Whooppee! I made it to 100!

Yip, it is my 100th post today and I am well chuffed, so to celebrate I have got a little giveaway. I tried up loading photos but my Kodak software isn't playing ball. Instead (and in the spirit of finding alternative ways & means) I scanned the stuff so, here is my 100th give away.




A set of four stockings, each about 7 inches from tip to toe and with lovely ribbon hanging loops. They are made from classy Christmas cotton, lined with soft-feel fabric and have a faux fur trimming that came off a blanket (pity the poor child who goes to sleep this winter to find their toes peeping through the hole). I was thinking that there would be one stocking for each Sunday of Advent, with a little restorative treat in each one for all the hard working ladies (sorry, and gentlemen if there are any reading this site) to sit and enjoy this Christmas, but obviously it's up to you how you enjoy them. I love them so much I'm going to make loads more (until my poor child has no blanket left) and give them to everybody I know. To be in with a chance please leave a comment on this post between now and next Thursday and I will have my littlest Christmas Fairy pick one out. (That's until the 20th September, OK?) This is open to bloggers & lurkers alike, so, do please make yourself known. I did have a lovely picture of them hanging on my fireplace. Humph.

Wow! 100 posts! I am quite impressed with how quickly I have got to 100. I knew I would either post 3 times and get lost, or enjoy having a trapped 'audience' and keep writing. I didn't know I would end up 'talking' to people all over the world, nor that I would be so spurred on by them to be creative. It's too easy sometimes to use the blog as a complaining site, but when I do now want to make something I want to make it good... and that is so because of having an 'audience', a friend to share with. I didn't know that I would want to have a tidier house because there is now someone who visits me often & you expect to see a steady progress. I didn't know I would find a place where Christmas was not a dirty word until the end of October and where there is at least one other lady looking out for Ideal Home's Complete Guide to Christmas on the grounds that, at the start of October it will probably be the first of many Christmas magazines to enter our houses (am I right, Jane?)
I also didn't know that I would start exploring other possibilities because of the blog, that knowing there are so many other crafts women out there selling their stuff means I can start thinking and planning, and dreaming about Angel Jem Designs, which is so much closer.
I have enjoyed the first 100 posts. Hopefully, when we get to 1000 posts we will still be talking to each other. I'm looking forward to the giveaways for that, too!