Giveaway Day is Coming this Monday

UPDATE: The Giveaway is now closed.
Thanks for playing!

 Congrats to Lynne who's mustache heckle won the day!


Every once in a while

Sew Mama Sew hosts a giveaway.

My offering this round is one of two things.

Choice #1: A jersey spiral scarf from the

Anne Kata design.

It works as a hair band or belt, is soft and a lovely accessory to

jazz up an outfit.

Pick plum, grey or robin's egg blue.

It works on kids

Or kids at heart.

Or, pick Choice #2.

A re purposed burlap and canvas fabric basket.

It's reversible.

Use it as a wee hand bag or to collect those things that need collecting.

Come back to visit on Monday Dec 12th and leave a comment

telling me

the best thing you've ever heard a kid say.

I'll pick the one I like the best :)

I'll ship internationally.

Then go check out all the other great giveaways via

 Sew, Mama, Sew

If you like what you see
new followers are always welcome.

Our Lynne said the following
as she suffered this indignity from a shorty:

"My son asked me the other night while I was giving him a bath whether he would have a mustache like me some day.

Niiiiiiiiiiiice. :)
Beautiful scarves... Keeping my fingers crossed."

Have Kit, Will Travel

Another
(yes another)
 art caddy.

I promise the next thing will be a needle point periodic table.

This is more for me than for Pu.

More for me so I don't have to pick up one thousand markers

and crayons

and tape

and glue

and glitter sticks (?!)

and

and

add your own.

Now they all have a home at the end of out little kitchen island

Now she can pick up her gear and go.

Theoretically she can clean up and go.

Next I should get her some spray paint, and a tag name

and she can take her art caddy to the street.

Mobile,

she'll be lurking in the alley's 

hiding from the fuzz

as she builds her career as a 3 year old graffiti artist.

Perhaps we should focus on loosing bed time diapers first.

They aren't very street.

(although possibly practical and versatile for a life of artist on the run)

Poor kid will get kicked out of the space program

for colouring on the windows during her mission to mars.

Burlap & Lace

Just like "nuts & gum, together at last"- the Simpsons

We have a deck that would be just right

if

if there were not power lines cutting our sky

if

the sun was not in our eye

(just at dinner, otherwise bring on the sun)

if

we had some sort of screen to support the above wishes

we tried bamboo

it died

we just didn't commit

but now

now i think it might be just right

I have been fighting the sun a little with my other flagging

I tossed up some banners with bright material

and I waited

It didn't take long before they were bleached

So this time I decided to go with lace and neutrals and see

I have been hunting coffee sacks to reuse and I stumbled upon some today

so fortuitous

one even had my daughter's name stamped on it

I took it as a sign

And took it home

Will the sun eat the burlap in one season?

I wouldn't mind it all being reclaimed by the elements

but slowly please