For Christmas I made my Dad one of these little A5 journals so that he could write any notes, ideas and lists down whilst on his allotment. Of course I just had to make myself one and so far it has proved very useful indeed, it has my seed list in, my plan, my to-do lists and I’m sure by the end of the year it will be jam packed!
Spring is just around the corner and I am giving you the chance to win your very own allotment notebook so you can get planning for the year ahead. It’s made from real leather with ‘Allotment Notes’ stamped on the front and there is a grey cord to keep the book shut. There is a pen holder inside as well as some handy little pockets.The best thing about this journal is that the notebook is removable so it can be used every year, just simple replace the A5 notebook once it is full to the brim with all those important notes!
All you have to do is simply comment below with your full name and one reason why you are excited for Springtime to arrive.
I will draw the winner at random on the 1st of February 2015.
Good luck everyone! xx
71 thoughts on “Handmade Journal Give-Away!”
Hi katie, im looking forward to spring as I finally get to start on my allotmentI that I got last summer as I couldn’t start because of illness. Hopefully I finally get a greenhouse and im going to get a dehydrator! Sooo excited and last but not least is to see my climbing roses grow 🙂 emma carnell x
I’m excited for spring because I’m giving munchkin pumpkins a go ! ! ! !
Hi Katie, I’m excited for spring as it means I get my brand new allotment after 7 years waiting! Everyone loves spring but for me, this year, its filled with more magic and potential than I ever dreamed of 🙂 Abigail Fuller xxx
Love it! Is it difficult to work the leather? I do lots of handmade things, but i’ve never tried the leather.
I’m excited about spring because i love it! As a biologist and gardener is the best season! I just planted lots of plants and i can wait to se them full of flowers and fruits!!
PD: love your videos! And of course your blog and instagram! Very useful and sweet!
Congrats’
Pat,xx
Hi Katie, I’m excited for spring as today I cleaned out shed and I’ve made the greenhouse ready for some serious sowing!! I managed to sow some broad beans today. Let spring begin!!
I am excited to be getting back in to gardening in a more organized and thoughtful way this year. I can’t wait for the snow to melt and the weather to warm up enough so that I can start some seeds in the potting shed I built last fall. Like Sue, I am excited to try munchkin pumpkins and have found seeds for myself after a little bit of research (sadly, no Sarah Raven in the US). Good luck everyone!
I am looking forward to spring because each year is a chance to have the perfect plot! I guess I will be looking forward to spring for many more years to come!
I finally made it to the top of the wait list, and will have a tiny allotment beginning March. Your blog and videos are great inspiration! My windowsills are filled with seed trays, and I’m looking forward to Swiss chard, pole beans, kohlrabi and munchkin pumpkins!
Why do I love spring and anticipate its arrival? So many reasons but one is the hope that spring brings. There is something of planting a simple seed with so much love and care and to see it flourish little by little and harvest it and the end. Spring brings hope and new beginnings.
Hi,I’m excited for this year because I got my allotment last year and it was a mess,couldn’t grow anything so spent the whole time sorting/clearing/prepareing for this year’s planting.hopefully me in kids will see some veg this year 😀 all the best anna houston x
I’m looking forward to spring so we finally have some good lettuce, green onions, and radishes in our kitchen. I try to cook and eat seasonally and miss these things.
hi Katie, I am very excited for spring! I got an allotment last summer and have worked really hard strimming it and turning over the soil. I have just found out we can put a little shed on our plots. Inspired very much by your own shed! I’m also excited to see all the bulbs by Sarah raven come up this year in my garden that I planted in November last year. Happy allotmenting! Claire bird
I am very exited because after a long illness I have got the all clear from the doc and can return to my lottie and I have a lot of catching up and planning to do.Started all ready some seeds indoors which will planted out later.
I can not wait for spring, really in love at the allotment it will be my first spring at the allotment
Oh how amazing and genouous of you Katie!
I’m super excited about spring this year as its our first spring having our own home and garden. I have spent so much time prepping it for this spring that I can’t wait to see what pops up to greet me when the time comes!
I’m so looking forward to Spring this year.
