TRH Blogaversary Giveaway 3rd Week/Riley Blake Designs

Hi all! This is the third week for the giveaway, and GUESS WHAT... today is the actual 3rd blogaversary! I told you how generous the people at Riley Blake Designs were, and how they helped me out for the giveaway right? So, I am going to giveaway some awesome fabrics from them this week as well.

Let me tell you the several reasons why I love Riley Blake Designs.

1. They have many designers and they all bring something different to the table. There is something for everyone!

2. I love that they have notions like ribbons, laces, buttons, and crochet flowers that go with each fabric line. It is so fun to coordinate.

3. They have a blog for updates and Cuttin Corners Collage for fun project ideas.

4. They are based in Utah...ok I am a little biased, I can't help it but to be supportive and be a big fan.

5. I have met a few people from Riley Blake Designs, and they were SUPER nice! I love nice people, don't you?

Are you all ready to see the giveaway prizes for this week?

Ohh... I wish I could put this in to my fabric stash. This is one of my favorite lines Indian Summer. I can't tell you how cute the whole line is! There is a stack of 23 fat quarters, can you imagine what you can do with them?


Are you craving for some cute boy fabrics? Then, this is for you! This 10 inch stacker is from Wanna be a Cowboy 2line. I can think of so many different ways to use this fabulous pack!


Are you ready to enter the giveaway? Here are the rules;

1. Visit Riley Blake Designs first and come back here to let me know which one was your most favorite thing (pattern and fabrics etc.). (1st entry)

2. Become a follower on my main page. (2nd entry)

3. Blog about this giveaway, tweet, become a fan on their Facebook. (3rd entry)

I will run the giveaway until midnight of the 23th and post the winner on the 24th.

Good luck!

Note: I have so much going on this week, and one of them is test procedure for my routine procedure (I don't know if that makes any sense...). I am not sure how I will be afterwards, so I am taking a break from the link party this week. Meanwhile, save some awesome creations of yours to share for next week! ;)

Blog Swap "A Little Tipsy"

I have been participating in a fun blog swap coordinated by The Dating Divas. This month A Little Tipsy is my partner! Are you all ready to get to know Michelle a little and her project?

Hi there! I am Michelle from A Little Tipsy. I am so thrilled to be visiting here on Tea Rose Home! Oh, how I wish I could transform fabric like Sachiko does. Isn't she inspiring?!

I may not be the most accomplished seamstress, but I can make a mean cereal treat. That counts for something right?

Our family loves to spend quality time together on Monday nights and what family time is complete without a fun treat?! We are big fans rice krispie treats, but this time I wanted to give them a little taste of fall adding some pumpkin spice. A little twist can make a big, big, difference! These are like no rice krispie treats you have ever tasted. Add a little spice to your life and give them a whirl!

Pumpkin Spice Rice Krispie Treats

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 10 oz. package (about 40) regular marshmallows
• 4 cups Rice Krispies
• 2 cups Cinnamon Toast Crunch
  
• 1 teaspoon Pumpkin Pie Spice
• Candy corns optional
  

1. In microwave-safe bowl heat butter and marshmallows on high stirring once a minute, until smooth. Stir in Pumpkin Pie spice.

2. Add Rice Krispies and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. Stir until well coated.

3. Using buttered spatula evenly press mixture into 13x9x2 pan coated with cooking spray. Cool.

4. Cut out with pumpkin cookie cutter and add candy corn faces if desired.

I think these are our favorite rice krispie treats yet. Our pan was half gone within the first two hours!

Thanks to Sachiko for letting us visit and feel free to swing by anytime!

Thank you, Michelle for visiting us today and sharing your yummy treat recipe with us. It was such a treat to have you with us!

Link Love No. 69!

Before posting the link love, let me update on the cookbook "50 bloggers+50 recipes" fund raising for Japan.

Missy from How Does She? emailed me last week and told me the total amount of how much they were able to raise. Can you guess how much? (Wait for it... wait for it...)

A grand total of $20.000!!!

Isn't that amazing or what? Missy wanted me to give my readers, who purchased the cook book for this cause, a big thanks. I also want to say thank you too!

