100th Post Give Away (and more confusion about simplicity)

I'm writing this after lunch at work so it needs to be short and sweet.  The previous post sure does reflect my confusion about how best to go after this "simple" life.  Why is it so darn difficult - I mean, this is supposed to be about simplifying, isn't it?  I think I've got the cart before the horse here.  I've thought about it and I'm pretty sure I dreamed about it last night.  It's okay to be looking at "what's out there" home-wise, but we're no where  close to putting our home on the market.  For one thing, the market ain't so good now.  Soooo, I'm thinking (this DOES get me in trouble once in a while, know what I mean?) about going with the decluttering aspect of simplification.  This is good because it's actually practicing an important skill AND it's getting us nearer to selling that beautiful home that we built ourselves  <sob!>.   Who knows?  We might get so into this that we end up paying off that mortgage in long run. 

I'm going to have to get back to my afternoon work pretty soon but before I do I have an announcement.  I will be writing my 100th post very shortly and I've seen where folks tend to do a "give away" to celebrate such an event.   My give-away has just got to be these "Tall Flower" embroidered pillowcases that I've been working on.  I'll have the second one finished tonight or tomorrow night and will send them to one randomly chosen, lucky commenter   I'll even get a chance to wash and line dry them on my new clothesline - test drive is this weekend.  They really are pretty, so leave a comment (and a way to get back to you).  Let's say that Sunday, the 31st will be the deadline for comments.  Thanks for coming around! 

   

 

Comments

[Jessica]

Congratulations on your 100th post...your pillow cases are a perfect gift for your readers.

[Eye]

Just found your site through down---to---earth and love it. I too live in Colorado/front range so your site is very interesting to me. What works in other parts of the works may not work in dry Colorado. I really enjoyed your canning articles, love to can, then take pictures of all the beautiful full jars and their colors. Please enter me in your drawing, the pillow cases look GREAT.

[Jessica]

100 posts already, why i remember it was just yesterday.... You know how to find me....in fact, I may see you this weekend?

[Renee]

Are you serious about giving those away...they are beautiful..

[Yessenia]

congrats!! happy 100th..post haha that pillowcase is very pretty! i'm sure all the ones you make are : )

[The old Dairy]

Decluttering is always a good place to start, but you don't sound like you really want to sell, so as you said may-be you might get it paid off sooner now you are living a simpler life.
Congates on your 100th post, those pillow cases are are truly beautifull, glad I found your blog as I enjoy it so much. Have a great day,
Mandy..

[Jody]

Oh congratulations! I didn't give anything away for my 100th post. Except a glimpse of life in Z land... :)

[rhonda jean]

Congratulations Suzan. Your embroidery is so pretty. I'll mention your giveaway on my blog and see if some ladies wander over to visit you.

[Renee]

Congratulations on your 100th post. I found you from Rhonda's blog. I love your stitching:) Was this your creation? or an iron-on? I love to stitch on pillow cases. I hope you show more of your stitchings:)

[Rita]

I just found your blog through down-to-earth. I am still browsing and enjoying. Thank you for entering me in your give away.

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[Suzab]

No, Renee, I didn't create this design. It's from Bucilla. I haven't yet ventured into my own designs:) My artistic abilities don't seem to extend to drawing. Or to music, for that matter.

[Debbie]

Congrats on your 100th post!! I found you via Down To Earth as well!! Your embroider is so pretty! Not sure I would ever be able to part w/ them!!

[Claudia W]

Those are some beautiful flowers on those pillow cases! I found your blog through Down to Earth and I am glad I did! I have been studying living the simple life and starting to take baby steps toward that end, so am always happy to find another resource for learning.
Congratulations on your 100th post!

[DianeH]

Congratulations! Found you via Rhonda Jean. Your pillowcases are lovely and I've added you to my list of favorite blogs. Hi from a new friend.
Diane H.

[Tracy]

Hi, congratulations. I am up to 97 posts and will be having a giveaway soon too. Your embroideries look very sweet. I have added you to my favourites. Have a lovely day.