We are completely covered in snow and ice. It starts in October and doesn’t leave until end of March. I’m going to try to plant the cool crops early this year in April, if the weather permits. I usually don’t plant anything until the end of May. Wish me luck! Btw I so adore your videos and photos. So charming.
Wow that’s lovely Katie I’m looking forward to spring as I feel it’s when the garden plants start to come alive love to see all the spring bulbs coming out in beautiful colours at the moment we have snow!
Hi Katie, this is a fabulous giveaway! I’m excited for spring for so many reasons; the first snowdrops bravely pushing through the cold soil are a thing of joy andit’s a time of possibilities and new life in nature. I’m also excited to see how many of my Sarah Raven tulips have survived being dug up by my chickens ;/
Would just love to win your beautiful leather journal to keep track of everything on my allotment.
And am excited for Soringtime to arrive as I’m longing to get more seeds growing for my cutting garden – fewer veg this year but much prettier plot I hope!
I’m looking forward to spending most of my time in the garden again. 🙂 Not that I don’t usually. 😀
Hello Katie! I’m excited because I want to do more and do better this year–do succession planting, plan out my beds more strategically, work on canning more of my harvest, so as not to waste a minute of it! 🙂 I’m extra excited this year because I may be approved for a second plot, which means twice as much space. Keep your fingers crossed for me. Thank you for doing such a thoughtful giveaway. You and your dad both really seem to have a knack for creating lovely handmade things.
Best of luck with your Springtime planting!
Chelsea
Oh my gosh, I’m so excited for spring because hopefully it will bring newness – in time, season, weather, etc. In with the new!!! Thanks for the chance to win this lovely journal!
The arrival of Spring will allow me to start wearing my new French Chore Jacket.
I’m a list maker so I need a beautiful notebook in my life.
I’m excited for Spring to arrive because everything just looks more beautiful in Spring… But also because this year I’m trying out some new fruit and veg to grow. Wish me luck!
Hi Katie, I’m excited for spring because I’ve made a nature pond in the allotment and I’m hoping for a toad or two to move in! Hazel Forster
I love spring because it’s the start of new life and every day after gets better and more beautiful!
Hi Katie Notebook looks great you are so talented. Did you know how easy it is to make your own and you can use card board from cereal pkts for the cover look at inspired by Pinterest on you tube. I’m suffering with withdrawal symptoms as it feels like forever since the last video! I’ve had flooding problems on my new allotment and my onions garlic and dwarf peas have drowned!!! Ah well digging a sump and hopefully will cure the problem. However earth is like iron here in Binny Scotland!!!!
I’m excited for spring because I’ll be planting veg for the first time ever in my new allotment. Can’t wait!
To see my snakeshead fritillaries come up in the garden
Spring means a hive of activity on our allotments, everyone back in action and there all the time, the mini community back together working away every weekend! It’s such an exciting time of year as all the planning starts to turn into real action!!
Hi Katie. I’m usually not a big fan of spring but since following your allotment adventures on YouTube, I’ve become inspired to create a small vegetable garden in the back yard. I’ve got the bamboo poles for the runner beans and soil all ready to go. Just waiting for that last frost here on the west coast of Canada.
I’m really excited about spring arriving because it means I’ll be able to get the kids out of the house and planting stuff (which they love doing). We’ve got a little girl and twin boy’s and I got the allotment as a cheap way of getting them out doors and doing something interesting (I was unemployed at the time). It’s become a really important place for our family. The boys have made friends with other children and learned loads as have I) about gardening from our neighbour who has had her for 30 years (They especially like learning about pests).
The last few weeks of winter have been a pain because the weather has been quite bad in Newcastle (where we live) and we haven’t been able to get to the allotment much. That’s the main reason why I’m looking forward to.spring so much. Getting the kids out, planting, digging, planning and playing. Warmer weather, longer days, new shoots, promise, growth. Everyone should have an allotment. Standard.
Lisa Berry – I’m so excited for Springtime as cannot wait to get the school gardening club up and running to share my enthusiasm for gardening and growing vegetables with all the children. They are our future allotmenteers!
