Winner, Winner......

Ok, so I used Random.org, but I can not figure out how to copy paste the results. Ugh!!! But the site chose comment #5.

Denise G said...


Congratulations! That is wonderful that you have been blogging a year. I so love seeing what you post and find your blog inspirational. CTMH products rock! AND I love your disclosures, you made me laugh as I was reading them.... very fun.

dgroves at gci dot com


So, congrats to Denise G. I'm emailing you next.

Happy Easter to all my blog readers. I hope you have a fabulous family filled day.



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Blogoversary drawing later today

Today's the day.....last chance to comment here, to be entered for the random drawing. Go, enter. I love reading the kind comments ;)

I will draw later this afternoon, Cali time. Not sure exactly when, but later in the afternoon.

I'm so excited. Can't wait to see who is the lucky winner. Will it be one of my local friends, my long time devotee's or a new friend and follower. I will let you know.

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It's my blogoversary, but you may get the present.

I'm celebrating!!! I have been blogging for 1 year.


198 posts and 280 very kind comments left in 1 year. 45 followers and 8,838 hits to my little section of the world wide web. So I have pulled together some Close to my heart, usually referred to as CTMH by me, treats to share with a lucky commenter.

These are brand new things from my collection, either duplicates or things I was able to purchase as a consultant that I am pulling from my goody bag to give to 1 lucky winner. They include :

Z2128 Hollyhock exclusive inks ink pad

Z2366 Hollyhock exclusive inks ink pen

W2017, W2018 & W2020 Petite perks stamp sets

D1368 Spring My acrylix stamp set

Z1136 Mini-medley white daisy

W623 Connections club reward sticker sheet

1 CTMH spray pen (this is only 1 from a package of 3, originally)

Please leave one comment on this post, including your email address. (and only this post for entry purposes, all duplicates will be deleted and comments missing email addresses will be disqualified). Feel free to format your email address spelling out the at and dot to protect yourself from spam, I understand.

I will attempt to use the random integer thingy I see everyone else use for these blog giveaways to pick the winner from the comments. (If I fail at figuring that out, I will go old school and write everyone's name on a paper and have my hubby pick a name from the basket). I will draw next week, Saturday April 23rd. I will post the winner here and email them also and mail the package out asap after getting an email reply from the notified winner.

This drawing and shipping is all new to me, so please be gentle and forgiving. I tried to pick items that should arrive intact if I fail to wrap them just perfectly. I will now admit to having cats and dogs in my household and my husband does enjoy the occasional cigar. I do not believe this will in any way affect the performance of this gift, but I know some are highly allergic and I don't want to risk anyone's health, so please enter knowing the full disclosure. Wow, the more I type the more nervous I get. I just want to celebrate my 1 year blogoversary. Please celebrate with me!

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A surprise blogger award

I have seen these, and always enjoy seeing the details about the blogger and the new links. I never thought I would get to play along. Wahoo! Thanks Tina thecrazystamplady.blogspot.com I appreciate the award and the attention. *blush*

So here are the rules:

1. Thank the person who gave this award to me and link it back to their blog (see above link)

2. Share 8 things about yourself.

3. Pass this award to 8 others individuals that I have recently discovered.

4. Leave a comment so they can pass along the recognition.


8 things about myself:

1. I have been crafting all my life. Sewing, embroidery, cross stitch, crochet, quilting, photography, scrapbooking and papercrafting is my newest addiction.

2. I have a Cricut, a Cricut Expressions and now a Pazzles. I am finally ready to let go of my first baby bug, I am running out of counter space since my mom gifted me with a Pazzles for Christmas.

3. I learn so much from youtube tutorial videos and am so thankful to those that make them, but I would die of fright if I tried to make one myself. I get all tongue tied and silly when I know that all attention is on me.

4. Married to my high school sweety for coming up on 22 years on April fools day. :) That's right, we married on April fools day, even the minister made a lil joke about it during the ceremony.

5. I have two sons, pride and joy of my life, that can test my patience to the bitter end. Isn't that how it goes? They are good, kind and considerate boys, I'm proud of that, the rest will come with maturity.

OK, those are all fine and dandy but lets do an off the wall fact or two.

6. I love bagpipe music and men in kilts. *sigh*

7. I love tye dye. I literally have enough tye dye tee's that I could wear a different one every day for two weeks straight. The brighter the tye dye the better. It just makes me smile.

8. If I never went on another non-Disney related vacation, I would be totally ok with that. Much to the chagrin of my guys and my mom. I am single minded in my vacation destination.

Now I'm all warmed up to this task. I could keep spilling useless facts about myself, but lets get on to the good stuff. I am a blog stalker extraordinaire. I have a feeds list a mile long. Love them, love the inspiration I can always find there. So here are my new finds, I hope you enjoy.


http://stamping411.blogspot.com/  my latest addiction, just check out all their how to tutorials. Amazing!

http://sporadicstamper.blogspot.com/

http://jlwcards.blogspot.com/

http://paperchef79.blogspot.com/ paper crafts and recipes. Its the perfect combination.

http://sps-academy.blogspot.com/

http://forthejoyofcreating.blogspot.com/

http://dudleychickdesigns.blogspot.com/

http://happyscrapinnstampin.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. Thanks again, Tina.

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