Mojo - do you have yours?

I always go through stages where I feel like my I've lost my 'mojo'. I dont think its actually lost, just gone on vacation for a short while. This last week it seems to have come back with a vengeance and there are so many things I've been making and there has been lots of frantic scribbling on bits of paper of more new projects I want to start. They do say its all or nothing! 

(the photo above is the bag I gave away when I reached 500 likes on my FB page, I plan on having another when I reach 1000)

Giveaway Winners!!

Thank you to all of you who entered my giveaway. I used the good old Random.Org to draw 3 winners from the entrants. Now time to announce the winners....

Christmas Angel Kit  :: WINNER :: Dinki Dots

Gingerbread Man Kit :: WINNER :: Helen Lay (FB page entrant)

Gingerbread House Kit :: WINNER :: Jojobi

Congratulations to the winners if you could all email me your postal addresses to emma@bagladee.com I will get them out to you this week.

Keep your eyes peeled for another giveaway in December :)

Want to win one of these?

EDIT: Giveaway now closed

I thought it was about time I had a little giveaway to say thanks for being such lovely readers, there are one each of these kits up for grabs.

 There's the gingerbread man,

 the Christmas Angel......

....and the Gingerbread House kit.

Each kits contains full instructions with illustrations, templates and all the materials needed to make your very own felt Christmas decoration.

To enter simply leave a comment on this post.
Yep that's it, I will post internationally so anyone can enter outside the UK.
Only one entry per person.
The giveaway is open until Tuesday 1st November and the winners will be drawn on Tuesday evening.
Winners will be drawn at random.

I will also be taking entries from my Facebook book page for those no familiar with blogger (again only one entry per person, which ever page you enter the giveaway from).

Good luck!!

Smiles and thank you's

Can you remember a few weeks ago when I had a little giveaway for my blog birthday? Alex from Daisie Days was the winner drawn from the 'pot'. I'm not sure who was thrilled more, me because Francesca Alex's daughter really wanted to win it as she is a 'pink' girl or Francesca herself :D

Here she is with her prize!

Then to my surprise and delight this card arrived in the post yesterday......it was a thank you card from Francesca :) thanks ever so much hunny it was such a lovely thought. And thanks to Alex too :)

Smiles and thank you's all round

:D

Wrapped lovliness

I am hoping that Alex over at Daisie Days has received her prize from my blog birthday giveaway. Congrats :) as promised I popped in an extra prize but I cant tell you what yet until I know its been opened. Well I dont want to spoil the suprise do I?

Pretty pink tissue and sealed with bagladee 'B' Moo stickers. I love wrapping!!

Blog Birthday Giveaway Winner

And the winner is...............

Comment number 8 :: which was Daisie

Yey, congratulations!!!!

If you could email me with your postal address I will get the cushion out to you this week.

Thank you for all the Blog birthday wishes and for entering. It really means a lot :D

Hugs

Emma xx

Happy 3rd Birthday bagladee blog

UPDATE :: as someone has rightly pointed out I totally forgot to say that the birthday giveaway closes tonight at Midnight (GMT) and I will announce the winner on Monday.....sorry for getting a bit carried away :) Who would have guessed back in April 2008 that 3 years on I would still be writing on my blog? Not me.....I thought it would be something that would be just a passing phase, not managing to reach 554 posts, have 331 followers (and many more readers) and had 35,000 visits!!!

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To say a little thank you for your support, friendship and encouragement I though it would be nice to give this sweet little cushion away. Its lovely and soft, being made of felt and has little rhinestones in the centre of the flowers.

Easy one, just leave a comment on this post. Please leave a way of me contacting you in that comment so I can notify you if you win. I will post worldwide so anyone can enter. Only one entry per person.

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p.s. told C about my fabric shop idea, thinking he would think it would be a good idea, he just raised his eyebrows as if to say are you mad woman!?!?!

Is it what you've been waiting for? Giveaway Draw

Ooooh how exciting!!! Time to draw the winners of my giveaway. Good luck everyone :) I went for the not very 'tech' names in a hat (well a box to be totally honest) wrote all the names out on scrap paper (including the extra entries for the extra blogging, tweeting etc....thank you) folded them up tightly and then asked C if he would be so kind to pick out 8 winners.

