Double Home-made Crazy Good Giveaway
We’re delighted to announce the winner of our Pawalla giveaway for 3 months home-delivered treats and toys is Kathryn. Congratulations! Look for an email from Layla.
There’s something special about things that are one-of-a-kind, homemade or handmade. We love providing giveaways but it’s nice to win too and we did! A new blog, Cherry City Kitties had a giveaway for a ManCat Mat and we won it. Before long, a package arrived with a handwritten note from three cats Harry, Dexter & Tipp and their mom C who made the Mat and also sent a healing stone for our Merlin. Cats that are bonded don’t minds sharing beds but all cats like their own special spots for napping.
The Mancat Mat is a cozy, reversible wooly mat made from upcycled thrift shop clothing. Odin took an immediate liking to it and it sits on top of a dining room chair. If you’d like to win a ManCat Mat made for your kitty, read on.
Another package arrived from Brumby Yarns and Odin went so crazy after I opened it I stuck the whole package in the fridge. When I had time to examine the contents more carefully, I discovered the source of Odin’s rapture: Hand-crocheted catnip toys in whimsical shapes wrapped in a super crinkly bag tied with yarn. There was a carrot, a strawberry, an Oreo-like cookie and a grape with a bell, all filled with catnip and valerian. There was no banana but Odin went bananas! He had to get his paws on all them and he did. His opinion? Crazy good!
After I emptied the bag he stuck his head inside and then inside the empty shipping envelope. For safety reasons, please dispose of the bag and yarn. DIY types, can re-purpose them with some fabric into another toy.
To see all the creative goodness from Kindra Haymaker at Brumbys Yarns, visit her Etsy shop Brumbys Yarns
A very relaxed but more polite Odin has this to say.
One lucky kitty or their human will win a ManCat Mat and one other lucky entrant will win a package of catnip toys from Brumbys Yarns.
To enter to win simply leave a comment at this post anytime until 11:59 PM August 16, 2012. The winners will be announced next Friday. Good Luck!
61 Comments
Janet Nicholas
My cats would love these.
Carrie
We love new cat toys at my house!! Phin & Quin would love to win these.
monica
My cats would love this.
Cindy
I love the Mancat Mat! Great for my boy kitty!! One entry, please and thanks!
Lara
Yay homeade cat stuff, my kitties would enjoy!
HollyAnne Dustin
I have a few catnip crazy cats and I would love to win them the catnip toys! If I get picked to win the mat I hope that my Lucky gets it, he tends to sleep on the floor and I’d love to put a nice mat out for him (he declines all the beds I’ve tried so far).
Kellyn
Oh, I hope I win! My kitty would love these!
Sweet Purrfections
We ladycats would like to win one of these!
thepricklypinecone
Aww Odin looks like he is having a blast! I am sure our kitty would love them too.
Three Country Cats
Since it’s a mancat mat, that means I don’t have to share with my sifur Rosie, right? Right?
Tia, Millie and Gabby
OMC! They sound like some craaaaaaazy good toys! Please please please can we win them? Gabby would loe them and so would Millie and her kittens! And Tia? Well, she does anything for catnip…
Bengal Duo
OMC those are the coolest yarn toys eVaaar! =^_^=
LP
Homemade is made with love and care and is unique to boot! 🙂
Count us in!
the critters in the cottage xo
Henry
Concats to the winners! Please enter me in for your giveaway!
Purrs
Henry
[email protected]
Ms.Phoebe
Mewmew! Mew always have the best giveaways Auntie Layla and Cat Wisdom mancats! What would mew boys do if suddenly a lady cat were to join mewz family? Have mew had a sister before?
Paws crossed, purrrrrrrrrrrr! <3<3<3
The Musings Of A Crazy Cat Lady
That mat is really lovely. We hope the healing stone does the trick for Merlin. My girls would really enjoy that pretty mat (Made in Michigan!) and toys.
Skeeter and Izzy
Yahoo for all the fun stuff and congrats to all the winners! We would luv to win (we luv to enter as much as win). New toys or a new bed that is hand made with love is xtra special. Remember shelter kitties love something warm and cozy that smells like love too! Making a special blankie for a shelter kitty to snuggle up in is a fun and very special project that most anyone can do even kids and upcycling is a wonderful thing.
