...cut off dates for Christmas shipping at WMS

I just wanted to let folks know the following regarding items ordered for Christmas.

The following dates are the cut off dates for Christmas ordering. This means that any items ordered after these dates will probably NOT get to you in time for Christmas.

Instock items ordered before these dates should make it in time. Backordered items ordered even now most likely will not arrive in time, please be aware of this folks.

UK - Friday 17th December

South & Central America, Middle East, Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia and New Zealand customers - Friday 3rd December

Europe, USA and Canada - Tuesday 7th December

Christmas store arrangements

Waltzingmouse Stamps will cease shipping on the 21st of December for the Christmas holidays and will recommence shipping on the 5th January 2011. Our webstore will remain open on the web, but orders will not be processed until the 4th January.

...TAG you're it! Stand outs!!!

Apologies, heaped upon more apologies, I should have had this post written up weeks ago, but as usual, there's always a heap more to do than I plan for! lol.

Anyhow, if you're new to the blog, you might not know that we ran a fabby competition a wee while ago for folks to make Christmas tags, we wanted your very finest! And that's exactly what we got!!

164 deliciously fabulous tag designs!!

If you haven't yet seen them and are in need of a little inspiration, then check them all out right here.

We awarded a fabby grand prize to one lucky random participant but NOW I'm taking the chance to award a few more little spot prizes to tags that especially, shall we say, tickled!!

Let me stress, this is not a talent competition, I was not looking for technical skill, I was just on the look out for those tags which particularly tickled for one reason or another!

So, here they are, my top ticklers!!:

Kelly, loved the wooden look tag and wee house from Sewing box Hugs all gussied up for Christmas!


Debby, for the beautifully soft colour and CAS design


Anne Kristine, for the authentic Vintage style of her gorgeous tag!


Laurie, for the genius of this super snowflake tag, sentiment stamped on clear film!


Gabi, for the fabulous hand crocheted detailing, and the beautiful deep blues of winter.


And, last but not least, Meredith's mum-in-law, for the hand beaded garlands on this wee tree and the fabby vintage detailing!


All six ladies, if you could please email me, adding the words TAG SPOT WINNER to your subject line I will email you with details of your spot prize! email me on: claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com

I could have went on and on, indeed I intended to pick only three! but there were so many beautiful creations put forward for our challenge that I just could not stop at 3!

I want to thank everyone who took part and joined in to make our tag challenge such fun! I very much enjoyed looking at all of the creations and it was so hard to decide on only six!!

So folks, Christmas is nearly upon us and I encourage everyone to play along with our next challenge...details coming soon...LOL, it's called the Waltzingmouse Stamps, NICE List, and I'll fill you all in tomorrow...don't worry, we know you don't have time to make anything...

...5 mins

There is light at the end of the tunnel! I got out loads of orders this week, for folks who have been waiting, but I still have some to get out as soon as I receive more stock. I am currently shipping all in-stock items, and sending out backordered items as they come in to stock.

Please note folks that at this stage I'm sure that shipping all over the world is slowing down as Christmas approaches, so folks who are thinking of placing an order should be aware that things may take longer than normal to reach them.

I will be getting the Tag you're it challenge post written up over the weekend, loads of folks have been asking about it and I just have not had a spare moment to do it, but hopefully this weekend! There are still 3 (I think, but I will check) prizes that I need to give out!

And who know's, maybe next week I will get to make something!

Also this week, we've had a lot of stuff going on at home, we're getting a bit of building work done and OMGood gravy I was not prepared for the upheaval.....

...Ordering Backordered items

I just want to remind folks to check whether the items they are ordering are on backorder, or are instock before ordering - we are reaching the stage where backordered items may not arrive with me in time to get them to folks before Christmas. Christmas will be here sooner than you think, so please consider this when ordering, this really applies to folks ordering from today onwards.

Just FYI Backordered items can take around 10 days to come back into stock, it can then take between 2 - 14 days for the item to reach you depending on where you are, Uk - 2-3 days, Europe - 5-7 days, Rest of World, 7-14 days.

Many thanks.

Winners - November Friends of WMS Blog Waltz!

Hey y'all! Lisa the Mousekeeper here, squeaking in to announce the winners from our November Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz!

The winner from all who participated in the blog waltz is Vera!

The winner from all who correctly counted all the hidden watermarks in the design team posts (which was 16!) is Lorraine!

Congrats ladies!!! Please email Claire at claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com with your choice of stamp set and mailing address, and Claire will ship your prize right out to you!

Thanks again to all who joined us, both as a participant and as a waltzer! We hope you'll come again in January when our theme will be Valentines/Love. Please click on the link in our sidebar to get more information and grab the HTML for your blog!!!