Only 5 days left....... Reminder of my Give-Away :-)

Sorry, I'm late to post my Give-Away-gifts.... but Friday we had our Christmas party at work and Saturday I gave a party at home for some friends. Yesterday I had a lazy day at home; watching television, sleeping and trying to tidy up my sewing space :-) It is very cold in Raufoss these days ( - 20 degrees Celsius; brrrrr) so we drow to a friend of mine and bought some more firewood in the afternoon. I simply forgot to take pictures of my gifts, but tomorrow I will post the photo.

Until then, take care!!

Blog anniversary in a week time;-great giveaway ahead

It has been 3 year since I started blogging and there is so much to celebrate:


Over 300 posts
58 followers
60 000 visitors
Many friendly comments
(Nearly 3 years since I finished my cancer treatment :-)


Of course, I could not have done it without YOU and as a token of my appreciation I am hosting a Give-Away!
I am grateful for all of your visits, regardless of whether you comment, follow or have bookmarked my page.

I have three wonderful prizes to give away!
 - I will post some pictures of the prizes later. 
Good luck!
Here are the details and rules for my giveaway;
1. One lottery ticket: You must be a follower or become a follower and
then leave me a comment that you'd like to be entered into the drawing.

2. One lottery ticket: Blog about the GiveAway and post a link on your blog. Please let me know about it :-)

3. One daily lottery ticket if you leave a comment for each day from today and the following 8 days.
- optimal number of lottery tickets will be 9.If you don't have a blog, please leave me an email address where I can find you :-)



I will keep this GiveAway open through 10th of December - the birthday of my blog.

 To be in the draw all you have to do is leave a comment on this post or the following posts next week, with the only requirement being that you provide either in your profile, or in your comment, an email address so that I can contact you if you are one of the winners!
International visitors are very welcome to enter! Only one comment per person/email address each day until 10th of Desember will be eligible to enter the draw. Get it? Start spread the news about the giveaway!

And 3 of you will be winners because like I said I have 3 prizes.

(Warning - you can't comment the day after a post and have it count! I will be checking the times/dates).

The draw will take place in the afternoon on Friday 10th and at which time comments to this post will be closed. The winners will be announced here on my blog immediately, and will also be contacted by email. I'm off to Berlin the very next day!!!

 

Good Luck and thanks for stopping by!

Keeping bags for my student-girls in Trondheim

 Instead of an Advent calendar for my student-daughters I have made these keeping bags for Hanne Beate and Synnøve. This solution is a temporary one; they have a shared Advent calendar with their little sister Gunhild at home. And I have started to make new ones for them....... The bags are filled with sweets and goodies; one parcel for each day until they are coming home for Christmas.

I ordered labels from minanamnband in Sweden some weeks ago. They turned out to be very handy. Perhaps these band will be my driving force behind finishing some of my UFO's.....I bought 200 pieces so I can go through many projects, hehehehe.

Great giveaway from Bestemor Drillo

 

For no reason at all Bestemor Drillo want to give away 3 tablerunners...... She appreciate the contact she is getting from all people out in Bloglandia, so feel free to 

1) pop in and say hallo and leave a comment

2) blog about this giveaway

3 ) become a follower

Great giveaway from Retreo Mummy

It's only one day left of this great giveaway from Retro Mummy's store! She is giving away a fat quarter in each of the Sweet Broderie fabrics from her shop. 14 fat quarters and she is going to pick three winners!! 

 

Great giveaway from "Brit's små puslerier"

Run over to her blog and sign up for Advent Calendar-Giveaway! Last chance is Sunday the 17th of October....

Great giveaway from Bentes Quiltehage

Magnus confirmand last Sunday :-)

I found this picture of Magnus on Facebook. So I made him a purse or a pencil case and added some money inside it for a gift to him. He really liked it :-)

And here is the handsome Magnus outside his church. He is my cousin's son.

I got a wish on my cellphone......

 ....from my oldest daughter. She attended the medical studies in Trondheim this autumn and wanted a pencil case. And of course I hade to make this with owls on the fabric!

Wise as an owl...

Kristrun made this for her daughter :-)

Her daughter is a student in Japan and Kristrun made this beautiful bag for her before she went away.... I printed the photos of their dog and lend her my sewingspace to finish the bag. Her daughter got really surpriced. Clever Kristrun!