I’ve been following you on Instagram for about a month now, and just realized you have a blog! And videos?! I am so excited :). I’m looking forward to spring so my husband and I can have our first garden plot at my work (an animal sanctuary). We’ve always moved at really inopportune times so we haven’t had the chance to garden together. I’m hoping to instill the farmer itch in him because I would love to have our own farm someday. I would do animals, he would need to do the veggies 🙂 I don’t know if this giveaway is open internationally or not, but that is a lovely notebook, I may have to figure out how to make one myself!
Spring reminds me of new life a new beginning. Everything about spring – the freshness of the air, the smell of life in the soil, redbuds starting to bloom, make me feel young and happy to be alive. Spring, the beginning of life, who doesn’t like the excitement of beginning a garden.
Hi Katie! I am new to your blog and loving it! If I did enter your contest would you be willing to ship to the U.S.?
Hi Katie
So many things to be excited about on the plot . This year means an expansion and the first year for planting tommy seeds that were collected from last years crop . Excited about seeds for free giving me food for free .
Hi Katie
So far I have followed you on Instagram and glad I now have found your blog. I would love to win the notebook and do notes for my second year in the allotment.
Green greetings
Pia
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Watching the sun climb in the sky.
Feeling the earth breath.
The glory of a Cherry blossoms.
Picnics.
The return of colour.
Early morning air, filled with hope and possibility.
Bare feet on grass.
Smiling at tulips.
The fragrance of flowers.
Waking to a symphony of birdsong.
Bluer skies and greener grass, the return of colour.
The possibility of flip-flops.
Light breezes and wind chimes.
Putting my hands in warm soil.
The sun shining through the rain.
Plans and projects.
Feeling the sun on my skin again.
I’m looking forward to Spring because I shall be planting my first ever raised bed!
Hey Katie,
I have recently found your blog and it has got me very excited for the new year of gardening and allotmenteering to come. We love spring and look forward to it from bulb planting each Autumn, my little ones and I spend winter waiting and watching for those little shoots to peek up. The promise of good things to come, who wouldn’t love that?!
I’m looking forward to spring as it is my very first one on the allotment
I am looking forward to front porch swings, working in the garden and digging my feet deep in the dirt. Inlove how alive everything becomes in the Spring!
I am so excited for spring because my 24′ by 50′ garden is finally completed and the raised beds filled so I will have produce to last me until next Christmas!!!! And I planted tons of bulbs and I cant wait to see them come up!!!
I’m looking forward to some nice dry weather, and getting going with all the growing I didn’t manage last year! I’ve got a mini-greenhouse to put. I’ve got some seeds sown at home; though I suspect my windowsills are a bit too cool! But, I’m planning to try aubergine this year! I want to get my photography going again – the plot is ideal, even for just grabbing snaps of the changes, over the season! The notebook makes me drool! I have a notebook fetish! I buy really nice ones, but, can’t bear to spoil them! I then buy cheap, rubbishy ones, that don’t matter, if my handwriting is scruffy! I probably should get help!
You have given me the inspiration to start my very first garden.
Looking forward to seeing the vibrant, verdant greens coming on across the landscape. Nothing better! Plus I’ll be sowing and planting up at the allotment with the kids.
Hi Katie, one of the reasons I am looking foward to this spring is because this year we are doing raised beds and I cannot wait to see what we plant in them!
Hi Katie. I am longing for Spring to arrive so I can get back to my allotment and get planting. At the moment it’s covered in snow and apart from some cabbages and sprouts it looks frozen in time and too cold to do anything much. I’m also looking forward to spending time in my lovely shed – yes, girls love their sheds too, don’t they?! Thank you for your posts and videos, they cheer me up and inspire me. A notebook made by you would be lovely. Love from Roz in snowy Lancashire!
Hi Katie. I am really looking forward to Springtime as this will be my first full year on my new allotment and therefore I will be able to plan fully everything I want to grow and where to grow it! We got our plot last Summer so we didn’t have much time to plant a lot but still managed to grow some lovely fruit and veg. I am also finally getting a shed so I can hide from the Spring showers and spend more time at the lottie! I will be painting it purple! 🙂
Hi Katie, I found your blog whilst looking up info about allotments as I got my plot last year it was late in the year so didn’t get the chance to grow much. So I am looking forward to spring because being down my allotment for me is one of my favorite places to be, a time when there’s lots of seeds to sow and fingers crossed maybe even a shed to erect somewhere to sit and make a cuppa lol and then looking forward to the summer when hopefully my plot will be bursting with food 🙂
Love reading your blog and watching your clips.
