MamaWestWind Giveaway Winner!

I am very excited to announce the winner of the Snowflake Baby (by random number generator)  is... Daffodil Angel who said, "I particularly like Waldorf Snowflake Baby Necklace. I have Favorited you on Etsy (a while back now)"

Congratulations Daffodil Angel!   

Stop by and visit my shop for more Snowflake Necklaces, Gnomes, Angel Ornaments and more!  Thank you all who participated and shared the giveaway!  

Until next time...

MamaWestWind, Holiday Giveaway!

I am having a giveaway! This time here at Chocolate Eyes. I'm giving away one of these sweet, Snow Baby Necklaces.  This necklace is fun to wear or just display over the nature table.  The little gnome baby can stay in his pouch or come out to play.  Or if the winner prefers I can shorten the string to make it an ornament. 

I am very excited to announce the winner of the Snowflake Baby (by random number generator)  is... Daffodil Angel who said, "I particularly like Waldorf Snowflake Baby Necklace. I have Favorited you on Etsy (a while back now)"

Congratulations Daffodil Angel!  

To enter this giveaway...

• Go to my MamaWestWind etsy shop and tell me your favorite item OR something new you would like to see me make.  Don't forget to favorite MamaWestWind on etsy.
• For a 2nd entry become a fan or tell me you are already a fan of my MamaWestWind facebook page.
• For a 3rd entry share this giveaway on facebook, twitter, your blog, or tell a friend. 

The winner must be a follower of this blog.  The winner will have 24 hours to claim their prize by sending me their address or even an address of someone they wish to gift their necklace to.

I will end this giveaway Friday December 12, 2014 at 8 pm mountain standard time.

Let the game begin!  Until next time...

Small Business Saturday, GIVEAWAY!

I'm holding a giveaway at my MamaWestWind facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/MamaWestWind. 

Please come and enter and become a fan to get a special 10% off coupon code, valid for today and tomorrow only.  I have some lovely items all perfect for tucking into a Christmas stocking.  More dolls on their way to my shop as well, so keep checking in with me. 

 

Visit them all at MamaWestWind.  Until next time...

Winner of the Valentine Bear!

 

The winner of the Valentine Bear, by random number generator is...

Michelle Emery, who said,

Your creations are so sweet. I already made a needle felted heart bunting for the nature table. The kids and I plan to make beeswax and EO salve for daddy.

Thank you so much to everyone who entered & shared the Valentine Bear giveaway! I have loved reading your comments and hearing about all your Valentine plans with your littles.  Warms the heart! 

If you have a last minute gift to give, I have just a couple little Valentine items left in the shop. Visit MamaWestWind on etsy. 

Valentine Bear Giveaway!

 

I'm so enjoying reading up on what everyone is doing for Valentine's Day!  It's giving me lots of fresh ideas for my littles.  If you have not yet signed up for the giveaway please do! 

Visit the Valentine Bear Giveaway post, here.  

Until next time...

Valentine Projects & Giveaway!

 

Over the years I've written a few posts on Valentine's Day & we've made lots of Valentine inspired projects too. Here are a few of my favorites. The above post entitled, "Mama Guilt & the Waldorf Police", wasn't exactly about Valentine's Day but a few of our projects were talked about, including these toilet paper roll heart shaped candles. 

 I also wrote a tutorial to make this heart ornament. 

 

Last year I made these fun Valentine Spool Dolls.  

This year I've been busy making these sweet, Valentine gnomes, bears and mice and we haven't yet done any projects for our home yet.  I think we need some more heart shaped candles & maybe some Valentine sugar cookies!

Comments are closed, winner is posted!  Michelle Emery, who said,

Your creations are so sweet. I already made a needle felted heart bunting for the nature table. The kids and I plan to make beeswax and EO salve for daddy.

So in celebration of one of my favorite holidays, I would love to giveaway this little bear.  I will close comments on Sunday evening, 7 pm mountain time (9 pm est), that is February 9th, 2014, to get her in the mail for you to receive by Valentine's Day (for the US).  I will ship Internationally as well (even though you won't receive her in time). So please enter wherever you may be.  I will post the winner here so please check back with me on Sunday night. 

To enter this giveaway you must be a follower of this blog and please tell me what you plan to do or make with (or for) your littles this year to celebrate Valentine's Day.  For a second chance to win please share this giveaway and come back and tell me how you shared, via facebook, twitter, pinterest, blog, tell a friend, etc.  & that's it!

If you so desire please visit my shop, MamaWestWind on etsy.  I still have a few more of the above Valentine items to sell.  Also "like" my MamaWestWind page on facebook. 

Thank you friends!  Until next time...

MamaWestWind giveaway!

Beneath the Rowan Tree has been having a kick off for a new business venture on her facebook page.  Please come over, see what's it's all about and enter to win one of these MamaWestWind doll ornaments! (you have until 9pm est)

Oh and don't forget to vote for your favorite play silk!  I'm rooting for Heart of the Autumn Maple, hence my Autumn doll giveaway. 

Love to you all!  Until next time...

Shop Update & a Giveaway!

