Gentle Readers and Dear Friends thank you most profusely for all the kind, sweet comments for yesterdays post. I did have a great time over at NiaH - it is a super store!!! - and - for all the kind words about my WIP - LHN Monthlies, still stitching on that sucker!!
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Today's post is all about an upcoming 4th Blogoversary for me and my little "Bit o'the Web."
I started Blacksheep four years ago on May 9, 2007 - and have never regretted that decision. I always enjoy babbling on about the goings on in my little life and reading all the other Blogs. I also have enjoyed meeting so many great stitchers and crafters out in Blog Land. I often wonder at how connected we are being linked together with this computer thing - and how much richer my life is knowing everyone that shares my interests in needlework and craft. It does make for a smaller world, but that is a good thing - IMHO - If it weren't for this Blog and all our Blogs I would never have tried to stitch on linen, tried using silks, or ventured out from the comfortable. I love being enabled by everyone!! I love the camaraderie and kindness - the sharing of our lives. It is so worth it!!
Now on to the Drawing - I couldn't let this Fourth year pass without one - This Drawing is open to everyone everywhere - so don't be shy.... To enter all you need to do is Comment on this POST only, for a single chance. For a Second chance either be a Follower or become a Follower of my Blog . If you would like a Third entry just mention in a posting on your Blog about the Fourth Blogoversary Drawing - AND for a Fourth Entry post a link on Your Blog back to this Post. There you go - you can have FOUR chances in the drawing - now - what will you win if you are chosen..... I thought about it for a couple of days and have in my mind what it will be, but no snaperoo yet. Let's just say I think its a nice prize and leave it at that. I will close the entries on May 7th at 3 pm PST - and haul the BOD (bowl of Destiny) out and have the drawing on Sunday May 8th - then announce the winner on Monday May 9th, the actual Fourth Blogoversary. You can't win if you don't enter. Do make sure that I have a way to contact you if you win.
Easy Peasey - Mac and Cheessey!!
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There you go sports fans. Thanks again for your continued kindnesses and wonderful comments!!!
Do stop by again!
Take care,
edgar
Happy 4th Birthday Edgar! Your blog is always a delight to read and your stitching beautiful. I would love to be included in the giveaway! Good luck to all!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 4 years of blog. I love reading your estate adventures
ReplyDeleteWow Edgar! Has it really been 4 years? I enjoy reading your blog and viewing your stitches.... Please enter me in your drawing. And, I am a follower!
ReplyDeleteCarol in Mesa,
Always look forward to your posts and love to see what you are up to! I'd love to be added for a chance to win. I'm a follower, as well.
ReplyDeleteLooks like I got in under the wire...my 'puter has been on the fritz and just now am able to read some old posts!
Thanks!
Congratulations on your 4 year blogoversary, it's well worth celebrating :) I'd love to be included in your giveaway, I'm a follower and I'll mention your blog on mine with a link :)
ReplyDeleteHope you have another 4 brilliant years in the blogosphere
I always love reading about your world and I would love to win something stitched by you!
ReplyDeleteHi EDGAR
ReplyDeleteplease pick me, i would love to win.
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Congrats on 4 wonderful years! Please enter me! I am already a follower. Will go post on my blog now.
ReplyDeleteHere's the link to my post about your giveaway!
ReplyDeletehttp://xstitchmama.blogspot.com/2011/05/surprise-giveaway.html
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I would loved to be entered !! My birthday is May 10th !!! Hope I win !! Love your blog Edgar!!
ReplyDeleteOh I forgot !! I am a follower !!!
ReplyDeleteFirst things first...your blog is just lovely. I love it to see your progress, or your recipes. Your bargains often bring a smile to my face.
ReplyDeleteI would love to be included in the give away.
I'm a follower as well.
I'm a much lazier blogger than you - I always enjoy your posts, also on baking :) Please iclude me four times: I'm also a follwer now, and posted with a link. Congrats!!!
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Please count me in Edgar. I am a follower and always enjoy your work. I do appreciate the time you put in for the HOE exhcange. Congratulations on 4 years.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 4 year blogoversary!
ReplyDeleteI am a follower!
Happy Anniversary Edgar! I would love to be included in your drawing and I have become a follower, something I have been meaning to do for a while now.
