It's time for a wonderful GIVEAWAY!

It's time to get creative sweet friends!!!
Time to make a few special gifts...
or even a little something for yourself!!!


I KNOW that you know how much I love seam binding!!!
Zipperstop has always, ALWAYS been my very favorite place
to find beautiful seam binding to use in my artwork.

So I've decided to have a giveaway ~

One free roll of seam binding
(YOUR chosen color)
will be given to
THREE DIFFERENT WINNERS!!!
Each winner will ALSO get to choose
one of my tutorials!!!

PLUS

A GRAND PRIZE WINNER
WILL WIN
A SEAM BINDING
COLOR GUIDE,

ONE FREE ROLL OF SEAM BINDING
and
TWO OF MY TUTORIALS!

I always try to share my favorite shades with you...

with photos hoping they help you choose what you love as well!

SOOO.... simply leave a comment on this post and
be sure to let me know which color seam binding
you would love to receive
and which tutorial you would like as well!!!
~ Check out my shop to see all of my tutorials ~
You can see ALL of the beautiful seam binding colors
on the Zipperstop website!

PLEASE leave your email address if you don't have a blog
so I can contact you should you win!

Should you share my giveaway on any social media
leave an additional comment with the link to where you shared
for ANOTHER chance to win!!!!!

Giveaway ends this Friday afternoon,
Nov. 14th at 6 pm EST

I will post the winners soon after!!!

Wishing you very happy Monday dear friends!

hugs and love,

Dawn

Let's celebrate with a GIVEAWAY!!!!!

I want to celebrate....
I want to celebrate you....
that you take the time to come here and see what I'm up to,
that you take the time to say hello,
that I've come to know you as such precious friends!!!
What sweet blessings you are to me ~


I'm just a couple of posts away from 1200 posts
and
400 followers
so I say it's time for a GIVEAWAY to celebrate!!!!

I want to draw several names to give away:

A sweet nest baby in a jar
and
A French themed journal
I'm going to add trinkets and treasures to both of these gifts too!!!
Three egg soaps to go with each gift.....
and the winner can pick the color they love, ivory or blue!


This is what I'd love to do this time.....

1) Leave a comment on this post to enter.....

2) Leave another comment on this post if you blog about my giveaway.....
(snag a photo, you know I don't care :)

3) Leave another comment on this post if you follow my blog......

And if you don't have a blog,
PLEASE leave me your email address
so I can contact you should you win ~

The giveaway will end next Sunday, Dec. 13th at 6:00 pm EST

Blogging has been such a wonderful experience these last three years,
I'm still in awe at the sweet friends I've met along the way ~
I just love you all so much!!!!

Wishing you a WONDERFUL Monday dear friends ~

hugs and love,
Dawn

It's time for a GIVEAWAY!!!

Another 100 posts have passed and now this is my 1100th post!!!!

Eleven hundred.

Eleven hundred times I've shared with you
and you've so graciously read what I've had to say.

Eleven hundred times I've been lifted up
by your precious comments and encouraging words.

You've given me courage to create,
to have my artwork published,
to even smile when I didn't feel like smiling....
I can only hope and pray that
I've inspired you a fraction
of how much you have inspired me ~

Thank you so much my precious friends!!!

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post
(and PLEASE leave an email address if you don't have a blog :)
and
Sunday, September 27th at 6:00 PM
I'll choose a winner
using a random number generator....

The gift?
A sweet tray assemblage I made...

I'll leave you with this precious verse:

Come little leaves said the wind one day
Come o'er the meadow with me and play
Put on your dresses of red and gold
Summer is gone and the days grow cold.

RUTH JERNIGAN


I hope you have a great Monday sweet friends!!
hugs and love,
Dawn

It's time for a giveaway of my own!

900 posts. Wow.....do you think I like blogging??
I guess you could certainly say I do! What I really like is sharing beautiful things with you, items that I've made, supplies that I use, tidbits of information that I think you'll love and basically meeting so many wonderful friends here!!!

To celebrate
900 posts
I'm having a giveaway!!!

First, I'm giving away the journal that I've created in the photo below.....and I have a few more things up my sleeve as well! I love choosing more than one name so I'm going to be adding a few more items ~

And what do you have to do? Just leave a comment on this post and I'll draw a name next Sunday evening. The contest ends Sunday, April 26th at 6:00 pm EST.

~ If you don't have a blog, please leave an email address with your comment ~

I'll be adding more goodies to this post so keep checking!!!

