To my lovely readers.

I hope everyone made through the new years in one piece :) The blog has been quiet for the past month, so to compensate on that quietness and to show my appreciation for you all,

I made something small for you <3

Yes, it's a reflector!

Here's some "Making of-" shots :)

You guessed it... It's lottery time! I've used only leather and reflector canvas in the making. The edge trim and the "M" logo on the other side are real patent leather.

Rules:

• Participation time: 1 week. From 1st of January 2012 to 8th of January 2012.
• Participate by commenting to this post.
• You can receive either 1 or 2 tickets.
• 1 ticket comes automatically when commenting. You'll get 2 tickets in total when you comment and copy the first image to your blog AND create a link to this blog.
• Anonymous people should comment as an alias. Use the "Name/URL" option when commenting. You don't have to input an URL, just a name. If you only comment as "anonymous" you will receive no tickets.
• State in your comment that with how many tickets you're participating the lottery.

I will do the lottery on the 9th of January 2012, for those who participated before 00:01 of the same day.

Good luck my dear readers :)

Ladies and gentlemen!

This was my first lottery, and a good number of 6 participants are now excited to know how it went:

I used random.org's true random number generator, to make it absolutely... random :D Anyways, to the left you can see the participants with their one or two tickets and by pressing generate a random number shows the ticket winner.

And here's the results:

• Henaja
• Ploppen
• Anonymous
• Marek

Congratulations my dear readers! Without you this whole bloggin enterprise wouldn't make any sense!
Please, send your address information to: maensivushoes(ä)hotmail.com

A lottery for readers

I'd like to thank everyone for their interest in my blog by doing a lottery. Since it's my first one, the prices are small and modest. There will be four leather pieces with the imprint logo "Mäensivu" on them, which I made and polished by hand. The leather is about 3mm thick high quality oak tanned leather which I use for the outer soles. They're basically meant for your key chain. This way you'll have a small piece of a bespoke shoe with you!

With the logo stamped on, cut to shape and a hole drilled to it, I smoothed the edges with a rotating brush.

After dyeing, I puffed them with a bone.

Little bit of leather oil, and we're ready to hang with your keys!

Rules of lottery:

1. All members of my reader's board will get 1 ticket. This applies to new readers as well.
2. An extra ticket will be given to those whole like the blog's facebook page.
3. Those who aren't in my blogger.com readers board will not get any tickets. So if you only like the facebook page and aren't a reader in blogger you won't get any tickets.
4. Comment to this post, stating that with how many tickets you'll participate.
5. Lottery time: 17.7.2011 - 24.7.2011.

Good luck and thank you all again for your encouraging support!