{the awesomeness that is CurlyPops and Meet Me at Mikes}

Wow, what a time it's been!  So much goodness happening over here and I'm bursting at the seams to share.  Alas, the time is not quite here.  Yet.  You'll have to wait just a little longer for all my news, including a major leap, the big reveal on my super-secret squirrel business and the launch of another very exciting collaboration coming next year.  I am running as fast as I can and I still can't keep up.

For now I am truly excited to finally announce the kick-ass giveaway that I've been banging on about for weeks, and that CurlyPops alluded to in her sneaky post last week.

The lovely and generous Pip of Meet Me at Mikes has kindly given me a copy of her newest book Make Hey to giveaway to one lucky visitor.  Most of you probably already know Pip and Meet Me at Mikes, but if you don't, hop-skip-quick and check out her blog and crafty goodness.  I could go on and on about Pip and what she has done for the creative community and how much I admire what she has achieved as a creative business woman.  I could also wax lyrical about how awesome this new book is and how it makes even me want to sew {and anyone who spends any time with me knows I don't like to sew}. 

I could also tell you how I sometimes feel green with envy when I see her doing her thing.  It's a hard thing to say out in the open but it's true.  We all feel it.  We all make assumptions and judgements about others, their lives, their achievements.  We're all prone to attacks from the green eyed monster {mostly out of fear I think}.  This year as you know I'm challenging myself to be different.  Instead of being envious I'm celebrating the success of awesome creative people.  Instead of harbouring a secret fear that there's only so much success to go around I'm remembering that there's room for all of us in this creative world and that seeing others being successful is a great reminder that it's possible for me too.  I'm also being honest, saying it and owning it, instead of pretending.

But back to Pip.  It was in part thanks to Pip {and Kelly Rae Roberts} that I started blogging.  I can't even remember anymore how it all came to be but I know that they were the blogs I was reading for a while before I decided to dive in and start my own.  From there it's been a journey of self discovery, becoming an artist, finding a community and so much more.  And then of course there's CurlyPops.  No Pip = No Blog = No Crafty Community = No CurlyPops!  And that's just unfathomable.

There's a story about me and CurlyPops and how our friendship was meant to be over here if you want to read it.  My crafty-partner-in-crime and so very much more.  She's incredibly talented, enormously brave and one of the most generous friends I've ever known.  I've loved sharing our creative journeys over the past few years and I'm blown away by what she has achieved.

So what better combination than a copy of Make Hey teamed up with a fat quarter of Go Granny - the awesome new fabric designed by CurlyPops and printed right here in Melbourne.  Just think of the gorgeousness you'll be able to make!

If you would like to win your very own copy of Make Hey and a fat quarter of gorgeous Go Granny fabric just leave a comment.  Make sure I'm able to contact you via your comment if you're the super duper lucky winner.  I'll draw a winner sometime in the next week.

{thanks Pip and Cam for your huge generosity - for the giveaway and generally}

Happy weekend peeps!

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Thanks for the fantastic response to my call out to build a Blogtoberfest team.  I'll be in touch with everyone who put their hand up as soon as I can.  Just letting you know it might be a few weeks.