Hennypenny's prize draw

We haven't seen Miss. Hennypenny for a while. She's been hiding over the festive season, afraid of being put in the oven. She is a ready-stuffed chicken after all.



But she decided that it would be safe to emerge now that it is 2009 and the humans in the house don't even want to look at another turkey sandwich ....

If you think she looks rather uncomfortable in her nest you'd be right. She's sitting on these...

27 names went into the nest (thank you all very much for entering by the way- I enjoyed reading your Christmas in three words entries!) and the winner (drawn at random by me as chickens can't grip very well) is...

...RUTH and MISS.T!

Congratulations to you two. Some ever-so-slightly gone wrong but still perfectly lovely pigeon goodies will be on their way to you if you could just e-mail me your address again.

And finally...I managed to take a decent-ish photo of the cotton bag...

...available now in all good Etsy stores ;)

Brand shiny new Etsy shop...and a chance to win some failed products!

Finally! After a term filled with essays, translations, lectures, seminars, presentations and very little creative or online activity Mr.Pigeon and I have returned. We also have some fairly exciting things to show you.


Having chosen a rubbish Etsy username when signing up last year, I decided to start a new shop at http://thepigeonloft.etsy.com/ - it makes a lot more sense than 'happyturnip'(...don't ask!) and will be a lot easier to remember and find. Now, a shop needs stock so over the past week I have been busy producing around 20 'carrier pigeon' screen-printed cotton shopping bags, a new pigeon stationery set and some wine bags. Would you like to see them?

Well you can't see any photos of the cotton bags because they were all awful, but here are the peg-leg pigeon gocco-printed note cards...

YARRRRRRR!

Just in case you'd forgotten what 007 looks like...

These are the wine bags...

...and a catalogue-style shot...

But even more exciting (for you lot that is) is that when printing there are often prints which are ever so slightly dodgy. Not horrificly bad, but not really suitable to be sold full-price. So...I thought I'd have a little giveaway for the chance to win a cotton bag and some pigeon stationery seconds. There will be only one winner!



All you have to do to enter is leave a comment telling me what you will be or have been doing on Christmas day...in three words. Ready....steady...GO!

And the winner is...

Wow! Thank you to everybody who left a lovely Birthday comment and entered the giveaway- I will try to reply to as many comments as possible, but apologise if I can't reply to everybody- Gmail likes to group comments together so that I can't reply to them. Grrrrr.



I would also like to apologise in advance for the dreadful photo quality- I can't control the weather!



Anyhoo, Mr.P decided that as it was his giveaway he should be involved in the drawing process...

...so I put 41 names in a little bowl, blind-folded one pigeon...

...and the winner is....

GINA!

Well done, Gina, if you would be kind enough to e-mail me your address, a little pigeon will shortly be on his way to you.

But I couldn't leave it at just one. I also decided to pick two runners up who will receive a little something (not a bird) which I have not decided on yet. The runners up are...

...Cheryl I think I already have your address but AnneMarie you will need to let me know yours. Thanks :)

Don't worry if you didn't manage to bag a birdie- there will be more pigeony goodness in the Etsy shop very shortly!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PIGEON LOFT!

The Pigeon Loft is exactly one year old today.

Thank you all so much for reading this waffle and for following Mr.Pigeon's adventures so far- what a busy year it's been!

Mr.Pigeon 007 and his glamourous assistant Miss.Hennypenny were made one year ago in Spain and since then they have seen over 50 brothers and sisters fly off to new homes in Scotland, England, Spain, Germany, US, Singapore, Australia and Belgium, they have had their photos taken in various european cities and have eaten many a nice piece of cake with their owner :)

Special thanks go to Ruth and Val- my first 'regulars' (and some of my first customers!) who have been leaving kind comments ever since before The Pigeon Loft came about on the old blog Off The Hook

Now, you can't have a birthday without presents, so I am going to offer you the chance to win a little woolly 'present'- a bird to be more precise. Just leave a comment stating whether you would prefer a pigeon or a chicken (no, you can't say both- I'm not made of money) and tell me what you would like to see Mr.Pigeon getting up to in the Pigeon Loft's 2nd year.

I will pick a winner out of a hat (well, more likely a bowl) and hopefully announce the result on Sunday...GOOD LUCK!