New look!

Hello and welcome to the new Mademoiselle Cranky Pants blog!

...Well, not all new, just the banner part ;) hehehehe oh and some of the things on the side bar, too! Do you like our new look?

I wanted it to represent some of the things I enjoy and talk about on the blog: The dinosaur toys are of course representing Amelia :) not that she has anything in common with a wild, extincted animal (lol), but she loves dinosaurs so much and I wanted to have one of her favorite toys here (and one that fitted my screen!).

The books are, well, representing just me, the things I like and I'm interested on (like illustration, children stories, creating a small business, and literature in general).

The bunting well, I just love buntings and paper stuff.

The things that are holding the bunting are a jewelry making accessory called third arms and I used them when I'm soldering my jewelry, so they represent my jewelry.

The minerals might represent my love for nature and also represent a bit of the jewelry thing, I guess.

The camera is because I love photography.

I think just Alex is missing :( but he's the most important thing of all so he'll be represented by my whole blog, because he's the pillar of it all, like the sunshine that lits everything around me :) so please don't feel excluded baby ;)

And speaking of Alex, he was the one to put the new blog look together as I'm such a dope for html :S Thanks cori!

Oh!! and my friend Alty helped me, too, with the fonts and speech bubbles! she did such a wonderful job :) thanks Champs!!!

And that's the inspiration and concept behind my new banner :) I hope you enjoy a bit more to come here and look around! For sure my eyes are super happy with all the changes, not that I did not like my old look but changes are always good. And this is particularly lovely :)

Thanks for visiting and Have a great week!

Iveth

The Gift

Have you seen all those wonderful pictures of beautiful packaging and gift wrapping and all that stuff lately? I've been hunting those images and drooling over them. I just found this new wave of packing hand made goods and gifts so adorable (visit my board "Empacando" on Pinterest to see what i'm talking about). This is my first attempt to beautifully pack something and i think it looks pretty good!

Can you guess what's inside? well, this lovely package is on its way to Ireland to Millie, the winner of my giveaway! So my lovely summer bunting is inside :D

I wish you a nice day!

Giveaway winner!

Good Monday everybody! It's holiday today in Canada (labour day) and probably we are going to spent the day out enjoying the sunny (but chilly) day, but before we are out of here, i want to announce the winner of my Summer Bunting Giveaway!!

I assigned a number from 1 to 13 for every one of your comments and additional numbers from 14 to 24 because most of you got two entries as you too follow The Angry Weather's fan page! The winner number was generated by a random number generator from Random.org:

And the winner of my Summer Bunting is (!!!!):

Yes, you Millie! congratulations!! Thank you so much for your support,

I'll send you a message via Facebook soon! :D

I really, truly wish all of you could have won! i can't thank you enough for your support and for being part of this blog, so i promise you another giveaway soon!

Thank you!

And again congrats to the lucky winner!

GIVEAWAY UPDATE

As i'm not really sure when we are going to take off to Mexico and i had planed the giveaway for when i was supposed to return home, i decided i'm going to make the raffle sooner! (the truth is that i'm so excited about this giveaway i just can't keep waiting to know to whom i'm going to send my bunting!)

The new date is set for September 6th, that's in 4 days, yay!!! Maybe the winner will have this summer bunting on time for the last backyard barbecues or parties :)

If you would like to participate, click on this link so you can learn how! and if you are already participating, thank you!! and good luck ;)

Summer Bunting Giveaway

G I V E A W A Y !

I'm so happy to announce that i'm having my first blog giveaway!

Last week i made three buntings like the one in the photos for the baby shower of my friend Karla, one she got to keep to decorate her baby's room, one Amelia got to keep for her bedroom and the third one, one of my readers is going to receive it in the mail! For this, you have to participate on this giveaway and here is how you can:

1.- Leave a comment on this post and

2.-Go to The Angry Weather's Facebook fanpage and click LIKE!

3.-You can have an extra entry if you also follow my blog ;)

That's it!!! so simple, and on September 22 i'll make the raffle and announce the winner :D here on my blog, on my twitter account, on my Facebook fan page and i'll send a message to the lucky winner through Facebook.

I'll send this prize ANYWHERE in the world so don't be shy and participate!

The bunting measures 2.5 meters long (or 8.20 feet) and has 9 lovely fabric flags in 4 different patterns. Each flag measures 8 inches long. The colour combination is green, red, white and a bit of pink. It would look lovely on a kitchen, over your bed, on a nursery or in the garden.

This color scheme is very summery and i know summer is almost over, but that won't be a problem for those in tropical climates, and for the ones (like me!) living in more cold climates, it'll be a lovely reminder of those beautiful summer afternoons through the whole winter season!

All images are mine.

I hope you are as excited as i am!

Good luck to you all!!
UPDATE: i have moved the date for the raffle to September 6th!!