Sonia
I absolutely love your blog and YouTube channel. I have to say that I’m slightly jealous of your gardening, sewing, and decorating skills. I could never pull off a dress and muck boots. I’m pumped for spring because I started a Back to Eden method garden in the fall. I just hope that it’ll be ready for me to plant in April. Keep the posts coming please! They are a relief from the winter.
I’m really looking forward to spring because it will be the first time I have ever tried to grow….well anything except flowers in my containers!! I would love one of these notebooks to write everything down so I can look back next year to see if I can make any changes. I think it would be a nice little keepsake of my first year too 🙂 Caroline oxley
Hello Katie. I’m looking forward to Spring because I’ll be planting some new things in my garden. It’s already starting to look like Spring here in Florida. Makes me want to play in the dirt!! I really enjoy your blog. Thanks for taking the time to post. Love the journal too!! How your allotment is bountiful this year!!
Hi Katie! I’m so excited for springtime because I am 13 years old and I am aiming to have an allotment for then! Your posts and videos have gave me lots of ideas and inspiration and I can’t wait to get started! I also love fresh, crisp mornings when the sun is rising! I think this journal would be the perfect starter for me and get me into the spirit right away. 🙂
Would love to win to keep organised
I’m excited for spring to come to see those pots that were full of tulips last tear that I’ve forgotten about and spending my first evenings on the allotment I’ve rescued from neglect. I’ve worked very hard I must say!!! 😀
I’m excited for spring as you have inspired me to finally sort out our garden! I’ve only just ‘found you’ and you have given me the nudge that I need to start planting and creating rather than just standing looking through the window and dreaming. I’m going to start small with some Sarah Raven sweet peas and am planning to do one thing each week towards making our garden lovely. As much as I love Monty Don I don’t think he gets his hands very dirty anymore so thank you for inspiring me to get stuck in 🙂 x
I am excited for spring because it is my first year on my allotment. I’m 26 and my friends can’t understand why I am so excited for March to come lol. I have a 3 year old son and I can’t wait to show him where food comes from.
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What a great leather note wallet, looks strong and well made. Will love to have one for the allotment to record everything including my chickens when laying.
I’m excited for Spring so that I can start planting bulbs and seeds and watch them grow ☺️
Looks great, best of luck to all. I am very excited about Spring this year because last growing season I spent most of my time building a greenhouse and did not grow much. This Spring I get to start things early in the greenhouse and then have a great garden.
Hi there Katie – what a great idea for Christmas! I’m most looking forward to spring because, like you I’m getting chickens very soon! Our neighbour/friend/landlord has just given me a bit of land to turn into a garden so I’m getting stuck in to the planning now – and taking inspiration from your pallet fence!
I’m excited by the arrival of Spring so that I can show my students a bank of wild trilliums that no one on our campus has discovered–and give them the opportunity to turn off their laptops and cell phones and simply sit among the trilliums and enjoy themselves.
Even tho we are so different in so many ways (Central Texas Grandmother here!), just gotta say WE HAVE DAFFODILS UP HERE! SO excited! Going to be a glorious Spring!! (I know! Will freeze again yet maybe, but they’ll just start over! Still excited!)
Been fun following your allotment adventures, & checking out Ebay store offerings (love that…oh, no…sh-h…I may still get it!) So thanks for all you do, sharing with us, you and your Father. Cherie
Can’t wait to get going on the allotment this year, you are such an inspiration with your blog and instagrams.
Spring is on its way, won’t be long now xx
Another reason to look forward to spring…. Cucamelons!!!!!!
I love this. You are my inspiration for my first garden. I am even making a diagram to place my vegetables.I live in the US so it might be a small one because our weather has been weird
this year 🙂
I am excited for spring and getting to grips with both the garden and allotment, plenty of trips to the garden centre and planting seeds.
I’m looking forward to spring as all the plots on the allotment start to come back to life again after a sleepy winter.