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four years blogging and a giveaway

May 21, 2010

Happy fourth birthday to my blog! I can't believe i've been doing this blogging thing most days for the past four years, but I love it and don't want to stop just yet. Thank you very much for visiting me and for all the emails and comments and real mail you send my way. This blog has really enriched my life. I mean it.

So, to say thank you, I thought I'd offer a small giveaway. I recently bought a copy of this book, The Handmade Marketplace by Kari Chapin and it's great! It's so nicely put together (including illustrations by Emily Martin) and is chocoblock with ideas and advice about selling your crafts and artwork. Now i've finished reading it, I thought I should pass it along to someone else who might enjoy it. I'll package it up with a set of my newly-printed watercolour postcards and another small handmade something.

All you need to do is leave a comment on this post, telling me something about yourself- anything you like but it would be interesting to hear what music you are enjoying these days. Thank you again for reading my blog and supporting my work over the past four years.

p.s. I'll send the parcel anywhere in the world, and i'll leave this open until Monday morning. Have a good weekend!

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316 responses to “four years blogging and a giveaway”

Santa

May 24, 2010

Congratulations and Thank You! 🙂 I’ve been enjoying your blog for two years 🙂 My favourite music right now is both albums of Charlotte Gainsbourg and also the album of Flight of the Conchords :)Thanks to You I also discovered M. Ward, I even went to see him 🙂 I am also waiting for July to hear Muse which is another of my favourites, their music makes me think of revolution, a feeling that I can just stand up and achieve anything I want 🙂

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Patricia Reiff

May 24, 2010

Melissa, happy 4th blog anniversery. I have enjoyed your blog for almost as long as it has been up. I enjoy crafting so much that i made it my part time job on the week-ends and travel around to nearby towns to sell at craft shows. ( dolls- jewelry, wreaths and just about everything else)As for music i like to listen to everything except rock. Looking forward to another 4 years of Tiny Happy.

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Veronica

May 24, 2010

Ive been reading your blog about a year now I guess. Maybe more, its hard to keep track of these things. Anyway, its nice to just drop in every once in a while and see what is going on out there outside my work-from-home world (which can sometimes be quite islotating).
Music – Rose Tin Teacady (Kiwis!)

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Elaine

May 24, 2010

Hi Melissa
First of all, I would like to thank you for all the eye candy you provide. I love visiting your blog to see the inventive things you come up with. Your work is very pretty.
I have been quilting for 30+ years and working with wool @ 6 years. Since I do alot of embroidery on the penny rugs, I am branching out into more and more of the embroidery and embellishing. I think for me, it was when I realized I am supposed to have fun with my crafts, that I really started to strive to learn new techniques aand experiment with different fibers, buttons, and beads. I have been known to strike up conversations with complete strangers and offer to teach them how to quilt! I also knit, crochet, make cold processed soap, my own laundry detergent, raise chickens (I have 5 bantams in my sewing room in a cage I clean every day…they are only 3 weeks old), horses, mini horses, the neighbor cat (she is lactating and is neglected by her owner). I love animals.
As far as reading, I really enjoy quilting novels, books that have story lines that take place in the 1950’s and before. I don’t like romance novels. I love country music…especially Gary Allen. I do not like rap at all.
I would like to build a bucket list of things I want to accomplish before I die but keep putting it off! You are having a fun giveaway, thank you, Elaine

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melody

May 24, 2010

I’ve been listening to this: http://www.theavettbrothers.com/us/music/i-and-love-and-you a lot lately. Many happy returns 🙂

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shelle

May 25, 2010

I hope I’m not too late!
My music favorites: Regina Spektor, Tori Amos, Ingrid Michaelson, Lucious Jackson
Dead can dance, lisa gerrard
mozart, vivaldi
I love your blog, full of inspiration. The water color cards were lovely, will they ever make it into the shop?

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Erin M

May 25, 2010

I’m going to have to go back and read all of your blog comments for new music ideas. I’m in Anais Mitchell right now.

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sherrieg

May 25, 2010

Happy 4th anniversary! 🙂 I’ve had my eye on this book for awhile, but they don’t have it at our library, so I would love to win a copy! Here’s to four more bloggy years. 🙂

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daan

May 25, 2010

Happy Fourth BlogBirthday!
Wish you many more Blogs to come!
These days i listen a lot to Randy Newman, we went to a concert in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, a few weeks ago and it was so great.
Now i m lookin forward to a concert in Carre (also in amsterdam) Rufus Wainwright will be giving, so he’s in my ears a lot, too.
and before i go to sleep i love to listen to the Bach Cello suites.
byebye, sunny day for you!

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Annie

May 26, 2010

Happy 4th birthday — i’d say I have been stopping by every week for at least a year – can’t believe I missed out on the first 3 years!!

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sarah

May 26, 2010

happy belated blog birthday!! i simply adore your blog.
i’ve been completely stuck on old favorites lately… led zeppelin, lou reed, buddy holly, pavement (i’m going to see them at a music festival this weekend, can’t wait!!!)

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Missmikimoto

May 29, 2010

i think you should of had a party….it’s a big deal turning four!
However let me digress, congratulations on such a lovely and inspiring blog, i have enjoyed many moments in your creative life. As a very frustrated creative type, with many a crafty skill and ability laying dormant within me, i turn to your blog for creative inspiration in the everyday which reminds me that all is not lost and there is beauty in many things.

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http://thumbly.blogspot.com

May 30, 2010

I think is so kind from you the idea of passing the book along, thank you for this opportunity and ciao from Italy!
Valentina

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Jules H

May 30, 2010

Hi Melissa. Love yer blog. Love yer products on Esty. Also read your mum’s blog and I do NOT know how she manages to turn out so many beautiful quilts goddamn it while I’m still struggling to finish my first big one lol.
I’m on maternity leave at the moment. So of course although I’m off work my crafiness is very intermittent … if only I could master knitting and breastfeeding at the same time I’d be sorted!
However I have been enjoying some new music in the evenings whilst working on a knitted blanket for my sisters new baby (due on Wednesday!) Do you like Joanna Newsome? She has a new album out. Also I came across Ellie Goulding (Lights) which is great … stumbled on it completely by chance as I’m not tuned in to charts or anything. I am in awe of Idris Elba who is playing the lead role in the crime drama (UK) Luther and the title music is called Paradise Circus from Massive Attack (Heligoland). Last but not least is another gem I came across: Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo (from your half of the world). I love this band! The single Nostalgia is the title music from Wallander. What’s Wallander? Another crime drama, this one set in Sweden … based on the books by Henning Mankel. Our Kenneth Branagh (darhhhling!) plays Wallander.
Isn’t the Internet wonderful? 🙂

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acornmoon

June 2, 2010

Happy blog birthday, I have admired your work and blog for some time now and have previously purchased a lovely pair of baby shoes from your Etsy shop.
I have promised myself time to listen again to Nabucco by Verdi although I know next to nothing about opera!

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k. whalen

June 3, 2010

happy anniversary! i just started blogging myself a few months ago and its so much fun! iv really enjoyed it so far. i like listening to lots of random jazz music especially when im crafting.. its so relaxing! iv also been listening to the Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack. anyways happy day!
KIM

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