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Giveaway :: Whole Grain Baby

Varenia, owner of Whole Grain Baby, is offering a super awesome giveaway today! She is the creator of the cutest patterns ever. I am in love with this "square neck dress" (I'm picturing natural linen for the body and red linen for the contrasting yoke and sleeves for a holiday twist!) and this shirt looks so cute on her! She is a super talented mama and be sure to check out her lovely blog here.

Varenia is offering the winner 4 free patterns of your choice (wow!), and a discount for the next week (expires on 12.11.09) for all Bluebirdbaby readers. Just enter "BLUEBIRDBABY10" at the checkout.

I will draw a name on Sunday, 8 p.m. EST. Good luck!!

Giveaway :: Knecht Ruprecht

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your sweet comments to yesterday's post. Seriously...you all are the greatest! I wish I could invite you all over for a nice mama's chat and cup of tea. I haven't had much computer time today, so I am way behind on replying to each of your comments. So...I've decided to do a Waldorf series of posts next week, starting on Monday with a bunch of questions and answers from all of you. So when you enter this giveaway, please also ask any question you would like answered and I will get to it on Monday. If you don't have a question, just leave a regular comment to enter the giveaway. And, of course, if your question is something you wish not to share with everyone else, just e-mail me! I love hearing from all of you!!

After Marie commented on one of my posts, I took a gander over to her Etsy shop where I was delighted to find loads of handcrafted Waldorf goodness! Look at this sweet little root child! I immediately fell in love with her and all her creations. Such talent!

Marie was gracious enough to do a giveaway here on Bluebirdbaby for the little ones. Yay! Here's a little bit more about Marie and her crafts ::

"My name is Marie and I absolutely love my work as a dollmaker. Since my own Waldorf schooling, I have created handmade toys from natural materials. Since I had my daughter, I started to make her things just like my mother did for me when I was a child. More and more people asked if I could make such toys for their children too and so I started to sell my dolls.
I believe very strongly in the importance of dolls and dollplay in a child's life, and it is a great pleasure and honor for me to create these important little friends for children who accompany them through the most significant childhood years."

"As the child nurtures & mothers the doll, he is - not simply metaphorically but also in reality - caring for himself. It is important therefore, that we offer a doll that closely resembles him/her, not so much in features but rather in proportion. The child's "felt experience" of the doll will remain with him/her. So let's keep the doll simple, proportional & tactilely truthful."
Words by Shariffa Oppenheimer in regards to Waldorf dolls.

I love those words by Shariffa and was so delighted that Marie included them in her bio. Marie is giving away one of her sweet little walnut babies, which the winner can choose. She's also offering a 10% discount to Bluebirdbaby readers. Just enter "bluebirdbaby09" when you checkout. Thank you Marie!!

So go check out Marie's sweet shop and to enter the giveaway leave a comment below and I'll draw the winner on Sunday at 8 p.m. EST. Good luck!!

Giveaway :: Wonder Thunder's Happy Veggie Bags

Yay for giveaways! Yay for green living! Yay for anything cute!

This classy duo draws the pictures, screen prints, sews, and ships all by themselves! I eyed these produce bags on Etsy a while back and thought they were too cute for words. I mean, wouldn't you love putting your bulk beans and rice in a bag like that?!

A bit more about them ::

Wonder Thunder is Meagan Claire Hall and Sasha Barr, two Tennessee transplants living and making in Seattle Washington. We care a lot about lots of things, mainly cooking great food, seeing pretty places, and making things for people to love and enjoy. We like make reusable things for people with a nice sense of humor and a penchant for food with faces.

So support green living and these two lovely crafters and leave a comment here. The winner will be drawn on Sunday at 8 p.m. EST and be the lucky owner of a fantabulous set of "Happy Veggie Bags"!

Find there shop here.
Blog here.
Website here.

Winners (and some cuteness!)

Thanks for all the Bearkat love! Gosh, I had no idea just how many people were on the search for some good music. I'm so glad I could put Katy's work out there. She's really amazing! So...without further ado, my random number generator (Sasa) picked three winners. He chose numbers 16, 69, and 148 ::

# 16 ::

I'm always looking for new indie folk/rock!

Posted by: Ms.Cleaver | July 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM

#69

My goodness! She's excellent! I would LOVE her CD.

