ENDED: GIVEAWAY: Are you a boy or a girl?

Yay!!! We have a winner - who has been notified by email!

Congratulations on all of your little ones and THANKS for participating!

I am announcing a little giveaway from my Etsy shop! Yay! Gender announcing parties have been so in this year - I thought I would get in on the fun. (Seriously - is there anything more exciting than finding out if it’s a boy or a girl??)

The winner of my giveaway will receive a set of 10 “A Boy or A Girl” announcements from my shop. I can customize them to show a little blue or pink heart inside of each egg. It is a cute and memorable way to share your big news with friends and family. Please forward the contest to any expectant mommies or mommy blogs you know!

To enter, do any or all of the following:
- Follow @papermichelle on Twitter
- Leave a comment in this blog post
- Include a link to the giveaway on your own blog (let me know you did it!)
- Retweet my tweets about the giveaway, including the tag #papermichellegiveaway
- Add the new design to your “favorites” on Etsy

I will announce a winner on my blog and twitter on Thursday, June 30th.

GOOD/Cole Haan Illustration Submission

I found this great contest through GOOD called Project Doodle: Something Good in the World. The challenge is to do a drawing based on someone or something putting good into the world. I am a sucker for a competition - and it helps that it is being supported by Cole Haan. I immediately thought of a national but locally started non-profit called Growing Power. Their vision is to inspire communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time. They were the PERFECT subject for my illustration.

Here it is - I’m pretty happy with it. Remember people: take care of yourself, your community and your planet.

Froehliche Weihnachten!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! For the first time in my life, Christmas season hasn’t really felt like Christmas to me. I think that the rest of life got so crazy that it all passed me by - but here we are on Christmas Eve!

One holiday inspired thing I did find the time to do was to enter into a gift wrapping competition at the Racine Art Museum - which is one of the largest craft museums in the world. The contest was judged by world renowned children’s book illustrator, Lois Ehlert. Love her! I won the competition - with this simple little number (excuse the less-than-stellar photo:)

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful, amazing holiday with friends and family. Lots of love…

xoxo/Michelle

And the winner is…

Yay! I am so very excited to be the lucky winner of this fun giveaway! All of the items are so adorable and I’m already making plans for them. Please show oh, hello friend and the giveaway contributors some love.

1. blue seraphim: Turquoise Ruffle Post Earrings
2. folk: Storm Clouds on the Horizon - Textile Cuff
3. corrieberrypie: Morning Lace Necklace
4. smilingfrogs: Wintertime Brooch
5. lolabear: ivory crepe - Ruffled Flower Pin
6. tweedylane: Pleated Mini Zip in Sea Glass
7. riley project: ruffle clutch pdf pattern and tutorial (below)

Many thanks to all of you…and of course to oh, hello friend for her delicious blog.

Cheers/Michelle