are you up for a creative challenge?

 

Many years ago I was a part of a great forum.

We had swaps and meets and challenges.

 

One of the really fun challenges was where we signed

up and then were given a random picture and a colour.

 

From these we were free to create whatever we liked

using the picture and the colour as our inspiration.

 

I was given the colour pink and a picture of a gingerbread man.

I ummed and ahhed and finally decided on this little stitchery.

 

 

But if I wanted to I could have made a stuffed pink gingerbread

or cards or wallhangings or anything.

 

I thought it might be fun to kick off another challenge like this.

 

What are your thoughts?

Are you interested?

 

I would need a few to sign up to make it interesting and

you would need to email me .

I would email you back with a picture and a colour.

You would then create something using these as your inspiration.

One month from the day the emails are sent I will

add a linky thing here and you would blog your creation

and hundreds of us would

descend on your blog exclaiming at your awesomeness!

 

All this was running through my head last night

so if you have any thing to add please just say so.

 

Feel free to sign up now by

leaving a comment but then you must email me.

send to clarebower@bigpond.com

 

It would also be great if you told your friends too

the more the merrier!

I will close the signups at the end of the month which

means you will need to blog your creations on 1st September.

 

close enough

 

I got home from work one day and this was on the bed.

The husband must have been feeling the cold.

 

Stinky Ralph who is actually a girl but really does stink

seems very happy with the new blanket.

 

So it looks like it is finally finished.

 

Lucky I have lots of wool leftover to start a new one.

 

The winner of the book Blogging for Bliss is

Michelle Sheehan!

 

Quilt Kitty won herself a gift certificate to my store.

 

Thanks so much for entering.

Would you please email me with  your details

so I can send your prizes off.

 

while we're waiting let's have a giveaway

 

While we are waiting for me to finally finish the biggest

granny ripple in the world I thought I'd have a giveaway.

 

I have been trying to get a copy of Mollie Makes Blogging

but it has sold out everywhere but luckily

I have a copy of Blogging for Bliss by Tara Frey

for one lucky Australian blogger.

It really is a great read and very inspirational.

 

If you are an Australian blogger or are looking at

starting your own blog just leave a comment on this post.

No I won't make you blog, facebook or tweet about it

but it would be so nice if you do!

 

 

Because it's always a bit sad to only have one winner

we'll have two with the second one winning a gift certificate

from my shop.

I can even send the gift certificate directly to your friend

if you would like.

 

 

I'll be back in a few days with the winners

and hopefully a finished blanket......

 

This giveaway is now closed but

thanks for your interest.

 

 

 

 

 

getting down to business

 

My computer is on the way out.

 

I've had a terrible fear of losing my photos

and of course they aren't backed up.

So I have been saving files and photos to usbs.

 

 

I thought I'd treat myself to a businessy usb from Vistaprint.

 

 

It looks pretty good!

 

To make the postage worthwhile I also got myself

some new business cards and magnets and

gift vouchers!

Very excited about these gift vouchers !

Available in my shop right now.

fun for the whole family

 

I'm only a very basic knitter but the old knitting

needles that can be found in op shops

seem to find their way home with me

and I now have quite a collection.

 

So of course my mind wandered to a styrofoam ball

 

all covered in wool

 

with some old needles poking out and

 

even looking a bit like a strange planet outside...

 

We needed something new at our house

 to whack our heads on.