And the Winner Is...

Lindsey!!!

Congratulations Lindsey! 

Your total prize package includes three gorgeous skiens of Watercolors by Caron, a Sekas Fall Leaves chart, a Just Nan lil bird kit, a mother of pearl ruler, a Annie's Keepers organizing sample pack and a tiny little JABCO blackbird stick pin.  Sekas charts, Watercolors, mother of pearl tools, and new organizing systems rate really high on my 'Gotta Love It' scale. 

Here's hoping you'll enjoy them to the fullest!

I'll be emailing you privately for your snail mail address if I don't hear from you today. 

Thank you one and all for your sweet comments!  I sincerely appreciate it when you take time to leave me a comment.   They warm my heart everytime I read them.

Have a wonderful weekend Friend!

2nd Blogoversary Giveaway

Well well well.  What do you know.  I TOTALLY missed my own blogoversary yesterday!  Should give you some clue about how totally consumed I've been by my work lately.  I'm not even going to get started about the whole nasty mess, but believe me when I say that I'll be so glad when October rolls around. 

But my lack of awareness should not negatively impact you nice people, now should it?   No.  I agree.

So even though I'm a day late (and a dollar short), I'm offering you a chance to enter my "Where's My Head 2nd Blogoversary" giveaway!  Due to my total lack of planning, I don't have a picture to post but consider it an adventure and enter anyway.  :-)  I will promise you that it will be stitching-related and it will be NICE!

To enter, leave me a comment on this post only along with your email address if you don't have a blog (and I don't have it already).  I will consult the oracle next Saturday morning, 8/21 for a winner. 

Until then friends, stay cool and find time to stitch!

Happy Blogoversary To Me!

Wow, now that was one fast year! I must say, as someone who knew no.thing. about blogging one year ago, I am pretty darn amazed when I look back through all the archived posts. It is so neat having a visual diary of the projects I completed or just worked on this past year. I'm a little shocked, after all I did manage to stitch, how little of it I still have!

By my count, in my first year of blogging, I've given away three pin cubes, a wine bag, one checkerboard, three angel ornaments, a treble clef pendant, a sweetbag, a double lucky biscornu ornament, a floss tag, two threadboards and bunch of needlebooks. Whew!

Gifts

I managed to keep one threadboard, one pin cube, one biscornu, two floss tags, a bargello, a blackwork, a couple of smaller random pieces, a tassel, thimble keeper and a name tag. Not shabby.

Keepers

Yes, but what have I learned, you ask? I've learned a few new tricks with my camera, how to use the photo editor Picnik, a whole new lingo (RAK, PIF, SAL, OOP, BAP, PITA, BBSFF, for example), a few new techniques from fabulous blog tutorials, and several new-to-me online resources for those hard to find items. I've also learned that this here blog has lit a fire under my stitching butt. Who KNEW?!?!

I think most bloggers would agree with me that making new friends and sharing with existing friends is the best part of it all.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend, wherever you are!