we have a winner!

Yaaaaay!

The etsy shop giveaway winner has been selected!

here is the list of people who entered the giveaway

taken with my blackberry because I forgot to charge my camera... bad blogger, no cookie!

And here is what the random number generator had to say about it!

Congratulations, Vikki!  

Email me at julie@julierosesews.com so I know where to send your box of presents.

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down with disease

I'm sick.  

Ugh.  

I've been stuck in bed all day but somehow I'm still exhausted.

Not much else to report from over here...

...Have a cute cat picture, everybody likes those, right?  

Right?

Bucky in lounge-mode.  Awww.

etsy shop giveaway!

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once upon a dream

Ann He takes some of the most beautiful photographs I've ever seen.  She has such a sensitive, feminine aesthetic.  Can you believe she's only sixteen?  I'm so looking forward to seeing more of her work.

care to enter the etsy shop giveaway?

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fill-in-the-blank friday ♥

via the little things we do

1. One of my favorite things to do when I have free time is reading, at the moment.  I was given a fantastic book for Christmas (more about that soon!) and every time I have a second,  read a few more pages.

2.  When I have free time I tend to make big plans for productivity, then end up watching Netflix and cuddling with my cat. Or, if I'm in the city at school, I end up running a million little errands and cleaning my room, and then I'm out of free time.  But at least I get a nice clean room out of it!  I spent some free time cleaning my room before I left for winter break, so when I go back, I'll have everything nice and tidy!

3.  If I had an entire day completely to myself, I would watch some movies and television on Netflix, knit, cuddle with my cat, putter around the internet, and snooooooze.  No matter what I try to do in my free time, I usually end up snoozing.

4. I would prefer to spend my free time (alone or with others) hmmm... generally alone, but I also love spending my free time with my best friend Marissa or my cousin Kaleigh.  We kind of do the same things that I would if I was alone-- making crafts (ok, I make crafts while I watch Marissa play video games), playing around on the interwebz, watching television and movies, and-- you guessed it!-- snoozing. 

5. Most of my free time happens during RA training week and move-in week at the beginning of each semester, and during closing week at the end of the semester.  It's the only time I don't have homework!

6. The best thing about free time is being able to do whatever I feel like doing, whenever I feel like doing it!  

7. The next time I have free time, I should probably do yoga, but that's kind of out of the question at the moment because I don't like leaving my mom by herself downstairs with my grandmother, in case she needs some help or needs me to get something or call someone or whatever.  It wouldn't be a zen experience.  And anyway, I forgot my yoga mat at school. 

like pretty things?  like winning things?  like winning pretty things?

enter the etsy shop giveaway!

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bend...and snap!

Ugh, you guys.

Today has been just ridiculously frustrating.

I couldn't seem to get anything done.

But that's ok... because Legally Blonde is on television, and I'm surrounded by craft supplies.

I'm just going to hole up in my grandmother's upstairs living room and wait for the stars to realign.

nothing like velvet ribbon and vintage flowers to salvage a bad day

want to win some pretty things made with those ribbons and flowers?  
click here to enter my etsy shop giveaway!

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over the river and through the woods

...to grandmother's house we go!

I'm spending a lot of time at my grandmother's house over winter break, because she's having some health issues and she usually lives alone.  

Her house is absolutely adorable.

the kitchen is decorated in red and yellow

coffee for Nanny and my mom, tea for me

my mom surprised me with my very favorite lemon soda for New Year's Eve!

pretty mirrors in the hallway

aren't these cute?  I love the pink ruffly edge.

Nanny's cats

One of my favorite things about being at my grandmother's house is spending time with her cats (I am officially out of the cat-lady closet.  Whatevah.  Love me, love my love of cats.)  Their real names are Bucky (the big guy) and Cocoa (the little guy), but lately we've taken to referring to them as "The Chaplain" and "The Sergeant-At-Arms," respectively.  Which makes it very funny to talk about them-- for instance, "The Sergeant-at-Arms is enjoying some kibbles" or "The Chaplain and the Sergeant-at-Arms have retreated to their love nest."  

