Thankfulness

I appreciate all of the recent sweet comments and good wishes you have extended me as I have thrown myself into a temporary consulting job. Thank you! I wish I had a more time to keep up with my many blog friends, but I plan to visit my favorites on at least a weekly basis. I am hard at work on the project, lending technical assistance to prepare the company’s response to the state regulatory agency. I am working primarily from my home, so that comfort has kept me from getting too tired and stressed. I am grateful that I can provide some help on rectifying this unfortunate spill event. I am also grateful to earn some additional funds to add to our retirement savings. We are truly blessed.

I have been enormously lucky on bloggy giveaways too. I want to extend a formal thank you to the wonderful blog ladies noted below and recognize their generosity. I hope that my readers will explore their web sites and perhaps discover something of interest.

At one time, Marty was encouraging me to visit blogs with “rabbit” titles, LOL. I either found the Rachael Rabbit blog that way, or else I followed an online link for a pincushion tutorial. In any event, I studied Rachael’s great instructions on how to make a patchwork pumpkin pincushion, and also entered her giveaway at the same time. And look at the little beauty that I won! Of course, I LOVE pincushions and put them to good use in my sewing studio. Thank you, Rachael!

I am always blown away by artists who excel in many media, and I was immediately impressed to find the artistic blog, Diane Knott's Musings. I wish I had 10% of her talent! She is a watercolorist, fabric designer, and author. Diane does great stitching too because I recently won a beautiful handmade and crossed-stitched chickadee pillow! I adore little chickadees and their chatter at the birdfeeders, so this will be a constant reminder of their playful antics. She also included one of her lovely print note cards, a little strawberry pincushion, and gift tag. Thank you, Diane!

I don’t even remember how I ended up visiting Lori’s blog, A Cowboy's Wife. One thing led to another, and I was soon looking at her companion blog, My Wooden Spoon. She features a treasure trove of cooking information on this blog and has some giveaways too. I’m not much of a cook, but I love food and prizes. So I entered her giveaway for English toffee, and I won a sampler. Hubby and I think that it is the BEST English toffee we have ever had in our lives! Mmmm, we’re going to have to order some! Thank you, Lori!