Do you remember the advert - Daddy or Chips?

When I have a dilemma I repeat this over and over again hoping I might find the solution in those few words Daddy or Chips, Daddy or Chips.  Your Friday FREEBIE this week could cause you a bit of a dilemma - Bev's bag or Bling Eyelash?

I can hear you all now "Bev's Bag or Bling Eyelash, Bev's Bag or Bling Eyelash"

When you have made up your mind then all you have to do is leave us a comment with your FINAL decision!  We will pick TWO, yes TWO Friday FREEBIE winners on Monday from our "Bingo" bag, assuming it is still in one piece after Sam ran over it in his car!

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We are holding a Spring is here Competition - something we have never done before.  Competition time! It is all about Spring, anyone can enter from children to grans, everyone is welcome. All you have to do is make a card or project using ribbon for Spring, it does not have to be our ribbon (although it would be extra nice if it was!).  Take a photo of the project  and email the picture to us at craftyribbons@gmail.com  , please mark your email SPRING Competition.  If you are not able to photograph the card then pop it into the post to us at Crafty Ribbons, 3 Beechwood, Clump Farm, Tin Pot Lane, Blandford, Dorset DT11 7TD and we will take the pic for you.

Closing date is 31st March and Rachie will pick the winner on the 1st April (it's her Birthday but no bribing her with chocs!!!!) Yes there is a prize for all your effort.  The winner will receive 1mtr of all the 196 colours in the 3mm satin range WOW! and they can pick a WANT IT ALL Collection of their choice.

To get you in the Spring mood here are Wilma's goodies from our Ribbon Challenge #13 "Easter Treats"

We all need an Easter basket, whether for Easter eggs or Spring Flowers,  Wilma has made some ribbon flowers for her basket - did the needle and thread come out Wilma?

If you do not want your Easter Eggs to get squashed you can always make a box for them.

oooh yummmie!

Wow! Who would not be impressed to receive this card.

The detail is amazing.

How perfect is this card for Easter - it says it all.

It appears that everyone liked this "Sydney" ribbon, slightly different to normal ribbon as it is not woven but made from compressed fibres.

Wonderful goodies Wilma - thank you.  I have lots more Challenge goodies to show you, I will bring a different selection to you everyday next week, just to ensure that your Easter Creative juices keep on flowing!

Have a fabulous weekend, and get those emails a flowing...

Ali and Tony are not back from their trip to Glasgow, and what a fantastic show they had.  We are dreading seeing the state of the ribbon cabinets, Ali said they will need a lot of restocking.  Maybe I could throw a sickie tomorrow to get out of it, but then maybe not, Ali has new supplies of Mrs Tillys Scottish Fudge and a big bag of Mars Bar cakes for us.  Ok I am raring to go tomorrow Ali!

With Ali away who could take the photo of this weeks Friday FREEBIE winner?

How about our young up and coming photographer Sydney!  I would like to point out that this photo took an awful lot of effort to achieve, Sam didn't want to be in the car, he has been driving us mad all week about going back in the lorry. What have you started Ali.

This weeks winner of the Friday FREEBIE is......

No. 8 - Kathleen Mioulet

Well done Kathleen, please email craftyribbons@gmail.com and tell us what colours you are missing from your 3mm satin stash and we will put a collection together for you.  No need for an address as I am the one that processes the orders through the system, your name pops up quite often!  Hows Brittany, never been to Morbihan but Ali tellls me it is beautiful and I would love the coast with it's bays and islands.

Many thanks to everyone who took the time to leave comments, we loved your ditty Karen J.

Safe journey home Ali, see you tomorrow with those Mars Bar cakes!!!

Rachie x

Where has this week gone?  How can it be Friday again!

What type of ribbon do you like working with?

Do you like the crispness that is created using grosgrain ribbon....

...or the softness of Sheer Ribbon...

....or maybe the old favourite of Satin Ribbon.

Tell us what you like/love working with and we will make a Friday FREEBIE exclusively for you.

We will pick the Friday FREEBIE winner from our "Bingo" bag on Monday.

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Off to the show.

Sydney desperately wanted to take the photo of last weeks Friday FREEBIE winners, but I wouldn't let her use my big boy Canon! So I promised that she could do it this week, hoping that she would forget, 7 days in a 4yr olds life is a looooong time.  But no, she came running in from school clutching mummy's camera.

So the winners choosen by Bev, Sam, Mollie and myself are.....

