Fun idea.

I was just reading Funny Magic and she has a cool giveaway:

"The first three people to comment on this post will get something fibery or handmade from me! The catch is that you must repost this idea and offer a giveaway of your own to the first three people who comment and participate on your blog.

So, the first three fine folks who stop by and leave a comment telling me they've participated on their own blog win a gift - it could be yarn, roving, or, if you don't knit or spin, something handmade. If you're one of the first three to partake just let me know what you prefer. Everyone knows I aim to please!"

I am here to give something away too. I don't know what yet, but something.

From here, I will just remind myself that not every moment of the day is spent hearing the screams of "she looked at me!" or "he is in my spot!"

We began our spring planting, I know, there's still a lot of snow outside, but the garden center folks said that it would be fine to start now.

Here's to optimism,

Jess

Give-away results

Well I had four people choose four different give-awayables, so you each get the one you chose.
Email me at bandjontheriver(at)msn(dot)com with your addresses and you should expect some fun mail within the week.
Thanks again for reading,
Jess.

What a year!

Hey everyone!

It's my blogging anniversary today.

I have never kept a journal for more than a month or so.

Keeping this blog is a big step for me.

I am commemorating the occasion with a give-away.

I have some stuff that I have made but can't get rid of any other way than to pass it along to y'all.

Here are three aprons that I made for a craft show last December, and they have been sitting in my closet longing for a home
Let's call them-
Blossoms

Lemon
Tomato

I also have a tea cozy that wasn't quite acceptable to the customer for whom it was made.

Please leave a comment indicating which one you would like and I will pick a winner at random.

So many things have happened in the last year.

My children have grown so much.

The Elder Hug-a-Bug started going to School, and the Younger Hug-a-Bug is newly toilet trained.

Goodbye diapers!!!

Coming here every few days has helped keep me on task with my knitting and sewing projects too.

I have a habit of starting too many things and then forgetting what it was that I was working on, but now I have pretty pictures to look at to remind me.

The best thing about being here in blogland is the lovely community of bloggers.

I have made new friends and found old ones.

Such a joy.

Thanks everyone for coming and sharing this space with me.

Jess.

Update: the comments are closed. Winners chosen. Thanks,

Jess

We Have a Winner!

I had the Elder Hug-a-Bug pull a name from a bowl and the Rocket goes to...



Auntie Krista!

The sewing is begun, but I ran out of stuffing.
I hope to have it finished before Thursday when I get on the plane, but if not I hope that you will forgive the wait until July.

See you later,
Jess

June from the Fifth Lamp and other things.

Hello,

This here is my 100th post!

In honor of that occasion I have devised a give-away.

More on that later.

First things first, here is the Fifth Lamp photo for June-

I was hoping that the Fifth Lamp photo for my 100th post would be of a lovely sunny day with big puffy clouds, but with the husband out of town last week and a stroller with no brakes I was unable to take a picture off of a very slanted bridge on a very busy road last week when we had that kind of weather.

This has been the vista for a few days anyway, and I should allow some honesty about the weather for when I look back on these pics in the future.

One thing about the rain, though I don't know if you can see it here, the forest along the river is a jungle of greeny goodness.

Now, on to the give-away.

I have figured out a way to satisfy my insatiable need to make toys without clogging up the kids' room with anything more.

I would like to give away a rocket.

I designed these last year and I had planned to make them for the craft show that I didn't get in.

The two choices are these: On the right we have a vintage flour sack (I bought it 15-20 years ago, and it was an antique then) and on the left we have the makings of a camouflaged rocket, unable to be detected against the night sky.

My kids really love these rockets and I would love to share them with you all out there.

Please leave a comment saying which color scheme you like better and I will pick a winner at random.

I will close the comments on Friday at 9:00 PM

Thanks for reading and commenting for these past 100 posts, and I hope that we can continue our conversations for many, many more.

Jess