Hello, Good Gravy!!

{Edited to note: This giveaway is CLOSED and a winner has been selected! However, please jump on over to Hello, Good Gravy for a look at all of Lelan's amazing goodies!!}

I have a REALLY great story for why I didn't post on Friday, even though I had all my pictures loaded and ready to go. I even had a PLAN to blog last night, as you will recall my big, gigantic tease *suggesting* a giveaway.



However.



My excuse involves a lot of shadiness that may or may not include prostitution, airplanes a woman with no teeth and possible drug use. NO JOKE, but I am not at liberty to divulge any details. At the moment.




If you haven't yet figured it out, these photos are the little surprises that appeared on my doorstep last week, courtesy of Lelan at Hello, Good Gravy! A few weeks back, Lelan saw the laminated tags I made for our kids teachers, and decided she needed to get herself a laminator.

Sidenote: We all know of my LOVE of polka dots and monograms and scalloped circles. But perhaps you didn't know that if you take these things and encase them (forever!) in a thin layer of melted plastic, well, I would consider that about an inch away from heaven on earth. Should the good Lord ever ask my opinion on what I consider to be his greatest creation, it would be a one-word answer: lamination.

When I was growing up, people in Hawaii put one of these tags on every single bag and piece of luggage, thought, there were usually cartoon characters and paint pens involved. It was a small obsession. Some might say, it still is. But luggage tags, they hold a special place in my heart. Right next to Spam. And Raps Hawaii.

And if you know what Raps Hawaii is, I already know I LOVE you. Like really love you. My husband thinks it's the DUMBEST THING EVER and he can't understand half the words.

So Lelan ran with the idea of laminated tags, and came up with some of the prettiest and most unique designs I have ever seen. And she sent them to me, and I almost died of excitement.

But also included were a couple of sets of her notecards...oh, her notecards. They make me want to catch up on the 4,378 thank you notes I should have sent over the past 34 years. Or just send small words of encouragement, because nobody does that anymore.

And will you take a looksy at that label. A scalloped circle. and I see dots. She has taken my favorite design elements and COMBINED THEM for a logo. Everything about her work is so pretty it makes me want to put make-up on my robo hamsters.

Is that weird? Okay then.

I talked her up last week, but really people, you need to jump on over to her shop and take a looksy. Because today, there is something in it for you! Lelan has graciously offered to giveaway two of the laminated tags she created (and has YET to offer in her shop), PLUS a set of 10 flat notecards! The winner can select their choice of tag design (fun-time flags or robots) and notecards from her shop, just leave a comment and let me know what your favorites are! A winner will be selected at random on Thursday, September 9th, so you have until then to enter!

To link to her shop and blog, click HERE--I highly suggest visiting both, because while I LOVE her products, I also LOVE her blog, her pictures and the projects she takes on!

Thanks, Lelan!! And good luck to all of you out there in blog world!!