....Friday FREEBIE winners

7 - Jennie

17 - Pam

31 - Trish

Photograph by Sydney Thay aged 4yrs

Well done girls you each have a slice of Cherry Pie coming your way, all we need are addresses please to craftyribbons@gmail.com

Thanks to everyone else who left mega wonderful comments, we had great fun reading them.

Tony and I set off on the road again tomorrow on our trip up to Scotland for the Hobbycrafts show at the SECC in Glasgow. So it has been all go today getting everything packed for the trip, we started off first thing starting up our lorry and I had a little helper.

Could I get him out of the cab, a big fat NO. He thought it was fantastic and wanted to press all the buttons, much to Tony's horror!!  But as soon as we dropped the tail lift, you could see the dilemma written all over his face, cab and streering wheel, or riding the tail lift.  Poor thing.  Any way the tail lift won!

With the stand all re-stocked and ready to be loaded, my little helper was there again. But could we get him out, another big fat NO.

All we got were big smiles.

Finally everything is packed, excluding Sam and we are ready to set off tomorrow.  What's the weather like on the way to Glasgow - will I have to take the Snow Chains!

Rather late then never this weeks Friday FREEBIE - we do have a really really good excuse...

We had a huge delivery of ribbons first thing this morning and we all dived in, I am surprised you did not hear all the ooooh's and aaaah's, where ever you are.  Bev's pockets were bulging!!!  She has started her own ribbon collection at home and was going crazy.

I have just finished putting Cherry Pie onto the website so it is still warm!  Bet you can guess what this weeks Friday FREEBIE is... 

....YES a slice of Cherry Pie, make that 3 slices!!  They are sooo delicious you will have to have them.

For a chance to win one of the 3 Cherry Pie prizes all you have to do is leave a comment, and a WANT IT ALL Cherry Pie could be yours.  We will pick the winners on Monday from our "Bingo" bag.

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Not sure what you can do with ribbons printed with cherries, then click back later to see all the wonderful creations from our ribbon Challenge 12 - they are amazing and will have your taste buds bursting.

Wow!  We had lots of comments for the Friday FREEBIE, thank you all so much.  It was ALL HANDS picking the numbers from the "Bingo" bag, everyone wanted to be in the photo!! I am not very good at action shots, Sam wanted to get to the numbers, we allowed him to pick one from the "Bingo" bag but he refused to hold it up for the camera, and kept running off!  Sydney was walking towards me and would not stay still, look how good her arm is without the plaster.  Bev has been told that it may take up to a year to get her to straighten it fully, so we have all become SUPER HEROES and put our arms out in front of us like Superman (I am really glad we do not have a warehouse webcam on after school, you would get us all carted off by men in white coats!).  Anyway it is working and Syd is begining to straighten her arm without knowing. 

The winners of this weeks Friday FREEBIE are...

First two numbers picked for the Woodland WANT IT ALL prizes

11 - Pam 

27  -Fiona

Second two numbers were for Bev's Bag prize

22 - Poppy 

49 - Emma

Please can the lucky girls send their addresses to us at craftyribbons@gmail.com so we can send the prizes. Thank you all for such wonderful comments, they are great fun, this week I managed to read them as they arrived, rather then having to wait until I got back to the hotel room!

If you missed out on the Friday FREEBIE prizes this time, do not worry there will be another this week OR why not join in with the Challenge over at Sunday Sketch & Stamp.

You could win 20mtrs of swiss Dot Grosgrain ribbon, go on have a try, don't forget that we are also sponsors at CraftyCatz this week as well

It has been a while since we added NEW bargain rolls to the site, but we have managed to put a NEW shopping Trolley of 10 different rolls on today.

Still the same bargain price of 10p per mtr, have a look at them HERE.

Best wishes to Margaret, she has just had an operation. Get well soon.

I'm back! Oh and it is so good to be home again, I had a delightful welcome yesterday from Sam.  He came running up to me shouting "Ali, Ali, Ali" and gave me a big sloppy, sticky kiss!!! Anyone would think he had missed me, made me feel really happy.

There was so much to do yesterday catching up with paperwork (I hate paperwork) and sorting things out that I never even had time to unpack my ribbon deliveries, BUT I will do it today.  I had everything planned last night for todays's Friday FREEBIE, then I arrived in this morning to this......

Bev's NEW Ribbon Bag - Chocolate and Pink, Oh what should I do...... I am feeling so happy to be back I will do both.... so here goes...

This weeks Friday FREEBIE is....

