Our spring events in Vermont were sponsored by several friends and featured artists. Each gift was a lovely gesture of support and generosity!
Local potter, Jessica Putnam-Phillips from Battenkill Pottery created a beautiful tea leaf piece for each guest. Perfect for a tea bag or spoon, it is handmade in Vermont in her pottery.
Mary Engelbreit gifted everyone with her new "Vacation Memories" coffee mugs in gift boxes from Cape Shore. Soooooo cute!
Dimensions sent us the new Love Life sampler kits designed by our friend, Pam Garrison!
Katey Deasy and her mom attended our fall getaway last year and she sent us her darling paper ephemera kits. (She also sent the most delicious homemade strawberry jams!)
Our featured guest artist, Rebecca Sower made gorgeous stitch kits for each of her students. Handmade project keepers were all the ooh and aah when she took them out for her class!
These lovelies are included in our giveaway goodie bag. Please leave a comment on this post to be entered in the drawing July 20!
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While we visited Tammy at her farm, her friend Matt shared his handmade rolling pins with us. He is offering them for sale on his facebook page Hiz and Herz.
And of course, Tammy has beautiful fiber farm goods for sale though her etsy shop.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our weekends! Please visit their sites and shops. Not too early to be thinking about the holidays!
{My etsy shop was on vacation for the duration of my move. It's fully stocked again and open for business! Thanks for your patience.}
Still time to sign up for the fall getaway to come in September. The best time of year in Vermont and New England! September 17-20 we will be quilting with Kaari using her fabric line from Moda. When Jenn comes September 24-27, we are painting little wood houses. And each weekend, we are also making shadowboxes from upcycled cigar boxes. Looks like another delightful pair of weekends ahead!
Write to us at fallvermontgetaway(at)gmail.com. I'll send you the scoop! (Details are also in the post just prior to this one.)
And don't forget to enter the drawing!
What a wonderful give a way. Please enter my name.
Posted by: Verna G. | July 09, 2015 at 11:26 AM
Hi Charlotte! Your weekends look so lovely. I'd love to win a goody bag. Such caring friends you have. Thanks. Terry
Posted by: Terry Schwandt | July 09, 2015 at 01:27 PM
I would love to be one of the lucky ones! Thanks for this opportunity!
Posted by: jackie | July 09, 2015 at 01:33 PM
You are making me wish I could make the trip to Vermont. Everything sounds and looks lovely!
Posted by: Dianne | July 09, 2015 at 01:42 PM
What lovely goodies. So sweet to offer them up in a giveaway. Some day I will make it to Vermont! Going to check out all the sites & shops including yours. Hugs.
Posted by: Troy Louise | July 09, 2015 at 02:09 PM
What lovely sponsors you have! x
Posted by: Katy M | July 09, 2015 at 03:37 PM
What a great giveaway! Thank you.
Posted by: Pamela Neal | July 09, 2015 at 04:27 PM
What a great give away! Please include me in the contest. Thank you!
Posted by: Teah Barrow | July 09, 2015 at 05:11 PM
One of these days perhaps I will make it to one of your retreats. it always looks so lovely! Thanks for the giveaway.
Posted by: Margaret | July 09, 2015 at 06:11 PM
this is wonderful. Thanks so much for the chance to win these!
Posted by: margie | July 09, 2015 at 06:37 PM
Oh I so need a getaway! I won't have one, but I really need one! Yours always look amazing and good for the soul.
Posted by: RuthB | July 09, 2015 at 08:19 PM
What an awesome assortment of treats - count me in!
Posted by: LindaSonia | July 09, 2015 at 08:45 PM
I hope to join you in Vermont at one of these delightful weekends.
Posted by: Wendy Chaiken | July 09, 2015 at 09:01 PM
I love it all! Thanks for the opportunity to win! And by the way, that baby boy is gorgeous!! So sweet
Monica
Posted by: monica salter | July 09, 2015 at 09:09 PM
Lovely goodies from your generous sponsors. I'd love to be the reciprient of this giveaway.
Posted by: Alice Fiske | July 09, 2015 at 09:18 PM
I so wanted to attend but of course was unable to this year. I will get there in the future. Would love to receive these loverly things. Thank you all for your generosity!
Posted by: Dogmom | July 09, 2015 at 09:50 PM
Charlotte, your Vermont getaway is the trip of a lifetime. I feel so blessed to have been there and made such wonderful friends. I'm counting the days to come again. Love to you, Meleen, Tammy and the girls & Kana. Till we meet again!
Posted by: Linda Sandlian | July 10, 2015 at 12:18 AM
What beautiful gifts!
Looks like an amazing get away
Posted by: Dd | July 10, 2015 at 08:19 AM
I would love to attend sometime! Such beauty here!
Posted by: Patty | July 10, 2015 at 08:34 AM
Oh my! Wishing I had been there in person of course but winning this might ease the pain a bit!
Posted by: Jen@thecottagenest | July 10, 2015 at 09:10 AM
These artists are so generous with their time and talent.
