Blackbird bags at ARTish & Special giveaway

Hello friends! How are you? It was a while since I blogged, but I was away. Went sailing. It was great and I will blog all about it some other day. 

If you don't have plans for this Saturday, you can come to ARTish from 9am till 7pm. I will be there and I'll have a super special giveaway for you. Wanna know more? Keep reading! 

In this bag I have 3 things to give away for one of you! Wanna know what's in it? 1 key chain, 1 metal frame coin purse and two sided bag. All in polka dots cotton fabric. My favourite.

Rules are very simple:

1. Take a photo with one of my bags, email it to me at blackbird.bags@gmail.com

2. For those of you who don't have any of my items, come to ARTish, take a photo there

3. I will post all photos in this album where you can like & share it (1 like will give you 1 point, 1 share will give you 2 points)

4. The winner is whoever gets the most points

5. Giveaway starts as soon as I upload all photos (hopefully on Sunday) and lasts until July the 5th

6. I will announce the winner on blog, FB as well as e-mail you

Any questions? Post them below in the comments or email me at blackbird.bags@gmail.com Good luck!

See you at ARTish?

This Saturday, September 29th ARTish will be held for the last time.

Just joking! This Saturday is the last time it will be held ouside in the center of Ljubljana. From October until April it will be held indoors in Kina Šiška. It's the last time this year I will be exhibiting and selling my bags. I have been a part of ARTish from June and I need a break. This Saturday will be the last time you can see and buy my bags directly from me. But no worries my Etsy shop will be open 24/7 and you can contact me whenever you like via email
blackbird.bags@gmail.com

I have a few new things to show you. First are short key chains. At first I only made long ones. Long enough to be worn around the neck, but then I was asked if I could make short ones too, so I did. Here they are:

A friend of mine had great idea and it turned out everyone wants one too. What is it? Key chain and a little bag for service card one uses at work. I don't use service card at my day job, but it's practical for Urbana as well.

Christmas will be here before you know it and I made drawstring bags that are wery practical for small gifts. They are very easy to make and if my photographic skills were any good I would make a tutorial for you.

A few members at Etsy Success team mentioned I should also sell pencil cases and a few days lates one of my friends also told me he wants a pencil case. So I made them :)) Those can be used as a cosmetic pouch too.

I have a lot of coin purses. Both zipper coin purses 

and very popular metal frame coin purses.

and metal frame clutches, cosmetic pouches, handbags, shoulder bags, cotton shoping bags. A lot more than I can show you in this post. If that didn't give you enough motivation to come and say hi at ARTish, well what if I tell you I will be having a few things as a giveaway? I'm not telling what, come and see ;-)

See you at ARTish?

May Giveaway Day!

Today is the day we have all been waiting for! May Giveaway Day! Wellcome to all new readers as well as my regual readers. This is a blog dedicated to bags. I love all about bags. Designing, making, selling and of course giving away! This is what I'm giving away this year! Not one, but two lucky winners will receive metal frame coin purse. Want one? Read on.

What do you have to do to enter? 

1. Visit my shop on Etsy, look around it, come back and leave a comment in comment box letting me know what do you like the most. Is it fame purses, coin purses, keychains? 

2. Giveaewy is open until May 25th CET to everyone worldwide!

3. I will draw the winner the following day with a little help from Random.org

4. I will email the winner, so don't forget to leave email in comment.

You don't have to follow my blog or like me on FB, but I would realy appreciate if you do. 

That's all! Have a great week and don't forget to take a peak at other great giveaways on sewmamasew! 

Mark your calendar!

The biggest giveaway is comming your way. May Giveaway Day hosted by Sew, mama, sew! On May the 21st there will be hundreds of bloggers giving away something from these categories:

Handmade for the home
Handmade bags
Handmade baby + kids items
Sewing + craft supplies
Handmade accessories

More info HERE

So tell me, are you going to play along? Last year I was givingaway two bags and the response was awesome! You can take a look here. I haven't yet decidec what I'll be giving away this year, but you can be sure, it'll be something cute.

A little giveaway

Hi, what's up? I know long time no blogging. I think my blogging has a lot to do with my sewing and I haven' t been doing that lately as well. My old sewing machine (my mothers sewing machine that is) is finnay ready for retirement. I need to get me a new machine. One that will be able to sew cotton as well as upholstary fabric and leather if possible. I have no idea which brand or model to buy.... All those machines are for hobby and home sewing. I'm not getting another one like that or else it won't last a year. It's going to be a difficult decision.

