…I’ve survived another trip around the sun. For me, that’s cause for celebration SO, since I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve, in the tradition of the Hobbits, instead of you all giving me gifts, I shall give you a gift on my birthday! (it’s not my eleventy-first birthday though, even if it feels that way on some days, hehe)
Yes, I said gift, but first, let me catch you up with my TdF spinning:
Spun up: ’Champagne’ from Spunky Club December 2008, waiting to be plied: ’New Day’ from Spunky Club February 2009 and being spun: ‘Myrtle’ from Spunky Club March 2009. (because I have readers who skim: THESE ARE NOT THE PRIZES! I’m keeping these babies all to myself! muahahaha!) ETA: All my singles for TdF are being spun on my Canadian Production Wheel, Mabelle. Then, I’m winding off the singles from the CPW and plying on my Sonata with the Wooly Winder
My birthday gift to you?
A bucket bag – of your choice – from the stock in the shop. The winner is welcome to look at what I have and then ask if I can make a bucket from a box listing. What do you have to do to win this lovely prize?
- Leave a comment! (and feel free to tell your friends!)
- Tweet about it! (no more than 1 tweet per hour, please – up to 5 tweets total. If you include my twitter name @jessalu and a link to this post, you get an entry for each tweet!)
If we get more than 50 comments? I’ll add a skein of handspun to the bucket! ;o) (handspun of my choice & it’ll be a separate prize from the bucket) ETA: Holy carp! It only took 3.5 hours to hit 50 comments! Okay, if we hit 100? I’ll throw a third prize in – another bucket bag!
ETA again!: Holy carp on a cracker! We’re up to 100+ – I guess this means if we hit 150 I’ll add a FOURTH prize, another skein of handspun! See? I love you guys! ;o)
This contest ends Friday night at Midnight – so you can spread the word via twitter, facebook and blogs until then! Good luck!
Comments are now closed! I’ll be pulling the winners over the weekend and posting them on Monday – thanks to everyone who commented and good luck!
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Happy birthday Jessie! You are a regular spinning machine. Great yarn!
Happy Birthday, lady!! I’m feeling lucky–I just won part of the kitten pool over at Weaselmomma’s blog, so I’ll try my hand at this one, too! :D
Seriously, though, have a great day. It’s already got to be a good one–five kittens were born on this date! ;)
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday, dear one!
Happy birthday!
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Happy Birthday! The spinning looks lovely. Enjoy your day!
Happy Birthday! I’m not doing the TdF, as i have two birthdays and a major baby shower to knit for in the next month. We’re talking 2 size 4 sweaters with accompanying mice, 2 baby blankets, 2 baby sweaters and a duck and an elephant. Think that’s enough! I’ll link this to my Facebook.
OH, I just watched the first Lord of the Rings movie the other night. I just love Bilbo’s speech! :) Fabulous photos of some fabulous spinning. I’m a big fan of your bucket bags and am off to twitter about your contest!
Thanks for pulling us lurkers out with the contest. Makes us comment!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Happy Birthday, my sweet friend. My world is a better place because of you. It’s also infinitely crazier. But still, better.
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Happy Birthday Jess!
i saw jenc’s post on facebook and wandered in here. happy birthday. those are nice bags.
I’ve seen one of your bags in action – my friend Jenn C. has one – and it is nifty. Congratulations on getting through another year :)
Happy Birthday, darling Jess!
Knowing you is gift enough. “If” there’s 50 comments? You’re so cute.
xo
Happy Birthday! I’m so excited have seen a contest before it closes even!
I’m also excited to be a someday bucket bag owner. And I think my husband will be happy too – I’m anticipating less “fluffs” of fiber blowing ’round my living room!
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Happy Birthday grrlfriend! Hope you have a most wonderful day!
Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday! Thag you very buch for a fabulous birthday contest!
You know there will be more than 50 comments, so you’d better have that handspun at the ready. Happiest of Birthdays to you!! This is YOUR year and my wish to you is for peace, harmony, love and joy!!
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Happy Birthday!! Have a good one!
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May you have the happiest of birthdays! I’m not sure if your version of a happy birthday involves a wizard appearing, you disappearing, and an adventure, but I hope it involves some sort of party and some sort of drink and some sort of cake!
I hope the year ahead of you holds more joy, more laughter, and more love than you can imagine.
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Happy birthday. Even its not the eleventy-first. May you have a grand year to look forward to.
Beautiful spinning, by the way.
Happy Birthday! Your tour de fleece spinning is lovely. I am so far behind with my spinning for the tour that it is not even funny. Must try to do some tonight. I hope that you are having a wonderful birthday.
Happy Birthday! I can see why you would want to keep the handspun to yourself. They are gorgeous. I love the top one especially.
