My Giveaway Items from White Sheep Farm Primitives

I received the items from the White Sheep Farms Primitives' giveaway which I won a few days ago. The items are very prim and very cute! There are 4 prim pillows that say "blessings", "simple folk", "be ye thankful" and "simplify". They will fit so well tucked in among my other prim stuff. They are so adorable. There's also a small folk art doll made of muslin and homespun. A bunch of dried flowers which I believe is Sweet Annie was wrapped gently in paper and included in the package. What a surprise! The last item in the box was a large tin pan with 3 cute very prim eggs each tied with grungy cheesecloth and topped with a rusty bell. They are wonderful! I love the whole package and can't thank White Sheep Farm Primitives enough for their giveaway.

I'm hoping to have my own giveaway soon. I live very close to Louisville, Kentucky (I actually work in downtown Louisville and have most of my life) and am thinking about having a "Derby" giveaway. I'll keep you posted on the details.

I'm posting a picture of the giveaway items that I received in my package. Thanks White Sheep Farm Primitives!

Sharon

This Has Been a Good Blogging Day!!

First, I find out I won the giveaway from White Sheep Farm Primitives. I'm so excited about the cute primitives in the giveaway! :)

Then I see I have 17 followers - that's awesome!! I didn't think I'd ever have any!!

And for the first time since I've started blogging, I actually saw my blog on someone else's blog! I didn't think I'd ever see that either!!

I've been in a rough patch on a personal level lately, so all of this cool stuff helps bring me out of the pit I've been in.

I enjoy blogging and when I can get all this blogging stuff figured out, maybe I'll be able to have a giveaway, too!! I'm trying to figure out something cool to make bloggettes want to come to my blog and visit. I'm still thinking...

Thanks for all the help and tips I've received from other bloggers to help me set up my blog. I'm not very much of a techno geek and struggle with some of the blogging setups. So if you've helped me along the way, thanks!!

So it's been a good blogging day... maybe things are picking up. :)

Take care.
Sharon

Rug Hooking - So Many, So Little Time

I've found so many great blogs about rug hooking. I'm really enjoying looking at everyone's rugs and the different designs and techniques. I have so many rugs that I want to start (and finish) in my lifetime, but how am I going to accomplish all of that? I also have so many other crafts to do - stitcheries, wool felt items, pillows. Sometimes (actually a lot of the time) I come home from work and I'm wore out. I basically sit on the couch and don't get a lot accomplished. I'd like to say that I work on some kind of craft everyday, but we all know that it just doesn't happen that way. Life keeps it from happening. I have a fairly stressful job and I'm not exactly a spring chicken... It seems to be wearing on me more and more lately. I also want to get into the dyeing thing for the wool for my rugs. Of course, I've been saying that for 2 years. I have all the stuff to dye, but just can't seem to take that first step to try it. Sigh...

So I guess I'd better go ... I have much rug hooking to do ... or stitcheries ... or wool felt pillows ... or pincushions... I think I need some chocolate...

Sharon

My Front Porch - A Rug Hooking Forum

I signed up today for My Front Porch which is a rug hooking forum. It seems like it will really be interesting to see others' interests in rug hooking. I'd like to get signed up for the Welcome Mat, too, but I think you have to be invited. I was able to post pictures of my completed rug hooking projects on My Front Porch and I was very proud to have them so everyone could see them. I wish I had found rug hooking years ago - I feel like I've missed years of something which I now really enjoy!

An Unbelievably Long Weekend

Eddie's Dad's funeral was Tuesday. Unfortunately, before that I had to find out that his 3 older brothers (who are separated from Eddie and 2 of his other brothers and his only sister due to a family dispute) had decided to leave me out of the obituary for his Dad. Eddie and I have been together almost 18 years. I was terribly hurt and spent most of the weekend feeling very insignificant and crying a lot. They couldn't really give me an answer for why they left me out of the obit; I can assume it was for no other reason than probably to hurt the 3 brothers they don't get along with, one of them being my Eddie. Everyone from our area and Starlight where Eddie lives kept asking "why weren't you listed in the obit?" In addition to dealing with Eddie's pain and loss, I struggled all weekend just to make sense of why someone would do that to someone who's been in the family for almost 18 years. Eddie and I aren't married, but what the heck does that have to do with it? We're life partners - have chosen each other to spend the rest of our lives together. And I think it's unfair and hurtful that his 3 older brothers are so mean to do such a thing. And then to top it all off, the 3 older brothers had the gall to ask me to take up the gifts at the funeral mass. How's that work? You kick me in the head, but then you want me to help you? Hmm... I just don't get it.

At any rate, the weekend is finally over. The funeral is done and I hope not to have any contact with the 3 older brothers and their wives anytime soon. Eddie's Mom is still living so at some point there will be some contact. But I'll just have to deal with that later. For right now, I can pretend they don't exist, which is exactly what they did to me last weekend, only in print - where everyone could see it.

I have to go pack now. I'm going to have to join the convent for all the bad words I said this weekend about Eddie's 3 older brothers... :) It probably wasn't nice, but it made me feel better at the time.

Wanting What You Have

I have been with my significant other, Eddie, for 17 1/2 years. We have been through a lot together. Yesterday his Dad Charlie passed away from pneumonia and other complications. He would have been 88 in October. My Dad's been gone since 1991, although it seems like yesterday.

Times like this makes me realize that some of the things that I make a big deal of are not really all that important. I try very hard to let things go and be as they are, but as we all know, that is very difficult in this day and age. But losing someone we care about does bring it all home on how short our time here really is. For instance, everyone's been blogging about how awful winter has been, the huge amounts of snow and the long depressing months of winter. But yet, here it is already March - how that happened I have no idea - and spring is just around the corner. Before you know it, summer will be here and we'll be rushing through another year.

I cannot help but wish that I had some of the years back to live over where I lost precious time with my loved ones, or spent too much time being in a foul mood or feeling sorry for myself for whatever reason. I know I can't get the time back, so maybe from tomorrow on, I'll try to be better about everyday things and work with what I have. I have a framed stitchery that says "For a happy life, want what you have." I'm going to try to do my best to maybe accomplish that in the days to come and making the best of what I have.

I'm 53. I'm not exactly a spring chicken anymore. So if things are going to change, I think I'm probably the only one who can make them change, at least for me.

I'll let you know how that goes...

Blog List

Thanks to those who offered help to get my blog list to appear on my blog. I've added a lot of the blogs I follow per your instructions. The help was great!

Sharon