So we come to the third and final Stitches and Craft related giveaway. This one is for all the international people.... (as in...NOT in australia)
You know, I have one of those little maps right down at the bottom of my blog and it puts little dots on where people are visiting from. Its quite fascinating. But it can be quite worrying- I've had this conversation with a few friends...you see, two people visit my blog from the middle of the ocean. Yep, two little red dots in the middle of the ocean. I can't help but imagine two lonely castaways on their wooden raft, with their laptops...you know, just catching up on some craft blogs... (edited to add - there is only one dot today - oh dear, I hope the other person didn't get washed overboard)
So if you would like to be entered to win a show-bag of patterns and stuff from me, Just leave a comment - and if you like, tell me where you are from, your town and country or just your country - whatever rocks your life raft!
(The winner of the previous giveaway that had no fancy title was "sewing the seeds of love")
You know, I have one of those little maps right down at the bottom of my blog and it puts little dots on where people are visiting from. Its quite fascinating. But it can be quite worrying- I've had this conversation with a few friends...you see, two people visit my blog from the middle of the ocean. Yep, two little red dots in the middle of the ocean. I can't help but imagine two lonely castaways on their wooden raft, with their laptops...you know, just catching up on some craft blogs... (edited to add - there is only one dot today - oh dear, I hope the other person didn't get washed overboard)
So if you would like to be entered to win a show-bag of patterns and stuff from me, Just leave a comment - and if you like, tell me where you are from, your town and country or just your country - whatever rocks your life raft!(The winner of the previous giveaway that had no fancy title was "sewing the seeds of love")
Not trying to win again, just wanted to say a big thankyou!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhile I live NEAR the ocean, my raft is a 2-story house in a medium-sized beach town, Ventura, California, USA. I would love to win some of your patterns as your craft softies make my youngest DD and me squeal regularly. OMG! Ernst's story almost made us cry!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win too...but I am not as near to an ocean as I am to a river...
ReplyDeleteKatie (kjp37@hotmail.com)
Frederick, MD, USA
I live in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
ReplyDeleteYou really do have some strange dots on your map! Here's a dot from Holland, from a small village called 'Engelen' (which means 'angels'). No sea nearby, but we do have a house below sea level. Does that count? Hopefully we'll never end up as a dot in the sea.....
ReplyDeleteAnywho, I would love to win your patterns!
Hello, I'm in Coventry, UK. Waves across the waves x
ReplyDeleteI live near a river and waterfall. I'm Cameo from Post Falls, Idaho (US). Love stopping by for a helping of humor.
ReplyDeleteI live in Eastern Canada, so from the US, hit I95 and keep driving till it ends.
ReplyDeleteThen turn left. :D
Hello from Gig Harbor, Washington - USA
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean about the lonely sea dots! I'm in (volcanic ash covered) Scotland!
ReplyDeleteMy red dot is located in the Midwest section of the US...Ohio, town-Pickerington...Violet Township to be specific. I don't know what a township is but it sounds nice.
ReplyDeleteLove--Love--Love your blog. Bought the Kinder doll pattern and it came on my birthday:) My girls and I love them:) I am from Pennsylvania. Lots of rivers and small mountains--not too near the ocean. Would so love to go to that craft fair that is happening in your neck of the wood--a little too far though:(
ReplyDeleteOh, yes please! I'm typing here in New York City, NY, USA. Pretty fancy.
ReplyDeleteI particularly love your short stories illustrated by softies. (You could put together a great kids book very easily!)
Hi: It's Brenda from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where its really cold in winter and really hot in summer with a big beautiful blue sky all year. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteOh! Me too! I'm in New Zealand, the land of the chinese gooseberry - oophs I mean kiwi. Did you know they rebranded the chinese gooseberry into a kiwifruit? Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteHello, from the Big Red Barn in Portland, Oregon where we are awash in many blossoms at the moment.
ReplyDeleteOn a separate note (you know beyond my desire to win happy goodies), do you have a gallery for photos of lovely stuffies made from your patterns? 'Cause, I might have a photo to send in... :-)
Seems to me that the one dot is simply on vacation in Hawaii and took one of the outriggers out for a spin. The previous-second dot is already enjoying tropical umbrella drinks back at the hotel.
ReplyDeleteI read you faithfully from Washington State (west coast) in the U.S.
I'm in Canberra so i don't qualify, but i'm sorry Darwin doesn't seem to visit you, my 4 children were born there, bummer!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE that fact your visitors have SUNK New Zealand, hilarious!! Also you're visitors are responsible for that 'no fly zone ash' covering Europe. Happy giveaway, you're the best, love Posie
From Boston, Mass -- love all your creatures and am always impressed with your beautiful pics!
