Wow what a week! I didn’t know what to expect but this giveaway thing went WAY better than I ever imagined! What fun it’s been reading everyone’s comments, you guys have the most interesting and funny stories!  In my best Elvis impersonation, “thank you, thank you very much…” for popping by and playing. You are all winners in my book!

Now to end the suspense. I went old school and placed everyone’s entry into a jar and pulled out four names.

Drumroll please…

The winners ARE….

From day one, winning the match book needle book- Berene from Happy Sew Lucky ! Yay!

From day two, winning the cards – Linda from Chirp! Yay!

From day three, winning the fabric – Gill! Yay!

And last but not least, from day four winning the drawing… Cindy from Live a Colorful Life! Yay!

Thanks again everyone, it was lovely to meet you all!

First of all let me say, thanks so much for those of you who played along with the Match Needle book  giveaway yesterday. I LOVED all the answers to, “whose pocket would you slip a match book into (with your phone number on it)?” Someone turned the tables on me and asked me the question right back! I considered a few people  but I settled on Daryl from The Walking Dead. I figured he’d be my best bet for when the Zombie apocalypse goes down. Safety first! Right?

Okay, on to today! I’m giving away a pack of my cards!

Same rules as yesterday but a new question to answer.

1) Please leave me a comment answering this question: What’s the funniest, weirdest card you’ve ever gotten? For example: one year both sets of my grandparents gave me the same birthday card. What are the chances? Actually I’m a little surprised it doesn’t happen more often.

2) You can have more than one chance to win! In your comment just let me know how you follow me. Are you subscribed to my site, or do you follow me on Bloglovin?  Perhaps you’ve liked my Facebook page, or I know you from Instagram, or  Twitter, or Flickr or maybe Pinterest? Any or all will work! You’ll be entered for each way you follow. How’s that for snazzy!

3) Check back Thursday and Friday too. You can enter everyday, same rules apply but there will be a different question each day and a different prize (I can’t tell you what they will be yet, shhhh… it will be a surprise!) Each day will have a separate winner (you can only win once). They will all be announced on Saturday July 12, 2014. The prizes will be mailed out the following Monday. International entries are totally welcome!

Good luck!

After my first year in art school I studied sculpture, in sculpture, I painted. Then once I transferred to painting, I made paper. I eventually settled on printmaking and after graduation studied animation. I guess it should be no surprise that when Esmari from Warp and Weft Exquisite Textiles gave our Guild, the Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild, a challenge to create something with fabric… I drew it!

I was inspired by the safety pins from Esmari’s shop!

This calendar is held on by magnets, that way the wood isn’t affected or punctured. Each month is  displayed one at a time. The extra months are stored on the back of the calender in a pocket. When the year is over, a new calendar can be reordered, or you can attach your own pictures, or attach you own notes or… just have a drawing hanging on your wall!

Now if are looking for something to do this weekend feel free to pop over to my friend Linda’s house for her annual craft fair. Here’s the invite. Just let Linda know I sent you. Sadly I won’t be there but some of my calendars and cards will be! Plus there are LOADS of great people and wares to check out! I know, I’m bummed I have to miss it but I’ll be swimming with the manatee’s in Florida!

This weekend (Oct 26th and 27th) The Little Cricket Gift Gallery is celebrating their 13th Birthday and they’re also making it their “Customer Appreciation Weekend”.  They are open Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 11am to 5pm (102-22347 Lougheed Hwy).  Everything in the gallery will be 10% off with complimentary refreshments and decadent desserts. Apparently Ron, the owner, makes the desserts himself and they are quite amazing! Anyhow, I just thought I’d let you know since we are just around the corner from Christmas-Yikes!

Here is a little teaser of the goodies I dropped off at Little Cricket last week.

Some cards and a few calenders.

The red one and the blue one are drawn from my fabric stash.

This one was drawn from a Robert Kaufman Charm Pack.

And this one was drawn from Happy Sew Lucky’s Fabric Stash.

Most recently I finished drawing Cheryl Arkison’s fabric stash and made this little calender.

Yup, it true I saw my first Christmas tree in a store last Friday! Christmas is definitely on it’s way- Double Yikes!!

Now, I am very happy to announce the winners!

#91-Jeifner from Second Hand Dinosaur and #17-Stephanie from Quarter incher #123-Jenny

Congratulations Ladies! And again thanks to everyone who played!

Okay, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty! The prize or prizes, I should say. This time around I’m going to give away 3 packs of cards. Each pack contains 5 cards (details from my fabric stash drawing project). Each winner will be chosen randomly and international entries are welcome. The contest will be left open until May 10th at 5pm PST. Oh and of course the winners will be announced Sunday, May 12th and the cards will be sent out the following Monday, May 13th.

I’ve drawn a few stashes now and I’m really intrigued by the fabric that people pull out for me to draw. Usually they pick their favourite fabric (favourite for one reason or another). Every stash is different and each person’s fabric selection becomes their portrait. I think the fabric says a lot about people from their colour selections, to prints and even to how their stashes are kept – messy or extremely neat. Above is a drawing of my favourite fabrics – my fabric portrait. If I absolutely had to just pick just one piece of fabric it would be this piece by Kitty Yoshidia for Benartex Cotton Screen Prints.

