The Review: Expertly Dyed

Hello, everyone! I've got something quite exciting to share with you. The winner of the Super Giveaway, Jennifer of Expertly Dyed, did a review of the batt she chose. She chose the "Kiss-o-Gram" batt. I am very happy to see that she enjoyed spinning that little beauty. You can read her blog review, here. I hope that you enjoy reading her post as well.

We're working out a giveaway deal on her blog as well. So, keep an eye out for it!!

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Jennifer is also a fellow contributor to the Phat Fiber Sampler Box.

Batt Preview

Hello and welcome. Let us get on with the show, shall we! ;)

- Electric Lovin' -
3.5 ounces
Falkland/Corriedale Cross, Merino, Alspaca, Rambouillet Locks, Coopworth/Corriedale, Wensleydale Lamb Locks, Cormo Locks, Silk Cap

- Electric Slide -
3.3 ounces
 Superwash Merino, Corriedale, Merino, Cheviot/Silk, Cormo Locks, Silk, BFL Locks

- Kiss-a-gram -
4 ounces
Corriedale, Merino/Tencel, Oatmeal BFL, Sari Silk, Lamb Locks, Alpaca, BFL Locks, Lincoln Locks, Glitz

- Farmer Joe Takes A Wife -
3.3 ounces
Falkland/Corriedale, Corriedale/Coopworth, Silk, Shetland, Cotton

- Asparagus -
2 ounces
Coopworth/Corriedale, Merino/Tencel, Mohair Locks, Silk, Bamboo;

- Rosey -
1.6 ounces
Merino/Tencel, Bamboo, Rambouillet Locks, Glitz

- Ooky Spooky -
2.3 ounces
Coopworth/Corriedale, Silk

- Making Waves -
3.9 ounces
Falkland/Corriedale Cross, Corriedale Cross, Inego, Bamboo, Sparkle, Silk Noil, Silk, Glitz, BFL Locks, Merino, Merino Locks

- Madame -
3.5 ounces
Coopworth/Corriedale, Corriedale Cross, Superwash BFL, Shetland, Glitz

- Ooky Spooky -
2.4 ounces
Coopworth/Corriedale, Silk

So, there we have it everyone!

ETA: The two smaller ones will be corespinning kits. Let me know if you do not want the cotton crochet thread. :) 

Super Giveaway

This Thursday I will receive 1 Fancy Kitty 9500 Drum Carder via FedEx. Hooray! It's been difficult trying to keep my excitement at a dull roar. :D *bounce bounce bounce* So, I propose a giveaway. The shop will be updated on January 31st, with all of the new batts. I will post a preview of these batts on Saturday. The winner of the random draw will be given their batt of choice before the update on January 31st.

Details:

• Start - Now
• End - Sunday, January 29, 2012 @ 23:59
• How to enter - Comment on this post with current contact information. Entries are limited to US & CA residents.
• Winners to be chosen by Random Number Generator at Random.org and notified promptly after. It will also be announced here.
• One winner will win a free batt from the new to me Fancy Kitty drum carder!

 Best of luck to you all!

Cyber Monday Twitter Party!

Welcome to the first ever twitter party from the Fiber Indie eXperience Co-op & Friends!

We're celebrating the holiday season early with some great giveaways throughout the party.

Our hash tag is #awoolyholiday.

Please, follow @fiberindiexp and RSVP below. Don't forget to comment with your email address, too.

Visit the Twitter Parties Page for more details. 

Hope to see you there!

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<3

A Sponsorship Giveaway

Last week ten sponsorship opportunities became available on this blog.

Do you have a crafty website, blog, or online shop? Yes. 

Would you like a traffic boost? Yes. 

Would winning 6 months of free advertising be right up your alley? Yes. 

Well, you can!! 

Starting today, September 20th, I'll be giving away two spots (275x95 pixels) for 6 months time. Ads will begin on October 1, and end March 31.

How to enter: 

1. Follow this blog

2. Leave a comment with your contact information and web address. 

For an extra entry (limit 1 extra per person per day) retweet this: 

'RT @lylianmae is giving away 6 months of free sponsorship at http://lylianmae.blogspot.com'

Contest ends on Saturday, September 25th. 

Winners will be drawn on Sunday, September 26th.

Offer registered with giveawayscout.com

It's time...

to get back on my feet, so to speak.

I've been wallowing in the dumps for too long, and other things are beginning to suffer.

So, here is what's new. 

This month you choose which box you want to enter for. 

There is a spinner's box, yarnie's box, and a mixed box to choose from. 

It's quite a cool concept.

Anabacapoc and a Star Anise batt from my new Louet Junior Drum Carder are in the boxes.

All of you who loved seeing Anabacapoc in the shop, it's your turn to win it. 

