in celebration of 5k followers on instagram ❀ ✩ ✿ ✾ ✫ ❃ ✺ ✭ ❇ ✰ ❈ ✬ ❊ ❉ ☆ ✱ ✲ ★

I organised a giveaway for free patterns over instagram to say huge thank you to all of my wonderful supporters there :)

5k still seems quite impossible but fluttering :)

I wasn't planning to write about it here but i made time lapse video of how I picked the lucky ones and it was too short to post on instagram .. :D so I decided to share here instead so everyone knows it was fate that picked the lucky ladies ;)

Well if you have seen the video you still have no proof because apparently less then 2 sec video (in MB it is even smaller than any of my pictures :D) must be processed to something that is just a blurr :D I should have made a real video (next time I will be smarter!) and this time you just have to believe what I say :P

The gifts of pay-it-forward-giveaway

Jesus himself said "It is more blessed to give than to receive" and I have tested his hypothesis through my PayItForwardGiveaway (if you are interested -> announcement and winners) :) 

I found it very rewarding to make the presents and it was so exciting to wait for reaction on the other end!

Giveaway WINNERS!!!

I am so happy to say that there were 4 brave crafty ladies who entered my Pay-It-Forwad-Giveaway (3 here and one using instagramm).
When I announced the giveaway I was a bit scared that none would want to join in (I can't exactly say that my blog is very well known), but with the first comment on the post I knew that it is gonna be a success! and now I have not only the needed three, but four participants! :)
I thought for a while how to choose, but it somehow felt very wrong to leave one out..

Pay-It-Forward-Giveaway

Almost year ago I was crazy enough to enter Kates giveaway and amazingly enough - I won!!! and got those delightful handmade gifts! According to rules, I had one year in witch to host my own giveaway and spread the love in form of handmade something..
So finally I think I have grown enough to host my own giveaway :)

As my time is running out, I have started the search for the three lucky ones!

And as I have way more followers on instagramm than here I am ready to bend the original rules a bit (you can find them in Kates post about this giveaway)... so I exchange bloggers for crafters and we get the NEW RULES of the giveaway:

The rules of this giveaway are that I now have 365 days in which to find three crafters who would like a handmade gift from me and are prepared to do the same.

You can enter the giveaway by leaving a comment to this post and revealing your favourite color till 10th of november.
Entries accepted from all corners of the globe :)

So the lucky ones will be known on 11th of november.. and if all goes well you'll probably get that special something from me as a Christmas present :) 

magic box

I knew this is a special day as soon as I opened my eyes!
because I knew - a package has arrived!!! (remember, I was one of three lucky winners of Kates organized pay-it-forward-giveavay)

when I finally got to the post office I could't believe my eyes - the box was SO huge!
this is what I saw when I unpacked the first level

it looked so nice and thoughtful I had to order myself to keep unwrapping ...
inside was the universal calendar, a candleholder, mug rug and letter with kind words that made all of this even more special :)

 
unfortunately my pictures doesn't show full awesomeness of these gifts, but as we are in the middle of moving I had some difficulties to find a nice (clean and not too crammed) place to take a picture (I already know where they will fit in my soon to be new home)
thankyouthankyouthankyou so much Kate!!! :)

p.s. I promise to make my own pay-it-forward-giveaway somewhere in ->

I adore this calendar!!! :)

Jipijeiii!!!

I am one of three winners in Kates from Signed With an Owl organized pay it forward giveaway :)) It's three days later and I still can't properly express how great it feels to be the chosen one :)
I will take it as a sign that at some point this year I will have enough followers and readers to organize my own giveaway :)
good luck to me and to all af you! ;)

O and this is one of squares for ongoing blanket challenge :)