ReplyDeleteI don't live near the ocean, but I do have a ferry boat about 7 miles away. I live near St Louis, Mo USA...
ReplyDeleteLove your blog...
Hello.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your blog from East Lansing, Michigan, USA. I love your message bots, they are the cutest! My daughters would like to see more stories. They loved especially the robot and cat at the bus stop. Thanks for a chance to win something. Take care.
Holy Cow!! I definitely want to win. I've been waiting for you to finish your craft show so that I can buy a pattern or two. Winning would be so much more awesome. I live in Hewitt, Texas, USA. It's pretty much in the middle of the state and takes forever to drive out of the state in any direction.
ReplyDeleteI think that the raft may be off the coast of Hawaii. If I were stranded on a raft, that would be the nicest place to be stranded.
jodie, ric rac is my favoritest blog ever. you make me laugh every time i log on, and for that i thank you, from visalia, ca:)
ReplyDeleteI follow along and admire your work from far away St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. I'd love to win some of your patterns.
ReplyDeleteMy dot is near Seattle, WA, USA. (Tacoma.) I ove your blog, and would love some of your patterns!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm the dot in beautiful Eugene, Oregon. I love your designs... but I really love your personality. You totally crack me up!
ReplyDeleteGreetings from a little town in Massachusetts, USA. I'm across a few oceans from you - depending on which way you paddle - but not actually IN one :)
ReplyDeletelove your blog and patterns - would love to win goodies!
ReplyDeleteOhh, thank you for the chance to enter! I'm from the USA, Philadelphia, Pennyslvania. Living in the city and looking to move to the country =)
ReplyDeleteMy dot is in Bucks County, PA, USA! Your map is quite spotty!
ReplyDeleteHi! I am visiting from Columbia, Maryland, halfway between Baltimore and Washington, DC. Great stories!
ReplyDeleteMy dot is in San Francisco, which will eventually be out in the ocean. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI love your softies! As far as water is concerned...there is a creek and pond behind my house, then the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. I visit from Maryland just outside of Washington, DC.
ReplyDeleteYou're hysterical! Although, I must say, if I were stuck on a raft in the middle of nowhere, it would certainly lift my spirits to be able to check in on YOU everyday! And, as you know, I'm from Indiana - which, come to think of it, IS in the middle of nowhere (sea of corn) and it DOES brighten my spirits to see what you're up to!!!
ReplyDeleteI have ordered patterns from you before, but I am in love with all your creations. You have such a gift! I still want to enter to win...obsessed in Arizona.
ReplyDeleteLand-locked and happy in Denver, Colorado. Love reading your blog.
ReplyDeleteIt's raining like crazy here (suburb of Dallas, TX), but that's nowhere near as nifty as being in the middle of the ocean.
ReplyDeleteOh yes please!!! I am Adriana (justbyliving@gmail.com). I'm from just outside of Boston MA
ReplyDeletehaha - it might be me on my little Island of New Zealand!! Would love to win - living in Whangarei, NZ.
ReplyDeleteI'm in sunny South Carolina!
ReplyDeleteNot sure, but I might be living on one of those dots - I live in Honolulu, Hawaii and your posts always entertain me. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI live in rural Ohio in the US
ReplyDeleteHi
ReplyDeleteFrom Scarborough, Ontario Canada not near an ocean but close to Lake Ontario. Thanks for thinking of us who can't get to your Stitches & Craft show. Please take lots of pictures of your space. Enjoy your blog very much, where's Edna been.
Bev V.
I'm a little dot in Northern Vermont in the good ole US of A.
ReplyDeleteAnd I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the little robots. I really want one for my soon-to-be nephew and my son. ;)
Hi, I am in Boston, Mass in the US. I love your blog!
ReplyDeleteDoes Auckland, NZ count as international (I know there's always talk of us becoming another state of Australia)? So close and yet so far....
ReplyDeleteYay a giveaway for international people! You are so kind. Very exciting indeed. I'm visiting from the City of Sails, Auckland, NZ so not quite a raft in the middle of the ocean but lots of ocean right outside our front door. Love the idea of someone out there with their laptop gently floating on the waves.
ReplyDeleteHello from Cascade, Wisconsin, which is in Sheboygan County. I am close enough to Lake Michigan to experience lake-effect winds, snow, and rain. I love your softies! Have you considered writing a book, or two or three? You have a natural propensity for the imagination and story-telling that any author would envy!
ReplyDeleteHello from Austin Texas! We've got rain today but generally warm weather in the middle of our spring. We actually have the a/c on today. Austin is a great city, you should visit.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win! I live in the Hudson Valley of New York, but I love going to the ocean around the coast of Maine. That's definitely where I'd like to be! Wouldn't mind a visit down under either. :D
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean about the dot in the ocean....and to think of all the places a dot could go...they chose you!!!! And I did too!!
