***This giveaway is closed now, so I disabled the comments. Thanks so much for participating! I will post the winners shortly!***

I’m excited to show you guys the super cute new magnet sets I put out with the awesome folks at Badge Bomb. I am selling a few in my shop, and soon you should be seeing them pop up in stores near you, like the Screaming Sky Gallery in Portland, and hopefully soon directly from the Badge Bomb website.

To celebrate, I thought it would be fun to do a blog giveaway! Badge Bomb was kind enough to give me 10 sets, so we can have 10 winners!! 5 sushi sets, and 5 cupcake sets. Each magnet is 1.25 inches, and each set of 4 magnets comes in this rad little plastic carrying case! I had some laying out in my house, and my family stole them all!

I’ll draw the winners through random.org next Tuesday, March 1 at midnight (since that’s almost exactly a week from now).

All you have to do is leave a comment on my blog. **EDIT Don’t worry about leaving your email address in your comment, as well. I just figured out how to find your email address easily so I don’t have to hunt in my inbox 🙂 ** All the other extra twitter/blog stuff kind of becomes a mess, so I’m keeping it simple this time! 🙂

Maddy received her box o’ Xmas/Valentine’s Day goodies, so I can share with you the surprise prezzie I popped in for her! It’s a super cutesy wutesy Valetine brooch and hair clip. It has a ton of heart-shaped and regular shaped beads and cabs all over it. I will definitely offer these before next Valentine’s Day, and maybe even just soon/whenever, cuz I think they are a sweet little way to say I HEART YOU!!!

A few days ago, I got my hurrr cut by Jules. We were trying to figure out how long it had been since I’d gotten it cut, but it was definitely time, and my head feels so much less bulky and shaggy! We didn’t change anything major, but I think I will probably want my bob back in the summer! She also said she would pretend not to notice the giant chunk of bangs I had cut out of my head on my own. DOH.

Today we drove to Sacramento with the doggies to visit Hairy’s family and his new baby niece. I didn’t take pictures, though, cuz I’m sensitive about posting pics of other families on my blog. I did snap a pic of the cardi I wore, though.

I clearly can’t let go of the Valentine’s Day spirit!

It’s from Forever 21. Hearts hearts hearts!!!

Oh! For those who don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I also uploaded the popcorn garland pattern to Etsy, as well as the electronic/PDF version of my Sugar On Top Mini book. I will be making more of the actual mini book as well (gotta pick up my copies from the copy place!) and putting them on Etsy, but you can save a few bucks by assembling your own if you buy the PDF 🙂

Check it out!

Just a note: this doesn’t mean I will start posting patterns for everything under the sun!!! I think for now, I only intend to post the occasional pattern for projects I know I probably don’t want to sell finished products of myself. For stuff like the cupcake coffee cup cozies: I’m still making them and selling them, so I probably wouldn’t post the pattern just yet. I’ve already been fielding a few questions like these, so I thought I would just bring it up! 🙂 But I WILL be sharing a VERY cute coffee cup cozy pattern with you guys via a SUPER rad magazine that I adore. I will let you know when that is out!

OKAY! Stay tuned for Monday! I will be announcing a pretty cool giveaway with a fun new item, and there will be 10 winners! 🙂

Okay. So, my buddy Maddy missed out on my earlier Valentine’s Day Etsy update, and she was like, “Boodyhoo!” and I was like, “I will make u a home shopping video!”

So I did.

Be prepared for some dorkiness. Also I didn’t script it or anything, so when I’m trying to have a conversation with myself, it sometimes has stuff left out or makes no sense because I forgot about what I was supposed to say. Anyway, I thought you might get a laugh out of some of it!!

Apparently I was nominated for Best DIY Fashion Book of 2010 by About.com’s Reader’s Choice Awards, so who ever helped in doing that: thank you!! I have never really been nominated for anything before, where people can vote for me online, so if you feel like clicking a button in the name of all that is wonderful and Twinkie Chan, please VOTE HERE! I have no idea what the voting rules are. It looks like I was just able to vote for myself without signing up for anything. And it seemed like I could vote for myself again, although that doesn’t seem like it should be possible?

In other news: Happy Valentine’s Day! I am just lazing about in a sweatshirt, jeans, and my house-only polka dot faux-Uggs. I have been working non-stop and am now taking a little breather after the trunk show I did at Hairy’s gallery on Sunday. I DO have leftovers, and I WILL be posting them to Etsy, hopefully tomorrow! 🙂 More pretty bow wrist corsages, convo heart fingerless mitts, aaaaand…. a crap ton of cupcake coffee cup cozies! YAY!

Rocking my heart-patterned friendship bracelets from my girl Maddy! <3 <3 <3

Put a deer on it. (Sweater from H&M)

Err Sorry the images are so tiny! But they are clickable and go to the event’s Facebook page :).

I will be participating in a handmade trunk show happening this weekend at Hairy’s art gallery/studio, Big Umbrella. It runs Saturday and Sunday, but each day has different artists vending and different food carts selling numnums, and my day is Sunday, from noon to five!! I am bringing mostly Valentine’s day themed goodies, so swing on by for last minute cute stuffs for your valentine or for yourself! 🙂