Giveaway: Win a Ticket to the Country Living Spring Fair!

Remember back in the autumn when I was planning on going to the Country Living Fair but forgot my free ticket? You know, because I am an idiot?

Well, I'm delighted to say that I've got a free ticket for next month's Country Living Spring Fair (19th - 23rd March at the Business Design Centre, London) and this time I am absolutely, definitely going to remember to take it with me!

I'm also delighted to have two more free tickets to share with you guys, hurrah! (More info at the bottom of this post).

 

I've never been to a Country Living Fair before but I've seen lots of photos from other peoples visits and blog posts from designer/makers who have exhibited in the past and I'm really looking forward to finally going along to see all the loveliness for myself.

 

There's lots of shopping to do at the Fair, of course, but there's also a Spring Garden, lamb feeding, Green & Blacks chocolate tasting, lots of craft workshops...

... plus talks and workshops on everything from flower arranging to the world of tea to running your own business.

Fancy going along to the fair? Use the discount code Blog02 when booking your tickets and you'll get them for £12 each instead of £13 for an advance ticket. You can book by calling 0844 848 0150 or buy tickets online.

I've also got TWO tickets up for grabs, so two lucky people will win a free ticket each. 

Please note: this giveaway is only open to people who live in the UK! You will be sent a free ticket to the Fair but you'll need to make your own way there.

Just leave a comment on this blog post for your chance to win. Leave your comment before 10pm on Wednesday 5th March, and I'll pick the winners at random on Thursday 6th March. I'll then pass the winners' details to the organisers so they can send out the tickets.

Please make sure you leave a name or pseudonym (no anonymous comments please!) and leave a blog link, Twitter username, Etsy username or email address so I can contact you. 

If I'm unable to contact the winners within a week or they turn out not to live in the UK, I will pick someone else. If you're leaving a comment with your Blogger profile, please remember that you need to have your profile set to public for me to be able to get in touch with you. If you have problems leaving a comment here on my blog, you can enter via my shop's contact form instead.

This giveaway is now closed.

Lovely Treats: Yummy Fabric & a Country Living Bookazine

I've treated myself to a few nice things recently...

First up, some yummy fabric! No idea what I'm going to make with it yet but it was too delicious to resist and I'm hoping it will inspire me to break out my sewing machine sometime soon. 

I bought some of this seriously awesome paint-by-numbers fabric from Ray Stitch (it's from the 'Lush Uptown' collection by Erin Michael for Moda, I got "A day in the life" in the Playground colourway). Even my dad seemed impressed by this fabric, and he usually just rolls his eyes (or lets them glaze over slightly) when I wave my crafty purchases in front of him!

And I bought a few fat quarters from M is for Make ... "Branches" from the 'In The Forest' collection by Steffie Brocoli and "The Way of Flowers" from the 'Koi' collection by Rashida Coleman-Hale (both for Cloud 9 Fabrics)...

 

... plus "Supernova" and "Constellation" from the 'Constellations' collection by Lizzy House (so glad I managed to snap up some of this in the sale as I'd meant to buy some earlier this year & totally forgot!). Isn't the constellation print just adorable?

Then yesterday I picked up a copy of the new "bookazine" from Country Living: "Handmade Style" simply because I flicked through a copy in the newsagent and it was just so full to the brim with loveliness I had to buy it.

It's filled with content from the Country Living archive (all new to me since it's not a magazine I usually buy), with lots of gorgeous interiors and then sections at the back with DIY projects and interviews with designer/makers. I'll be taking it with my on my next Nice Day Out to sit & read in a coffee shop or two!

Country Living

The April issue of Country Living (UK) is now in the shops...

... and look what's on page 14:


Three of my felt bird brooches :)

Country Living is such a gorgeous magazine, it's wonderful to have my birdies featured.

Also wonderful - the flurry of sweet messages from friends, customers, blog readers & Twitter friends over the past few days, saying they'd got their subscriber copies and were delighted to see my birds. People are so nice!

UPDATE: I'm gradually turning my bird designs into sewing patterns! Visit my shop to see all my printable PDF patterns: