A celebration for a one year old

 Can you believe it?  Aisling Designs is one year old!  I can't believe where the time has gone, but when I look back at all the things I have created over the last year it gives me quite a sense of achievement!!  I have decided to celebrate with a giveaway over at my Aisling Designs blog.  So please come and join in with the party.  The banner below is the prize on offer.

And the winner is...

 All 16 names were written out and placed in a felted bowl. 

My lovely assistant then chose a piece of paper from this bowl.

 And the winner of the drop spindle and seeds

is......



...Alexis AKA MOM.  Congratulations! If you could email me at claire dot davies at junitech dot com and give me your address I can send you your prize.

Yarn along- Little Red Riding Hood

Knitting has been happening again, with the production of some story bags.  I am currently making the characters for Little Red Riding hood, trying to match the clothes etc to those in the story.  Little Red is nearly done, just awaiting the eyes.  I don't know why it is, but I never like putting the eyes on, seems to spoil it in my opinion, but I think she probably does need eyes.  The Big Bad Wolf is awaiting stuffing (not with Grandma, this is the nice version ;) ) and mother is on the needles at the moment.  I love making these little characters, the children are probably fed up of me showing off my little creations, but I get a real sense of satisfaction of creating something like this from some yarn!  The pattern I am using as a base for the dolls is Phoeny's Man Dressin Up doll, and the wolf is JellyBum's Wolf.

Reading wise, I'm still reading Car Sick.  It is a great book about how to reduce car usage in our society which is so often built around the car.  Not just a book preaching "don't use your car", but how to engage the wider society about reducing car usage.  The recent bit I have been reading about is walking buses, and cycling training.  All these would be do-able in our local area, but it's getting the impetus and support from the local people.  Last time they tried to organise a walking bus at Ethan's school they had 2 volunteers, and that was it.  I think it might be time to approach the school again.

Joining in with Ginny again for her wonderful Yarn Along, looking forward to see what everyone has been up to this week.

Today is the last day for entering my give-away.  If you are quick you might be able to have a chance.  Just leave a comment at the end of this post and join in the celebrations of 300 blog posts.

300!

 No, not the film by Zac Snyder, although it is a very good film, if a little blood thirsty!!

No, this is my three hundreth post on this blog.  I can't believe that I have really had that much to blog about!!  But I thought that it would be a good time to have a giveaway.  I was thinking what kind of things I tend to blog about, and how that could be linked to a giveaway.  I figured I couldn't really give away the children, and I wanted to do a crafty giveaway later in the year, so the only other things that are left are vegetables and wool!  So there we are, a giveaway of vegetables (ok I know tomatoes are actually fruit!) and a drop spindle kit made by one of the ladies at the guild.  It has a few small rolags to get you started along with instructions, and a handy little bag to keep it all in.

If you would like to enter the giveaway just leave a comment. I will draw a name from a hat in a week's time, so 22nd February.

I have loved the process of blogging, having a record of the things we get up to, and I have loved getting to know fellow bloggers that I would never have come across if I hadn't started on this journey.  Thank you all for joining me in blogland.

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Check this out!

Gardenmama has done it again, such wonderful creations to give away.

http://gardenmama.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/imagine-childhood---two-part-giveaway.html#comment-6a01156f7e3eba970c012875ed456b970c

Blog Birthday Celebrations

Following my post about a giveaway for my blog birthday, we drew a name from a proverbial hat (ie a pile of names on folded paper on the table!) and Michelle now has the choice of a tie-dye top, any size, colour and design.. If you pm me your details on GP we can sort out what you would like.

Congratulations, and than you everyone for joining in for a bit of fun.

What are the chances?

I know the chances of winning these things are pretty slim, but this is just too good to not try your luck.

http://gardenmama.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/my-entry-2.html