Presidents Day And One World One Heart Winner Announcement Day!

Oh My Goodess, the time had flown away with me trying to see as many blogs on the One World, One Heart Magical Carpet Ride. I saw so many fun places and will revisit so many of them as they are just AWESOME and SO FULL of information, ideas, and more links to follow!  I am just so excited to have seen so many and still have so many unvisited that I WILL get too also and look around at even more bloggers.

Blogging is like reading chapters in a book of Lives of Blog Creators all over the World. I love the photos and messages I have seen. And the ART, WOW! There are so many wonderful talented ladies
and gentlemen out in Blogland!

I love the links to their shops and their friends blogs, just  way to get deeper into other lives and learn from all these talented folks. I will cherish the on-line friendships and involvement I gather in my little Blog Folder in my computer. For some reason I keep getting an error when trying to follow  many fun blogs, I will look into What is Wrong on my end and re-visit to follow as I love hearing when more posts are made and daily entries blogged.

Okey, I said I would have two winners and I am OVERJOYED that I had 249 entries HERE on my blog. I certainly hope everyone enjoyed their visit and will return for more as time goes by.  I really hate that I was not able to visit more myself to enter and just see; but I will!  This date does not matter as far as blogs were made available through Lisa who worked so hard getting the One World, One Heart Event going on the THIRD YEAR!  The links to other blogs I missed are still there to go through for more enjoyment and Lisa, I THANK YOU for that! You have done in incredible amount of work on the Event Blog and I thought I had dreamed the fact that you had alphabatized all the entries also on your page at
A Whimsical Bohemian


The Random Number Generator picked Numbers   7 and 141 for my comment Blogger Gifties

#1 Gift
True Random Number Generator

Min: 1
Max: 249
Result:
7
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#2 Gift
True Random Number Generator

Min: 1
Max: 249
Result:
141

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Comment # 7 is
Kathy said...


Great giveaway! I can think of so many things I could do with this. Please toss my name in the hat and be sure to visit me too.


Comment # 141 is


Atypical Girl said...

Great prize pack! Thank you so much for your giveaway!
Amy, OWOH #680/681

I would love to thank all 249 Bloggers you passed my way. I apologize for not getting this up yesterday on the 15th. I started posting this and was called away when our printer broke and My DH needed this computer.  Thing happened and I never got back to the computer again , BUT,  I Am here now with joy in my heart for all that entered and that just commented too not wanting to win, but you would have got my prizes anyway!

I do have two of everything in the photos so all with go to BOTH winners! Congradulations!
I do have to thank "Lisa Oceandreamer Swifka" for creating this event at A Whimsical Bohemian with 1088 entries this year with 40 countries. It really has gone worldwide!

Smiles, Cyndi

Reading Books and Magazines!

I saw on a blog I was visiting this widget showing very nice Books and I had to check it out.

When I saw I could share with you MY favorite Magazine and Books I had to get this also. I love it! It rotates and there is a large version at the bottom of my page. I love to read and this is a fun way to share the Books I own and some authors I know.

I met Lisa Kettle with the "Altered Art Circus Book" many years ago on eBay with the Fairy Zine group. She has grown into the most talented artist and does shows and events all over the country now.
It has been my pleasure to watch her dreams come true as she has grown away from eBay to her own web and blog site. why don't you take a look at her book? You will be delighted!

Another author I have met is Sue Whitney of "Junk Beautiful: Room by Room Makeovers with Junk market Style by Sue Whitney " and "Junk Beautiful Outdoor Edition (Paperback)". I got both of her books in Texas last spring and she autographed them for me. I treasure them and the tips on creating with found objects which is my goal to make mixed media with old vintage this and that. I even got another on eBay that was an older book she had.

"" The Salvage Sisters' Guide to Finding Style in the Street and Inspiration in the Attic (Paperback) I found on Facebook and they have a delightful book I still need to get along with my other selections that caught my eye.

I did subscribe to "Mary Jane's Farm Magazine" and I adore it along with "Country Living" I have received for years now. That is how I met the Junk Gypsies that I had so much fun with last year in Texas.

I also met Robin Brown ( Magnolia Pearl) who I was delighted to meet. She had this book I also got autographed "A Bit of Velvet & a Dash of Lace: The Fabulous Interiors of Magnolia by Robin Brown" and I could read her story of romance with life forever and ever! She was recently married to Johnny and in Texas they used props from their wedding as their marketplace booth, and was it Dreamy! They live in Texas with peacocks on their ranch! Robin imports her linen from Europe and dyes it here along with all being hand-embroidered. I could not believe myself when I purchased an outfit from her as kind of expensive but I want more. I feel so good when I wear it as separates and together, it is pantaloons and a gauzy top! Over the Top! She also had her little vintage airstream RV parked in the same park that we had our little 12' Shasta Daisy teardrop in at Round Top, Texas!