ReplyDeleteI wish I was one of the dots in the ocean, well only if it was warm and I had computer access! Since I'm from the US, and the northeast, (MA to be exact).... I'm from where it's cold and raining, again.
ReplyDeleteWater, water everywhere. Vancouver, Canada from flyandnest.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteDots make me smile. My dot is near the gulf of Mexico, Houston Texas.
ReplyDeleteMy dot is on the pacific coast of Canada in British Columbia
ReplyDeleteI'm visiting from San Mateo, CA, just south of San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm Hannah, from St. Paul, Minnesota (US). I've been avidly reading for months, actually...I just can't figure out the google reader thing. But in any case, I love your work, and am just charmed by the little photo stories you tell! I really liked the bus stop, and Ernst the turtle setting off on his journey...all of it!
ReplyDeleteHey, I think that's my dot out there!! I live near Honolulu Hawaii, and yes, we're right smack in the middle of the pacific ocean. :-)
ReplyDeleteHi! :) My name is Beck and I'm in Melbourne... nice and close! :) I'm pretty new to your blog but I LOVE your creativity and the things you make. I've got to get crafting... as soon as we move house! :) Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteoops... silly me. As I am in Aus this is not valid. :) Hi anyway!
ReplyDeleteMy little dot isn't near anything interesting, but I'd love to win your patterns!
ReplyDeleteIs NZ international enough for you? Auckland to be precise. It's a lovely day here again today, so worth a visit. It's hard to see my dot as there are so many from here. Hope you are having a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteI would love to have some of your show patterns. I live in northern California about 40 minutes from San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteOh, please, please, pick me, pick me!!!
ReplyDeleteI am a tiny dot in Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA.
my dot is just boring and already well represented--CA. (although it's definitely not boring to live here! love it!!) I would love to win, but I kinda hope one of the lonely dots takes it this time!
ReplyDeleteMy dot is not so interesting, just a little tiny town in southern Utah. I sure love your blog, though! Those little robots are just adorable.
ReplyDeleteHi!
ReplyDeleteI am from Jerusalem Israel, and I am an avid follower! love love love your stuff!!!!
Hello back!!!! I am bonkers for your robots, and kept checking to see if you would put the guys in your etsy shop last December. (I'm the one who kept bugging you with emails). So I long to win any of your fabulous items. Thanks. The librarian in me loves how your brain works.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading from the rubber capital of the world. Akron, OH, USA.
ReplyDeleteI am always looking forward to photo stories. my 5 year old and I narrated Ernst a few dozen times.
I am an admirer and blog reader from Gold Beach on the southern Oregon coast...
ReplyDeleteThanks for this opportunity!
Firmly landlocked in the tiny little hamlet of payette, ID. If you look at a map of Idaho there's a little hump halfway down the western side. We're right there. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have to say I adore your robots and elephants. So darling. I sewed a little Jofus for my 8 year old son for Christmas, named Deadly Squeekers. My son likes him but it's not near as cute as Jofus.
Thank you very much for all the crafty/funny/lovely things you do.
ReplyDeleteI am in Portland, Oregon and I would love to have a ric rac pattern.
Hello! I LOVE your blog. The stories you create for the softies are just wonderful! I am reading from Elk Grove, CA, no where near the ocean and a quiet little suburban town. Keep up the crafting! (i showed your blog to my 16 year old sister and she loves you too!
ReplyDeleteMy dot is in Phoenix Arizona.
ReplyDeleteMy dot is on Dunedin, New Zealand. (Quite a long way down on the right. I may be the lowest dot - there's an acheivement!)
ReplyDeleteCan you stand another person gushing about how much they Love Your Blog? No? Too late! This is one of my favourite reads and looks. (Those softies of yours are beyond adorable.)
Are your seafaring guests off the western coast of Africa? I, too, have had someone view my blog from the middle of the ocean! What a mystery!
ReplyDeleteI love the life your little creations have. Makes me want to make little friends of my own!
I'm in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
I would love to tell you about the german town I live and was born in.
ReplyDeleteIt`s called Ludwigsburg and it has the best-preserved baroque palace in Germany. This city is the cradle of Schwabian poety and was the home of the kings of Württemberg.
If you want to do a little look around :
http://www.ludwigsburg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1237547_l2/index.html
This place is not only full with hirstory, we hav a lot of new things going. Accomodating a teachers' training college, the University of applied sciences and the only film academy of the state, Ludwigsburg is also a centre of education.
