Giveaway Winner of One of a Kind Baby Design

I apologize for being late in annoucing the winner of One of a Kind Baby Design's giveaway: the cute fleece monster friend.

Now, without further a due, I'm pleased to announce that #39, Armada Volya is the winner! Congratulations!!

Thank you Heather for sponsoring the giveaway and to everyone who entered and commented.

Enter and win these giveaways:
Copper Knot Earrings
2 Rose Bobbi Pins

Now, I must run! Hope to see you before the long weekend :-)

Giveway: 2 rose bobby pins

Win 2 pretty rose bobby pins of your choice from Soozie's Cutie Patooties . Get to know Susan, she is our Saturday Artisan this week. There are many ways to enter. Please make sure you leave a separate comment for every entry.

How to enter to win:

Mandatory entry:

• Go to Soozie's Cutie Patooties shop. Return to my Adore By Nat blog and simply leave a comment here about your favorite item from the store.

Extra entries (only qualify once mandatory entry is fulfilled):

• Earn 2 entries - Go to yesterday's post to know her more. Leave a comment there (yesterday's post) on at least one the following: what you learn from the interview, what you want to see more on her shop and why, or any constructive feedback are always appreciated. Come back here and leave 2 comments that you did, to ensure your entries are counted.
• Heart Soozie's Cutie Patooties (1 entry). Simply let us know your Etsy username.
• Follow Soozie's Cutie Patooties blog (1 entry).
• Follow my adorebynat blog (1 entry). If you're already a follower, you still get an entry, just says you're following already.
• Like Soozie's Cutie Patooties Facebook page and tell Susan, Nat of adorebynat send you there.
• Like my Adorebynat Facebook Page. Don't forget to say hi to me there and come back here to leave comment (1 entry). If you liked my FB page already, I would still love to have you drop by and say hi to earn 1 entry. I'd love to hear from you!
• Follow Soozie's Cutie Patooties on twitter (1 entry).
• Follow adorebynat on twitter (1 entry).
• Tweet about this giveaway, add "@adorebynat" in your tweet. (1 entry).
• Blog about this giveaway to earn 2 entries. Leave two separate comments here please providing me with the link to your post.
• Be creative and share the love! Refer your friends and family to enter this giveaway. Use your social media (other than twitter and blog) to shout out this giveaway. As long as you provide me a link or a way to confirm it, you'll earn 2 entries (two separate comments).
• Purchase an item from Soozie's Cutie Patootie and earn 10 entries for each purchase. Don't forget letting us know by leaving comments.

Contest starts now and ends on July 9, 2011. Contest opens worldwide. Don't forget to leave me a way to contact you. Entries without contact information will be disqualified. Entries that do not follow the rules will be disqualified. Contest winner will be drawn on Sunday, July 10 by a random number generator, by the artist herself. Winner must respond within 48 hours after being contacted otherwise another winner will be randomly selected. Get 25% off by using ADOREBYNAT coupon when you shop at Soozie's Cutie Patooties.

Saturday Artisan: Soozie's Cutie Patooties

Our Saturday Artisan this week is Susan of Soozie's Cutie Patooties (how cute her shop name is!!). I LOVE everything in her shop and amazed by her crochet works. Simply beautiful!. I love the colors that she uses too, vibrant and soft perfectly chosen. Learn a bit more about here through the interview below and stay-tuned for tomorrow's giveaway. 

Tell us a bit about yourself and what arts/ crafts that you make? 

My name is Susan and I'm a nursing student. I recently moved to Chattanooga, TN and am completely baffled by the weather. As a native Floridian I'm used to hot and humid with afternoon rains, not hot today and cold tomorrow. Most of the items that I make are done with crochet, which I've been doing for about 15 years. I'm still teaching myself how to knit and expanding on my jewelry making skills (I want a soldering iron for my birthday!). Every item that I make gives me ideas that I want to try for something new, so there's always a mix of items in my shop.

For us who love to travel, could you share a bit about your beautiful town/ city?

I've only been in Chattanooga for a year and I haven't even begun to explore all of the amazing things to see and do here. When my Dad was visiting we went to Point Park on Lookout Mountain and caught this beautiful view of the Tennessee River and downtown Chattanooga. There are so many outdoor and nature activities in and around the city. The caverns at Raccoon Mountain are spectacular and panning for gold and gems is a great treasure hunt. The new parks and trails just outside the Volkswagen facility provide something for every level of hiker and biker (although we only did the easy one). Plus there are so many great places to eat!

How do you promote your shop? I have a Facebook Fan Page, where you get the first look at everything that I make. I also use to Twitter, where you can keep up with new listings, promotions, and what I'm working on. I also have a blog, where I share different things I find or places that I go, feature other artists and shops, and post tutorials. 

Could you share on how your organize your products, we all can use a little tips here and there in this department? 

I'm still working on a system that really works for me. Right now I have all of my yarns in baskets and bins. There's a self for fabric, another for blankets and afghans that still need to be completed, and a basket of the four or five projects I'm working on right now. I have one bin for everything that's been finished but still needs to be photographed and several plastic containers of everything that has been listed in my shop. It's not the perfect form of organization that I have in mind but it's much better than what I had going on before (a complete mess!).

What is your favourite tool that you cannot live without? I think if you took my size G hook away from me I wouldn't know what to do. It seems that just about everything I make uses that one!

Psst! Get 25% off by using ADOREBYNAT coupon when you shop at Soozie's Cutie Patooties.

Nautical Theme Favor Tags

Earlier this week, I introduced the new tags, Nautical Sailor Favor Tags. I decided to take pictures using white background, hoping for a cleaner look and cross fingers that I'll have a better chance being in treasuries and ending up in the front page.

I'm looking forward to the weekend. There are orders that I need to complete while waiting the mails to run again on Monday. The labour dispute that Canada Post currently exprience has been causing inconvinience for small business owners including myself and I'm crossing my fingers that they will be back to work as of Monday.

Don't forget to enter the two giveaways that are on going now:

Super cute fleece monster friend
Copper chaotic knot earrings

Have a great weekend everyone. I'll see you tomorrow as I have a Saturday Artisan to introduce to you.