The Finished Product!

Well, it's no Vera Bradley, but I finished the messenger tote for Stephanie, the winner of my first ever blog giveaway ever, and I think it turned out super cute! Stephanie chose the Crazy Flower print for her tote.

Thanks again to everyone who entered and played along! I had so much fun with this! Now it's time to get on to several other sewing projects that I have waiting on me. I'm so excited about them, but I can't share much about them on here... yet. ;)

And the Winner Is . . .

...Stephanie!!!

Stephanie said, "I would love to have the crazy flower print as my messenger bag! I am sure everyone would love it on my unit! I work on the Heart unit at Children's Hospital in DC!"

Gotta admit I love the randomness yet NOT randomness of this drawing. I mean, of course I used random.org and it was a COMPLETELY random winner selected. But how NOT random was it that the winner works in a Children's Hospital heart unit!? Yay! I definitely feel like I'm spreading a little bit of Chase love to the Children's Hospital in DC! :)

Congratulations, Stephanie! I'll get started on your crazy flower messenger tote today! Please send me your name and mailing address via email to mom2lo@charter.net. I'm so excited and I totally hope you'll love your new messenger tote!

Thank you to everyone who participated in my very first blog giveaway ever! This was so much fun and I look forward to doing another one again soon!

REMINDER!!!

Have you entered for a chance to win the handmade messenger tote of your dreams? There's still time to enter! Click here!!!

Remember: all comments must be posted by 11:59 PM EST on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. The randomly selected winner will be announced on Thursday, April 7th!

Good luck!

My Very First Ever Blog Giveaway Ever!

Yes, folks, you read that blog post title right! It's time for my very first ever blog giveaway ever!!!

I'm so excited!!

((squealing with delight))

You may recall I mentioned a few days ago that I won a little giveaway on Spring Creative's blog. Well, I received my prize yesterday, a beautiful new messenger tote kit! Here it is!

It's very cute in person (my online pics never seem to come out very well). Anywho, I decided I would LOVE to make this messenger tote as a giveaway for my loyal blog readers! Yay!

The good news is, I already have experience making one of these for myself, which I love, by the way. I learned a lot my first go 'round so I'm expecting to be able to make this one with much more skill and somewhat more ease.

The bad news is, I can't decide which side of the fabric to use!

So this giveaway is gonna be REALLY easy for you. All you have to do is leave a comment ON THIS BLOG POST (i.e. not on Facebook and not via Twitter) and tell me which side of the fabric you would want as the outside of your messenger tote. I will use Random.org to select a winner from all of the comments, and the winner will receive the finished product as soon as it's complete!

So simple, right?

Oh, but I bet you're wondering what exactly your choices are, am I right? I thought you might be. So here you go!

The two sides of the fabric are (click images to view larger)...

Crazy Flower!

or...

Crazy Dots!

Comments must be posted by 11:59 PM EST on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. The randomly selected winner will be announced on Thursday, April 7th!

Thank you in advance for your participation is my first ever blog giveaway ever! So. Much. Fun!!! :)