Giveaway and Guestpost by Ellie from Bustle & Sew

Today I have a very special treat for you guys.  

Ellie from Bustle & Sew - who lives in England, the tea-drinking country - will do a guestpost today. 

So I do not actually have to write alot. :-) 

But I do want to show you all her tea-related goodness!

Photo from Bustle and Sew

Is this cat teacozy cute or what? I so love this one! 

And you can download a free pdf with a tutorial on how to make it.

Photo from Bustle and Sew

 And if you are into embroidery you can get this free pattern on her blog.

 I am also totally in love with this dormouse teacozy that she knitted. 

She told me that this is from an old Alan Dart knitting pattern. 

Wish I could get my hands on it ... for this I would even learn how to be better at knitting. 

This is TOO CUTE!

Photo from Bustle and Sew

And another adorable tea cozy. 

You can download the free pattern on her blog (just scroll all the way down).

There is loads of more cute stuff on her blog. And let me tell you something else - she also has a newsletter you can sign up for. 

I tend to sign up for quite many newsletters - and usually cancel them again after a while. 

This one is different. It does not feel like a newsletter but rather like a letter from a friend. I am always excited when it reaches me. I love reading it! And of course I also love all the free goodies in there. Yes, as a subscriber you get extra goodies! So if you are into sewing, appliquing, embroidering, crocheting ... then you you will love it!

So have fun with the guestpost and giveaway ... and hop on over to her blog and check it out. You will not regret it!

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Hi everyone … my name’s Ellie from Bustle & Sew.

I’m really excited to be rounding off the Tea Lover’s month here on MuffinsnMore especially as today is Ms Muffin’s birthday! Yes, today she will be enjoying her very own birthday tea, complete with cake, candles, little sandwiches and wobbly jellies. 
 

Then, at any proper birthday celebration, after the tea come the party games. I particularly used to enjoy “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” – maybe a taste of future things to come as now I spend a lot of time pinning tails, and other bits of fabric onto things I’m making.

If anyone here does read my blog (www.bustleandsew.blogspot.com) you’ll know that I live in Devon, England way out in the countryside near the sea in an old farmhouse with my Newfoundland dog Ben. Here in England we’re great tea drinkers of course and Ben and I both agree that there’s nothing better than coming home to a nice cup of tea after a long, and sometimes chilly, walk in the countryside. He enjoys his cuppa weak and milky, whilst I prefer a good strong brew from my favourite tea pot (the one with little rabbits on!)

I know that Ms Muffin has featured some of my tea-related patterns and tutorials. On Bustle & Sew you can find the free downloads and other nice things too.

Now for the party games. This one’s called “Leave a Birthday Comment” and it goes as follows: As it’s Ms Muffin’s birthday please leave a comment below wishing her a happy birthday and telling us all what was the best birthday present you ever received.

Everyone who does this will be entered into a free draw to win a mini Sleepy Cat tea cosy – just the right size to fit over a 2 cup pot – perfect bliss!!

Last day to enter is October, the 9th. The winner will be selected randomly. The giveaway is open worldwide.


Good Luck!

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GIVEAWAY and small guestpost by Tara from SEWTARA

Introducing Tara from SEWTARA! Say "hi" to her and go visit her blog!!! You will not regret it!

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Hi I'm Tara and along with being addicted to tea I seem to have become addicted to creating lately.  I started my blog almost a year ago while I was still on maternity leave as a way to get myself crafting again.  Now it's grown past a hobby into a little business and I love it.  The tricky part is balancing creating, selling, blogging, being a mom and my teaching job!  But since they're all things I love I'm making it work.

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Tara was so kind to offer to give away one of her tea cozies. I am not sure which one ... but believe me all are adorable!!!

Edited: Tara just contacted me and guess what? You get to choose the tea cozy you want!!! How lovely is that? 

Check them out:

Is this cute or what?

And this one is so fun! Just do not show it to your boss! ;-)

And another cutie!

