One Year of Blogging GIVEAWAY!

Lovely giveaway 🙂

Elaine's Yarn Addiction

Happy Friday, Readers!

On this date one year ago, I started Hijinks Crochet. Thank you to all my wonderful readers for all the comments and likes. In fact, thank you for just reading, or even just looking at pictures of yarn. 🙂

For a fun way to celebrate, I’ll be hosting a giveaway!

Here is the prize:

The winner will receive the lovely Raj Imports green scarf (100% cotton), and two skeins of a baby alpaca mix yarn. The purple is 60% baby alpaca and 40% cotton; the green is 70% baby alpaca and 30% silk.

Prizes will be mailed out with US Post.

The winner will be chosen using a random number generator based on when your comment was made, where the oldest comment will be #1.

To enter:

You may have up to two entries.

1. Leave a comment and answer the question:
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Craft Haul!

Sorry about the lack of written post recently, I have been pretty busy recently and I had a backlog of videos that I had recorded so they are quick to share but I will get back to doing some written posts asap!

Until then though, here is my recent mini craft haul!

Weekly Post Round-Up #7

He is my weekly post round up for this week…just a short one unfortunately!

 

How To: Macbeth ATC Demo

I made a demo of the ATC that I made for the Shakespeare Series Swap on Swap-bot. This round was Macbeth and you know know that Macbeth is my favourite Shakespeare play so I couldn’t resist!

I hope you like it 🙂

OOTD 12th August 2013

Hi!

I recorded a really quick outfit of the day video yesterday! I hope you like it!

 

 

Weekly Post Round-Up #6

Here is another vlog weekly post round-up…I hope you like it!

Summer Holiday Clothes Haul!

Hello!

I have made my second vlog! Thanks for all of the support and tips you gave me after my first one so I have attempted a second! Let me know what you think 🙂 This one shows my recent clothes shopping for my summer holiday to Florida!

22 Before 22: Recent Reads Round-Up

One of the items on my 22 Before 22 list was to read 20 books of my choice. I’m actually doing better with this one than I thought I would! Because I have to read so many books for university, I wasn’t sure how much time I would have to fit in reading books of my choice but I have been making the most of the time that I have had and I have flown through 7 books already! I have been doing some other reading as well as these books, mainly for my voluntary work with Booktrust, but I am just reviewing the ones that I have chosen. Here are some mini reviews of what I have read so far.

More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

1. More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell.

Weekly Post Round-Up #5

Hello!

Sorry this is coming a little late, I wanted to get it uploaded yesterday but I have decided to do something a little bit different this week and I didn’t have time to get it finished until just now!

I have recorded my very first vlog! It was pretty scary but I wanted to try something new so I’d love to hear your thoughts on it! Fell free to give me some feedback or tips in the comments and if you like the video you can hop over to Youtube and subscribe to shiny new channel! I’m hoping to do about two videos a week so let me know if you’re for it or against it!

Here are the photos of the items that you might not have been able to see in the video very clearly:

22 Before 22: Bake Ten New Recipes

Wow, it feels like a lifetime since I last crossed something off my 22 Before 22 list! I really need to get a wriggle on! I can now cross the ‘bake ten new recipes’ goal off my list though! Unfortunately I haven’t been able to keep up with Stephanie Pomfrett’s baking challenge of baking two recipes a month, but I have managed to bake ten new recipes this year.

Yesterday me and James had a baking session that brought me up to my goal of testing out ten recipes. We baked two new recipes, the first one coming from one of my favourite baking books, Marian Keyes’ Saved by Cake.

 

James picked the ‘Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcakes’ recipe, which was surprisingly quick and easy! It only took a few minutes to mix it all together and put them in the bun cases…my kind of baking! As usual, we weren’t going for points for presentation…