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Happy Birthday!
Oooh! I love seeing the spinning pictures, and am living vicariously through seeing that others do make progress with it ; )
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Happy Birthday!!
Your yarn is beautiful!
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Those bags are the cutest… and I totally tweeted you!
Happy birthday to the woman with the world’s prettiest hair…and possibly heart! Thanks for all your fabulosity! xxx
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Happy Birthday! Here’s to another trip around the sun.
Viki
Happy, happy birthday, Jess!
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Happy birthday! I love the stuff you’ve been spinning – looks lovely! (And no matter how many times I visit, that bee banner makes me smile. LOVE.)
Happy Birthday!!! I’m coming over thanks to Sandi’s tweet. Don’t steal Gandalf’s firecrackers!
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Happy Birthday :)
Happy Birthday! I am going to be learning how to spin next month, looking forward to it!
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Happy birthday!
I hope you have an amazing, kick ass day. :)
I’m loving those bags! What great project bags. Happy birthday and thanks for the offer!!
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Happy, Happy, Birthday! I hope that it rocks!
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Happy Birthday! Love all the spinning, of course, but the silver and gold really rocks! I’ve been at the spinning about a month now and I already have a bucket bag (and a couple of box bags) and I love it. The tutorial for using the bucket bag with the center pull ball was really helpful and easy to follow. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Happy birthday!
Happy, Happy Birthday! Enjoy and thanks for the idea on how to celebrate my birthday in a few days.
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Happy Birthday! you spin beautiful yarn.
Happy Birthday, JessaLu! Love the spinning results!
Happy Birthday! The pictures of your TdF spinning are making me drool. Spunky’s champagne colorway is gorgeous. What wheel did you spin it on? The shots with the flyer are especially lovely!
Happy birthday. Love your spinning!
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Happy Birthday and pretty bags!
Ohhh, how lovely! Maybe we have to start this tradition in my house.
Happy Birthday!! I hope you have a spectacular day of celebrations!!
Happy Birthday. How are you finding time to fit everything in? A contest, too? You’re my hero.
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Yay for birthdays and yay for prizes. :-) Have a terrific day. LOVE the tdf spinning you are doing – lots of pretties.
Happy Birthday! Your TdF spinning looks so lovely.
Happiest of any number birthday you wish to claim, be it your eleventy-first or your first of this decade!
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Happy Birthday, Jess! May you have a day filled with laughter, love, and fun!!!
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Happy Birthday Jess! What a cool way to celebrate.
What a nice contest! I hope you are enjoying your day! :)
Mazal Tov! Happy happy birthday! I hope you are having a wonderful, beautiful day today :)
BUT do you mean I can’t win that amazing gray with a little yellow yarn up there? oysh,,, Actually, if I knew how to make such a beauty, I don’t think I would have given it to anyone either! beautiful spinning!
happy birthday :D
Happy Birthday! I would love to give one of these prizes a nice new home ;)
Have a VERY Happy Birthday!
Great job on your TdF spinning, I love your work with the Myrtle. For me it was my favourite colourway and fibre from Amy so far :)
Beautiful spinning…love the colours! Happy Birthday and may it be filled with love and laughter and fibrey goodness.
Happy Birthday!! (And I LOVE my bucket bag.)
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Happy birthday, and happy TdF spinning!
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Happy Birthday – may you day be full of love & this birthday year be prosperous & filled with blessings.
LOVE the bags I purchased from you!! Time for more I think. :)
Happy Birthday!!!! I love all the yummy colors in your TdF spinning — simply wonderful!
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Wishing you the happiest birthday and many happy returns, a wonderful year and a long life of love and laughter, health and happiness, friends and fiber, music and mirth, peace and prosperity.
Happy Birthday! I usually send people a link to Altered Images “Happy Birthday” video, but since you mentioned a trip around the sun I will instead quote Oingo Boingo, and one of my favoritest songs evah:
I looked Death in the face last night
I saw him in a mirror
And he simply smiled
He told me not to worry
He told me just to take my time
We close our eyes and the world has turned around again
We close our eyes and dream and another year has come and gone
We close our eyes and the world has turned around again
We close our eyes and dream …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrPexqOR_T8
Well, a very happy birthday to you! I came by (by way of the ITW group) to hope you have a wonderful, exciting day! :)
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Happy Happy Birthday!!! Love seeing all the Spunky spinning!! I really need to work on my Club backlog.
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I love looking at other people’s spinning. I love it as much as you would have loved the birthday card I bought for you…and forgot to send.
Happy Birthday, Jess!