And this one ... GREAT!

I LOVE this one!!!!

Photos from SewTara

But THIS one is my favourite!!! AWESOME!!!

In order to enter the giveaway you can

- just comment on this post and you are in

- go to her shop and tell me in a comment what you like best

- blog about this giveaway or the tea lovers roundup

You can do either one or all to enter.

Leave a comment for each one you do.

Make sure there is a way to contact you either via your blog or email.

The giveaway is open until the 28th of September.

Open worldwide.

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Guestpost by Marysia from BajuBaju and GIVEAWAY!

Hi,

My name is Marysia of Baju Baju. I’m mother to 5 years old girl and 3 years old boy and I’m happily married to their father. The first 25 years of my life I’ve spend in Poland and the other 9 in the Netherlands. Besides being for my family I work as a Study Director at a Contract Research Laboratory. And after being a mother and worker in the daytime, in the evenings I turn to a crafter… I love to sew, play with salt dough, crotchet, knit etc, etc. and I really regret that the day is not made of chewing gum so I could stretch it a bit (or rather a lot). Though I suffer from the carpal tunnel syndrome I can not sit and do not have my hands busy with some work.

 

When Ms Muffin asked me whether I can be a guest blogger in her September project, I immediately became enthusiastic. 

Why?

First, I love September because it is a beautiful month that combines summer warmth with the melancholy of the autumn. It has so fantastic warm light and amazing colours. 

Moreover, I got married in September and it is a month of my hubby birthday. 

Second, I love tea! I drink tea all day long. In my kitchen a big pot is always filled with this beverage. I love to visit tea shops, I admire china bone tea cups, I’m crazy about tea pots. And I think that if you will look at my projects you will believe that I tell the true.

 

My very first work related to tea was this set of coasters. I made for an internet friend. It was actually the first sewing work I’ve done and honestly, I really like it!

I’ve promised myself to make something like that for myself but until now I did not managed ...

Not so long later I sewn kind of tea pot pillow which stays now on the windowsill in my kitchen.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I’m big fan of PatchworkPottery and of her patchwork pottery :-)
  I like it so much that I tried to make something similar myself. First I made this mug:

Not too long after I made a whole tea set.

My children love it. It is of a natural size but totally unbreakable so they can do with it whatever they want.

Some time ago I designed a needlebook in a shape of the tea pot and lots of peoples became very enthusiastic about. Some examples you can see in this set.

I thought that more peoples would like to have such needlebook and I made a tutorial that can be bought on my blog (under pdf tutorials link).

And very recently I made another tutorial, this time for a tea cup pincushion.

If you want to have it you can buy it at my blog, or you can try to win it here as I decide to give away one copy. 

All you have to do is to leave a comment under this post until 

the 20th of September

with a clear statement that you want to have it. 

Ms Muffin will draw the winner and I will mail it to him/her. 
(Please make sure that you leave a way to contact you - either via email or blogger.)

I’ve also made project that tea or tea cup are only part of. One is a tea (or rather cacao) cup on my daughter pyjama bag

And another on an interactive charity quilt I’m making together with other peoples. If you are interested in this project have a look here.

Another more project I really like is a tea pot cosy I made for my friends.

Ok, enough about sewing.

At the beginning I mentioned that I like salt dough so here are my works related to tea. 

I’m pretty sure that I managed to convince you that I love tea; I only hope that I did not bore you too much... 

If you want to see another works of mine you are very welcome to have look at my  

Flickr photostream  

I’m really looking forward to see other posts in the September project!

Greetings from the Netherlands!

Marysia

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My first guest post!

I am SO excited! A while back Aunt Spicy asked me whether I would like to be a guest blogger!

(Btw, she makes the cutest scotty dogs!)

YES! I was - and am still - so thrilled! So today was the big day and I wrote a post with 

a tutorial about how to make a 3-d-bee applique

 and 

a tiny giveaway!

I hope you check my post out!

And leave some comment love! :-)