It's a Harry Potter Day Giveaway!

In celebration of today being a worldwide holiday for everyone for reveling in all things Potter-related ...........or not............ok, maybe this holiday 'thing' is just in my mind. 0_o

Ok, so who is going to see it this weekend? 

I, ummmm, kinda saw it last night..........at the 12:30am showing. I haven't been to bed before 4-4:30am in at least three months now so why not go for it. WHY NOT I SAY!?!?!? It's only fun and games until you're crawling home at 3:30am. Hell, we got there early enough to go see another movie FIRST just to up the ante. (Horrible Bosses? One of the funniest movies I've ever seen in my LIFE. The entire audience was ROLLING around laughing from start to finish. Though it is a 'hard' R so stay away if that kind of thing doesn't appeal to you. Heh.) Gosh, this movie is the best book adaption yet - they really did save the best for last. 

Here is one small clue as to my favorite bits:

 But anyhoozle-doozle, I thought I would have a proper HP giveaway to send things off in style:

Just a boy and his owl (though let us not speak of what happens to the owl), wired up here on a cell phone lariat but you can easily remove that to put this on a chain, etc. if you'd like.

The deets:

1. To enter the giveaway all you have to do is email me. ( I will ship it anywhere in the world so everyone is welcome to enter.)

2. If you are a follower of this blog, let me know and I will enter your name in twice. I do so appreciate my followers and the comments I get here so of course you guys get extra special attention. :)
(If you are not a follower but want to be, just click the 'follow' link on the right side bar. Everybody has a Google account at this point................right?)

3. I will draw the winner next Wednesday, July20th, because it's summer and it will give more people a chance to enter. (I know we're not all on the computer 24/7 once the sun is shining.)

And that's it. Easy-peasy, right? :)
GOOD LUCK!

Some stashing & Potter thoughts.

I wavered so much on getting a skein of Bugga yarn at that Stitches East because it is sooooo hard to get a hold of, and ultimately decided not to get one because, really now, I don't neeeeed anymore sock yarn. 

Well, what do you think popped up this week in the last package of this year's The Loopy Ewe Sock Club?

A skein of Bugga!

And all was right with the world. lol

It's not a color I would have gravitated to on my own but I do like it. (I just never seem to make a grab for many blues when it comes to yarn.........not sure why??)

I also got the two newest Lizzie Kate patterns this week. I love the colors and the fact that they aren't your typical 'holiday' type colors, you know? They're very bright and bordering on tropical and I really do hope to work up at least ONE of these soon. I wasn't planning on working up the scissor fob as an actual fob (I think it would be just darling as a ornament or cube finish) but OMG HOW FREAKING CUTE ARE THESE SCISSORS?? I've never seen these kits in person before so I was not in anyway prepared for how_freaking_small these scissors would be. They are like scissors for fairies! Or garden gnomes! Sooooo cute! I think they would drive me nuts if I tried to use them with my big, beefy, Irish potato-picking, in-no-way-graceful peasant hands but +9823 points for cuteness! lol

I was just organizing the 'stash to see what I had/wanted to do for a couple Xmas stitchies and, wow, I need to cull the stack a little. Stayed tuned for a giveaway of goodies soon!!! lol

Oh yes. We went to go see Harry Potter last night and..............it was really really good but really really unrelentingly dismal. Wow.  0_o The book was pretty intense (I remember having to throw it down here and there and walk away because it was just too much at certain points) so I should have expected that but the movies, by and large, are more about CGI effects than intense emotions so it was surprising to me, I guess. (The book, as always though, is still a hundred times better. Heh.).

This is full of WIN though:

Don't look at me Bill, I'm heeeedeous. lolol

*squeee*

Almost here almost here almost here almost here.........

I probably won't get to see it until next Wednesday though so I have to hold on just..a...little...longer....
This post is mostly an excuse to get OMG EXCITED and use ridiculous post tags. (I do so love ridiculous post tags. It's bordering on a hobby of mine at this point. lol)