And the winner is . . .

Firstly a HUGE thanks to everyone who left me such lovely comments and entered my wee giveaway - I hope you enjoyed the Blog Hop and discovered some new & wonderful blogs to follow along the way. 

And then, a big & hearty welcome to my new followers - it's lovely to have you here and I do hope you enjoy sharing in my crafty adventures.

Here at gilly makes . . . HQ we aren't too fussed about technical things, we like to do things the traditional way. But writing out 218 names and finding a hat big enough to accommodate them seemed like an onerous task so early in the morning - SO, just as the Hubby was on his way out the door,  I asked him to "randomly pick a number between 1 and 218". He's an actuary and they're supposedly good with numbers, so it's like having my own in-house Random Number Generator  ; - ) 

Right, so, the result you're waiting for ?   

As he headed out into the cold outside, he called out "17" and hi-ho, hi-ho, off to work he went . . .

And so,

 CONGRATS to the lovely Dorothy*
from Dorothy's Room - a Crochet, Knitting, Sewing Blog, 

who is the lucky commenter no. 17. 

Please do one more hop and pop in to say hello to Dorothy too - she's fairly new to this lovely crafty malarkey, and I know she'll give you a warm welcome.

Thanks again, lovely peeps, I really do appreciate and love to read all your sweet notes.

I'll be back very soon, just as soon as I come out from under the pile of "must-finish-before-Christmas" makes that are currently swamping my little craft room.

There are parcels to be posted, jimmy-jammies to be made, blocks to be pieced, embroidery to be hooped, appliqué to be sewn, little stockings to be created etc etc etc.  They are waiting patiently on the table 'til their number is called - and all watched over by the sweetest little Christmas Badgel you ever did see.   Her name is Bessie and she hails from the fabulous Vanilla Squirrel  - I just couldn't resist her.
"A badgel ??",  I hear you ask.
Yes indeed, pop over to visit the lovely Squirrel and she'll tell you all about them here.

Bye-bye for now,

xoxo

 *{Dorothy I've just left a wee note on your blog, please let me have your mailing address and I'll pop your parcel in the post to you.}