And the winners are ....

So sorry for the late announcement of the winners of the FREEBIE GIVEAWAY ! I wanted to give everyone the best possible chance of entering and so closed the FREEBIE at 12 midnight.

So, without further ado - I popped all of the numbers, a massive 49 in total, into the random number generator website I found on Google (http://www.random.org/) and it produced the following numbers:

12 - which I believe was a comment from Claire Mackaness

and

18 - which was a comment from another Clare, of Weekend Crafter

Well done ladies - I will email you to get your address details and your Goody Bags will be on their way to you very soon !

Sorry to all those of you who didn't win this time but the next monthly FREEBIE will be up for grabs on 1st March. Same thing, you'll need to leave a comment on that particular post once it is published and the winner will be picked a week later.

Now - what to offer ?! You'll just have to wait and see

Thank you to EVERYONE who took the time and trouble to leave a comment on the Freebie Giveaway post - I was overwhelmed by the response.

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Sarah xx

An exciting new range

A couple of posts ago I said that we would be introducing a number of new felting ranges to the Blooming Felt shop.

The first one that is now ready to be snapped up is now available on the site. It's a needle felting starter kit.

We trialled these at the Knitting & Stitching Show last year and they were very popular. Since then, we have been thinking about adding them to the website, but were unsure as to the best way to do it. But it has finally now all been sorted out and we have decided to offer 6 different colourways

Berry

Candyfloss

Tropical

Citrus

Forest

Woodland

Each kit contains a sponge, a felting needle, a single needle holder, 75g of felting wool (25g each of 3 different colours) and some basic instructions. Each kit is available in a different colourway (as shown above) and will arrive in one of our fantastic branded cotton drawstring bags.

Priced at £9.50, these kits offer fantastic value for money - you actually save £2.00 when buying a kit, compared to buying the items individually. So that basically means that you're getting the sponge (or one colour of wool) for free ! YAY !!

For anyone who would like to give needle felting a go, we have a number of tips available over on our website. Click here and you will be magically transported. And don't forget we also stock lots of books relating to needle felting (with a couple of new ones on their way !!), so once you've got the hang of it (or in most cases, caught the needle felting bug), you can grab yourself a book and needle felt to your heart's content !

There are a number of other new felting items on their way so if this is your thing .... keep checking back !

The MONTHLY FREEBIE is still open (until Friday 18th Feb) - click here to go to the relevant post and leave your comment. Thanks to everyone who has commented so far .... looks like rather a lot of you are after one of our Goody Bags !

Sarah x

Hurrah - the monthly freebie has launched !

Well, it took a while, but today we finally hit 200 followers and as promised, are now launching our monthly freebie !!

As a special thank you to all of our blog readers, we will be offering a fantastic freebie every 1st of the month from now on.

So, for our first monthly freebie we are offering 2 (yes .... 2 !) lucky followers the chance to win one of our new "Goody Bags". Each bag contains some felt string, felt shapes, buttons and felt balls. In other words, a wonderful selection of Blooming Felt goodies for you to do whatever you please with !

"How do I enter ?" you ask.

Well, all you need to do is leave a comment on the Freebie Post (no anonymous comments please) and once the freebie closes (one week later) all comments will be entered into a random number generator and a winner will be chosen. I must be able to contact you via an email address, or your own blog / website etc. If your name / number is selected and I have no way of contacting you then I'm afraid you will lose your prize and another winner will be selected. All winners will be announced on this blog and an email will also be sent requesting your address so that we can get your goodies out to you.

Our monthly freebies are available to absolutely everyone, wherever you are in the world !

This freebie will close on Friday 18th February 2011.

So go on, what are you waiting for ? Go get those freebies !!!

Sarah x

No rest for the wicked !

Goodness me - how busy have I been this last week ?

Since I last posted, you seem to have gone crazy for our new products and orders have been coming in thick and fast.

The new colours of wool roving are going down a storm. Actually, felting as a whole seems to have become extremely popular over the last few months. So much so, that we will be introducing a number of exciting new products very soon !

