Amazing giveaway from Laura Winslow Photography

Hey everyone, I have been gone from everything for a while, but especially from my blog! This seems to be the first thing to get forgotten about when things get crazy :( I wanted to make a quick post today to share this AMAZING giveaway from Laura Winslow Photography, one winner will get over $10,000 worth of fabulous prizes. Check it out at http://laurawinslowphotography.com/blog/2011/11/21/10000-holiday-bloggie-bash-laura-winslow-photography/comment-page-24/#comment-73785.

Christmas in July

For the rest of this week and most of next week I will be gearing up for our Christmas in July sale! This one is going to be huge! All Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas appliqued tees (long and short sleeve) will be buy one get one half off from July 15th to July 31st!

This sale is to help you get stocked for this year's holiday season and to help me get everything done before baby girl #3 gets here in November.

Here are all the details:

The sale will be running in my Etsy shop and on facebook/email. What this means is that if you see the shirts you want on Etsy you can order them there, but if you want an applique that I did not make a sample of, you can check out all of our Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas appliques in the photo folder on facebook, http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&¬e_id=188202114570809&id=126474922000#!/media/albums/?id=126474922000, and you can email me the shirts that you would like.

These shirts will be made and shipped as the orders come in, but can take up until early September to go out. You will have them at least a month in advance of the holiday, but I cannot honor my usual one to two week delivery time.

Shirts available for the sale are as follows:

White short sleeve - 6m, 12m, 18m, 2, 4, 6, 8
Black short sleeve - 6m, 12m, 18m, 2, 4, 6, 8
Brown Short sleeve - 6m, 12m, 18m, 2, 4, 6, 8
Purple short sleeve - 6m, 12m, 18m, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 (There will be some examples on purple but the shade of purple may vary by size and availability)

White long sleeve - 6m, 12m, 18m, 2, 4, 6, 8
Red long sleeve - 6m, 12m, 18m, 2, 4, 6, 8
BLack long sleeve - 6m, 12m, 18m, 2, 4, 6, 8
Brown long sleeve - 6m, 12m, 18m, 2, 4, 6, 8


Please feel free to contact me with any questions! You can order on Etsy or email me at christina_mcdaniel@hotmail.com if you are wanting a custom not listed in the etsy shop!

Thank you so much!!!

This sale does not include any non-holiday appliqued tops. In addition to the buy one get one half off holiday appliqued tops I will have other holiday ready to ships marked down in the Etsy shop for the sale as well, they will not be included in the bogo sale.

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And the Winners are....

For the dress:

Comment 7 - Christina Graham

For the Skirt:

Comment 16 - Bonnye Sensenig

I tried to put the little widget/gadget thing that showed the drawings, but it was just not working for me, hopefully I'll get a little better at this whole HTML business by the next drawing, but rest assured I did use random.org and do not even know that winners :) I will be emailing each of you shortly, if you do not receive an email today, please contact me at christina_mcdaniel@hotmail.com with the size you would like!

Congrats to you both!!!! And a big thank you to everyone who entered!

Be sure to keep referring your friends, I will be planning a large giveaway at 1200 fans with other shops items up for grabs too!!!

Christina

Giveaway!!!!!

Wow, I meant to get this done last week, but with the hubby on vacation and the kiddos here to make us do things I lost track of the week! It's giveaway time! We reached 500 fans and then kept right on going from there, it has been a busy month for our fan page! For the 500 fan giveaway I am going to give out a free surprise dress and a free surprise skirt to 2 lucky winners! Winners will pick size and I will make you a skirt or dress, depending on which you win!




How do you enter???? First, for 1 entry (required to get any others) you must be a fan of Dilly Dally Boutique on facebook, click on the link to the left and you must become a public follower of our blog. Post a comment that you've done this and there is your entry.

The above gives you your first entry, how do you get more? 1 way to get more is to refer your friends (please refer friends who would be interested in our shop) and have them leave a comment here that you referred them. You will get one entry per friend referred.

And last you can favorite our page on Etsy and leave a comment that you did this :)

That's it, super easy! I will draw 2 winners next Tuesday morning (or afternoon, we'll see when I can get up here), the 5th of July, via random.org!

Wow, how the time flies!

Well, some how it has gone from 2010 to half way through 2011 and my blog seems to have been forgotten about! But now that facebook has changed the way you can have giveaways I'm going to have to be posting here at least a little bit because all giveaways will have to come through here. So, I'm going to figure out what I would like to giveaway to celebrate our reaching 500 (and passing this number) fans on Facebook, and get that posted this week. I'll also try to update everyone on everything I've been up to!

Yeah! My office/studio is all done!

Well, after a few weeks (instead of a few days) my new and improved studio is done! I can move around without climbing over things, I can work without moving things out of the way first, and people can actually walk into the room without tripping over everything. It's very exciting and inspiring for me. I have felt a lot more motivated to work on some more clothing and bows, and maybe I will actually be ready for my shows this year!

Basically the room got new floors, new cabinets under the sewing area, new shelves in the closet, and a whole lot of cleaning. Still to do is finish my curtain (the fabric is the color inspiration for the room), get it hung, and get to work on the basket of unfinished projects under the sewing table!

This House is so Much Work!

Along with my kiddos, business and everyday life stuff we have this house, the house that was such a great deal! For those of you who have never bought a house that's a "great deal," you may not quite understand what that means. It means that yes you save a little (or even a lot) of money when you actually purchase the house, but you are going to be working on this house until the day you die or pawn it off on someone else!

In all seriousness, I have begun to love this house, but it has taken a lot of time and work, and some money to get here. I think the main reason I got sucked into it is that I could see a lot of potential, and if I didn't have the kids, business, and everything else that comes with the two, I might even enjoy all of the work that it is taking. Last year's projects included some painting, a lot of work in the kitchen (still not a new kitchen like I want, but money is a little tight and kitchens are a little expensive), and other small projects here and there. We have lots more planned for this year.

The first is a complete redo of my office/sewing space/get away from everyone else and try to get something done space. This is the smallest bedroom in our house, 135 square feet including the closet. It is also the room with the most junk, or crap, or materials, whichever word you would like to use to describe it. Which means that before I took almost everything out of it over the past few days it was so packed full of crap that you could hardly walk in :( But that is all about to change...or at least I hope it is!

The project is going to start with new dark laminate floors, a clean up on the paint, new shelves in the opened up closet and then cleaning it all up. Hopefully parting with stuff that is not needed and figuring out just what I do have. I have already found that I need to ban myself from Joanns, Hobby Lobbby and any other place that sells fabric, ribbon, trim, etc.

Above are some pics of the before, not only to embarass myself, but to make the finished product look that much better :) As you can see, I have painted (before the room was a very dirty cream color), added lots of storage in the form of shelves (which are staying) and have generally made an attempt to clean up and organize this room, but it hasn't worked out so well. Maybe I'm just creative, maybe I'm just messy, or maybe I just have too much crap. Whatever the reason, this is a new year and I'm tired of working (I'm sure many of you are wondering how!) in this room. We are tearing out carpet tonight and getting to work on this crazy space! New pics to come at completion!