Today is the day......

Giveaway results are......

It has been a busy couple of days.  In fact days and all night last night!  I had a phone call  yesterday morning from my darling daughter and will be leaving tomorrow to visit her for an indefinite period and wanted to get lots done before I leave tomorrow.  So, I spent yesterday and all night preparing.  I also had to get furniture clear so the electrician who was coming today could get behind cabinets for new wiring that he was putting in.  

Because of the time difference our time is ahead of most other areas of the world and I was softhearted and left the draw until lunchtime today instead of midnight last night.

The process was that I made two lists - a list of names for 1:48 scale and another for 1:12th scale.  Each list was cut into strips and the strips put into a container.  I interrupted my husband Peter's gardening to ask him to draw a name from each of the containers.  And the results are.......

For the quarter scale giveaway:

Ta-da....  drum roll please.......

        **** Sandie ****

Sandie - please email me your snail mail address so I can post your present to you.

For the 1:12th scale giveaway:

Ta-da....  another drum roll ......

        **** Drora ****

Drora - please email me your snail mail address as well and I will get your present posted too.

I wish I could send all of you a gift, because you have taken the time and trouble to become followers of my blog.  And because you leave comments that encourage me and share my pleasure in creating miniatures.  That means a lot to me and I thank you again!  Now I am starting to think about ideas for if I ever reach 200 Followers - but that might be a bit over ambitious!

Only 4 days to go......

....and Wow! lots of new followers!

Friends, it is just 4 days until the 20th and the draw for the giveaway.  I sincerely appreciate the lovely compliments you have given me about the gifts – they are so very encouraging.  And I thank those of you who put a link on your blog about it – it wasn't a condition of entry  but again was appreciated.  And it has certainly resulted in heaps of new followers!

Welcome to all those new followers  –

My dear friend Jan from Bundy, who has been faithfully following both my blogs right from the beginning but has now formalised the relationship lol!

Marlene H who has also followed from the beginning

Clare

Lara

Ana Camara

Patrizia

Rosella

Craftland

Ludmilla

Britt

Fabiola

Allia

Lydia

Malu 2

Miniaturista

Ana

El bichillo 

Virginia Isabel

Pity

Valeria

Maria Ireland

Marian

Caterina

I hope you have all enjoyed what you have seen on the blog so far and that you will visit often and keep sharing feedback with me.

I have visited all the blogs of people who have links on their profile and I am just blown away by the beautiful blogs and the lovely minis that you make.   It makes me so happy to be able to be a part of this wonderful world of mini bloggers.  Thank you again for your feedback, your kindness and for the inspiration I get from seeing your work.  Most of all, thank you for your encouragement  - it makes me want to keep on even when I feel I have no mini energy so I can share with you how things turn out!

And so – in a couple of weeks at the most (once I finish this second swap piece I am working on) I hope to be back into full-on minis: what will it be:

-        -  finishing Birchwood?

-       -   finishing the Orchard House/scullery/etc combo?

-        -  Barnacle Cottage?

-         - starting on one of the new Petite Properties kits that are winging their way to me right now? Or one of those in my stash?

-         - Debbie Young’s John F Craig mansion?

-        - Pickett Hill?

-       -  or maybe The Black Swan Guesthouse, made from scratch based on an historic inn in rural New South Wales that I love to look at each time we pass? I have already made a card mock-up of my ambitious plans for this project.

At the moment I have no idea which it will be or even if it will be something totally different so as usual – stay tuned :)

And now the countdown continues.......

Giveaway is open

Giveaway is now open!

Well friends, here are the promised photos at last, and the giveaway to celebrate 100 Followers is now officially open.  The items have a decided spring bent to them since it is now officially spring in the southern hemisphere and also since I thought that floral items would be handy for anyone no matter what their projects were.

For quarter scale (1:48th)

Side one of flower barrow and arbor

I have assembled a small arbor which would make a lovely

Top view of arbor.

 feature in a corner of a garden, or look really nice over a narrow pathway or stepping stones leading from one part of the garden to another.  I have covered it with a clematis vine blooming with a profusion of purple flowers.   I love this arbor, and even though it took forever to make the clematis vine, I think it is lovely to have a climber over it.

Reverse side of flower barrow and arbor

The second part of the giveaway for this scale is a wheelbarrow filled to overflowing with a mini-garden to add a floral feature to your quarter scale terrace, conservatory or garden.  The white daisies and flowers sparkle against the bright and cheerful poppies and daffodils.  Ivy and the vine tumble over the sides of the wheelbarrow.

For one inch (1:12th) scale

Again, I have made a floral display.  This time I attempted to give a wooden container a shabby-chic finish (my first attempt at this).  Inside is a lovely arrangement of roses, dark pink with burgundy striations, similar to a real-life rose I love.  Tiny flowers in pink and white along

1:12th scale give-away

Rear view of flower arrangement in container

with fern leaves are scattered throughout the arrangement and more fern leaves soften the edges of the container.   


The box is lined with paper so if desired, the arrangement could possibly be removed and the box used for another purpose if so desired, though I'm not sure how the flowers would fare.  The box is wooden and could be repainted if you wished.

Petitpoint cushion

The second part of the giveaway for 1:12th scale is a hand-stitched cushion.  I used one strand of DMC floss on 40hpi silk gauze for the petitpoint front of this cushion. The rose design is in tent stitch and the background is in basketweave.  The cushion is backed in 100% pure cotton, and the cording is DMC.  It measures approximately 1 1/4" square.  


Conditions of Entry:
 1. Only Followers are eligible to enter.  You may enter either of the draws or both.
2. To enter, please leave a comment after this post, stating which draw you'd like to enter: 1:48, 1:12 or both.
3. Entries will close 12 midnight Tuesday 20th September AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
4. There will be two draws - one for each scale. If you have entered for both scales your name will be entered for both scales so you have a chance to win either giveaway.
5.Results will be posted on Wednesday, 21st September AEST.


I hope you like the giveaways!  Everything except the metal quarterscale wheelbarrow and the one inch scale box were made by me, a lot from kits some, including the cushion,  from scratch.  They were all - including the cushion, done to express my deep appreciation to you, my dear Followers, for your interest, encouragement and support!


Good luck!