Hello dear readers, I have been absent from my blog during the month of July. As it turns out, I needed some time to recuperate from months of intense fine art painting. Summer also brought with it many activities including a day of plein aire painting on the Master Gardener's Garden Path tour along with other painters from the county, our annual Chicken Barbeque fund raiser at church, and many chores around our property.
Even today I don't have as much time to write as I would like to. However, you have been promised a July Sock Yarn Give Away and we have two days left in July so I am here to give you game rules for this month ... at a minimum.
This month's sock yarn give away features, of course, two colorways from the
Moments series of Foot Notes Sock Yarn by yarn designer Kimber Baldwin at Fiber Optic Yarns. July's Sock Yarn Give Away winner will receive one hank of this lovely sock yarn and will choose between two brand new colorways.
How to win it this month. First of all, as a favor to me and not as a requirement ... would you please go to the
Facebook page I set up for I Live on a Farm and "like" it. While you are there, if you would "like" to "like" the page I set up for
J. L. Fleckenstein Fine Artist, that would be appreciated as well. I am hoping that members of the I Live on a Farm page in particular will use that as a venue to meet up with each other, get into conversations, and have some fun. You are a lovely bunch of people and really should get to know each other. That is why I set up the page.
Okay, so back to how you can win July's Sock Yarn Give Away. Here are the details:
If you follow my blog, you know that gratitude is a theme that continues to appear in my posts. Every day of my life I work myself over regarding my attitude toward life, events, circumstances, etc. I have learned over the past several years that creating gratitude within myself and flowing it outward is a vital ingredient of living a happier and more rewarding life. We all have less than ideal situations in life, losses, disappointments, struggles, and woes. I have found personally that if I allow myself to be weighted down by the negative energy that comes from bemoaning such things they begin to loom larger than life. Gratitude is a key that can unlock gloom in life and lead to openess that allows light and beauty to shine in no matter what your circumstances. I have further found that finding and creating gratitude for those things which are less than ideal is even more powerful than being grateful for the things it is easy to be grateful for. I sincerely believe that this is a valuable, important message worth sharing and reminding others of as often as possible.
I have a challenge for you for the July Sock Yarn Give Away. Leave a comment to this post expressing gratitude for something less than ideal in your life; find something about that less than ideal thing that you can honestly be grateful for. If you need some extra inspiration,
read this post. You don't have to reveal any information that is too personal and you don't have to be overly descriptive. You can just say, "a health condition", or "a broken item", etc. if you only want to touch on whatever your less than ideal thing is. We all have these less than ideal things in life, it is inevitable. In that, we are not alone, and for that I am very grateful.
I am going to extend the deadline for July's Sock Yarn Give Away into August in order to give every one a chance to participate. So, the deadline for comments will be midnight August 8, 2010 (that's my birthday by the way!). The winner will selected in a random drawing from all who leave comments and will be announced on my blog and notified via email by Friday August 13th.
Good luck, and thank you for being here.
Hope you have a beautiful weekend!
~firefly