ReplyDeleteHAPPY ANNIVERSARY-LOOK FORWARD TO READING YOUR BLOG EVERY DAY
ReplyDeletePlease place my name in the BOD! I found your wonderful blog via someone’s post about your giveaway. I am now a happy follower! I agree I love the blogosphere…..I am addicted to reading them. I also love the fact your giveaway is a “pure” surprise!! How fun!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on Four wonderful years of the blog. I will also post on my blog with a linkback.
Happy Blogoversary!!
Happy Blogoversary and may you have many more!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading your blog about your life in SF. Thank you for hosting HOE stitching exchanges. I have had fun taking part in them. Your stitched pieces are great and so are the pics of the goodies you bake.
I will post a link on my blog. Please enter my name 4 times in the BOD.
Edgar,
ReplyDeleteI am always amazed at your wonderful finishes. It's such a delight to visit your blog and read what you've been up to. I am a follower, but haven't started a blog (yet). Please enter me in your giveaway. Email is: mountainstitches AT earthlink DOT net. Thanks for the chance to win.
Lisa M
I want to take part! link on the right http://zarazjuka.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteYour blog is my favorite cross stitch blog. It's my go-to blog. I would love to enter for a chance to win and I believe I'm already a follower of your blog.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 4th blogoversary. I really enjoy reading your posts and you have been an inspiration on the stitching end. I am a follower and I would love to enter to see if I can covet one of you stitchings. That would be super.
ReplyDeleteHi Edgar: I would love to have one of your stitched pieces. Congratulations on 4 years. I so enjoy reading your blog. Please enter my name in your drawing.
ReplyDeleteBarbara S. Plano, Tx.
Happy anniversary! A friend of mine sent me to your blog. Looks like I'll be adding yours to the ones I read on a regular basis. Please enter me in your give-away. I love getting needlework in the mail. It makes my day.So, good luck to me.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh...can you believe all of the wonderful comments on your blog. I love it...and I read it every day. Thanks Edgar for all the fun and fabulous stitching along the way!! Very generous of you to offer a giveaway!! Happy Stitching....
ReplyDeleteHi Edgar. I have read your blog now for several months and just realized you are a man, and it brought such a smile to my face. I would love to meet sometime, I live in Minnesota and love cross stitching! I am 50 now and married 26 years and have 3 children and 3 grandbabies and 4 cats. Keep up the good blogging and I only wish you the best!! Happy Stitching Edgar!
ReplyDeleteall the best , shelley reynolds
Hi Edgar,
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blog. I get inspired to do some of the projects you do. Lo er a Rose was one of them!! Please enter my name in the drawing. I would love to get a package from SF!!
Kind regards,
Marci Whitmire
marcigpc@gmail.com
Congratulations Edgar, and thank you for offering a giveaway on YOUR 4th blogoversary! So many look to you, for stitching, cooking, antiquing, movie and more... inspiration Monday through Friday. Please continue the always enlightening verbage I follow.
ReplyDeleteCathlyn
Reading your blog always puts sunshine into my day.
ReplyDeletethank you edgar
gailaDianne
Congratulations on your four years of blogging,i really enjoy your blog,love looking at your stitching and seeing what interesting things you find at estate sales
ReplyDeleteI would love to be entered into your draw
tinacallaghan123 at hotmail.com
Edgar, Congratulations on your 4th blogoversary!! I would love to be entered in your give away and I have also become a follower. Thanks for the chances.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Edgar on your 4 yrs. What a fantastic giveaway - well I'm throwing my hat in the ring along with the other 235 people LOL. I quite enjoy reading your blog especially when I need a few moments of stress relief at work! Keep on stitching & sharing!
ReplyDeleteOh! so not gonna miss this chance. LOL. Agreed totally, without the internet, I would not have known of so many designers in existence and finishing methods nor sharing the same passion and signing up for exchanges with a total stranger in an exchange group.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogoversary!!
i would love to be included please, since starting a blog and looking at others i have found more motivation to continue with stitching and crafty things. thank you
ReplyDeleteHi Edgar,
ReplyDeleteI am entering your giveaway, I have been following for a few months. I love your blog. I am going to mention your giveaway on my blog today. Enjoy your warm weather, we are still cool in Canada, but it is starting to warm up. My tulips are blooming that is a good sign.
My heavens, 240 comments to your giveaway. You'll need a couple of days just to read threw them all. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogoversary to you Edgar!
