Win This!

Wow! Kudos to all you followers who have hung in here for 10 months with no new posts from me! Well, today may be your lucky day. I am sponsoring a giveaway for a Sterling Silver Name Necklace like this one:

The name/word is Sterling Silver; the chain is white filled steel paladium. Everything is made right here in the good ol USA. Because of shipping restrictions of precious metals internationally, this contest will only be open to USA addresses only

Here's how to enter: go to http://christiecottage.blogspot.com/  and follow her directions. There are different ways to enter, so you can get multiple entries, and the contest will run for two weeks. Good luck to everyone. I will contact the winner after the contest ends and you can let me know what name/word you want.   Til next time,

Cindi

XOXOXOXO

Win It Wednesday

Would you like to win this Awesome Necklace? or any word or name in Sterling Silver?

http://www.etsy.com/listing/86062026/awesome-name-written-in-sterling-silver

Well, for the next week you can enter to win it on ChristieCottage's blog . You should be able to get more than one entry with all the ways she has to enter. And after you enter the giveaway, don't forget to visit ChristieCottage on Etsy . Just look at this darling sock monkey cell phone pouch

http://www.etsy.com/listing/76941812/purple-hat-sock-monkey-cell-phone-pouch

You KNOW if I had a cell phone, I'd sure get this little cutie with his purple hat. So get on over, enter the giveaway, and do a little shopping in Christie's store. You may find the perfect Valentine's gift there.

Until next time,
XOXOXOXOXO

Cindi

I got Featured!

Yes I got featured, but that's later....I simply just can't believe how fast the time is flying! It's already half way through September! Our garden has really begun to produce, and even though this garden is tiny compared to years past we still have more than we can eat. We have made several trips to our neighbors unloading tomatoes and zucchini and yellow squash.
This week I canned/pickled sliced jalapenos and cherry hots and froze 4 quarts of roasted and peeled anaheim chiles. I also made a batch of chocolate chocolate chip coconut zucchini bread(not a misprint-it IS double chocolate!) and Mr. Clay and I had fun delivering our 'dessert' bread. Maybe I should give you all the recipe. If you'd like it, leave me a comment and I'll get it on a future post.

Sorry, the pictures Mr. Clay took of the garden highlight his tractor more than his garden:

I will get some better shots tomorrow morning when I harvest another bucketful anaheim chiles.

Other than the garden stuff, I've been real busy this week writing. An article that I submitted to HandMade News a loooooong time ago was published in between my regular column days. And it just so happens that the article is a polymer clay mosaic project I did. (I'd post a picture, but they are with the article.)

So I had three articles publish at the end of this week. Thurs, Fri. & Sat I have been busy promoting them. And one of them got the highest votes of any article in our section! Way to go Christie...she sent the word out to a gazillion peeps and she has the most votes.

I have now written 17 articles and 9 of them are on the top articles list. Thank you everyone for all the thumbs up votes. I really appreciate it.

So my articles this week were:

Sarah of BellaSweet who loves to work in gemstones

Christie of ChristieCottage who has varied artistic interests

And saving the best for last..ME ! :P My Mosaic Planter It's really a cool planter ;)

As always, I would appreciate a thumbs up vote (at the bottom of the article just above the comments section)


Until next time, have a great week!
XOXOXO
Cindi