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Happy Tuesday everyone!! Happy Canada Day to all our fellow Canadians! We hope you all are having a great day. Our #PetitePlume Pinterest Giveaway ends this Wednesday!! Be sure to enter HERE if you haven’t yet :)

It’s also time for this week’s How To’s Day! It’s no secret that we love all sorts of sweets and yummy food here at the Camelot Design Studio. Have you seen our What We Love Board? :) We enjoy baking sweet treats, and more importantly, eating them…it’s always a good day when someone brings in something delicious to the office. So inspired by all of our sweet tooths, we decided to make macaron pillows with our fleece…and boy did they turn out exceptionally sweet!!

Our Macaron Pillows are soft, comfy, adorable…and almost good enough to eat! We can imagine a bunch of our macarons, in different pastel colors, decorating a daybed or little girl’s bedroom – oh how cute, right? Because we used our plush fleece, they are perfect for cozying up with, either with a good book or for a little nap. We used our rose, turquoise, and white fleece making our macarons a cascade of pastel confectionary!

Want to make your very own Macaron Pillows? Click HERE to see the full tutorial :)

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Happy Friday!! Great way to the end the week with a pretty day – a lovely change from the wind and rain we’ve been getting lately. There are also two more days until #StarWarsDay and in honor of May the 4th, we are hosting a Glow-in-the-Dark Star Wars fabric giveaway on our Facebook Page – Click here to enter!

To round up another wonderful week, we have our Fan Friday for you all today! Marion Omont used our Fleece Fox Hat & Tail Tutorial to create an absolutely adorable fleece fox hat and tail for her son. Marion’s son had a school carnival to attend and the kids were able to dress up! She remembered seeing our fox hat & tail tutorial on our Pinterest – a project she had wanted to make for a while but never got the chance to. She showed the costume idea to her son, who eagerly approved, and in a couple of hours his fox costume was created! Finishing the look with a cute nose and some whiskers, Marion’s son is one of the most precious foxes we have ever seen!

Marion – you did an absolutely incredible job with the fox hat and tail! Your little gray fox is so cute and we hope he enjoyed his school’s carnival all decked out. Thank you so much for sharing your project with us and for letting us know you enjoyed our tutorial! We are so happy that it came out wonderfully. You can check out the full tutorial here, as well as a free printable on our website.

If you decide to use one of our tutorials or use our fabric for a project, you could be featured in a future Fan Friday post! Please email us at info@camelotfabrics.com – Seeing all of your projects always makes our day!! :) Have a great weekend!

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Happy Wednesday everyone! We hope you are having a lovely day. We have been getting milder weather here lately, and we’ve even seen a bit of green…but alas, we’re heading towards another snow storm here. It seems like Winter just does not want to end yet. We are just longing for Spring!!

To put us in a better mood, we are excited to announce our Roonie the Raccoon Kit Giveaway winner! For last week’s giveaway, we wanted to know what everyone’s favorite solid plush fleece from our basics collection was your favorite. We got an array of color favorites!! We are so thrilled that you all enjoyed our solid plush fleece colors; all of your comments were super sweet. The winner of our Roonie the Raccoon Kit giveaway will be receiving black, stone, and white plush fleece from us to make their very own soft friend.

And now, it’s time to announce the winner!! The winner of our Roonie the Raccoon Kit is…

Congratulations, Robin Johnson!! We are super excited for you, and we hope you enjoy our tutorial and making your very own Roonie the Raccoon! Our own raccoon softie will now have a new friend :) Once again, a huge thank you to everyone who entered this giveaway! We hope you all have a fantastic rest of the day.

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Happy Wednesday! We hope everyone is having a great week so far. Have you seen yesterday’s How To’s Day yet? We show you our tips & tricks for easily sewing buttons to any project. Be sure to check it out here!

It’s time for our first Winsday for the month of March! This Winsday is very special, because we are giving someone the chance at their own Roonie the Raccoon!! Do you remember one of our past How To’s Day posts where we shared a tutorial on our coral fleece raccoon plushie/pillow? Today we are giving away a Roonie the Raccoon Kit – including all the supplies to create your very own plush friend. Roonie is soft, cuddly, and super friendly!! And we’re especially excited because now our Design Studio Roonie can have a new friend :)

How to win your very own Roonie the Raccoon Kit? That’s super easy! Because Roonie the Raccoon is made from our Plush Fleece – Black, Stone, and White – we wanted to know what your favorite Plush Fleece color is! Click HERE to see all of our Plush Fleece options, and let us know your favorite in the comments below! Once you do, you’ll be entered to win your very own Roonie the Raccoon Kit! We have lots of stunning colors to choose from, that we are sure you will love.

