A New Obsession

This little pink glue gun has seen a lot of use over the past couple of days. I’ve had it for almost a year but hadn’t needed to use it until now. Why now? Because the last of my finger …

A Birthday Celebration

We had many kitty birthday things going on here yesterday as it was Baxter’s birthday. It’s hard to believe he has gone from this little kitten who arrived in our home and hearts in late June 2011. To this lovely …

Goodbye, Google Reader … Hello, ?

Like everyone else, I was dismayed to read Google Reader was going to be shut down as of July 1. I’ve used and been happy with it for years. The loss of Google Reader could have a huge impact on …

It’s Groundhog Day

… and Baxter is presiding over the ceremonies.  But he’s not telling whether or not the groundhog saw his shadow!

The Grow Your Blog Giveaways Go To …

Mr. Q.O. picked the winners’ numbers and they are:

Number 48: the mug rug goes to Cyndie.

And number 9: the Inklingo $25 gift certificate goes to Kay Lemieux.

Congratulations, Cyndie and Kay. Watch your e-mail as I will be e-mailing you as soon as this posts!

Thanks to Vicki for a wonderful event. I’m still making my way ever so slowly through the list of blogs and have found some wonderful new blogs to follow so far.

Happy New Year

Merry Christmas

I think I’m going to take a brief blog break until after New Year’s — so Merry Christmas to all. See you in 2013!

And The Winners Are …

Yes, I said winners of my giveaway for the Quilting Gallery 5th Birthday. There are two Inklingo gift certificates being given away! Santa’s elves decided there should be a second winner. While Baxter loves to play with little pieces of …

And The Winner Is …

You’ll have to bear with me for a minute before you find out. First of all, thank you to everyone who commented yesterday! I am slowly responding to the comments — and discovering lots of new-to-me blogs in the process. …

Testing

This morning’s blog post did exactly the opposite of what I was hoping it would do. Rather than send the full post to e-mail subscribers and the truncated post to readers such as Google Reader, it did the opposite.

So now I’m trying it a different way.