And the Winner is….

I used the good old random number generator to come up with a winner for my 100th post giveaway. Drumroll please……………….

Congratulations Shelly!

Shelly has a cute little blog she recently started up. Check it out if you get a chance. I can’t wait to see how it develops. She’s already inspired me to start watering my past-their-prime root vegetables as I love the look of her sweet potato vine.

Thank you to everyone who commented. I appreciated each and every one. It was nice to hear from you and for those of you that also have blogs I really enjoyed taking the time to check out your sites. What a creative group.

I have to admit it was a little nerve racking putting one of my own pieces out there. It’s one thing to put crafty kids stuff out there but it’s another to put one of my own creations up for viewing. Especially one that involves painting. Knitting, no problem – paintings involve teeth chattering. Silly, I know but there it is. So thanks again!

A Fortune and a Winner!

Tonight we had Chinese delivered. Eleanor couldn’t get enough of the pork fried rice and Seth really enjoyed the “chicken nuggets” (aka sweet and sour chicken). Although he thought I was absolutely disgusting for eating the cream cheese wantons. Every time I took a bite I got a big “ewwww” from him. Humorous to say the least. The best part? My fortune. I don’t know about you but most fortune cookies I get do not have actual fortunes in them. Usually they are more along the lines of a wise saying. It irritates me. Tonight, however, I got a great fortune:

“A dark haired woman will soon be giving you a gift.”

I kid you not! Do you think it’s my swap partner? It’s very exciting.

Things are really starting to heat up with the Functional Felt Swap. If you haven’t seen some of the great items being created you really should take a peek at the photo pool on flickr. I’m happy to report that 70% of the participants have commented or posted about their progress. Some haven’t started but are thinking hard and others have completed and mailed their swap items already! I haven’t made much progress since my posting last week as we’ve had family in town and my little sweetness turned one but I’m happy with were I’m at. Speaking of last week’s post and progress reports, drum roll please……….. The winner of the update giveaway is none other than Debbie! Check out Debbie’s great felt covered nature journal for the swap:

Debbie will receive my felted i-cord bracelet. I hope she likes it!

Swap Update & A Giveaway!

I got a bit antsy waiting to start my swap project before the partners were handed out so I started what I thought was a little something to keep me occupied.  In my normal fashion I neglected to read the directions all the way through before hand and by the time I realized I would need to knit three six foot i-cords I was already too into the project. The above headband is the result. You can see another shot here. I had to run it through the washer 6 TIMES to get it to full how I wanted it. By the time all was said and done I had left over felted i-cords. What to do? Well a Functional Felt Swap giveaway, of course! Here’s what I came up with:

A lovely (in my opinion), light as air bracelet. This giveaway is open to all Functional Felt Swap participants. (Sorry to my other wonderful readers – but don’t fear I have another giveaway planned for the nearish future.) In order to qualify for this giveaway all you need to do is comment about your progress to date on this post, Jen’s update post,  or upload a shot to our flickr group by end of day Monday, May 19th. It could even be simply about the materials you plan to use. If you take a look at the flickr group it’ll be pretty obvious that some go getters are already entered into this giveaway. But don’t let that stop you from commenting. We want to hear what you think of the swap so far. As for me, here’s my progress. I should have put a quarter in there for scale. If I had it would have been about the size of you mouse pointer.