YOU HAVE GIVEN ME WINGS... the giveaway!

This is a long one so I hope I don't lose any of you! First off, these are my babies... it's so rare when I get them all in one place for a photo. One of their aunts who loves and spoils them brought an egg hunt to our place yesterday and they had a blast racing eachother for the eggs filled with change. How smart is she to know that if you want the older ones to get involved tell them there is loose change involved! Here's Max jumping the obstacle course of logs that Duane cut last year. Him and his friend played on them so much after D. got the cutting done that he decided to leave some placed randomly at the back of the yard so they could keep having fun. ( excuse the messy, leaf filled yard I have yet to do my spring clean-up out there.) That's the river behind him.

I love this picture of Hannah, she is trying so hard. Lucky for her Danielle joined in on the fun and then gave her eggs to Hannah and Max. What a good big sis.

Here are my older three, Danielle, John and Cam with A.Linda in the background. Yeah it's finally getting warm enough for shorts and flipflops here in MI. !!! .

O.k. so now comes the news I promised... first of all the reason for my title is this, YOU my friends have given me so much inspiration here on my blog. Really. I am humbled that you keep coming back for my ramblings and to see the crazy ideas I come up with. And now there are 103 followers here at 612! I am thrilled that so many of you stop by regularly and comment. I LOVE COMMENTS! I mean really, who doesn't!!!

I have met so many wonderful, creative and inspiring people here and you all just fuel my creativity. And I gotta say one of the biggest rewards of blogging? YOU GET ME!!! The rusty, crusty, chippy, and mixed with gitter, bling, tattered fabric. I could go on and on but I gotta tell you, there are not too many people in my neck of the woods that 'get me' so THANK YOU!

So I'm having... you guessed it A GIVEAWAY!

I have gathered some goodies for you and the theme is wings. Because you my blog-friends have given me wings... O.k, o.k. enough mushy stuff and on with the goodies...

First up. A glass pendant with a sweet fairy.

Another glass pendant, this one does not have the bail so that you can use it in a future project.

I was inspired to make this next little goody from the pages of Somerset Life. They were made by Karla Nathan and Rachel Jackson, oh they are gorgeous and caught my eye immediately. I knew I would have to try them as soon as I saw them! This issue is loaded with amazing ideas page after page of beautiful photos. Mine is filled with mica flakes and wrapped with hand stamped fabric, with ofcourse a little bling!

Up next is one of my vintage millinery flowers on a hand stamped tag, it's attached with a little piece of adhesive foam so you can use it in one of your beautiful future creations.

A little chalkware bluebird...

Here is a print of a old class picture that I picked because I am learning so much on this journey. It is glued to the front of a metal piece so there is some fab rusting going on here!...

A little silver angel with a little broken wing just waiting to be loved, an awesome roll of vintage tan crepe paper and one of the few atcs I ever made... I love this man on here, definitely one of my favorite pics to use in my artwork.

Last year I purchased one of Teresa McFaydens Ezines and she showed how to do this altered silver tray...

Here's a group shot so you can see a couple more of the goodies... a section of a vintage tape measure wrapped on a handstamped tag and a set of 6 tags with a little bird theme.

So there you have it, some fun stuff for you to play with and some goodies that I made for you to enjoy right away. Now down to the 'legal stuff'...I think we all know the drill...

Since this is my FIRST giveaway I'm going to make this pretty simple for you...

1. If your not a follower, jump on the bus!!!

2.If you are let me know in your comment, which brings us to #3

3. Leave me a comment to know you are playing along. Remember

I LOVE COMMENTS!!!!

That's it, that's all you have to do to have your name in the hat! I will draw the winner next Monday April 12. Just to make this clear... you must leave a comment (yes I'm that desperate for them) to be entered because that's how I'll draw the winner.

Wow! This might be my longest post ever! I hope I didn't lose any of you!

As always thanks for stopping by, and GOOD LUCK! Theresa xoxo