Some of the beautiful images that I've used on this journal are from
The Vintage Workshop
and are available online for download!!!
Just click HERE to visit ~

One name will be chosen to receive a handmade journal ~

Another name will be chosen to receive a pouty fairy in a jar!!
(featured in the current issue of Somerset Life)

Wishing you a wonderful Monday sweet friends and thank you always for stopping by to see me!!!

love and hugs, Dawn

It's TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY!!

I can hardly believe it's already been TWO years now that I've been blogging!!! But it has....this Wednesday, February 11th! Plus I've just hit my 800th post about ten posts ago, so it's kind of a DOUBLE celebration!!!

These last two years have been so amazing and wonderful to me. I've been afforded opportunities that I would have never had if I hadn't had this blog. I've met so many wonderful people and precious friends because of the blog. My artwork has been published several times now, just because I had a blog and the editor found my work!! So many blessings have come from me having my blog ~

This community of people, women and men, from all over the world....coming together to read one another's blogs, to peek at their artwork or homes, to cheer one another on, to pray for each other, to lift one another up, to give and gain daily inspiration.....there is just nothing else like it!

So to thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to stop and read what I have to say, or to see what I've been up to, I'm having a GIVEAWAY!!!!

I am working on a piece of artwork right now to offer up to the first name drawn!!! Then, Kathi of Vintage Inspired Jewelry has GRACIOUSLY donated TWO pair of her beautiful handmade earrings for me to give away as well as a sweet set of her magnets!

Sooooo, I'll be drawing four names to give my artwork and Kathi's gifts to!!

Please just leave a comment on THIS POST to win. Also please make sure that you leave your email address if you do not have a blog so I can contact you!!!!

I will end the giveaway Saturday, Feb. 14th at 6:00 pm EST and will announce the winners Sunday!!!

Here is my giveaway gift to you....an altered book box nest assemblage ~

Please visit Kathi's blog HERE and her Etsy store HERE ~ I just LOVE her jewelry!!! She has generously given me two pair of earrings and a set of small magnets that she's made to give away as well......here they are :)

A sweet idea for Valentine's Day....my niece Allison had a bridal shower Sunday and her sister Adrian (my other niece!) made these wonderful heart shaped ice cubes for the punch!!! She used candy molds I think.....and dropped berries in them too!

Wishing you a wonderful, happy Monday!!!

xxoo, Dawn

Wonderful artwork giveaway!

This is the prettiest artwork to me

Kristin Hubick of Retro Cafe' Art has created this wonderful assemblage and is having a giveaway on her blog ~ she is thankful for the angels in her life and is having this giveaway in honor of them ~ simply titled "A New Angel"

If you look really closely you can see a precious angel in the doorknob opening!

Click HERE to enter ~

The winners are . . .(plus the babies are here!!)

Thank you all so very much for all of the sweet, kind and uplifting comments you left me for my giveaway.
You all sure know how to make a girl feel wonderful!!
I just love having giveaways...

I thought I'd be smart and print out all the comments, slice them up, fold them up and do an old fashioned draw-the-name-from-the-basket . . . well, it took me a long time!!! But I did finally finish and the winners are:

For the bird box artwork:
Reyln of Come Sit By My Fire

The little button jar goes to:
Angie of Quilly Silly Vintage Boutique

The small altered thought book:
Heather of Richmond Street Designs

And the bookmark goes to:
Dana at The Stone Rabbit

THANKS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU WHO STOPPED BY AND LEFT ME COMMENTS AND GOOD WISHES!

And for an update on the sweet cardinal nest . . . we have babies!!! And they are so very precious. Isn't it amazing that the female cardinal builds the nest, incubates the eggs but calls to the male after they hatch and he is in charge of their care until they leave the nest? She is off to build a new nest for their next little family!

Happy Monday sweet friends ~ xxoo, Dawn

You know I have to have a . . .

I've finished my goodies for my giveaway!!! I want to draw more than one name so the first name will receive the altered egg box artwork ~

The second name will receive the sweet button bottle ~

The third name will receive an altered mini composition book ~

And the fourth name will receive a handmade bookmark ~

Thank you so very much for always stopping by,

for reading my blog and

for saying some of the most wonderful things ever!!

You all make my day, you lift me up, you inspire me to be better and more creative and for that sweet friends,

I thank you ~

Please comment on THIS POST

and you will be entered to win!!

You can leave a comment until Sunday evening,

June 8th at 6:00 pm EST.

I'll draw a name and let you know Monday morning ~

Please leave an email address if you do not have a blog so I can contact you :)