Greetings from Germany
And again...greetings from Germany! This time from Stuttgart, which is only ten minutes away from Ludwigsburg (where I went to the teacher's training college mentioned in the comment above) :o)
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI'm from Hungary and I would like to win this super giveaway. Thank you for the chance,
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'm from the middle of Germany. Would like to write something really funny, but my English isn't good enough :o)
Greetings,
Mel
Can't decide if I count or not. You choose ;-)
ReplyDeleteI live right next to the sea in Worthing UK...p'raps the red dots in the sea are from teeny tiny islands owned by eccentric sewing-mad ladies???
ReplyDeleteThanks for having a giveaway during your super busy time :-)
xxx
Hello! I am not a little dot from the middle of the ocean I hope but I do live right next to the sea - the North Sea on the east coast of Scotland.....but soon I may look like a little dot in the middle of the ocean as I am heading for a weeks holiday on the Orkney Islands off the north coast....they really are just little dots in the ocean!
ReplyDeleteLove the blog!
Not on a life raft although the school holidays is making wish I was... I'm one of those dots that is drowning New Zealand, Christchurch to be precise :-)
ReplyDeleteI am pretty much in the middle of England so not much chance of falling off...
ReplyDeleteAnd I would love to win - I follow your blog every day and particularly enjoy the picture stories (Ernst nearly broke my heart and I can't wait for the pattern!)
Hi Jodie
ReplyDeleteGreetings from rainy old Glasgow, Scotland. Not the middle of nowhere, but sometimes feels like the back of beyond! Sea... about an hour away by train.
Given the scale of the map, could that be a teeny tiny island community? With a RicRac totem in the centre of the village and great excitement when the village elder relays a communications with the great creator (note small letters)??
Would I like to win patterns and stuff from you? Oh, you do ask some daft questions - who wouldn't!?!?!?!?!
Cheers,
AJ
It's taken me an age to read all the comments but it's fascinating to see where people are. I'm in a small town called Burnley in East Lancashire, (the north west bit of the 'fat' bit of Britain if you're looking at the map) UK.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win xxx
I'm reading from Wellington, New Zealand! Loving this blog!
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog from the very exotic city of Ghent, Belgium! Such a small country that it's completely covered by dots:-)
ReplyDeleteI built a raft of twigs,I put on my eyepatch. I sailed into the Irish sea. I took Mr P's laptop. I sunbathed and blogged. I stole some fish and chips at the quayside. Then I came home. Arrrrgggh me hearties. I am a blog pirate.
ReplyDeleteNow tell me, what is a 'show bag'? Perhaps it is someone a little too old for panstick, kicking their knickers up and doing the can-can. I would quite like to win one. Thankyou very much.
Greetings from the other side of the globe! My dot might appear in the sea as well. I'm currently living in the North of Sweden, Umeå. A small university city, whereas you would mention in Stockholm that you are living here they will look at you as if you said the northpole.
ReplyDeleteI love your patterns and creations by the way!
Hi Jodie
ReplyDeleteI just love reading your blog and seeing all your crafty creations. I live in Rotorua, a smelly town in the middle of the North Island New Zealand. Good luck with the stitches and craft show.
I live on an island in the ocean..but it is a fairly well known island :o) (the UK)
ReplyDeleteLove visiting your blog!
Sorry, that dot is definetely not me (I don't live anywhere near water). I am just one of the millions of dots that are covering Europe (Munich, Germany, to be precise) and I would really like to win that preciouse show bag of yours :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for this giveaway!
I'm from Wellington, New Zealand, which is a pretty crafty city. I'm going to be in Melbourne for the stitches and craft show, and I'm looking forward to stopping by and saying hello!
ReplyDeleteHi Jodie, I am on dry land thank goodness! I am in the high peak, UK, in the middle of lots of beautiful countryside and hills. Fingers and toes crossed xxxxx
ReplyDeleteWell, it's quite small here in Carterton, New Zealand, but pretty sure I'm not in the ocean. Best of luck for the show.
ReplyDeletePS - Bridget from Wellington (just over the hill from me) I'm jealous!! Lucky you!!!!
I live in England, and at least one in four of your posts ends up with my screen covered in spittle from where I giggle a bit too much. I love this blog! Thanks for your crafty inspiration! Anna x
ReplyDeleteSo funny to think of some old sea dog doing some craft blog surfing! Me, I'm terrified of open sea! My dot is Brissie, Queensland. You are a generous soul aren't you :)
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love your tea pot!!!
ReplyDeleteMy sunny island is Southend(its got a beach at least) Essex, UK.
xxx
I visit all the time from Melbourne Beach, Florida. I'm right by the ocean but thankfully not in the ocean! Love your stuff. debbie
ReplyDeleteI live on an island! Although it's a small one, stuck between mainland and larger islands. Looks like I'm the dot farthest to the north, in Tromsoe, Norway. Love your softies :)
ReplyDeleteanother dot from across the ditch who would love to be a winner
ReplyDeleteI live in Sandwich England- it's a town, I am not nestled between two slices of wholemeal, cosying up to some ham- nice thought though!
