Go check out this giveaway...

Normally I don't cross-post giveaways because it irritates me. However, there's a chance for a really awesome prize here and I wanted to share it.

Isn't this thing cool? It's like a whole room in a box.

Lovely Little Handmades is having a giveaway for a cutting board, which if you win, you will then be entered into the Original Scrapbox drawing for a Limited Edition Workbox.

If I had more disposable income, I'd have one of these already.

We have a winner(s)!

Thanks to everyone who swung on by, checked out my blog and left me a giveaway comment. Here are the winners of my jam and weirdo fabric giveaway. Winners have also been emailed.

1. Shannon, who said: First, peach, second cranberry pear. Surprise me with the fabric. Thanks so much.

A jar of peach jam and a set of mystery fabrics will be headed to Shannon shortly.

2. A Family of Boys, who said: Mmm..pear jam, oh wait, pear raspberry. Oh, no the boys want the cranberry pear. Ok, we'd love any kind because we love the homemade jams and my stash is gone from last summer.

Pear or possibly pear raspberry jam is headed to these boys... with the second mystery fabric set

3. Jingle, who said: Oh, how fun! I would go with Cranberry Pear first, and pear second. Your FQ's are hilarious! (Or rather, the way you speak of them is hilarious! LOL!) I would go with the vaguely flowered option! jinglesells at gmail dot com

Cran-pear jam and vaguely flowered fabrics will hopefully be enjoyed by Jingle.

Congratulations to these winners, and a big thank you to everyone who entered!

For those of you who commented about being interested in making jam, I will be posting about my canning exploits later this summer (once there's actually fruit that's ripe). I'll probably do more jam giveaways just on the blog for people who actually read it. I bet I can even find more horrific fabrics to give away with them.

Excellent day for the mail, today.

Not to distract those of you who are here to enter my giveaway (scroll down; it's there, I promise), but I got two awesome packages in the mail today and had to share them.

First off, I won Sheila C's Mother's Day Giveaway and my prize arrived in the mail. Her blog is called "My empty nest is full of cat hair," which has to win some sort of prize for awesome blog titles.

In addition to the charm pack and 2 fat quarters that she was offering as a prize, she also sent me a package of quilting needles, a little magnifying glass (it's that clear thing on the bottom left) and a cute log-cabin quilted pin! I'm so pleased to have won her giveaway.

For those of you who are surfing here from SMS giveaway day, Sheila is also offering a really cute bag pattern and some FQs for a giveaway prize. Go check it out!

But that's not all I got in the mail today! I also got my squares for an iSpy fabric swap that I participated in. It seems like forever ago that I started cutting out squares, but I did send mine in really early and I was eagerly anticipating the arrival of my squares.

I got 200 squares of different fabrics back and can't fit them into a picture to show you, but here's a sampling of them (the ones on the tops of the bundles).

Now to figure out what to do with them!

Giveaway!

Having been the recipient of several giveaways, I decided to participate in Sew, Mama, Sew's May giveaway day. Since there are roughly four of you who read the blog, you've all got a pretty darn good shot at winning.

I'm giving away a jar of my homemade jam to the lucky winner(s) of my giveaway. If you're local and I don't have to ship... for instance, if you're a PMQG member and will be at the next meeting, I'll throw in a jar of something else as well. I'm guessing that most of you found this blog via the PMQG website anyhow, so I also thought I'd giveaway a little bitta fabric.

Your jam choices are as follows:

Pear-raspberry, pear, cranberry pear, and peach

As a side note, all of these jam choices are pretty damn tasty. The peach jam is lowest in added sugar (if that's a concern) and tastes the "fruitiest". The pear jam is the sweetest, followed by pear-raspberry (which is a lovely color with suspended raspberry seeds). The cranberry-pear is much more tart.

In order to be the grateful recipient of my fabulous jam, you must also be willing to accept one of the following sets of weird-o fat quarters that I think I must have gotten on ebay one night after a couple of glasses of wine. Include which set of fabrics you are least appalled by and I will send those to you along with your jammy winnings.

3 vaguely flowered FQs, 3 orange FQs

4 really weird, somewhat child-oriented FQs

If you're interested in winning a jar of jam, comment below with your top two flavor choices. I'll draw three responses (assuming there are more than that) and those commenters will win either their first or second choice... hopefully. If you don't get choice 1 or 2, we'll work something out.

Comments must be made before noon (PST) on Friday, May 21. I'll draw sometime Friday night and mail out (or make arrangements to deliver) sometime early the next week.

Comments must be made before 9 pm (PST) on THURSDAY, May 20. This gives me time to get in touch with people and mail things out before the SMS deadline of May 24.

Thanks for reading!!

Potholder Pass 3

I finished my potholders for the potholder pass several days ago, but hadn't posted pictures yet. Here they are. The only request that I got from my partner was "Pink!", so this is what I came up with. The pink fabric has glitter in it, but you can't see it unless you're fairly close up.

I got a couple fat quarters (pink!) and am planning on mailing this out tonight.

On a non-potholder note, I won a giveaway! The Fat Quarter Shop blog, The Jolly Jabber, had a giveaway for two Pretty Little Books. I won a copy of Pretty Little Pillows and it arrived in my mailbox today. I'm so excited! I haven't looked through it yet, but the pillows just on the front are pretty neat. I'll post a review once I get through it.