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I thought it would be nice to start the year with a giveaway – please consider this a small thank you for visiting my blog. 

I have three parcels to send out – one with a copy of my book, one with cards and one with a dress I made. I've never worn it but want to gift it to a bright-frock-loving person.

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The knee-length dress is handmade from a pattern called 'Socialite' (but I promise you don't have to be one to wear it) and lightweight silk cotton in blue and pink, with a fine geometric print. It has side pockets and is about a 'medium' or NZ size 12, or smaller. It would be great for summer with sandals but also with a long cardy and tights in cooler weather, I reckon.

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Sweet and Simple Handmade was published in 2013 and has 25 projects to make for babies and children. All the paper patterns are included in a pocket in the back. You can read more about it here (and you can find it in my shop too).

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I have some of photo-cards to send to the third winner. Ferns, lupins, and some favourite Wellington seascapes.

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To enter the giveaway, please leave a comment below and tell me/us the music you're enjoying listening to these days. Or a book you recently finished and enjoyed. 

I'll send the parcels to anywhere in the world and after drawing 3 names randomly after the weekend, I'll email to work out who would prefer what.
Thanks again for reading and for your support of my work.

 

X X X X X Happy 2016 X X X X X

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180 responses to “new year giveaway: dress + book + cards”

  1. Claire Avatar
    Claire

    I’ve just finished Mireille Juchaus The world with us. An incredible book about loss, bee keeping and nature. It made me think hard about my family and relationships and reminded me to look always at the details and sounds of nature – it had a quality of observation and style I loved

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  2. Jocelyn L.D. Avatar
    Jocelyn L.D.

    Well, I’m currently listening to Nathaniel Ratecliff and the Night Sweats. American band kinda bluesy folk. A great band to listen to when writing notecards or frolicking in a dress!

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  3. Lou Avatar

    What a lovely giveaway!
    I have been listening to Patti Smith – ‘Horses’ a lot lately, it seems to fit my mood quite nicely…

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  4. Fiona b Avatar
    Fiona b

    What a beautiful dress! I’m hoping to make a few simple clothes this year. I have been reading The Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. A really enjoyable read for the summer holidays.

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  5. Frau Kirschkernzeit Avatar

    Oh, gorgeous! I love reading your blog, yoz know. This is also a gift for me, the gift of beeing allowed to see and read here…
    I’ve just made the baby pants out of your book today- and like them a lot! Like all the projects I’ve tried from it…
    Bora from Switzerland

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  6. Frau Kirschkernzeit Avatar

    Ups, sorryl I forgot the book/music. I’m not a great music-listener (it influences me too much, I think and I wanna be clearminded) but I’m just reading my way throgh the Agatha Christie books of Miss Marple an Hercule Poirot- and I’m having a good time while doing so!

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  7. Matariki Avatar

    I’ve been revisiting and re-loving Gillian Welch after I missed her NZ concert this week. Plenty of my ladies went and guaranteed that they had an amazing time.

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  8. Kate Avatar
    Kate

    I love your blog, I feel inspired to appreciate simple but beautiful things everytime I open your page!

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  9. Kate Avatar
    Kate

    I forgot to add the book I am reading at the moment. I have decided to challenge myself and read something hard, I am plodding through “The Bride of Lammermore” by Walter Scott.

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  10. Pam Avatar
    Pam

    Visit your blog every day – love it! Just finished “knit one pearl one” by Gil McNeil. Perfect on a drizzly, cold day in the South.

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  11. Daffodil Angel Avatar
    Daffodil Angel

    Thank you for the opportunity and greetings from (very wet) Tasmania. I have just read “I’m Travelling Alone” by Samuel Bjork – a very good thriller by a new Norwegian author. Am listening to Joni Mitchell cd, bringing back memories of my teenage years!

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  12. Sam Avatar
    Sam

    I just discovered royal blood

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  13. Adele Avatar
    Adele

    Listening to Michael Hurley and reading The Wild Places – Robert Macfarlane

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  14. carmen whittaker Avatar
    carmen whittaker

    I have just finished reading The hospital by the river. The story of Dr Catherine Hamlin and her late husband and the work they do in Ethiopia to cure patients of obstetric fistula, a condition almost unheard of in the western world. A powerful and humbling read.

