Birthday celebrations all around

October 6, 2010 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)23 Comments

Thanks again for all of the kind comments on my anniversary giveaway post, I really appreciate them. The good old random number generator has been set in motion again and has turned up number 426

which is a comment from Peggy Sue:

How
sweet of you to do a giveaway. I haven't a snowball's chance in July of
winning, but do wish to be kept on the list for a chance to purchase in
the future. Thank you!

Posted by:
peggysue |
October 02, 2010 at 03:23 AM

I'm waiting to hear back which animal she's chosen but when she's emailed and I've finished adding names to the mailing list I'll sort out a sale of those remaining.

We've had a busy week here with both of the children celebrating their birthdays. Amy had her 11th birthday party last weekend – a crazy affair with 4 friends coming for a disco, pizza, film and sleepover.

Birthday girl

Luckily the boys went to stay elsewhere and so Amy and her friends could go really wild! Needless to say sleep did not feature very prominently as they eventually settled down at 2am and woke at 7.30, but a lot of fun was had.

Toby's birthday is coming up this weekend and we'll be having a quiet bouncy castle party with balloons, bubbles and lots of french fancies (Toby's favourite cake!) – much more my kind of party!

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.