~ shiny happy winners ~

Do you ever have those days where you wish you could make time stand still?

Today was one of those days, it's been unbearably hot here in Perth and I've been putting off tasks left right and centre.  I just want a catch up day!


Today I was blessed to have visitors, women from my tribe who came and spent the day with me, chatting while the children played, drinking tea and coffee and eating delicious food.  I put tasks off (again...) this time knowing that my energy levels were being replenished by sharing experiences with those around me. A happy day!

And now, a few moments of peace to sit and catch up. Our first blog competition closed yesterday, and I have just spent time putting all the entrants names into a spreadsheet and drawing the winners at Random.org

I entered blog entries first, then website entries chronologically.

The first draw was for the itti bitti limited edition wetbag, and the winning number was 24 - a website entry :D

Congratulations to Erina from New South Wales, I will contact you via the email address used at Karri Tree Lane and you'll be able to choose from any of our instock itti bitti wetbags :D


The next draw was for the limited edition Green Kids wetbag, Very Hungry Caterpillar print.

A blog winner, awesome! All sorts of fair lol.

Comment 15 belongs to Owlish - congratulations!  I will try to contact you through blogger :)


I now need to run and get stuck into those other jobs, this time the hunt clues for my super tricky EXTREME nappy icon hunt. Over the next month Karri Tree Lane is a sponsor of the Cloth Nappy Hunt, raising awareness of Work At Home Mum - or parent (WAHM)  run businesses through an online treasure hunt.  Almost 175 web businesses sponsor, donating prizes and hiding this little icon somewhere on our sites

If you scour the pages of Karri Tree Lane you will come across this icon somewhere, and clicking it will mark it off your hunt list and bump up your icon count.  There is more info available at the diaper decisions website, http://www.diaperdecisions.com/pages/greatnappyhunt.php

 

Best wishes and happy hunting!

Building our Village

The KTL family is lucky enough to have a standing dinner date, every Thursday night, up the road with our dear friends.  I am really loving having community so close by, after years of feeling quite lonely and isolated despite living in the city.

Do you live somewhere with a nurturing Village of like-minded family and friends?

While personal circumstances vary and so many of us experience social isolation, I truly believe that every ounce of effort that we put into building our community is returned tenfold.

As we see with the awesome nation wide (world wide even!) response to disasters like the floods throughout the east of Australia, and support and love sent to those suffering through Cyclone Yasi in the north east of Queensland, physical proximity to our village is not the be all and end all. You will see I am creating links to my 'Virtual Village' on the right hand side of the blog, please feel free to comment on this post with suggestions for other blogs and websites to add (your own pages or those that you follow).