Wow, I can’t believe it’s been two months since I last posted. Ouch. I’m afraid I somehow managed to get myself stuck in a great, fat, muddy blog block and just couldn’t get myself out of it.
Thank you to all you lovely people who hung in there and kept coming back to check in on me, leaving me comments and sending me messages, letting me know you missed my posts and were wondering what had happened to me. You’re wonderful!
Well, Spring is here, the season of fresh starts, and I’m beginning my blog Spring with a competition giveaway as a way of thanking you all for joining me on this (sometimes rocky) blog journey I’m on.
The competition prize contains one set of my Paper Fan Inspiration Cards (in the little black purse), one pack of my Kimono Paper Tape, two sets of my vintage kimono postcards, and a fan-shaped decoration I made out of a piece of a 1930s brightly coloured girl’s kimono.
To enter: simply leave a comment by the morning of Tuesday 7th September (New Zealand time), saying where in the world you are, and something that you’re loving right now about this time of year. I’ll choose a winner at random and am happy to send the prize anywhere in the world. Good luck! Here’s a few more pics of what’s in the giveaway.
The set of Paper Fan Inspiration Cards (below) comes in this black, salmon, ochre and sky blue kimono fabric purse.
The Kimono Paper Tape is a pack of ten different strips of lusciously coloured sticky tape printed with real vintage kimono fabric prints.
The giveaway also contains two sets of these 100% recycled postcards. Each set has three different vintage kimono designs.
Over the next few days I’m going to be showing you some things I’m loving about this time of year, and I look forward to reading your comments and finding out what you’re enjoying wherever you are.
Oh it’s good to be back in blogland! Till tomorrow…. Lucy x
Hello Lucy, glad you are back! These papers are incredibly beautiful and very spring-y. There’s so much to love about this time of year, brilliant morning birdsong, blooming magnolias over the back fence, and asparagus season right around the corner!
Hope you have a lovely day
Welcome back Lucy!
The competition prize is beautiful and I would love it
I’m in cloudy Auckland and still very much enjoying being home again after 5 years living in London not so long ago. And how gorgeous was it yesterday! I even put some sunscreen to walk the dog around the park at lunchtime.
I’m loving the hopefulness of Spring, daydreaming about summer and just appreciating being here. Am currently apartment and dog sitting in the city with a very ‘city of sails’ view. Couldn’t be any different from West Auckland…
Keep posting!
xx
Yeah! So great to have you back blogging
I went for a drive on the weekend down the back roads of the Hauraki plains and then on to Hamilton – it lifted my spirits to see all the spring flowers (I know it’s a bit clichéd) and I noticed all the amazing magnolia trees too (fits nicely with your Japanese kimono designs). Loving the lighter mornings especially when I get up early to go to the gym. Looking forward to more blue skies to come and a visit to Tonga in November.
Cerian xx
Keep up the good work on the blog Luce – it lifts my day at work
Welcome back Lucy! I’m all for blog breaks once in a while
Well, I’m in sunny Mexico! Enjoying the cooler breezes that are beginning to smell like Autum: My favorite season!
Thank you for inviting me over to this beautiful giveaway! The prize is amazing.
hi lucy, welcome back to your blog!
i hope you have a happy springtime. this giveaway looks amazing- thank you for the invite!
It’s turning into fall here and after a humid and wet summer I couldn’t be happier. It’s my favorite season of the year! Pretty fall colors, fresh harvested foods and cool crisp air!
Hi, Lucy. What a beautiful prize. Hope you pick me!!! I live in Bealeton, Virginia in the Unites States.
hi luce, yippeee you’re back! i am up way too late having just returned from our girls’ get together. i am just feelin happy about good quality female time, much-needed, and life-long friendships, being there to see the different phases we all go through alongside eachother, and the very real (all of a sudden) sense of aging (who would have thought?!!) but it being almost fun when you’re surrounded by girlfrends like us! here’s to free explorations of the heart and not holding eachother back! i love you lots and am so happy you’re back in Blogville again to brighten my day
xx amy.
