3 1/2 years
12.30.08
NOON, New Year’s Day:
CLOSED FOR THE DRAWING!
Yep, folks, it’s been 3 1/2 great years of blogging today. Talk about time flying!! Because I’m ever one to do things a little bit the wrong way – like giving out unbirthday gifts – I’m going to celebrate my anniversary today. It’ll keep both you and I on our toes, right? In honor of the wonderful people I’ve met, I’m going to draw one name from today’s comments (in your comment, please make it clear you want to be included in the drawing!) and will create a gift packet that includes something handmade by myself, a chart that seems to be to the winner’s taste, and some other little gifties that seem appropriate.
I’ll do the drawing on Thursday, January first. So … on your mark, get set, comment!
12.30.08 at 1:13 am
Congrats Barbara! 3 1/2 years, that’s quite an accomplishment! And of course I’d like my name thrown in the hat~~anything for a chance to win something you’ve made
12.30.08 at 1:16 am
Congrats on three and a half years of blogging.
I would love my name thrown in the hat too please.
12.30.08 at 1:25 am
Barbara, I would love to be included in the draw. I’ve admired your stitching for awhile and it’d be a treat. Congratulations on the un-anniversary!
12.30.08 at 1:31 am
Enter me! enter me !!!
Happy 3 1/2 years in the blogging land !!! I love your unbirthday gifts !!! 
So much fun !!! 
12.30.08 at 1:47 am
I have been reading your blog part of this year and would love to be entered in your drawing. I enjoy so much seeing your stitching and the pictures of another country and your family. So here is to another 3 1/2 years of blogging.
12.30.08 at 1:50 am
I would love to be included in your drawing
12.30.08 at 1:51 am
What a great idea! Happy 3 and a half year blogoversary. Please enter me in the drawing. Here os to another 3 and a half years!
12.30.08 at 1:53 am
Van harte gefeliciteerd Barbara! Ik lees graag je leuke blog en wil graag mee doen met de loting (inclusief je tekening)
12.30.08 at 2:03 am
Congratulations on your 3.5 years’ blogoversary! Enter me in the draw, please!
12.30.08 at 2:06 am
Congratulations Barbara, I’d love to be included in the drawing
12.30.08 at 2:09 am
Wow 3 1/2 years..Love your blog..please include me in the drawing.Connie
12.30.08 at 2:19 am
3 1/2 years!!! How exciting! Congrats! Your work is such an inspiration! and how you manage to stitch is beyond me… I would LOVE to be included in your drawing. Thanks! Pam
12.30.08 at 2:21 am
Happy 3 1/2 years blogiversary!! Would love to join in the draw. Thanks.
12.30.08 at 2:23 am
WOW! 3.5 years! I can’t keep mine up for 3.5 DAYS!!You are a much better person than I am!!
I would also love to be in the drawing.
12.30.08 at 2:27 am
ooo your are so dear!!
thanks for all beautifull inspirations
hugs
françoise
12.30.08 at 2:28 am
Please include me in your drawing. I would find it an honor to receive something made by you.
12.30.08 at 2:30 am
How fun, Barbara! And how sweet of you to do this! Yes, please include my name in your drawing! You are such a joy to know and call my friend!
12.30.08 at 2:31 am
Very unconventional
Happy 3.5 anniversary, Barbara! Please include my name in the drawing.
12.30.08 at 2:34 am
Please enter me in your drawing! And happy 3 1/2 years too. I just recently discovered your blog and enjoy reading about your life over in the frozen north. We spend a week every summer in Maine, so you’re a girl after my own heart! (Hope everyone is feeling all better in your house.) Happy New Year!
12.30.08 at 2:40 am
Congrats on your un-Blogoversary.
I would love to be entered in your drawing.
Have a Happy New Year!
12.30.08 at 2:47 am
Hey Barb,
We’re in TGOSM Group together. I love your work and a chance to win something made by you would be wonderful. Please include me.
You actually sound like me doing things opposite just to keep people wondering. I love that.
Have a wonderful week. Happy New Year.
12.30.08 at 3:04 am
Yay! 3-1/2 years is awesome! I am happy for you! I love your blog you know
Sign me up for the drawing <3
12.30.08 at 3:24 am
Barbara, I’d love to have something made by you. Please include me. Oh, yes, happy 3.5 years of blogging. Your blog was one of the first ones I found. Have love it and your kiddoes ever since. Becky
12.30.08 at 3:42 am
Yes! Please do enter me!!!