So many magazines as going defunct or digital and I love to sit on my sofa and browse and read. I can only sit at this computer for so long. I hope they never quit printing on paper, but recycled of course.

I have to go make a second widget even as I am thinking of more I wish I could have added. Books fill my home and fill a need for me. Even blog reading is like reading a chapter in a book of people's lives! I love it.

At the bottom of this page you can see the widget full size and just click on the blue arrows to make it rotate for you. Just click on the photos in the carousel and it will take you to tell you more about them on Amazon and if you purchase, I would appreciate you getting them from this site to help me make some extra buying money there myself.

Smiles, Cyndi

One World, One Heart Bloggers Event with giveaways

WHAT IS ONE WORLD ONE HEART?


Lisa at A Whimsical Bohemian created this event in 2007 and it has grown dramastically since then. I was lucky to get aboard the first year and it had under 100 bloggers, I am so happy to have participated then and every year since then. Last year 2009, had over 900 bloggers and 28 countries. Now, do NOT let this scare you off, join in the fun, go to Lisa's blog and sign up to participate on your blog, the more the merrier!

It will be a magical event with a theme "Magic Carpet Ride" to explore and share the world of One World, One Heart Bloggers. You will see unbelievable art projects and ideas so blissful and enchanting you too will come back year after year and look forward the this event also. Lisa is truely an artist with a vision and it just exploded even before her eyes with bigger and more artist endevors that ever imagined.

Lets's go for the ride too!

There are just a few very easy guidelines. You must have a blog and a way to leave comments without having to sign up or on. You shall promote a giveaway but the real idea behind One World, One Heart is to promote friendship towards all who come by your blog to visit with you.

This year we are riding the Magic Carpet and who doesn't want to be able to fly around and meet each other on their blogs and leaving a comment to win a gift. But more important, is to just meet each other and make friends who may have the same interests or to learn about someone totally different and enjoying what they are doing to make a new interest for yourself.

Believe me, you will see the finest that blogland has to offer, so get comfortable and have some tea to enjoy while you navigate on the Magic Carpet. It is like flying to each other's homes only it doesn't have to be spotless, and you can wear your most comfortable clothes, P.J's preferred. It begins today January 25,2010 and the giveaway's will be posted on each blog till February 15, 2010 when the winners are announced on each blog, so be sure and leave your comment and a way to contact you in the event you are my winner. I will use the random number generator to select my two winners. Your comment number is your random number adssignment. My cut-off time for entering is 12:00AM CST Feb.15,2010 so I can tally your names and randomly select my winning numbers so I can post the winners to my blog on February 15th also.

Now, about me, I am Cyndi, married for 44 years to my high school sweetheart. We have one grown daughter, Lisa. We adopted a rescue Golden Retriever Emma, and two rescue cats, Blak and Bleu. We lost our two Golden Retrievers of 12 years in the last two years. They were one week apart in age and we will never forget them, they were so special to us. My daughter has one of our grand-dogs, Barkley and we have adopted two other Golden's, Maggie and Abby we dog-sit now and then so, WE love dogs! Golden Retrievers have been the most special dogs we have ever had and probably will always have one. Emma has been a joy to us as she needed a home so she was our first rescue soon after our female, Megan passed of cancer. Their stories are in older posts (see them on a sidebar last May).

My husband has been ill with a back fusion and found he has osterioposos as bad as you can get it, so my artwork is behind as usual. I keep thinking this too will pass and I can get on with all I have stored in my head. I will!

I like to work with mixed media, papers, fibers, threads, materials, yarns, outdoor nature items and vintage anything I can find. I have even been known to go through throw always' by the street. My motto is reuse, redo, recycle everything possible to keep it from a landfill plus it is finer and less expensive to use that to buy new. But, I have two rooms of new also, those coupons from Hobby Lobby, Michaels, JoAnne's are so hard for me to pass up. so, I have supplies and equipment taking over my home. I have closed two consignment stores I had so I have a surplus of new and vintage merchandise that I sell on-line. I want to get out my sewing machine and learn to sew again.

I thank you for dropping by to visit and I hope you follow or bookmark to return again later. I live in Alabama now, but was born in Missouri and grew up there.

 Here are the gifts I have selected to giveaway:
Some Mary Engelbreit items: notebook, coupon book, magnet, drink coaster, magnetic frame, Supplies for you: mini dress form, peace and love ribbon, hang tags, sparkle heart, blue wood angel, wine charms, tea bags, heart ornament filled with tulle and valentine wishes, faux silver penny for fairy rides and poem, and some trinkets for you to create art projects .