ReplyDeleteI'm from Howell, MI. I've never commented before, but I LOVE your blog.
ReplyDeleteI'm in northeast Texas, so no oceans here. It is raining today, though, and it's been very humid lately. Does that count for something exciting? :)
ReplyDeleteVancouver, BC. I enjoy reading and seeing your creative spirit come to life through blogging and crafting. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi, Jodie! I live in land-locked Eureka Springs, Arkansas (pronounced Ar-can-saw)so I'm in no danger of shark attack anytime soon, except for our annual trek to Florida to the beach. It'll have to be a small shark, though, because I don't go out very far due to my irrational fears, thank you Jaws and Shark Week on Discovery Channel. lol
ReplyDeleteI would love to win some of your patterns! You make the cutest and coolest dolls and teapots and things and if I don't get my hands on a hedgehog pattern or kit of yours, I think I will just explode! Think of the mess- spare me from all that cleaning, would you, and pick my name to win! Thanks for the chance!
No oceans here, but the Great Lakes are a close neighbour. I live north of Toronto, in Canada--where our 1 day of spring weather, 2 of summer temperatures and now, yep you guessed we've returend to winter--snow and all AAARRRGGGHHH. Talk about a short growing season. Ann
ReplyDeleteI'm a dot in England - currently a quiet island with our no fly zone due to the Icelandic ash!
ReplyDeleteChris x
Hello. I'm from Brazil.
ReplyDeletePaula Louceiro.
Hi I follow your blog and enjoy it. I live right in the centre of England, in a small town called Kenilworth - famous for our beautiful ruined castle and being the original seat of Parliament! As far away from the sea as you can get in England! I'm a quilter (obsessed!)and have made 100/150 quilts over the past 13 years . Lost count of how many.
ReplyDeleteSo, put a red dot on your map for me.
Nothing as exciting a raft for me I'm afraid. I'm in Lancashire in the UK x
ReplyDeleteI love your blog and visit here regularly.
ReplyDeletePia S. from Helsinki Finland
I see you still have someone floating the ocean today. I've been following your blog for a couple of years now and think that perhaps I may have commented once before. I live in Midwest City, in Oklahoma otherwise known as Tornado Alley. Quite a change for this Aussie living overseas from the beautiful SE coast of NSW and gorgeous Hervey Bay in QLD.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving this geography lesson. I'm 45 minutes from Lake Erie, in Northeast Ohio, USA. We sometimes call ourselves the North Coast. LOL
ReplyDeletep.s. my word verification is unthe. I often have to unthe, as in unpick or unknit the errant stitches. :>}
Hi! I am visiting from Saint Paul, MN in the US.
ReplyDeleteI became a fan a couple of years ago, and I have loved everything. The dolls, the teapot, the selvedge dress.
Love it all!
I'm one of the many dots in the UK. I live in a little town called Stalybridge, we're near Manchester. I'm right on the edge of the Peak District, my house is across the road from a field full of cows and open moorland beyond that.
ReplyDeleteI could put a raft on a reservoir, but it'd take me a couple of hours to get it to the seaside.
I am in Newnan, GA USA. Thanks for the chance to play along. Winning would be fab.
ReplyDeleteI am no where near the ocean. I am in Denver, CO, USA which is towards the middle and then a little to the left. Your softies are awesome!
ReplyDeletei would so love love to win your lovely give away..... i am a avid follower and do oh so love the tea set but I'll bet everyone says that!!! but hey can't hurt to hear it again :)
ReplyDeleteI'm in Northern Ireland Derry but I'm actually from Edinburgh.... i was snared by a man!!!!! i do love the life i have here it's so good for my 2 boy's if you have time have a wee nose around my blog I'm very new to the blogging but finding it very addictive good to talk to like minded folk!!!! have a fab week looking forward to your next post as ever!!! x
http://misstracianderson.blogspot.com/
Well helloooo back!
ReplyDeleteI am in Norwich, Norfolk,UK, so one of the dots on the far right of the UK, half an hour from the sea in a little victorian house the size of a raft. I live with my hubbie and two puppies and they love it when I make crafty things as they get to play with the stuffing. (um just the puppies play not my hubbie!)
Love the blog and your crafts inspire me. xx
www.thisguynanlife.co.uk
My little raft is in the Southern US. Tennessee to be specific. It's warm here. We've been having upper 70s and 80s and we're barely in to Spring. It's going to be a hot one!
ReplyDeleteMy dot's about as far from the ocean as one can get here in the US. I do live close to Lake Superior though... :D
ReplyDeleteWould love to win!