Posted by: Kelly | July 17, 2009 at 04:59 PM

#148

Ooh, fun! I could use some new summer tunes. Fun give-away!

Posted by: megbrothers | July 19, 2009 at 01:08 PM

So ladies...please send me an e-mail and I'll get your Bearkat goodness in the mail to you! Thanks to all who entered. Stay tuned for next Friday's super awesome giveaway!

And because I couldn't let myself post without photos, here is my little fish, enjoying the cool lake on a warm day. She is quite the swimmer and loves to be in the water. Luckily, we're five minutes from a beautiful lake with a great little beach. So enjoy my little fish/model, doing what she does best: enjoying life.

Enjoy the start to your week!

Giveaway :: Bearkat

A few months ago we attended a concert in town. The featured performer was Bearkat: a one gal band who plays just about every instrument imaginable, with some great back-up by her significant other, who just happened to be the other featured performer. They really were a dynamic duo and Katy (Bearkat) completely had Sasa and I hooked. Her tunes are so catchy, mixing indie folk and rock, and creating tunes that you literally just don't want to stop listening to.

So we grabbed her c.d. and brought it home. The little one was hooked in a matter of minutes and now walks all over town singing "trying to be the one" and "hand a heart" over and over at the top of her lungs. She was especially interested in the fact that Katy was staying in our town for a while before heading back to the west coast, so we would occasionally bump into her. The little one always asks "is this Katy singing? Can we listen to Katy, mama?"

Not only is Katy an amazing singer/songwriter, but she's the sweetest person too. She gladly gave me three of her full-length c.d.'s to give away to you! So I'm doing my part to spread the Bearkat love. Trust me, you'll love it! Just enter a comment (make sure to include your e-mail!!) and the winner will be drawn Sunday at 8 p.m. EST.

Be sure to check out Katy's website here!

Giveaway :: Long Winter Farm

Last spring I came across a nearby Etsy shop using the shop local search tool. I contacted Mandi from Long Winter Farm in hopes she'd want to hook up sometime and talk Etsy crafting talk. Little did I know she was the hippest, craftiest, wittiest, yurt-livin' single mama of two. We talked back and forth for months before actually meeting up (which is silly considering we lived less than 5 minutes from one another...) and when we finally met face to face, it was kind of that super comfy feeling friendship; like we had known each other forever.

I mean, anyone who says things like "sweet biscuits" and "teehee" is a winner in my book. Really, you have to be super cool to sell soap titled "tan my ham" and "hippie juice". Together we have a gift for talking at great lengths about crazy things like pyrex and bowling shoes. She also does some pretty amazing gift guides on her blog (check out her playlist!!) where she pretty much nailed both me and Sasa. Her writing is witty, totally sincere, and so much fun to read.

Her products are amazing. Every time we get together she introduces me to something new: lip balm, new soap scents, body cream, massage oil, etc. I mean, how does a single mama of two get all this done??! I honestly haven't a clue...but she does. And she does it with style. Her packaging is beautiful, which compliments her fantabulous products perfectly. She just plain rocks!

So Mandi has kindly offered a giveaway here on Bluebirdbaby! Yay! The winner gets to pick three bars of soap, a jar of cream, and lip balm. Woohoo! Just leave a comment telling what you'd like to see in her shop in the future (shampoo, a different soap scent, etc.) and the winner will be drawn Monday morning at 9 a.m. EST.

Check out her shop policies for more information on her products. Good luck!

Giveaway :: Oiseaux :: The Sweetest Bookplates Ever

Every now and then you'll find a featured artist on here with a fabulous giveaway. I'd like to introduce Oiseaux. Shelley is a West Coast Mama, artist, and a lover of all things vintage and book related. Her book plates are absolutely adorable, and of course I couldn't resist the sweet little bluebird bookplates.

Now that the little one is getting older, I find we are carting more books to and from places (school, friends houses, etc) and having a personalized bookplate would not only be super cute, but also very practical! And how cute are these? As another lover of all things vintage, I think Shelley's goods are so inspiring.

Shelley is offering a giveaway here at Bluebirdbaby. Just leave a comment to enter, including what bookplates you would choose if you won, and I'll draw a name this Friday at noon EST. The winner gets to choose his or her favorite bookplates from Shelley's shop! Don't forget to check out her fabulous blog too!

Good luck!