And the winner is...

Lara! Congrats and thanks to everyone for entering the contest. See my favourites for more fun stuff from Etsy.

and the winner is...

The winner of a sweet crochet animal from Crochet by Jessica is Carol!

Congrats Carol!

Be sure to visit Jessica's Facebook page for more sweet animals!

super sweet crochet animals + giveaway!

That's my sister Kaite on the left and Jess on the right - don't they look like stinkers?

When I was growing up, the little girl next door, Jess, was my little sister's best friend. They did everything together: caused trouble, sold lemonade, drove me crazy - you know, regular little sister & little sister's friend stuff.

Well Jess is all grown up now and she's got her hands into a new adventure - crocheting cute little animals. She's been crocheting up a zoo for the last few months to open her own shop Crochet by Jessica.

Aren't they sweet?

To celebrate the opening of her new shop, Jess would like to give away one of her zoo animals to a lucky reader. Visit her Facebook page and come back here to let me know which one you would like.

I'll pick the winner next Thursday, May 9.

Happy Thursday!

and the blurb winner is......

Drum Roll!

christylaura!

christylaura said... 

Would absolutely use Blurb to make a baby book for my little boy, Matthew! Love what they've showcased on their site. Thanks for the contest!

Congrats! Be sure to email me using the contact button above - I don't have your email address!

Thanks everyone for playing along - check out Blurb for some photo book ideas. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get the Istagram book - they're too cool!

Happy Thursday!

Last day to Blurb!

Today is the last day of the big Blurb contest - don't forget to get your comment in soon to win cashola towards a Blurb book of your choice!

Get all the details here

giveaway time! blurb

If you like photo books as much as I do then you'll likely love this giveaway. The nice folks at Blurb approached me to give one lucky reader $35 to make their own Blurb book!

There are some pretty cool options to choose from, but the main one that caught my eye is the Instagram Book.

 How cool would it be to make a little coffee table book full of all your cool Instagram photos?

Another option is a cookbook for all you foodies out there:

Or you can do what the cool people of BlogPodium did and make a notebook!

Here's the deal: All you have to do is to visit Blurb and come back here to leave a comment telling me what type of book you'd make. That's it!

If you want extra entries you can also:

• Follow/subscribe to lealou by clicking that nifty blue "Join this site" button on the right
• Like lealou on Facebook 
• Tweet the giveaway using @lealou so I can keep track of your tweets

Be sure to leave separate comments telling me what you did!

The deadline to enter will be next Wednesday, June 27 so you have lots of time to think about what type of book you'd like to make! I'll choose the winner randomly and announce it on June 28.

***This contest is open to Canadian residents only - sorry to all my U.S. friends! **

Good luck!

...and the winner is....

Alison Matchett! Alison wrote the following comment on my Facebook page:

Contest Submission! I would stuff the clutch with the Tim Hortons grind I have to take to work in order to have a decent cup of coffee!

Alison is my co-worker and she's referring to the coffee she has to bring to work because we don't have the best stuff to drink at the office ;) I put all the contest names in my toque in case you were wondering how I picked!

Congrats Alison and thanks to everyone who played! If you're looking for more lealou goodies, visit my etsy site here.

one year and a contest!

So it has been one year since starting up my little lealou shop and I'm excited to share some new things I've been working on. But first... to celebrate my one year anniversary, I'm having a little contest giveaway!


This is called The Fall Leaves Clutch and you could be its owner! How you ask? Become a fan of my Facebook page and leave a comment telling me all the things you would stuff into this thing. If you're already a fan, be sure to leave a comment because you're eligible for the contest too! Now I know some of you don't like Facebook, so if you don't have an account; just leave a comment here and I'll add you to the contest.

The contest closes one week from today at 11:59pm (if you're still up that late!).

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on to the new stuff...

This is Kaite my 'little' sister.


She's about 10 feet taller than me and I can fit both of my feet into one of her shoes which makes her perfect modeling material dontcha think?

She's holding the Fall Leaves Tote. If you like this little number, trek on over to my shop for a peek. There are more goodies over there that I'll feature on the blog this week and next.

Happy Thursday and don't forget to enter the contest!

~lealou

everyone loves free stuff

So I'm a bit late in the game of announcing this contest because of moving and lack of Internet connect and nasty paint fumes, but this news is still exciting nonetheless!

My friend Alison over at A Hot Pink Petticoat approached me about doing a contest to give away a free tote on Vintage Glam Blog. The contest is up so get over there and comment away! You could win!

hello?

Sheesh. Time has certainly flown by in the past month. I haven't really been doing much besides the regular (working, eating, drinking tea). I wouldn't say I'm in a funk 'cause that's not it. I wouldn't say I'm sick of the snow (even though I'm tired of pulling over to let others by on our streets because there's only enough room for one car to pass, and I feel like I'm in permanent 4x4 on the roads... oh and don't get me started on parking... I can't wait until spring...). I guess I can't really put my finger on it. But I haven't been doing much sewing that's for sure. I tried to do a custom order for placemats a few weeks ago and I almost threw my machine out the window. I just chose the wrong fabric for the project. It wasn't working so I didn't finish it. I'm taking it as a learning experience that I can't work with shiny fabric. That's it. Just cotton my friends.

This week I'm working on a diaper bag for a friend of a friend and I'm pretty excited about it. If it works out as well as I think it will, then I might make more for the shop. Also I have a fun little contest coming up in about a month that I can't wait to share with you. Stay tuned.

After that I'll be concentrating on the new house. We get the keys tomorrow and I can't wait!

Take care my pals and talks to you soon!
~lealou