Randi- from Wisconsin, USA
My dot would put me right in South Carolina, USA. About 2 hours from the ocean - so no life raft for me!
ReplyDeleteI'm in a small town in NJ, USA. I'm so glad this giveaway covers us international folks--I was so excited about the last one I almost missed the part about it being for Australians! Thanks for thinking of us!
ReplyDeleteMy dot is in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
ReplyDeleteLove your blog!
Wow, this is pretty interesting to read/look at your blog stats. I'm definitely from 2 overrepresented bunches - currently in Boston MA, originally from CA [both in the US], and eventually hoping to move somewhere else ... maybe Austin, TX? Now if I was still in China I could be more interesting for you! Anyways, always love your new inventions and the mini vignettes you create!
ReplyDeleteMy dot is jostling with all the other Uk dots! (no yacht marooned in the doldrums for me) - I'm in Sussex in Southern England to be precise, though I travel the world nearly every day through blog reading.
ReplyDeleteI'm not near an ocean but I am from Minnesota (USA) the land of 10,000 lakes, aka the land of sky blue waters. I live just south of one of those lakes - White Bear Lake.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog, and all your softie creations. Jody, you are an inspiration!
Checking blogs from a life raft does sound rather bleak, but I think I'd prefer it to suffocating under all this other dots!
ReplyDeleteThat's me- second dot from the right, three layers down, most southeastern portion of the US.
It's inspiring to know that even if floating on a life raft--handcrafted, of course, I could still find much inspiration by reading crafty blogs! I'm from the middle of the big ol US in Fort Collins, CO. Thanks for hosting a giveaway for all the rest of us!
ReplyDeleteI'm one of those dots sitting in the Pacific Nortwest. Little Shelton, Washington. No life raft needed. Though often an umbrella & a wind breaker.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Twin Falls, Idaho, USA. no ocean or actually much water in sight.
ReplyDeleteHope it's not a case of those visitors "not waving, but drowning!"
ReplyDeletePlease don't enter me in the giveaway draw - as a member of Senior Management I receive a very generous supply of RicRac goodies already!
Locket xx
I don't think I've added myself to the map, but it could be me. I'm so lost, so often. :) But most of the time, I can be found in southwestern Ohio.
ReplyDeleteI don't comment often, but I check your blog often and just love your softies and hearing their stories.
Hi!!
ReplyDeleteI'm Ashley Ann from Lafayette, CO, USA. :D
Greetings from Ithaca, NY in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of the state and a four hour drive from NYC. You are a daily stop on my blog reading cycle -- I love your work, your sense of humor and the inspiration you provide. I am ready to head for my sewing machine after spending a few minutes with you. Many thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHey, I'm one of the many overlapping dots in London, UK. Enjoying sitting out on my balcony knitting without any planes flying overhead at all, this volcano thing is great! (Except for my sister in law and family being stuck in Dubai and not being able to get home for the the new school term tomorrow that is... oops!)
ReplyDeleteI liked the look of that duck of yours a short while ago, is he going to put in an appearance soon?
I must enter this drawing... as in a separate comment, I'm in Seattle. If we go further, I'm in Loyal Heights, a corner of the larger neighborhood of Ballard, in the city of Seattle. And I have a baby boy rolling around in my belly; I'm sure he's trying to tell me *something*--make me a baby bot NOW! perhaps??
ReplyDeleteOh, please let me enter!! I live in the south of the Netherlands. very close to the river. We love make long bike rides and go over the river with a small pound,... It is always a bit exiting to cross the river on this small pound.... (and I always search for life vests... but never find them)Than we drink tea and eat homemade applepie or a good glass wine in on an old terras and sit under 200 year old trees. Wish I could take you allong with me!
ReplyDeletegroetjes Heleen
Sarah visiting your blog all the way from Kaiserslautern Germany!
ReplyDeleteLove your stuff!
I'm one of those many, many dots in north Europe. To be specific, I'm a dot on Helsinki, Finland.
ReplyDeleteI do hope that your rafting readers are both still fine and floating. :)
I'd love to win, you have such lovely stuff. I'm from a small rural town in Florida, USA called Arcadia, not much here but cows and orange groves.
ReplyDeleteI think all your work is so fantastic! I am from St Neots in England, on the river Ouse.
ReplyDeleteHi - have just found your site. I'm in sleepy Suffolk, England.xx
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love all your patterns. I'm been from Provo, Utah way tooo long. Not that its not a great place, I'm just ready for something different. Maybe someplace in the middle of the ocean.
ReplyDeleteHi! I'm from Wellington, New Zealand and I love visiting your CUTE CUTE CUTE creations and their little stories. Good luck for the show :)
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Innsbruck, Austria! Love your blog!
