I Felt It Was Time + A Giveaway Winner

Excitement of excitement, I've been busily working on a new Shop tutorial! Hard to believe, I know. It's been way too long, months and months, since I've updated the ol' Shop. The poor thing is no doubt feeling forlorn from neglect. Probably thinks I don't love it anymore. Not the case, I can assure you.  Anyway I'm "knot" going to say much more about it at this time, except that I "felt" it was time. (Ya, that's a clue alright... along with the above pic.)

Now, on to more pressing matters... that Giveaway Winner I mentioned?

Yes, well... as chosen by my very own personal random number generator -The Boy - the winner of Quilting Happiness is...  Commenter #26: TRACEY who said: Looks like a great book, thank you for the review and chance to win. 

Congratulations Tracey, you're most welcome, and I think you'll enjoy this book! Wahoot! I will email you forthwith to arrange delivery.

♥M

TRaNG Picks a Giveaway Winner!

Just let me ask my dear friend TRaNG (a.k.a. True Random Number Generator - we're on a first name basis like that) to pick a "Sew-It...Today" Magazine Giveaway winner.

Um, TRaNG? Could you do the honours?

Why, thank you TRaNG! So helpful!

Well it looks like commenter #12 is the lucky winner.

I wonder who it's going to be... Counting down to the 12th comment because I'm too lazy to put numbering on my comments, gives us... 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... 10... 11... 12...

Ooh it's my bloggy friend Saraccino! This is the first time I've ever known the giveaway winner. How exciting! Congratulations Claire, you've won the magazine! I'll be getting in touch with you via email lickety-split. Yippee!

And thanks to everyone else who played along too. Have yourself a lovely weekend!

♥M

And The Hexa Go-Go Giveaway Winner Is...

Wahoot, congratulations Sally! 

I'll be in touch via email to get the book ball rolling. 

Thank you to all who stopped by to play along. Have a lovely day!

♥M

Drop-Dead Denim Giveaway Winners!

Before I put the final touches on our September of Denim, I'd like to send big hugs out to all who entered Monday's giveaway. It was so much fun putting these packages together. I'm most excited to send two lucky people some lovely denim loot!!!

Okay. Now. So. Are you ready? Brace yourself... The Drop-Dead Denim Giveaway winners as chosen by the Random Number Generator are:

#13 Agy who stated: Ooh, this is great! I'm from somewhere on the other side of the globe :-) The favourite denim craft I've made is when I reupholstered my hubby's swivel chair... I'd love to be able to make some patchwork out of it too. Count me in :-)

and

#30 Liberty who said: Ooh! Very exciting giveaway! I've been following the posts this month with so much enjoyment (my partner somehow puts holes in otherwise strong jeans so I have lots of denim free to use!) What I'd love to make is a denim sunhat with a very wide brim :)

Yippee! Yahoo! Yay! Many congratulations to Agy and Liberty!!! I'll connect with you imminently and send out those delicious packages as soon as possible. And one day I'd love to see your patchwork (Agy) and your very wide brim sunhat (Liberty)!

Coming up in a minute... The Final Drop-Dead Denim post. Can you believe it?

The Winner of the Thousand Thanks Giveaway is...

First off, I want to sincerely thank you all for playing along with me in the Giveaway. Your stories were touching, hilarious, sad, crazy, fascinating! It was really special and a privilege for me to share in some of these little-known secrets of yours over the last couple of days. You are great, you know that?

Now to the winner... The winner of the Thousand Thanks Giveaway is:

#8 - Johanne who said:

Congratulations!
It's funny, we have several things in common. I'm as well very shy, extremely shy in my childhood, it's getting better.
I'm also modest, but living in Spain with extreme hot summers has made me even use a bikini (first time last year, and I'm "only" 40!!! Cannot still believe it! And then there is the temper. I have a very bad temper, have tried to improve and soften it a little, but it keeps coming back ; )

Thank you very much!

Congratulations to YOU Johanne! Yippee! I will be contacting you by email as soon as possible with the news!

I will also be publishing my actual Friday post in a moment. Stay tuned!

A Dandy Giveaway Winner!

And the winner of The Dandy Giveaway is... Commenter #342: Grandma!!!

Grandma said: I think I'm from Earth. Pretty sure... Does your favorite color change? I like all kinds of blue and I really like pink, and soft green.

Congratulations Grandma, Earthling or otherwise! I'll be in touch by email asap. I must say that you didn't follow my rules. Tisk tisk. But hey, rules are meant to be broken. I like your rebellious nature. You didn't settle for just one colour. And that is okay. It shows gumption.

Note: Do not be confused. Grandma is not my actual Grandma. She is a lovely, though unknown, commenter. She is someone else's Grandma. Both my Grandmas passed on to a far far better place eons ago. This Grandma is still alive, walking around, entering giveaways. Hence, not my Grandma.

Junk Mail Collage by Michele Pacey

By the way, I had a grand old time reading all the giveaway comments. You are all a hoot. Thanks so much for being such great sports and playing along.

FYI, I ran a statistical analysis of your colour preferences based on the 508 comments received on the giveaway post. That's a decent number of data points I figured.

As you can see, I felt aquamarine (AKA turquoise, teal, blue-green) and pink deserved their own columns because there were so many who favourited these little colour ranges. Also there were many fence-sitters, like Grandma, who didn't want to make the colours feel bad by playing favourites. They got their very own column called "Mixes".

Chart of Favourite Colours

After all votes were tallied, it turns out that GREEN is the favourite colour of all time. Interesting stuff. Note that when I say green (or any of the colours really), I'm including every favourited shade and tint of that colour. For example, your joyous cerulean is a blue (I didn't know that before. I learn, I learn...) so it is lumped in with the blues.

Check out the chart to see how your preferred colour did. Are you green with envy? Oh, the irony.

