Posted in Blogging, Contests, Family Life, Fun, Giveaways on August 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
#4 - April! from Butterfly Kisses. Thanks to everyone who entered. I enjoyed looking around some new blogs. I think I might make this at least a quarterly drawing, if not monthly. So check back for more great pottery giveaways.
I wasn’t able to medal in the BlogOlympics due to severe weather here in IL. We [...]
Posted in Blogging, Contests, Fun, Giveaways on August 19, 2007 | 20 Comments »
In honor of MamaBlogga’s BlogOlympics, I will be hosting my first contest and joining Trista at the Pumpkin Patch’s End of Summer Party. I will be giving away a handmade pottery tea bowl. This piece is made by a very talented local potter and sculptor named David Hooker.
Whether you are a collector of his work, [...]
Posted in Contests, Poems on August 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Look ma, I’m a haiku buckaroo. Not THE haiku buckaroo, mind you. But I made it into the finals. Go check out all the finalists here. It was big fun, and the haiku comments were just as funny as the entries (sadly, I have not mastered commenting in haiku). Tune in in February for [...]
Posted in Contests, Fun, Poems, haiku on August 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oh, joy of joys. I have just discovered some people who love haiku as much as I do. In fact, there’s a contest you can enter if you’re so inclined. “The contest winner (a.k.a. The Haiku Buckaroo) will receive a Magnetic Poetry Haiku Kit, a Haiku Buckaroo Mug and a super-cool button for their blog [...]
Posted in About me, Contests, Family Life, Frugality, Spiritual Life, Writing Life on August 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My favorite things to collect are random things I love that someone else no longer wanted like the trivet made entirely out of tiny shells I purchased at a yard sale for $.05, or the set of white tapers with songbirds on them I purchased at ANOTHER yard sale for $.50.
However, I am slowly learning [...]
Posted in Contests on July 31, 2007 | No Comments »
They’re giving away a flat-screen TV over at 5 Minutes for Mom, courtesy of Best Buy. The winner will be drawn August 17th. Head on over; there’s only 950 comments as of right now. ; )
Posted in About me, Contests, Family Life, Writing Life on July 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m going to attempt to fire off a quick post about my childhood home in response to Owlhaven’s idea for a 7/20/07 carnival. As fate would have it, we will soon be heading down to the ole childhood home for a visit. Should have some good bloggy material when we return!
My childhood home was a [...]
Posted in About me, Contests, Family Life, Spiritual Life, Writing Life on July 6, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I am not the adventurous type. I enjoy wearing grooves in my life so that I can comfortably travel the familiar terrain without incident. I love ritual, tradition. I am Anglican.
It should then come as no surprise that my most adventurous moment came disguised as the mundane, as something most women reading this post have [...]
Posted in Contests, Family Life, Frugality on July 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Sarah over at Ordinary Days is hosting an honesty contest, which you know is important to me if you read this post on blogthenticity. So here’s my story…
We were shopping at ALDI the other day, which I LOVE to do, so I was feeling especially good about my frugality and my good stewardship of the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Contests, Family Life, Spiritual Life, Writing Life on June 25, 2007 | 15 Comments »
It took me 18 months to learn that I didn’t have to worry SO much about what was going to happen to my little girl each and every day or even someday. God let me know, in no uncertain terms, that she was His child, and He intended to take care of her. I got [...]
