{hands full of happiness}: Giving it all Away!!!

The Darndest Things

C (Explaining to Eli and Si school fire drills): You have to go outside, and you can't talk, because, if you open your mouth, you will get fire in it.

Silas (at the Costco fountain pop machines): I want BEER!!!

Me (while dousing the hot dogs in ketchup): What? Did you say you wanted beer?

Silas: Yes.

Me: It's called ROOT beer, Silas. We don't drink beer. (Loud enough for all to be assured that my 4 year old doesn't drink beer.)

Silas: I call it BEER!

Silas: Mum, you got borned some really awesome kids!

Jared: Silas, come here.
Silas: Me no Silas, me Si-la-guy!

Silas (pointing to bone on the side of his ankle): Mommy, rock. in. my. foot.
Me: It's not a rock, it's a bone.
Silas (incredible distressed): Oh no! Mommy, BONE in my foot!

Silas (when the sun went behind a cloud and the room got darker): Mommy, dark?
Me: Ya, the sun just went behind a cloud.
Silas, very sad: Mommy, me miss da sun.

Silas (At 1:30 in the morning after he has been sleeping terrible due to a stuffed nose): Uh oh
Me: What, is your nose broken?
Silas: Yup, two them broken.

Me (at dinner time): Eli, have you been wearing your t-shirt on backwards all day.
Eli (without skipping a beat): No, but I've been wearing my underpants on backwards all day.

Eli (the first time he sat in his brand new, ridiculously expensive but totally safe car seat): It's like way comfortabler. It's like a pile of clouds I'm sitting on.

Eli: I know why the world turns. It's because the sun is so hot, and the world is a guy, and it doesn't like being so hot, so it turns around all the time to cool off.

Eli: You know that stuff in your eye? It's Jell-o, and it can see stuff. I know, because I touched it.

Eli: There's a skeleton inside my body that talks to me and tells me all the things that are good.

Me: Eli, pull up your underpants, it's not polite to walk around with a bare bum.
Eli: I don't have a bare bum, mum.
Me: What exactly would you call it?
Eli: A person bum.

Eli: Mum, will you button my pants and pull up my...um... bug?

Eli: Silas is such a little "Duke-ter." Me: What's a Duke-ter, Eli. Eli: Someone who eats all the 'Mo' so I can't have any.

Eli: Why is there toilet paper all over the yard. Me: 'Cause dumb teenagers didn't bother to find out if Auntie Phoebe was home or not, and now we have to clean it up. Eli: Grandma's going to be really mad. Let's eat them alive: crush their bones and drink their blood. (I promise, I don't know where he got that one.)

Eli (when I was wearing a dress that kind of makes me look preggers): Mommy, your 'mo' looks ugly when you have sisters in your tummy.

19 April 2010

Giving it all Away!!! - NEW ITEM

Here it is, what you've all been waiting for: the Hands Full of Happiness blog giveaway!!!

There are few addictions that benefit others so much as knitting. Because, let's be honest, there are only so many knit items one woman can wear, so she must give some of the stuff she knits away. Today you get a chance to benefit from my problem.

There is only one requirement to enter my giveaway: you must become a follower of my blog (unless you live in the last century and only have a Hotmail account, and in that case you need to pledge your undying love to me and I will let you enter anyway.) Absolutely anyone may enter, you just have to click that little button to the right that says "FOLLOW." Come on... just click it.

Now that you've got that over with, check out the pictures, pick which one you would love to own should you win this fabulous giveaway, and leave a comment telling me your favourite. It's really that easy!

On April 30th I am going to write all the names of people who have entered on little pieces of paper, crumple them up and throw them in a hat, and pick a winner! I'll contact the winner, if I don't have it you will send me your address, and voila, you will be the new owner of one of my humble little creations!

Little Pumpkin - Organic Cotton - Size 0-12 months

Flapper Hat - 100% Superwash Wool - Size 4-5 years

Hermione Hat - Wool blend - Size Small (Woman's)

King Eli - 100% Organic Cotton (so wonderfully thick and soft!) - Size 5-10 years (it fits me)

Boy's Helmet - 100% Wool - 0-6 months

Vine Lace - !00% Acrylic - Premie or Doll fit

Brother Bear - 100% Cotton - Newborn

Baby Meathead - 100% Cotton - 0-6 months (Imagine this with a big wood button sewed on... so cute!)