There are two people that deserve a big thanks too... ok, I am posting this part from Missy's email to me...;

"1. Heather, the designer. (heather@chickabug.com)

This project took WAY more time than anticipated. Heather didn't realize what she was saying yes to and we didn't realize what we were asking of her but she pulled through beautifully. She donated 100% of her time and talent designing, editing, redoing, resizing, linking, etc. She is so talented and so fun to work with!

2. Paper Coterie. (melisa.jeffers@papercoterie.com)

They have been SO GENEROUS to print and donate these books. It took our project to the next level and made it so much more successful (the printed book more than doubled the ebook sales). They have many people in their office with family who have been directly impacted by recent disasters and they were excited to support the Red Cross. They have been INCREDIBLE to work with. Did you order a book? These are not cheaply made books. They are beautiful (and packaged beautifully). We have been so impressed with this company that we will hopefully be promoting them as an affiliate in the near future. They have not asked for anything in return, but we are going to add their button to our side bar for free for a while as a very small thanks.

We will collect all the money from the sale of the ebook and from Paper Coterie and make the donation to the American Red Cross. When that is done, we will email the receipt to make it official and so you can all feel proud of what we accomplished!"

Ok, me again... When I read Missy's email I really felt that we all come together and were able to accomplish something incredible. Also, Missy, Heather and the people at Paper Coterie must have put so much work into this project. I have never met them in person, but they all sound like such kind, considerate, compassionate people, you know the kind of people that you want to get to know more...

Thank you again everyone for your support on this!

Ok, link love....

You see this zig-zag or chevron patterns everywhere in blogosphere right now, and I love it! Owen's Olivia shared this pretty painted curtain with us. I love the color gradation and she did such a nice job.


Show Tell Share created this pretty table runner with bleach pen. She shares helpful tips on her blog. I love how this is not overly done; the simpleness of it makes the table runner perfect.


Sigh... Really, do you feel that summer is ending and slowly shifting to fall? I am back into a crazy routine now, and I miss the summer already. Do you have tons of fun pictures from this summer? Originate and Renovate shares a cool way to display the pictures.


I am always gathering ideas for a way to utilize my scraps (I mean fabric scraps, even though I have so many other "scraps" in my house). I thought this cute pinwheel idea shared by All This for Them is a perfect way to use scraps and make something cute. I am thinking about making a hair clip for my little girl with some small pinwheel. :) How fun!


Oh how I LOVE this wall! A Time to Create shared this blue stenciled wall. The pattern is classy and modern, but the color makes it so fresh and hip. How fun it is to have a wall like that in the house. Great thinking!


Thank you all for your participation. Happy creating!

Blogaversary Giveaway 2nd Week Winners!

Oh, I am a bit more excited this week to announce the winner. WHY? Because I can shout out TWO people's names, two winners you guys! :)

Are you all ready to find out?

The first winner for the Rolie Polie from Penny Lane and 1 package of crocheted Flowers from sew together is....


sarah@sarahndipities

and the winner for the 5" stackers with Crocheted flowers is...


Ella(throw a wench in the works)

Congratulations you two!! Please email me with your shipping info, I will send them your way right away.

I have been busy sewing lately, and I just finished two projects today. I LOVE how they turned out. I can hardly wait to share them with you, but I have to wait... one of them is actually for a guest post that I am doing for someone's blog in a couple weeks... meanwhile, I have other things to sew and lay it out on the table, I better go they are calling me. :)

Link Party No.69/ Bracelets for Little Girl

I shared my Liberty of London fabric covered buttons a few posts ago. I am actually making something using them... I will be ready to share the pictures soon.

Meanwhile, I started making something for my nieces in Japan for Christmas. I wanted to make a few things and wrap them up really pretty. One of the things I made was this bracelet. I went through my buttons and beads to color coordinate them. It was such a simple and fun project. You can whip up several of them in no time!



When Rachel came home, she found the bracelets on the table. As I predicted, she grabbed the pink one and said, "What's this for?" blah blah blah, "Why is there so many?" blah blah blah, and she finally got to the point, "I am wondering... is this mine?” (Followed by a grin). Oh fine, have it now; it is so hard to resist the cute smile.

She wore her pink bracelet for the rest of the day and loved it, which made me happy. I hope those bracelets will bring a smile to my nieces’ faces when they open their gifts.

