Year: 2016

Hello everyone! We apologize for not being around too much lately. There’s been lots of personal medical craziness going around these days but we are finding time to squeeze in some holiday cheer and hope you are too. There’s lots of excitement in progress and ahead for us but not too much to let you in on right now so we’re going to turn it over to Laura to bring you a special pattern and tutorial.

(Laura) Merry Christmas everyone! I hope this post finds you well and at home surrounded by family. Part of my recent health rollercoaster has resulted in me getting a PICC line. For anyone not familiar with what a PICC line is, it stands for “Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter” and in the most basic sense is basically a long-term IV that allows one to receive IV therapy at home, be it medications, fluids, or nutrition. Well one of the very first things I did after I got home with my PICC was to sew up a PICC sleeve to give me a comfy, cute, and functional cover to both spruce it up and protect my PICC line. After posting a pictures of a few of these new covers I received many requests for a pattern. So after a few more days of testing and perfecting the design, I created a pattern and tutorial for the Tickle Me Tubies PICC Line Sleeve! I hope you all put it to good use, and am always available to help with any questions you may have. The pattern includes sizes XS-XL and an optional pocket with access from inside the PICC cover to thread the line into. If there is enough demand, I may add more sizes later.

To download, click the following links:

Tickle Me Tubies PICC Sleeve Pattern

Tickle Me Tubies PICC Line Sleeve Tutorial

Thanks Laura! While we will eventually make and sell finished PICC sleeves in our shop, the pattern and tutorial are completely FREE. Our desire is for this pattern to bless and empower others by giving back a sense of choice, personalization, and the power to take back the medical (just like our mission statement, which you can read more about here). So whether you make these for yourself, a friend, or sew some up to donate, we want to give you the ability to touch someone’s life. As always, we are here to help! We hope you enjoy the pattern. We’d love to see your PICC sleeves, so feel free to tag us on Instagram, Facebook, or post yours to our Facebook page!

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Hey everybody! We hope you’ve had a good day today. We just wanted to drop by to send a quick reminder to everyone that there are just 3 days left to complete your entries in our big One Year Giveaway! We also have two last easy ways for you to enter: like and share our Facebook post about this blog post.

Each of these will gain you 1 entry. Entries will be accepted for any and all of the ways to enter (found all together on the main post here) through 11:59 PM central time October 2nd, 2016. We will draw our winner and contact them within a week of the deadline. Good luck to everyone who has entered!

Welcome back to our One Year Giveaway! If you’re just joining us, hop on over to the main giveaway post for all the info you need to get involved in all the fun. And don’t forget, you can complete any of the ways to enter the entire time this giveaway is open, not just the day they are posted.

Today is InstaDay! Or, in other words, Instagram Day! Today’s ways to enter are all about Instagram so you’ll need to head over to our Instagram page to complete each entry. Each of today’s ways to enter will earn you 1 entry! Here they are:

Follow us on Instagram (if you already follow us, just leave a comment to let us know and you’ll gain an entry)

Like the “Giveaway Post #2” Instagram post (it features the picture to the left)

Tag a friend on that same Instagram post

Repost the Instagram picture with the hashtag #ticklemegiveaway and tag us: @tickle_me_tubies

 

Have fun!

Mini giveaway alert here! Today is the actual date of our anniversary. 1 year on Etsy! So much has happened, and while our big giveaway is of course still running (more ways to enter coming soon!), we want to celebrate with a little something extra so we’re running a mini giveaway today! Over on our Facebook page we’re giving away $8 store credit to a winner randomly selected sometime tomorrow (Saturday). And all you have to do is comment on the Facebook post about this mini giveaway to enter! See ya there!

 

***The Tickle Me Tubies 1 Year Giveaway is officially CLOSED! Winner will be randomly drawn and contacted shortly***

Well it is finally time to start the giveaway! We are quite sorry for the delay-unfortunately Laura had some unexpected urgent health issues come up, and, as many of you well know, all plans just went out the window! But we are finally ready to start! Excited? We are!

6 days from today (so on September 9th) it will be one year since our Etsy shop opened. Over this past year it has grown so much bigger than we ever pictured. We have had over 150 orders and sold hundreds of items! So this month we’d like to celebrate with all of you with an awesome 1 Year Giveaway!

What’s it for you ask? Well it will be for an epic Tickle Me Tubies mystery box full of items made just for you. Possible items to be included (not everything here may be included, and items are not limited to this list)  are tubie pads, tubie clips, trach pads, masks, a gown, Farrell bag covers, or that one thing you have always wanted. Now some of you may be thinking that most of those items don’t really apply to you, and that’s fine! Because once we pick a winner we will contact them/their family/friends and taylor the box just for them-so you don’t have to have a feeding tube or any other medical device. And, if you don’t have any medical problems, you are more than welcome to enter and then have the box made and sent to a friend or family member who you think would love it! So don’t hold back-everyone can enter!

On that note, all costs, including shipping will be covered in the U.S.. Those who are international enter are still more than welcome to enter but will need to pay the shipping difference (will we cover the shipping cost as if it was to a U.S. state and you would pay the rest of the shipping.

Winner will be chosen randomly through Random.org. Originally this giveaway was planned to start on September 1st and run through the end of the month. Because it got delayed, we will add 2 more days, so it will end October 2nd instead.  And be sure to keep an eye out because we just might run a few smaller 24 giveaways this month for things like exclusive discounts and store credit!

Well now that that’s out of the way, on to how to enter! There will be quite a few number of ways to enter throughout the month. Today we are starting with just the blog and Etsy related ways to enter and we will post more ways to enter as we go along. We will also edit this post to include the complete list so if you join a little late you can catch up! Here we go:

Follow the blog! This one will give you 3 entries! If you are already following us, just let us know either in the comments of this post or through the contact form and we’ll give you the entries.

Like this post below and comment when you do (within the blog-1 entry)

Share this post on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and/or WordPress (reblog) and comment below (or email us at ticklemetubies@mccleskeyteam.com/use the contact form) with a link to your share post or a screen shot of the post so we can see it too when you do (1 each-share once to each site, so you can share to all four and get four entries but, for example, sharing to Facebook twice will get you one entry)

Review one of our products on Etsy HONESTLY. You will receive an entry regardless of whether your review is one star or 5. Comment, email, or use the contact form when you do! (no limit, but Etsy does give a window during which you are allowed to review and item you have purchased)

Place an order! Each order will receive and entry for this entire month.(note that because of the ongoing unexpected health issues, current processing time is set to 1-2 weeks-hopefully it won’t be near that long, but we are unsure at the moment how long it will be)

 

Follow us on Instagram (if you already follow us, just leave a comment to let us know and you’ll gain an entry)

Like the “Giveaway Post #2” Instagram post

Tag a friend on that same Instagram post

Repost the Instagram picture with the hashtag #ticklemegiveaway and tag us: @tickle_me_tubies

 

Like the “Wrapping Up” Facebook post

Share the “Wrapping Up” Facebook post

 

That is it for today, but like we mentioned above more ways to enter will be coming throughout the month! (And if you follow the blog you won’t miss out on any of them!)