....TWO of  the NEW Woodland Collection WANT IT ALL's and TWO of Bev's NEW Ribbon Bag.  So we have 4 prizes up for grabs this week, what do you do for a chance to win? Simple, just leave a comment. First two numbers out of the Bingo Bag will win the woodland, the second two will win the Bevs Bags.  We will pick the winners on Monday.

If your comment is being blocked  by our spam filters please email the comment to us here craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will add it for you.  Your email address will then be verified and you will be able to leave further comments without any hassle. 

You also have another way of wining our ribbons this week, you can enter the Charming Bear challenge over at Crafty Catz.

Make a card or project with a cute bear and add a charm and you can enter.  Talking about challenges I have lots of parcels to open for "Cherry Pie" - thank you. I will have fun photographing them and putting them on sometime next week.

Have a fantastic weekend, I am planning on going to the beach, I need a good walk!

Our Tour de France is almost over. The stand was packed up for the last time last night in the most horrendous conditions you could imagine. The area that surrounds the hall is cobbled - Parisian style. Looks absolutely amazing BUT it was -6 and had been snowing, the cobbles were totally frozen over and it was sheet ice. Breakdown is a manic time anyway, and the ice made it almost impossible. Tony and I just slowed down and took our time, waiting until the mayhem had eased.

We arrived in Brittany in the early hours all safe and sound, although rather tired!

Less of my waffle, you want to know who is going to be going Dotty from this weeks Friday FREEBIE.....

......Friday FREEBIE winner is

No 9 - Lydia

Well done Lydia you have loads of dots coming your way.  All you have to do to claim the prize is to email your address to craftyribbons@gmail.com  Sorry Lydia, the strawberries are not part of the prize, Tony went shopping this morning and came home with this big box, they look amazing and I can not wait to enjoy them later!!!!

Huge thanks to everyone that left such wonderful comments, it was great reading them and such fun. I will be back in the office for this weeks Friday FREEBIE and I know we have had several NEW ribbons turn up, so maybe I will make the FREEBIE extra special!!! 

Carmen - you asked if we attend the Ally Pally Show, we do but only the Knitting and Stitching Show held in October.  Below is a list of all the shows we are attending this Spring. 

MARCH

4 - 7 Hobbycrafts - Glasgow, S.E.C.C.

18 - 21 Stitch & Craft 2010 - London, Olympia

25 - 28 Hobbycrafts - Birmingham, N.E.C.

APRIL

9 - 11 Version Scrap - Paris, Parc Floral

MAY

13 - 16 Quilts UK - Malvern, Three Counties Showground

Before you all shout at me, YES there are several shows missing from our previous Spring Schedule, we are so busy in the warehouse that we have once again cut down on our show exposure - sorry. Please forgive us if we are no longer coming to a show near you, we would suggest that you join our website mailing list HERE, so that you do not miss out on the regional offers we have planned.

Ummmmm.... those strawberries are a calling me......

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM

It's our little Sams second Birthday today and I am missing it - boo hoo.  Have a great day and enjoy the ball pool, I love those!

So many of you last week voted for Swiss Dots as your favourite ribbon collection so this week your dream could come true.....

..... a collection of 20mtrs of different colours of Swiss Dots - you can all go dotty now!!!

All you have to do is leave a comment and let us know what what you would do with all those dots.  We will pick the winner on Monday as usual from our "Bingo" Bag.

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I have taken lots of photo's from the show and hope to share them with you.  Have a great weekend - have you got snow again?  We have in Paris and it is freezing -7!!!!!

Hi everyone, I managed to get online but it is not the speed of light!!!!

When I said in an early post that I packed everything for this trip, I truly did - the famous Crafty Ribbons "Bingo" bag came too!  Who could I get to pick this weeks winner for our Friday FREEBIE, have you met Ettley? He is my teddy bear and comes everywhere with us (much to the disgust of Tony). Ettley has done the honours this week and he has picked........

.....our Friday FREEBIE winner is

16 - Sharon Neil

Sharon's favourite ribbon collection is the bling - it would appear you are not the only one Sharon.  The bling is just blingtastic!!  Please email us your address craftyribbons@gmail.com so the girls can send a WANT IT ALL Bling collection to you.

Thank you to everyone who left such wonderful comments, it was great to read them all last night and catch up.

I am not speaking to Bev and Rachie, do you know what they did today. I sent a text to say that we were having a delightful lunch and I got a reply saying they were far to excited to eat, they were piling into a delivery of NEW ribbons.  NO, NO they are mine!!!