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Happy Birthday! Mine was the 13th. Don’t you just find the nicest people are born in July? ;)
Perhaps this will be the year that I actually work on my spinning skills. I have some material, just haven’t really practiced the actual spinning!
Hope you have a terrific year!
Your bags are lovely!! Please enter me in your contest!
Happy birthday! Both your spinning and your bags are wonderful!
What a lovely birthday gift you’re giving! And your spinning is beautiful. I love your bags too.
Yay birthdays! Yay presents! Yay hobbits!
I bought the teal bumblebee spindle bag from Boogie at MA S&W, and I adore it. Tons of room, and it’s gorgeous.
Awesome job on your TdF spinning!
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Happy Birthday! (For the third time. Clearly, I can’t stop.) You deserve all the good things this year and the bad things can all go piss off.
Question?….What is mostly black with white skulls, and cross bones, barbed wire, and flowers…answer, a SWEEEEEEET Jessalu bag, made especially for me! Can I just say, I love that thing?! I currently have a project and a half in it, because I am so fickle, that I bounce back and forth between projects. Even if I don’t win, hope you had a great Un-Eleventy-first birthday!!
Happy Birthday, and thanks for the giveaway. May your new year be filled with many friends and other blessings.
Happy Birthday! With the wedding coming up, it should be a very good year:) i am impressed with your TdF spinning, and better get moving myself so I don’t end up the all-time slacker… nice colors!
Happy Birthday Jess!! Congratulations on another trip around the sun. Wishing you the very best year ahead, filled with love and prosperity and good health and happiness.
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I love what you’ve spun up for TdF…I would love to win one of your bags!
Happy Birthday! I’ve been admiring your bags for some but I’m not much of a blog follower so this is the first time I’ve seen your handspun. Very nice stuff. I’ll have to look through your archives to see if you have a photo of your wheel. The glimpse in this post has me curious to see more of her.
Happy Birthday! I love the gray and yellow in your handspun.
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Happy Birthday. How nice of you to give things away on your birthday. I’d love a chance.
That spinning is amazing!!! Let me ask you … how to you get it to look so crisp and polished? You and Tina both amaze me. Is there a trick?
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Happy birthday! I too am spinning vintage Spunky club for the TdF!
Happy birthday! Lovely work on your TDF spinning, and very thoughtful blog contest to boot!
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Happy Birthday! Love your TdF spun yarn.
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Happy Birthday!
Super cute bags and I am so jealous that you still have some Myrtle left. :)
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Hi! Happy Birthday! Hope it’s a great year for you! It is SO nice of you to give US presents on YOUR birthday. Very generous!
Happy, happy! How sweet to give away lovely prizes for your birthday. :-)
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Happy Birthday!! Hope your having a great day!
Happy Birthday!!
You’ve gotten a lot farther on your TdF spinning than I did last year.
The bucket bags look super cute! Especially the one with the hedgehogs.
Happy Birthday!!
holy carp! (love that) I shall tell you happy birthday again!
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Happy birthday! And I too love the comment ‘holy carp’ – it’s right up there with ‘seize the carp’ from the movie Out Cold…
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Happy Birthday and keep on spinning…
Happy Birthday!!! That yarn and your blog are beautiful!!
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A quick stop to wish you a special Happy Birthday here to!
Hope you had a great day!!!
Lots of hugs,
Diane
(I thought you were supposed to GET gifts, not give ‘em!) Great giveaway.
Happy Birthday!!! Here’s to many more!
You really are a generous person…Happy Birthday to you! I do hope you eventually make it to eleventy-one.
They say it’s your birthday
We’re gonna have a good time
I’m glad it’s your birthday
Happy birthday to you.
— from the Beatles and me!
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Over a hundred comments! Happy Birthday!! Your spinning is lovely. Isn’t TDF great incentive to spin?
Happy Birthday!
Gorgeous spinning, love the colors.
Have a great day!!
Happy birthday Jess! the spinning is lovely, and your bags are great – I’m contemplating a bucket to go with my box bag. Perhaps a spindle bag too? Hmmmmmm…..
Happy Birthday. Your spinning is lovely.
Happy Birthday!! Margene sent me over to wish you well.
Happy Birthday! Belated, but wishing you all the best on your next trip around the sun.
Another birthday….I just had one last month! Hope you had a great day. Enjoy your blog and bags, too.
Happy Birthday! Love your bags.
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Happy Birthday again. I will try to tweet at you today :) I don’t really get Twitter… it’s like facebook, but not…
Crap I think i’m getting too old to catch up with the technology!
Happy birthday, Jess. Less than 50 comments, right. We all read your blog and love your box bags. Don’t tweet so this is as good as it gets. Enjoy your next trip around the sun.
Happy Birthday! I came over from Margene’s but will be back often as your blog is lovely.
