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Friday, February 19, 2010

WHAT A RIDE---


WOW!!!! I had a total of 50 comments--some were "old" friends and some were brand "new" friends----I enjoyed each and every comment!!!  thanks!!!

I do want to say some "Thank you's" first---

####First to whomever invented the computer---Thank you!!

####Second to whomever created igoole--blogger--and adding comments to the sites--Thank you--
####Third to my wonderful Quilt teacher -- Sharon Stroud--who while in a class that I was attending many months ago now -- mentioned how excited she was  that she had set up a "blog" site---well--it took me a few minutes to get up the courage to ask her " what " a blog site was?????  The rest is history---here I am!!!!!

I did my first blog entry on Feb. 18th, 2009--and I had "NO" idea what I was doing or where it would lead--but let me tell you it has been a great "ride"---I have done 315 posts on this site alone--plus the second site---I have more followers, visitors and countries than I ever knew of--it has truly been an "adventure"--and I want to say thanks to each and everyone of you for being along for the ride!!!!!


AND --- now to announce the 'THE WINNERS"---
First--some prizes for some of the mild stones on this site that occur along the way---
>>> First award goes to:

Yvette--of BOM Quilter (fitquilter) for being the very first commenter
Anne-Lise of--Rag. Tag, Bobtail for being the second one
Both of these gals are still "readers" of Blissful---Thanks!!

Next award goes to the Valentine Sew In comments for Saturday's comments--6 of you left 2 comments before the day was over -- they went in the basket and believe it or not here is the winner--
Yep--Kelly--herself of charming Chatter---way to go Kelly!!!!

The next post that I thought had a great response to was the one about my PJSsnowmen by Tilda that I made--so we did a drawing for those comments and --
Sue at "I Purr-Furr To Craft"-- won---one of the snowmen---hope he doesn't melt on you, Sue!!!!
NOW------
for some more great winnings for the Birthday Party===Little sister was here and she wrote the names on the slips of paper and we used a nice deep basket to put them all in---(and this was sooo much fun!!!!)

The first prize goes to---
Pam at Creative Dawn---yep--Pam--you got the grand prize!!! Have alot of fun with all these "springy" colors!!!

Next Prize goes to--
Kady at Stoney Hill Cabin---now you will always know your ABC,s!!!!

Next goes to--

Rit at Dolly Cloth---hope nobody hunts birds in your area--cause these are sure to be seen as they are sooo bright and colorful!!!!

Next goes to--
Rebecca at Sew I Did It My Self---Hope you enjoy tea or coffee!!!

Next one goes to--
Allyson of Fat Cats Quilts---oh dear there is a bird on the quilt--hopefully your kitties won't notice him!!!!!

Next goes to--
Debby-- and she must not be a blogger only a reader--hope you like to do embroidery, Debby!!!!

And Finally--the last one goes to--
Rene at Luv 2 Kreate--little sister and I decided that the towel with the lemonade pitcher and glass would look nice out by your pool!!!!!

Again to all my wonderful blogging friends---this has been fun---but very hard as I wanted you all to win---but little sister said I had to stop--and save some for the next time!!!!
THANK YOU ALL AGAIN--well it's onward --ah--no--Di--it's back to work--you only have "8" days to finish all your projects---plus the Spring Sew In--go--- get back to work!!!


17 comments:

luv2quilt2 said...

Congratulations to all your winners, and congratulations to you on your blogging anniversary!

Luv 2 Kreate said...

WOW, what a fun post to read. I am sure all the winners are going to enjoy their beautiful prizes!

By the way, I agree with you and little sister...that towel will look good being used by the pool :)

Once again Congrats on the Blog Birthday!

Yvette said...

WOW! How exciting!!!! What a generous giveaway, I am so glad I was able to enter and win something.

Have a great weekend!

Kady said...

Oh my goodness! I'm not used to winning things. THANK YOU! That's lovely fabric and I already have a couple ideas about how it could be used. Thank you so much! Hugs!

alice said...

Everyone is going to have so much fun with all the goodies. Hope you keep entertaining and inspiring us for many years to come. I keep showing us cute kitty pictures.

I Purr-Furr to Craft said...

Thank you so very very much! I adore those snowmen and to see that i have won won, Too fantastic for words!

Maggey and Jim said...

That was a mighty nice giveaway.. Congrats to the winners..
Maggey

Michelle said...

Congrats to all the winners!!! & your blog birthday!

Dolly Cloth said...

Thank you very very much, Im not used to winning things I am over the moon.
dolly hugs to you.
Rit.

Joy McD said...

Yay! Congrats to all the winners!!! What fun :)
lv,
Joy

Anne-Lise at Rag, Tag, Bobtail said...

Hi Di - I won again! Thank you and congratulations to all the other winners. Great prizes you had for this giveaway! Of course still read your blog - it's my breakfast fix:))
Hugs from me to you,

Robin (RsIslandCrafts) said...

Congrats to all the lucky winners!

Di...keep up the fun blogging :)

Allyson said...

What a fun surprise! I was just reading through my blogs, winding down on a Saturday afternoon...and I won something. Does the weekend get any better than that?

Congratulations on your blogiversary and thank you for such wonderful prizes.

Unknown said...

Hi Di,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS! and I am soooo very happy to be among the winners of this really great giveaway party! Di, you certainly do know how to host a giveaway! You ROCK! THANKS THANKS!!!! My computer was down and it has just been fixed ... this was the first email I saw!!!! YEAY!!!! Oh and I LOVE LILA's fabric!!!!!
big hugz
Pam

Sew I Did It Myself said...

Oh! I'm so excited! thank you thank you thank you. can't wait to get my sweet surprise. BTW My mother lover her birthday present that I made for her. I just got home from visiting her. Like you ... it's back to work.... birthday fun, games, and yummy treats are over at least till the next birthday bash.
Hugs,
Rebecca

Kelly@ Charming Chatter said...

Oh Di - you are so generous! You are one of those people I was talking about who just make the world a brighter place with your blog, and your kindness!!!! Congrats to all of the winners - and I'm so excited that I'm one of them!

Cindy said...

I cannot believe I missed this post too ! LOL
I sure am slipping...what's new? LOL
Congrats to the fortunate winners. Diane is such a treasure with such a warm heart.

My sincere best wishes to both your blogs, Diane, for another year of happiness.