A Winner is Picked ! YAY!

Kristyanna is the winner of the 15.00 gift certificate to my Etsy Shop.
Congratulations on winning, I will be emailing you shortly.

And Thank You to everyone who entered.
I will be posting another giveaway tomorrow - Saturday for something that is not jewelry.

Random Number Generator
This page simply picks a random number, within a range you specify.
For example, to pick a number between 1 and 100, set the Lowest Number to be 1, and the Highest Number to be 100.
Then click on Pick a Number to pick the number. That's it. Have fun!

If you found this useful, consider visiting the main Violet Cottage website. Thanks for visiting!

The randomly picked number is: 65

Lowest Number : 1
Highest Number: 87

Passionate Kisses

Photo from Duncan ENT.


Are you crafty? Would you like to be crafty?
Do you like to recycle and upcycle things you have around the house?
DO you have kids that spend way too much time in front of the TV, PC,video game player?
Would you like to have easy instructions for all kinds of crafts emailed to you at no charge?
Really neat crafts. The kind that you would be proud to show your best friend, the one that tells you the truth about your butt really looking too big in that skirt.
Well, here is the link for such a site.
Just sign up for their newsletter with your email and that's it.

Your kids will love the cute things they can make with you.
I love the ideas. And for all levels of crafters, seamstresses, kids and wannabees.
The "Kiss Me" pillow was in my mailbox today along with tons of other instructions.
(I would make the pillow, but embroider the "Kiss Me" on it so it would be something you could cuddle with.)



Passionate Kisses
_________________

Is it too much to ask
I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back
Food to fill me up
And warm clothes and all that stuff
Shouldn't I have this
Shouldn't I have this
Shouldn't I have all of this, and

Passionate kisses
Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh
Passionate kisses from you
-Mary Chapin Carpenter-

With Valentines right around the corner I will be adding stuff to my Etsy Shop with that in mind.
The newest addition....

"Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate"

How the Library Helped Us Buy Our Land.

Well I'm pretty upset. Libraries are closing around the country due to budget cuts. Some are cutting hours, some are cutting days, a lot are on the brink of closing all together. Our little library is now closed on Thursdays. Also they are only having one night a week of extended hours, used to be three nights.

I am one of their most patrony patrons. Usually I have 20 - 30 library books at home.
Along with a few DVD's and CD's.

Here is the story of what the library has meant to me...

Larry and I were on the same page ever since we met back in 1970. (I was 12, he was ummmm....older ) We both loved living in the woods and wanted to some day own a good amount of land and build our own home. And even after losing touch for 27 years we both kept that dream.
When we found each other again, in 1998, we made a plan. To save as much as we could and in 2 1/2 years buy land.

I moved up here from N.C and got a job as a pharmacy technician in a drugstore one block from the 1 bedroom apt. that Larry had rented right before I moved here.

He was working as "an agragate relocation specialist" (he hauled gravel) The apt. he rented was 3 rooms, heat, water and trash included, so the bills we had were: rent,electricity,phone and car insurance.We drove an old car, one he could work on himself and we both took packed lunches to work.

We bought nothing. Went out to eat once a week at "an all you can eat" place. And socked away our money.

Here's where the library comes in....Our soul form of entertainment was built around it.
We checked out tons of music. Loads of movies and read books on how to garden, digging wells, building houses,plumbing your own home, wiring, canning food, woodstoves, compost toilets, greenhouses, catching rainwater, frugal living...and so much more.

By utilizing all that the library has to offer, we managed to save almost $30,000 in those 2 1/2 years. Enough to buy almost 10 acres of land and build our home. And learned so much along the way. Giving us a wonderful knowledge of how to do for ourselves.

And now they want us all to buy a Kindle or some other reader. To me, a plastic "reader" is just never gonna be the same I tells ya. There's just something about holding a book, seeing them lined up waiting, with goodies inside, on a bookshelf.

I've always had bunches of books around. Always had a book nearby with a bookmark in it. I grew up in foster homes and so many times a book was my only friend. I could be anywhere, and pretend I was anyone through a book.
I learned how to "Be here now" with the help of a book titled "Be here now".

When I was little and my mother was still here, I had piles of books. I was an early reader and I know this helped me survive the after years.
When my kids were babies I read to them and we would go for the books at yard sales. They always got books at Christmas and birthdays. And we would go to the library.
They loved the library.
I would catch both of them at night, up reading after I had called lights out. I never got upset. I was just so happy they had an early love of books. They both did well in school and they are both wonderful adults and they both still love books.

Well, this is my rant about loving the library and feeling sadness every time I read about another town or city having to close theirs.

Please support your local library.
It would be horrible to one day hear a child ask "Mommy, what's a book"?

CELEBRATING MY FIRST SALE...GIVEAWAY! - CLOSED

This Giveaway is Now CLOSED- Come back for more soon, and in the meantime...take a look around.

That's right Peeps, Little Purple Room is officially in business. And now that I have made not ONE but TWO sales...I'm all riled up to give something away.

A 15.00 GC to use in my shop.
By the time this giveaway ends,there will be even more in there to choose from.





So in order to enter, you must complete the Mandatory entry...
Then AFTER that is all done, you can pick and choose whatever else you may want to do to have extra chances.

Mandatory : Go to Little Purple Room and let me know what you might choose if you win. This is not written in stone and you can change your mind if you win.

Extra Entries: *Follow this here blog- 2 extra entries- leave 2 extra comments for these. Like "follow #1" then "follow#2" If you already follow, leave 2 posts saying the same.

**Blog about this giveaway-5 extra entries- yep, leave 5 separate "I blogged #1"...Blogged #2...Blogged #3 and leave your link to the blog post.

Giveaway ends at Midnight est on Thursday Jan 7th. Open to US and Canada. Age 18+

I've Been Featured on a Blog . Larry agrees I am famous now.

Photo is property of CherChic


One of the sweet commentors in my last giveaway has a shop on Etsy and I checked her out. The coolest eye glass case, complete with a nekid white monkey on the front was waiting for me.
I bought that sucker, and I LOVE IT. I have these huge sun glasses I got when my eye was messed up, they wrap around the whole front of my face and would not fit in any case I have. But they fit in the nekid white monkey. It is fleece inside so no scratchies. Very tough material too so I know it will last for years.
So the other day I saw that I had a convo on Etsy and when I went to check it out, it said Go to http://cherchiccreations.blogspot.com
so, one to usually follow directions, I went there. Oh WOW, Claudia made a collage of my jewelry and wrote such nice things.


Claudia makes the cutest stuffed kitties and pumpkins. This is Wylie. What a sweet face.


Photo is property of CherChic


Claudia also makes some way cool eye glass cases with muscle classic cars on them.


Photo is property of CherChic
Her prices are great and you should check her out. I love her avatar. You can feel the joy.

You ROCK Sista !!! You made me feel so special. I love feeling Etsy love.