giveaway time

September 30, 2010 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)711 Comments

At the beginning of September I started my 5th year of blogging and so I thought I'd celebrate with a little giveaway. To take part all you need to do is leave a comment below and I'll draw one winner on Wednesday October 6th. The winner can then choose one of my latest batch of animals to have as their own.

I'll be putting the rest up for sale at the end of next week (some on the blog and some on Etsy – I'll email my advance list with details so please let me know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list).

Thanks to everyone who visits here, especially to those of you who take the time to comment. I started blogging because I wanted to share a love of knitting with others and to be a part of a crafty minded community and I'm very lucky to have made some wonderful friends and have discovered lots of creative people. I'm hugely grateful too that I've met lots of wonderful people with personal experience of autism, it's been such a help to read of other people's experiences and to share some of ours.

Thanks for dropping by to my little corner of the internet, J x

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Thanks so very much for all of the lovely comments, I've closed the draw now and will post later with a winner

crafts & knitting

our hero

September 28, 2010 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)50 Comments

Well, he did it! 75 miles over hill and dale in 6 hours and 20 minutes – Amy thinks her Dad is a superhero!

Thanks so very much to the very generous people that sponsored him and for all the kind messages of encouragement wishing him good luck. He's thrilled to have raised a total of £357.50 for the British Heart Foundation.

I have not been anywhere near as energetic, though my fingers have been keeping fit but I don't think that knitting 75 metres of yarn in one day comes into the same league, does it!

Still, I am finishing off a batch of animals and will have a giveaway very soon so please pop back in a few days if you'd like to win a little cotton rabbit.

general stuff

many miles to go

September 19, 2010 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)24 Comments

I don't often write about my husband here but we are really proud of him right now, so we're dragging him into the limelight for a moment.

He's been in training for months and is now in the last week of build up, as next Saturday he embarks on a mammoth 75 mile bike ride from London to Brighton to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation.

There are 750 people taking part so he'll not be alone and hopefully the day will raise a lot of money for a wonderful cause. If you have a pound or two to spare he'd really appreciate any extra sponsorship – his fundraising page is here.

Hopefully he'll be able to get another couple of hundred miles of training in this week and we're keeping our fingers crossed for Saturday to be a dry, mild day with a light breeze so all of the riders can make it to the finish and a well deserved hug from family and friends!