Thank you so kindly Barbara! You are the bestest!
12.30.08 at 3:43 am
3 1/2 years of blogging is great! I LOVE that you’re doing an
un-anniversary giveaway and of course, I would LOVE to be included.
Suzann
12.30.08 at 3:47 am
Happy 3.5 Anniversary Barbara. Your babies look so sad and yet remarkably content at the moment – I hope they are feeling much better very soon.
Please enter me into your drawing I would love to be included.
12.30.08 at 3:49 am
Congratulations Barbara on 3 1/2 years!
I hope your children feel better soon.
Please enter me into your give away and Happy early New Year,
Dorothy
12.30.08 at 3:57 am
Wow! Congratulations on 3 1/2 years! I’m at 6 months myself and have enjoyed it tremendously! Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year!
Blessings, Patti
p.s. Please include me in your drawing.
12.30.08 at 3:59 am
That is a long time to have a blog congrats to you. please add my name in the hat as well.
I just started my blog last night, so looking forward to adding my WIP, to see more of my progress and for my family to be able to check out the site.
I was looking through your site and just love it.
Hugs
12.30.08 at 4:12 am
Congrats on blogging for 3.5 years … I can’t even keep a journal for longer than a week LOL
Please include me in your give-away.
Thanks,
Bea
12.30.08 at 4:12 am
Hi,
3 1/2 years, I am seriously impressed. I have been thinking about starting a blog myself but I hesitate cuz I feel like I don’t have much to say! LOL! So many bloggers are so good, I feel like my blog would be lame. But I guess like with anything it would improve with time. Please enter me in the drawing! Thank You!
Michele
12.30.08 at 4:18 am
That is wonderful about your 3.5 years of blogging. Someday I will get that far. So pleae include me in your drawing as well.
12.30.08 at 4:25 am
Please include me in your drawing. Thanks!
12.30.08 at 4:27 am
Happy Anniversary! Would love to be included in your drawing!
12.30.08 at 4:35 am
Congrats on 3 and a half years of blogging! I have a blog and forget to post.
) You have very beautiful designs
12.30.08 at 4:36 am
Congratulations on 3 1/2 years of blogging. Would love to be a part of your drawing.
Thanks,
Roberta in GA
12.30.08 at 4:44 am
Hey! I give unbirthday gifts too. I love to see the look on a friends face when they open the wrapping to find the book, CD or DVD, or cross stitch they have wanted but couldn’t spare the $$.
Please put my name in the hat for the drawing.
Brightest Blessings,
Gloria C, Phoenix, AZ
12.30.08 at 5:02 am
How exciting… both for your blogging goal and for the give away
Would love to be included.
I’ve started three blogs and have finally gotten to the point where I can keep up with it and actually learn something – as technology is not quite my thing
Hugs,Marlon
12.30.08 at 5:30 am
Oh my! I would love to be included! Happy un-Anniversary!!!!! Where do you find the time…….
12.30.08 at 5:31 am
Congratulations on the ‘odd’ anniversary, Barbara! We’re into half-year celebrations, too, with DS’s birthday on New Year’s Eve, so we have half-birthdays on 30 June. I just love the neighborhoods–what a great idea! Please do include me in your drawing.
12.30.08 at 5:40 am
I’ve received nice things already from you in the past-I just wanted to say it’s been so nice getting to know you and yours in these 3.5 yrs. Many more happy years of blogging!
12.30.08 at 5:43 am
CONGRATULATIONS! That is fantastic. Your blog is always a pleasure to read. Hope everyone is feeling much better. Take care, oh and please include me in the drawing. Whoohooo love these things.
12.30.08 at 5:51 am
Please include me in the drawing. Congrats on the unanniversary of your blog! May you enjoy plenty more.
12.30.08 at 6:19 am
I’m glad you joined us three and a half years ago. Congratulations! Please include me in your drawing.
12.30.08 at 6:23 am
Happy Blog Birthday. I think 1/2 of any important date should be celebrated to the fullest. Now if I can just convince my DH I should have two birthdays a year I would be in heaven!LOL
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Hugs
-missy-
12.30.08 at 6:36 am
Thanks for the chance to win your giveaway! Hope your boys are better soon…
Happy New Year!
Petra
12.30.08 at 6:45 am
Hand’s up waving wilding. I wanna win I wanna win. 3 1/2 years is quite an accomplishment. Hope you have many more. Hope those kids feel better soon. Love your stitchin’. Cheers!