Pfft. You totally knew you’d blow 50 out of the water! Happy birthday (again and again and again).
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Happy Birthday and many more – the red with white polka dots is awesome!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! What a great give away. Thanks for a chance to win
Happy birthday to YOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU!!! :)
Your bags are gorgeous.
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I’m new to your blog, but it looks interesting. Great bags and beautiful yarn–what could be better? Happy birthday!
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Many happy returns of the day! (Just don’t tell me your eleventy ‘leven!)
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Happy Birthday! And here’s to many more trips around the sun. :D
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Happy Birthday Jess! Love your bags and the yarn you spin is absolutely gorgeous.
Wow, those bags are gorgeous! Margene sent me btw and so I thought I would drop in and wish you a Happy Birthday!!
Sewing and knitting, two of my most favourite things in the whole wide world! Congrats.
Happy Birthday!
Happy, happy birthday! July 15 is a good day all around, it appears. :-)
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Knock Knock. Margene sent me. Happy Birthday! The bags are just stunning and the high standard of workmanship shows clearly in the photographs. I’ll be back.
Margene has your information in her blog. Happy birthday! The colors on the wheel are wonderful.
Happy Birthday to you-Happy Birthday to you!!!!!
Cool presents, Stumbling over Chaos sent me.
Margene sent me. Happy birthday to you! The colors in this post are wonderfully, toasty warm. Almost makes me look forward to fall…
Yay! A very Happy (& albeit belated at this point) Birthday to you! What a fantastic giveaway. I’m going to go blab about it on Twitter now….
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Happy Birthday!! Your bags and your yarn are just beautiful!
Happy Birthday! Wow…I know these are not the prizes but these yarns are gorgeous. I’m jealous.
I have one of your box bags which is my absolute favorite — beautiful, very well-made, perfect size. I would love to get one of your bucket bags.
Take care.
Happy Birthday, Jess! I hope it was everything that you wanted it to be!! Your spinning is lovely!
Happy birthday to you!! (they seem to come faster as we get older huh!!) Beautiful spinning and bags!
Congrats on another year! :)
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It’s all Margene’s fault! She sent us here! Beautiful TdF spinning, especially the Myrtle. Thanks for the generous contest!
Happy Birthday. Found you through the Zeneedle blog and I will sign up for prizes anytime.
Hope you have a wonderful celebration.
S
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Happy Birthday! Those bags look really cool!
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Happy Birthday. Margene sent me.
Have a wonderful happy birthday. I love the concept of giving others gifts on our birthdays, it puts a whole new twist on things doesn’t it. The bags are lovely. Margene’s fault that all these replies are here. But I always love singing “Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuu”.
Happy Birthday! Heard about your birthday from Margene’s post. Hope you have a splendid day!
Happy Birthday! Do you like your Woolie Winder? I’ve always wanted one for my Schact. Your bags are great.
Happy Birthday! Love your TdF spinning.
Happy Birthday!! The handspun is beautiful. Love your bags!!
Happy Birthday, and may you have many more. Love your spinning. I am just starting, it sure is fun and frustrating at the same time.
Happy Birthday. Enjoy your day and make some fun wishes. Found out about your Birthday from the Stumbling Over Chaos Blog.
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Happy Birthday! What a great way to celebrate…
Hey Jessa I really love your stuff. You are truly talented.
Happy, Happy Birthday! I would love to win one of your bags. I love them all…
Happy birthday!
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Hey! Happy Birthday!
I love the picture you have on the banner, I never see it since I usually read this blog thru bloglines which just gives me the meat of the post.
Happy Belated Birthday! Thanks for your generosity – - love the prizes! Hope I am one of the lucky ones. Rosalia
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Happy Birthday! And I am in awe of your spinning. One day I hope to have handspun of my own to show off.
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Happy Birthday :)
I tweeted too
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I would be so excited to win this, actually.
Happy happy birthday! (to both of us. mine was Wednesday.)
Gorgeous, gorgeous spinning. Color me jealous. (I can’t even get the hang of my drop spindle…)
Happy Birthday to you! May your blessings this day be as abundant as the creativity and generosity you share with your readers!
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Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! I already wished you a Happy Birthday on FB, but why not here too!
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Happy birthday!! I’m a new reader. :)
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I tweeted! (@goodknits)
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Wow! Hope I’m not too late, it’s 11:37 p.m. in Ohio – A bucket bag, one of your bucket bags, that would be great!!! Yarn would be great, too (something to put in the great bucket)!
Hope you had a great Birthday! And thanks for the opportunity to win BIG!
Oh yes, Margene said to stop by – but I do occasionally anyway. Great blog. Isn’t great a Great word?