Yahoo - A Gift from the Patchwork Dress!

A Little Soul Mate Came to Stay

Caireen at the Patchwork Dress made these lovelies.
Above you see the picture taken in Scotland.

And Whoopie, look who came by ROYAL MAIL to live in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont! And ... a Patchwork Dress card, a lovely pouch, a bead key ring, pearl sequins and pretty ribbons for my dollies. Thank you, Caireen! This is a real treasure, and the very FIRST present I ever got in the mail. I was so excited opening the package, and Mr. Diabetes ate the candy first thing! What is a wife to do? Anyway, I'm a happy camper. Next week I will post off a little something to Scotland and I'll only tell you that it is PINK . . .

My "Patchwork Dress" soul mate bird!

The Patchwork Dress Etsy Shoppe is the place to visit for gorgeous cards:

Like these! Caireen calls this batch "Secret Garden."

If you look at my swap picture you will see the card that Caireen made and sent to me. It is so perfect, a sweet kitten surrounded by poetry written in Scotland. Caireen makes geo-friendly cards out of recycled pictures and paper, but I would never know if she hadn't said so. I wish I knew how she makes them so professional, I'd love to know the secret!

"Wee" elephants made exclusively by Caireen! Isn't this too cute?

My Great Idea - A Contest

Calling all lovely ladies (and gents) who sew! Will you help me increase my hits? Today I have a whopping 3 hits on my counter. I am very grateful for the bloggers who have found Dolly Dilettante and I relish their faithful comments and encouragement. I am a lucky person to be on a couple of sites who list me in their favorites section.

Dear Reader, if you will put my site in your favorites and ask one wonderful creative sewing friend to do the same, I will send you a picture of me (autographed), or my house, or my
truck . . .

But seriously, how about this:

I will send both you and your friend who links to me, each your own brand new copy of Martha Stewart's latest book, The Martha Rules, a book full of Great Ideas about how to grow your own business. And you will receive the jazzy box of cookies in the picture; don't know how good the cookies are but the box is keen . . . And I will make you a Dolly Dilettante book bag to carry your book in!

Because I have only two books to offer the winning team I will have a drawing. Email me if you and your friend link to http://dollydilettante.blogspot.com and I will put your names together in a hat. On Saturday, September 15 the lucky winning team will be drawn out of the hat and I will announce the winners on my blog Saturday night.

Does it sound like fun? Give it a go! Be so kind as to leave me a comment here . . .

Happy Sewing from Meg

Pay It Forward

Jodie has a lovely blog and is passing along a grand ideal called Pay It Forward. I have copied the information from Jodie, and here it is!

Jodie says, "I have no idea about the Pay it Forward movie but I love the idea of giving things away so I have joined The Pay it Forward Exchange over at Fiona's blog." . . . Dolly Dilettante, that's me, concurs. Therefore, send me a comment. It will be easy for me to spot. My blog is brand new.

Here is how it works - ( copied from Fiona) -

"I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange!I don't know what that gift will be yet, and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week...LOL... but you will receive it within 365 days, that's a promise! and it will be something yummy!!The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog. However I will add that you will receive it within a month because if I don't do it by then I will forget to do it at all. I have no idea what the gift will be but I will do my best. (Not a wonky purse I promise) So there you go - first three to make the same promise are my prizewinners - Couldn't be easier. "

• First 3 people to click on the comments button below and
• Leave me a comment and
• Join the Pay It Forward exchange
• Will receive a nice handmade Dolly Dilettante present