I'm leaving you with a little giveaway. I like giveaways, don't you? This is a small (23 cm high x 17cm wide/ 9 inches x 6,7 inches) cotton bag. My first thought when I made this was "oh, it's a lovely bag for storing tea." Not really for tea bags, but rather for collecting it in the nature - like rose-berries or elderberries. You can use it for storing crafty iteams or whatever you like.

The rules are simple. Leave a comment under this post until November the 12th. If you're a sewist yourself, tell me which sewing machine do you use and if love it and would recomend it or do you wanna get rid of it and buy another one. If you're not sewing, no problem, you can write what are would you do with a giveaway: keep it or give it to someone special. I'll draw a winner randomly on November the 13th and annouce it the same day. Please, with your comment leave an email address as well, so I'll be able to contact you in case you win! Oh, and I better not forget: the giveaway is open to anyone worldwide. Good luck!

Another giveaway!

But hold it, this time it's not me who's giving away, but Allison from Campbell Soup Diary. She is giving away a book, fabric and some ribbon. Great giveaway if you ask me and I'm in for it! Check it out, the giveaway end on August the 17th.

Birthday Giveaway!

Today in my birthday and since I love giveaways I thought why should I be the only one getting presents? This one is for you. This lovely market, shopping, library or whatever you wanna call it bag.

This is what it looks like when folded. 

The rules are simple:
1. write a comment under this post and tell me where would you go if you had a month and money wouldn't be a problem. I'd go to Australia and New Zealand! Or maybe Northern Europe or Iceland or..... I should just stop dreaming right now.
2. The comment should be posted untill July the 16th midnight CET and the next day I'll draw the winner randomly.
3. Don't forget to include your email address so I'll be able to contact you if you win - that means no Anonimous comments!
I'll shipp internationaly, so the giveawy is opened to anyone worldwide!

Good luck! Wishing you the best week!

And the winners are...

This was not my first give away, but it was my first under organization from sewmamasew. I was overwhelmed by your comments! Never in my dreams did I expect to get 331 comments. Since comments are not numbered, I had to print them all and number them from 1 to 331 (btw: how I make blogger to number comments?). It was lovely to read all of your comments so thank you so much. I wish you could all win. For those of you who didn't win, stop by some more, because I love giving away and be sure there will be more giveaways in the future. If you'd like to see my past giveaways look here and here and here or under tag give away.

To choose two lucky winners I used Random.org and these two numbers came up:
168  Jasmine1485 
18  Mandy @ make it dear

I wanted to post a photo of random, but don't know how, so you'll have to trust me on that one.

Congratulations to both winners. You can expect an e-mail from me.

May Giveaway Day

Good morning. Do you hate Mondays? How about Monday mornings? I have a really good reason why this Monday is a very good one. Today is a May Giveaway Day organized by Sewmamasew! I'm participating for the first time and I'm so excited. But let get down to bussiness, shall we?

What am I giving away?

First winner will receive this cutle little bag. Will you just take a look at this butterflys. 

The inside of the bag. Lovely little birds. It closes with a velcro and it has a small pocket.

Second lucky winner will receive this small bag. It's perfect size for credit cards or small change. 

What do you have to do to enter?
Just leave a comment in a comment form. If you want to double your chances to win, become a follower and let me know you're following in a seperate comment. Please make sure I have a way of contacting you, either from an email address in your comment or a link on your profile otherwise I wont't be able to send you your giveway. 
And another thing: the giveaway is open to everyone worldwide, 'cos I'll ship internationally.

The Giveaway will be open untill May the 25th midnight CET (that's 7 PM EST) and I'll draw the winner by random on the next day. Good luck!

p.s.: NOW CLOSED! No more comments please.

And the winners are...

I promised to annouce the winners today. Here goes. You posted 12 comments, I eliminated comment no. 6, because Cherry c posted two coomments and I didn't think it would be fair toward others.

Did you think I would use Random.org? Think again. I used the old fashion way with a bit of a help. I bet you haven't seen that kind of choosing the winner!

Step one:

Writing down all the numbers that correspod to the comments.

Step two:

Folding the numbers

Step three:

Wrapping the numbers into the newspaper one by one and mixing them.

Are you curious? Be patient, just a bit. Here comes the the final step:

Choosing the winner. Here comes the furry helper. My Irish Setter Flora.

As you can see, Flora was courious as who the winner was, she nearly ate the second bit of paper. I hope the winning numbers are visible.

Congratulations to both winners! To all the rest, best of luck next time.

Have any complains? Send them to my Irish ;)

It's time to celebrate, it' time for another give away!

