Quilting and a winner

Hello lovely bloggy people :o)

Hope this post finds you all fine and dandy!

Thankyou so much for all your kind 'welcome back' hellos. It is lovely of you all to leave such kind comments and make me feel all warm inside. :o)

Now, I've been a bit cheeky with this post title, as the winner I have mentioned is ME!!

Yes, me!  I've won something else beside the Harry Potter tickets that I told you about last post!

I have won a blog giveaway. But it's one with a difference. My prize is a years subscription to the brand new vintage magazine called Pretty Nostalgic.

I won the giveaway on Niki's blog, and was absolutely astounded when she emailed me to tell me I was a winner!  I had to hotfoot it over to her blog to check that I really had won before I believed her!
But I'm really pleased to have won this. Honestly i was so excited, it felt like Christmas!
When I get the first issue on 1st May, i'll show you all what it's like ;o)
But from the blog, it looks to be something really lovely, and it features Nikis shop in it too :o)

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Anyway, what have I been up to this week?
Well, I've been trying really hard to get a quilt finished...

It has lots of applique roses on it (you know, those -what I call- William Morris style roses...)

And it has embroidery stems -which i have to admit, the embroidery was quicker to do that those roses!!  And I have discovered that I badly hate quilting with linen!!

But I'm getting there. When it's all been stitched together, I'm going to get my eldest daughter to hand quilt it. It's a present for one of her helpers at school, and I thought it would be nice if the helper realised that my daughter had shed tears over it, as well as her mum!! lol.

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And, I've been pigeon sitting!!  Now, I know you're all thinking what an ugly creature this baby pigeon is, but i just think they are the most cutest things!!

When I was little my Dad used to have great big pigeon lofts, and have racing pigeons. And I do miss them a lot as I always used to be down in the lofts with him.

But then when we moved here, we met an older couple who live near by who breed 'fancy' pigeons. And when they realised they had met someone who wasn't scared of pigeons, and actually adored them, they asked if I could look after them for them when they go on holiday and the such, and I just love it!!

So whilst I was there, i just had to take a photo of 'Neville' (I named him/her -don't ask how I thought of Neville lol) as i just knew you lot would like a little looksie!  He's one of the first babies out this year !

My neighbours also have the most beautiful garden.

I just love this apple blossom -I think it's prettier than my apple tree blossom...

And just as luck would have it, when ever I went in the morning to feed, the sun was shining beautifully, even though it's been pouring and hailing  for about two weeks now....

I thought this view was a bit surreal with a mediterranean palm tree, and our english ,native holly bush in the same picture!

And I loved the shadows of the palm that played out on my neighbours, neighbours (does that make sense?) house wall...

I mean how nosey can one woman get, not only taking photos in her neighbours garden, but taking pictures of her neighbours, neighbours garden lol.

Bet you're pleased I don't live near you!! :D

Anyway, that's me for today lovely bloggers. Off to have a nose around blogland :O)

You take care now, and I'll speak soon.

Love Donna xx

EDITED TO ADD::

Oh my word!!!   I have just found out that I have won another prize!  Can you believe it? Cos' I can't !    I shall be buying a few lottery tickets this week, but I'm not sure it works like that, and this is my third win already - so maybe I'm just being greedy! :D

Happy, happy week folk. xxxx

AND THE WINNER IS......

You'll be pleased to know I'll not be moaning about blogger this evening :0)

Thanks to all your advice, I've uploaded the photo's first, and am writing second :0)

This post is all about the

GIVEAWAY :0)

So without further ado..

All the names went into the hat for the bloggers who wanted the  Felt book first...

I gave the hat a good shake, and hubby did the picking..

And the winner of the Felt making book is......

CRAFTY CATS CORNER!   :0)

Congratulations crafty cat!

Next up is the Thrift book...

Many more of you would have liked this book :0)

Again, a good shake....

And the winner is...

Jacey from Coffee and Crochet :0)

Congratulations to you too Jacey.

I'm just going to pop over to your blogs now and let you know the good news!

I'm off now to try and get warm! 

We have no heating tonight as the boiler broke down today :(

One of the only good things about living in a rented property is they have to fix the boiler! LOL

('Cept we have to wait to get it done :(  )

Have a great weekend everyone.

And thankyou so much for taking the time to enter my giveaway.

Take care,

Love Donna xx

Giveaway is closed now.....

Hello lovelies...:0)

I'm closing the giveaway now..

My husband is going to pull the lucky winnner's names out of the hat (there will be two seperate draws obviously :0)  ) and I shall be back later this evening to announce  the lucky winners.

Thankyou for entering.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Love Donna x

Uh-oh......

So sorry, I forgot to post  the other pictures of the books last evening, so here they are this morning....

First up is the Felting book...

Yes, this fluffy pooch is in the book too! LOl

A felted cushion.

Well, this is a taster of what's in the felting book.

I was going to add a few more, but blogger is still being naughty,

so I'm going to go on to the 'Thrift' book now...

Hope you all like the what's in them :0)

Don't forget to leave a comment in the first 'giveaway' post to enter!

Have a great day everyone

Take care.



Love Donna x



A Brand New Blog ......*...GIVEAWAY...* :0)

Hello Lovely people :0)

How are you all?

Hope this brand spanking, shiny new blog finds you all fine and dandy.

To start off my new blog, I'm having a giveaway.

Today is a always a sad day for me, it's the anniversary of my Dad's death.

It was quite a while ago now, but it doesn't ever go away does it? :(

Anyway, i thought if I can't be happy on this day, I'll make someone else happy:)

Good idea ..yes?

So I had a look at my book collection, and just as a little thankyou to all who read my blog (I don't think there are that many of you, so your chance of winning will be quite good LOL)

I thought I would give away a couple of the books that I no longer read/require.

They're both good books.

Here they are:

First one up is:

FABULOUS FELTED HAND-KNITS, by Jane Davies.

The second book is:

THRIFT  by Bridget Bodoano

Now Blogger isn't playing nicely, and won't let me upload any more photo's this evening, so I will have to put the rest of them on tomorrow night. :)

So, if your interested in winning one of these lovely books, just leave a comment on this blog saying which one you would like to win ...

FELT  or THRIFT.

It would be nice if you did a little link to this blog about the giveaway, but that is not at all essential to enter :0)

You CAN say both if you want to and you WILL be entered into both hats.

My hubby doesn't know it yet, but he will be drawing the winners from my fur hat on

20th January 2011.

So you have plenty of time to enter.

I'm just popping over to Bizzydays now to tell you all that I'm now over here :0)

Don't forget to leave me an email address if you don't have a blog so I can contact you if you win.

Good Luck Lovelies.

Take care.

I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of the pic's.

Love Donna x