And the winners are:

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Prize 1: Palm Shopper, pouch and brooch : Ruthie

Prize 2: Swirl Shopper, pouch and brooch : Fairly Girly

Prize 3: Dottie Brush Roll and brooch : Wendy

Prize 4: Nina Brush Roll and brooch : Mad about bags

Prize 5: Flamingo pouch and brooch : Magic making hands

Prize 6: Fungi pouch and brooch : Dania

Prize 7: Oriental purse and brooch : Kittens lost her mittens

Prize 8: Cupcake purse : Smilernpb
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Congratulations to all the winners!! :D

Please could all the winners email their postal address to emma@bagladee.com and I will aim to get all your prizes out to you this week.

Thank you to all of you who entered, don't be sad if you didn't win, watch out for some more goodies coming soon!

Win these...

First of all just wanted to say thanks for all the lovely comments wishing everyone well.

Here it is then, my first GIVEAWAY of 2011. It seems such a shame for this lot to be just sitting in my studio with no where to go :( so I thought it would be nice to find them all new homes to go to :D plus its a nice way of saying thank you for all your support in 2010.

There are 8 prizes up for grabs (blimey!!)

Prize 1: Palm Shopper, pouch and brooch

Prize 2: Swirl Shopper, pouch and brooch

Prize 3: Dottie Brush Roll and brooch

Prize 4: Nina Brush Roll and brooch

Prize 5: Flamingo pouch and brooch

Prize 6: Fungi pouch and brooch

Prize 7: Oriental purse and brooch

Prize 8: Cupcake purse

Rules:
1. Leave a comment on this post to enter.
2. Make sure I can contact you via your comment (email add or link etc)
3. You can gain extra entries by Tweeting, blogging or facebooking about this post, just pop back here and share the link.
4. My giveaway is open to international entries.

That's it!!

The give away will close Midnight (GMT) Monday 17th January and I will post the winners on Tuesday 18th January.

Good Luck!

***Comments now closed!!***

Christmas Bow Decoration - Winner

Just quickly stopping by to announce the winner of my Christmas Bow Tutorial giveaway. I'm sorry its short and sweet today but my cold/flu has come back with a vengeance and I'm so ill I even had a little cry this morning.

Anyway to the happy bit.....I used the good old names in a hat system for drawing a winner. And that person is ::

Luciana Ferreira Damiano!!!

Congratulations Luciana, please contact me at emma@bagladee.com with a postal address so that I can get Chris to post your prize to you.

Thank you all for taking part and reading my tutorial. I was planning another on Thursday but I will see how I'm feeling.

See you soon.

POST 1: Giveaway winners

After returning from a weekend away I have a list as long as my arm of To Do's, but it was all worth it. We travelled up North to visit my Mam for her birthday, we had a lovely time and it was nice to get away and relax.......but now back to business!!

Here is my very jazzy cactus pot (mini) with all the entrants folded up neatly.

My very dry hands (from shovelling concrete on Friday) picking out 3 winners.

And the winners are:

Shoulder bag = Josie

Cosmetic Pouch = Dayna

Felt Purse = Gemma

Thank you so much for taking part in my giveaway, it was lovely to read all your feedback for my website. There were some really valuable points made.....and most I have tried to incorporate into the site. There are some limitations as to what you can do with Mrsite but I do hope that you all like what you see. I'm sorry that you all cant be winners. Thanks again and big hugs. x

Winner!!

And the winner of my Halloween giveaway is:

Thecraftytrundler

Congratulations Sharon, please email me with your address so that I can get your prize out to you.

Thank you to all of you who took part, I'm sorry there can be only one winner. And dont forget I still have The Festive Gift Fair tickets to giveaway, I really dont want them to go to waste!

Happy Hallloooowwwweeeeeen!!!

Since its the 31st today, Halloween. And this purse and brooch were still in my Etsy shop, I've decided to give them away.
Just leave a comment on this post and I will draw a winner on Sunday evening.....you haven't got long so get those entries in quick.

Right I'm off to carve my pumpkin and get the decorations up......Happy Halloween!!

Oh cheerful felt.......cheer me up

This week has gone from bad to worse to terrible.....hopefully with it being Friday tomorrow things will be on the up :)

These have cheered me up tonight, I'm working on another felty project, which will be new items for the craft fair I will be doing early December.

Oh hand sewing, how I love thee!! A nice cup of tea, Nelly bell on my lap and the TV on in the background......I feel the weekend approaching already.

A big thank you to all of you that have entered my giveaway so far, I wish you all the best of luck its a fab prize. If anyone would like to enter click on the link or the pic at the top right hand of my blog....its easy.

This last one is a Wedding gift I'm making for a friend, they said they wanted Next vouchers which I have bought but I wanted to make something a little special as we have been friends since we were about 7!! So a long time then ;) ha ha.

