Friday, April 2, 2010

Bit of Whimsy Dolls Giveaway!

If your little one loves her dollies as much as mine
this giveaway is just for you!

I'd like to introduce you to
Sarah of

"I've been sewing since I was 5 years old and made a lot of my own clothes from middle school up until my oldest son was born. Once he came into my life, my focus became baby clothes, baby quilts and bibs. When my daughter was born, I wanted to find her the perfect "first doll" before anyone else did! I couldn't find anything I really, really liked so I settled for a pink velour standard issue baby doll.

I continued to sew and even sold a variety of items on eBay for a few years. I started making patterns for a few of my creations, mainly sweet primitive dolls. A friend of mine told me about Etsy and I listed one of my patterns. I sold 4 patterns in 8 months! I had the idea to start making play dolls instead of display raggedy dolls because I could never find the style of pattern I was looking for when I wanted to sew for my kids. I made Millie Monkey, released the pattern and decided to really work on my Etsy shop. A week or so later, I finally made my daughter the doll I wanted to find her when she was born and Doodle Girl was born. Since then, my daughter has been my main inspiration. She tells me what she wants and I do my best to make it!"

How a.d.o.r.a.b.l.e. are these girls!
I love the glasses!

Check out these bunnies.
Perfect for Easter!

I think every little girl needs one of these


seriously. crazy. cute.


And who said boys can't have dolls!
Here is a cute manly version for your little dude.
Check out that eye patch!

Now for the exciting part...
Sarah is generously giving away 3
yes, THREE!
of her adorable patterns (of your choice)!
That means there will be t.h.r.e.e. separate winners!
I know...SO exciting!

I'm not going to lie...
I secretly wanted to keep one of the patterns for myself.
I think I might just have to purchase one to make for Mackenzie.
I know she would LOVE it!
The hard part will be deciding which one.
They are all so cute!

Don't sew?
Sarah also has a ton of cute animals and dolls that she has made for sale.

How can you win?
(Please leave a separate comment for each entry)
1. Visit Bit of Whimsy Dolls shop.
Come back here and tell us what your favorite item is.
2. Buy something from her shop.
3. Blog about this giveaway.
Make sure to let me know the blog address where you linked from in your comment.
4. Become a "follower" of my blog "Lu Bird Baby".
It's easy, just click on the link to the right.
5. Follow Sarah on Twitter.
6. Follow me on Twitter.
5. Leave a comment telling us your favorite Easter tradition.

Giveaway will end at midnight
Thursday, April 8th.
Winner will be announced the following day.

91 comments:

  1. I love the butterbean babies. They are so sweet.

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  2. I love all the patterns but the Butterbean babies are my favorite.

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  3. So Cute! I especially love Beth and Liberty Lion.

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  4. I blogged.

    http://mormishgirl.blogspot.com/2010/04/dollies.html

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  5. My favorite Easter tradition is dinner with the family.

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  6. I love the Beth dollie because my little girl has worn glasses since she was a toddler which makes her feel uncomfortable at times. I think that she would love to have a baby doll that looks like her!

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  7. I blogged about the giveaway on my blog

    http://free-baby-stuff-resources.blogspot.com/2010/04/free-baby-doll-patterns.html

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  8. My favorite Easter tradition is stenciling baby powder pawprints all over my house. My Mom did it for us when we were kids and I've carried it on with mine.

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  9. I love all of Sarah's patterns- but my current favorite that I don't own is the owl.

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  10. Love love the Bailey Bunny, Mae Doll, Jo Doll, and my fav the Beth PDF, becasue my 2 year old wears glasses and this would be a cute doll for her :)

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  11. im following bitofwhimsy on twitter, my username is laumj88

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  12. I'm following LuBirdBaby on twitter, my user name is laumj88

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  13. I've been a follower of your blog for a long time :)

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  14. I love all of them! I just bought Lilly the Lamb last week and made on for my daughter's Easter basket. Great e-pattern! Easy to follow and the lamb turned out too cute. I am drooling over many other patterns though!

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  15. Just blogged about your giveaway!

    http://strawberryln.blogspot.com/2010/04/bit-of-whimsey-giveaway.html

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  16. Now a follower of Sarah on Twitter!

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  17. Now a follower of you on Twitter!

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  18. I always look forward to my mom taking me and my siter shopping to buy our new Easter outfits every year. Now I get to enjoy doing this for my daughter...this year I made her outfit and love that I was able to do this!

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  19. It is just too incredibly hard to decide! I think I love them all! If I had to choose a right now favorite it would be Lenny the Guinea Pig!! But they are really all too cute!

    xo

    kimberly.long at gmail dot com

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  20. Following Lu Bird Baby on twitter @sparkily

    kimberly.long at gmail dot com
    xo

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  21. Following her on twitter! xo

    kimberly.long at gmail dot com

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  22. Easter tradition is a large egg hunt! It's usually a big deal for all the kids in our family!!! xo

    kimberly.long at gmail dot com

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  23. So cute! I love the Millie Monkey pattern!! I'd love to make one for my lil monkey

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  26. I love all of Sarah's dolls & patterns!!! Right now I'm loving the bunny pattern :)

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  27. I recently bought Emily the Pony for my little pumpkin's Easter basket!! It was hard to put her in there...I secretly wanted to keep her all to myself!! tee hee hee

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  28. I've had your blog on my blogroll for some time, but just became an official follower :)

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  29. Just became a follower of Sarah/Bit of Whimsy on twitter.