[Casey]

I'm trying to move our family towards simplicity too. Some days it feels more difficult than others. Other days it seems I have a breakthrough and suddenly things get easier.

Your embroidery is lovely!

[Susan]

I too have found you via Rhonda's Down to Earth blog. (I live in the same town as her) The embroidery is fabulous and I love what I've seen of your blog so far. Will add you to my favourites.

[Ophelia D]

Hi, what lovely embroidery! I'm glad to have found your blog.

[Janet]

I just came here from Rhonda Jean's blog and I am loving yours as well. I need all the encouragement and information I can get so thanks for sharing. I look forward to reading your thoughts on paring down and simplifying!

janet in Canada

PS your embroidery is lovely!

[Lorraine]

They look absolutely beautiful. I have come from Down to Earth. I would be honoured to be entered into your 100th comment competition. Have also added you to my RSS feed. Cheers and good luck everyone!

[Lizzie]

I'm from down-to-earth too. Lovely embroidery - so please put me in the draw!

[Amy]

Very pretty!!

I too am having a giveaway. Since I entered yours, I would be honored if you would enter mine!

TY!

[Aunt Bea]

Suzan, I just wandered over from Rhonda Jean's blog. Those pillowcases are absolutely beautiful. Please enter me in your drawing. I've just put your blog on my favorites list so I'll be stopping by daily to see what you're doing!
Hugs, Aunt Bea

[Highwaycottage]

Was pointed here by Down-to-earth, and found your blog is great. I love you books on the left side fo the blog, and have a lot of those myself. I look forward to reading more from you. Love the embroidery to, I have to much sewing to do, but if I had time I'd love to do some like yours :-)

[Barbara]

Congratulations on your 100th post. I have wanted to make my life more simple and connect more to the seasons for some time now but always seem to backslide. You are right - it is not easy particularly when low on time or energy as it does take some effort intially. I think that once you get into the habit of doing things a certain way, it does become easier. Your embroidered pillowslips are delightful and have inspired me to try my hand at embroidery (but something smaller).

[Scribhneoir]

Hi, I also wandered over from down to earth, and whilst browsing through your lovely blog (congrats by the way - i am new to blogging and cannot imagine 100 posts myself) anyway while I was enjoying looking I saw *our* song listed on your side panel - Richard Thompson's vincent black lightening - love that song! when i first met my husband J he was riding a early 60's BSA and I had the red hair and black leathers! must walk more, maybe i can fit them again! Best of luck with the simplifying, Scribhneoir

[Pam]

What fun! Congratulations on your 100th post. I too am finding that simplifying isn't always so easy. The pillowcase is adorable too!

[Vickie]

Found your blog through Rhonda Jean over at Down to Earth. I want to read more of your blog. The pillow cases are beautiful.

[Rachel Gingrich]

Love those pillow cases and your wonderful blog.

[DianeH]

Over from Down to Earth. Beautiful pillowcases and I've added you to my lists of blogs. I'm also a big fan of
Diana Gabaldon - can't wait for the next installment! Cheers!

[Diana]

Beautiful pillow cases! Is there a pattern available or did you make it up yourself? I haven't done embroidery in years but these inspire me to take it up again.Rhonda mentioned you in her last post so I had to come check it out!

[Tilly]

Such pretty embroidery Suzan, you are very generous to give away such beautiful work. The de-cluttering is a great idea. You can either sell and make a little money towards being debt-free or give away to someone less fortunate, and either way you 'win'. Also, having clutter is very bad feng shui so you'll be encouraging a whole load more 'good energy' into your home.

[Sandie]

Love the pillowcases - so pretty. Congratulations on your 100th post and on getting your washing line! You will just love bringing in the laundry smelling full of fresh air.