Look at this little face! He is cute for sure!!!!

Great giveaway from sweet Oddbjørg arrived today!

After a long day with work and meeting in executive committee for my local government, I was really excited and pleased to find a parcel from Oddbjørg waiting for me at home :-) She has celebrated 2 years of blogging. In connestion with her blog anniversary she had a giveaway.Visit her blogg here.

Thank you so much for the gifts; I love them :-)

I got two fabrics, one little notebook and a CHOCOLATE. 

(My secret; I'm turning 48 today 22nd of April...... So this will be my first birthdaygift as well! )

I won a giveaway from My Creative Corner

Oddbjørg has celebrated 2 years of blogging. In connestion with her blog anniversary she had a giveaway. Guess who one of two lucky winners are.....! 

It is a secret gift; I'm so excited :-))

Old stuff; a little bragging

Homemade Advent Calendars

In Norway and Scandinavia there is a tradition of having a so-called Julekalender (the Norwegian word for an Advent Calendar) starting on the first of December, and ending on Christmas Eve.

I want to share with you two of my home made Advent Calendars. An Advent Calendar is a special calendar which is used to count or celebrate the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas. Today, most advent calendars are made for children, but the first is my sister Anne’s Calendar. She was in her’s forties when she got this from me. Two years ago she got this filled with chocolate and other sweets gift wrapped. It is really simple sewn. The heart is made of many tiny scrappy pieces just glued to the linen by using appliqué-vlise. Stippleseams are both decorative and easy to make. A pocket is made by folding a quilted fabric on the quilted linen-top and small parcels of sweets were put in this pocket. Each parcel had a ribbon with a number at one end and these ribbons were hanging outside the pocket. This way she could see which parcel she should take each day during Advent. Free motion-quilting is used and I sew “Hjertelig” (meaning sincere/hearty) to her.

The second one I made for her twins when they were one year old. They are going to be 16 years this summer, so time passes quickly :-)

The pattern is from a very dear book of mine. 24 rings are sewn on the Calendar so wrapped gifts can be hung by them. Beginning on the first day of December, one parcel is opened each day, counting down the days remaining until Christmas Eve, from one to twenty-four where the 24th gift often is bigger or more expensive than the others.

Thank you Anne for sending me the pictures so I could brag about these Julekalenders.

Drømmequilten has a great giveaway :-)

The lucky winner will receive this great book from Need`l Love and two yards of fabric. The giveaway ends  January 15th, so hurry up. Visit Siv Hege at Drømmequilten and leave her a comment.

Alex Andersons free redwork patterns

Dec. 25th, 2009 - Jan. 5th, 2010

Visit Alex Anderson Quilt; 12 days of redwork

"Be sure to check in daily for Alex's free holiday gift of the Twelve Days of Redwork. Simply visit each day for a new redwork pattern. At the end of the twelve days you will have twelve charming patterns that you can merrily stitch through out the year - and who said there is no chimney for Santa on the Internet?

All 12 patterns can be combined to form a finished wall hanging that measures 30" x 39". It is perfect for a block of the month project, celebrating the different flowers of each season."

And the lucky winners are......

I so appreciate all of you who stop by and read my page and leave such nice comments too! THANK YOU to all who take the time to follow me and my blog and I hope I can reach many more besides through this next year of blogging too!

 I listed all the names and some of you were busy visiting my blog every day :-)

And I found a Random Number Generator on the web, so here is the result from my drawing:

1.WINNER; 72 = Kristrun :-)

2.WINNER; 51 = Martina :-)

3.WINNER; 32 = Pokey :-)

And the prizes are:

1. Debbie Mumm fabric (2m), Mettler Metallic Thread and some buttoms.

2. 50 cm of each of these three Christmas Fabrics and some tiny little buttons.

3. 54cm black Christmas fabric, 38cm with Harlekin-patterned, 50 cm of gold and 4 Christmas-bears-buttons made of wood.

Since Kristrun was the first name I picked, she can choose between the 3 prizes, Martina can choose from the two left after Kristrun has selected one and Pokey will get the last available prize.

I will let you other know whitch prize they choose.