knits & pieces: give it away, now!

I was so excited to find out that I won this giveaway on Indie Fixx last week! Rowena of Red Ruby Rose contacted me and simply asked which clutch was my favorite. :) I chose the Aqua Pods design, and I can NOT wait to see it! Obviously, I'm going to need new shoes, now. There are so many gorgeous bags in this shop, and Rowena seems like an incredibly sweet person. I suggest you hop over to her shop, pronto!

Speaking of giveaways...there's going to be a Small Bird giveaway on My Favorite Things this week! Molly contacted me a while ago, and I finally decided it was time to do a little shop promotion out there in blog land. I chose to give away the Cave Earrings, since I think they rather epitomize the Small Bird style, and are simple enough to appeal to a variety of people. If they don't really appeal to you, but something else in my shop does, there should also be a free shipping code (good through the month of December) in the sidebar near my Small Bird logo. So be sure to check out the My Favorite Things blog this week! ...the giveaway starts on Tuesday, I believe.

And speaking of shopping, I'm sure many of you have started your holiday shopping, and some of you have probably taken the Handmade Pledge! Well, I'm not going to pledge to buy exclusively handmade this holiday season (what can I say? I just love H&M too much), but heck, I've been giving "handmade for the holidays" long before there was ever a pledge to take!! So if you can, why not make your own gifts, or get out there and support your local artists and craftspeople and small business owners and favorite Etsy shops? It does a lot of good.

So then since we're speaking of Etsy shops, I now have Small Bird gift cards available in my shop! A printed gift card will be mailed to you, looking all cute in it's little brown paper envelope, ready and waiting to be stuffed into a stocking, or your coworker's mailbox, or tucked into the branches of the Christmas tree, like my family does. :)