Lilley's handcrafted lovelies

lovely things from the postman...

...after a rather pointless trip to the doctors for Milo's 1 year jabs, which have had to now be postponed until next week as he has a temperature, I was very please to come home and find some very lovely things had arrived in the post.

These included some lovely little star shaped studs from cherrycreek on etsy...

And a super sweet letter from my niece...

I sent her a writing set last week and asked if she would like to write me letters.  Turns out she would and so this is my first, of what I hope will be many.

I used to have so many penpals when I was younger, maybe not quite young as Bethany is now, but I thought it would be such a good exercise in reading and writing skills for her, plus it will bring me (and hopefully her) much pleasure.

Polaroid Love...

...so, inspired by this lady (I am also thinking of enrolling in her next ecourse) I dug my polaroid collection out this evening.  In a way I'm almost wishing I hadn't as I have spent the whole evening getting more and more frustrated about no longer being able to purchase the film I require.  Had I known just a couple of years ago, when I popped to Jessops on my lunchbreak to pick up 88 film no problem, that now I would be trawling the internets and paying more than double the price, I think I would have ordered hundreds and bought a fridge especially for storing them.  But alas I didn't think that far ahead and after years of neglect my poor cameras have been brought back out and are now longing to be used.

I do have my eye on a few ebay listings and am hoping the impossible project will bring out and 88/87 equivalent as they have already done for the 600 and SX-70.

So for now I shall just stare longingly at my cameras and admire others lovely shots.  

Here are a few of my favourites found on flickr...

mdpNY

Maco@Sky Walker

El Neko

  rjrphoto

February's Winner...

....and the winner is...

Michelle-shorthairedgirl

Congratulations!  I'm afraid I don't have a picture of Milo choosing today as he is napping-so I used the random number generator instead.

The Loveheart Ninja will be on his way to you tomorrow! xx

February's Giveaway...

...as the loveheart ninjas were by far my biggest seller of January I thought I'd make this little fella this months prize...

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning this little lovely is sign up to my mailing list (you can read more about the list here).  To sign up you can either email me, lovelylilley@hotmail.co.uk or you can just pop a comment on this post (or the mailing list one) I'll be able to see your email address without you needing to include it in the comment for the world to see.  If you've already signed up you need do no more, your name will be added to the draw. 

I will announce the winner on Sunday 7th Feb.  Please be aware that although this competition is open to everyone all over the world, if you do win and you are somewhere far away he may not reach you in time for valentines day.

Good luck xx

Winner has been announced here.

and the winner is...

...Emma of Meg and Millie...

So the first thing Milo did was actually tip all the names out and play with the plastic bowl instead, but eventually he picked up one of the pieces of paper and chose his winner!

Massive apologies for being so late with announcing this I've been crazy busy helping out at Hearts For Haiti, I already posted about it here, but if you missed it you should go take a peek now!

Happy Monday xxx

January's Giveaway...

...loveheart magnets...

As valentines is looming!

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning these lovelies is sign up to my mailing list (you can read more about the list here).  To sign up you can either email me, lovelylilley@hotmail.co.uk or you can just pop a comment on this post (or the mailing list one) I'll be able to see your email address without you needing to include it in the comment for the world to see.  If you've already signed up you need do no more, your name will be added to the draw.  

Sorry I'm late with this this month-I will announce the winner next Friday.

Good Luck xx

ayako* Super Swap...

The lovely boys at ayako* asked me to take part in their super swap some time a go now.  I'm afraid I was generally fairly rubbish at replying to their messages and what not (there has been a lot of christmas madness round these parts) but luckily they saved me a spot anyway!

So a couple of days ago this beautiful picture arrived for me...

Oh my I love it!  It matches our wall and our supreme being box canvas, that already hangs on our wall, perfectly!

(please excuse the fairly blurry photos...my house is very dark at the best of times, but mid winter it is almost impossible to take pictures!)

You can see their etsy shop here and facebook page here.

xx

December's Winner...

...so the little boy has picked a winner...

He was much more decisive this time round (he is of course a whole 8 months old today!).

The winner is...

Irit who wins these lovelies.

Thank you all for entering xx 

December's Giveaway...

December's prize is super bumper - tis the season for giving and all - up for grabs this month is this trio of glow in the dark ninjas (they have been my best seller for November) along with a few other ninja related goodies...

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning these lovelies is sign up to my mailing list (you can read more about the list here).  To sign up you can either email me, lovelylilley@hotmail.co.uk or you can just pop a comment on this post (or the mailing list one) I'll be able to see your email address without you needing to include it in the comment for the world to see.  If you've already signed up you need do no more, your name will be added to the draw.  

Milo will draw a name from the hat next Monday and I will announce the winner as soon as he has chosen!

Good luck xx

A winner has been chosen here.

Black Friday - Cyber Monday Etsy Sale...

Starting tomorrow and running until Monday I'll be offering FREE shipping on all items in my two etsy shops in honour of Black Friday and Cyber Monday  Click the pictures below to visit my shops.  

 

All shipping prices have already been reduced to zero!

There are lots of other shops taking part and offering free shipping throughout the weekend, just use the search term etsyfreeshipping over on etsy to see them all. 

Here are a few of my favourites...

ClareBears

ThreeRedApples

AliBaliJewellery

Urbanknit

I hope you all have a lovely weekend...and get some of that christmas shopping out of the way! 

xxx