Little Cotton Rabbits

A good cause

I wanted to write about a very special auction that is taking place at the moment on Mia's blog. Mia makes the most gorgeous little bears which come with lots of beautiful extras like additional outfits, snacks and their own little toys.

She's just finished this very special little bear called Mai and she's auctioning her off to raise funds for a very special centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. If you pop over you can read all about the aims of the centre and their work with autistic children. There are very limited facilities and support available to autistic children and their families in this area and so every little bit helps. Please pop by Mia's blog and read her post, her auction finishes on November 25th.

I'd like to do a little bit to help too and so my little contribution will be Perlina.

She'll be for sale via my Etsy shop in a day or two and all of the money from her sale will be donated to buy materials for the centre. Update: I'll pop her into my Etsy shop early next week along with a few others that I'm just finishing off.

thanks for entering

Thanks to everyone who took the time to leave such kind comments on the calendar competition below. I'm sorry that there can only be 3 winners. The random number generator has been used again and has drawn the following:

77: Please include me! Your animals are so cute and cheery-uppy! xx Alfie Posted by: Avril Greenhow Parker | November 10, 2009 at 03:00 PM

125: Awww!! Your calender is gorgeous Julie! How lovely would it be to look at those adorable little faces every day! Posted by: Katie | November 10, 2009 at 06:33 PM

204: So cute!! I love your work and the calendar is adorable!!! Thanks for the chance to win! Posted by: darcyb | November 11, 2009 at 06:43 AM

I'll be sending your copies of the calendars out as soon as I hear back from you with postal addresses.

We've been lucky here ourselves recently with the arrival of another wonderful package in the post. This one has travelled all the way from the lovely Jen of Frazzydazzles in Australia. Jen and I have become friends via our blogs over the last few years and have found we have a lot in common. It's such fun to swap with someone who likes the same kind of things and I couldn't resist sharing all of our gorgeous goodies.

 

Amy is very much in love with Beryl the Bilby and we've really enjoyed reading the beautiful book - it's such a sweet story. I love my little spotty teaspoon holder and the yarn is going to make some lovely bunny clothes. Jen also included some really cute stickers and two beautiful bells for our christmas tree. Didn't we do well?!

a diary for your dates and a giveaway

Over the last couple of weeks I've had a lot of fun sorting through images of some of my favourite little cotton rabbits and putting them into a calendar for 2010. I'm going to be giving some of these to my friends and family at Christmas time but I thought I'd also make the calendar available to buy for those of you who'd like a copy.

You can preview or purchase it here over at the very excellent Redbubble.

If you've thought yourself of doing a calendar, greeting cards or T shirts with your own images then I'd definitely recommend Redbubble. Their print and paper quality are great (my photos don't do them justice thanks to a murky day!) and their prices are good compared to other online print companies. They also have a great range of existing designs for cards and calendars to buy from some very talented artists and photographers.

Anyway, I thought I'd have a little giveaway to celebrate my own little calendar launch and I have 3 copies to send out to winners. If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning one please leave a comment below and next Monday (November 16th) I'll draw the 3 winners at random.

**Comments are now closed, thanks**

rainbows

Well, I'm glad that half term is over and everyone is happily back in the term time routine. Toby has really struggled recently with any kind of change and so half term with it's major change of routine was a tough week for him resulting in lots of outbursts and stress. It wasn't helped by the departure of the sunny, golden side of autumn and the arrival of the wet and windy one as he's really not a happy boy outside in the rain. Still, it wasn't all bad and we did have something to brighten the end of our week thanks to the arrival of a beautiful package from Jenny as part of Trash's rainbow swap.

Amy and I were delighted with all of the wonderful goodies and really touched that Jenny had put so much thought into everything that she'd made and collected. There were even jelly snakes for Toby which definitely brightened his mood!

Amy has staked a claim to a fair portion of the goodies and is having such fun filling all of the pockets on the gorgeous bunting with all of her treasures. Those pockets really are clever and Jenny's attention to detail is wonderful with the colours phasing in order from one to the next starting with the button and ending with the outside of the pocket - I love clever details like that!

 

Thanks for all of the goodies Jenny. I feel very guilty now as my own package isn't ready to be sent yet - I better go and get my act together!

acorns

Earlier in the week the postman brought me a wonderful package from Lilfishstudios containing a little present to myself to celebrate autumn.

It was so beautifully packaged in a vintage sewing pattern bound with twine, with a felted autumn leaf and owlish card as lovely little details.

Inside were pretty muslin bags topped with felt leaves and inside those a collection of gorgeous felted autumny acorns!

I've had my eye on these for a while and they are greatly admired by all here as you can see - I just hope the hodgers don't gobble them up!