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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Keep Calm And...
Following a random thread of thought down a rabbit hole, I found these gems sprinkled across the internets. Which are your favorites? I rather love them all. :)
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Grow Your Blog Party Time!!!
Hi!!!
This is a very special post, sending greetings to anyone who may be stopping by from the Grow Your Blog event, hosted by the fabulous and amazing Vicki of 2 Bags Full!
I started blogging 4 years ago- well, closer to 5, actually; my blogaversary is in April! Cute Gremlin the Younger had just been born. I only made 15 posts that year. In 2009 our lives were turned upside down, but I managed to hide it really well for a long time. I only posted 6 times the whole year, and 12 the next. Finally in 2011 I decided to jump into blogging like I had never really done before. It has been AWESOME. I have met so, so, so many dear and wonderful new friends. I have used my blog as a way to document and facilitate my newly revived love of hand-written letters/pen pals. I have been welcomed with open arms into the lives and adventures of other bloggers who inspire me to be a better person, encourage me to live my dreams, and sometimes just make me laugh from my toes!
It's cold outside (at least in the Northern Hemisphere!)!!! So I've decided to host a GIVE AWAY with this Grow Your Blog event, with this peacock colored scarf, lapel pin, and journal as the prize!
Just leave a comment as your entry and I will pick a random winner on Feb. 1st and contact you for your mailing address.
As you read my blog, I hope that you find something beautiful, edifying, cheerful or downright hilarious here that makes you smile! I've learned so much about blogging, and like to think I have improved over time. (Fewer giant walls of text, for example!) :)
I'm going to visit and follow as many in the party as I possibly can. If you decide to follow The Modest Peacock, a big HUG and THANK YOU to you! I can't wait to get to know you all better. Here's to growing and traveling and learning and laughing with our blogs!
This is a very special post, sending greetings to anyone who may be stopping by from the Grow Your Blog event, hosted by the fabulous and amazing Vicki of 2 Bags Full!
I started blogging 4 years ago- well, closer to 5, actually; my blogaversary is in April! Cute Gremlin the Younger had just been born. I only made 15 posts that year. In 2009 our lives were turned upside down, but I managed to hide it really well for a long time. I only posted 6 times the whole year, and 12 the next. Finally in 2011 I decided to jump into blogging like I had never really done before. It has been AWESOME. I have met so, so, so many dear and wonderful new friends. I have used my blog as a way to document and facilitate my newly revived love of hand-written letters/pen pals. I have been welcomed with open arms into the lives and adventures of other bloggers who inspire me to be a better person, encourage me to live my dreams, and sometimes just make me laugh from my toes!
It's cold outside (at least in the Northern Hemisphere!)!!! So I've decided to host a GIVE AWAY with this Grow Your Blog event, with this peacock colored scarf, lapel pin, and journal as the prize!
Just leave a comment as your entry and I will pick a random winner on Feb. 1st and contact you for your mailing address.
As you read my blog, I hope that you find something beautiful, edifying, cheerful or downright hilarious here that makes you smile! I've learned so much about blogging, and like to think I have improved over time. (Fewer giant walls of text, for example!) :)
I'm going to visit and follow as many in the party as I possibly can. If you decide to follow The Modest Peacock, a big HUG and THANK YOU to you! I can't wait to get to know you all better. Here's to growing and traveling and learning and laughing with our blogs!
Friday, January 4, 2013
SPG WAS IN MY POST BOX!!!!!
Ok, so with all of the mess that was being wrapped up in the late fall/last month, I have fallen a bit behind on the current 52 weeks of mail project, at least in terms of logging and documenting the incoming and outgoing. There have been more things incoming than outgoing, as I am woefully behind in replies, but you know... kids, work, healing, priorities. Y'all understand.
Anyway, I have to show you what came in the mail yesterday and Wednesday that just made me jump up and down, dance around the post box with flailing muppet arms, and squeal like a kid getting a pony for Christmas!!!! (This is WAY BETTER than a pony!!!)
The Spine's included an intriguing line: "A mysterious Canadian friend wanted us to send you some love..." O_o
Now, I have several friends in Canada... they all read my blog and know how much I adore SPG. My mind is just racing as to who could have been so kind! Was it Snail Mail Fan, whom I met through her fantastic blog 100 Days of Snail Mail (she is no longer posting, in favor of doing other cool stuff, but the blog is still up for perusing and has some fantastic posts!)? Or Cathy, who writes the hilarious Life on the Muskoka River?