I will post some more photo's once they are a little more sewn together.

Confession Time

OK its confession time, I know I promised myself last time that I would NOT let the overwhelming To Do list consume my life!!! Well that has just gone right out of the window, to the point that I can no longer look at the list anymore!!!!

The more I look the more I stress about it :( the more I get stressed the more I don't want to look at it. Its only a list right!! Why is it controlling me?? Arrgghhhh!!!!

You would think that the sensible thing to do would be pick one of the items off the list and Get to? Well no not me, I've decided I want to go into the Studio and finish the last bit of painting. While I am sitting painting I will think of what task I want to tackle next. Yes not very productive I know....Oh well.

Ooooh one more little thing before I go.......a little while ago I posted a giveaway on my Reviews Blog where you can win a luxury Hamper. So far no one has entered :( which makes me sad, I want one of my lovely bloggers to win this fab prize. If you cant manage a recipe then why not write a post about the give away with a link to the giveaway and the Kerrymaid site using the key word Garlic Butter......its EASY!! Why not give it a go? If this is successful there will be lots more other cool stuff to give away. Come on bloggers help me out with this one.....Ppplllllleeeaaassseeeeee!! :D

What have you been doing????

I cant believe that I nearly forgot to show you what I bought from the fabric supplies shop when I visited home (Newcastle). How did this happen??? Emma is starting to think that she has more than she cope with on her plate at the moment (hasn't she always?!?!) so maybe the old brain is starting to replace old info with new not store it.

Any way, there were some lining fabrics I was running low on so I stocked up on a couple and added a couple more to the collection ;) yes as I said before "my name is Emma and I'm a fabric'aholic". Also needed a couple of threads and just couldn't resist buying these tiny buttons (they really are tiny) I have no idea what I'm going to use them for (like most things I buy) but I'm sure there will be something new to add them to.

Yummy, yummy buttons!!

Yesterday was spent over a lovely friends house getting some tips and advice about the trade show that I will be doing next April (Eeeekkk!!) extremely helpful but reality has just hit me on what I need to do in order to prepare. I can feel some maaahhooooosive To Do lists coming!!! Chris is being so supportive about it, keeping me calm and is going to help me with all the display side of things.

Today was a reflective day, thinking about all the things I have planned in before Christmas whilst I painted the skirting boards in the studio. While I was away Chris fixed all the skirting and started marking out for the shelves and TV bracket, he is such a sweetie!! I was going to post a photo but I've decided that I will post no more photo's until it finished, it will spoil the dramatic transformation if I show anymore.........so watch this space!!!

****DON'T FORGET I HAVE THAT GORGEOUS HAMPER TO GIVE AWAY AND THERE ARE NO TAKERS YET, SO WHY NOT ENTER......****

An amazing give away!!

I cant quite believe it myself but I have a totally fab give away on my sister blog "bagladee - reviews". The prize is a hamper of goodies.......so go on what you waiting for get yourself over here and enter!!

Good Luck!! :D xx

XFighters & a WINNER!!

Last night was totally awesome!!! I could bore you all to death for hours talking about it (which I wont, I promise) but even though we didn't get back home til 3am this morning it was so worth it. I now want to ride a motor cross bike and be the first woman rider to enter XFighters!! ;)

The setting for the night was amazing, the dis-used Battersea Power Station. I had never been up close to it before let alone inside the grounds. It was great!! They actually entered the track arena through a window!!!!!

There were fire works, and cool lights, a huge crowd and 12 amazing riders.....only one crash which was Mat Rebeaud but he's OK. The atmosphere was great and Levi Sherwood lived up to his nick name "Rubber Kid". He's my fav!!

OK I'm sure you would all like to know who gets the goody bag? Thank you to you all who took the time and went over to my website and checked it out, from the comments it looks like I'm almost there. All your suggestions were great and soon I will be adding them to the website.

A few people said they were having problems when viewing the online shop page, that the photos weren't lining up. I have no idea why this is happening, it looks fine when I view it in mrsite and my website and other people say it looks fine to them. Maybe if I play around with it a little it might solve it. You were all very kind, I was expecting some brutal criticism but there was none, either you were all being nice ;) or the site is OK :)

Back to the draw, using random.org the winner is:

Number 5: FairlyGirly

Congrats to you, I will email you for your snail mail address in the morning :D I still haven't finished adding things to the bag but once its ready to send I will post a quick picture. Thanks to you all again, be back soon with some photo's of the studio and some hand sewing.