Marigold's Butterfly - 100% Cotton - 0-6 months

Flower Scarf - 100% Cotton

Girl's Helmet - 100% Acrylic - 0-6 months

Mini Hermione - 85% Merino, 15% Cashmere - 6-12 Months

Flower Girl - 100% cotton - 0-6 months

Lizzie Lou - 100% Acrylic - 0-6 months

Simple Brown - 100% Organic Cotton - 8 years and up

Stripy Leg Warmers - 100% Superwash Wool - Up to 4T

19 comments:

czApril 19, 2010 at 5:26 PM
I want this one Flapper Hat - 100% Superwash Wool - Size 4-5 years

Jenny I love your blog! You are an inspiration to me!!
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JanApril 19, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Jenny I would love the women's small hermoine hat!
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Erin L.April 19, 2010 at 7:33 PM
I'm all in for King Eli. I've always wanted to learn how to knit. I can crochet...but knitting seems so complicated. I love the leg warmers too. Do I get to put my name in for two of them? Love the blog Jenny. You're a great writer.
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AnonymousApril 19, 2010 at 8:42 PM
please let me withthe flapper hat. it would be so cute on marlie.
oh and if i have another baby girl, i will definatly add more to my wish list...
shannon
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SarahApril 19, 2010 at 8:59 PM
They are all so pretty, I don't know if I could choose just one. I like the little boy helmet, the brown bear, and the pink cables. If I win maybe I can narrow it down!
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akathemomApril 19, 2010 at 9:12 PM
ummmm...pick me! i'll decide later what I want...
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AnonymousApril 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM
Oh my they are all so beautiful! It was a tough call but I just love the Hermoine hat! So cute!! :)
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CherylApril 20, 2010 at 11:23 AM
I love the flapper hat! and the hermoine one of course!
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child of the universeApril 20, 2010 at 2:09 PM
i would like marigold's butterfly and mini meathead. i will have children that will be very cute and those would make them look cuter.
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heidiApril 20, 2010 at 7:19 PM
I LOVE the flower girl hat for my new baby girl! So exciting!
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Dr Josephene JuellApril 21, 2010 at 2:28 PM
I have to enter too! I love the King Eli, but really I think you should just open a little store and sell everything.
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JayneApril 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM
I love Harry Potter and Hermoine is my hero because she is really smart- so i pick the pink Hermoine hat...
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jennApril 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Oh Oh oh ... I REALLY want the new item!!! That would be too cute on Jake! take pity on the poor second baby who doesn't get anything new- but gets parents who finally know what they are doing (in areas outside of knitting) so I guess its a good payoff...but think, now he can be a well adjusted second child with a PUMPKIN HAT!!!
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MD4April 29, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Love them ALLLL!!!!
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ReneeApril 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Ok, I guess I'll enter the giveaway! I like the pumpkin hat and the hermione hat and the legwarmers. I'll have to get to you teach me how to make some of these lovely things!
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Chloe TaylorApril 29, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Jenny, you are amazing. i want the lizzie lou and the leg warmers and anything else you want to make me! love you.
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Jewel GovernApril 30, 2010 at 12:26 PM
They are all wonderful Jenny. You have great talent. With 2 active little ones how do you find the time to do what you do? If I win, I'll let you choose one that will look good on Bella. So glad I saw this on fb. :) Miss you and can't wait to see you.
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AmyApril 30, 2010 at 1:47 PM
They are so gorgeous! I can't believe you're willing to part with one! I think the Kind Eli would be my fav since it would actually fit one of my boys and isn't a girly hat :)
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Cassie Singley GaddApril 30, 2010 at 4:55 PM
These are beautiful! Why weren't you making these when we were roommates? I had no idea you had such a talent. I actually have a special request for an orange jumper/dress that you made in high school. That's what I want to win. But, if I can't have that, I suppose my other favorite is the pumpkin head.
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