Kickoff to summer Giveaway WINNER

Congratulations to....

 

Southern Gal!

(I'm so happy that a fellow southern gal won! haha)

I'm looking forward to my beach vacation as well,

as in: counting down the minutes and seconds!

You'll be getting an email from me shortly about the details of receiving your prize.

Thank you so much to everyone who entered.

I enjoyed reading all of your comments.

Sounds like a lot of you have plenty of use for these wet bags!

For anyone interested interested in purchasing one,

just click here.

I have just a few left in my Etsy shop.

If I sell out, I'll probably get a new batch done soon.

 

I hope that everyone has a great Memorial Day Weekend,

To all of our military: Thank you.

Please take a minute this weekend to remember in a special way those who have died for country.

May they rest in peace.

With Fear and Trepidation

I am trying to sew from a pattern again.

I HATE patterns.

Mostly because I'm afraid of them.

I've written before about how trying to follow a pattern for me is like trying to read a book written in a language that I don't speak.

And when I've taken on this endeavor before, it ended up somewhat disastrously,

with me ripping up the pattern and starting over from scratch, making it up myself as I went along. Thankfully, that was just a bag.

But I found a project that I just have to try,

that I can't just make up on my own...

so I'm going for it.

Because it's a gift, I'll have to keep you all in the dark for now and just share cryptic close up pictures,

but rest assured that I will tell you all about it once this person has received her (or his... no let's be honest: her) gift.

Wish me luck!

And if you have any sage words of wisdom related to pattern-following

(or you just want to leave a little encouragement for a freaked out but ambitious sewist),

please leave me some love. :)

And don't forget to enter my Kickoff to Summer Giveaway

by this Friday at midnight (EST).

Kickoff to Summer Giveaway (Closed)

Alright, here we go...

I'm psyched to be participating in the one and only Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day!

Woo Hoo!

This is a  HUGE collection of giveaways, so even if you don't want to enter this one, you should definitely check out the others over at Sew, Mama, Sew.

There are giveaways for kids and baby, accesories, home, bags, craft supplies... I mean, really, check it out.

So want to know what I'm giving away?

The pool opens this weekend. HUZZAH!

So I'm kicking off Summer by giving away one of my 'On the Go Wetbags'.

This bag is made of waterproof PUL material, so it's great to take to the pool for wet swim suits, clothes, and such.

It's also perfect for the diaper bag to contain messes.

I use mine for dirty cloth diapers.

(It fits about 4-6 cloth diapers for cloth moms out there)

So want to enter?

Yes?

Okay, here are the deets:

This Giveaway is open to everyone. (WELCOME, international friends!).

To enter, please leave a comment on this post telling me what you are most looking forward to this summer.

Want an extra entry? Okay! Follow me in one of the following ways: email subscription (to the right), Google connect (to the right), or "like" Handmade by Meg K on Facebook (also to the right),

then come back here and leave another comment.

If you are already a follower (thanks!), just let me know that you already do so. :)

Please, please, please leave a comment for each entry and be sure that your email is included if it is not already attached to your profile.

The Giveaway will close at midnight on May 25th.

The winner will be chosen by a random number generator, and he/she will be notified by email.

Winner sends me an address, and I ship! (by June 1st)

Easy Peasy.

Good Luck!

My Biggest Fan

Is my mom.

(She's that one person who comments on my posts)

Hi Mom!

My second biggest fan is, perhaps, Grace.

Her blog is, after all, my largest traffic source.

I'm guessing because oodles of people read her blog.

Which was why I was so happy that she won my giveaway earlier in the year.

A giveaway for a knitted cowl scarf, the pattern for which can be found here.

I was even more excited the other day when I saw this...

Grace's husband wearing the aforementioned cowl...
and a (maybe too small) polo.



Whether she talked her husband into wearing it willingly

or he did this of his own volition,

I am just not sure.

But they are equally amazing.

Virtual high five, Grace!

So there you have it. A blog post about a blog post.

If you missed one of the gazillion links to her blog above, click here and check it out.

She'll have you laughing (out loud) and  headed to the store to buy chia seeds in no time.

Have a great day!

Benjamin's Birthday Giveaway Winner!

Ben in his party outfit.
Yes. Yes he is wearing suspenders.
Yes. Yes he is wearing a tie.
Can you even handle this? I can not.

Thanks to everyone who entered to win the giveaway for

my knit cowl over the weekend!

We sure were busy around here!

Some of my family was in.

We celebrated my mom's birthday.

We had Ben's first birthday party.

We ate.

We ate some more.

We're exhausted, but it was worth it.

 

Anywho, now down to the nitty gritty...

Our winner is....

(drumroll)

Grace!
the famous blogger of Camp Patton.
If y'all haven't checked out her blogage, you should. Hi-larious.

Nice work, Grace! Looks like your second entry did the trick.
I'll be emailing you with the deets.
Congratulations, and I hope that this doesn't thwart your efforts to make one of your own. :)

*Winner was selected at random by a random number generator at random.org.

 

Happy Birthday, Benjamin! and a GIVEAWAY (Closed)!

Happiest of birthdays to who I can objectively say is the best son,

Benjamin!

He really is the best.

We're having a party.

My family is coming (today! yay!).

So we're going to celebrate one year of Ben's life as well as me making it through my first year of motherhood, which for those of you that know me, wasn't always the easiest.

The hormonal beginning was really a struggle for me if I'm being completely honest.

But I'm much better now. Thanks be to God.

To say that we love this guy is a severe understatement.

And this past year has been the best, most difficult, most hormonal and character-extending year of my life.

I am so grateful.

The Giveaway:

The Prize-

Remember my knitted cowl? I posted pictures awhile ago with the instructions for making one, but many of you have no interest in knitting, and wanted to know if I would be selling them.

I'm not going to sell them as of right now, but I will give one away for free!

The prize cowl is exactly the same as mine from the post, but it has a slightly different button.

Perfect for that balmy Spring weather! :)

How to Enter-

You can enter this giveaway three times!

One entry for each of the following:

1) Either follow me via Google Connect (On the right side of the screen),

or

follow the blog via email (also on the right side)

2) "like" my page on Facebook.

3) Tell me one thing to which I can look forward in the coming year having a 1-2 year old. ;)

If you already follow me or "like" me on facebook, just leave a comment that says such.

Please leave a comment for each entry and be sure to leave an email, so I may contact you if you've won!

Not so Fine Print-

Only three entries per person, duplicates will be deleted. One entry will be chosen at random to pick the winner. Only US residents (sorry international peeps!). The prize will be shipped to the winner in the week following the giveaway via USPS.

This giveaway closes on Sunday, February 26th at midnight.

Good luck! :)