I'm in! Kindness swap x5

So, My friend, UtahJenny, put this swap on her blog today and my imagination started going CRAZY right away. I thought "Wow, a chance to get something that JENNY made! How could it get better than that?" Then I 'raced' to the bottom of the page. I can't believe it! Only two people??? Seriously??? Sweet! I'm in!

I'm so excited!!! Should you be? I'm not sure... She's a lot more creative than I am. :-) This post will be top of page until I get 5 responses (which could take until the end of time). *sorry* Not nice, I know, but I totally want to do this!

Kindness Swap x5

Here's a little something I have recently noticed on some blogs - I snagged it from my friend and am sharing it with anyone who wants to "play".

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me!

My choice.

For you.

Hand made!

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.

The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!

Love you all!

Happy Groundhog Day!

And happy 10 years of committed bliss to my buddy and her studdy!

I don't think anyone besides me reads this blog anymore. :-)

Cheers!

What I love (after) Wednesday

Jenny in Utah!


This post -- albeit on a Thursday -- is dedicated to my friend Jenny. We've been friends for a long time...a REALLY long time...fine, I'll tell you: 29 years.

And, since I'm only 21 (wink, wink) that's really saying something. :-)


I couldn't resist paying an homage to my buddy, and her "What I love Wednesday" post, and when I saw this:





...that sealed it -- this post was 'in the bag'.


Jenny is a wonderfully kind person and a very devoted and consistent friend. I'm certain I'm not the only one who knows this...or even who has said this.


As to *what* it was on this page that made me decide I had to copy it to the actual blog...well, first of all, Jen (that's what I call her -- pretty much always have) commented on my 'less than cheerful' post in her characteristic sweet and open way. Thank you, Jen, for not running away from the 'heavy' stuff that I fling out there sometimes. Second, I couldn't bring myself to navigate away from the comment page without copying it (when I clicked to read) when I saw that the 'random' letters that are generated to decrease automated postings to blogs (and stuff) not only spelled out real words, but those words -- Red Boat!

I'm not gonna spell out why, exactly, that's so funny...but it's pretty similar to a certain nickname Jen had many, many years ago. I didn't give it to her. I don't actually know (or I can't remember) who did, but when she told it to me, I laughed myself stupid. I still giggle about it all these years later. I think it might have been someone from the amusement park we both worked at in our late teens/early twenties...or had some kind of connection to it...Jen?


Anyway, I still have a lot of the cards and letters Jenny has written to me over the years. They are among the few (from non-family members) that I can't bring my sentimental self to let go of. *sigh* In one of them, she wrote this little verse:


Make new friends but keep the old,
One is silver and the other is gold.


I don't know who said that, but I couldn't have said it better myself.

I love yer guts, Red! You are gold!