I am a follower and would love to be counted amoung the many to be included in your giveaway and to wish you many more years of blogging
Kathy
and Rory too.
Hi Edgar! I'm new to your blog courtesy of Daffycat. Your blog looks like it's a lot of fun and I'm off after this to add my name as a follower. Please enter my name into your draw and thank you very much for the generous offer.
ReplyDeleteHi Edgar...I'm a new follower and so far, love your blog!! Please enter me in your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteBrenda
Hi Edgar, You do such beautiful work, I'd love to be included in your celebration!!!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to your give away !! Thank you !!
ReplyDeleteGoodness I meant to post when this can out and forgot, Holly C**p batman it is he** getting old. I love hearing your blog it is the first one I check out when I get on line. You have given my many great sampler ideas and made me remember many old movie greats.
ReplyDeleteHappy 4th Blogoversary Edgar.
March Ann
Congratulations on blogging for 4 years, love to read your blog. We had a visit to SF (from Australia) and just fell in love with the city. I stumbled across your blog and not only do I enjoy cross stitch but found you live in SF. I read daily to see where you have been shopping and which "districts" you have visited, as you being a local know the best places. I just think - ooh, wish we had been there also, but not enough time. We only stayed for 3 days and it was out of this world. I could talk forever about how much we loved it. Your cross stitch is very beautiful. I do not have a blog, but will "diguise" my e-mail address. Kind regards Sandra from Sydney Australia
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Hi Edgar wonderful blog and beautiful stitching I would love to be entered in your 4th year giveaway I also became a follower I would be honored to follow a great blog such as yours! Kim C
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your anniversary. I am a lurker who reads your blog everyday and enjoys the content. You do wonderful stitching and are an insripation with all the wonderful pieces you do - or should I say enabler. Keep blogging. Would love to be entered in your draw.
ReplyDeleteClare
Congratulations Edgar on your Blogaversary, I am so happy for you wow dont you just love happy events.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogaversary to you please include me in your givaway.
Catherine
Blessings
diamondc
Edgar - I love reading your blog, especially on Monday when you reminisce about your weekend. I am not a blogger but I am one of your many followers. Happy Anniversary. Put my name in the BOD! Mary - CA
ReplyDeleteJust joined your blog! Would love to be included in your giveaway! I agree with that "connected" feeling through the blogs! It's a wonderful WWW!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary Edgar!
ReplyDeletePlease add my name to The Bowl Of Destiny!
Gah! I'd put off entering all week until I blogged, but kept putting it off all week, so now I'd better enter while I can JiC I can't return from my errands in time!
ReplyDeleteThough I SHOULDN'T as I already own the most gorgeous piece of your work, the temptation is too great! :D
Happy Anniversary, Edgar, and many happy returns!
I'll be blogging later today and if it's in time will indeed mention it, though don't worry about extra entries and etc. But, DO stop by if you like Kylie at all as I'm including some photos from her concert in the city this week, which I attended. :D
Hope you're having a fab spring weekend full of saleing, breakfasting, and all your favorite weekend diversions.
Please enter me in your blooversary celebration drawing. I always enjoy reading about your adventures.
ReplyDeleteCongratulaions on Four Years! It's always nice to visit you and see what you have been doing. Thanks for sharing all the parts of your life. A long time follower, Jane
ReplyDeleteI would love to be in your drawing and win something you made.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win something you made. it is all beautiful. please enter me in your contest.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your blogoversary! Your blog is so refreshing! And best wishes for many more. :)
ReplyDeleteDorothy
dmorton001@indy.rr.com
Congratulations on your blogoversary! Your blog is so refreshing! And best wishes for many more. :)
ReplyDeleteDorothy
dmorton001@indy.rr.com
You had no idea so many read your blog, did you? Admit it....it's a fun blog to read and I thank you for it. Include me, but more importantly, enjoy the wonderful comments from all your online friends.
ReplyDeleteLinda in TX
Edgar,
ReplyDelete4 years of blogging....just how many words do you suppose you have blogged? LOL!! I am a newbie to your blog...but will be back for sure(I short-cutted you to my desktop!)Looks like I may be too late for the anniversary giveaway..always my lucky..but I still wanted to say HAPPY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY and may the year until the next one be the best ever.
Connie in Omaha