As well as the usual website stuff, we have been busy looking into a number of other exciting projects. Our stand at the Knitting & Stitching Show has been booked - even BIGGER than before and we have also been looking at another project in particular which may or may not come off. It's still in the "mulling it over" stage at the moment but if anything comes of it, I'll of course share it with you all.

Now, for those of you in lurrrrrve, you will know that it is Valentine's Day next week. To celebrate this wonderful occasion, our February Tutorial is a fantastic Heart Wreath (or it could also be used as a candle holder !) Click here to get your free PDF download !

We've almost managed to reach 200 followers on the blog - don't forget, as soon as we do, the new monthly giveaway will be launched !!! Get Following !!!!

Sarah xx

Check !

This weekend has consisted of an awful lot of check, check, CHECKING !

Felt Balls x 20,000 CHECK

Metre Squares of Felt x 150 CHECK

10x10 inch squares of felt x 3,000 CHECK

Wool roving x 1,000 CHECK

Felt String x 100 CHECK

Felt Hearts x 1,500 CHECK

Felt Stars x 1,500 CHECK

Wool pompoms x 1,500 CHECK

Take photos of new lines

3 new colours of wool roving / felting wool

100% wool felt purses (very excited !!)

3 new colours of 10x10 felt sheets and also metre squares

CHECK

Update website - CHECK !!

Sit down, exhausted and have a cup of tea - CHECK

All of the new lines can be found in the "Just Arrived" section - I'll try and give you more details next time.

Don't forget - as soon as we reach 200 followers we'll be launching our new monthly giveaway - we're up to 185 so far - keep joining and passing the word around !!!

xxx

Uses for an Aga

What do you do when your felt delivery arrives and some of the items are still a little bit damp???

You put them in the Aga of course !!!

Who would have thought it !! It's amazing how many uses Agas have !

What strange things have you put in your oven I wonder ? Answers on a postcard please !!!

Oooooooooh and ARGHHHHHHH !!

Ooooooooooooh !!

How FAB are these ?

Beautiful reels of packing / sticky tape !!

I've been looking for something like this for AGES ! Personally, I'm not really a fan of the Japanese / Kawaii type tapes but when I was wrapping gifts at Christmas (we hand-stamped our own wrapping paper this year), I thought that it would have looked even more lovely if we'd have been able to use a nice tape.

Last week I came across this fantastic tape (along with a number of other beautiful items from a new supplier) and decided that I HAD to have it ! So, everyone will now be receiving birthday presents in hand stamped paper and done up with this tape. They also have Christmas designs available so our Christmas gifts will all be wrapped with that this year .... for sure !

All of this gorgeousness is now loaded onto the website, is being sold by the reel (we have 2 different widths available) and is ready to go to new homes right now. We only have limited amounts of each design at the moment as we're just "trialling" it, but I'm pretty sure it will be very popular so if you try and order and it's out of stock, it will be back in stock very very soon.

Now - ARGHHHHHHHHH !

Before we re-opened after Christmas I had a real good sort out in the Studio and put everything away and it all looked beautifully tidy. This is what it looks like today.

You see - ARGHHHHHHH ! I can't stand it. Fingers crossed it will only be like this for a very short time. Hubby is putting together all of the drawers to go into the new Ikea units and as soon as that's done, everything will have a new home and calm and organisation will be restored .... hopefully.

Now. Another new item that has been added to the website.

Scrap Bags full of 1.5mm thick felt !! Priced at £6 for 50 pieces (bargain !). Get them here

And, a few more items have been added to the SALE. They're end of line items of stock that we will be discontinuing. So, if you want some more baragins (and let's face it, who doesn't?) then get yourself over to our SALE section and see what you can grab !

"Hi" to our new followers ! Keep joining the list and passing our details on - as soon as we hit 200 followers on our blog, the monthly giveway will be launched. Let's try and get there before the end of January so we can launch on the 1st of Feb !!

See you soon xx