A Child’s Dream Come True GIVEAWAY!

We have our winner… it’s Lauren! Congrats :-)
And if you were wondering what Lauren thinks she’ll get with her $50 spending spree, this is what she wrote in her comments…
Hi… I found your awesome Giveaway through Hybrid Rasta Mama’s tweet… I would love to enter:) if I win I would probably get the “Tidy Up Kitchen Set”, the Wax Candle Rolling kit, and some roving… My daughter would love your shop…’,

Thanks again to Debbie and A Child’s Dream Come true for offering such a super giveaway!  For all of us who weren’t lucky enough to win this one, don’t forget that Debbie has offered all Magic Onions Readers 10% off their entire purchase until the end of November. So, Friends, now’s the time to get those goodies you need from A Child’s Dream Come True. Enter the word ‘MAGIC’ to redeem your discount.

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Three years ago I discovered the wonderful art of needle felting and a whole universe opened up for me. I had always known that I was creative… I had, from a very young age, held a deep yearning to create, yet nothing I tried in the artistic realm seemed to work. Painting was not it no matter how hard I painted. I failed miserably in my pottery phase, I dabbled at making jewelry but could never master the intricacies of working with the different materials, and the list goes on and on.

But, friends, this is the truth… the very first time I picked up a felting needle, I KNEW I had found my medium. It was love at first sight. I made the cutest little toadstool on that first day and I was hooked. I have been a needle felting addict ever since, creating little woolen treasures at every available moment.

 A few days after making my first toadstool, I realized that I needed my very own library  of wool… I needed every color ever made. I called my expert felting friend and asked her where I could buy my own stash… her answer was A CHILD’S DREAM COME TRUE. Oh my gosh, I was totally blown away by what I could find in this gorgeous shop… any color roving my heart desired… moss green, fuschia pink, turquoise blue. I loved that I could purchase just a few colors at a time… I could pick and choose, getting just a few ounces or a pound.

I waited anxiously for my first order to arrive and sat with my new colors arranged carefully in my lap, gazing at them for the longest time. I was almost too nervous to actually use my new beautiful wool but soon I was away, making all manner of magical gnomes and mossy lands.

I discovered that I could buy braided wool for wild fairy hair.


 I could buy curly sheep’s fleece, IN RAINBOW COLORS!

I could buy felting needles when mine broke.

I could get my own felting board too.

So, when Debbie from A CHILD’S DREAM COME TRUE contacted me a while back asking about sponsoring The Magic Onions I was truly delighted. As I browsed through her shop all these years later, the excitement of my first needle felting adventures came flooding back to me… the flutter of my heart when my new package of wool arrived from her shop, the delight I felt when I first saw the gorgeous colors in person, when I held my roving in my own hand, the amazement I felt at the treasures I could create with this beautiful wool.

So friends, I’m so excited to present my new sponsor, A CHILD’S DREAM COME TRUE.

In Debbie’s words, we offer a mouth-watering selection of natural wool felt, felting wool, kits and creative supplies for all ages. You’ll also find some little wood toys, soft treasures and favorite books for children and families. We’re Waldorf-inspired, family-owned and operated and thankful to work, live and play in beautiful, rural North Idaho

I enjoyed reading about how Debbie and her family found a way to work their love of Waldorf into their everyday lives, here. An inspiration to all of us who want to work what we love.

Please have a browse through this amazing Waldorf inspired shop, A CHILD’S DREAM COME TRUE. I have always loved giving my friends and family Christmas gifts that can ignite a whole new creative adventure for them. And, for yourself, if you have been wanting to give needle felting a try, now you know where you can find the best of everything.

GIVEAWAY!

Debbie has generously offered a $50 spending spree gift certificate to one lucky reader. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post, telling me what you would (perhaps) get with your $50 from A CHILD’S DREAM COME TRUE?

You can enter 4 additional times by…
* ‘liking’ A Childs Dream Come True on Facebook
*blogging about this Giveaway so that others may have a chance to win too.
*tweeting about this Giveaway
* ‘liking’ The Magic Onions on Facebook

Please come back and add your additional entries by leaving an additional comment for each extra entry.

Winner will be chosen on Sunday, 20 November 2011.

And, if you just can’t wait and need to get something from this gorgeous shop right away, remember that Debbie has offered all Magic Onions readers a %10 discount until the end of November… just enter the code MAGIC at checkout for your discount to take effect.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!