ReplyDeletei would loooove to win- your patterns are amazing!
ReplyDeletei am from israel, a small contry, alot of politecs around. we have all tipes of wether, beautiful small contry but with many problems...
so its better just to sew!
I'm in Saskatchewan, Canada! I'd love to win a show bag, it'd be cool to get that as my first piece of exciting mail at my new place
ReplyDeleteWell I don't live in the ocean, but right near the Thames Estuary. A lot of people refer to it as the sea, but it's not! I'm in Essex, England so quite a way away!! Would love to win the giveaway x
ReplyDeleteHi Jodie, of course, the two readers on their rafts -poor dears- in the ocean deserve your give-away much more than I do, but I like the things you make so much, I decided to write a comment, anyway. I especially love the robots and the robot-cats you created – and the photo story you told about them. I think it definitely needs be turned into a book. I come from the south-western part of Germany called Baden-Wuerttemberg. I spent most of my live in my hometown, which is called Esslingen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esslingen). It is a nice place to live. But right now I am 250 km to the East in Garching, which is directly north of Munich’s borders in Bavaria. I work in Munich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich) and it is a beautiful city with lovely places surrounding it – but it is expensive and my parents and friends are far away. So I get homesick, now and then. I work in a translation agency, where I was hired as a proof reader, but often do all kinds of other stuff. In my spare time I do some proof-reading for people I know – right now the dissertation of a neighbour about gas turbines – very techie! I just recently started to craft again – nothing impressive, just knitting a few scarves for friends, but it feels good to do it. Otherwise I love to read, go to the cinema, theatre, exhibitions and craft fairs, which I do way too little right now, and television and surfing the net, which I do quite a lot. That is a bit of me and I wish you and your family all the best from my part of the world!
ReplyDeleteMy little dot is in Coos Bay, OR - United States. Though we live right on the ocean, this girl is definitely a landlubber and hasn't been on a boat (or a raft) in years!
ReplyDeleteHm, I never had a mid ocean dot on my blog, but I do get them all over. I'm in Brasil and found your blog... I'm not even sure how anymore, probably through a series of click throughs from other craft blogs. I think it was initially my fascination with your salvage frock that made me stick around, now I just read because you're fun to read (although I admit I am inspired by your projects, I have not attempted any of them, yet).
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand!!!! whoop! smallish town in the south island called Rangiora
ReplyDeleteHi there from Nelson, New Zealand! I love love love your blog - specially the stories you make up, oh yeah and ringing the teens to come to dinner! You always make me smile. Cheers!!!
ReplyDeleteI just love your imagination and the fun stuff you make! How interesting to read about where everybody live.
ReplyDeleteI live in a village by a beautiful fjord at the countryside in Northern Norway. It's next to the Northpole it seams, since it has been snowing again last night!
Both my children and I love the stories you tell, and we are impatient waiting (and hoping) that cute Ernst will turn in to a nice pattern soon!
Hello from Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Love your creations--thank you for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI live in La Crescenta, California. It is a small town at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The very same mountains created by years of earthquakes. Despite living in earthquake country, I love my little town. Today I spent the day in the park with the Girl Scouts raising money for Haiti and Chile. Everyone pitches in and supports the schools and the kids. Love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway and for caring about castaways.
I live in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win, it will be a first for me if I do!!
I love your blog and think you are just so creative, witty and hilarious. Your cat at the tea party was great. I look forward to reading your blog. I am writing from Riverside, Ca USA.
ReplyDeleteI love looking at all the things you create. I'm in Walla Walla, Wa USA
ReplyDeleteJust love all your funny, adorable creations. I am in Grapeland, Texas, USA. Michele
ReplyDeleteHello! I love your blog. I'm in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Smack in the middle of the country. If I could live anywhere it would be Scotland though.
ReplyDeleteGwen
Hello! I love your stories illustrated with the softies. Always make me smile. My dot is in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
ReplyDeleteChecking in from Maryville, TN. Not an ocean to be seen, but plenty of mountains. I would love to win your patterns.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is da bomb!
hi! i'm from memphis, tennessee in the usa... where you can find both elvis's graceland and beale street, home of the blues.
ReplyDeleteI live in beautiful BC in Canada - loving Vancouver!!! What a nice giveaway you are offering, Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi, I live in another universe...does that count? xo
ReplyDeleteI´m a dot from Central America, Guatemala to be exact.
ReplyDeleteLovely giveaway. Thank you.
paumareynoso@yahoo.es
I live in a small town in South Carolina, USA. I love your robots!!
ReplyDeleteAw- I wish I was posting from the middle of the ocean- Denver, Colorado here! I love the mountains, but miss the beach something fierce.
