Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 145

Well, this is a change for me - no snippets card this week! But, I did find time to quickly do a Sunday Snippets post with three 'picks', last week's prize winner, what's on offer this coming week and a new Mr Linky - yay!

We moved into a guest bedroom on Friday, temporarily, with a standard sized double bed instead of the larger size we usually sleep in. It still feels a bit like this - crowded:

On Saturday morning, I woke early and needed to nip to the loo. Still half asleep, swung my legs over the edge of the bed - forgetting it was higher and that I was closer to the edge then usual - and promptly fell out of bed just like in the nursery rhyme. What a way to wake up! No damage done thankfully :) and a source of much amusement to someone else here needless to say.

Weekly 'picks' first - but just three, and the fact that your work might not be included in no way reflects on what you've been creating. As I've been explaining recently, this is really to give myself more breathing space:

 

This card is just so clever, made by Rebecca. See those candles - all 30 of them? Each one was fashioned from a snippet of paper, cut to size and then carefully shaped by being rolled round a BBQ skewer - how cool is that for an idea!

I picked this card because the sentiment made me giggle, it's a beautifully designed card - and, squeal, because of the background that Mary Anne created behind the image panel. How ingenious to use up patterned snippets and Stampin' Up's 'Word Window' punch to create (what to me looks like) a brick wall effect. If you don't have that punch I reckon you could just cut strips and round the ends with a circle punch perhaps?

And my third pick is because I just adore the look on this doggie's face - made by Carol L. I also loved the use of snippets, including that amazing 'typewriter' paper.

We have one new playmate this week:

Laurie came to play for the first time, bringing this great Christmas card. Please come back soon :) 

And the winner of the MFT 'Sequins' die is:

Val (Aquarius)

Congratulations Val, I'm 99%  sure this is your very first Playground win (according to my little notebook) - and you've been playing with us for a while now. If you send me an email with your address (di_wray@hotmail.com), the die will be posted to you ASAP.

I hope you all remembered that in order to be successful in the draw you must say 'Yes please' or something similar so that I know you're not playing just for fun. This week we had over 60 entries (brilliant!) but only 13 folk positively said they would like to win. That might well be the case but this is just to remind you that I now do look for a positive comment to be in the draw - I keep a note of those and when I do the draw using the full number of entries (so, while I allow up to three entries - for now, it still gives you a better chance of winning) I just check to see if the number picked randomly corresponds to someone who has said yes please. I had to introduce this change as peeps were forgetting to say no thanks and doing a redraw is a 'reet pain in the rear end'.

And here's this coming week's prize - which is a chance to win two sets of Joanna Sheen unmounted House Mouse stamps ('Balloon' and 'Special Day'), kindly donated by Ann:

The Snippets Challenge will still run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 11th October and will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

Maximum of three entries and please say 'Yes please' (or similar) in a comment if you wish to play and be a possible winner of the prize. Feel free to say 'No thanks' if you want to :)

Mr Linky is below - please let me know if you have any problems linking, it's easy for me to sort out so don't struggle on alone :)

Have a great week! It promises to be interesting to say the least here.
 
Di (and the usual happy wave from Parsnip of course - the little perisher was sitting on a bedroom unit just beside where  I did the Fosbury Flop out of bed yesterday morning. I swear he chuckled!)
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