Deadline extended!

If you haven't signed up for the give-away of a great lot of stuff AND a set of stamps from Paper Wings Productions, you still have time! I've extended the give-away until Friday, the 20th, at 10 p.m.

Go here for details!

Let's have a give-away!

My friend Carrie recently started up her own stamp company and I love the sets I've already gotten so much I decided I needed to share the love and have a give-away! I'm giving away a bunch of my favorite products from my massive stash AND a set of Paper Wings Productions Stamps!

What's in the basket: (I've linked some of these so that you can see them since mine isn't the greatest picture!)

- 3 Studio G pigment inks
-2 Studio G glitter glues (in white and aqua, my two most favorite)
-Dear Lizzy Memento Charming metal embellishments
-a set of Martha Stewart Alpaha rub-ons
-2 packs of white cards - one square and one giant tag shaped
-Crate Paper's Lemongrass rub-ons
-K and Company's Actopus to Zelephant rub-ons
-American Crafts Details: Frisbee and Honeysuckle
-some multi-colored gems
-some Martha Stewart plaid tape

-a bottle of Ditto's Glimmer Mist in Silver
-some journal tags
-two packs of Dear Lizzy brads

Dear Lizzy Remarks Exquisite Stickers

ALL THAT PLUS! a set of stamps of your choice from Paper Wings Productions! All you have to do to enter to win is go over to the Paper Wings shop and look at their stamps, then comment on this post and tell me which set you'd love to add to your collection.

Drawing open until Wednesday, the 18th at 10pm CST, when I will pick a winner! Remember, all you have to do is comment and feel free to pass it on!

we have a winner!

Congrats Amanda! I'll be sending you all the details here shortly!

Didn't win this time? No worries! I plan on having a give-away once a month for the rest of the year of all sorts of different things! Check back!

it's a give-away!

One of my lucky readers will be the winner of a $35 gift certificate to the CSN Stores! At CSN they have something like 200 different stores and they have everything from cookware to bedding to craft room organizers to swing sets.

Want to win? Just leave me a comment to this post and on Valentine's Day I'll pick a winner!

Particulars:
-must live in the U.S. and Canada
-does not cover shipping but can be used on any item in any of their stores
-comments close at 3 p.m. Monday, 14 February. winner will be chosen that night
-please be sure to include a valid blog link or email address with your commenting post so i can easily contact you if you are the winner
-winner will receive a $35 one time use gift certificate

We have a winner!

Okay, we have winners...since there were only 4 people who left a comment, I decided to go ahead and give all 4 a prize! Everyone will get a wall mail center/sorter! And no, they aren't identical, but are all very lovely!

Ladies, all you need to do is email me your mailing address and I'll get those out to you! (email: fileundermisc (at) gmail (dot) com)

It's give-away time!

Remember the April give-away for National Letter Writing month? I decided to make May's give-away a sort of follow-up...

It's a hanging letter sorter!

It's made from the heavier outdoor weight fabrics in stripes and that lovely leafy print, backed with some bright lime green cotton. It's got two loops at the top you can pin up or run through a small curtain rod. (Or however else you can think to hang it!) Two pockets, both clearly roomy enough to hold all of your mail. Use one for ingoing, one for outgoing...use it for whatever you might need it for.

(It's not very big -- just a little under 12" x 12")

I've got several of these in my office -- one for file folders, one for shipping labels and swaps. They are by far one of my favorite organizational tools.

To enter: just leave a comment and I'll draw randomly like I always do. Comments must be received by Thursday, May 20 at 9 a.m.

We have a winner! Wait. 2 Winners!

All the entries in my favorite vintage basket ready for the draw...


Winner 1! MWQuilt! (Who had one of my favorite comments about the envelope)



Winner 2! Julia Reeb!

I will be sending out an email right now so I can get these packs in the mail. Look for it ladies!

And thank you to everyone who left a comment. It's wonderful to see that other people cherish letters and letter writing just as much as I do.

National Letter Writing month

Did you know that April is National Letter Writing month?

I am a frequent writer of letters. Real letters. On paper, sometimes with goofy little drawings to illustrate whatever I'm talking about or to give a better feel to the people I'm around. (You know, like when I'm sitting in Starbucks working on a letter and there's a couple next to me I'm eavesdropping on. Of course I provide little pictures of them!) I send on a regular basis (read: at least twice a week) to my friend Katie. I also send to my friends Sara and Leah, my cousin Brooke, my Aunt June, and my friend Erin (who lives about 15 miles from here but I don't see her often.)

Only, I just realized that I haven't sent to that last group for over two months, so that's a bad example, probably. I need to get on that!

I digress.

I love a handwritten letter. Or a card. Or a postcard. (My cats send postcards too!) While Katie and I email each other Monday through Friday with long missives about our day/previous day, we still write actual letters. I look forward to those email, but the letters always make me do a little happy dance when I find one in my box.

In honor of National Letter Writing month I'm having a blog give-away. Letter writing is truly near and dear to my heart. Whether I'm writing them myself or reading them in a book like any of the Aunt Dimity series I get a special warm fuzzy feeling. There's something so intimate, so personal, so sweet...so old school...about getting a hand written missive that can't be replicated in any other way.

So, I have two packs of stationary bits from my own collection to give away. Cards, envelopes, papers, and while not pictured, some little bits of things to jazz up your letters.

Want one? Leave me a comment about letters. Do you love them? Do you write them? Do you wish you wrote them? Do you have a favorite book that utilizes the art of letter writing? Or a movie? What's the best letter you've ever received? So on and so forth -- you don't have to answer them all or even pick one. Just tell me why letters are special to you.

Pack one

Pack two

Points of interest:

Letter Writers Alliance

Books about letters

Where I buy a lot of my vintage stationary

Tutorial for how I made the envelope from Vintage Indie

Drawing for the contest will be on Tuesday, April 13th! Leave a comment and pass it on!

Erm...hmm...

I was unable to get the attention of our contest winner, so after much deliberation, we drew for a new one. Winner, that is.

So...


Congrats!

We have a winner!

Congrats Beth! Drop us a line at fileundermisc (at) gmail (dot) com with your address!

there's still time!

Keep it simple

The contents of this box are why I wanted to know organizing tips. What's in here? Stickers and rub-ons. They had been confined to two very messy 12x12 drawers, both labeled accordingly. And both a pain in the neck to use. I hated digging through layers of rub-ons looking for alphabets.


I did a lot of searching for ways to store rub-ons. They stuck to sheet protectors, got lost in their drawer, and envelopes didn't work because I couldn't see them. Finally I just decided to use what I have (for now) and created a set of dividers from simple cardstock that would fit into a plastic shoe-box. You can see there in the very front the lime green sticker that serves for one of the divider tabs.

Better than the drawers? Yes. Can it get better? Probably. It's a start.

Got a organization tip you want to share? Post them here and be part of the chance to win my blog giveaway!

You know you want this!

The Blog Give-Away Bag! I won't give away everything that's in there but I will tell you it's full of fab stuff. Everything from Charm Squares to ribbons to my personal favorite pieces of chipboard. (And a whole lot more!)

Let's see how this works out