Blogging Gifts

This lightweight handpainted wooden bangle bracelet was in our mail packet this week.  I had come across Gloria's blog through another blogging friend and on the day that I was reading her blog, Gloria mentioned she was having a giveaway for new followers.  So on a lark I signed up and low and behold I was number 100 so I got to pick a free bangle from her Etsy site.  I was surprised the bangle fit as I am large boned (and obviously have 58 year old hands!) and it has beautiful shades of pearlized greens and yellows that glimmer and gleam in the sunlight.  It reminds me of the ocean and I wish this photo did it justice.  But how fun to find a new blogging friend AND receive a gift to boot!  It's making me feel creative so perhaps it's time to haul out my old supplies and try to recreate my lady brooches that I did many years ago.  Hmmmm.....

I have to admit, when I first started my blog I never thought that it would turn from travelogue to diary to my place to rant/whine and back again.  Blogging for me was intended to inform friends and relatives of our travels and what was going on without having to send out ten different e-mails to different people.  Yup, my blog was simply me being too lazy to write e-mails.  But because of starting a blog, I've made new friends both online and in person and have lurked on other sites just to see how others live and deal with their problems/illnesses/children, etc.  Bloggers are a fascinating bunch and I'm thinking I'll probably have blogger-withdrawal when we go on our cruise in August because I'm going to leave our laptop behind.  But it's kind of nice to know that because of a few words typed in a comment box you can end up being friends with some of the most wonderful folks, most of whom you'll never meet face to face, but the friendship is no less real because of it.

So maybe being lazy worked out well for me for once.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.