Both of them are bright beams of sunshine to me, Snail Mail Fan with her amazing packets of a long letter together with interesting clippings and ephemera (she sent me the most beautiful map from the Nature Conservancy of Canada that I keep meaning to photo and show you!), and Cathy with her blog posts that make be burst out laughing (so loud that I alarm anyone around me at the time!) and her wonderful comments here on TMP.
Maybe it wasn't either of those, though. Maybe another one of my Canadian readers. I honestly have no idea! But whomever was so, so, so, sweet- THANK YOU! My treasured SPG postcards have a place of honor on a high up display shelf, next to the Brittney Lee print my BFF sent me from Comic-Con. (The link opens to her post showing the print I got, but take a look at the rest of her work! Just breathtaking!) They are up where I can see them every day while I create stuff for Lucy Jane, and barring a for-real tornado jumping in my window and carrying the shelf away, nothing can happen to them. :) :) :)
THANK YOU again, Mysterious Canadian Friend. I love you bunches! I hope you'll tell me who you are so I can send you thank you hugs and all!
Thank you, thank you, SPG for connecting with your fans and sending me the best and most unexpected love and encouragement to cheer me up! You are truly THE BEST. EVER.
I meant it, you know, that bit about dancing at the post box. I really was! And I absolutely couldn't care less who saw, (actually probably only the horses in the pasture across the road- I don't remember if any cars passed; I wasn't paying attention!) because it was pure and unbridled happiness like I hadn't felt in a long time! I can't wait to pay it forward and encourage others/find ways to make someone's day brighter.
*blinks away happy tears* Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I am so, so, fortunate to be so loved.
:)
Anyway, I have to show you what came in the mail yesterday and Wednesday that just made me jump up and down, dance around the post box with flailing muppet arms, and squeal like a kid getting a pony for Christmas!!!! (This is WAY BETTER than a pony!!!)
STEAM POWERED GIRAFFE SENT ME POSTCARDS!
The Spine's included an intriguing line: "A mysterious Canadian friend wanted us to send you some love..." O_o
Now, I have several friends in Canada... they all read my blog and know how much I adore SPG. My mind is just racing as to who could have been so kind! Was it Snail Mail Fan, whom I met through her fantastic blog 100 Days of Snail Mail (she is no longer posting, in favor of doing other cool stuff, but the blog is still up for perusing and has some fantastic posts!)? Or Cathy, who writes the hilarious Life on the Muskoka River?
Both of them are bright beams of sunshine to me, Snail Mail Fan with her amazing packets of a long letter together with interesting clippings and ephemera (she sent me the most beautiful map from the Nature Conservancy of Canada that I keep meaning to photo and show you!), and Cathy with her blog posts that make be burst out laughing (so loud that I alarm anyone around me at the time!) and her wonderful comments here on TMP.
Maybe it wasn't either of those, though. Maybe another one of my Canadian readers. I honestly have no idea! But whomever was so, so, so, sweet- THANK YOU! My treasured SPG postcards have a place of honor on a high up display shelf, next to the Brittney Lee print my BFF sent me from Comic-Con. (The link opens to her post showing the print I got, but take a look at the rest of her work! Just breathtaking!) They are up where I can see them every day while I create stuff for Lucy Jane, and barring a for-real tornado jumping in my window and carrying the shelf away, nothing can happen to them. :) :) :)
THANK YOU again, Mysterious Canadian Friend. I love you bunches! I hope you'll tell me who you are so I can send you thank you hugs and all!
Thank you, thank you, SPG for connecting with your fans and sending me the best and most unexpected love and encouragement to cheer me up! You are truly THE BEST. EVER.
I meant it, you know, that bit about dancing at the post box. I really was! And I absolutely couldn't care less who saw, (actually probably only the horses in the pasture across the road- I don't remember if any cars passed; I wasn't paying attention!) because it was pure and unbridled happiness like I hadn't felt in a long time! I can't wait to pay it forward and encourage others/find ways to make someone's day brighter.
*blinks away happy tears* Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I am so, so, fortunate to be so loved.
:)
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day, It's a New Life...
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