A Few New Pretties For The Shop, An Amazing Giveaway, And A Blog Award...

The vintage-style reproduction FRENCH GRAVE HEART WALL HOOKS,

as show above, is something I'm so excited to have now in the shop.

The real deal is almost impossible to come by here in the states,a

and I suspect would cost a pretty penny.

Imagine my glee when I discovered these faithful reproductions that 

serve as useful wall hooks!

We've finally restocked this GIANT SACRED HEART

after being out of stock for many, many months:

And THESE BEAUTIES....

Hand-sculpted and painted ROSE NECKLACES.

No two are alike -- just as in nature.

The rose necklaces were made up in three special colors for us --

Pewter (French Grey), Aubergine (a lovely plum-y, eggplant color),

and Blush (a parchment color with blush-pink tints).

I hope you'll stop by the NEW ITEMS page and see all that's new in-store!

ON TO THE GIVEAWAY 

that I know you'll want to know about!!

Carol, from Raised In Cotton, is having what just may be 

one of the BEST giveaways I've ever seen in blog-land.

Let's just say...

If you are a Jeanne d'Arc Living devotee, um...

this is GONNA KNOCK YOUR SOCKS DANISH CLOGS OFF!

Go HERE to see and enter!!!!

Another sweet blogging "sister" gave me a blog award and I am just

tickled pink.

Adrienne, from A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE blog

passed along the Sunshine Blog Award to several bloggers including moi.

Thank you so much, Adrienne!!!

I kind of feel unworthy getting any blog award anymore since I find that

WAY TOO MUCH time goes between blog posts. 

I hereby pledge to do better!!

In the last few weeks, my daughter has gone to and returned from 

another trip to China.  Many amazing things happened (all good)

and she even got to meet up with some of the same students she saw last year.

I had a birthday (I'll do a separate blog post on the super fun

steampunk jewelry I got!!).

And one of my sisters was diagnosed with and had surgery for uterine cancer.

She is now in the healing stage (both physically and emotionally) so if 

you think of her, please remember Libby in your prayers.  

There are six of us girls (and two boys) in our family and we love each

other dearly --- a blessing we do not take for granted.  It hurts us all

when one is hurting.     I know you know what I mean.

Well, sweet friends, its about time for me to think about cooking supper.

Oh.

I need to actually do more than THINK about it, right?  ;)

Have a great evening and I thank each of you for every little 

stop you make here.

I intend to try and hunker down (boy I really dislike that phrase) 

and find time to go through all YOUR blogs.  Things have been 

so crazy here and I have gotten REALLY far behind on that!

And it's something I really love to do, too!

Good evening to you all and

if you have any supper ideas, I'm all ears!  

:)