ReplyDeleteBonjour bonjour and こんにちは
ReplyDeleteI am a French girl who immigrated to Oz for love...and I am currently living in Hiroshima, Japan !(for love too, the same guy!) I love your blog and the way you write always makes me laugh! wish I could come to the stitches and craft fair to see your work.
Well - I am another beach side person - in North County San Diego, California, USA. I have enjoyed your blog for a long time (ever since I got a link to the selvedge dress from somewhere). I often wonder if being from Australia is what makes you so funny or if it is crafting!! Or maybe it is all those childrens' books. What ever it is I am one of many who look forward to the latest from Jody.
ReplyDeleteThanks a ton. Sheila
hello from Charlotte, NC
ReplyDeleteAnd another one from the mountains (or at least near them). Fort Collins, CO USA. And I love your animals and creatures. It's fun to visit your blog and see what you are working on.
ReplyDeleteHi I'm in wales, uk. Our country is so small it is a dot lol! I would love to win your patterns, as it was your tutorial that inspired me to make my 1st bag.
ReplyDeleteHello... I'm live in the UK .. close to the sea, 50 miles from London and opposite a flock of very noisy sheep at the moment! Baa!
ReplyDeleteHi, I live on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand and currently have a Discobot keeping me company on top of my printer. He's on the printer, I'm on the chair.
ReplyDeleteHEEELLLLOOOOO from the deep dark jungles of AFRICA, yes its me again!!!! Did you know that I had to ride my pet zebra (after feeding breakfast to my lion) for miles dodging cannibals, killer cobras and humungous elephants in musk, in order to the bongo drum out post to have this beaten to you on the bush telegraph! Please take pity on this poor craft outcast ....
ReplyDeleteWell actually I DO live in South Africa, but in a gorgeous seaside town called Durban and to be honest the closest thing I have to a wild animal pet is my 5 year old son and the family of geckos in my house! oooh wait and the tribe of vervet (we like to say vermin) monkeys that like to raid my kitchen on a weekly basis for fruit, veg and bread!
Hamba Kahle
Cleo
[cleo at techgear dot co dot za]
Oooh, oooh, please put my name in the draw! I'm one of the dots from across the ditch - currently in Wellington, New Zealand :)
ReplyDeleteStuck in Nottingham - dreaming of crafting by the sea (not in it!). Jo
ReplyDeleteI live in Schilde, Belgium, a small town near Antwerp. I love your work so I would be very happy if you enter my name in the draw.
ReplyDeleteGroetjes.
Is Tasmania International???
ReplyDeleteLOL
Hi! I think the farther we live from Australia, the better changes we should get of winnig...of course I live in Portugal, which is almost in your antipodas!
ReplyDeleteSign me in for the draw!
i'm from georgia, down south. i'm currently stuck in tasmania (cantyoutelliloveit?)
ReplyDeletecan i be entered!! i need a robot jodie....(onethat washes up would be nice)
It's been fascinating reading your comments and seeing where everybody comes from! My dot is in Tonbridge, Kent, the Garden of England!
ReplyDeleteHi Jodie,
ReplyDeleteI love your blog, your patterns, you! I can be a dot in the ocean but I don't even see a dot on Newfoundland... Thanks for the laughs.
Susan
I, too, am in Newfoundland and love your blog! ~Janey Joop
ReplyDeletejajaja...love the robots!
ReplyDeleteHello Jodie! Just a friendly shout-out from a small town called Sandy Hook (in Connecticut, USA).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great giveaway!
~Kimmer
(lynchmob4022@sbcglobal.net)
I am one of those dots on Europes mainland. Specifically the Netherlands. I live almost in Belgium and not far from Germany, so my town would have to be the balcony to Europe: Maastricht
ReplyDeletePretty close to the Atlantic ocean, I'm writing from Lisbon, Portugal and I would love to enter your giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ap_lemos at yahoo dot com
I'm a little dot in the middle of the Utah desert. And we could really use some patterns over here :o) (An by "we" I of course mean me.)
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog and absolutely love it. Anxious for you to have items in your etsy shop--as unfortunately, I don't envision a trip out your way any time soon. I'm from Indiana, USA.
ReplyDeleteHello from Juneau, my dot is on the edge of the ocean!
ReplyDeletei love your blog and all your crafts! it is so inspiring. i hail from the US, near Boston.
ReplyDeletecaitlinmuroATyahooDOTcom
LOL I love the visual of those poor ocean castaways keeping up with their favorite blogs. I'm located in West Virginia, USA.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
~Jenny~
You have loads of really great and quick and easy crafts. Thanks for sharing!!!
ReplyDeleteI noticed on your map that there is no dot in South Africa! I am in Johannesburg, SA and I visit fairly your site fairly regularly - enough to get "dotted" I would've thought. Thanks again for sharing.
Staci