A Child’s Dream Come True Giveaway!
EDIT: The winner’s of this giveaway are announced HERE.
EDIT: The giveaway is now over. The winner will be announced tomorrow, 5/9/11. Good luck to everyone that entered, and thanks again, Debbie!
Whenever we get a new sponsor, we love to introduce them and their shops to our readers. Because of a series of unlikely happenstances, we have never “formally” introduced Debbie Staggs from A Child’s Dream Come True. We are about to change that! Here’s a little bit about Debbie and her shop. I’ll meet you on the other side to tell you about a wonderful giveaway she has for Wee Folk Art Readers!
A Child’s Dream Come True is a family business located in the Northern Rockies of Idaho owned and operated by Debbie and Bob Staggs. It was originally the mail order catalog A Child’s Dream founded in the early 1990s by Waldorf educator Ronna McEldowney as a handwork and classroom resource for Waldorf early childhood teachers.
In Debbie’s words:
Bob and I were creating natural fiber craft kits under the name of Naturally Creative when given the opportunity to acquire A Child’s Dream in 1999. Our youngest was nearly a teen about to enter the public middle school after attending Waldorf since kindergarten, the oldest was unschooling high school. I felt it important to work from home, at least for the next several years. This together with our determination to stay in a rural town; my deep affection for the fiber arts; our experience in home schooling as well as being a founding family of the local Waldorf School made it a wonderful fit so we took a leap.
It was quite an adventure learning everything and, with the help of Bob and Nancy’s Services, in short time the catalog was online and an Internet business. I was able to work from home for the next six years until 2005 when a need for more space prompted a move to within walking distance.
Our children are now grown and we have an adorable grandson. Bob and I, with the interim help of our son, continue to supply educators, home schoolers, handworkers and crafters around the globe. Handling the inspiring materials, surrounded by color, serving what have to be the best customers any shop owner could ask for all the while having the ability to create a business around our lives really is a dream come true.
You’re invited to peruse our online shop where you’ll discover not only an extensive array of wool felt and goods for handwork and felting but also a complete selection of art supplies and many lesson books, doll making materials, one-of-a kind kits like the new Shooting Star Balls felting kit, and even a few favorite books and must-haves for creative play. Additionally, we stock the current and all the back issues of Living Crafts Magazine!
As a special offer for our WeeFolkArt readers, order $40 or more online, use the code: WeeFolk in your shopping cart and 15% will be deducted from your order! Good through May 31, 2011.
Debbie Staggs
And now about the giveaway…
Debbie has very generously put together 3 bundles of goodies. Now you’ve got some work to do. Go to the three links below and, first, decide whether you would like to receive the bundle of Holland Wool Felt, a stash of Felting Fibers, or 4 yummy skeins of Lamb’s Pride Wool Yarn. Next, decide which colors you would like to receive.
Holland Wool Felt ~ Your choice of one of the Holland Wool Felt Color Collections (value $34.95)
Felting Fiber ~ Your choice of one of the Ashford Felting Wool Color Sets (value $36.00)
Lamb’s Pride Yarn ~ Your choice of four skeins of Lamb’s Pride Wool Yarn (value $33.20)
Finally, come back here and let us know, if you are one of the 3 lucky winners, which prize you would like to receive and the colors. The contest begins today, Wednesday, May 4, and runs through Sunday, May 8, at 9:00 p.m. EST. At that time a winner will be drawn at random, for each of the prizes. Winners will be announced on Monday, May 9. Winners have 1 week to send us their snail mail addresses at weefolkart@yahoo.com or a new winner will be selected. A Child’s Dream Come True Will ship outside USA if winner pays additional postage.
I suggest, if you aren’t already familiar with A Child’s Dream Come True, to spend some time looking around her shop. There are tons of wonderful goodies! Then, enter the contest and cross your fingers. But remember, even if you do not win one of the three prizes, Debbie is offering WFA readers a 15% discount on all orders over $40.00, throughout the month of May.
Thank you so much Debbie, for your generosity, and for suggesting these wonderful gifts. Good luck to all… let the dreaming begin 🙂
154 Comments
tree
i would love to win any of those supplies! If i have to choose…it would be the Autumn Tapestry felt…i think! i Love all the roving too! Thank you for the chance!
SewLindaAnn
Wow, seriously generous to have 3 winners. I’ve never had the opportunity to work with really nice yarn so I’d go for the Wool yarn 2 in Ocean Waves, 1 in Prairie Goldenrod and 1 in Orange Cremesicle. Love the names!
Xtina
I would love to win any of that!!
Sandra M
Do you really think it is easy to choose from all this wonderful things they offer? Oh, boy, I am in a trouble 🙂 – OK, OK – would LOVE to win Felting fibers, set 1!
kim
wow! i think i’d go for the Summer Spark felt set! Awesome giveaway
guest
OMGosh! sooo pretty! I would pick the felt in summer spark. I have a bunch of little gnomes that would just love to be made into a rainbow for my little lily! She loves rainbows! 🙂
Krista
LOVE the autumn tapestry felt set! What gorgeous colors.. So many possibilities with those!
Dulcie
Just can’t decide! Well if I must, I like the color set 2 of the felting fiber. I absolutely love A Childs Dream and have enjoyed receiving many packages from Idaho. They ship so quickly and have what I want/ need and them some more! Nice job, Debbie. Thanks for your good taste.
jessica
i would choose the summer spark wool felt set. but everything is lovely! thanks for the giveaway.
Melanie W
I have lots of ideas I that require wool felt, so the Spring Blossom bundle would be perfect! Thanks for sharing this great resource!
