Fiona and Twig

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

House News....and My Giveaway Winner!

The view from the street of our new homestead...

Spacious front yard...

Lush trees...

One of our two barns...

Little Victorian cottage...

We're almost there!!!

Isn't it perfect? : - )

We do the final walk-through tomorrow
in anticipation of finally closing this week,
so I'll be sure to snap some more pics of the empty house for all of you.

The closing is tentatively set for this Friday *fingers crossed*

and...

{drum roll}

The lucky winner of my

One Year Anniversary Giveaway

and a

$125 CSN Shopping Spree

Martha from .the simple things.

Congrats, Martha!

Send me your e-mail address and I'll send you the code
to redeem your gift certificate so you can get shopping!

Thanks so much to everyone who entered,
and to all my new followers, I hope you stick around!
There's lots of exciting stuff on the horizon,
and another giveaway will be here before ya know it.

Have a wonderful Wednesday,
and I'll see you back here with new house pics tomorrow!

Monday, August 16, 2010

Guest Posting at Pretties and Posies

Happy Monday!

The beautiful and talented Melanie from

Pretties and Posies

graciously asked me to guest post for her on her lovely blog,
so that's where you will be able to find me today.
Click HERE to read.

Do you know Melanie?

Her heart is every bit as big as her talent,
that girl can paint like nobody's business...

If I only hadn't dragged my feet,
this gorgeous work could have been mine!

But her creative gifts extend beyond the canvas...

Have you seen her bedroom?

Hello, Gorgeous!

For my guest post, I'm talking about the wonderful world
of photo editing ( my passion! ), so here's a little peek at what you can expect...

Straight out of the camera shot:

and through the magic of photo editing:

I hope you'll pop on over and take a peek,
and while you're there, be sure to look back over Melanie's previous posts...
I guarantee that you will become a fan and a follower just like I did!

Have a beautiful week!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Have you Entered Yet???

Word on the street is that I'm having an anniversary

to adopt blogger lingo,

blogiversary!

A few HUNDRED of you have already entered my

BIG

One Year Anniversary Giveaway

but time is running out!!!

If you can't use a $125 CSN Stores Shopping Spree

then keep on walkin', nothing to see here.

but...

if you could, then click HERE to enter.

Giveaway ends this Tuesday, August 17th....my blogiversary!

Good luck!

Friday, August 13, 2010

So Close....

And yet so far.

We won't be walking through this gorgeous front door this weekend after all.

Because the bank couldn't get their ish together this week,
our closing on our new house isn't until next week.

{sigh}

Color me not surprised.

However....

a view such from my living room window such as this...

{our new backyard...click twice to enlarge, it's gorgeous!}

is sooooooo worth waiting for!

Click
HERE
for a tour of the whole house!

Happy Weekend!

P.S.
Be sure to enter my BIG

One Year Anniversary Giveaway

for a

$125 CSN Shopping Spree!!!

Giveaway ends Tuesday, August 17th

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Calmness

It's what I am craving right now.

We're hitting some
roadbumps
as our closing date for the new house approaches.

Nothing terribly serious...
I don't think.
Gosh, I hope not.

But still....

it has me a bit out of sorts this afternoon, and craving peace.

quiet

calmness.

You know?

Of course you do.

We've all been there.

and so I rest now

secure in the knowledge

that God is in control, not me.

Thank goodness, right?!

This too shall pass.

:-)

Have a beautiful evening!

{all images by me}

P.S.

Be sure to enter my

One Year Anniversary Giveaway

for a $125 CSN Shopping Spree!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Fiona and Twig ONE YEAR Anniversary Giveaway!

~GIVEAWAY CLOSED~

It's hard for me to believe, but this time last year,
I had barely even ever read a blog,
let alone had one to call my very own.

What a wonderful year it's been!

On August 17th 2010, I will celebrate
ONE YEAR OF BLOGGING
and I want to give something back to all of you,
my friends and faithful readers.

And now, thanks to my buddies at CSN Stores,
I'm able to offer you my biggest giveaway yet!

This will be my third giveaway with CSN Stores,
and as you may or may not know, you can find
pretty much anything you need for the home and garden
in any of their over 200 online stores...

They've got luxurious bedding, fabulous cookware, rugs, window treatments, table lamps...

If you need it, CSN Stores has it!

And now...

for you...

they are offering one lucky

Fiona and Twig follower

a

$125 CSN Stores Shopping Spree!!!

Just look at what $125 can get ya at CSN Stores...