Come ride the magic carpet - OWOH is here!

(photo courtesy of A Whimsical Bohemian)

Can you tell i am excited?

One World One Heart was created in 2007 by Lisa Swifka over at A Whimsical Bohemian as a means for other bloggers to meet each other and to give them a chance at winning something. every year this event get bigger and bigger! another cool thing is that blogging participants are from all over the world. what are the qualifications? you just need to be an active blogger and a prize to giveaway. i really enjoy participating in OWOH - this is my 3rd year. last year i met some great girls and we ended up doing a few individual swaps because we really liked each others prizes! and your chances of winning something are good - last year i won a beautiful ring and a brooch!

so this year, i'm happy to present my OWOH giveaway: i've created one of my signature necklaces using vintage items, soldering, sewing, deconstructing, reconstructing and a very old tintype photo. she is full of mystique and beauty and i guarantee you will be asked many times, "where did you get that necklace?"

So here's what i need you to do:

you need to leave me a comment on this post for OWOH. you need to check your comment carefully and make sure that all your information is updated. i need to be able to reach you if you are a winner. sometimes i notice when people leave comments, their name isn't clickable; if that happens i have no way to get a hold of you. so make sure all your information is current. when OWOH is over on February 15th, 2010, then i will use a random # generator to pick my winner. good luck, have fun and i hope you'll come visit me again at Lemoncholy's Studio soon!

blog giveaway

well, i 've been quiet for a few days and that usually means that either i'm not feeling well or Tucker isn't feeling well. well, Tucker, it turned out, has bronchitis. wednesday night he was up til 5am coughing, coughing and coughing. i stayed up with him, suctioning, singing to him, talking to him, keep him company, etc. and then i spent the next few days trying to recover! we took him to the doctor on friday and she started him on an antibotic. i swear a few hours after the first dose, he was already sounding better. Friday i ended up sleeping in until 11:00am, something that rarely ever happens. i'm just not one to sleep in. i have some many things i want to get done on a daily basis and usually sleeping isn't one of them! but i was exhausted, had a horrible headache and needed to rest. so rest i did. i'm still a bit tired, but getting there!

my project for the last few days was working on a wreath. i decided i wanted to make a wreath using vintage ornaments. i've been collecting these for awhile, so i had plenty on hand. i started it last night and got about 1/2 done before i ran out of glue stix. stopped at Michale's this morning to restock my stix and back to work (why is that they only had 1 cashier on a saturday morning, a few days before Christmas and with a line 12 people deep? ugh!)

i made my first wreath when i was in college and had gone home for Christmas break (that was also the time i made all these adorable "gingerbread people" ornaments out of felt. ) my mom was making them and she showed me how. we would go deep into their property (she was living in Greensboro, NC at the time) and we would look for grapevine. then we would wrap it in a circle and begin the decorating. we used a glue gun and whatever supplies she had on hand (i really don't remember what it looked like!) i just fondly remember the time. so now that my wreath is completed, i thought it'd be fun to guess how many ornaments it took to fill in this wreath? whoever comes comes the closest will win a prize (a prize i am still determining)

birthday countdown

about 6 days until i turn #44. yikes! where has the time gone? to celebrate my birthday, i'm having a blog giveaway. all you have to do is leave me a comment and tell me a favorite birthday memory. i'll start with one of mine: there were the token parties when you are little. once my mom had a "hobo" party, which was really fun. she took bandanas and wrapped them on sticks which we carried over our shoulders going to a picnic. i think our food was inside the bandanas. but my favorite party is a surprise party that i planned for myself when i turned 30. we lived in Las Vegas for awhile and the party was held in Ventura, California at my grandmother's house. my mom and sister, Kim, hosted it. i sent her my guest list (i had many friends in Ventura as i use to live there too) and they did the rest. jeff and i rented an RV and drove with Tucker and Dillon. it was really fun. i got great gifts, one being a huge cement garden dog, that i named Bailey. Bailey has travelled every where i've moved and is out front in my garden still. we had a pinata and i wore this really cool vintage dress.

also, wishing my friend, Joanne, a birthday hello as we share the same birthday!