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Hello! Hope you are well today. I thought I might have a little giveaway here because I haven't had one in a while, and it's fun. Also, I turn another year older tomorrow and I always like to give stuff away on my birthday. I have made up two packages to send (to anywhere in the world) and each has a digital print of a collage I made back in the wintertime, a couple of fat quarters from this fabric collection, and a set of watercolour postcards. 

For past giveaways, I've suggested leaving a comment telling us about your latest favourite record or film, and I still go back to those posts to find new things to listen to and watch! So if you wouldn't mind doing the same this time, that would be fabulous. What are you enjoying listening to/watching/making? 

Thanks for visiting my blog and being generally awesome, lovely readers.

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  1. Susan Claman Avatar
    Susan Claman

    Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day. As for films, I am in the process of taking my tween-aged daughter through Jane Austen films. She loved Emma (the Gwyneth Paltrow/Jeremy Northam version) and Sense & Sensibility (the Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet version). Nothing beats an afternoon of Jane Austen 🙂
    ~ Susan

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  2. Mary Gordon Avatar
    Mary Gordon

    Happy Tuesday Birthday!

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  3. FunkyMommy Avatar
    FunkyMommy

    Happy Birthday! What a great idea! I have recently watched Amelie and I am planning to watch The Very Long Engagement tonight. Thanks for the chance! I love your Teepee Fabric!!
    PS I am hosting a giveaway on my blog too! Come by and enter!!!

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  4. Elsa Avatar
    Elsa

    Happy birthday Melissa.
    A while ago I discovered the “Entitled opinions” podcasts ,on Stanford itunes U by Robert Harrison. A series of interviews and monologues with a unique pace and content criteria.

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  5. Melissa Avatar
    Melissa

    Hi, I’ve just found this blog and it’s great – and I hope you had a happy birthday.
    A favorite classic film that I’ve watched recently is one that has at least 2 brilliant scenes from Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

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  6. Catherine Avatar
    Catherine

    Happy Birthday!
    Thank you for having this giveaway. I like the movie breathless with Jean-Paul Belmondo.
    I am currently reading a classic which I like a lot the Thorn birds. I am currently knitting a shawl for my nanny that I have known for all my life. I love your blog and your creations are beautiful.
    Catherine at shimmerstolz@hotmail.com

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  7. Kristen Avatar
    Kristen

    My first impulse is always to say “Casablanca” because it sounds good (plus, that’s an excellent film) but of course everyone’s already seen that, and also, my actual favorite film of all time is Bull Durham, which I adore, for no good reason at all. Check it out. And then listen to Edith Piaf! 🙂

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  8. Lucia Avatar
    Lucia

    Have a lovely birthday!!!!
    Lucia in San Francisco

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  9. marcela Avatar
    marcela

    Thank YOU for sharing so much “pretty-ness”! These are beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I might have to leave a comment without much to add. I’m not a movie person but one that I watched a long time ago, that I loved then is “Whale Rider”. This makes me think of it and I think I might need to watch again some time soon.
    Happy Birthday!

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  10. thepricklypinecone Avatar
    thepricklypinecone

    I am in love with Mumford and sons album. It takes a few repeats for some of the songs to get into them but they truly are amazing.

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  11. jezahel Avatar
    jezahel

    Hello!
    i’m too late for the giveaway…
    Do you know that movie “l’odeur de la papaye verte” (“The Scent of the Green Papaya” in english)?
    I’m listening the jazz singers Elizabeth Kontomanou and Gretchen Parlato.
    I don’t read very much these days but i’m sewing a lot, preparing a christmas market (hand-sewing clothes dolls, crochet…)
    happy birthday and thank you for sharing with your blog!
    jezahel from France

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  12. Hilltop Hausfrau Avatar
    Hilltop Hausfrau

    From one melissa to another…
    I love listening to Canadian music right now…esp Stars and Metric.
    I love drawing whimsical gardens right now.
    I’m an “of the moment” person…my interests change constantly!

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  13. bridget Avatar
    bridget

    Hi melissa
    Happy beeday just been! I have to recommend ‘The Long Song’ & ‘Small Islands’ by Andrea Levy. I enjoyed them both very much. We went to Golden Bay in the weekend & I read ‘Say Her Name’ by Francisco Goldman, it was so sad & so moving:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/24/say-her-name-francisco-goldman
    What I do is look at the Orange Prize website & just make my way through the long lists. I have read so many great books like this – The Road Home by Ruth Tremain, The Outcast by Sadie Jones, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Have you read any Alice Munroe books? I loved ‘Too Much Happiness’.
    & movies…I have 2 recommendations here http://www.aliceinvideoland.co.nz (I used to work here & they courier all over NZ!!) The biggest vid collection in NZ, with a huge collection including cult, foreign, incredibly strange, documentary etc etc. Also the http://www.empireonline.com website is great for reading reviews & making lists. We have recently watched the TV series ‘The Human Planet’ (great family viewing, have you guys been watching it?) Downton Abbey(of course – hurray it’s back!)Treme(set in New Orlenes after Hurricane Katrina) which inspired me to read more about this disaster for eg ‘Zeitoun’ by Dave Eggers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/11/dave-eggers-zeitoun-hurricane-katrina
    We also watched ‘Generation Kill’ a Tv series of 7 episodes, which was hard viewing as it sounds but I definitely recommend it.
    http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?TVID=10954
    The End
    🙂

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  14. bridget Avatar
    bridget

    ps: here is Andrea Levy’s website, she is my author of the moment, I can’t get enough of her!
    http://www.andrealevy.co.uk/

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  15. S0pian.blogspot.com Avatar
    S0pian.blogspot.com

    I think I arrived a little bit too late for the give away but anyway I wanted to tell you HAPPY BIRTHDAY from France
    Joyeux Anniversaire
    So right now I’m listening “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” by Marianne Faithfull
    I’m reading “les 4 vies de Steve Jobs” and the last movie I watch was “Habemus Papam”

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  16. Kimberly Avatar
    Kimberly

    Ooh I’m a bit late but if you like weird stories i would highly recommend the Drabblecast, a weekly podcast of strange short stories. I hope you had a lovely birthday

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