What is better than getting presents or than getting praise. We all like a little of both in our life.
Portia's MMM'11 first week collage (from Miss P)
In terms of praise I have recently been mentioned on P
ortia’s blog “Miss P” where she calls me
pretty crafty and clever. How’s that for praise. Thank you Portia! I can tell you it’s lovely and heart warming. Especially coming for someone like Portia who is pretty darn crafty and clever herself. She joined the new
Refashion Co-op when we first began a couple of weeks ago (she has already posted
quite a few refashions) and is doing
Me-Made-March 2011 with Zoe too. And she is an amazing thrifter. The things she manages to find leave me breathless and slightly jealous. But luckily for us, she sells most of it
on Etsy so you should check her out there. I have added her blog to the blog roll as a Stylish Sewing blog.
The other mention I had recently was on Craft Gossip where they mentioned my pin cushion tutorial from my Christmas gift series. Let me just give a great big thanks to Anne, the sewing editor on Craft Gossip.
On to the presents. Well actually one was a giveaway I won on Minnando’s House where the lovely Debbie was giving away a Burda magazine. I can’t wait to try out some of the patterns in it. Thank you Debbie.
The other thing I won was in a price raffle on the Ravelry Group ‘Trash to Treasure” (you need to login). Kim or Minerva’s hand had entered a pair of sweater refashioned into fingerless mittens into the prize draw and this is exactly what I won. Kim blogs on “A little bit less” where she tries to de-clutter her house a bit a day. Thank you Kim for the mittens – they are lovely.
Kim is not the only one who is trying to get rid of stuff at the moment. Cry is also trying to giveaway 100 things and she decided upon seeing my stamp collection that I use for among other the stamp bowl, that she would send me a couple of stamps she had left from her Grandmother. Thank you Cry!
Finally, I want to tell you about this Danish blog I recently discovered. A while back I asked for help figuring out what to do with this coffee packaging I had been saving up. Someone sent me the link to ‘Når Genbrug bliver Guld‘. This translates to ‘When Recycling becomes Gold” and it is a Danish blog written by Helene, an extremely creative Danish girl. I know you might not all understand Danish and that’s when Google Translate steps in. Also her blog is mainly about all the wonderful images of the amazing restyling projects she does. I am especially fascinated by her tutorial on making bags out of plastic packaging, which I plan to try with my coffee packaging.
Let me wish you all a wonderful and sunny day.
take care,
Eddie
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