Fifth Tuesday Fun- Installment 2, Reading Challenge Giveaway


This last day of June is special, for we have finally come to the point of discovering who all has joined this month's reading challenge...

And you get to see what I planned for our giveaway!!!

Ready?

Here it is:



Two pillows, all ready and waiting to go to a good home!!!

I sewed them just yesterday (with a little help from this tutorial) and while I am introducing them, let me tell you about a few features:

Number one, they are four-way-pillows!!! In other words, I have designed them so that they can be displayed four different ways:

1. With the yellow chevron and the birds...


2. with the black print and the birds,,,


3. with the yellow chevron and the black print...


4. with both pillows showing the birds...


And secondly, the pillow covers can be be removed from the pillow forms via a handy-dandy invisible zipper! This makes them very easy to take off for laundering, and also makes it so there really is no front or back, just a zipper in the bottom. And as the fabric is all pre-washed and 100 percent cotton, it should hold up to a few washings as the need arises!



What must you do in order to enter the giveaway?

Just this: verify that you have read A Long Walk To Water, plus one other book, by writing a brief review on both books in the comment section below.

 I am leaving this giveaway open until Wednesday evening (July 1) at 11:00 pm, to give you plenty of time to enter your comments if you have fulfilled the reading challenge. After that time, a winner will be chosen randomly and announced on this blog.

Until then, the pillows are biding their time in my bedroom and waiting anxiously to see who their new owner will be...

I wonder too, don't you?

Update: the giveaway is closed and we have a winner!
 

Comments

  1. UnknownJune 30, 2015 at 1:13 PM

    At this point I'm feeling hopeful. :) Love the pillows, and they would look beautiful on my chair!

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  2. GinaJune 30, 2015 at 4:16 PM

    The pillows are too cute. But sadly, I did not read A Long Walk to Water. I couldn't justify starting yet another book with the towering stack next to my bed - but now I wish I had!

    But some other reader is going to be quite pleased. And thanks for the link to the tutorial!
    Gina

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  3. KaraJuly 1, 2015 at 3:23 PM

    The Long Walk to Water was an easy book to read and one I read almost in one sitting. It is hard for me to imagine the terror that young Salva faced as he was running for his life- to not know whether your family was dead or alive, to finally have a friend your age only to have him eaten by savage lions a short while later, to have the pains of starvation always with you- no, imagine I cannot. And Nya- just reading of the dark, muddy water they had to drink with who knows what all mixed in made my stomach turn. I have never had to wonder if we will have enough water- why we have the luxury of cold water coming right out of our fridge! What would Nya say about that?? My absolute most favorite part of the book was Salva getting reunited with his father. What a reunion that was!!!!!!! I was so glad the story had a happy ending...

    My other book I read this month was actually a re-read for me. But some books are so good you just have to do that! The book was Kindred Hearts For God by Diane Yoder. It is a collection of short stories, essays, and poems written for young woman. The subjects of the stories vary but they are all written as an encouragement to young girls like myself as we serve God and seek his will for our lives. It was published by Ridgeway Publishers.

    Thanks, Joanna, for doing the giveaway!!:)

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  4. ChristaJuly 1, 2015 at 4:25 PM

    I found "The Long Walk to Water" fascinating and edifying. Salva could have stayed in America and pursued the "American dream." Instead he returned good for evil. That is forgiveness. And think how it spoke to Nya, to have a man from the enemy tribe come give them water. That is love. He will certainly have his reward.

    My 2nd book of choice was called "The Seamstress." It was the true story of Sara, a Jew, who survived the hellish conditions of Ravensbruck during the Holocaust. Sara herself helped write the book. Although Sara never gave God the glory for enabling her to survive the camp, neither did she become a bitter person. I will not give too many details just in case one of you want to read her book. It is very worth your time.

    Thanks, Joanna, for bringing "The Long Walk to Water" to my attention. I am happy for all the books you suggest. For as you know, I love to read!!!

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