Well you have a great weekend! I'll see you again soon!

And the Spacey Stitchy Giveaway Winner Is...

Number 6: Melissa E. A.K.A. Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged

Congratulations Wowbagger! I'll be in touch with you shortly. Keep your eyes peeled.

An Earth-hug and Earth-thank you to the following space-creatures who let their true identities be known to me here:

Zameen

An Italian

Icshtaz (pronounced "ow") from the planet 00003 in Galaxy Bue

Kelltore

Reebca

Sneyk

Miranda

Meeeelika

Denise

Happyface

Inara

The Great and Glorious Bah

Mom

Birdienerdie from the feathered planet of Quill

A Lot of Clicks and Whistles

Revbee

Moezer

Blob-A-Boo-Boo 3000

Kleep

Floryzub

Mrs. A (short for Alien)

MockingJay

Loodaleeloo from the planet Zaggedy-Hoot

Paul (the girl alien)

H (pronounced AAAAtch)

Nosilla

Arwena from the planet Purpuria

Yleek

Danielle from the planet Rocbearon

Aluram

Elehcim

FloopShloop

Whim

Ferdie

34:90Bs-23

T'Jul (the Vulcan)

Zogtog

Katiewonkenobee

Lubededo Arcd

Terror Firma

Princess Inmydrms from the planet Fafaway

Princess KJ

Amelaaa

Chumbuckway Ackandee

Mirinda

I am one truly privileged Earthling to have encountered the likes of you playful beings. Welcome to our lovely planet. Please refrain from consuming/slurping/nibbling/chewing on any humans while you are visiting, no matter how delectable we may appear. We are NOT food. And I'm pretty sure (though not positive as I've never actually partaken) we taste really really bad. Also, probing of any kind will not be tolerated. Thank you. Enjoy your stay, and I will see you again very soon!

A Giveaway Winner AND... AND A Fresh New Feature

GIVEAWAY WINNER

Before I go on, I want to say that the giveaway was just great great fun for me and my family! We actually took some time out over the last few evenings to read all your comments and sayings out loud to each other. And I must confess we laughed hard several times. So I'll be incorporating some or all of your everyday sayings in a craft early in the New Year. Thank you so much for your enthusiastic and heartfelt participation! It was a blast!

Now, let us find out who won Monday's Giveaway... Here's what Mr. True Random Number Generator came up with:

#132 - Sarah said: "Oh my." lol - I guess I am surprised alot.

Well I hope you'll be surprised again Sarah because YOU HAVE WON!!! I will be emailing you shortly so we can get that package on its way to you ASAP!

AND NOW FOR THAT FRESH NEW FEATURE...

Today I am introducing a new now-and-again feature here at Michele Made Me! I've actually done the feature once before under a different name (this crazy one here, tell no one...) but I came to the conclusion that the title was a teensy bit confusing, unintelligible even, since it consisted of two made-up words. This no doubt elicited questions from you like "What on Mother Earth is she talking about?" or "Who let this girl write a blog?", for example.

But we live and we learn, right? So, I've renamed the spot "FROM THE LAND OF BLOG" wherein someone (like you, for instance) takes a half-baked idea of mine and goes off with it on their own creative tangent, and then I feature it here in all its wondrous glory!

Let us begin today's little tour de crafts, shall we? Walk this way...

Below you see an amazing recycled toilet roll flower wreath-in-progress created by Suz from Suz Crochet Groove. The finished wreath can be seen on her blog so you have no choice now but to pay her a visit. She was inspired by this post.

Well, all I can say to you Suz is that the tables have turned. It is I who is inspired by YOU! Wow! So beautiful!

Next we have the work of Nadia Visheratina who, spurred on by this post, made these denim disc tree ornaments with her children. I really fancy dimensional paint so my favourite might just be the little gold one, but if I'm honest, I love them all. This is a simple and pretty craft that even children can sink their teeth into!

Next we come to a whole slew of handmade covered buttons designed by DM. While some were inspired by this tutorial, DM is quite obviously a creative soul. She has proven that the possibilities are endless when it comes to handmade covered buttons, dressing some in crochet, some in hand-embroidery and embellishing others with beads. Look at them all! I've said it before and I'll say it again, these little guys are addictive. I dare you to make only one.

The two works of loveliness below come courtesy of Goska. First is her denim tree interpreted from this post. The little apples on this tree are all her, and I think they're brilliant. Imagine adorning the little trees in beads or yarn or paint. Again, the world of denim trees is a world of options! Her second offering is the toilet roll wreath which she has made using...well... a toilet roll. She used this tutorial as her starting point. I notice that her cutting is different and less complex than mine, making her version a more accessible craft for children (and grownups too actually).

When So Knit Picky emailed me to let me know she'd made something inspired by this post, I was not expecting to see paint palettes when I visited her blog. But that's what inspiration is after all. Building on an idea, taking it in a whole new direction, running with it. I think that using the tape dispensers as a paint palette cookie cutter qualifies as darn inspired, don't you? And the photo below does NOT show the wonderful end product. For that you'll have to click this link and check it out for yourself!

And finally, we come full circle to another striking recycled wreath. This one, by Aunt Peaches is made from all manner of rescued recyclables. She collected many many plastic cups and bottles, tin cans and foam cups over the course of a few MONTHS to have enough to make her wreath! That is dedication. This is mine here, which she cites as one of her inspirations. Imagine trashing this thing of beauty now? That would be a crime in my books.

Which brings us all home safe and sound!

So if one day you, yes YOU, get the urge to make a craft inspired by something you've seen on Michele Made Me, please let me know. I would be ecstatic to feature your work (and brag about it to the world) here on "FROM THE LAND OF BLOG". Don't even think twice, just email me!

Now remember, you go have a great day!