Thank you, Debbie,
Blessings and magic,
Donni

Sorry, this draw is closed. Lauren won but A Child’s Dream Come True is offering all Magic Onions Readers 10% off their entire purchase until the end of November 2011… enter the word ‘MAGIC’ to redeem your discount.

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  1. What a beautiful selection of wools and other things! If I were to win the gift certificate, I would buy an assortment of dyed wools. They are all so yummy looking! And maybe some tools and maybe some arts & crafts kits, and…

  2. I would really like to enter !
    I have so wanted to try needle felting and I think if I were to win I would order a starter kit .
    I have to say I discovered A Child’s Dream come true last night while doing a search online for waldorf crafts lol
    then I came to your post this morning !
    I’m going to browse your blog a bit more now ☺
    I also liked you and the other blog on fb .
    Thanks
    Rox

  3. Oh, my!! What a wonderful giveaway! I would definitely buy more roving. I am a beginner needle felter and am loving it. I just want to buy more of the basic supplies.

  4. Thank you for the sharing the site A Child’s Dream Come True. I started wet felting this year and have been hoping to try needle felting. I would love to purchase the starter kit from A Child’s Dream Come True with the gift certificate.

  5. Thanks for the tip on this great shop! I feel like a child again with all the crafting goodies. I just discovered the joy of needle felting myself and would like to buy some supplies and some kits.

  6. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway and for introducing me to A Child’s Dream Come True. Everything in so lovely it is hard to chose. :) I am new to needle felting and would love the Ashford Corriedale Rainbow Colors wool…so vibrant.

  7. Like you I also love needle felting and was surprised at how much my kids love it too. We have given away several beautiful needled felted gifts to family and friends and they are always so well received.

    If I were to choose something from the shop it would be wool roving in a myriad of colours (I am particularly loving the purple and orange shades), and a massive supply of needles. Please tell me I am not the only one whose kids break a fair few needles…

  8. Like you, I also love sculpting with wool!

    If I were to be fortunate enough to win I’d start by selecting some of the braided wool in dark auburn (to match my daughters’ hair), light brown, and blond. Then I’d select some naturally dyed gnome fleece and some of the gnome beard fleece. I’d also select some of the silk/merino blend in ocean, field of rye, woodland, mulberry, and black currant. By then I’m sure I’d have long exhausted the $50, but would still dream of a rainbow full of the dyed corriedale wool!

  9. I just started wet felting with my knitting group! I am hooked. We have made felted soaps, crowns, flowers and ornaments. So much fun! I would love to try needle felting. $50 would help me buy the tools I need to get started. Thanks for a great giveaway!

  10. we have a small bag of local wool that we picked up at a craft fair.

    I would use this certificate to get needles and more wool to make faerie folk for solstice presents!

    Our crafting budget is so tight this year! This would be of great help!!

  11. A Child’s Dream Come True is also a grownup’s dream come true, too. When I started to make dolls out of wool felt, I searched for a number of online places, as local resources were scarce. ACDCT ended up being my go-to place for felt. When people ask me where I get my felt, I have no reservations about recommending this resource. It’s not just altruistic– if I send more customers to the shop, the shop thrives, and I benefit as a result. Everyone wins!

  12. P.S. I just realized that it would be unsporting of me to have my “like” for The Magic Onions on FB be counted as an entry, as I’m already a fan. However, I did not answer directly what I would get from A Child’s Dream Come True. I would get felt, of course, Holland Wool felt. But then, I’d also be tempted to get some wooden doll-bases to try out some of the patterns found in Feltcraft, by Petra Berger.

  13. I love their doll making supplies. That is where I got everything to make my little ones first Waldorf dolls last Christmas. That is probly what I would get if I were fortunate enough to win the gift certificate, more doll making supplies :)

  14. What a beautiful shop! If I were chosen to win a $50 gift certificate, I would certainly apply it toward an order of color sets #2 and #3 to make some Wee Felt Folk ornaments and some animals. Love the lush colors and love the family-owned even more!

  15. Oh. My. Gosh! I have been wanting to try needle felting for quite some time. I’ve done a bit of wet felting with my daughter at her Waldorf school, but never needle felting. If I won this $50 credit, I would get the needle felting beginners kit, the wash board, and probably the bunny needle felting kit.
    Thank you both SO MUCH for offering this!
    Steph

  16. Thank you for hosting this giveaway. If I were to win the certificate I would stock up on all things felting. I am new to this and would love to be able to get more supplies! :-)

  17. I would be over-the-moon with joy if I won! My Granddaughter is beginning her education at a Waldorf School in Maine and how I would love to supply her with some of this ‘love’ for Christmas.