12.30.08 at 7:12 am
Barbara,
Congratulations on 3 1/2 years.
I’d love to be entered in your giveaway. Thanks for the chance.
12.30.08 at 7:23 am
Your blog is one of my favorites, Barbara, so I’d welcome the chance to be in your drawing. A merry unblogaversary to you!!
12.30.08 at 7:33 am
Barbara,
Congratulations on your 3 1/2 year anniversary! That is a major accomplishment. Your stitching is beautiful and I enjoy reading your blog.
Hugs,
Beth
12.30.08 at 7:47 am
wow 3 and a half year of blogging is sure lots of words to be typed and lots of pictures taken….congrat to you and please add me to your drawing..
12.30.08 at 9:07 am
Sounds like fun to me! Please include my name in your drawing!
12.30.08 at 9:27 am
Happy 3 1/2 years. You are a good person to keep this up each and every day. Much success to you.
please add me to your drawing.
Linda
12.30.08 at 9:28 am
Congrats to 3 1/2 years of blogging…and yes, please include me too into your drawing,-))
Gaby
12.30.08 at 10:32 am
Crikey, time has flown by, hasn’t it? But it’s been 3 1/2 years of bliss for those of us who read your blog religiously! {hugs} I for one have been very remiss from commenting of late, but I still try to drive-by and ready every post
Please include me in the drawing, although knowing you and calling you friend is prize enough! 
12.30.08 at 10:34 am
Congrats on your blogoversary! Please enter my name in the drawing.
12.30.08 at 11:25 am
Certainly I love your blog. (And I hope poor Arden clears up in record time.) Please count me in, as a friend, even if I don’t win a darn thing.
12.30.08 at 12:05 pm
3,5 years… hope we’ll see a 1 in front of the 3 and more!
So glad to hear everyone’s on the mend now… smiles from Norway!!
Thank you so much for the beautiful card!!! It did arrive 2 days before Christmas and made me smile!!!
Of course…. yes please for the drawing!
anna s.
12.30.08 at 12:31 pm
Congratulations on your 3 1/2 years of blogging. I not only know you as a blogger but have the great honor to have been able to have met you. I hope we will see more of each other in 2009. I would love to be entered in your giveaway as you are making something and it would be fun to have something by you. Hope the family is getting better with each passing day!
Hugs ~
Heidi
12.30.08 at 12:48 pm
Wow, comment number 60! Congrats on the 3 1/2 years blogging, i love your blog! I would love to enter your drawing. Thanks!
12.30.08 at 12:53 pm
Hi Barbara, I am a nivice at blogging but enjoy yours. Yes, I would love to join your giveaway and I thank you for the offer. Happy New Year to you and yours !!!
Dusty
12.30.08 at 1:09 pm
Gosh – all these comments – I hope that you realise now how many people enjoy reading your adventures!
3.5 years is a long time, but I reckon I must have been reading your blog for 1.5 of them now – I started when you were pregnant and now Arden is a year old! How time flies
)
I’d love to be entered in your drawing, and here’s to many more years of blogging!
12.30.08 at 1:42 pm
Wow, 3 1/2 years, that’s a long time! And I’m just started reading it. And I really like it! So, up to the next 3 1/2 years.
I want to put my name also in the big hat!
Happy new year with lots of stitching projects.:)
12.30.08 at 2:49 pm
Wow Barbara I’m commenter #64. Although the chances seem pretty slim I’d love to be included in your draw.
Congrats on your blogaversary.
12.30.08 at 3:17 pm
Congrats on your anniversary!! Please include me in your drawing- how generous of you!
12.30.08 at 3:44 pm
Congratulations Barbara, just look how many commenters are following you after 3.5 years! That’s pretty impressive I reckon
I’d love you to pop my name in your hat too!
12.30.08 at 3:57 pm
Happy Three and a half Blogaversary.
I would love to be included in your drawing.
Kathy
12.30.08 at 4:37 pm
Congrats on three and a half years of blogging. I have never tried it, maybe I should as you seem to love it and do it so well!!!
I would love my name thrown in the hat too please.
Hugs, Karen
12.30.08 at 4:49 pm
I am so impressed – 3 1/2 years blogging. That makes you an early adopter!
I love your posts (even though I usually just lurk, observing silently) and I hope that I can be better with mine in the new year…. and then I got lost chasing links from your bog.
