Thanks for a great year for the Indie Fixx blog and the Indie Fixx Shop. You guys are the best readers and shoppers ever! As a way to say thanks for a good year, I’m offering 10% off everything in the Indie Fixx Shop to Indie Fixx readers until January 5th.

Just use the code happynewyear at checkout to save 10% off all purchases.

Have a safe, rockin’ and fun New Year’s Eve!

Tomorrow, December 31st, is the last day to enter the Indie Fixx Holiday Giveaway for your chance to win a grand prize worth over $560 & made up of donated goods from 16 different indie shops. (pictured below)

How does it work? Visit the shops who have donated prizes (listed below) and pick your favorite shop. Enter the contest here with your email address & include the name of your favorite shop. You will then be entered into the random drawing. Please note, if you’ve already signed up for the newsletter, you must sign-up again and add your favorite participating shop.

The prize includes items donated by the following indie shops:

Framed print from Wolfie and the Sneak
Jewelry from Kimmchi
Clutch from Becky OH!
Jewelry from Shy Siren
Taggie pillow from Nico & Zoe
Stockings from Daisy Lane Designs
Necklace from Artchestra
Jewelry from Jewelry by Jennifer Casady
Bath & body set from Bramble Berry
Jewelry from .tomate d’epingle .
Cards from Greener Me
Jewelry from Sha-Sha Jewelry
Cards, buttons & earrings from Mau Studio
Cosmetics from Melissa Page Cosmetics
Jewelry from Broken TeePee Designs
Jewelry from A Pretty Rock

Just a note to let you know that the Indie Artist Fixx and Reader Fixx Thursday (with a few changes) will continue after the new year. I’m taking a quasi holiday until after New Year’s…quasi, because I will still be posting, but not as often as I usually do. I wanted to still post a little, because I know a lot of you read Indie Fixx at work and I didn’t want you to have nothing to do during my holiday break.

Hope you are having a nice holiday week, whether you are working or vacationing. I sure am! Did some after Christmas shopping for myself (I’ll share later), went to IKEA (yea!) and I’ve been eating plenty of cookies and drinking too much wine. I will have to readjust after the holidays and curb my three favorite vices…shopping, eating and drinking wine. It’s the holidays, yo!

Here’s the winning entry from Hanna in the contest for the Chronicle Books title Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts! Amigurumi!

Hanna made a really cute jeans bag  to carry around her journal. You can read more about Hanna’s craftiness on her blog. Congrats and enjoy, Hanna. Be sure to share your first Amigurumi project on your blog.

It’s finally over, the holidays are finally over…at least the gift exchanging ones. I had a wonderful fun & family filled day yesterday and received lots of wonderful gifts, including some indie gifts. So how about you, what did you give or receive that was indie this year? Tell me and you could win this gorgeous messenger bag from Gerbera Designs and these dangling Raindrop earring beauties from Wired Originals in the ‘Show Me Your Indie Loot’ contest. Both prizes are pictured below.

To enter the ‘Show Me Your Indie Loot’ contest, just leave a comment on this post with links to the indie product(s) you gifted and/or received as gifts or links to pictures of you gifting or receiving your indie loot. I will pick one random commenter to win the Gerbera Designs bag and the Wired Originals earrings (pictured above). The contest ends January 5th at 11pm EST.

Here’s where I share what I indie gifted this year.

I got some Peach Dry-Oil Spray from Feto Soap for my sister, since she loves peaches and everything peach flavored & scented. I also gifted to someone very special a gorgeous Bolsa Clutch from Becky OH!, which is even more lovely in person and so completely well-made.

I gifted a pair of these Simple Sweet hoop earrings from Freshie and Zero and some lovely Swirlyflower Personalized Notecards by 12fifteen.

Finally, for my friend Lisa I got some Guess What, Chicken Butt cards from Young & Withit Industries and for my BFF Laura a Honey Hiding Notepad from Nut and Bee. Now, it’s your turn to show me your indie holiday loot. Leave a comment below.