  18. I would totally get a “starter kit” of items to get my son and I started! I am so glad you have posted about her shop online. For over a year now I’ve looked in stores and have had no luck finding felting supplies. I see all of the cute creations you and your kiddos make, and I so want to share this art medium with my son! :)

  19. I’ve always really wanted to try needle felting; it sounds like such a fun hobby!
    I would definitely get the starter kit and a handful of different colours. They’re all so pretty!

  20. Ohh, I get the same giddy feeling when I am around wool, I just cannot have enough I absolutely love it.
    I have been a customer at A Child’s Dream Come True for many years.
    I would likely get some wool felt, or perhaps Stockmar water colors as I have run out, or perhaps some fairy wool or perhaps……

  21. If I were to win….I would start NEEDLE FELTING!! I completely empathized with your artistic endeavors and I have been staring down my computer screen on Amazon and scouring friends’ bookshelves for a book to get started with needle felting. I WANT to start! I just tried wet felting for the first time and now wonder why I have never tried it before. Now I want to needle felt, especially after seeing the story dolls at the parent/tot group I attend with my daughter at our local Waldorf school. Did I mention that I am slightly shameful that I don’t know how because I just completed my Waldorf teacher certification?!?! I am a high school science teacher though so I guess I have a little bit of an excuse ;). Thanks for the awesome inspiration (and giveaway!). I am going to “like” up a storm!

  22. I am a Magic Onions fan on FB, and I liked A Child’s Dream there too. : ) A needle felting question, I have always used a felting brush as a base. Do you find the foam works better? I haven’t ever tried one, but I would like to! Thank you! : )

  23. So many beautiful things! I love the wet felting kits and old fashioned wash boards. I have two little ones who love to play with water (who does not?! :-D) Thank you for the giveaway and thank you for a wonderful blog!

  24. This has been one of my favorite shops for many years! I don’t even have to look to say what I would buy… I might just buy felting wool of course, but really I have had my eye on the plant dyed sheets of felt for a long time. And those needle felting tools that hold multiple needles. I really need to get one of those someday! They have wonderful books too… Thanks for the great offer!

  25. I barely need to look at the site — ’cause I’ve already been window shopping for the holidays. I’d get the pony & bunny sewing kits for my kids. A cable car kit is a necessity. As are pocket gnomes! Oh please, pick me! nancywalters44@hotmail.com

  26. Oh pick me! pick me! I would buy lots of wool felt ooooh probably the holland felt, yes for my Christmas craft that is lurking around in brain searching for a way out : ) Serina

  27. Dear Donni, I am following you for many-many months, but it’s just today that I made a google account and Ican leave a named comment! Once I have commented aw anonymus.
    Ilike your blog,everything you make with your children,I am doing things like you trying to make them lovers of nature! I’d love to participate at your giveaway! What a perfect place “a chid’s dream come true” is…! I wish I could be in America for a while and come and visit you and tiw shop too!
    It would me an extraordinary dream for me to win…I love felting and everything about!!! Love and happiness from little Greece ;-)

  28. I would probably get some of the lovely wooden figures or play silks for my kids as I haven’t had much time for crafting lately and can’t take on a new project when I still have several unfinished ones.

  29. Wow, such a wonderful selection of Waldorf art supplies… it’s hard to choose! I’d have to say felting supplies and wool felt for figures for circle time. Thank you for the chance!

  30. Books like Mother Earth and her Children and the Gravity Car kit. I ordered the cable car last year and it is still up in our house and used daily. Wonderful things found in that shop!

  31. hi! not trying to duplicate. i commented and it’s not appearing. log-in was wonky.

    would love love love to get some holiday craft supplies…premium wool felt, roving in holiday / earthy colors. much needed needles, too!!

    already a fan on FB, but i liked magic acorns just now.

    thanks!

  32. Hi… I found your awesome Giveaway through Hybrid Rasta Mama’s tweet… I would love to enter:) if I win I would probably get the “Tidy Up Kitchen Set”, the Wax Candle Rolling kit, and some roving… My daughter would love your shop…

  33. I would really love to make one of the fairies or angels from the Magic Wool Fairies Book if I won and I then would need to get some materials to make one of these creations. Thanks for the opportunity and you are very generous.