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  30. Now following you too on twitter :)

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  31. My family's favorite Easter tradition is taking our little ones to have pics with real live bunnies. I love to see how their reaction's change every year. Grace's first year (she was almost 1) she wouldn't touch the bunny at all, her second year she wanted to take off with the bunny, basket and all. This year, she was so sweet and giggly with the bunny! And our little guy - Hudson - he's 9 months and LOVED the bunny...almost too much. He SQUEEZED that little bunny so hard I feared for the bunny's life!

    Happy Easter!

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  32. I love Finnegan Fox - he's so cute!

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  33. Following your blog.
    lisacarmody12 at yahoo dot com

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  34. Following bitofwhimsy on Twitter
    lisacarmody12 at yahoo dot com

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  35. Following LuBirdBaby on Twitter (karma_D)
    lisacarmody12 at yahoo dot com

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  36. Favorite Eater tradition is not mine but an Armenian friends - chitchit eggs, not sure if that's how it's spelled. Basically hard boiled eggs are knocked together by two contestants, whoever breaks their egg loses. Fun!
    lisacarmody12 at yahoo dot com

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  37. My favorite is the Beth doll epattern.

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  38. I have been a fan of Sarah's for quite a while now -- I think have purchased 7 patterns and love them all. I think my new next want-pattern is Katie the Kitten.

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  39. so cutE
    shantelhjones at gmail dot com

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  40. wow. these patterns are sooo cute! i cannot decide between the john and mae doll patterns. either one would be so cute :)

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  41. i have followed your lovely blog for a while ;)

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  42. my favorite easter tradition (starting this year!) is taking my baby girl to see the easter bunny & getting her photo taken, and buying & making pretty things for her hello kitty easter basket!

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  43. &... my favorite item from her shop is the bunny pattern -- I purchased it last summer and made my daughter a few of them before she was born! :) They're all lined up in her crib!

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  45. Favorite Easter tradition: There was a small pond near my granparents' house. We'd go there and our Grandpa would take a nice family pic.

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  46. favorite tradition is letting the kids decorate easter eggs and then of course the hunt

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  47. i love elodie the elephant! my son would LOVE it :)

    ellen
    ellenbjohnson@live.com

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  48. i follow your blog!
    ellen
    ellenbjohnson@live.com

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  49. my favorite easter tradition is dying the eggs with my kids. when we get to the last egg it must go in every color to create what we call the mud egg! what is so fun is that this tradition has been passed down from my mom to my brothers and me and now to my kids and all my nieces and nephews. I love it when a tradition gets passed down!

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  50. i think I am going to go with my son on this one instead of my daughter for a change...so hard crafting and sewing for boys!...I would love to have the John Doll Pattern!!! But heck I could always change my mind in the end! So many cute things to pick from

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  51. I follow your blog via bloglines...does that count?!

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  52. I love them all! So cute, but my daughter has a thing about elephants. She loves them so I would have to pick Elodie the Elephant!
    HeatherMc1(at)msn(dot)com

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  53. I love the Easter Egg Hunt! We always have lots of family and lots of eggs. It's so much fun!

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  54. I adore so many, it was hard to pick. It is between Camryn the Kitten or Roger the Monkey!

    thepricklypinecone(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  55. I follow your blog.

    thepricklypinecone(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  56. An easter tradition we always had that I have continued was making little chocolate nests out of shredded wheat and mini eggs!

    thepricklypinecone(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  57. SOOOO cute!!! I love the dolls.

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  58. It's hard to pick a favorite with Bit of Whimsy since these are already among my favorite patterns! I don't have the Harper Hedgehog pattern yet and my oldest daughter is quite taken with that pattern, so I'd pick that as a current favorite.
    Thanks for the giveaway!
    ~Jenny~

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  59. I just became a follow of your blog!

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  60. I already follow her on Twitter!

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  61. I started following you on Twitter!

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  62. Just became a follower! I LOVE these dolls!

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  63. I just love all the items on the Etsy shaop, but it seems that the Mae doll has stole my heart!

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  64. I love the Mae Doll and know my little girl would love it too!
    jamietruwe at yahoo

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  65. I am a follower of this blog!
    jamietruwe at yahoo

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  66. My favorite Easter tradition is hiding the easter baskets that are full of goodies!
    jamietruwe at yahoo

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  67. Welllll I love all her patterns and have about 8 of them, but I want that sweet Pony soo bad!!!!!!

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  68. So Cute! I especially love Beth and Liberty Lion. Just saying you are very inspiring. Thanks!
    free samples and freebies

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