Showing posts with label Milestones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milestones. Show all posts

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Time to announce the 8 x LUCKY SVJ 100th Post Giveaway WINNERS....!

Hello Everyone....!

I hope this post finds you all well....! THANK YOU all so much for participating in the party Gina & I put on to help celebrate our 100th posts....We had an ABSOLUTE ball....Discovered a HEAP of new blogs to enjoy & had a BLAST visiting with you....!

....hahahahaha....Now....While entries closed at midnight on Tuesday, with 102 individual participants here at SVJ, it took me the better part of Wednesday & today to count 'em all....In the end....There was a massive 915 entries....!!

Finally....When I was SURE you had all been allocated the CORRECT number of entries, they went into this YUMMY galvanised tub.....

....Where Mr SVJ tumbled them over & over....
....Before drawing out these EIGHT lucky winners....!!


11 - Anita from Going A Little Coastal

26 - Lisa from Lisa Roy Hanbags

44 - Kimmy from kimmycats

47 - E.Charlotte from Life Among Mountains

60 - Dogsmum

70 - Spectacular Fairy Wren

86 - Tammy from Junk Wild

94 - Sara Alexander

Now I need ALL of you LOVELY ladies to contact me LICKITY SPLIT at shabbyvintagejunk@hotmail.com with your postal addresses so I can post your parcel out QUICK SMART....!

*** NB: I'm gonna keep you in suspense as to WHAT prize is coming your way....hahahahaha....!! ***

Once again, THANK YOU All so much for joining us....I LOVED sharing this milestone with you & am looking forward to sharing MANY more with you along the way....!!

Cheers for now,
Tamarah  :o)

Monday, December 6, 2010

GIVEAWAY Reminder & Why I LOVE LOVE LOVE Hard Rubbish....!!!

*** The Shabby Vintage Junk / Vintage Junk In My Trunk giveaway ends at midnight tomorrow night, Tuesday 7th December Aussie time (approx. 8am  New York time)....!  So....For your chance to win ONE of EIGHT prizes from me here at SVJ, please see my post from 1st December....!! ***

Hello fellow Junking & Thrifting Friends both near & far.....!!

I hope this note finds you recovered from a WONDERFUL weekend of Treasure Hunting....OR....Relxing & enjoying your Family at this SPECIAL time of year....!

Just popping in to THANK YOU all for your KIND words of congratulations for Gina's & my recent 100th posts....!

I've had fun visiting with everyone, though am disapointed that I was unable to contact a few of you directly. This was due in part to there not being a blog for me to comment on or NO REPLY BLOGGER coming up when I attempted to email....!

So as I've been unable to 'chat' with you directly, I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU for helping us celebrate this milestone to the following:

Anonymous - Kathy (mydogpetey) 
KSeifert
ntsisterz
rodanddawn

.....Now before I bugger off to play with my spreadsheet....hahahahaha....Come on....How ELSE do you think I was going to keep a tally of everyone's entries....(??) I wanted to share a recent Hard Rubbish find with you....To say I'm SMITTEN with this piece is an UNDERSTATEMENT forsure (YES that's ONE word)....It is BEAUTIFUL beyond words & I was so CHUFFED to find it I scurried back to my van GIGGLING like a loon....!

As this is a NEW TO ME piece that I am unfamiliar with, if you have any information that will help me to put a date to it etc I would be MOST appreciative....!!

Celuloid PERFECTION....
BREATHTAKING graphics....!

GENTLE decay.... :o)
PERFECTLY tattered ELEGANCE....!
An ADDITIONAL surprise awaited me when I arrived home to find this drawer & it's hidden TREASURES....!!
German scissors....English threader (?)
Hat pins, fine French crochet hooks as well as a few BAKELITE crochet hooks....WOOHOO....!!
A SWEET PINK packet of pins....!
DELICIOUSLY raised design to THRILL my curious fingers.


And this my Friends....Is why I LOVE HARD RUBBISH....!

Cheers until I draw the EIGHT winning entries,
Tamarah  :o)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

It's 100th Post Celebration time at Shabby Vintage Junk & Vintage Junk In My Trunk....!

Hello Keepers Of The Past near & far it's CELEBRATION time....!

I had NO IDEA when I started blogging back on the 1st January this year that I was to become part of an AMAZING community of supportive creative souls....Or for that fact, that many of you reading of my junking adventures would be from different time zones....I NEVER contemplated reading cheery words from Italy, Finland, England, Scotland, New Zealand, Canada or Wales though I DID have a sneaking suspicion I'd hear from the US....

For a while when I first started it seemed as if I was all alone....I remember calling out to Mr SVJ as he left for work one morning that FIVE people had found me & were reading my blog....When he poked his head back in the bedroom door where I sat in bed with my laptop I had the BIGGEST smile on my face you'd have thought I'd won the lottery....hahahahahaha....Well really I HAD....I had found YOU & you had found ME and this very simple fact STILL makes me SMILE OUT LOUD....!

One of the first people to climb on board the Shabby Vintage Junk train was Gina from Vintage Junk In My Trunk & it is with Gina that I have the HONOUR of sharing my 100th post.

We've been co-ordinating this momentous occasion back & forth for well over a month now & would LOVE if you join in our LINKY PARTY to help celebrate....We are offering some WONDERFUL TREASURES as giveaways & have thought up some FUN ways for you to participate & increase your chances as well as get to 'meet' some incredible blogs that you otherwise may not be aware of....!!

Now for the rules for the Shabby Vintage Junk side of the giveaway....But before I start....If you see anything the least bit HOMERESQUE about my calculations, please let me know so I can fix it....hahahahaha....!

* This giveaway is open to EVERYONE & you don't have to be a 'follower'....!

NB: If you ARE a follower though, please be sure to let me know as you will receive an additional FIVE entries as a THANK YOU....!!

*  Linking to the SVJ LINKY PARTY will give you FIVE entries (however, if you are a follower, this will automatically give you TEN entries)

*  Just leaving a comment will give you TWO entries (however, if you are a follower, link to the SVJ LINKY PARTY & leave a comment this will give you TWELVE entries)

* Now....If you just leave a comment on BOTH blogs this will give you FIVE entries (however, if you are a follower, leave comments on both blogs AND link to the SVJ LINKY PARTY, this will give you a WHOPPING FIFTEEN entries)

*** Entries close on Tuesday 7th December at 11.59pm EST (Australia) or 7.59am Tuesday December 7th (USA / New York) ***

EIGHT LUCKY WINNERS will be drawn by Mr SVJ from hand written paper entries placed in a big old galvinised tub....Appropro dontcha think....hahahahaha....!!

Now one LAST note before I leave you to savour your potential prizes....If you are the LEAST BIT confused by 'the above', don't hesitate to email me at: shabbyvintagejunk@hotmail.com ....!!!

YUMMY metal gas station number 2 
Shabby Vintage Junk designed necklace using vintage elements inc red rosary glass chain 
Australian made Westclox clock 
Flat red metal sprocket tool box 
Childs sweet chippy white bowling pin 
Six of my FAVE mercury glass ornaments 
Two ADORABLE frames with a TO DIE FOR PATINA 
Ten mercury glass icicles

OK....That's it from me....Gina & I are looking forward to sharing this MOMENTOUS occasion with you....!!

Happy 100th to us....!!!!!

Cheers for now,
Tamarah xxx