What a wonderful give-away! Love the colors, the pattern, and your presentation is stunning. It’s 100F these day here in upstate NY, but I’m looking forward to cool crisp mornings with leaves on the ground. I’ll be going apple picking, bake pies and read some poetry, which I always do in fall.
Thanks for your generosity!
Lovely lovely lovely. Please count me in for the drawing!
I am in Napier,New Zealand and I am loving the daffodils!They are like little suns peeking through the teeming rain!
Found you via Etsy forum and i can’t wait to see your products!
I’m in Indonesia. What i love the most about my city is heavy raining in the night. I love rain basically because it turns on my creative mood.
Beautiful Lucy, so lovely to read your blog. The air is crisp with Autumn on its way, I love that at the far end of lake Zurich I can see the Swiss Alps dusted in snow.
I am in Athens Georgia USA and I am loving my air conditioner because it is so hot and humid here! but seriously i love all the green outside. bright green moss, grass, trees, everything, it’s beautiful! I am jealous of you for living in New Zealand, I’ve always wanted to visit there, ive seen such gorgeous pictures of the landscape there!
Welcome back! What a lovely giveaway you’re having. Each piece is beautiful. Here in the countryside of NY I’m enjoying the last days of being able to walk outside in the early morning… barefoot. I’m savoring the explosion of ripe vegetables and fruits. I’m watching the walnut trees lose their leaves.
What a lovely package you’ve put together… I have been enjoying making some fun sewn projects for my little lads that they have used every single minute since they watched me make them!
Wow, I love kimono! I’m in Italy and at the moment there’s not much to love about the weather because it rains. I usually love the weather in September because it’s sunny but not too hot. Now the nicest thing is the grass getting greener.
hello there…we may be related! i came to you thru annekata and am so happy to make your blog acquaintance…love it and hope to see more of your blog….i love the fall which here in virginia (usa) we are just getting the slightest hint of right now…what? you ask…the color…the cool and the pumpkins!
Here in Massachusetts I am looking forward to the cooler fall weather and the leaves changing colors.
I’m in NJ and I’m looking forward to FALL after a very hot and humid summer…..it should get cool and crisp soon. My favorite time of year!
Beautiful treats!
I am in Ohio (USA) and this time of year I’m really enjoying all the back-to-school excitement as the fall ramps up.
Thanks for the chance to win!
–Liza
ejm6x (at) yahoo (dot) com
I’m in Canada and loving back to school.
I’m in northern British Columbia, Canada, and I’m loving the cooler days, and the return of dew. So glad the hot dryness is over! All these items are so gorgeous, thanks so much for the great giveaway.
I’m in South Dakota, USA and autumn is just starting tint the trees with orange and yellow. I can hardly wait to hear the crunching of leaves under my feet.
Hello Lucy,
Thank you for the lovely giveaway. it has a special look and feel to it that somehow changed the temperature in the room here.. I am in Israel and it is the end of summer. I love this time of year – autumn here. The heat of summer is gone and the land is filled with hope, anticipation and potential for the green theater to come. I gave birth almost a year ago, and I think that the smells of the season will alway remind me of rain and new beginnings.
Love your products!!! I can’t believe how long the days are getting here in PA, but it’s still so hot!!!
Utah!!! I am loving watching the season change to fall!
Your kimono prints are lovely. I’m in Minnesota and watching summer ebb away quite rapidly. A shot of spring would be good right about now! =)
I’m in Easton, PA and I love that at this time of year I get to bring out all the autumn decorations. I just love the reds, oranges, browns, and golds!
hello! Really beautiful give away! I’d love to win it
also looking forward to leaves falling!
I’m in Winnipeg,Manitoba also called Winter-peg for our cold-cold-cold winters, and what I’m loving right now is the not so cold, not so hot weather we’re having, fall is my favorite season!
Hello! I am in hurricane-y New Jersey in the US. This might be my favorite time of year so there is much I like about it. But one of my favorites is the way the light looks in the morning. It is so much softer than summer morning light. And combine that light with the brisk air and sound of birds waking up. Perfect! Especially accompanied with a good book and a cup of tea
Hi! I have just discovered your blog and I feel I´m going to like it a lot!