A Recap of the Giveaway Rules:

1. Click HERE to see our Plush Fleece options and choose your favorite!

2. Let us know in the blog comments your coral fleece color choice

3. The prize is for a Roonie the Raccoon Kit, which includes all the necessary supplies to create your own raccoon plush (pillow form not included)

4. The giveaway runs from March 5th, 2014 and ends on March 12th, 2014. The winner will be announced on all our social media platforms, as well as on next week’s Winsday post.

5. You can follow our blog, twitter, facebook, instagram, and pinterest to stay connected!

6. Good Luck!!

We hope you enjoy this week’s Winsday prize! One lucky person will be winning their own Roonie the Raccoon Kit, and we are very excited about that! St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this month as well, so we’re wishing you all lots of luck :) Have a great day everyone, and happy plush fleece perusing! :)

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Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a great day, the weekend is almost here! Also to those who celebrate, we wish everyone a wonderful last day of Hanukkah. Here’s to celebrations all ’round! “He puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. Maybe Christmas, he thought… doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps… means a little bit more” – The Grinch

Time for some holiday cheer on the blog! Today’s holiday question is: What is your favorite holiday ornament? For myself, I would say the angel ornament my mom got for me when I was starting high school to “replace” my “Baby’s First Christmas” ornament I had unfortunately broken when I was 5. Even though it’s not the original ornament, my angel still means so much to me and how much I truly adore my mommy! Let’s hear from our design studio team:

Shannen: My favorite ornament is from my first Christmas. It’s brass with beautiful Christmas themed engravings including the year I was born. As tradition, my 3 sisters & I make sure to hang our own each year to make the holiday season official

Valeria: My favourite Christmas ornament is this mega old plastic Santa that used to belong to my mom. It doesn’t match any of the other ornaments in the tree but we adore it and always make sure it’s there!

Marion: My Mum has a beautiful tradition around this time of year. Each Christmas, she buys someone the gift of a slender, sleepy Saint Nicholas from a wood carver who comes to a craft fair in Ottawa where she lives. Two years ago I was living in my own household for the first time – ie. not with roommates – and to celebrate, she gave me a sleepy St. Nick of my own. My Santa’s eyes are covered by two tufts of white hair and his nose is just a nub poking out from his mass of beard and moustache. He’s perfect and he makes me think of my wonderful, generous Mum.

Andra: The Christmas decorations that mean the most to me are a string of lights that are also little bells. I love them because the bell lights also sing Christmas songs. We’ve had them for 15 years and they still work perfectly!

Juan: I have a tradition in my house that I’ve had forever of having a nativity scene. And every night, when my 5 kids have gone to bed, my wife and I move the tiny figures of Mary and Joseph a little closer to the stable so that when my kids wake up in the morning, they can see that Mary and Joseph have traveled over night. On the night of the 24th, Mary and Joseph arrive at the stable and at midnight, baby Jesus appears in the manger. Over the course of the 12 days following Christmas, the three magi approach from three different directions, following a star. On the 12th day of Christmas, which is epiphany, they arrive at the stable and give gifts to the baby. The kids put some water and a bit of grass for the camels.

It’s Thankful Thursday on the blog, and today we are sharing with you an exceptionally special endeavor, Medi-Monsters. Medi-Monsters was started by Tonya Wilson and her son, Trace, as a joint venture to provide loving monsters to comfort children battling cancer or a life-threatening condition.

Tonya: There are approximately 46 children in the US diagnosed with some form of cancer every single school day. My son was one of those 46 on August 5, 2010. Thankfully he is now cancer free. Medi-monsters was developed to help alleviate some of those fears associated with treatment.

Going through any illness is a scary thing. I cannot even begin to imagine how difficult it would be for little kids, with the many doctor appointments and treatments, but Medi-Monsters tries to alleviate some of that fear with their cuddlers. As Tonya states, “this monster is guaranteed to gobble up all fears and scary stuff and is provided free of charge to a child”. They are sweet, soft, and the perfect friend. Such an incredible venture!

A couple of months ago, we donated some of our fabric to Medi-Monsters to help comfort more children, and it had been such a heart-warming experience. We want to thank Tonya and Trace, not only for introducing and welcoming us to Medi-Monsters, but for also being such amazing and selfless role models to us and everyone. Tonya and Trace – you are both superstars! :)

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