*EDIT: even if you weren’t the winner…you can still save 10% on your order if you use “nonpareil” during your order! hurrah!

click here to enter and find out more

Congratulations to laAlicia who is the winner of one stainless water bottle from HydraSip! She is a super-crafty gal who re-purposes magazines into jewelry and purses. Check out her blog too!

Thanks so much to everyone who entered! Wishing you a fun weekend!

Friends of ours just started a business making water bottles. Concerned with the environment, BPA leaching, and the recent negative press about aluminum bottles, three moms got together and created HydraSip…stainless steel bottles with BPA free tops {you get two lids with every bottle}. It’s hard to tell from the picture just how cool these bottles are…I love their ergonomic shape…they really are nice to hold! Ice water will stay cold forever in the double-walled bottles, and not sweat either…nice!

The gals at HydraSip gave me a pink double-wall bottle to give to one of my blog readers. It’s sitting on my desk just waiting for one of you! I’ll choose a winner after noon central time Friday, October 24, so enter before then!

So, if you want a chance to win a bottle, leave me a message below. For an extra entry, tweet about the giveaway, and make sure you let me know about it in the comments!

Make sure to check out the Hydra Sip website too…they have 3 colors to choose from, and you can order online.

Have a fun weekend!

coming up later today…a sweet new shop from one of my favorite bloggers…

Oh how I love a giveaway! Remember the spiced jam post from last week? Well, the very sweet Carla Kissel has offered to give away a mixed case of 6 jars of her fantabulous spiced jam! SWEET! They make great hostess gifts, or delicious to snarf down yourself. Leave your entries by Friday, September 4th at noon central time. I will choose the winner by random later that afternoon.

Here are some ways to enter…pick all, or just one:

• Visit Kissel’s website, and check out the 6 flavors. Leave a comment below with the flavor that looks the tastiest to you…

• For an extra entry, twitter about it, and come back to leave another comment to let me know that you did…{you can do this up to 5 times total}

• For another entry, write about it in your blog…and come back here to comment…

• Subscribe to nonpareil…and let me know in a comment…

• Head on over to Kissel’s and order some jams from their online shop, and you will get 5 extra entries…again, leave comments so I can keep track…

Any questions, contact me! {This contest is only open to my U.S. readers…sorry to all you lovely readers around the world…}

Yikes! How did Monday meld into Wednesday so quickly?!! Sorry I didn’t post the winner on time! According to my random integer generator, Kat is the winner of the book! I had to check out her site too…it’s called Paul and Kat, and they have some really cute buttons! So, congratulations, and I hope the book lends itself to some super craftiness!

Pink Olive is a sweet boutique with a ton of great indie goods for little ones, as well as for grown-ups! Some of the brands they carry include BlaBla {monkey slippers},  Pink Chicken {dress}, Envirosax {floral bag}, 3 Sprouts {chicken towels}, Atsuyo et Akiko {baby shirts and footies}, Leather Zoo {owlie bookends}…oh, and Soapy Love {not pictured, but one of my favorites}, They have so many cute things, I had a hard time choosing my favorites for this post…

AND…they are kindly giving away this great crafty book called Sewing Green to one lucky Nonpareil reader!

If you’d like to try to win a copy:

• Just visit the Pink Olive site, and comment back here about your favorite item from their shop!
• You’ll get an extra entry if you twitter about it {make sure you let me know when you do by using @nonpareilblog in your tweet}.
• You’ll get even one more entry if you mention the contest on your blog {leave a comment about it below}.
• Make sure you get your comments in by Monday, May 25 at noon, central time. I’ll pick the winner that afternoon!

Good luck!

It’s been two years since the last Happily Handmade Giveaway was held, and I’m so glad it’s back! This is a great way to discover new sites with fantastic handmade goods. With each site you visit, you can put your name in to win gift baskets filled with indie goodness! My stationery biz, Zuzu’s Petals is one of the sponsors. Click here or above to get the list of sponsors…and make sure to let me know if you find something fabulous, I haven’t visited every site yet.