Okay, to enter my giveaway, here’s my question: If you had to pick one piece of fabric from your stash to represent you, what would it be? Feel free to post what the piece of fabric you would be here or! If you’d like to show me?!

I have to admit I don’t know every designer out there. Plus, I’m sure we all have a piece of fabric that we just love but like me, oops, cut salvage was cut off, so now we don’t know who made the fabric, or what line it’s from. In that case, I have a solution. You can tell I love seeing other people’s stashes and fabric (don’t you?). To spice things up even more, if you send me a snapshot pic of your fabric on instagram @lysaflower or #showmeyourfabric then it will be counted as 5 entries! Seems only fair for all the extra trouble right?! One photo entry only please – I would love to see more but only one will count towards the giveaway.

Oh and a big thanks to Sew, Mama, Sew for organizing all this fun-ness! Enjoy all the other other amazing blogs and good luck!

However with out further ado the winner is… put your hands together for…

Holly U Congratulations! (and the crowd goes wild!)

I have to admit when I reentered the world of sewing, mostly quilting, I didn’t realize how entangled it would be with the postal system. I’ve always loved letters and what really clenched it for me was when my grandfather took it upon himself to write to me when I moved away to Vancouver. We wrote back and forth until he passed away and I kept every letter because I knew one day it would be a precious reminder of our relationship!

When I was a kid I would sometimes stay with my grandparents for a week or two on their farm. Grandma and I would drive into Halkirk (a small hamlet in Alberta. Maybe it is even too small to call a hamlet?) to pick up their mail. Grandma would chat with the post office lady, who was so nice, and they’d catch up on the weather and local news. It was always a lovely outing and I really enjoyed it! Recently I had a chance to go back to Halkirk and there it was, the old postal office. Of course they’ve put siding on it so it isn’t as cute as it used to be but in true prairie form it’s more practical.

When my husband and I moved out to our acreage and discovered our local post office, I was over the moon!

Unfortunately the postal lady wasn’t nearly as friendly or jovial as grandma’s postal lady. Mostly I think because I usually had small kids in tow. I’ve come to learn some people are allergic to young children and I suspect this might be the case at our post office. Now that my kids are older we seem to be getting along much better and I don’t seem to be getting in as much trouble about the state of my packages anymore. In fact she was quite impressed and complemented me on my Fab Bee mail out where I sewed the envelopes together!

I’ve come to learn a good postie can make quite the difference in the kind of experience you’ll have with sending or receiving mail. Between the swaps I’ve done and the quilt bees I’m in, it’s so nice when there is a friendly face on the other end of the counter. So now I am off to happily deliver my cards to Holly U! Congratulations!

This is my first time joining Sew Mama Sew’s giveaway day and I’m very excited.I feel a bit like Bob Barker, if only I had that long microphone, that would be cool! However to win this pack of 5 cards you don’t have to jump up and down or spin any wheels, all you have to do to enter is answer one of these questions: Who was the last person you received a letter from or who was the last person you wrote a letter too. Easy peasy right! The winner will be picked at random and announced on December 7th. And yes am more than happy to ship internationally.

I love fabric! Who doesn’t? Don’t you? I love to touch it, buy it, sort it and arrange it, contains so much potential but I especially love to draw it!

I’ve drawn my stash many times and I realize I also love seeing and hearing about other people’s fabric stashes. I guess that makes me a bit of a voyeur (aren’t we all, it can’t be just me?!)I decided to ask some super talented fabric lovers if I could draw their stashes and you know what, they said yes!

Every stash is different and is a portrait of each owner. Each stash is vastly different ranging from the size of how big, or how select, to how organized, or in many cases not so organized, and of course, of colour choices.

Ahem you wouldn’t let me me take a peek at your stash would ya? …c’mon just a peek…I guess it’s only fair you peek at mine first. You can see some of my stash drawings on Flickr or more drawings of Lesley’s stash (the first drawing), Krista’s stash (second, third and forth drawing) or Berene’s stash (the last one) in my gallery.

Whether or not I get to see your stash or not, as Bob Barker always said “Good Luck!” Oh and be sure to check out other Sew Mama Sew’s giveaways. So many goodies! Bob Barker didn’t say that but…if the giveaway days would have been invented then, I think he would have!

I received them earlier last week and I’m really happy with them. I’m very fussy about paper. Next to fabric I love paper/stationary stores! (Side note: It’s been a while since I’ve been in a great one and I’ve been searching for a stationary store that has a wide range of printer paper? A store that sells more than just the regular, regular stuff. Do you happen to know of one?)

Okay, back to the blog post! I had these cards printed from MOO cards. The weight and feel of the cards is amazing, not too shiny not too matt. Juuust right! Oh and did I mention they arrived early?

I am going to break these into packs of five but I’m also going to keep a few packs out for my Etsy store-opening soon!

Cheers!