Giveaway Inspiration

The winner is April! April, if you see this please e-mail me anna@craftygirlsworkshop.com with your mailing address. I'll attempt to contact you through blogger as well.

EDITED: Becky, (Lori is the one who is adopting the kids) over at Babes in Hairland really inspired me today. I don't have the ability to donate in a monetary way to children in Haiti or Doctors without Borders, but I do have an abundant stash of fabrics (part of the reason Crafty Girls Workshop was born). I dug into my stash and found something that I think could help Haiti, in a minor way. My philosophy is that if many people do one small thing, it will become one HUGE thing. Does that make sense? I think Craft Hope for Haiti is a perfect example. OK so here's the deal. I've decided that I want to offer a way to potentially reward you for commenting on Becky's blog and helping to spread the word about it. I want to give you some of my stash. It's 34 squares, precut to 5"x5", I know 34 is a strange number. It's a charm pack that I had, called Look and Learn by American Jane, I opened it and layed out the charms with the hopes of making an apron, but then put them away and changed my mind. I know I started with 40 charms, but I only have 34 left, I believe I may have made them into pin cushions for a giveaway awhile back. But still, 34 should be plenty to make an apron or a tote bag. I also want to include 1 yard of coordinating fabric from the same line. This fabric is NOT readily available to fabric stores right now. If there is any around, it is probably difficult to find. Here are a couple of pictures, I tried my best to include all the squares in the scan, sorry if a few of them are crooked.

The 34 Charms

1 yard coordinating fabric

I'll keep this opportunity open until February 2nd which is when Becky said she will donate the money based on the number of comments. She said you can comment once per day, so consider going back tomorrow to comment too. Here's how to enter the giveaway for this fabric and charm pack:

• Stop by Becky's blog (1x per day) and leave her a comment
• Come back here and tell me you did that
• Tweet about the Coins for Comments (and tell me you did)
• Post about it on Facebook (tell me you did)
• Blog about it on your blog (tell me you did)

You'll get one entry for each comment you leave here about each of those items. I'd be so thrilled to get lots and lots of comments so I know that somehow I'm helping in a little way too! I hope you have a wonderful rest of your weekend.

Happy Crafting,

Anna

Craft Hope for Haiti

This is one of the reasons I LOVE the Internet and the generosity of quilters and crafters everywhere. A wonderful person name Jade, who happens to live only around an hour away from me in Austin, started a project a long time ago called Craft Hope. She's given her time and resources many times over and this time she's done it again. In an effort to respond to the devestation in Haiti she and some other blogger friends have opened an Etsy shop to raise money for Doctors without Borders who are on the ground in Haiti. What did they put in the shop? Items made by sooo many generous crafters and quilters out there! And apparently, the donations are still rolling in, so many in fact that there is a 24 hour turn around time to get things posted! And get this--this shop has raised over $7000 in 48 hours for Haiti!!! Isn't that amazing!! If you'd like to know more, go and read her words about what is going on. She lovingly shares the goings on behind the scenes of Craft Hope on her blog. What totally bowls me over is that Jade just had a baby three or four months ago and yet she selflessly gives of her time. I am sure they would still appreciate more donations of items or just to have you stop by the shop and purchase something. This is truly amazing and I'm so glad that I have found it. I went through my usual list of about 15 blogs I check almost every day and about 10 of them had the blue button you see at the top of this post on their blogs too. Please help spread the word. If you check the Craft Hope blog, scroll down a bit and you can grab the code for the button to post on your blog too. Let's set the Internet on fire with Craft Hope for Haiti!

NOTE: Crafty Girls Workshop will be donating this tote bag for the Craft Hope for Haiti shop. They said there is a 24 hour turnaround time on the listings so check back tomorrow for the link!

EDIT: The link is live now! Click the picture or either of the underlined words above to go to the Craft Hope for Haiti shop and see the bag. They're approaching having raised $10,000 woohoo!!

Happy Stitches to You,

Anna