Win One of my Laundry Day Aprons

Click on over to Cathy's adorable blog Cap Creations, 

and enter to win one of my child's laundry day aprons.

Giveaway Link.

I first met Kathy through her Thrifty Love link party and have joined in to celebrate her reaching 1,000 followers.  She is hosting a week of giveaways with multiple entries available on each item. 

 Cathy also has an adorable Etsy shop featuring hand stamped custom

 jewelry and vintage lovelies. 

Speaking of shops, I also gave Cathy a 10% off coupon code for my

  Etsy shop to share with her readers.  So, check it out!

Giveaway Winner!

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway. 

 I met lots of new blog friends and can't wait to put together another giveaway soon.

The winner is The Joyful Thrifter. 

 As you can guess from her name, she loves vintage treasures.

Her cute blog is Joyful Treasure Hunting and is also an author on the Pyrex Collective.

Blog Friends~Old and New

My favorite part of hosting a giveaway is that I discover lots of great new blogs thanks to the nice comments left on my posts.  Before I reply to a comment, I like to click through to that readers blog and take a look around.  One thing leads to another and before I know it, I am clicking and clicking and clicking~wrapped up in the beautiful pictures, creativity and insights of my fellow bloggers.  This is my favorite way to make new blog friends.

This giveaway also brought me nice surprises from two of my old blog friends.  My friend Kim from Musings from Kim K surprised me by posting about my giveaway and has sent many new friends my way.   Kim was the first blogger I really made a connection with in my first months of blogging.  She replies to comments quickly and always has the nicest things to say.  We love all the same vintage collectibles and she has a passion for doll houses (what more could I ask for?).  Whenever I have some free time, I read her old posts to discover even more things we have in common like holding onto every Mary Engelbreit magazine ever printed!

Jane from Mary Jane's Tearoom posted a link to my giveaway on her sidebar and I have enjoyed meeting many of her friends.  This blog is beautiful inside and out.  A knitter and an illustrator, Mary Jane fills her blog with a beautiful mixture of pictures and illustrations in her soft color palette.  She hosts many giveaways herself and is always pointing me towards cute etsy shops as well as inspiring the crafter in me.

And the Winner is.....

The winner of my apron giveaway is Melanie.  She has a cute shop on Etsy featuring little needle felted animals as well as a blog you will want to visit.  Melanie will get her choice of one of the vintage aprons in my Etsy shop...

or one of my vintage inspired children's aprons....

My first giveaway was lots of fun.  I enjoyed reading all the wonderful comments everyone left, as well as welcoming some new followers.  I will have to do it again soon........