designs. The competition is open internationally and will close on Friday 16th July.

 1 Tape Measure Rose Brooch in your choice of colour

1 Teacup Teatowel in your choice of colours

 1 Applique kids t-shirt in your choice of size/design/colour

(I have lots of older kids' designs too)

This is only open to entries via my facebook page.

Once I reach 100 followers on my blog, I'll have a similar giveaway here. So pop on over and join my page if you haven't already and enter!

And the winners are.....

Don't you love saying that? I'm afraid you will have to put up with me in my cardigan and jeans for the presentation of these prizes. My evening dress is still in pieces on the sewing room floor.....

And so without further ado, the winners, as drawn by my two lovely assistants from the ridiculous hat are.......

NZ Green Buttons (Tape Measure Brooch)

Kelly of Reclaiming Me (Teacup Teatowel) (should those 2 words be 4 words? I never know)

and last but not least

Dash Robin (sock monkey)

Thanks to everyone who entered and wished me a Happy Blog Birthday. Thanks too to all of you who follow me and pop in for a visit. I really do appreciate it. Now I'm off to google a good recipe for Prawn fritters. Happy Friday everyone!

It's been a year...

It's been a year since I started this blog and I think I should celebrate don't you? Since you are one of  the main reasons I publish this blog, you should be the one getting the gift don't you think? So to celebrate I'm going to giveaway some Cotton Kiwi goodies. I'm going to have three giveaways.

One is for a Cotton Kiwi Tape Measure Brooch.

The next prize is for an appliqued teacup tea towel

and the final prize is for a sock monkey.

If you follow my blog already, or are a Cotton Kiwi fan via facebook, all you have to do is leave a comment below or on my Facebook page, telling me how you would celebrate your ideal birthday.

If you aren't a follower or a fan on Facebook already, just become one and leave a comment as above. If you blog about the giveaway, let me know and I'll give you an extra entry. 

Don't forget to leave me some way of contacting you. The winning names will be drawn out of a hat on Friday 30th April at 5pm so check back here on Friday to see if you've won! Good luck!

And the winner is....

Da da da da.........

Strickbombe! Email me your address A and I will pop your goodies in the post to you.

Giveaway and poster

The poster I designed for the March 7th Devonport Craft Market is finally finished and has been uploaded onto the blog. I have absolutely no graphic design skills whatsoever but I can take a photograph, so I went for a collage approach. I'm quite pleased with it.

The fantail is embroidered onto a teatowel which I am going to give away to one of you lovely people along with one of my tape measure brooches. The teatowel isn't quite perfect as I originally embroidered the name of the market on the towel and then unpicked it because I didn't like it. If you look closely, you can see where it was but its still perfectly useable or you could turn it into something else.

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If you want to go into the draw for the giveaway,all you have to do is to start following my blog (click on the "follow" button in the right hand column); if you aren't already a follower and leave a comment answering the following question:

"What is your favourite New Zealand native bird and why?"

I will pick the winner's name from a hat on Tuesday 2nd March.