It is your turn to share your creations. Link up, visit each other and have fun! :)

1. Please post something YOU made. It doesn't matter if it is crochet, quilt, clothing, anything would be fine. I want to see it! If you use someone's idea or patterns please give them the rightful credit.

2. Link to your specific post, that way it is easier for everybody to find and read it.

3. Please grab the "Tea Rose Home" grab button, and link back from your post. If you can mention the party in your post or place the button on your side bar, that would be great! I want more people to have a chance to come and show off their creation.


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TRH 3rd Blogaversary Giveaway Week 2 / Riley Blake Designs

Are you all so excited? Tea Rose Home’s Blogaversary Giveaway for the second week is fabric bundles from Riley Blake Designs!

Let me tell you a little bit of what happened when I was trying to organize the giveaway... I contacted them to ask them if they would help me with my blogaversary giveaway. They replied and saying that they were happy to help me and needed my address to send the stuff for the giveaway. I replied back with my shipping info. Then I received an email from them asking me if I wanted to come to their office to pick them up since we are only 30 min away from each other.

Guess what my response was. YIPPIE!!! Well, I mean I typed YES! I thought that I had an appointment with an orthodontist for that morning for my son, but I was willing to reschedule it. Luckily, when I looked at the calendar it was on a different day.

That morning, I visited them at the office and met up with Jina, and we talked for a while. She showed me their amazing design studio. I was so over whelmed with joy to be in that kind of creative space; it was constant effort to keep from passing... OK, maybe I am exaggerating a little, but to see wall to wall white shelves with pretty fabrics and such made me so happy. I felt like my birthday and Christmas came at the same time.

I was able to meet Cindy the owner of Riley Blake Designs, and her very kind and helpful staff. The whole visit was such a treat for me (really, I was in such a great mood the whole day). Also, they were so generous about the giveaway prize, and they gave a lot more than I expected. Actually meeting with such nice people speaks volumes about the company... Thank you so much for your help Jina, I really appreciate what you did for me!

Are you dying to know what I am giving away from Riley Blake Designs? There are so many of them, so I am going to do a Riley Blake Design giveaway next week as well.

This week I am going to giveaway 1 Rolie Polie's from Penny Lane, and 1 package of crocheted Flowers from sew together.


and it doesn't end there...I am also giving away 5-inch Stackers from Lola's Posies with Crocheted Flowers


OK, are you ready to enter the giveaway? Here are the rules;

1. Visit Riley Blake Designs first and come back here to let me know which one was your most favorite thing (pattern and fabrics etc.). (1st entry)

2. Become a follower on my main page. (2nd entry)

3. Blog about this giveaway, tweet, become fan on their Facebook. (3rd entry)

I will run the giveaway until midnight of the 15th and post the winner on the 16th.

Good luck!

Note: Don't forget to visit their blog for their latest news, and Cutting Corners College to see free tutorials and easy sewing tips! :)

Link Love No.68

How have you all been doing? I had a very fun and productive day today. I am working on several new projects that are kind of experimental for me, but I have the perfectly done items in my head. We will see if I can make them as I have planned. If I fail I will quietly chuck them...

I can't believe it is already September, I see Halloween items (and Christmas items too!) on store shelves. But I think it is always better to be prepared ahead of time for those upcoming holidays.


Parkers shared awesome Halloween dessert table idea with us. I am not big on Halloween stuff, but I know my kids will be soo happy if I do something like this for them.


Are you looking for some ideas that are inexpensive yet impressive? The Letter 4 created this fantastic wall decor without breaking the bank. Go check out their blog to see how it’s done!


I have seen many coffee filter wreaths, and I thought this one is a little different. Mary's Meanderingscreated this beautiful wrath out of tea dyed coffee filters. I love how she decorated it; just the right amount of accessories gave this wreath charm and beauty.


Boy my hair is getting long... I have been so busy and keep missing chances to make an appointment with my stylist. Meanwhile, I love trying fun hair-dos like this one Raising 4 Princesses shared. So beautiful!


Procraftination Station shared this awesome thrift store find cabinet makeover. This is what Iuliana said about the cabinet (before she worked on it) in her blog:

"This china cabinet was not made of real wood and looked very cheap, and of course beat up and old"...wow, it's not real wood? But look how she made it so pretty! This project is proof that a little bit of constructive imagination and elbow grease can make anything possible. :)


Thank you all for participating. See you at the next post!