Kokeshi Giveaway!

** This Giveaway is now closed **

To celebrate Pepper-Mae's birthday and our recent move to the South, we're having our first giveaway!

We're giving away two fat quarters* to one lucky punter - will it be you?  One fat quarter of the kokeshi fabric and one fat quarter of the coordinating cherry blossom fabric I used to make Pepper-Mae's party dress.

Here's a reminder of what the dress looks like:

And here's what's up for grabs:

Who wouldn't love that in their stash?  All you need to do to enter is:

• follow my blog with either Bloglovin' or Google Friend Connect; and
• leave me a comment here to let me know that you follow.   

The giveaway will stay open until about 5pm Friday, 12 July 2013 (New Zealand time). The giveaway is open to everyone, regardless of where you live.  I will need to be able to contact you so if you're a no-reply blogger you'll need to leave your email address in your comment.

Good luck!

* imperial fat quarters

WIP Wednesday: Kokeshi Granny

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A work in progress ...

I used the Granny Square block tutorial from Blue Elephant Stitches.  I love, love, love her granny square quilt.

This uses some of the fabric that I'm giving away on Friday ...

Linking up to:

WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

Kokeshi dress

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Last little detail about Pepper-Mae's Kokeshi party ...

I ordered some kokeshi fabric from Spoonflower, along with coordinating cherry blossom fabric and made a cute party dress for the birthday girl.

P.S. If you like the fabric then check back here on Friday, I'm having my first little giveaway!

Linking up to:

Frugal Friday at The Shabby Nest
TGIFF at Quokka Quilts

Kokeshi Party Favors

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A little more about Pepper-Mae's Kokeshi Party ...

For the party favors I created little 'Kokeshi peg doll' kits, made up of a wooden clothespeg with a selection of fabric scraps, yarn and ribbon.  We also put in a chocolate treat and put the favors in floral paper bags sealed with washi tape.  The paper bags were from the $3 Japan shop in Auckland.

If you like kokeshi then stay tuned, we're having a giveaway at the end of the week!

Linking up to:

Frugal Friday at The Shabby Nest

Kokeshi Party

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Pepper-Mae had her first birthday recently so we had a Kokeshi party.  The invitations were from Phantasy Art Studios, some free ones they had available which are no longer on the net.

As well as brownie and cupcakes, I made lolly sushi ...

A Kokeshi doll cake* ...

And my husband and I dressed up in clothes I got in Japan 20 many years ago ...

I decorated the wall above the sweet buffet with some cardboard painted brown and cut up to look like a cherry tree branch (like on the invitation). Annoyingly, I didn't get any pictures of the whole buffet decorated and laden with sweet treats but here's a photo with my real Kokeshi in the foreground ...

Linking up to:

Frugal Friday at The Shabby Nest

* I got the fondant for the cake from the lovely team at the Cottage Pantry Gallery.