 

Fall is on it's way!  Can you feel it?  Well, here it's still in the high 90's. I do wish I could feel it more but I know it's coming. The light is changing, mornings are cooler, can't wait can't wait! Here's what I've been working on lately.  I have some sweet birthday ring dolls in the shop, plenty of bees, lady bugs and butterflies and a few Fall things too. & more coming!

Also, I'm excited to be apart of a Natural Kids Team giveaway on Small Things!  There are 8 prizes and one lucky winner!  Only 2 more days to enter! 

Until next time...

Winner of Little Woodlanders Frog Cycle Set!

Winner (by Random Number Generator) of the adorable Little Woodlanders Frog Cycle Set is Shannon F!!!!  Congratulations Shannon!  Thanks so much to Rachel of Little Woodlanders and all of you who participated.  

Find LittleWoodlanders at:

Shop: www.littlewoodlanders.etsy.com  
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LittleWoodlanders
Twitter: twitter.com/LWoodlanders
Blog: www.littlewoodlanders.com
Pinterest: pinterest.com/lwoodlanders/
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/87684407@N06/ 

Little Woodlanders Giveaway!

Rachel of Little Woodlanders is a fellow Natural Kids Team member. She is living in England with her husband and two darling little girls. Recently Rachel and I chatted about her etsy shop, Little Woodlanders. 

Your shop is one of my favorite wooden toy shops on etsy, your toys are just so darling! When did you begin woodworking? How did you decide to open Little Woodlanders?

I started making wooden toys for my children for Christmas presents at the end of 2011. Some people saw my toys commissioned me to make some other things for them, such as babywearing figures. People kept saying I should open an Etsy shop, so I did! I opened the shop in January 2012, and the first things I sold were little animals.
 

How do you come up with new ideas?

I come up with new ideas when I see my children playing, by looking outside at nature, and from children's books. Usually while we're at the library and I'm flicking through books looking for good ones to take home, I get some great ideas!

Can you walk us through a little of your process?

My process begins with drawing my ideas on paper, cutting them out, sizing them, and ending up with a final pattern. Then I trace the pattern onto wood and cut it out with my scroll saw. After it's been cut out, I sand it, wood burn if necessary, and paint. Finally, once it's dried, I oil it with my homemade beeswax and olive oil polish.

What's your favorite part of making wooden toys?

I have two favorite parts of making toys. One is when I have just come in from cutting out some brand new toy ideas, and give them to my children to test out in the rough, and see them spend so much time and having so much fun with them, and they're not even finished yet! Then I know they'll be a hit! Another is just as I'm finishing them up, with the oiling, and I see how they have come from a piece of plain wood into a beautiful toy!

I love that you have your own testing professionals! How else do your daughters figure in? How do you balance Motherhood & business. 

It’s really difficult, but thankfully my girls are very good at playing together and occupying themselves. They spend a lot of time drawing and making up and acting out games and stories. So, if I need to sneak off to another room for an hour to work, they usually can entertain themselves. The older they get, the more they play on their own together, and the more I can get done!

New toys this season.

 Rainbow Inspiration blocks.

 Toadstools

Girl & Horse Toy set.

Rachel has generously offered to giveaway her Life Cycle of a Frog toy to one lucky Chocolate Eyes reader!  This wooden toy life cycle of a frog set is a wonderful toy for learning about the metamorphosis of a frog! The set comes with a pond, frog's eggs, a tadpole and a frog.

She is also offering the following discount!  15% off, using Coupon code LITTLEW15, expires next Tuesday the 18th.

• To enter the giveaway you must be a follower of this blog. Please go to Little Woodlanders etsy shop and come back & leave a comment saying which is your favorite Little Woodlanders item.  This giveaway is open world wide!  Please make sure I have a way to contact you if you win.

• For a 2nd entry follow Little Woodlanders blog.

• For a 3rd entry like Little Woodlanders on facebook or become a follower on Twitter.

• For a 4th entry, fb, tweet, pin or blog this giveaway, come back and leave a link.  

 Find LittleWoodlanders at:

Shop: www.littlewoodlanders.etsy.com  
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LittleWoodlanders
Twitter: twitter.com/LWoodlanders
Blog: www.littlewoodlanders.com
Pinterest: pinterest.com/lwoodlanders/
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/87684407@N06/  

Thanks so much for chatting with me Rachel! Until next time...

Comments are closed. Winner is Shannon F! 

Giveaway time!

Come visit me at Wild Armadillos blog for an interview and giveaway!  Enter the giveaway and get a special discount code too!

 

Until next time...

Meet Our Last Giveaway Winner...

So last fall I participated in the big Natural Kids team giveaway on SouleMama blog.  It was so fun to be apart of that and even more fun to hear what it was like for the winner, Yuki and her sweet daughter Eloise.  Can you imagine the excitement!  Read that interview at Natural Kids Team blog. 

This Spring we have another awesome giveaway at SouleMama. Can you imagine filling your children's baskets with lovely Natural Kids Team Spring toys?  Go to SouleMama tomorrow to enter and you just might win!  You can see what's being given away here. 

