In all the fun and festivities of the Sew Mama Sew giveaway, Flamingo Toes passed the lovely milestone of 100 followers. Rather than do another giveaway so quickly, I decided to award my 100th follower with a little dishtowel of her own. She gave me free reign on color – you gotta love that – and this is what I came up with.
I love this apple fabric, don’t you? And ric-rac? Yummy. I hope she likes it.
To pack up and send off this little sweetie I wanted to try a fun tutorial I had seen a while back on Sew Sweet Stitches. It is for handmade bubble mailers. She has a very clear, easy tutorial so I won’t give you all the steps – you can check out her site for that. But here’s my finished mailer.
It was sooooo easy – just tape and stitch and ta-daaa! Custom, cute, pink mailer! :)
I sewed mine closed – and I wrote the address on the front with a black Sharpie rather than use a label because I’m too lazy busy to go get some.
So it’s off in the mail Tuesday!
And while sewing up this dishtowel and mailer, I got all sentimental and was thinking about how much I appreciate my followers. Being such a newbie to blogging, I really appreciate you guys who check in with what I’m doing occasionally and leave me sweet comments.
And because I appreciate you so much, I’ve decided to have a monthly follower giveaway. I’m still working on this, but the gist of it would be that this would be a giveaway only available to Flamingo Toes followers. No commenting to win.
I’ll pick a day every month – let’s say the 15th just to help me remember – and that day I’ll draw a random follower and award them a prize.
Sometimes it will be something I’ve made recently, but I’ll also scout out some cool etsy shops and do some gift certificates, or a prize from that shop. What do you think? Sound fun?
I think so too. If you want to win – make sure you have an email or your blog linked up to your follower ID. That way I can get ahold of you. Otherwise the Random thingy will have to pick someone else. :)
So we’ll start with the first Follower giveaway on June 15. About a week before that, I’ll announce the prize for that month on my sidebar – I’ll post it with this picture – so you’ll know what to watch for.
Check back next week for the first prize! (You can check back earlier too if you want to ;)
Shana Putnam says
First of all I have to say that is such an awesome tutorial. I would have never thought of doing that. Second, you have sweet followers because you are sweet. i know I am new to your blog but I love it and always look forward to your posts.
Terry Beaudry says
Love the tutorial about the bubble mailer!
Thanks,
Terry
Annie says
I’m so jealous! I LOVE the towel. And you know I’m going to try out the mailer. I’m so excited about the giveaways. What a great idea!
aunt spicy says
what a fun dish towel…too cute to use! And love the idea of the mailer!
malia says
I am loving that darling towel!
Phoenix Peacock says
This is lovely! And so generous of you.
Debby Messner says
You are too sweet. I love the apple towel. ((((HUGS))))
Jamie says
What a nice idea for a giveaway! June 15 is my birthday. Maybe it will bring me some luck! :) The apple towel is really cute- especially with the ric rac.
Joanna says
Bev: The towel is beautiful. Let me tell you something funny. The switchplate for the ceiling light for the kitchen is an apple! There must be some kind of soulmate thing going on. You make beautiful things.
Holly says
Love the idea for the mailer, I may have to try that, I don’t like the boring brown ones!