Post 1154......Time to celebtrate

I think we are over due for a giveaway.  The last time I had one was at the 500 post point.

I meant to do this when we reached 1000 posts but somehow they crept past.

I have been wondering what to do in order to choose prize winners.

I am not going to do number generator prize for at least three of these prizes.

They are gifts to me from Homespun Magazine here in Australia and since I fell behind in my subscription at some stage and did not realize this.........I did end up with rather a store of goodies.

So here they are. These are duplicates of ones I already have and I thought they might make a worthwhile giveaway.

 There are two address books  and here are outside and inside views.

I suspect non Australians may enjoy these as you may not be as familiar with the magazine Homespun and I am prepared to post them overseas.

 Two Homespun aprons.  I have a couple of these and like them a lot and find them a good pattern to copy as well. 

 Finally and this is prize one, a lovely craft and sewing bag to carry all your threads scissors work and other goodies in.  They have quite good compartments which I have tried to show you here.

I have decided that I will allocate one of the aprons and one of the address books to a random number choice.  But for the bag and the other address book and apron, I am asking you to work a little bit.

My first blog post was in August 2005 and it was not a common practice to blog back then and I think I thought of an online diary to get the odd thing off my chest.  I was not thinking of people reading or making comments....I was not at the time so much into digital photography if at all and I was not at all aware of the blogging community.

Like Topsy it grew, as I enjoy writing, but writing the same letter or email to several people can get a little stale, so suddenly here was a way of keeping up to date and letting people know what was or was not going on with my life.  There was a new knee in there somewhere, as there had been the year before I began and my Mother had died the year before that, leaving me in a strange place .....for the first time in my life I did not really have responsibilities.  Moggie makes sure she is fed but a lot of the things I had been doing in a voluntary capacity after ill health retirement at the end of '91 began to finish and due to health issues my life became much more home bound so that I stopped going to heaps of lessons and tried to finish off all the UFO's I had collected while I did.  I did not however stop collecting fabric.

So I feel for over 1000 posts I can ask you to do a little work to win something here and I will give three prizes to the three responses that I most enjoy, who can tell me which post you have enjoyed over the years and why.

The current ones may not rate too highly in my choices. I expect you to do a little more work than that!!! Then I shall choose some random numbers for the last two prizes.

Please pass this celebration/competition on and advertise it in your blogs.........and I will leave it going at least until the end of the month of December,  Have fun.