My motto is to " Make Memories because No One can take them Away"

Smiles, Cyndi

And time will tell!

I have a bunch more aprons to take photos of since my earlier post this week and I will get to it. I usually upload them to my flicker Apron set as soon as I get them but after Texas last spring I had so many photos to go through, I guess I just missed them. I have most of my photos uploaded there since I love Flicker. I can log in and look and look at beautiful eye candy from earthly items like rainbows and trees to my friends art they make to even people I do not know from the links of comments is a wonderful way to see even more new things. Flicker has anything you might desire to see in someone's photo from around the world.

As far as my posting and listing items in my Etsy, Bonanzle and eBay areas I have been slack there also. I have been so busy still trying to get organized plus keeping house, as I have said for the last couple of years, Yes I have, and I can only do so much with the space we have and I do have a lot of materials, probably more than I will ever need. Maybe when I find what niche I like to work in the most, I will sell the rest. The best thing I can do is just stay home. When I wander I tend to buy and the $ has run out so has my credit so I am a shopaholic like the movie. Those coupons that come to me are overwhelming to me. So, Stop and work with what I have. Before I have even opened my Cricket machine is almost outdated. It is terrible how long I have had it and never used it along with all the cartridges I got. I also have a lot of jewelry items to make, and sewing, I like sewing by hand as my first choice.

I have GOT to get out my sewing machine and see if it still will work. I had trouble with the tension the last time and got frustrated. I have so many things in my head it is about to swell and blow. LOL!

We have been going to many Doctor visits since my husband was so ill last October after his second back fusion surgery in August. The last week or so, I have let him go himself. He is driving ok now and even has gone back to work. He went back New Years' Day and worked eight full hours. By the time he got home, he was in bed and hurting very bad. He finally got to speak to the back doctor and they got his hours shortened to four and then work up to six and then back to eight. He really did go back full time way to fast. HIs Functional Capacity Examination( FCE) did not specify this and the Doctor did not either so now after seeing the Doctor they got it straightened out.

We also saw the infectious disease doctor this week and his blood tests were back with much better numbers. Now the plan is to see if the infection is gone by stopping the antibiotics he has taken since the
Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection invaded his system from the August surgery. We learned this is the worst blood stream infection you can get,and to watch for symptoms, we sure do NOT want them to re-appear! If they stay away, Fabulous! If not that would mean it is on the hardware and it would have to come out. That was NOT even an option for me for it to be removed and another surgery, he has been through enough. Well, that option may not be my decision after a call he got yesterday. Our regular doctor sent him to UAB for an osteoporosis clinic since he has it so bad and they also did many tests including an X-Ray. The call was that the film showed the screws are loose already again and Oh No,I can't believe this is happening. It also showed compression fractures higher in his back so now he is being scheduled for a cat scan. He had no idea he had osteoporosis
before the August 2009 surgery and the doctor found it during the fusion when the bone he was going to use was unusable and he had to remove some extra bone to use from another site, I think the hip as that is the second incision site. Anyway, now we have told our daughter to get a bone scan ASAP as she has severe back problems also and has been told nothing can be done. She has been on pain management therapy with not much help.
I have mild osteoporosis but my husband's number is as bad as it can get. He take a forteo shot every day at a cost of around $900 a month, thankfully we do have insurance. But still, what a fee? well, it is a new drug and he can only take it for two years, one year down now and on his second year. That is all anyone can take it.

After the cat scan who knows what will happen? I guess we will see down the road. He could break a bone just picking up something so he has learned and so have I, the correct way to bend down (with your knees) and get something. He uses his grabber to get the paper from the yard if I forget to get it and get busy around here. It has taken a lot of getting use to with his not able to do all the things around the house he used to be able to do. Amazing how bad before detection. So drink your milk, that is another thing he learned to do at the clinic at UAB. They said he was taking too many vitamin supplements and to get it naturally is better. He was taking a lot of calcium and vitamin D supplements. Dairy, Fish and Sunshine is good for you, also walking to jar your bones to absorb calcium better. I am going to have to find a way to walk better and faster to be able to go with him. Since I am only able to tolerate sandels with my ortopedic insole, it is hard to walk very fast. Most are slip in and out of since I do take them off when I am not walking. I do have a pair with an ankle strap so I will try them next time he goes. I sure to do miss wearing socks and sneakers like I always did before I got neuropathy in my feet. And I an not diabetic as I am always asked. I also have a spinal stimulator in my hip made by St.Judes Hospital for which I am very grateful. It helps with pain but not enough to get me back in shoes and socks like I had hoped
it would. And Yes, I do have cold feet in the winter like this time of year.

We just do what we have to do to get by day by day. Thanks for listening.
Smiles, Cyndi