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  15. Leigh Avatar

    Each of these prizes is wonderful! Thank you so much for all the inspiration over the years, Melissa. These days I’m listening to the usual Van Morrison and Nick Drake and have just finished reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s book The Buried Giant (now I’m reading it for the second time!). – xo

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  16. Katrina Avatar

    With two little girls I usually am listening to family-friendly world music and reading children’s books. That said, i recently re-read tuck everlasting and enjoyed it as much as I have the last hundred times or so. I get that it’s also a children’s book, but it’s just so sweet and reminds me of my simple childhood in upstate New York. We live in the American southwest now (I hate it) and sometimes I need to take time for myself to remember to not be busy or distracted by my loathing of the hot urbania that is Phoenix, AZ and just live in the moment so that I can somehow create a simple life for my kids as well. Your blog is always such an inspiration for simple, almond old fashioned life and living.

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  17. Marion Avatar
    Marion

    Oh that’s so generous – I would be delighted to win any of the 3 prizes!
    I’ve just discovered Tessa Hadley and read both The London Train and Married Love over the holiday – loved them both, and can’t wait to read her other books.

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  18. Cherylann Ganci Avatar
    Cherylann Ganci

    I hope I’m not too late to post. I’m listening to Harvest Moon by Neil Young after watching Eat Pray Love; I’m sewing on the Sewaholic’s pattern Renfrew top and knitting Hillary Smith Callis’ Mielie Vest in the most beautiful Malabrigo Rios. I love your Instagram -I’ve never looked at your blog before – happy to have found it !

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  19. Sarah Avatar

    Blackstar- has to be, is there anything else we can listen to right now? X

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  20. Caterine Avatar
    Caterine

    I like to listen to Britten’s children choirs right now.

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  21. Constance Ward Avatar
    Constance Ward

    Just found your IG recently and love the photo record of your creative pursuits. Just finished Euphoria by Lily King; how did cultural anthropologists ever survive? Thank you.

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  22. Melanie Avatar
    Melanie

    A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
    Alabama Shakes is a great band, the lead singer is quite an interesting lady.
    I so enjoy stopping by your blog, your words and images always provide such a breathe of inspiration, calm and love of life. Thank you!

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  23. Desiree Avatar
    Desiree

    Ooo wonderful giveaway! Loving the latest Foals album for the long drive into town to do the kindy run. Also The Verve is having a renaissance at our house of late. Thanks Melissa.

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  24. tinyhappy Avatar

    thanks, desiree! great suggestions πŸ™‚

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  25. Barbara Avatar
    Barbara

    Hello!
    I love your blog, been visiting for years:)
    At the moment I am reading Library of Souls, the third book in the Miss Peregrine’s school for Peculiar Children series… eagerly hoping to start Seveneves soon and Leviathan Wakes, which is the first book in a trilogy which has been made into a SciFi channel miniseries called Expanse (which is great!)… I haven’t been listening to music much lately.
    Have a happy day!

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  26. Kate Avatar
    Kate

    What a shame that people can find the ‘time’ to comment when they have an ulterior motive. How about a comment on all the lovely things we are shown, and that people obviously do like from the amount of comments here, but why don’t they bother to say that?
    It was very kind of you to do a giveaway. I hope appreciative people won. Thank you.

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  27. tinyhappy Avatar

    hi kate, thanks for your comment, and i know what you mean – but after years of blogging, im used to it and dont mind really. and im guilty of it too, with blogs i visit! πŸ™‚
    – melissaΒ 

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  28. tinyhappy Avatar

    thanks for writing siri, and that description of wellington is pretty accurate (from what i see walking to work, anyway) – you should come and visit sometime! XX

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  29. tinyhappy Avatar

    thanks Kate – I love Elisabeth Mitchell too and when my kids were smaller we had her cd playing in the car for about 2 years non-stop! πŸ™‚

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  30. tinyhappy Avatar

    hi debbie, thank you, and i am reading the same book! πŸ™‚

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