We have a winner

What a busy and exciting few days.  If I wasn't reading and learning from the many, many bathroom cleaning tips you wrote, I was visiting blogs from around the globe and finding more and more interesting and clever people.

Thanks to Sew Mama Sew for organising and co-ordinating such a great collection of giveaways.  I hope you've been lucky.  The winner of our giveaway can choose a towel set in a design of their choice and will also receive some buttons and trim to aid them in their crafting.

A quick visit to random.org has produced our lucky winner:

Comment number 26, Aim!  Congratulations!  I am going to email you now and we can chat about what you would like on your towels.  I would love to have cut and pasted the widget with the results but, alas, my skills do not permit such cleverness.  

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who entered and, if you would like some towels of your own, please get in touch with us.  We'd love to help you out.  

Short post tonight as I have to wrap a cot blanket that I have just finished for a little boy who came into the world today.  His Gran is going to take it to him tomorrow - what a lucky, loved, little man!

Dressing Boys

Image: Lisa Carter

Image: Taryn Newland



Image: Taryn Newland

I think it is fair to say that all Mums find it incredibly easy to find great things for their little princesses to wear. There is always a huge variety of styles and fabrics to choose from and loads of interesting trims and design features. Not so easy to find the same high standard of style and quality for the little men in our lives.

When Sharon and I started Cute as Buttons, we resolved to have an equal number of boys and girls designs and to make sure the quality and quirkiness came through in the clothing for our lads. Twelve months on we would have to say it is not as easy as it sounds! We have a list of girl designs as long as your arm and could come up with something new every week. To date, we have 3 designs in the boys line and are playing around with a couple more. As you can see from the pictures we have a car, a rocket and a dinosaur. We love all these designs and it seems that you like them too...although sometimes the rocket has been mistaken for a fish! We've dipped our toe in the water and made a little robot head who has yet to make his photographic debut but he is funky and fun. Our current project is increasing the boys range and we'd like your help. Can you tell us what you'd like to see on your little man? We'd love to hear any and all suggestions and we'll be sure to share our results with you.

I'm already excited at the prospect of playing with some new designs. In fact, I'm so excited I think we'll celebrate with a giveaway. If you leave a comment or email a comment to us about a design suggestion, you will be in the running to win one of our Cute as Buttons tees in your choice of design. If you post about our competition on your blog, you'll have two entries. Entries close on 23rd May and we'll make it a random selection. How does that sound? Start thinking!