HB
The Ashford Felting Wool Color Set # 3 would be so much fun to make little forest animals with for my grandkids!!
Lindsay
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a collection of the Holland felt—so hard to choose a color—umm…spring blossom 🙂
Michelle Simpson
I would love the Ashford Felting Wool Color Set 3. All of the colors are lovely, and it is hard to choose. Thank you for offering this giveaway!
Tara
Thank you for the chance at this giveaway.
I choose the wool yarn in yellow.
Debbie St.Germain
What a generous giveaway. I want to do art felting and would love to win their color set 1 of felting wool.
Debbie
Michelle b
I would LOVE to win the wool felt!! What a generous giveaway 🙂
Theresa
Wow, how lovely!
I would go with the felt in u201Csummer sparku201D
Chelsea
…and wouldn’t it be lovely to start with some summer spark wool felt crafts? I think I know where I’m going next for a new palate of wool felt!
GuestBethany
Who wouldn’t want some wool felt! What a wonderful giveaway.
Emily C.
I would love the wool roving set #1. Everything looks wonderful at her site. Thanks for the giveaway.
Meadow
Wow! What a fantastic giveaway. I order felt and doll supplies from this shop and would be super excited if I won.
Anne
My favorite place to shop! I love this store. I would be happy with any of the items, but I use a lot of wool felt. I think the spring set would nicely round out my current collection.
Beryl
Wow! I feel so titillated to find this site. I am a stay-at-home mother of a wonderful one year old and am trying to make a living selling crafts. It is very fulfilling and I have good contacts through the Waldrof pre-school I worked for. Needle felting has very much become my passion and I work diligently into the wee hours of the night while my little one sleeps. I would be so grateful to receive the #1 color set of wool roving but either way I am certainly going to use your websites as a buying resource for my next roving purchase. Thanks for what you are doing!
Jennifer Park
I’d love to win the felting wool, color set one. I love this store! Thanks for the giveaway.
Guest
I would love to win Lamb’s Pride Yarn-colour orange cremesicle.
Thank you very much!
Barb
GM
This is a lovely giveaway!
I guess if I won I would choose the yarn-
Strawberry Smoothie
Grassy Knoll
Elderberry Wine
Prairie Goldenrod
Tina Mastilak
I love the spring blossom wool felt. Maybe we’ll see more of those colors outside, if it ever stops raining!
domestic diva
So fantastic! I’d love color set one of the felting fibers (though all of the offerings look great).
Amy Marotz
I would love to start crafting some wee little flower fairies with the Spring Blossom pack of Holland Wool Felt! 🙂 ….and maybe some birthday crowns…..and decorations for next year’s Easter Tree…and…. 🙂
Kathi
What an interesting site. I’d love the cranberry colored Lamb’s Pride. 🙂
Ronnie
The winners really will be spoilt for choice. All 3 are exceptional. And really get me thinking of all the fun projects that could be done with these supplies. Fingers crossed
Melanie
tough choice. I would have to choose the Summer Spark wool felt. Such beautiful vibrant colors!
Gluten Free Viking Mom
I have loved A Child’s Dream for years. They are my go to people for all doll, hand craft, home school or fiber arts for years. Orders from them are like early Christmas presents.
I would love to add to my felt collection.
Helen
Catalina2
love the colors of summer spark of the holland wool felt but to pick from all the store…that was a hard choice!
JB
I have just recently gotten obsessed with embroidery and felt objects, so I would have to choose the Holland Wool Felt Color Collections. I’d been admiring all the pretty colors at A Child’s Dream for a few weeks now!
Emma
I would love the spring set of felt! What a great store.
Sue Caissy
Almost impossible to choose…I sew with felt and have just begun wet needle felting but my knitty hands would love to hold that soft, worsted yarn, Forest Shadows and make a beautiful scarf. Thank you so much for this gorgeous giveaway and all you products are delightful.
Have shared the Wee Folk Art link on my FB page so hopefully my friends will see your shop.
xxx
Sue
Lindsay
I would chose the lamb’s pride. Great shop!
diana nana
i would love to have wool art! it’s just so pretty and special. love love love!
kate b
I would love the color set #1 of the Felting Fiber!
Brie
Oh my goodness! It is too hard to choose! These are my 3 favorite materials to work with! I can never have enough of any of them! If I had to choose maybe the wool felt in the summer colors! So much fun!! Thank you for the chance to win!
Janelle
It’s so hard to choose! I think I’d choose the color set #2 of the felting wool. But everything is beautiful!
kristin c
All of these materials are so beautiful! I would have to choose the summer spark wool felt. Many gnomes to be made of this.
Carin
all the prizes are lovely! thank you–I guess I would prefer the yarn because my 9 year old daughter is very into knitting so she would make something beautiful out of that!
Sarah
I definately would like the felt! It is my hope to start working on my own toys this summer with my two sons.
meg
Oh yes to the felt– probably the fall colors, they are beautiful!
Chris B
Would love to try felting and I think the colors purple, marigold and fir will start me off just right!! Good luck everyone!!
Alina
it is very hard to choose. I would take the yarn.
thank you for this wonderful giveaway!
Marina A
Happy Mammas Day!!!!
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway!!!!! It was very hard to choose, but I think I’ll go with the Holland Wool Felt in Autumn tapestry.
Shannon
Thank you for your generosity! I think I would take two skeins of Bulky Rosado Rose and two skeins of the Strawberry Fields. Beautiful yarn and Lamb’s Pride is a great company.