A Giveaway and some help for a friend

Good Morning, everyone!

First up...

I have been following these kitties for quite a while:

And recently, poor Ginko has developed seizures and needs rather pricey medicine

to help keep them at bay.

Having had a dog with severe seizures,

this is a matter close to my heart...

nevermind that I LOVE reading about these kitties on the internet!

They have their own website HERE!

Also nevermind that their owner, Chun (aka Puppy52)

is one of the sweetest folks you'll ever come across.

ANYWAYS, to help gain some funds for Ginko's pricey meds,

Chun has created this lovely illustration of Yoshi

that you can buy through Zazzle on things like shirts and bags.

BUY BAG HERE:
http://www.zazzle.com/yoshi_doodle_on_a_bag-149049736594645579

You can also opt for the "Photo-quality Yoshi"

LOL... aka, a photo of him...

A brother has to do his part to help his sister out!

I opted for the illustration...

because I believe in the cause

(100% of the proceeds go to Ginko's meds)

but also because... look at it!

It's a lovely illustration!!!

You can have a kick ass, cute as heck bag

(which you'll love even more if you check out Ginko & Yoshi's blog)

AND you'll be helping a kitty out!

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Next up is a giveaway that I thought might interest you... it's an "our scale"

decorative item from the very talented Mijbil Creatures.

If you've never checked out Mijbil Creatures...

DO IT NOW!

Such cute stuff :)

You have a chance to win this tiny squirrel, and it's box of tasty macaroons!

You should check out the blog post with the giveaway anyways,

for a tutorial on how to make your own squirrel!!

The giveaway ends when there is a random drawing at the beginning of November!

Valentines giveaway from bearbits

Hi folks, this is totally not book related... but one of my favorite bear makers, Ginger Brame, at bearbits, who is just the biggest sweetheart ever, is having a giveaway!

Please go check it out her super cute blog, and enter to win this little guy:

His name is Tinsley :)

Please go here to enter:
http://bearbits.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-valentine-from-my-heart-to-yours.html

A Stuffed Life pauses to give(away) Caution

Kelly has done it again, and created one of the cutest little critters out there!!!

 And she's giving it away!

Caution the Mouse (as seen below, in Kelly's photograph) is part of the giveaway, but if you're wanting to buy one of your own, Boo, is available on Kelly's website here: http://www.blondheart.com/boo.html

Little Cupcake Giveaway

Sarah Dickson is having a little cupcake giveaway....

Click the picture to check it out... and while you're there, look around her blog! Her work and her illustrations are adorable!!!!!

Things I have to share...

So, I am a notorious Etsy surfer... and yesterday I stumbled across this (click the pic to be taken to the etsy shop):
It's only $15!!!! AND SO CUTE!!! I bought one... they're currently out of them in the shop, but I looked through the sales history and the seller has sold several of them, so I'm sure more could be made if any other bear lovers want one!

I just had to share. It was too cute.

Also... giveaway time!
Click the pics to go to the pages to join in!

Dinking around with my logo and a giveaway

So, after staring at my bearries logo for so long, I feel it could use an update... and while this version might be over the top, I still thought it was amusing, so I'll share :)



Also, Shantock Bears is having its first ever giveaway! Go check it out! Click the picture to be taken to the giveaway!

New Bear from a New Pattern! (again...)

So here's the deal... I ordered a mohair kit off etsy that someone had put together that was meant to make bears from their pattern for bears. The kit didn't come with the pattern... but pretty much my brain said "Hey! 3 pieces of mohair, eyes, joints and embellishments all for under $25?! Sign me up!" So I bought it.

Now, don't get me wrong, I expected them to be small pieces of mohair for that price... but after my initial purchase, I kind of didn't think about it anymore.

Then the mohair arrived, and my brain yelled at me "HEY! These are SMALL pieces... you don't have a pattern this small!!! IDIOT!" Thankfully, my brain quickly forgave me, though, and set to work on making a small pattern.

Now I have a little bear who stands roughly 6 inches tall (now... at this point you might be saying, "Wait a minute, Heather... don't MOST of your bears stand about 6 inches tall?!" and you would be correct... my bears so far have been about 6-8 inches... so how I managed to draw this one and think "Oh yeah, he's small!" I have no idea... but his pattern fits on the mohair pieces, and that's what counts!)

