Winner!

I apologize this winning-picking process being a bit late, but my dearest Assistant leads such a busy life that we didn't get our schedules match before today. But just a little while ago we finally made it, and here are the results now:

Thank you so much all of you who entered! You were listed in a A4, and the Official Inspector aka Assistant got to work:

Thinking...thinking...choosing (my assistant is somewhat reading-challenged still, so the decision was made truly by heart)... who to pick...

...More thinking... there are just so many to choose from... but then, suddenly:

"I did it! I chose the winner" "--- Really? Can you hold the paper still for a sec, dear?"

"Um... A little longer perhaps, please? Oh my..." Here we go:

"Who is it, auntie? Who did I pick?" "It's a lovely lady called Jane!" "Alright!" he then said and made it official by drawing a line and signing the paper...

...That's just too cute! "Anything else you would like to add, perhaps, dear?"

Thaaaank you!

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Congratulations, dear Jane from Jane's Journal, I'll be emailing you in a minute, and get your pouch into the mail asap! Thank you still once everyone!

Happy Tuesday!

Yours,
Mia

Lucky lucky lucky

Friday was a great postman-day. I received my winning-parcel from Jane's giveaway - wow!

A big bunch of beautiful fabrics! Jane makes the most beautiful things with these vintage (and some new) fabrics, just take a look at her shop - those pillowcases are adorable (and so is everything else)... No wonder my bunch has some pretty-pretty-prettiness in it:

Receiving all these pretty fabrics (Thank you SO much still once, Jane!), made me think... I will most definitely keep most of them myself *ahem* but it definitely wouldn't hurt to pay it forward, just a little of this prettiness, there's so much to share. So I took a look at my own stash, and almost the first little patch of fabric I saw was an autumn-ish little mouse picking some berries, perfect!

...and within a few minutes I had also chosen some of those winning-fabrics to go with the mouse, and to the sewing board I went. I am not a quilter by any standards, but...

 ...Pouches I have sewn quite a few. Hello little mouse!

I chose some of my own and some of Jane's fabrics, and added some felt lingonberries on top too. There's a zipper on top of the pouch, and a tiny pocket inside too.

And this little mouse-pouch I'm giving away - if you would like to win it, just leave a comment on this, today's post, and I'll pick the winner on September 15th. I will ship the pouch (and some chocolate in it too, definitely), anywhere, so everyone's welcome to participate! Good luck to you all, and...

 ... Happy Sunday!

Yours,
Mia

P.S. It seems that I should be so lucky with giveaways by Jane, I have won three times in these blogging-years of mine, and two of those generous ladies were Jane! So if you have any Jane-giveaways in mind, just let me know, please, as they say: there's no two without three!

P.P.S. There's still a autumn sale in my shop, with the code LEAF13 -25% off!

We wish you a happy...

Just a happy weekend soon -wishes and a little shop announcement, too:

By clicking the little happy tweet above you'll get to see him more closely (and some more of my creations too), there's a autumn sale in my shop. The discount code is LEAF13, and that'll give you -25% of everything (except shipping)... Happy browsing!

Sunshine from here!

Yours,

Mia

Back again

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...Heffalumps are back*!

Happy Wednesday!

Yours,

Mia

*and they can be seen more closely here.

Mixed

You still remember my moaning-ish post a while back about the signs? Since then the signs have gotten more mixed, as...

... roses are blooming again...

... skies are blue..

... and my poor happy toes are out again (after weeks in woolen socks, no wonder they look shy and pale), and all this as I just...

...hit my autumn-y colored wool and got my first Christmas stocking designed. Oh well, it's September tomorrow, that should set this all straight.

Happy weekend, dear friends!

Yours,

Mia

It's time again...

...to celebrate someone's birthday! It's the 5th already, can you believe it? And do you still remember his traditional present?

It's the bouncy-elephant! And traditional? Oh yes, here and here are the previous years. And by checking those links you can see how much that little guy has grown:

... and what does that sweater say, let's have a closer look:

Oh my, can you stay still for a second, darling? Auntie is pretty slow with her camera today. That's better... Here we go:

I love you too, sweetie.

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Happy and sunny Sunday to you all too, it's a beautiful day here!

Yours,
Mia

The signs are all there

 ... The conclusion?

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Happy Thursday come rain or shine!

Yours,
Mia

* Happy fox&birdie moved into my shop here.

Dear diary

I am still in mood for stationary this week, it must be the autumn-y weather. For many the New Year is the time for new calendar and diary, but for me that has always been August. As long as I remember I've bought a new calendar in the end of the summer, and started it when the new school year started. Same goes to all sort of notebooks and diaries: they traditionally are started in January, but I like to have some new ones for Autumn. It is handy for small business planning too as we're heading to the busiest season.

This time I didn't want to run to buy new notebooks but dug into my existing paper stash, and da-dah, no shopping needed! I had quite a few one or two books I had forgotten, I think I had them from a sale somewhere, and they're otherwise perfect but the covers were not the greatest - probably why I had tucked them into the cupboard in the first place.

But as a happy hoarder very thrifty and sensible person, I always have some fabric scraps around the studio, and I started putting together some new covers for the books. And even I started with sewing only, I somehow ended up making a few covers with needle felted figures too. And matching pen cases, oops!

I really do not need all of covers I have made, so some of them will be in my shop here just in case you should have an ugly but otherwise wonderful notebook in hand, you're so welcome to have a closer look! And as usual, I still have some more in progress, and they'll jump into my shop later too. I really like the idea of the re-usable book cover made of re-used fabrics, it really can't get more environment friendly than that or what do you think?

Happy Wednesday!

Yours,

Mia

Color your Tuesday

August has started beautifully here, it's +26C as I type, and it's been like this for a few days...and no end to be seen! It's fantastic, and if you ask me, this could continue for months still. This year July turning August wasn't that bad as the summer has been beautiful, but there's a certain nostalgia in the air still: the schools and the kindergartens are starting this week, a sure sign of autumn.

Even I'm not going to school this autumn, I still love to shop some new pens and papers. I have tried to live up to my promise to write more real letters (just posted two yesterday!), and just got some new pretty stationary and some colorful pens. I use these fiber pens all the time, and keep misplacing them too... Now I have a box with paper&envelopes&pens - I can't loose the whole box surely?

Trying out my new, colorful pens got me into stripey-mood, and with this weather I didn't feel like playing with wool, I dug into my fabric stash instead. And oh yes, stripes did I find!

I made two little pouches and a birdie-keyring, and there are still some little scraps left. With these happy birdies in love (who already flew into my shop) I wish you a wonderful new August-week, may it be sunny and pretty!

Yours,

Mia