…years. That’s how long I’ve been sharing my life with you all via this blog. When I first started writing in February 2005, I had a 15 year old daughter, a boyfriend of 6 years, worked as an office manager for an alarm company as well as from home as a bookkeeper, had juuuust started knitting and hadn’t even begun contemplating spinning – also, the bags didn’t even exist for me at that point.
Now I have a 22 year old daughter, a 1 year old granddaughter, a husband, an at-home business and lots and lots of friends I have made through this here blog – and I cherish it all. Thank you for sticking with me, through lots of blog updates and two month ‘breaks’. ;o)
To thank you properly, because I believe in celebrating blogiversaries like Hobbits celebrate birthdays, I will be giving gifts! We’ll start with one, if we make it to 100 50 comments I’ll add another and then again at every 100 50 comment mark – how will we get so many comments? Well, you’ll tell your friends, of course! For every comment that your name is mentioned, you’ll get another chance for one of the prizes!
First up, a Stitched gift certificate! You can have a bag just like one of these:
You can pick out any print you like in the shop – your gift certificate will cover $25 of your purchase!
Adding a second prize! Because I just can’t wait until we hit 100, I’m adding a second prize RIGHT NOW and changing it to every 50 comments! What’s the next prize, you ask? HANDSPUN!
The colorway is ‘Celebration’ and it was part of the Spunky Eclectic fiber club many years (4? 5?) ago. It is chain plied and I’m not sure the yardage but I believe there’s enough for a nice cowl!
Adding a third prize! We’ve hit 100 comments so it’s time for prize number three!
Melissa Morgan-Oakes has offered a copy of EACH of her books! Signed and everything! One prize, THREE books! (how awesome is she?!)
Adding a fourth prize! We’ve hit 150 comments so it’s time for prize number FOUR!
A custom dyed braid of Stitches n Rows fiber! (sooo pretty! Photo is just an example – you’ll get to tell Sarah and Sharon what colors you love and they’ll dye it up for you!) If you are a knitter, not a spinner, they’ll let you choose to either have yarn dyed for you OR they will spin up the roving you’ve designed!
Adding a fifth prize!! We’ve reached 200 comments! Up next:
A skein of sock yarn from Jellyfish Knits AND a set of stitch markers from Knittin Pretty! If you win this prize, you will let Jellyfish Knits know your favorite color and if you would like sparkles in your yarn – AND you’ll let Knittin Pretty know what set of stitch markers you’d like to own!)
Adding a sixth prize! We’ve reached 250 comments!!
A Pattern of your choice from Luliriisi’s Ravelry Shop AND 3 (!) sets of stitch markers from Ball Creative Designs!
Adding a SEVENTH prize!! We’ve reached 300 comments! (holy crap!)
The only thing I have left to give away (I truly was not expecting 300 comments – you guys are awesome!) is ANOTHER BAG CERTIFICATE! $25 towards the SbJL bag of your choice!
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Now, the rules:
• The contest will run until midnight tonight (Eastern Time – a girl has to get some sleep! February 21)
• You will get an entry for 1 comment that you leave on this post, 1 tweet/facebook/plurk post per hour until the contest is over
• Tell your friends! You will get an extra entry into the contest for each comment they leave and they mention who sent them
• I will add a prize for every 100 50 comments – the possibilities are endless!
Thanks for playing – and good luck!
**COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED – THANK YOU FOR PLAYING!! WINNERS WILL BE POSTED ON FRIDAY 2/24**
