NEW WINNER AND FINAL BLOG CANDY.....

... Well, not really! I will explain more about that in a bit.

But first- this week's winner of blog candy is maureendb!

I'll be contacting you on Monday, so I can get your package to you, Maureen. Thanks so much for being such a faithful follower and commenter on my blog! Congrats!!!

And now on to this week's candy.

Remember I said I was going to do a wedding theme? Well, here is what I have come up with:

It is really late at night and I need to get this post up, so I apologize for the fact that the pictures may not come out too well. The lighting was very challenging, but it's the best I could do. And again, it's hard to fit it all in in one shot, so in addition to this pic with everything together, I have taken a couple with it divided up, as well.

I think you'll agree that I have a wedding theme going here, but there's plenty of goodies here that you could use for various occasions, too.

These are the things you have a chance to win:

Marcella By K clear set of 11 wedding stamps

Marcella By K clear stampin block

Box of 50 Invitation size ivory envelopes

Stampin' Up! "Occasionally" stamp set

Cuttlebug "Animals" set of 4 embossing folders

Coluzzle Nested Window template

3 boxes of assorted pink and red shades of ribbon

5 rolls of various ribbons

Tall glass bottle of Prima flowers in blue shades

Shorter glass bottle of Prima flowers in purple shades

Large purple flower embellishment

Pastel colored satin flower applique

Package of silver tone heart charms

Wood mounted "Hugs & Kisses" stamp by Rubber Stampede

NOTE: As I am looking at these things to list them, I see the little bride stamp is damaged. I am going to try to return it to the store this week. If I can get another, I will. If not, I will substitute something in it's place.

Okay- I think by now many of you know my rules to be entered into the drawing for all this, but here you go again (hopefully we'll have some newbies this week!):

1) Become a follower of my blog, if you have not already done so.

2) Post a comment to THIS post! I love comments on all my posts, but this is the one you must post a comment on to be eligible for the drawing!

3) Put this on your blog, if you have one. Otherwise, just help spread the word any way you like. By word of mouth, email, FaceBook, etc. As long as you tell at least one person somehow.

Thanks!!!

Okay- now for my explanation of "not really" as stated in my first line in this post.

I have decided that with all the fun I have been having giving things away to my AWESOME readers, I want to continue. However, I can not afford to do this every week, lol, but I will try to do it as often as possible. With that said, I will just tell you that I plan to offer blog candy again before too long. Certainly before the year is out! Probably a couple of times or more in the next few months. I have already started to put aside some really special things for you. I want to do a give-away of items that I especially love and often use myself. (Yes, you can start thinking "vintage", lol!) and there may be some non- stamping related things in there, too- you just never know what! I just love shopping for other people, so who better to shop for than you? I am so thanking for all my readers and I thank each of you so much for the lovely- and often funny- comments you write here!

So, again I congratulate Maureen and wish you all luck for next Sunday's drawing.

I hope you have a fun and safe Labor Day!