A thank you and a giveaway!

 Sweet treats from Mr

I want to say thank you to Bee from the linen cloud for nominating me for a Liebster award. It is given to blogs which have less than 200 followers as a way to raise their profile and increase their readership.

In the spirit of the award I have to nominate five other blogs. I have found a lot of inspiring blogs lately as I have been trawling the Internet. These are a few of my favourites.
I nominate:
My rainbow vintage
Bungalow bliss
Vintage sheet addict
Jelly jam
The owl and the accordion
I hope you find inspiration at these blogs.

We have done so much this summer its hard to know how much to share. We went to Hyde hall garden, East Hanningfield last week and they had some free craft activities for the children. I was looking after my neice too so the baby, little man and me made paper, did a bug hunt through the meadow and painted some pretty pictures. It was a really great day and they all got on so well all day running about and playing hide and seek. It was lovely getting out in the sunshine.

The baby's room needs to be decorated to be her own it still has pirate decorations hanging up because I was convinced she would be a boy. So I have been thinking about what to do.I looked on etsy and found loads of mobiles that I liked but in the spirit of crafting decided I would make my own.

When she is older she will remember I made it for her, that as well as i can't now afford to buy these sorts of things with my current no job situation. I bought some felt from lupin handmade and plan to do some melcanholy elephants. I am going to do a whole post on her room when its done.

I have also started on a quilt for when she gets bigger. I am keeping it simple and just doing a patchwork of small squares. I found this one at sweetcsdesigns.com and just love it.

I love the ditsy flower print mixed with the aqua, pinks, dark red and yellow and am going through my stash trying to get some similar together. I cut 100 squares out on Thursday night and left them on the lounge floor overnight so I could look at it again in the morning. To my disgust I came down the flowing morning and found Dexter the cat had been sick over some of the squares. Needless to say about a dozen squares had to be binned.

I just want to say hello to all my new followers that have joined lately. I hope I can write things you will be interested in.?? Maybe not too many posts on cat sick.

I think it has been long enough and I have decided to have a giveaway. There will be three prizes-

                                                  a vintage cake stand from my collection

                                               a crochet craft book and some crochet goodies

and a sewing book mentioning the 'c' word (never too early to be organised) and some vintage sewing goodies.

To win simply just enter a comment and tell me ''what's the best thing you did in the summer'' and which prize you would like to win. For another chance to win become a follower and your name will go in the hat twice. And for a third chance to win put my giveaway button on your blog.

I will draw three names from a hat (or hats)or a random number generator thingy on the 9th of September.
Please make sure I can email or contact you in some way.

Spread the love and good luck
Sarah x