CALLING ALL UK CRAFT BLOGGERS 2015 edition...WIN £1000

Do you craft? Do you blog? Do you like fabric? Do you want the chance to win £1000????

We know that a lot of you guys do, so today we are here to let you know about our fave craft competition, courtesy of the lovely Hillarys Blinds.

Hillarys approached us to be judges for their Craft Competition for craft bloggers again the second year running and we couldn't be more excited. We will be judging all the entries alongside Dragons and Fairy Dust and the Hillarys design team. This year there is also a public vote!  It is an honour as always to be a part of this creative competition. We saw some amazing entries last year and we can't wait to see what you all come up with this time round. 

There are some lovely fabrics to choose from this year too. Sammy loves Rayna Apple and H's fave is Safi Turquoise. For some ideas check our our post from last year.

Entering is easy:

• Send an email to Chris.Roome@hillarys.co.uk with your Name, Address, Email, Fabric Selection and Website URL by Friday 22 May 2015.

• A 1 metre squared piece of your chosen material will be sent out to you on Monday 25 May 2015 (to give everyone the same amount of crafting time).

• Using the fabric and any other required materials that you have, put your creative talents to the test by making a craft design. This could be a soft furnishing, item of clothing, child’s toy… or something else entirely! The only limit is your imagination.

• Publish a blog post describing how you made your entry and featuring photographs of the finished article, which mentions this competition.

• Submit a link to your entry via an email sent to Chris.Roome@hillarys.co.uk.

• Hillarys will add a photograph of your entry to our Pinterest board for the world to see.

• Once the closing date is reached, a shortlist of 10 will be created. Hillarys will post the shortlist on their website, where visitors will be able to like, pin, share and tweet the entries they like the most.

• The judging panel will consider the 10 submissions and the winner will be contacted by email.

• See the full terms and conditions here.

For more info head to Hillarys website

As an added extra we would love to see all the entries that have come via our blog.  If you post about it on Instagram or twitter use the #livelovemake so we can take a look at what you have made. 

The closing date for entries is 11.59pm on Friday 19 June 2015, (but don't forget to order your fabric by Friday 22 May) so get crafting and creating soon and Good Luck!

Sammy and H 

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Blog Birthday Giveaway (CLOSED)

All these photographs were taken for us by the Lovely Carly Wurly Photograms

It's Official! today our little blog turns Two.

We want to say a massive Thank You to everyone who reads the blog and has supported us over the past two years, it has been an amazing learning experience for both of us and we can't wait to show you what we have planned next.

It's not a birthday without cake and so two of our very good friends Kelly and Katie who run a little cake business called Cupcakkes,  made us some gorgeous Live it. Love it. Make it. cakes especially for our birthday, aren't they cute, and, oh my, were they Yummy!

Along with Birthday's, come presents and luckily for you guys the presents are for you and not for us.  We have decided on a BIG giveaway for 2 lucky readers, yes that's right, there are 2 chances of winning some great goodies.  We have a box full of goodies each to compliment our personalities and so you have the chance to win whichever box you fancy the most.

Sammy trying to put on a brave face as H told her that she was going to have to give 

her box of goodies away!

True to our style of an all or nothing approach, we have a bumper crop of items in the boxes for you to win.

Sammy's Purple box contains: A shopper bag Kit, M&S milk chocolate Pretzels, a note book and two pens, Sewing themed covered buttons, a Candy Kitten's Lollipop, A bag of sequins, beads and studs, a handmade bracelet, some beading cord, 2 reels of washi tape, Essie Nail polish in 'Cute as a button', a mini pin cushion, a mini reel of divine twine.

H's Blue box contains: A shopper bag Kit, M&S white chocolate coated strawberries, a note book and two pens, liberty print covered buttons, a Candy Kitten's Lollipop, A bag of sequins, beads and studs, handmade earnings, some beading cord, 2 reels of washi tape, Essie Nail polish in 'Turquoise and Curacos', silicone cupcake cases, a mini reel of divine twine.

For your chance to win one of these boxes, all you have to do is comment on this post below giving which of the two boxes you would like to win and if you want, give us a why.

The Giveaway is open until Midnight (UK BST) on Wednesday 26th June and the winners will be contacted shortly after this.

( Our Giveaway is now Closed. Thanks to everyone who entered and for all your birthday wishes)

That's it, it is as simple as that.  Remember all you have to do is comment on this post on the blog - not on facebook or twitter I am afraid. (as these won't be counted)  But of course you can spread the word on Facebook and Twitter - if you don't mind that someone else might win of course.

We can't wait to see who wins and who goes for what!  eeek, exciting.

Speak soon,

H & Sammy

Just some things to note:

Your name will only be counted once, but please do feel free to comment as much as you like.

You don't need a gmail account or anything, just go to the drop down box below the comment section and you can post as your name or anonymous (just remember to put your details in the comment box).

Only replies on the blog to this post will count.

The winners names will be chosen at random.

Box will be posted to the recipient after the closing date.

The competition is open to everyone, in the UK and Worldwide! yey.

(CLOSED)