And the winner is ......

..... drum roll, please :-)

Kathy of BeadyZoo.
Please send me your address and I'll get the bag out to you asap.

200 Posts - can you believe it?

I certainly cannot. But, to celebrate and to reward my faithful readers for bearing with me - and I think "bearing with me" is an appropriate term considering the eclectic, very eclectic, nature of my blog - I am having a 200th post giveaway for regular readers only.
I apologize for the crummy picture quality, it's too late in the day for decent light. I hope you can tell that it's one of my shopping bags I'm giving away.
The usual rules apply: leave me a comment on this post and my husband will draw a name later this week. Maybe Friday or Saturday, we'll see. Please make sure to check back to see if you've won. There were winners in previous giveaways I had no way of contacting and they never checked back. Kind of pointless then, isn't it?

And, while I'm at it: a shameless plug for my daughter's etsy shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/pacgirl44.
She makes very cute bags from Japanese fabrics and stitch markers for knitters, ranging from cute to elegant.
The image is "borrowed" from her etsy site.

Added quite a bit later: I should have mentioned that I'm also having a giveaway on my facebook fan page: you have to be a fan of Summerfield Designs to enter.

And the winner is ..................

.......................... Capemaynuts!

Congratulations, Ida. Send me your snail mail address, please.
Have fun and let us all know what you make with the heart.

Bags finally mailed

The giveaway bags have finally gone out to the winners - all but two. I never heard from 2 of the winners and without addresses I can't mail the bags. So, unless I hear from them soon, those 2 bags will go back into the stash to be used in some other way.

The giveaway - finally

After talking about this twice already, I thought it was time I got on with it. So, I finally picked out what I was actually going to give away and took pictures. Five bags, five winners.

So, anybody who leaves me a comment between now and midnight on Friday will be entered into the drawing. I will write the names onto little pieces of paper, throw them all into a bowl and have my husband draw the names sometime this coming weekend (don't know yet what our plans for the weekend are so I can't commit to Saturday or Sunday).

I haven't quite figured out yet how I'm going decide who gets which bag. I'm thinking the first name drawn gets first choice etc. but that might be a slow process and I'm open to suggestions.

So, leave me a comment to this post and we'll go from there.