Bloggy Birthday... WOYWW... & Giveaway...

...YES!!! Today is my 4th Bloggy Birthday and this is my 1,134th post here on Ink On My Fingers. Before I tell you about todays giveaway, I would just like to say a few words about the birth of Ink On My Fingers and what it has come to mean to me. I started this blog because I had a PhotoBucket and was posting tutorials on there ... but kept running out of room for the words (I have always been a bit of a talker lol) So, I thought I would start a blog and see what happened. Now, this may not sound like such a biggy but... four years ago I could only just about get emails, let alone do anything as adventurous as start a blog... but thankfully Mr Blogger is very kind and the step by step thingy was easy enough... and so started this little bit of Cyberspace that I like to call my own.



I never would have thought that I could get so much from blogging... not only have I had a cracking good time, I have also met some of the most amazing peoples... I have had adventures and made good friends. I would like to say a massive thank you to every single person who has ever taken time to leave me a comment... every single one of them is important to me... and like everyone, I do love to get comments (apart from the nasty ones... and you know who you are... so don't bother again!) Such a lot has changed in my life in the past four years... some good, some bad... but the one outlet I have had all the way through is this blog. I have been able to come here and show off the stuff I make... and talk a lot... I have learnt loads from so many talented crafters... I have "met" so many lovely folks who all share the same passion for crafting as me. So... my thank you to all you lovely folks is a series of giveaways... which have been running since Sunday... and culminate in a last giveaway today... in the form of a T'Pouch.



If you have recently started reading my daily waffling, you may not know what a T'Pouch is... well, it is basically a little pouch for a tag to sit in. I love to make tags but was getting bored of just doing a tag... I wanted to do more... so I invented the T'Pouch. If you would like to have a go at making your own, please do drop me an email and I will send you the measurements... they are really simple to make too... well, if I had anything to do with the invention of it, it isn't going to be rocket science lol


So, this T'Pouch today is loaded with ink, stamping and embellies... I won't babble on about how I made it but I will point out that yes, there's sewing on it... I am LOVING my mini sewing machine... very lots! The stamping in all from the collection of the Duke of Distress... apart from the butterfly, which was the very first rubberstamp I ever bought... all those years ago... and it is still a fave.



Anyways... if you have just landed on here and haven't seen the other giveaways, please do have a look HERE for Sunday's, HERE for Monday's and HERE for yesterday's... all the deets are on the posts. To be in with a chance of winning any of these creations all you need to do is leave me a comment... click to follow me if you don't already... and your name will be entered into a draw - the winner of which will be picked randomly and announced next Wednesday, September 14th.



That there is a piccie of all four giveaways together... and this next piccie is of my desk... because after all that waffle about bloggy birthdays and suchlike... today is still Wednesday which means it is time for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday... which is an amazing phenomenon that takes place...erm... every Wednesday (yes, I am Captain Obvious today) Hosted and devised by the one and only Julia Dunnit, it is a grand way of getting to be a stickybeak without actually snooping... cos everyone willingly shows off their desks/floors/walls/piles of stash (mentioning no names... of course... as if I would do that ...snort) If you click HERE you will be whizzed off to Julia's on a magic roundabout that doesn't make you feel icky when you get off it...



Right... that is way too much yakking for one day... tis time for me to go to my bed... I think I deserve a nice long snoozle after all of that! Here's to another four years blogging... and again... THANK YOU all for the lovely comments and stuff... means the world to me... (am off before I start blubbing...........) Thanks for looking... TTFN!

Hels x