Contest Extension - New Date, July 31st

Well, I guess I either didn't do things right, or I didn't do things right with my contest - I didn't even get one person respond to it with an entry. I checked to make sure that my email address on my profile page is working. Since that wasn't the problem, I'm going to guess that the two main reasons were that

1) I didn't leave enough time for people to enter

2) I just didn't "plug" my contest enough or in the right places.

If that weren't trouble enough, my ISP had a major service shutdown over the last 10 days, due to something wrong going on with their wireless tower. As I'm located in a rural village, you can be sure that it took forever to get a repairman out to fix things. Needless to say, I was a little bit upset!

So, I'm going to give the contest another go & see if I can entice you all a bit more :) They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are some pics of what you would win:

Learn To Crochet Quickly & Easily

If you've always wanted to learn how to crochet, then you'll find this informative manual to be right up your alley

Learn To Knit & Crochet

A good beginner's guide to get started on your knitting journey. Note from me: It has crochet too, though the instructions for crochet are not as good as in the Learn To Crochet Book above (IMHO)

Quick Tricks In Crochet

Consists of 30 vintage crochet patterns that are in the public domain. These projects make great gifts for loved ones and great selling items at your next craft show or bazaar.

Irish Crochet & How To Make It

Updated format of Priscilla Irish Crochet Book No. 1, published in 1912. This book is in the public domain, but it is very rare to find an original copy of it in good condition for less than $60. Instructions are so easy to understand that anyone can master these techniques, even if they have never crocheted a single stitch!

The Art of Manufacturing Soaps & Candles

This book is a digitally remastered version of a soap & candle making book from the 1850's. This book is in the public domain, but it is very rare to find an original copy of it in good condition for less than $80. Learn about the history of soap and candle making, view illustrations of the top machines used in the late 1800's for making homemade soaps and candles, and relive a part of history as you read information shared by some of the leading soap and candle manufacturing experts of the mid 1800's!

504 Bath And Beauty Recipes

Make unique homemade bath & beauty products for yourself or for others! What a money-saver for your next gift-giving occasion. Whip up some of these recipes, put them into decorated jars and voila! You have an awesome, thoughtful gift! You could even start your own homemade bath products business! There's soaps, hand creams, bath salts, lotions, fizzies, scrubs, masks, massage oils, facials, powders and more! This e-book includes 198 pages/504 relaxing bath and beauty recipes.

Profitable Craft Series (5 ebooks in all)

Volume one covers pricing your products for maximum profits, and how to stock your booths for maximum sales.

Volume two covers selling your products on consignment and the proper way to submit your products for publications in magazines.

Volume three covers designing your own products, and discusses techniques you can use with any type of craft from crochet to scrapbooks.

Volume four covers catalog creation and sales, as well as the proper way to recruit others to sell your items for you so that you can create, while they do the selling.

Volume five covers many different aspects of labeling and packaging your products attractively. Making sure your completed products are pleasing to look upon is one important factor that most overlook although it's one that should never be ignored.

Turning Their Trash Into Your Profits

Even if you are not into making arts and crafts, you can still profit in this market and this special report shows you how!

If you can"t paint, sew, crochet, knit or cross-stitch, that's perfectly ok, you can still make money by selling original handcrafted arts and crafts related items without sewing a single stitch or painting a single brush stroke.

475 Gift Basket Ideas

Store-bought Gift Baskets cost an average of $40. And your family and friends may not be entirely satisfied with what they get. With the detailed ideas in this e-book, you will be able to make your own customized gift baskets for your family and friends for as low as $5!! This ebook features tons of gift ideas spread over 105 pages. Included are ideas with detailed instructions and supplies lists for making your own gift baskets for every person on your gift list. Also included are 'Survival Kits' with witty sayings for each item that goes in the kit, ideas for Holiday Poops, Just for Fun gifts, Gift Basket making tips, Candy Gram gifts etc.