You can find details, here.

Also, there will be a shop update this month with batts! 

Hooray!

Peter fixed some of his stitch markers and they will be up this month, too! 

Hooray! 

I should be finished with this commissioned project for my step-mom this month! 

Hooray! 

I hope you guys are having a good week.

<3

Free Friday, Update, Shake Up, & Splash

What's up for grabs in this giveaway? It's a $25 gift certificate to the LylianMae Fiber Artistry Artfire Studio. 

So, how do you enter? 

1. Follow my blog

2. Leave a link to a picture of something spring in a comment with a way to contact you.

For extra entries please retweet: 

RT @lylianmae I'm giving away a $25 gift certificate to my studio. Enter here -> http://lylianmae.blogspot.com #giveaway #fiber #yarn

(One retweet per day.)

Each comment will be assigned a number A random number generator will select the winner. Extra entries will counted as their own posts after the original post. 

(Example: A person posts a picture and comment, then retweets right away. Then they will be entries 1 and 2. The next day they retweet will be entry 3. After their retweets begins the next comment poster's entry, nubmer 4.)

The winner will be posted here and notified via their provided contact information.

This giveaway will run from March 11-16.

On with the rest of the show:

25% off Sale & more

Hey guys! It's time for another sale. Most items select for the sale are handspun yarns. Hope you get your fill. More items will be added on the 15th of November.

In addition to the sale, the November giveaway will be hosted on my Ravelry group. It will be a cute sheep ornament. Expect that to begin on the 15th and run until Thanksgiving. If you haven't joined the group, it's a great time. :D

That's it for now, but more to come. ;)

Happy Friday!

First the important stuff, the giveaway winner! The number generator gave me the number
"8
Random numbers generated Oct 14 2010 at 12:42:5 by www.psychicscience.org 
Free educational resources for parapsychology, psychical research & mind magic."

This means Lacey is the winner! Congratulations and I hope you enjoy your prize. Thank you to everyone who participated in this month's giveaway. Stay tuned for a more Christmas like giveaway next time.

In other happenings, yesterday was spent baking. Here are some fantastic pictures of what was in the oven. All were very tastey. That bread will be made again soon, too.

To the victor goes the spoils.

Yesterday I came home with a lot of spoils from YarnCon. If you don't know what YarnCon is, you're missing out. It's a small convention of local and not so local fiberistas in Chicago, IL. They have spinning, felting, yarn and weaving at the Pulaski Field House waiting for you to fondle. Miss Natalie from Cloudlover was there with her newest of the new colorways and fiber base. Miss Bobbie from KittyGirlz brought her spinning wheel and fantastic art yarns. They are fantastic yarns. Did I mention her yarns are fantastic? :) I was finally able to meet Miss Laila of Lai Grai. She drove all the way down from New York. Holy cow! I absolutely love love love her knitwear! It's cute and oh so lovely.

Here are my spoils:

On our way home from YarnCon we went to Czech Plaza for dinner. I put on about 10 lbs just eating that food, but it's okay. Rarely do we eat there because it's so far away from us. Their food is heavenly!

I had my favorite dish, Svickova with a side of zeli, which is sweet cabbage. (I can finally pronounce it right! lol)Yum! Peter had the breaded pork tenderloin. We talked his daughter into having the blueberry sweet dumplings. She was very satisfied with that dish. We ended up waddling to the car because we were so stuffed. Everything was saved and brought home. It's too good to be wasted.

The rest of the night was spent trying to relax. The keyword here is trying. I ended up going through all of my shop stock, reorganizing along the way. The realization of just how much wool not listed in the shop is vast. A massive shop update will be had soon to rectify this situation. All the little bits for samplers were inventoried so those can be photographed and ready for the update.

I noticed that only one person is entered in my October giveaway. How snoring is that? Well I'm going to sweeten the pot with a braid of roving or a hank of hanspun yarn:

approx. 258 yds worsted weight

These are both the same colorway and the same fiber base, Superwash Merino Woo in Blood Curse. This will be drawn at the same time. Let me know which of the two you would prefer (yarn or roving) both is not an option. ;) You have until October 13th to enter the giveaway.

Hope you have a great day!

October Giveaway

 It's ooky, spooky, and all together kooky. This is a kit to build 6 pencil toppers with pencils.

Enter by answering, what you or your child will be dressing up for Halloween? Please, leave contact information to claim your prize. (Giveaway open to US & CAN only, sorry.)

The winner will be given a number based on the order in which they posted. Then a number will be selected from the random number generator by by www.psychicscience.org on October 14th. A message will be sent to the winner.

Happy Autumn!!

Edit: I've edited this to include your choice of a 4 ounce Superwash Merino top or a hank of 258 yards of worsted weight handspun yarn. Pictures of this can be found here. Thanks for entering!!