Mucho grande purrs to all! luvs Skeeter and Izzy >^..^<
hannibal2
I’m sure Joel, Samuel and Ziva would love to have some new toys. The catnip is an extra bonus as they do love their drugs, probably inherited from their mom, a child of the 60’s. And shaped like food! Wow! Just add cereal and it’s a stoner’s dream come true. Just kidding. My cats do not get high every night. Not every night.
Julia Vilk
Seriously you always have the coolest things!!! My kitties would love this. Hope I win! meow 🙂
Anonymous
I love this! I have three cats and, while one is not yet bonded completely with the other two, they don’t really seem to mind sharing. That is, as long as the other vacates the bed first. I also would like to have the patterns for crocheted catnip toys. What a great way to use scraps of yarn!
HELENA
Can a UK kitty enter???
If so, my man-cat, Scooter, loves blankies, quilts, woollys and things! And his 19 1/2 year old back can feel the cold sometimes so he’d love your man cat mat!!!!
Love and under-chin scritchies to Odin xxx
ps you mentioned a healing stone; which type of stone do you have? I have a lapi lazuli which I’m told might be calming. I have it tucked under the pillow he uses at night 😉
boomermuse
Yes, U.K. be sure to come back on Sunday when we have a U.K based giveaway. The stone is a quartz from Lake Michigan. All stones have different healing properties. Lapis lazuli is indeed soothing. I lost a favorite broach with one. Odin purrs his thanks…
Abby
Woohoo a lady cat would also like that mat!
And who doesn’t like toys???
Especially catnip toys?
purrs
Abby
Julia Williams
Wow, fabulous mancat mat AND catnip toys — it was your lucky day! My kitties would be thrilled to win either of these.
Mary
My kitties would love these things!
amyorvin
My cats would love this. I hope I win!
[email protected]
Cheysuli
Concatulations to the winner!!! WOO HOO!
Deb n Cats
I have a couple of girls who would love some new toys.
Texas, a cat in New York
Odin sure seems to love his ManCat Mat 😉 Great job from the Cherry City Kitties’ human!
We would love to be entered in the giveaway =^.^=
Thanks for all these giveaways!
Purrs
Joanne Gregory
My kitties are hoping and keeping paws crossed that we win this great giveaway! Thanks!!
Jerri Carol Compton
Oh! The Fur-Babies would LOVE to win! I can just see Georgy and Mikey debating over who gets the first nap on the Man-cat Mat… or Annie and Bailey playing with the new toys. Please enter us to win.
wayleslie
Oh how we’d love to win… Yesterday was our adoptiversary and mama forgot to get us anything!
Brian
You always get the coolest stuff!
Trudy Jewell
Sounds like something my cats would love!!
stephanie
I love the mancat mat, and the man… Odin!!!
Kim A
My ‘kids’, all 5 of them love special new things. I know my handicapped Lillia would love the mat and everyone would go crazy for the nip! Great giveaway, Thank you & good luck everyone!
CarenOsrinGittleman (@CatChatCaren)
those are some wonderful prizes and we are so glad that you won!
We would love to enter your give-away, thank you for this opportunity!
Christine Connallon
They’re both amazing prizes! Incredible!
Socks & Scylla
Wow both the mancat mat and the toys look pawsome.
Kathryn
Ohh, Odin is soo adorable!!!!!
Nancy N
Both my kids would adore either prize and we all would LOVE to win one!!!!
Marg
We would love to win some new toys and that mat looks good too. So put our name in the pot too. Thanks for having this.
The Island Cats
That mat looks like it’s the purrfect spot for a mancat to take a nice snooze! And that carrot looks scrumptious!!
Please enter us in the giveaway!
Avalo Cat Sanctuary
Love it – we want more, more, more !
Kathie
My Kallie-Kat would love to win!
Michelle Kirkham
Love the Mancat Mat! My cats love lounging on mats! And the toys are just adorable. Love handmade toys! Hope my kitties win!
Cherry City Kitties
Thanks Odin (and mom Layla) for a puuurrrrrfect endorsement of our Mancat Mat! Can’t wait to see who wins!
Ellen Wexler
What perfect kitty things, and thank you for sharing the chance to win!
Lisa Anne Mayfield
This giveaway sounds cool & I have plenty kitties who’d love a Mancat Mat! Regardless of that, I DO enjoy your site & blog! ^.^< <3 (Lisa Anne)
Phoenix
My ManCats are clamouring to be entered for these fine prizes!
Debbie
My babycats love new toys! Especially hand-made!!
Roxanne
Homemade is always the best!