i'm glad to announce the winners of my blogiversary give-away today! 

 here they are!

so, Sylvie, Ja-Ni-Na and Heidi, please email your address to me (siene_AThotmailDOTcom) and i will post your gifts this weekend! and a big thank you to everyone for entering the give-away! better luck next time! :)

HIP HIP HOORAY!!! 

yesterday was my third blogiversary

 and i decided to celebrate this joyous occasion with a GIVE-AWAY!!! 

i thought it would be nice to give away three yarny gifts... so you can make a lovely pair of socks, handwarmers, maybe even a cowl or something... anything you fancy!

 the first gift contains 4 balls (50gr) of 100% alpaca yarn: Alpaka by Schachenmayr Nomotta. i used this yarn for the boyfriend scarf ! Also in this gift is a pair of the neon-beige handwarmers i made and a bunch of cute brown buttons.

gift number two contains one ball of Opal Grafitti sock yarn (100gr, 75% superwash wool and 25% polyamid), to make a nice pair of socks with, or, if you don't like socks, a colourful cowl/neckwarmer or a pair of gloves maybe... you decide! also in this gift: a lot of cute brown buttons.

and last, but not least, gift number three. this gift contains two balls of Alpaka Fashion (again by Schachenmayr Nomotta) in a pretty blue colour, kinda jeans-like. and again: buttons!

now what do you have to do to win this give-away? it's easy! 

become a follower of my blog (if you aren't already) and leave a comment.
if you prefer a particular gift, let me know!

if you want an extra chance to win, you can make a blogpost about my give-away or my blog in general! make sure to leave an extra comment for your blogpost. 

the give-away is open until 18 november! international readers can also enter, do note there is only one gift to win for international readers!

that's all! see you later!! :)

i'm the kind of person who keeps working on a project even though it is not at all turning out the way it is supposed to... i'm way too stubborn to give up, i always think "okay, so it's ugly now, but i can make it work!". that's exactly how it went with the lucy bag. it looks great and it's supposed to be really easy but mine ended up looking like a slouchy jamaican-style hat. (too bad i don't wear those...)
so i gave it up when the "bag" was almost finished. i (well, the boyfriend to be precise, he loves ripping out crocheting and knitting work) ripped the wole thing out and started over. since it was still not looking great (i blame the yarn or my tight crocheting), i decided to try another pattern. so now i'm trying the starling handbag by futuregirl.
and it's looking good!!
(look at that huge ball of yarn! it's 4 or 5 skeins in different colors knotted together - i was making a striped bag.)

ah....so far so good! :)

hey guys! i'm giving away a free ticket for cocoon, a fair about interior design! we went last year, but we can't go this year. it's a really big and good fair, i'd recommend it to people who are redecorating or planning to, or to anyone who's interested in interior design in general. or for people looking for a nice day out, we usually combine our trip to cocoon with some serious shopping in brussels. :)


cocoon is in brussels expo from 20-28november, and i have one ticket (for 2 persons). only thing is, you can't go on a sunday with this ticket.

if you want it, you can leave a comment until wednesday the 17th, let's say until 17u00. you'll have to promise you're really going though, otherwise we're losing our yearly free ticket! ;) i'll pick someone at random wednesday evening.
good luck!

apparently there's some give-away virus going trough Blogland!
- LaFilleHella is giving away a handmade scarf and 2 cute bowls. i'm not entering because i can fill an entire store with scarfs and porcelain only... ;)
- Dutch Apple is giving away a handmade bag out of recycled materials! it's really pretty!
- Melissa is giving away all sorts of things! all really nice! some fabric, some vintage...

oh and look how beautiful the light was yesterday evening...
i should really start taking more photos again!

i don't want to sound greedy, but i really want these!
they would be the perfect addition to my button collection... be sure to check out Tie-ne's blog and her give-away! (lots of give-aways lately, phew!!)
(ps: i'm teaching myself some new crochet skills today! more about that soon!)

remember when i said i wouldn't enter to give-aways anymore?
well... this one... i just HAVE to enter! it was a silly idea anyway.. ;)

look!! Rood met witte stipjes is giving away free fabrics! pretty, juicy, lovely fabrics!
*click* her webshop

i've been such a lucky lady lately! after winning Mme Zsazsa's aardpeer-give-away, i also won Kir's jewellery bag and now i also won a custom-made stamp by Mamasha!! Thanks to you all!

should i stop entering to give-aways now, to give the rest of you a chance? ;)
(look at the beautiful fabric card and recycled envelope!)

and as the cherry on the cake, my grandma gave me these gorgeous porcelain cups & saucers yesterday! (6 of them, plus matching coffee/tea-can!)

before we get all excited about the results of my give-away; i'd like to thank everyone for participating, i never thought 21 people would enter their names! so here we go....
my moms innocent hand...
tum-dum-dum.......

(for those who can't read my handwriting:)
i'm happy to announce that kamiel&odille and blanca (i wrote bianca, sorry) are the winners of my give-away!! they both chose set 1, so we drew names again for set 1, and kamiel&odille came out as the winner, so blanca gets set 2.
the only thing left to do for these two is to mail me their adress ( severienvandam@hotmail.com ) and sooner or later this week a small package will arive...

having 50 (51!) followers really made me happy so i decided to do a little GIVE-AWAY!!
i hope to make 2 people happy by giving away two sets of 5 postcards and square, thick notebooks out of recycled paper.

(i made these quite a while ago and i sold them with Veerle as my partner in crime at the Markt Van Morgen, a creative market for beginning fashion/graphic/jewelry/...designers. it was a great day and we even made it to the top 5 best/most original booths of that month!)

SET 1: a postcard series with a vintage-style collage + a sunny notebook!


SET 2: a postcard series with a retro touch + a cute fishy notebook!


all you have to do is leave your name and what set you would prefer in a comment! an innocent hand will pick the two winners and you will recieve your set by mail. i'm closing the give-away on sunday, 28th of march. (so you can submit your name untill saturday 23:59 PM)
good luck!!