Happy Thursday Everyone! It’s almost the weekend and I am so very excited to be featuring yet another great giveaway from a new to me handmade business.  Raspberry Swirl contacted me about sponsoring a giveaway yesterday and thank goodness they did, the blog was fresh out of new giveaways for our lovely readers to enter.  I love shops like Raspberry Swirl too, they offer a large variety of items for any taste.  Not a jewelry lovers? Raspberry Swirl also sells amazing bookmarks, greeting cards, and magnets (gosh I love magnets).

As per the usual when I do a giveaway I like to first tell our readers about some items from the sponsor shop that I love and find interesting.  This was very easy with Raspberry Swirl, what was harder was narrowing down just a few items to talk about.  The first item I found that peaked my interested was these cute Raspberry Ice Earrings.  They scream “Summer Time” to me which exactly is what I am in need of.  Being from Michigan we didn’t really have many months of  “summer” so my summer attire and accessories are rather limited.  This is my first summer living in Florida which is mostly summer so anything summery is A-OK with me.

If you follow the Handmade Guru blog you know I have a thing for magnets.  Someday I envision a fridge full of colorful, funny, unique magnets.  I have a few magnets I’ve accumulated since we’ve moved to our first place but not nearly all I’d love to have.  I also prefer for some reason smaller magnets (probably because I can fit more on my fridge if they are smaller).  Raspberry Swirl has some amazing magnets that are just my style.  I adore the Sunshine Dream Bottlecap Magnets.  They come in a set of two magnets with the words “Dream” and “You Are My Sunshine”, I love it.  My other favorite magnets from Raspberry Swirl are the Nice Pretty Little Things Magnets.  These magnets are so very unique and I’m positive I would find nothing like these in stores.  They feature two beautiful little vintage pictures from a childrens book.  A great conversation starter.

Raspberry Swirl is owned and operated by Courtney, an Electrician turned stay at home mom/crafter.  Crafting must run in the family because Courtney’s husband also has an amazing little Etsy shop called Man Handz.  Man Handz features some amazing goods that I’d love to own.  Custom hand sewn creations are my weakness and I love the variety of baby items and bags at Man Handz.  I especially love this Elephantes and Flower Baby Bib and Burp Cloth Set, it’s so colorful and really quite reasonably priced at only $9.50 for the set! Wowza!  I can’t wait for our little one to reveal what it will be so I can start stocking up on amazing baby goods.  I also really really like this Damask Chandelier Messanger Bag from Man Handz, it looks like the perfect size for me and I love bags I know nobody else would have, nothing worse then standing in line next to someone and realizing you both have the same bag. Ugh!

With all the great offerings that I’ve talked about today I’m sure you are wondering what is up for grabs in the Giveaway.  Well without fauthur ado I will tell ya.  Today Raspberry Swirl is offering one of our lucky readers this adorable Wild Mood Swings Pendant.  This wonderful vintage insprired pendant comes with it’s own ball chain as well, no worrying about what you will put it on.  I really love necklaces like this and get many compliments when I wear the two I have out.  If you don’t already own a pretty glass pendant necklace of your very own I’m sure you will love this.

Just For Our Readers:

Raspberry Swirl is offering a special to any of our readers.  If you would love to purchase any of the lovely things from their shop you can enter code 10swirl at checkout to recieve 10% off your order.  How cool is that?

To Enter:

Head on over to Raspberry Swirl and choose an item from their site that you love!  Come back here and leave a comment with the products name.  Be sure to include a valid email address somewhere on your post (I cannot contact you if you’ve won otherwise).

Additional Enteries: Earn an additional entry for doing any or all of the following, leave a separate comment for each.

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*If you place an order say so and that counts as an entry                                                                                                                                                          * Follow Raspberry Swirl on Twitter
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* Blog or tweet about this giveaway, with a link back to the Handmade Guru blog. Make sure you post the link in your comment so we can view it!
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* Add the Handmade Guru or Little Black Box banner to your site,  you’ll find the code in the right hand column of our blog.

Contest is open to US and Canada residents  and winner will be pulled next Thursday, May 20, 2010!

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