I´m in for now cold and very rainy Argentina but looking forward to spring that is about to arrive and finally and hopefully bring some fine weather…
I just found your blog and am so happy I did. I love kimonos and this prize is so lovely. Thank you for hosting such a generous giveaway. I live in the U.S. (so it’s almost Fall here though still unbearably hot). I love this time of year because I get to buy new office supplies (since there are all of the wonderful back to school sales). There is nothing better than a blank notebook waiting to be filled.
ameliab555[at]gmail[dot]com
I am in Los Angeles. I love your eye, and your blog. I’m looking forward to the girls going back to school next week, so that I can begin working full-time on launching my new website, and vintage kimono purse business!
I’m in beautiful BC. But first of all, your products are SOOOOOOOOOOO unique and beautiful. Stores need more stuff like yours! I am of asian descent so maybe I’m biased, haha.
At this time I love the cool cool weather and autumn tones that are being replicated by fashion. Muted but lovely.
thank you for this giveaway!
Good morning! I’m in sunny Missouri, USA. I love the way the sun filters through the still-green leaves in late summer. I’m sitting on my porch enjoying the cooler weather and drinking my coffee. Autumn is just around the corner! I love your kimono items! My mother has visited Japan several times and we both have a weakness for Japanese art. Thank you for the chance!
I’m enjoying a crisp cool day. I’m looking forward to more eggs from my chickens now that the Summer heat is ending and crisp NYS apples. I’m in rural northern New York, USA
Hi there! I am from the United States and the weather is just cooling down. I LOVE the cooler weather. Ii makes me want to bake a ton of cookies!
faeriesmak at gmail dot com
hello from NYC! I am loving the weather now that the heat wave has ended. Perfectly nice and breezy
I’m from sunny North Carolina, and I’m loving how it’s finally beginning to cool down a bit! Great giveaway!
hi! welcome back!
i live in greece and what i love about this time of year is that feeling of a fresh start. i get to see all my friends again, new professors and lessons at uni, back to the old cozier coffee houses, thicker more layered clothes and scarves! i love scarves!
and to tell te entire truth i also like the smell of rain, it’s different in the first days of september!
great giveaway by the way!
I live in New York State- the leaves are turning orange and red and the air is crisp and cool. it’s the beginning of autumn and I LOVE the change in seasons.
I live in New York City and I’m loving that I get to go back to school soon. My school is like my second home.
I just found your blog and I love it! I also like all this Kimono material, I never heard of it before, it’s beautiful.
I am writing from a small island off the west coast of Ireland called Aughinish and what I enjoy the most right now is picking blackberries along the road…
I love this giveaway! I live in Bellingham, WA which is as far north in the Pacific Northwest in U.S. as you can get before you reach Canada. I love how fall shows us the beautiful leaves in colors of red, yellow, and orange at this time of year.
BTW, I love kimono patterns, I am 3rd generation Japanese American so it may be in my blood, but I think they are just the loveliest prints in the world.
I live in Hodgenville, KY. Birthplace of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. It is a small town with great people. We have finally had a break in the scorching heat and now it is sunny, breezy and beautiful. We have a long weekend for Labor Day and I intend to enjoy it as much as possible.
Hello! I’m from Tallinn, Estonia… and right now I am loving the rainy days we have over here
Hi from Taupo New Zealand!
What I love about Spring is seeing my children smelling the blossom on the plum trees in our orchard!
xxfenella
I’m in Arizona in the United States loving that summer in the desert is almost over!
Yay, I’m really glad you’re back Lucy. Blog block is awful, but definitely not worth losing sleep over. As you can see, your readers haven’t left you. Your give away is lovely and I’d be super happy to go in the draw. Here in Auckland, I love everything about Spring. The light, the smell of freesias, the blossoms on the ancient plum tree in my Mum-in-law’s back garden, and my cat’s new sleek pre-summer coat.
x bronwyn