Lucky, Lucky, Unlucky! And Book Challenge Prize Offering

I've had a good week for presents and winning competitions, well sort of.  It started off pretty well with the lovely Susan and my fabulous birthday present which she forgot to bring when we met up a couple of weeks ago for the show in Uttoxeter!

Isn't it absolutely fabulous.  I adore it, and have rewarded it with it's very own chair which no-one else is allowed to sit in, so I can admire it, which i do, regularly!  If you want to read about how she made it, click here, here and here for the info, and when she points out the faults, well let's just say, she's talking nonsense, it's perfect!

And then on Friday night I found out I had won this fantastic giveaway on the LMQG site, for a 2 day course with the fantastic Katy Jones at The Village Haberdashery in London, excited was I, delighted and doing a little dance? No, it put me in a right mood!   
Why I hear you shout, or maybe not, well because on Friday, only a few hours ago I had agreed to be elsewhere on the date of the first part of the course, and wriggle as I might I couldn't get out of it!  I'm not saying I cried, but i'll be honest I was close to it, and I was really p'd off into Saturday too.  Oh well, better luck next time, but there really is nothing worse than having such a fab prize being dangled in front of your face, to be snatched away, lady luck is a cruel, cruel, mistress!


But the week ends of a happy, smiley note, I had a lovely night away at my friends very posh barn conversion in the rain lashed not so sunny Ribble Valley- how come her entrance hall is as big as my new house, and absolutely stunning to boot, where mine is most definitely not!  

This evening I received an email from the gorgeous Marit at Sew, Love, Live (my sister Stitch Teaser no less), that I was second in her draw for SewMamaSew giveaway day, and this bundle of lovelies will be winging their way to me this week
 
If you've never been to Marits blog, seriously get yourself over there, she makes some beautiful things, and is a genuinely lovely person too.  :o)

Right, well I promised I would tell you the book you can win for this months Book Challenge- 3 chances to win, one for the entry, 2 for being a follower, and for the 3rd chance, just tell me what your most "testing" project ever was.  
It's another good book which I will be reviewing next week, it isn't released yet, but is due out any day, I've already been checking it out, it's a great reference book by the fab Ruth Singer (a Leicesterhsire based local too) with her book Fabric Manipulation, generously being offered by Stitch Craft Create.   

Incidentally, Ruth will also be teaching at the Fat Quarterly retreat, time will tell if I manage to get into her class. :o).

Ange x