I will be away from my blog for awhile because Meg and I are going on a trip together. I'll tell you more when I get back. So as I pack and head out, I want to leave you with something fun--A Mother's Day Giveaway!
My friend Duska has just opened an etsy shop called Persimmon Lane. So as a way to introduce her and to give me something fun to do on my blog, here you go. To enter, leave a comment about motherhood. That's it! And of course you don't have to be a mom to comment.
On Saturday April 24, at midnight, we'll pick a winner with the random number picker, counting down from the first comment.
How will we contact the winner? Blogger doesn't automatically capture your email address, so you'll either have to leave it in your comment or have it available through your profile page. Or you can check back here, and if you win, you can email me with your mailing address (yarnsoftheheart@gmail.com).
Here's how she describes the giveaway:
In this giveaway, you will receive three items. First, a lovely milk glass dish with a pedestal and scalloped design. It is filled with a fun collection of "button babies." There is a mix of both shell and acrylic buttons with no holes. These were purchased at a sale including items from a former button manufacturer. They are great for display, and they also make fun game pieces or math tools for your schooling projects.Yes, button babies and Little Women! I'd go for just those. The button things without holes are amazing. They're smooth, cool and weighty. Nice and tactile.
Second, I'm including a delicate handmade doily with cutwork. Very pretty. Last, but certainly not least, is a 1929 edition of Little Women. Don't you love to read from old books....it just adds to the charm of the story!
So there you go. Leave a comment and good luck! And visit Duska's shop to see what she has. We live next door to each other, and I must say, she has treasure over there! She's always adding new things, so check back often.
15 comments:
A very lovely giveaway!
Motherhood is been the most wonderful experience in my life.
I have 3 amazing children. Truly a gift, my youngest was born on my birthday:)
I love being with them each and everyday.
I'm so blessed to have been able to homeschool them. Growing and learning right along side them!
My mom collected milk glass, what a lovely memory. Have a wonderful trip!
Motherhood is the most rewarding experience of my life! Full of smiles, tears, scrapes and bruises. Its the ultimate test of my patience and the deepest roots of my love (next to my relationship with the Lord and my hubby). Its a beautiful season of my life that I try to treaure everyday...and take some quick breathes along the way!
Great idea girls!!! *Hugs*
Micah
Motherhood is about constant change and learning! I think I have to learn more than my kids! And they change and grow so fast, I have to work hard to keep up. ;-)
I love being a mother - all of it. It is to complicated to explain:)
Having children does not make you a mother. As I open my home to neighborhood kids that parents do not care where they are from sun up to sun down, do not eat meals together, nor do anything together other than simply sharing space. To be a mother means to take joy in the shared journey side by side with them, to want to be with them, to nurture them, to love spending time with children and taking the active role in being the kool-aid mom. When I take a look around the neighborhood, I truly wonder why some have children at all if it is not for the love of being a mom. There is a lot of joy in motherhood, yet so many turn a blind eye on it. It deeply disturbs me when families only share space but the relationships go no further.
When I was young, my sister and I gave my mother a plaque that we snickered over for a long time afterward. It read:
There's a special place in heaven for the mother of two girls!
Not long after the birth of my second daughter, my mother sent that plaque to me (my sister has two boys) and she snickered on the phone when I called her about my package.
The neat thing about motherhood, if you have a great mom like mine, is that you get to share special moments like that one. Even if everyone involved *is* snickering.
I hope to pass that plaque onto one of my girls someday.
What a wonderful idea!
Motherhood has taught me more about myself than any other experience...
I've learned that I can be tough, and exasperated, and giggly, and loving - all in the same five seconds :-)
Wishing you a great trip, I will miss you while you're away!
Karen
I'm not a mother yet! But I am excited to be. I write poems where I imagine what it must be like to be pregnant, and some just about what a nice thing it is to daydream about. Here is one:
There is a weight on my chest the shape of gladness:
Jonas sleeping hallelujahs. I sit Turk-fashion with my spine
curled against the glass doors-- an arch in my eyes
high as triumph bends low over the rabbit's candles,
the kitchen reflected in the cedars out back. French braids
and a doll whose eyes close when you lay her down
(and I've laid her down for good now) take their place
in a marching brigade in my mind; I remember playing
baseball in the front yard with a broken yellow bat and
only my brother. And there is a baby skin sticking
to my neck and collarbone: Jonas sleeping hallelujahs.
Heaped up in my soul there is a love that smells of sourdough;
it is waiting, fermenting, for a soul to knead into. Nineteen seems
uncontrollably knobby, digging elbows and its sharp chin into
my shoulders and sides. I pray for the nineties, I pray a Hebrew
blessing on the head of my youngest friend. I pray you never
disregard my wild-aster glances; I pray you don't think
I pray for you too often. And I am peaceable and content
with whatever lot of early mornings and onion-slicing
falls to me. My God is a shepherd I can sleep against unafraid,
my master is the Son of God who fights for me with millstones.
My happiness is sometimes scythed down by the senseless
wanting for the future, but there is baby skin sticking to my
neck and collarbone, and there is a weight on my chest the
shape of gladness: Jonas sleeping hallelujahs. Here is Jehovah.
Motherhood has taught me to be humble and forgiving, loving and nurturing, and playful and silly. It has been a wonderful experience!
Have a great trip!
Motherhood was nothing like what I imagined it would be, since it is impossible to imagine the love you feel for your child before you have a child. Motherhood caught me off guard that way -- I could only compare it to anything in my life before, and, when it came, it was like nothing in my life before. It was the only truly all-encompassing thing that has ever and will ever happen to me. I love every inch of my girl, inside and out, and that love has completely changed my life.
Motherhood: Sometimes the days seem live forever but the years go by too fast.
What a great give away....
I love to be a mom to my 7 children.
I miss them so hard when they are at school and shout with joy when they have vacation.
I love it when they are around me, then i am complete....
Love Maureen (from The Netherlands)
YAY!!!!!!!! It's not midnight yet!!!
I can still enter the giveaway!
I'd LOVE to win these lovely things!
My email is on my profile page :)My comment on Motherhood:
Motherhood is the beautiful CLASSROOM through which the Lord has chosen to gently TEACH ME!
Incidentally, I TOO have a great giveaway going on at BENMAKESTEN
http://benmakesten.blogspot.com/
Check it out in the April 23, 2009 post!
Thanks for the chance to win these elegant items!
Hope you had a wonderful trip!
I have been oh so busy! I haven't had ten minutes to check anyones blogs lately! It should settle down soon around here!
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