[Lorraine]

Hi , love your site ,has become part of my day Im also trying a more simple life which Im loving ,just wish I had discovered this way of living earlier I was totally caught up with the consumerist lifestyle but never really as happy as I should have been now I live on less but have stressfree happy life inspired by blogs like yours please keep it coming
Lorraine

[Christy in Texas]

I love those pillow cases. I only use embroidered ones now, which I have found at garage sales or thrifting. I love to think of the women working at something beautiful and practical. A simply luxury! I too have been hanging my clothes on a line outside this summer. The Texas heat drys things in no time - saving electricity and reducing the amount of heat I am adding to our home.

[dani]

Beautiful stitchery!
Good luck with the house decision. WE are living in the same confusion ... sell? redevelop? renovate? It's so hard and the risks so varied. Sigh.

[Jacky]

Hello, I've come from Rhonda Too. What great company to find yourself in congratualations, your blog is lovely and interesting. One of the things i love about DTE is that RJ lives about #0k from me, so its really familiar. I'm excited that you live in such an amazing place, and those humming birds, wow. Whats familiar about you, is your work, sense of humor, love and embracing of life. Its so great that you are opening your world, blogs are such a great place for us women. So I'm set to be a regular reader, and i promise not to be to dissapointed, the days there is no post.
Love and Blessings. Jacky

[Alecia]

I just love the pillow cases that you are working on. Please enter me in your 100th post drawing. Lord knows I need some new pillow cases. This is the first time I have read your blog. I found it through Rhonda Jean on down-to-earth.

Alecia

[Gerrie King]

Hi Suzan,
Please enter me in you 100th
blog drawing also.
When I saw the pillow cases
they reminded me of a white
cotton pullover jacket that
a girlfriend embroidered flowers
on for me in the 70's. Very
similar to your pattern on
the pillow cases. It was a
trip back in time to see that
beautiful handiwork.
Congrats on your welcoming,
simple, blog.

[Cindy]

The pillow cases are absolutely beautiful, I really hope its me!!!

[Karen]

I just discovered you blog via Rhonda at down-to-earth. Congrats on your 100th post. The pillow cases are lovely. I intend to be a regular reader now that I have found your blog.

[StephB]

I have just found this blog through Down to Earth and it realy looks like a great place, and one I will be visiting regularily.
I would love to be entered into your giveaway.
(steph dot martyn at btopenworld dot com)

[Jennie]

I've come over from Rhonda's blog too. What pretty pillow cases - please enter me in your giveaway too! I've just passed 10,000 visitors to my blog, so I shall be thinking of a giveaway myself over the weekend.

Love your blog, by the way. Jennie xx

[Joyce]

The pillowcases are so lovely. I'll throw my hat into the ring!

[RosieB]

Hello! Like many other posters I've come from down to earth; the pillowcases are beautiful and I'd love to be in the draw but I'm in UK and not sure if you're posting overseas? In any case, its a very generous thing to do. I'm off to read up on your blog now :)

[Rita]

Your stew looks so yummy. I wish I had some simmering in the pot right now. Maybe tomorrow I will. Thanks for entering me.

[Claudia W]

I have only had one breif encounter with a bear, and then now that I think about it, I really didn't have an encounter, so to speak. I was stopped by my friend's pet deer from going on up a trail, where there were a coupla bears around the bend. I told my friend what his deer had done to me and he asked me if I smelled anything bad in the air. I had noticed a peculiar odor and he told me that Mort (the deer) had just saved a bit of a problem. Whew!

[Alice Grace]

Came here from Down_to_Earth. Your embroidery is beautiful! Please enter me in your giveaway! Congratulations on your 100th post!

[valerie]

Love the pillowcases! I am trying to learn embroidery. Any tips? Please enter me in your drawing. By the way, I love your blog.

[Mary G]

Lovely pillowcases and congratulations on your 100th posting!! I just started a blog so have a ways to go and just started reading about simplicity in life blogs- inspiring and giving me the desire to simplify even more of my life! :) mary
Would love to win those darling pillowcases- they would look perfect in the guestroom I am fixing up!