CONTESTS & GIVEAWAYS

**I've never been all that crafty.  Strangely enough, I tend to supplement book giveaways with things like handmade gift bags and crocheted gnomes.  Go figure.

I am currently running a contest on my blog to win some amigurumi if you donate to a friend's adoption fundraiser. Entries accepted until 8/25/10.

Here is a link to the Crafty Gangsta's website because you need to see his video: http://craftygangsta.com/

Here is a picture of one of the gnome charms I've been known to give away:

(Any gift received by winners may not be as pictured...and may be full of the beans.)

If anyone likes to crochet, the gnomes I make are sort of like:

http://bellasartes.blogspot.com/2007/08/simply-gnome-free-pattern.html

The pattern is way too clever to have been created by me so please abide by the requests of the pattern-maker should you feel inspired to create your own gnome charm. Here is the Wiki page about the Japanese art of amigurumi, or crocheting small, cute stuffed toys (I am not joking), which this gnome is apparently representative of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amigurumi.