Giveaway, and cloth diaper making

There are so many options in cloth diapering alone to make an expecting parent's head explode.

Basically, PUL and FOE are your friends if you're making your own. PUL is another topic for another day, but FOE is fold over elastic. Very useful for the stretchy curves that certain styles cloth diapers require.

Thankfully there are a lot of resources, including a giveaway that ends today. Fifty bucks to FOE Your Diaper Go to Sew Can do for details.

Chicken Contest!

Hey happy readers!

I know I promised to do Tutorials on Tuesday, but, well, I'm not very good with rules. Even ones I make myself. However, this little contest will get you started on a chicken-how-to.

I know a lot of ya'll are the crafty gardening types. And one of the crazily simple ways to be nice to your garden is to have chickens. Yes. You. Chickens.

The pros: they eat bugs. they eat weeds. They poop, and their poop is great in the compost pile. they lay eggs. You can craft with their feathers. They're pretty easy to care for, and not very time-consuming.

The cons: they eat ALL bugs they can catch. they will eat some of your seedlings. They poop wherever, and you do need to age it a bit so you won't get nitrogen burn on your little plant-a-loons. People might thing you're weird, especially if you craft with their feathers. Depending on your area, you might not be able to legally keep chickens.

If you're interested in chickens and need to start off on your research, I've got the contest for you. I've got a copy of Keep Chickens: Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and Other Small Spaces. And it can be yours.

I got it at Powell's last month. I read it, but it's not really good as a chicken owner's reference. But it IS great for folks who are thinking of chickens and need a jumping off point, an idea about what to have when you first get your chicks, and what to expect the first couple months of life.

Keep Chickens can be yours. All you gotta do is leave me a comment with one bit of chicken lore, a chicken fact, or a good name for a chicken. I'll randomly select a winner next Tuesday!

Yo, dudes, a giveaway

ChristopherandTia, at it again. Mother's Day's coming up, the economy's in the shitter, why not try for a free candle! Or if you're one of the lucky employed, why not check out the shop that's offering up the free swag, and buy a thing or two. HOT!

Buy handmade!

Peace!

monday contest

I'm cranky, so all you get is a cut and paste:

clicky to go to christopherandtia.blogspot.

p.s. check out their etsies too.

Giveaway of stickers and cards!

I totally should not post this because it screws up my odds. However, it's the right thing to do. Plus, I get extra points for telling you about it.

ChristopherandTia are having a little giveaway. Ok, a double giveaway, from TWO etsy sellers.

One of 'em is Simplyembellish. That shop has nifty stickers. You can win some personalized Thanksgiving stickers, but these are my favorite:


Then there's fivedot. I think they must have fairies running their shop or something. I looked last night and there were slightly more than a handful of cards you could buy. Now there are two pages. Here's a cute one that wasn't there last night:


and while you're at it, stop by ChristopherantTia and hybridhopes, then come back here and tell me to put stuff in my shop :)

Other folks's contest

Hey dudes, you like felt? You like hair thingies? Then check out KarmaBox's contest on Your Impact Matters. FORTY BUCKS OF STUFF, wonderful nifty shapes, apples, cherries, skulls, cupcakes, ghosts, candy corn, more! You can get a lot of nifty stuff for the forty bucks.

So, feel free not to enter, because it ups my odds. Or you can enter, and give me part of your prize as a Xmas present!

And now, the hotlinking for a good cause: free advertisement! I promise, when my followers top 10, or my blog hits more than 100 visitors a day, I will never hot link even if it's for free advertisements for shops i lovesssss.



I might even have to buy something anyway, and not even for the extra contest entries.

Contests at Twisted and ChristopherandTia

Twisted is a NE Portland yarn shop that you should check out if you haven't already. They have classes and events (like Craft Magazine release parties) and delicious yarn. They're also running haiku contests that don't require you to live in Portland! Click on over...

Also, ChristopherandTia, proprietors of etsy shops Hey Lady, ChristopherandTia and Kiteclub, have a weekly giveaway. Stop by every Monday for your chance to swoop up a sweet handmade item!