I think when work settles down I might join in the Fair and Square — those look awesome!
Keep up the good work (and toss me in the hat for the give away too!)
12.30.08 at 5:04 pm
Congrats with your anniversary. 3 1/2 years is quite an impressive time.
And I would love to be included in the drawing.
12.30.08 at 5:42 pm
Happy anniversary from another Barbara who loves stitching also. Some cross stitch but mostly crazy quilting these days. Please include me in your drawing. Best wishes for many great projects to come in 2009! BJR
12.30.08 at 5:44 pm
Congratulations. 3.5 years is a long time to do anything consistently in my book! I’d love to be included in your drawing also.
12.30.08 at 5:56 pm
Wow! You received quite a response to your offer. Obviously everyone loves your blog and you can include me in that group too. Throw my name in the hat too, please and thank you. Hope everyone is feeling better now and well on the mend.
12.30.08 at 6:05 pm
I must say that I like your style of celebrating! Sounds like something I would do and have done! Please throw my name in the hat for the drawing as well. Thank you for your generousity and congratulations on your 3 1/2 year anniversary!
12.30.08 at 6:08 pm
Happy 3 1/2 years and here’s to the next, I’m glad you started otherwise I may never have!!
Please can I be included in your drawing too
12.30.08 at 6:21 pm
Congratulations on 3-1/2 years! I enjoy reading your blog and have learned a few things along the way. I’d love to be included in the drawing. Thanks–Nancy
12.30.08 at 6:26 pm
wow, so many comments… but I’m joining the drawing too! Congratulations on this anniversary and hopefully many more years to come.
I hope you have nice days with your family and a Happy New Year!
12.30.08 at 6:29 pm
Congratulations, and thank you for blogging all this time. It has been a joy to watch your family and your creativity grow day by day. This giveaway is a grand and generous gesture. Please enter me into the drawing.
12.30.08 at 7:32 pm
Congratulations on 3 1/2 years! Please include me in your drawing.
12.30.08 at 7:36 pm
Enter me, Please!!! Congrats on 3.5 years!!!!
12.30.08 at 7:40 pm
HI Congrats on 3 1/2 years on blogging. Sure by all means enter me into the draw. Will also bookmark your blog so I can read it regualarly.
12.30.08 at 7:46 pm
Greetings Barbara, and happy anniversary! Would love to be in your drawing and now know about your blog so can come back into it to read it.
Happy stitching sweetie!
12.30.08 at 8:15 pm
A very Merry Unbirthday to you
Congratulations on 3 1/2 years of blogging, yours was one of the blogs that prompted me to start my own.
I’d love to be included in your draw
12.30.08 at 9:12 pm
Congrats on 3 1/2 years. Makes me think I should start a blog. Please include me in the draw
12.30.08 at 9:24 pm
I enjoy your blog so much. Your kids are wonderful and I hope they are feeling better. You say very interesting things and display your stitching so well.
Please put me in for the draw. Congrats
Mary
12.30.08 at 9:25 pm
Congratulations on 3 1/2 years – your blog is one of my favorite sources of inspiration! And a giveaway is fabulous – count me in! Pat
12.30.08 at 9:54 pm
How do you do it 3 1/2 years I love reading your blog and may you have many more years of blogging. And please put my name into the hat of names.
Debbie S
12.30.08 at 10:34 pm
I think I broke my finger scrolling through all the comments! LOL
Happy 3.5years blog anniversary.
Count me in for the giveaway.
12.30.08 at 10:39 pm
Congratulations on your un-anniversary! This is first time I’ve stopped by your place, but I’ll be back. I’m always game for a surprise gift – thanks for the offer to enter the drawing. Congratulations to the winner!
12.30.08 at 11:08 pm
Congratulations on 3 1/2 yrs of blogging. I’ve been reading you for the past two yrs and enjoy your writing so much. Yes, please do enter me in the drawing…..fingers crossed!
12.30.08 at 11:13 pm
Well, there’s not much chance I’ll win with so many chiming in here, but I thought I’d at least join in and wish you a happy blogiversary, and a happy New Year as well!
I haven’t been commenting much lately, but I do love to read what’s going on with you and your family.