Shop Update & More...

The first of many things, who won!?
The winner of the September giveaway is ::drum roll:: Little Miss S. Congratulations!! I'll be sending you a message shortly. Thank you for participating, everyone! Next giveaway will be next month. (Hint: Christmas is coming sooner than you think.) Yeah it might be a bit early, but have you ever seen a sheep dressed up as a pumpkin? Hmm...now this gives me pause. ::hamsters are turning the wheels in my head:: 

This past evening was the small shop update. I made the decision late in the game because of another doctor appointment and the events that followed. (Pinched nerve in my neck and back area required xrays. Groceries needed to be bought as well as prescription pick up.)

Grigoriy - SW BFL

In addition to the shop update, I've started a destash on Ravelry. There are some of my hand painted braids that didn't quite turn out the way I planned there as well as other dyers.

Oh, almost forgot to mention the sale going on at the shop. From now until 23:59 CDT on Sept. 23rd, there will be a roving and yarn sale. Buy one get the second half off on all roving. All yarn is 15% off.

This week I will be working on artwork for Peter's, my fiance's, shop called Storm Dragon Creations. He changed it, but I think it works out nicely. He'll be selling his own unique brand of stitch markers, row counters and jewelry. Be sure to read his item descriptions as they will be full of funnies, I'm sure.

Ecology & Me (part 2) will be coming very quickly. Thursday of this week, I will be joining a group of people in town to collect some Ratibida pinnata (Yellow cone flower) seed. My goal is to have some pictures taken during our lunch break for all of you to see.

Until then, have a wonderful weekend!

Giveaways from Friends

Not only is Dale giving away some great stuff, but Brie of Fall Creek Fibers is, too! Recently, Brie has delved into the world of luxury teas. She's a gifted fiber artist turned tea blending-ista.
Visit her blog to enter in a giveaway for some of her luxury tea.

Light Brown Hair

Hello Everyone!!! I am excited to announce Dale of Light Brown Hare is hosting a blog giveaway featuring a roving sampler. This roving sampler is of three new colorways coming to the shop. How fantastic is that? She is the fantastic dyer of many great yarn colorways. I particularly love her Starry Night colorway! Also, on her Ravelry group she is having a second giveaway! It's a handspun yarn sampler and pattern kit by me. Isn't Dale great!!

So take a look at what's up for grabs. Below is a selection of what Dale has in her shop. Aren't those widgets an excellent idea and gorgeous, too?

Sept. 1 Giveaway & more...

Here it is! This Spongebob Squarepants inspired giveaway includes approximately 50 yards of Jellyfishing in Rambouillet wool spun by mamatwitch and a coloring book with crayons.

To enter for this drawing please comment on this post as to which is your favorite Spongebob character. A winner will be chosen at random by pulling a name out of a hat. This event expires on Sept 10th. This is also listed on Giveaway Scout.com.

What's been on my wheel?

Cloudlover's 50/50 SW Merino Silk in Crusoe

Fall Creek Fibers BFL in Joanie

Fall Creek Fibers May 2010 Fiber Club (BFL Wool)

Sharing is caring

First, the winners of the last giveaway are mamatwitch and sillylittleladysspotontheweb. I was feeling very generous yesterday, and decided to give them both the giveaway. The next giveaway will be sometime this week. I'm waiting for the last parts of it to arrive in the mail. After that the giveaways are pretty much raring to go. October and November giveaways are going to be fantastic! I don't dare wait until December because it may be to late to ship for the holidays.

Secondly, here are two things that I want to share. They are little helpers that will bring you smiles on a cloudy day.

The first was given to me by an elderly man on one of my fifteen minute breaks. It's one of the most truest poems. Maybe I looked like I needed a hug that day.
The second was from my PartyLite Unit Leader, Michele Christidis. Michele was trying to motivate us to do what we've got to do to accomplish our show goals. These two beauties are hanging up on a cork board in my workspace area along with all the other nice notes from others. The images above are downloadable jpeg files for easy printing and posting. I hope that they lighten your day and inspire you to do what's needed to reach your hopes and dreams. Make a plan and follow through.
 

Get your nails did: Avon Giveaway

Hello again and welcome to another giveaway. This time it's a product that I absolutely love. My mother, Sheryl, sells Avon and hooked me on their speed dry nail polish. My favorite color is the Mambo Melon. Usually nail polish is ruined in 20 minutes with me, but not with the speed dry nail polish. It dries in 60 seconds and you're ready to go. This is by far one of my favorite products from Avon.

In this giveaway you get to choose your color as well as a glossy UV protecting top coat or length and strength base coat. Below the colors are listed for easy browsing.