He was a lot cuter yesterday before the 'incident'... I had decided this bear should have a stitched nose... and it all went swimmingly, until the LAST stitch... in which someone started talking to me and I pushed the needle out through his cheek when I looked away for a second! I could have wept.

So out came his stitched nose, and up rose my level of aggrivation, and he ended up with a needle-felted nose that just doesn't look as cute as the stitched one did.

Oh well :) This one was just a practice run before I cut into the mohair, anyways. So, without further ado, here's my latest little bear:

Who is this? A Koala?

No... not quite!

It's a little bear! (shocking, right?)

Heather thought I was a 'little' bear... but look at that bear to hand ratio! Heather is an idiot.

It's ok though, I'm still small... and let me tell you, being small ROCKS!

I can stand up and Heather has no clue!

I can sit down and Heather has no clue!

Aww man... my life is boring.

Don't feel too bad for this guy, he's all melodrama because I haven't given him a name beyond "Small Bear with Big Head", which, to be honest, I don't think he appreciates very much.

If anyone has any name suggestions, I'm all for them. :) I've got nothing... I keep trying to figure out one for him, but then I get so annoyed that he's not as cute as he should have been, thanks to the nose trouble... that I just end up thinking "GraaRGH!" which... while amusing, probably isn't the best name for him.

Also, knittingturnip is having another giveaway! She's so generous!!
Click the image to go check it out:

A thank you and a new bag!

Click on the pictures to make them larger :)

First off, Thank You!!!! to KnittingTurnip for her LOVELY PIF Giveaway prize!! Here are some pictures of the little cutie she sent me!


Next, my Mom sews purses... more to the point, she sews bags for other people, lickity split, but if one of her kids wants one, we have to hound her and hound her and wait for months and months.

So, after months of waiting, and repeated asking "Is it done yet?! Is it done yet?!" She finally finished my purse... and I LOVE IT!!!!


I chose all the fabrics, except the base fabric... which is evidentally Hand-dyed Ricky Tims fabric that she had laying around for ages!

The inside is lined with little pockets and it has a solid bottom... and in general, is just a very useful purse!! Have I mentioned I love it?

Now for some random "What's in/on Heather's purse?" items :)

What's that dangling from my purse?! It's a hand sculpted little leather dog!! SO CUTE!


And also Skelanimal bat that I ran out and purchased after reading Kelly's (Yesterday's Glitter) post about them. I bought the little bat... PERFECT for Halloween!


Inside my purse you'll find a change purse I bought directly after seeing Ponyo... which, btw, is the most disgustingly cute, feel-good, adorable movie I've seen in a while.


And... girls... if you don't want the boys stealing your Nintendo DS... just make it look like this:



So, THANK YOU, KnittingTurnip... and THANK YOU, Mom!!!!!

Come In, Come In!

(Please Click on the Images to See them Larger!)

A Magical Party has just begun! Come In, Come In!

Beware! Beware! The Witch is Abroad, it's not safe out there, Come In!

The Night is Filled with Terror and Wonder... History and Magic... Come In!

The Dark, Murky Woods are Teaming with Evil, Come In!


Bones lie Abandon, Covered in Dirt. The Ghosts of the Dead will Haunt Them! Come In!

Inside it is Safe, Warm and Inviting... We have a Cat, Spooky, but he isn't Frightening. Come In!


It will be Fun and Exciting, Thrilling and Delighting... and the Raven will have the Last Word. Come In!

When this Party will End, you'll have made Many New Friends... but Before you Leave, Help Yourself to some Treats... if you Dare!
Come In!!



Thank you, to A Fanciful Twist, for hosting this FANTASTIC Halloween Party!
I apologize for being a day early! I had an unexpected trip pop up... but I wasn't about to miss out on Halloween fun!

I will be checking out everyone else's party when I get back in town on Sunday!

~ Give Away ~

As a party treat, I will be giving away one spooky pin (the winner can choose from my etsy site):


To be entered, simply post a reply to this thread :)
You can leave an entry post until October 23rd, when I will be choosing a winner!

Happy Partying!

Halloween Giveaway at The Mare's Tale

Here is a lovely artist having a lovely give-away... Halloween Bling!

Click the image to be taken to the giveaway!

You don't even have to follow to enter:

Halloween Party in Blogland! and a giveaway!!!