It's time for some statistics. I don't like statistics that much, but it can be useful from time to time.
Today is exactly 100th day since I've created this blog. In these 100 days I have created a logotip and tags in cooperation with ilustrator Petra Preželj (I just had an idea, all the rest is Petra's work), I visited one Fair, I was a part of sewmamasew's Super Style Bag Swap, I'm in the middle of preparing an Exhibition, made a great deal of bags, did two giveaways and posted 32 blog posts. And now about you: there are 22 followers, you posted 96 comments* and you visited* the blog 970 times, that means 9,7 times a day. Not so bad, right?


I just want to thank you all in a very special way!
Thank you for reading my blog. Thank you for following my blog.  Thank you for all your lovely comments.  Thank you for being my friends! I am so grateful for the wonderful people I've met (although most of us have never actually met in real life...) and have been inspired by. 

Since 100 is such a nice round number and it's Christmas time, I have decided to give away some of my stuff. What do I have to offer?


First is this nice red cell phone bag (for a big cell phone like BlackBerry) or a small camera bag. 12,5 cm x 9 cm (when closed) velcro.

Second is a small bag. You can use it for change or as a bag for credit cards. 12 cm x 8 cm, zipper.   

Sorry for horrible photos, bags really look better. 


To enter, just leave a comment on this post and tell me which give away do you perfer. The giveaway closes at 12:00 noon on 21th of December CET and I will choose two winners the day after. Yes, two winners, so try your luck and leave a comment.  


Please make sure I have a way of contacting you, either from an email address in your comment or a link on your profile otherwise I wont't be able to send you your giveway. 


Good luck!


*my comments and visits are not counted.

Giveaways

I love giveaways! I like to give as well as get a giveaway. This time I was lucky and Maja from Čas za kreativnost blog send me this nice package.

and in it 

photo credit from here

Maja, thanx a lot!


If you like giveaways, take a look at sewmamasew's blog It has a lot of giveaway stuff from around the World. Take a look, I'm sure you'll find something for yourself.

And the winner is...

I read all of your comments and just could not decide who the winner should be. So after thinking loooooong an hard I decided to donate fabric to all of you! The only diference will be the quantity, that means the first commentator will be getting the biggest box of fabric, the second commentator a bit smaller box of fabric and so on. But don't worry there's enough fabric for all four of you!

Please contact me at blackbird.bags@gmail.com and let me know your home address. As for you Hrandica I hope you'll be visiting Slovenia soon, because I don't want to send a big box of fabric 800 km far.

Have a nice day and thanx for visiting my blog and all your comments. It means a lot to me.

A gift and a give away

A gift for me and a give away for you :)

When Maja from Studio Domicil told me she has some left over fabric and can take if I want, I had no idea there would be three huge plastic bags and  a carton box! Wau! Haven. It looks like I've been a good girl, Christmas came early this year. The bags contain manly of realy small bits which is ideal for crafting and patchworking. I don't do patchwork, maybe it is about time I start.

What would you use it for? Are you working in the kindergarten or school and could make any use there? Leave a comment, spread a word to your friends. The best comment will be revarded.

What's new?

Well LIFFe (Ljubljana International Film Festival) is in town so I didn't have time to write blog posts. But whenever I find time, I read other people's blogs. So I found this lovely blog from Retromummy Corrie who's giving away Sweet Broderie fabric. Take a look, write a comment and a blog post and you might be a lucky winner! Maybe I shouldn't tell you, that means less chance for me to win...        

Photo credit here

A very special bag for a very special girl

Luna is a teenage girl whom I send red giveaway bag, but unfortunaly the bag was somehow lost in space. Grrrr, was I disappointed and angry!

I promised Luna to make her a new bag. She prefered cold colours, so I made this stripped bag dominated by green and blue. The material in from Ka international and was bought in Studio Domicil. Needless to say, this was also a give away bag, I like making people happy ;) I hope Luna will like her new bag.

All gone

All give away bags are gone to their new homes. You missed those three bags? Not to worry, I just might give away more bags in the future :-)

Give away bags gone to new owners

Remember this one?

Do you like it? To bad, it was already sent to its new owner. To a little girl who likes getting dressed nice. I hope she will like her new bag.

Still two bags to go  For free :)

Give away bags

I am giving away for free three of my bags. They can be used as handbags, bags for storing newspapers, magazines or slippers.

So here they are. My own creations. Now they can be yours. Sent me mail to kristincab@gmail.com and write you home adress, plus which bag you want. 

24 cm X 28 cm, handle 53 cm

25 cm X 28 cm, handle 99cm

30 cm X 29 cm, handle 92 cm