You also get the following e-book titles:

Fun Craft Projects - has a lot of general crafts for all ages

Scoobidou® Mega Guide - crafts you can make with the plastic lacing that is popular with Girl Guides & Boy Scouts

The Complete Guide to Wood Finishing

101 Scrapbooking Tips

Scrapbook Pro

30 Lip Balm Recipes

How To Make Your Own Perfume

I think you'll find that these e-books provide a great foundation for starting up a home-based business, or an endless stream of gift-giving ideas that are sure to please anybody on your list!

And if that's not all, I'm giving you some bonus patterns & recipes that aren't mentioned in this giveaway, so this compilation is sure to please you too!

I hope that I've enticed you enough to take a chance to win - just follow the directions from the previous post on how to enter the Mega Craft Collection Giveaway, substituting the new closing date of July 31st, with the drawing for the CDs being made on August 2nd. Please be sure to let any friends that you know who might be interested in winning one of these CDs, so that they can have a chance to win too!

Thanks for looking :)

Mega Craft Collection CD Giveaway

As promised, here's the contest to celebrate my first 100 followers on Twitter!

I'm going to giveaway 5 of my Mega Craft Collection CDs. On each CD is a compilation of craft ebooks that I have bought the resale rights to over the past 3 years - There are about 25+ ebooks in all. Some of the topics are crochet, knitting, scrap booking, wood finishing, kids crafts, soap & candle making, gift basket ideas and how to start up a profitable craft business.

I've also thrown in some extra patterns from the public domain & of my own design (these will be crochet, knitting & cross stitch patterns, as my focus here is on needlework). All of the ebooks & patterns are in PDF format, so you can read them on both Windows & Mac operating systems.

This CD is easily a $20 value - and you can have one of 5 that I'm giving away for FREE if you enter my contest - and when I say free, that means that you are not signing up for a newsletter, I'm not collecting your email to spam you, and I pay the shipping to send it to you. Pretty good deal, eh?

So here's how you enter:

Send an email to me by clicking on my profile, then on the email link.

Put "Mega Craft Collection CD Giveaway" in the subject line.

Tell me what the biggest craft item you ever made was - do try to keep it short though, as I'm just making you do this to reduce spammers & have fun - I'm not grading your story composition :)

Be sure to leave an email address in the body of the message where I can reach you if you win - I'd sure be sad for you to have to forfeit your prize because you didn't get my email or it bounced back.

All entries will be put on a slip of scrap paper, thrown into my black eco-friendly grocery bag & drawn at random by my children. The contest opens today, Wednesday, June 17th, and closes at midnight (in my timezone - CST) on June 27th. The draw will take place sometime on June 28th, winners will be sent their first notice that day.

Privacy Policy: I will collect your emails only for the purpose of this contest - I will not give or sell your information to anybody else, & I won't keep your emails on file after the contest ends either - I only need them to notify the winners.

All the best to all participants, & happy crafting! :)

Nothing to see here - except maybe a contest.....

Nothing new to report in the needlework world for me. I've been spending all of my free time getting into the garden, watching TOS Star Trek episodes & playing Mafia Wars.

In my not so free time, I've been hastily trying to catch up with inputting the data for my DH's businesses so that I can file our income tax (In Canada, if you own a business, you have until June 15th to file). I just finished DH's books last night, now I have to get mine done - thnkfully they are quite easy - basically just download the reports off of Ebay & PayPal to see what I've sold & paid fees on.

To celebrate my (temporary) release from bean counting, the fulfillment of my crochet pledge (well, partial, as I can't find anybody in town willing to give up baseball season to learn other than my own children) & topping 100 twitter followers, I'm going to set up a contest. I haven't figured out all the details yet - like what embarrassing thing I might ask my readers to do to win - Bwahahaha! So I plan to have the contest start around June 15th, give or take a few days. Keep an eye on this blog or my twitter account for more details as they surface.