This idea is just too much fun... I LOVE IT! Click on the image below to find out how to participate... or click the link in my sidebar, either way, they go to the same place! :)



Also, if you like old things... old... rusty things... old... rusty antiquish things... then you will love this! (I do!) Here is a giveaway for an old primitive scale... so much possibility!!! Click the image to find out more!




Well, this has just turned into info dump Tuesday!

Here's some fun (and sometimes disturbing) artwork... click on the image to go to the site!
(there isn't anything that isn't work safe... just some of the concepts are disturbing... and usually play off of old fairytales)




And finally, here is something just really cool... ever heard of an Exquisite Corpse? No, it's not something disgusting, it's a game of storytelling... and some major YA authors are getting together with some fantastic illustrators and holding one... click on the image to find out more, then click on the "read more"s to read the story!

Banned Book Week Giveaway!

For those of you who didn't know, this last week has been Banned Book Week (It goes until tomorrow, Oct 3rd... so check it out! It's never too late to start reading!)

In honor of this, I am having 2 giveaways!

Giveaway #1:
Our local bookstore was giving away these nifty little pins that say "I Read Banned Books"



Needless to say, I go to the bookstore a lot (A LOT) and now have enough pins to share!

I have 4 pins to give away, 2 blue, 2 pink. I will send one pin to the first 4 people who reply to this saying they want one (make sure to include an email address I can reach you at, so I can get your actual address... or you can just send it to the email addy on my sidebar to the right). There are no other stipulations to get a pin, you just have to say, "Hey! Send me one!!"

If you want a specific color, let me know (although if I run out I'll just send you the other color)


Giveaway #2:
Giveaway #2 is for a Hard Cover, First Edition copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (aka, a banned book!)




For this item, if you would like to be entered in the giveaway, please post a link to my giveaway on your blog (either in a post, or in the sidebar... you can use the icon I've made to link to it if you like!) and then post here to let me know that you've done it!

You can enter until October 15th, and then on October 16th I will draw the winner!

It doesn't matter to me if you already have a copy of this book, or if you've already read it... if you know someone who hasn't, or who would be interested in it, then please enter! You can also post this to your blog even if you don't want to be entered (if I'm an avid reader of your blog, though, let me know you don't want to be entered!!)... my main goal is to get folks reading!

International entries are welcome for both giveaways! :)

Also, if anyone wants, they can steal my "I read banned books" pin image from my sidebar to post in their blog XD

I hope you guys find this fun!

Cryptozoology and a giveaway

On the sloping hills of Mt. St. Helens lives a creature so hideous to behold that to merely speak its name will send local villagers running to shutter their windows and bar their doors. He is a beast of unspeakable terror (well... ok, maybe not THAT unspeakable)... ravaging the landscape in his endless search to feed his hunger!!!

He is...


BATSQUATCH!

Here is one of my newest little strange creations... a bat gone horribly wrong, Batsquatch is really quite friendly, despite the mythos of horror that surround him like a dark cloud. His face is needle felted and then hand colored with prismacolor markers.

My other creation is much more bat-like... He's a little Fruity Bat (oh yeah, fruity... or maybe I should say fruit-LOOPY)
I liked the way he looked better before I turned him, so I left him unturned... but as of yet, am not sure if I want to do a little extra embroidery around his edges or not.

He is even capable of hanging upside down!

Finally... Yesterday's Glitter is having a giveaway of cuteness! Check out my side bar, or right below, for a link to the giveaway! This is one of my favorite Blogs out there anyways... so even if you don't want to take part in the giveaway, you should check out the rest of it!

New Bear from a New Pattern! And link to a giveaway

Well... I had said I wanted to try my hand at a needle felted muzzle... so I did!
I LOVE IT! HAHA!

It didn't turn out quite like I pictured, but since it's my first try, I'll let this one slide. This little one isn't complete yet, (and no, that pin is not through it's ear, just kind of harmlessly clamped on to the outside)... they have a little Halloween friend and a few other embellishments.

I put coated wire in the arms for poseability and this little gal is made from faux fur, wool, suade and little plastic eyes.
Currently nameless (although Pumpkin springs to mind... wonder why?...) I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this little one.

Oh no! She dropped her staff!!



Bye!

Also! Gumi Gumi Island is having another lovely giveaway! Her stuff is just so cute! You will be able to choose one of the following little Halloween creatures!


http://amigurumiandpizza.blogspot.com/2009/09/halloween-giveaway.html