  34. Love your needle felting creations by the way, so cute.
    I would definately get some more colors of roving, and that Holland felt looks so yummy. And also have to get some doll making supplies and (I know I’m over the $50) probably some music as well. Stop me now….
    thank you

  35. I am making crafts to sell at our holiday fair at the Waldorf School of Bend. Two on my children attend this beautiful school, and I am also the second grade teacher. All the proceeds from my booth will go to help fund Waldorf teacher training and continuing education classes. I recently found A Child’s Dream Come true, and would love to be able to use the gift cerificate to purchase more supplies and make more crafts. Asside from raising money for the teachers, the crafts themselves really speak to the children. The wool is so warm and soft that the children are drawn to its beauty and connection with nature. Thank you for posting such inspiring ideas for crafts. Our imagination is a spark of light in these darkening winter days. Betsy Mitchell

  36. I would win the give away, I would certainly choose a bit of all the wonderful colors of roving A CHILD’S DREAM COMES TRUE carries. I am an avid needle felter, always on the lookout for new and inspiring materials.

  37. I’ve also just discovered needle felting and would love to choose a bunch of roving for making gifts and hand-felting with my twin daughters. I also love the kits- they are inspiring!

  38. Learning to needle felt is on my to-do list for next year as we introduce more and more Waldorf elements into our home. I’ve always been intimidated by it but I’m going to overcome that! If I won I think I would order the starter kit to break myself in slowly. Thank you for hosting this giveaway.

  39. WOuld love this giveaway as I just placed a small order but couldnt afford all I wanted. I would buy some beautiful felt so my daughter and I can make some ornaments for our yule tree. As well would love a craft book :)))))))))

  40. What a wonderful giveaway! I *think* I’d invest in some more supplies- I’m down to one semi-sharpish needle. And of course some roving to get me through the winter!

  41. I would love to learn how to do needle felting, have always loved felt. If I were to win, I’d get the basic supplies to teach myself felting and would like to make a small bunny. But the Stockmar watercolors are tempting too.

  42. What an amazing giveaway, I love needle felting, it is an amazing medium to create with!! I would love to update some of my supplies and not to mention all of the other goodies at this shop, can’t wait to browse more!

  43. thankyou for sharing this beautiful space. I could feel the projects jumping from the screen as I looked at the rich and vibrant colours. for me?… I would choose a mixture of Holland and 3mm thick felts…and spread them all around myself as I decided what to create xxxxx

  44. Wow, I had trouble getting to the end of this long list of comments. I would love to win this contest. I could really use some more roving. I love to decorate my dollshoes with this technique. I feel like the author of this post – so blessed to have discovered the art of needlefelting. If I didn’t make dolls I’d felt all the time…

  45. Oh Yes, I’ve spent much time browsing through this store online. There’s so much to love. Especially fond of the detailed descriptions and availablitiy of organic crafty supplies! ♥Aleta♥

  46. I will buy wool for felting and some of that curly sheep’s fleece. I feel the same way about needle felting, by the way, although I am nowhere near as talented as you!

  47. I would buy some supplies for making dolls and other small toys for my daughter, nephews, and niece. I LOVE their supplies and it would be great to be able to splurge a bit and make some beautiful gifts.

  48. awesome give-away! thank you so much for offering this : ) i would love get some roving and water color paints. thanks again!

  49. I would definitely make a lovely bowl of felted acorns with my wee ones, and perhaps a few felted bowls as well. Thank you for the wonderful craft ideas!

  50. I love everything in a child’s dream come true! I would get doll making supplies- definitely! Oh, and those beautiful wooden needles for our handwork!
    nominoodle at yahoo dot com

  51. Hi, please delete my first comment as the url was wrong. that being said, what a dreamy giveaway. I think I love the wooden painted puzzles best! wowee

  52. I would love to win this! I discovered the fun of needle felting last winter and would really enjoy making more gnomes and fairies this year with some beautiful roving! amy_h1400 (at) yahoo (dot) com

  53. Oh . My. Goodness! How does one choose? What wonderful things in the shop. I would replenish my stash of felts and roving , for sure a foam, (mine looks rather sad at the moment) and may have to buy a book or two. Maybe Wee Folk. I’m sure my money is spent already.
    thanks for introducing me to this site and for sharing!

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