Posted by: Myra | July 10, 2015 at 10:09 AM
I'm enjoying reading about the events and lusting after everything! Can't wait until I actually can come.
Posted by: Donna Robinson | July 10, 2015 at 01:24 PM
I have been in Vermont in the fall and can only imagine how beautiful it must be as the world awakens from a winter nap. One day I hope to travel across the country and have a play weekend in Vermont. Thanks for always inspiring. Now to go look at some new rolling pins! Gorgeous!
Posted by: Jeannie | July 10, 2015 at 05:34 PM
What beautiful items! Sign me up for the drawing, PLEASE!
Posted by: Tina | July 10, 2015 at 06:32 PM
These are all beautiful items from inspiring people. What a lovely giveaway!
Posted by: Jill | July 10, 2015 at 08:06 PM
What a wonderful giveaway.
Posted by: Carrie | July 11, 2015 at 02:53 AM
You always have such lovely collections of goodies!
Posted by: Nikki | July 11, 2015 at 03:40 PM
Beautiful giveaway gifts! The retreats sound wonderful. Thank you for the opportunity to enter the giveaway. (shirparks@gmail.com)
Posted by: Shirley Elliott | July 11, 2015 at 04:54 PM
Thanks to you and your gracious sponsors for the wonderful giveaways!
Posted by: Susan M | July 12, 2015 at 09:21 AM
Such beautiful handmades-makes me wish I stitched faster than I do. I want to make All the things! Thank you for the lovely giveaway, too!
Posted by: Chrissie | July 12, 2015 at 09:52 AM
I so would love to go to one of the retreats some day :)
crystal
Posted by: Crystal | July 13, 2015 at 07:13 PM
What wonderful friends your sponsors must be to be so generous.Thank you.
Posted by: Ginny Worden | July 13, 2015 at 08:38 PM
Your getaway week-ends sound fabulous. When I finish chemo treatment I would love to be rewarded with one of your week-ends. Would love to be with Rebecca Sower in class sometime. I love taking classes from Kaari. Maybe I can make that one. Thank you so much for your inspiration.
Posted by: Judy Murrah | July 14, 2015 at 11:07 PM
I hope to come to one of your retreats one day as they sound wonderful. I was fortunate to have met Rebecca Sower at the very first CKU in Provo, Utah in 2001. I was in her 'Storytime' class. I also love her book, "Scrapbooking Life's Little Moments" and her blog. All of your artists are so very talented and generous to share with us!
Posted by: Barbara Bennett | July 16, 2015 at 12:41 PM
How generous to offer a lovely gift bag. . .just the possibility of winning is enough to put a smile on my face. Thank You ~
Posted by: kris | July 16, 2015 at 03:35 PM
Goosebumps. What a line up, all favorite makers. Good luck to every one,
Posted by: genie | July 17, 2015 at 12:33 AM
Oh how I wish I could go to one of your Vermont getaways, I bet they are so much fun. This is a great giveaway thanks!
Posted by: Ann Clawson | July 17, 2015 at 08:26 AM
Wow! Thanks for the chance to win this amazing giveaway. What a lovely assortment of goodies.
Posted by: Jennet | July 20, 2015 at 09:35 PM
This looks like it was a good time! I wish I could've went!
Posted by: Kristen Acosta | July 22, 2015 at 12:18 PM
Your get away looks like a fun time, too bad Illinois is so far from Vermont. Please put my name in your drawing. Thanks!
Posted by: Paula Young | July 22, 2015 at 01:25 PM
I'm new to your site, but happy to have found it! The giveaway looks wonderful :)
Posted by: Sharon H. | July 22, 2015 at 02:30 PM
Thank you for the opportunity.
Posted by: Sharon Pryor | July 22, 2015 at 02:34 PM
Awesome wonderful items. Pick me! Pick me! :-)
Posted by: Londa Justus | July 22, 2015 at 02:35 PM
What lovely items! I would so enjoy and treasure these.
Posted by: Patti May | July 22, 2015 at 02:36 PM
oh wow what a great give away.
Posted by: Darla Walker | July 22, 2015 at 02:37 PM
Love M.E. and so much other stuff on here! Just lovely!
Posted by: Stephanie Wills | July 22, 2015 at 02:37 PM
I LOVE ALL OF THE ARTISTS FEATURED!
Would love to be lucky for once & win!
Posted by: Wendy Palmer Vinson | July 22, 2015 at 02:38 PM
I just want to be clear--- if you go to http://housewrenstudio.typepad.com/…/spring-sponsors-and-sh…, you can register to win a swag bag with this mug and SO many other wonderful things in it!
it took me forever to figure this out...please enter me to win...Sarah Smith bittiesarah@comcast.net
Posted by: Sarah Smith | July 22, 2015 at 02:38 PM
Love ME, she is such a fun artist!
Posted by: Allison Alexander | July 22, 2015 at 02:38 PM
I love the swag bag!!! Please enter my name to win!!!
Posted by: Suzi Costanza | July 22, 2015 at 02:42 PM