Winner!

And the Winner of Giveaway nr 2 is...

Sanna

Congratulations!!!!

Contact me and I will make sure you get your new My Memories program!! :)

I am sorry it took so long to post the winner, a tip for people who have a slipped disc or back problem in general, do NOT carry a heavy spinning wheel up the stairs, and do NOT proceed with assembling it in an odd position on the floor! Learn from my mistakes. 

By the way pictures of the Matchless soon! :)

Box

Guess what came to my door this morning! Or technically yesterday morning. More about that tomorrow. Or technically today. Good night!

Beach flamingos

If you find fabric with beaches and flamingos on (or any other unreasonable funny objects printed on it) at the fabric store, it is your duty to buy it. That is another rule!

Giveaway nr 2!

You might have noticed that I have been playing around with a scrap-booking program, using pictures and pasting in fun objects and backgrounds. Well, if you haven't, those card thingies is what I am talking about.

I have ben given the opportunity to try out the My Memories Suite 2.0 a scrap-booking program.

I am not a scrap-booker, I usually use a photo-rendering program to play around with photos and make cards. But I have to say, I like it, this is a lot of fun. I kind of got stuck in it, at first my pictures looked kind of wonky, but then I got the hang of it and it was really nice, and there are a lot of helpful tutorials on youtube.

You make your own scrapbooks, photo-books, cards or pictures by choosing a background, photos and embellishments, ad shadows, text and borders. You can also scan in things like tickets or other personal memorabilia. It is very individual and you can decide everything for your self, move around stuff or you can just use one of the templates.
The original package seems a bit limited after a while, but there is lots of free stuff to download, and to buy too of course, if you want that.

I found myself using it for all kinds of fun stuff. I made some display pictures for my rovings, a card for the giveaway, and a postcard that I got printed and sent on via Posten (swedish post) to my family.

And more interesting, I have been given an extra copy of this program to give to one of my readers. Which leads me to:

 "Giveaway nr 2"! :) 

This is a $40 program, that is very substantial and complex but easy to use. So if you like to make scrap-books, photo-books, cards and all kinds of fun stuff, go the My Memories site, have a look around, then come back here and tell me in the comments what designer is your favorite, and you will be in the draw to win this fun program! Oh, and it is for both mac and PC, I am using it on a mac.

I am giving you a week on this one too, so on Thursday at midnight the time runs out!

As an added bonus I am allowed to give all my readers, friends and family a 10% discount in the My Memories Store! Not bad, huh.
Just use the promo code: STMMMS35907

Good luck everyone!

My "My Memories" portfolio so far. ;)

Winner!

Aaaand the winner is:  

Sigrun Joh.

Congratulations!!!

Send me your address and I will promptly send the beautiful yarn on to you. If you want to, it would be lovely to see pictures of what you make with it, in that case, when that time comes, send me those as well.

For everyone else, consider yourself in second place! I will offer a 20% discount for all participants during next week (Monday to Sunday), send me an email including the text you wrote in the comments and I will give you the coupon code.

Giveaway!

Last day to enter the Giveaway!
Go to the correct blog post and write something in the comments if you would like to be in the draw to win this fabulous hand spun yarn! The time runs out on midnight, Swedish time. Tomorrow I will be announcing the winner!!!

Good luck!

Crazy fuzzy spinning

Fall

No! It is too soon.
I really like fall, you can use your hand knitted stuff, what is not to like, but I know what comes afterward. If we don't mention it it might not come...
The season "we shall not mention" is horribly long, dark and cold in Sweden. That is why we look so crazy, franticly trying to capture every last sunny day and evening it is ok to barbecue on, because we know what awaits us. Only a swede (or other people "living in way to far up the northern hemisphere" countries) knows.

IT

IT is ORDERED! 

You who know what I mean, know what I mean!

And.

If you order it, it will come!

Card

I just wanted to show the card I made for the giveaway, I am playing with this new scrap-booking software, but I will write more about that another time. Fun anyhow. :)