12.30.08 at 11:17 pm
Congratulations!!! Thank you for the invitation on Chatelaine support. Please enter me in the drawing. I will start reading your blog immediately. Greetings from Holland,
Anne
12.30.08 at 11:30 pm
Congratulations on 31/2 years of blogging, please enter me in your draw
12.30.08 at 11:33 pm
See how many people read your blog! I’m #93! Better than that being my age. Add me to the opt in group. I’ve loved the first 3 1/2 years and look forward to the next ?years! Happy New Year in more ways than one!
12.31.08 at 12:41 am
wow.. the 95th comment.. u sure got a lot of hits to your page!! Please include me in the drawing.. I will be having a few in January myself -be sure to stop by to see
Courtney
12.31.08 at 1:30 am
I would dearly love to win anything that you have made, please enter my name in your draw!
Congratulations on 3 1/2 years of blogging, isn’t it amazing how quickly time flies?
I am so happy to hear that the ‘kiddies’ are on the mend, you have had your hands full over the past couple of weeks…sending you a bit more ‘energy’ so that you can make it to 2009!
12.31.08 at 2:09 am
Jeez: 96 comments
where is the smiley that faint? 
12.31.08 at 2:12 am
what fun a half blogiversary! I love it
and yes I’d love to be included in the drawing.
12.31.08 at 2:17 am
I would like to be included in the drawing, love to have something made by you.
Happy Stitching!
12.31.08 at 2:41 am
Happy 3.5 yr anniversary! Hope you have many many more again! I’m glad we’ve “met” in the blogsphere! I’d love to be in the draw!!
12.31.08 at 4:30 am
Congrats on 3-1/2 years of blogging. Looks to be a great success and you should be proud.
Please enter me.
12.31.08 at 5:10 am
Oh my gosh – when I checked today 101 comments.
WOW!!!!!! Way to go girl. Congrats on 3 1/2 year anniversary.
12.31.08 at 5:18 am
Just read on Stacy Nash’s Groupies that you were having a giveaway. Happy 3 and a half years anniversary! Please include me in your drawing. Hope to be able to read your blog for many more years
12.31.08 at 5:28 am
I love your blog! I would love to be included in the giveaway!
Roz
12.31.08 at 8:15 am
I am new to your blog but will come back – very nice. Please include me in the drawing.
12.31.08 at 9:13 am
Barb, Congratulations on you anniversary! I so enjoy keeping up with yoyr blog. You stitching is gorgeous! Please count me in for your “give away”. I love unbirthdays and RAKs! Barb aka omashee
12.31.08 at 10:58 am
What a generous gal! Congrats on the 3 1/2 years. Please include me on the drawing and have a Happy New Year!
Ginger
12.31.08 at 2:44 pm
Congratulations on keeping the blog going for that long.
Pleased to hear (in previous post) that your all starting to recover from your various aliments.
Loved to be entered into the draw, if I’m not too late.
12.31.08 at 4:31 pm
Happy Blogiversary! Please don’t enter me (I’d love to see someone else win since I have purchased or received so many charts and projects lately that I feel quite piggy), but I did want to wish you well and tell you that I love to click on your posts and enjoy them with my breakfast at work. You go well with multi-grain toast and a diet coke! Or any time of day!
12.31.08 at 4:45 pm
Hi!!
I just came to wish you a Happy New Year
Aury
12.31.08 at 6:27 pm
OMG! 110 comments! That just shows the discrepancy between the number of people who read your blog and those who actually comment… Lol!
Don’t count me in for the draft, though I’d love something made by you… I just wanted to say Hi, thank you for blogging so cosntantly and beautifully all this year, and send you and your babies (fur or not) a million hugs and best wishes for 2009.
Love,
Lili
12.31.08 at 8:16 pm
Oh ME ME I want to be in the drawing. I enjoy your blog so it’s wonderful that you have been going for over 3 years. Thank you for all your inspiration.
Shay
12.31.08 at 9:56 pm
You have got to be kidding me, Barbara!!! I just can’t believe how many people signed up on your comments. But, never wishing to miss a party…can you add my name to the draw, please???????
Happy 3 1/2 year anniversary, btw, you’re the best!
Love and hugs, Deb
01.01.09 at 3:28 am
Happy third (and a half) blogiversary! Please toss my name in your hat, although look at all these comments… I probably don’t stand a chance. What a wonderful response– you are loved
01.01.09 at 3:29 am
Please enter me into your draw!
Happy blogaversary
01.01.09 at 3:30 am
And Happy New Year, too! (I forgot to say that a minute ago)
01.01.09 at 1:24 pm
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I don’t know if I could still write to you after that ??? 