***CLOSED*** Meandering Monday -- Kicking off the New Blog Schedule with an Awesome Giveaway

***This drawing closed at 10pm EST on 10/1/09. Thank you for your interest. Please check the main blog for information and updates on future giveaways.*** 

Good Monday Morning,
This post officially starts my latest round of improvements to my blog. In order to post more consistently, I have developed a recurrent schedule that I will use each week. The schedule is as follows:

Meandering Mondays: I chose to call this feature Meandering Mondays because the topics covered will vary from post to post and week to week. These posts will include general info about what is going on here at the studio, things that are coming to the shop, general editorials, occasional tutorials, and blog giveaways.

Wordless Wednesdays: Each Wednesday I will post a photograph or piece of artwork either from my personal collection or from someone's etsy shop with a link and reference made to the shop I chose the photo from, a cartoon strip, etc.

Featured Artist Fridays: On Friday of each week I will spotlight a different etsy shop with a full length meet the artist article.

I hope you all will enjoy the new changes and will be sure to visit all the great artists that you will be meeting.

So to get the ball rolling we are going to start things off with a great giveaway.

Please meet Sarah the wonderful artist/proprietor of Minnie Millery at www.MinnieMiller.etsy.com
Sarah is from Austin, Tx and enjoys making and sharing her hand made needle felted animals. Although the primary focus of her shop is her needle felted items, she also offers a variety of handmade items such as gift bags, original art/prints, and pillows.

This weeks winner gets to choose one (1) of the following:


Set of "Nesting Bags": Adorable set of three handmade 100% cotton fabric bags in three different sizes. The bags are sized such that they can fit one inside of the other. Each bag is hand stamped with a beautiful birds nest motif and has a ribbon drawstring closure. Great idea for gift bags or for storing small valuables.





Set of "Pumpkin" bags: Perfect for the upcoming Halloween holidays this adorable set of five (5) hand made 100% cotton bags measure 3"W x 5"H and have a bright orange ribbon drawstring closure. Each bag is hand stamped with a great pumpkin design. These small bags would be great for use as goody bags for your upcoming Halloween parties.





Set of "Tree" bags: These pretty little bags are made of 100% cotten muslin fabric and have a ribbon drawstring closure. The set comes with four (4) bags each hand stamped with a different Tree design. The bags measure 4"W x 7"H. These would add that extra special touch to your handmade gift giving this year if used as gift bags.

How it Works

The giveaway rules are really simple.
All you have to do to enter is visit Sarah's shop and choose your favorite item from her currently listed selections. Then return here to this post and leave me a comment telling me which item you like best and a link to the item. 
It's that simple. Also make sure you leave me some means of contacting you (email address or link to your etsy shop) in case you are the lucky winner

Earn extra entries:

You can earn extra entries by doing the following:

* 1  extra entry: promoting this giveaway on your blog then leave me a comment with a link to the blog post.

* 1 extra entry: tweet about this giveaway and leave me a comment with a link to the tweet **please do this only once per entrant. I don't want anyone to spam others with this giveaway**

* 1 extra entry: post about this give away on facebook then leave me a comment with a link to the post.  **please do this only once per entrant. I don't want anyone to spam others with this giveaway**

* 1 extra entry: Leave a comment with your contact info and follow my blog

**That's a total of 5 possible entries per person.**

The giveaway will run from today Monday September 28th until 10 pm (EST) Thurs October 1st. I will announce the winner on Friday Oct. 2nd.

The winner will be chosen by me using random.org

I will contact the winner using the contact information that they provide and get their mailing address and ship to information. I will forward this information to directly to Sarah and she will send you your wonderful prize.

Thank you to Sarah for her wonderful donation. Thanks to all of you for your participation.

GOOD LUCK!