Sarah Raven giveaway

Here's a little unexpected treat for you (and me)

♥

if you like pretty spring flowers, that is .....

You may remember a little while ago when I planted
one trillion Narcissi bulbs

No? well you can read about it here if you like

anyway I went bulb crazy after that and decided to plant some indoor ones too

some for Christmas gifts and some to pretty up our Christmas-time home

most of them are doing their 'thing' in the blacked-out shed for now

 

Which brings me on nicely to the point of this post ....

..... with great excitement, the lovely peeps at Sarah Raven

offered to let me review some of their indoor bulbs
well it is no secret that I AbSoLuTeLy adore Sarah Raven
how exciting

 I chose these beautiful paperwhite narcissi 'Ziva'

I am hoping they will be perfect timing for Christmas day flowers
they have the most amazing fragrance
I'll let you now how I get on when they arrive

Narcissi Paperwhite 'Ziva'

 and ..... get this ..... they asked me
if I'd host a pretty wonderful giveaway, for you .....
 my lovely readers

kind, huh?

how would you like to get your gardening mitts on

 a selection of Sarah Raven narcissi bulbs?

  (who wouldn't?)

You can take a peek at the narcissi on Sarah Raven's website if you'd like

ahhh ..... such pretty little flowers
the winner will receive a beautiful surprise collection


 This giveaway is only open to UK residents I'm afraid

(but if you live elsewhere don't be sad .... 
pop back here in a couple of weeks

 I may have another little surprise for you ;o)

If you'd like to win some of these bloomin' beauties all you have to do is .....

♥ For one entry  ♥ 

be a follower of my blog and just leave me a comment on this post

♥  For a second entry ♥

kindly mention this giveaway on your blog with a link 

and then just leave me a separate comment on this post 
telling me you have done so

The giveaway will be open for one week

until the evening of the 6th November to be precise

 The prize will be posted to the winner directly from Sarah Raven

so you will need to provide me with your name and address if you are
the lucky one

I will choose the winner using the random number gizmo

 T's & C's

If for any reason the particular prize is out of stock then an appropriate alternative will be sought. 

Entrants must be UK residents aged 18 years or older to enter.

This giveaway is now closed

:o(

 P.S A few more little Pecker's have flown into my shop

they lost their way but have now landed safe and sound

P.P.S Sorry I've not been visiting, I've been locked in my sewing room

busy busy busy

x

More soon

& 

good luck!

BIG love 

j x

a cosy autumn weekend

Hello

Thanks for stopping by

It's always lovely to welcome you here

We had a wonderful weekend with Sweet B home

sadly it just went by far to quickly

We had a lovely shopping trip with lots of chattering

~ so much to catch up on you know

A gorgeous autumny walk in the countryside

~ it turned out to be a VERY LONG walk in the end as we got lost

A lot of cosy comforting food was consumed

the sticky pineapple pudding with coconut custard was d.i.v.i.n.e

as was the Millionaire's shortbread

I think this has to be one of my all-time faves

so gooey and satisfying

the recipe was from here

Marry Berry NEVER lets us down, does she?

There was also a LOT of a certain lovely ladies laundry to do

apparently mum does it better

;o)

of course.

Can't seem to get my 'To-Do' list under control at all this week

it may help if I hide the computer from myself!

 My beautiful forest friends have been back this morning

they have started on the hedges now

I love to see them

so pretty.

thank you so much for all of your lovely comments on my last post

you're FAB

x

I'm off to make advent calendars now

Have a great week

BIG love 

j x

Christmas advents ..... sorry .....

I have been in my sewing room a LOT lately

and here's what I've been up to .....

Do you remember a while back

when I showed a sneaky peek of a commission I had been asked to make?

It was for a lovely lady

 who wanted two advent calendars for two different families

each family have four children

so the pockets had to be big enough to fit four little treats in

..... now that's a lot of treats!

 

I liked it so much that I decided to make some smaller ones for my shop

I used my favourite Tilda fabrics

this one is in the 'Winter house' collection

 and this pretty teal one is in the 'Winterbird' collection

You may recognise that name from my last post

my little Winterbirds, friends of Percy Pecker no less

they can be found here

 We have had some cute visitors in the garden

they are helping us with the pruning

in fact they have managed to 'prune' every single leaf 

off of every single rose plant

clever huh?

 The photo is not brilliant as I took it through a window

I tapped on the glass and they looked up as if to say

"yeah ..... what?"

look at their little powder puff tails ..... sweet

 Today I have been to my pilates class

and got through my list of housework chores

I plan to get all of my jobs done before tomorrow afternoon

because ..... guess what?

Sweet B is coming home for the weekend

I am SO over-excited

I have missed her so much

♥

She has chosen her tea for tomorrow

Eastern spiced chicken

for pud I am making sticky pineapple pudding with coconut custard

and for the weekend munchies ~ Millionaires's shortbread

It's a jolly good job I've burnt lots of calories today!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

back soon

BIG love

j x

P.S All bulbs have now been planted ..... YAY .... and no blisters this time
:o)