Alright going to our new place to paint.  Wish me luck (& speed)!  Until next time...

BIG Natural Kids Team Giveaway!

I'm so happy to be apart of another BIG Giveaway on SouleMama blog!  I'll be adding a little Spring bunny to the loot.  Giveaway goes live March 2, 2013!!!  That's this Saturday!

Until next time...

MamaWestWind Giveaway!

I'm so enjoying my spring crafting for my MamaWestWind shop this season.  I can't seem to stop! 
I have bunnies and little sleeping babes galore.

So I've decided in celebration of Spring abundance and of 900 fans on facebook!  I want to give one of these little babes away.  You will have your choice of any pouch babe in my shop.  These are the perfect little size to fit inside an Easter basket.  I have heart, Easter Egg & Tulip pouches at the moment.  (Some boy pouches to come!)  My shop is looking a little girly lately, I know.  I've just ordered some blue and a couple shades of green wool.  SO excited to get my hands on it and make something a little more geared to the boys! So, Moms of boys if you don't see anything here that you want, stay tuned.  More to come.  Also, I can put a little string on any of these to make it into an ornament.  Perfect gift for a friend, Mom for Mother's Day, Grandmother or child alike.  (You can gift it to yourself as well! )

Comments are closed. 
So, for one entry please go to my shop and tell me what your favorite item is.  Come back and tell me in your comment.  Or, give me some little boy Easter ideas. What would your son want?  Please make sure I have your email address or some way to contact you, say through your blog, etc. You must be a follower of my blog to win. 

For a second, optional entry become a fan of my MamaWestWind page on facebook, come back and let me know.  Or tell me you are already a fan.  

For a third, optional entry share this giveaway on FB, tweet, pin it or blog about it. Come back and let me know you've done so, with a link.  

I will close comments next Wednesday the 27th of February, by 5 pm (Mountain time).  And announce the winner that evening!  This giveaway is open worldwide friends! 

MamaWestWind on 
etsy
Facebook
Pinterest
 
Sending some spring warmth & love your way!

Until next time...

Valentine Giveaway!

There is the most adorable Valentine Peg Doll giveaway going on at We Bloom Here.  2 sets of these darling little love bugs will be given away!  You have until Valentine's Day to enter!  Oh and have you seen her new book, Making Peg Dolls?  The blog tour will be making a pit stop here on Valentine's Day!  So exciting!

Until next time...

MamaWestWind giveaway!

I've been AWOL here for a bit but I'm coming back soon with some fun Valentine projects we've been working on.  We've been busy, busy, busy with home school and me with my etsy shop. I wanted to alert you to a MamaWestWind, Valentine giveaway going on.  My fellow Natural Kids team member, Rachel of Little Woodlanders is hosting this giveaway on her facebook page.  Please go and enter to win one of my Valentine creations below.  While you're at it check out her lovely wooden creations too. 

Enter here at Little Woodlanders fb page. Also visit both our Valentine's creations on etsy.

MamaWestWind

Little Woodlanders

Wishing you all love and light.

Craft Along, Elf Ornaments!

Our ornament this week is going to be mighty cute!  The photo above is from the blog, Christine Clemmensen.  I've shared her photo here with permission. Her blog is just beautiful and isn't her Pipe Cleaner Elf just darling?!  We will be working on these and have our finished elves to show you at the end of the week.  Meanwhile I'm also working on some darling little star babies!  My, oh my are we sick of crafting yet?  No, not yet.

Go by and see my Pinterest board, Handmade Christmas. Each week until Christmas we will be making a different kind of ornament from this board for our newly crafted handmade woodland tree.  Last week we made toadstool ornaments and a garland and the week before we made, hand dipped beeswax pinecones and  Willodel's Pine Cone Fairies.

This is fun!  What are you making?

I also wanted to mention the giveaway happening on Small Things!  It's an awesome giveaway, with tons of prizes all to benefit my blogger friend, Lisa at Hullabaloo Homestead.  Her family is having to move this holiday season and needs help, so this giveaway is to benefit her family.  Read Lisa's amazing story here and go enter that giveaway! 

Until next time...

Natural Kids Giveaway on SouleMama Now!

So excited to announce the Natural Kids Giveaway is now up at SouleMama!  I am giving away a MamaWestWind Mama & Baby Playset.  There are many other prizes up for grabs, over $1000 value, all going to ONE lucky winner!  Go to NaturalKids site for more details and links to all the beautiful Natural Kids Team shops. 

Until next time...

Upcoming SouleMama Giveaway...

I am beyond excited to announce that I will be apart of a massive Natural Kids Team giveaway on SouleMama this weekend.  This giveaway will be running Saturday and Sunday (October 27 & 28th) only.  There are many lovely Natural Kids Team shops participating, over $1000 value and one person gets all the loot!  This is Christmas shopping for your kids, friends kids and family done!

The above is my giveaway item.  A MamaWestWind mama & leaf baby playset.  So very excited to be apart of this!  Please share this post on your social media sites to help us pass the word.

Thank you!!!!