Teehee.

hey!  hey!  enter the giveaway for some goodies from my etsy shop!  it only takes a minute.

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new home

Welcome to my new home!

After three years, I've finally taken the big step and created my own site.  Yay!  Now you can follow with Google Friend Connect or subscribe by email over on the left side, or check out older posts and the blogs I read on the right.  I'm still working on fixing some formatting, and I'm sure I'll add some more little features here and there, but I'm too excited to wait any longer to welcome you all to my new little space on the internet.

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To celebrate, let's have a giveaway!  One reader will receive two of my very favorite accessories from my etsy shop:

the Summer Morning Button Bobby Pin Set, and...

the Raspberry Snow-Puff Brooch (shown here on one of my hats), plus a little extra surprise from me!

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Here's what you need to do to enter.

1. Be a public follower of Julie Rose Sews (it's that snazzy 'join this site' button on the left)

2. visit my etsy shop and leave a comment here on the blog with your favorite item.  In the same comment...

3. Tell me your favorite book!

For additional entries, you can:

1. Tweet about the giveaway (just mention @julie_rose_sews so I can see it!)

2. blog about the giveaway and leave me a link to your post.

(make sure to leave another comment for each additional entry)

This giveaway will be open through January 25th, and a winner will be randomly selected on January 26th.  International entries are welcome!

Update:  This giveaway has been extended until February 20th.  Yay!  More time to enter!  The winner will be selected on February 21st.

I hope everyone's staying warm through this chilly weather!

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etsy shop giveaway winner! ♥

Hi lovelies!  We have a winner for the etsy shop giveaway!

And the winner iiiiiiiis.....



Meredith, from yours, mine & ours !

keep an eye on your email, Meredith, because this is coming your way, along with instructions for redeeming it:

yaaaay!  thank you so much to everyone who entered!  there will be more giveaways this summer, too!

♥

 

 

happy sunday things

♥ I get to see my mom today, and I got to talk to my dad last night.  yay!



♥ this lovely photo-- doesn't it look like the prettiest place to curl up with a book?

♥ wearing my sing sweetly dress from anthropologie yesterday

♥ Marissa's 30-day Disney Challenge

♥  knitting with one of the prettiest yarns I've ever seen

♥ you can still enter my etsy shop giveaway until Wednesday night! ♥

have a lovely sunday!

 

exhale

Today was a little rough.  I've never been good with transitions and there have been a lot of them lately.  Then, when I'm sad or upset, I tend to get aggravated with myself because letting myself feel that way seems unproductive, even though I know that it's something that has to happen before I'm able to get past it.  So, since this photo really does sum up how I'm feeling at the moment, I'm going to try to take the offered guidance and be gentle with myself.  Tea and bedtime for me.

Tomorrow will be better.

♥

.....aaaaaaand here's another reminder to enter the etsy shop giveaway!  It's fun and there's a chance (a very good chance, at this point) that you could win some cute handmade lovelies of your choice.

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etsy shop giveaway, yay!

I've been wanting to do a giveaway for a while now, and since it's summer, I've finally had some time to get one together!  Let's say it's in celebration of school ending, and reaching 10,000 blog views a few months ago (thank you, lovelies!) and the beautiful weather, and having had time to make some new things for my etsy shop.  All of those events are very lovely and worth celebrating!

So this giveaway is for a $10 gift certificate to my etsy shop!  To enter, just leave a comment on this post (not the facebook post, the actual wordpress one), with your name and which item is your favorite one in my shop, by Wednesday, June 8th, at 11:30 p.m..   The winner will be chosen by random number generator on Thursday, June 9th. Yay!

Also, I've made a super-secret-discount-code!  If you enter the word 'sweetheart' into the coupon code box while ordering anything from my shop, you'll automatically get 10% off your order.

Yay, my first giveaway!  I'm so excited!

*EDIT*:  I can't reply to the comments to this entry, because it will mess up the numbering system for the giveaway, but thank you all so much for your kind words!  ♥

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