Sunday, September 18, 2011

Missed Blogaversary...........




I realized this week that I've missed an in important blogaversary. I had mentioned to fernvalley when she was hear that the time was fast approaching. Although at that time, I mispoke when I told her the number. I remember as the words rolled off my tongue that the number sounded way too large to be possible but we were so involved in our visit I never did figure out what the exact number really was, all I knew for sure was that the number represented an awful lot of posts for the amount of time I've been blogging.

I began this adventure in January of 2007 making this my fifth year of blogging. Most of that time I have posted daily except for my time away at the US All Arabian National Horse Show AND the current situation, the illness of 2011.

It is because of that illness that I missed my 1500 post. Instead Dave did the honors and did not notice and I'm pretty sure wouldn't have realized the significance of such a number if he had. It was only after I had hit the publish button of my last post that I realized the milestone had come and gone.

It seemed to me I had come so close to never reaching the number at all that it was important to acknowledge that the number had indeed been reached. I also thought it was important to chose a picture that would reflect another milestone that is on my agenda for the coming year. I'm pretty sure I will not miss posting about it when it happens.

I am continuing to improve. The problem is I do not have the stamina to do what I really want to do. With assurances from the docs that's not going to be happening any time soon and my level of boredom quickly rising.

I've decided maybe now is the time to being planning my online store (for the thousands of children's books I still own from my days as an ebay power seller) so I'm going to do a little playing with a second page here. I probably won't be posting books but I do have some horse things, some jewelry and even some craft things that some of my readers might like. We'll see how it evolves and any suggestions from my friends and readers would be greatly appreciated.

For those who haven't been around from the start, I paid for my first horse with my crafts. Having been a professional crafter for many years (and most of them while I had double vision) I am pretty well set up to create most anything within my genres.

I have been thinking lots of the Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls that paid for tricycles for my kids and for some reason (my youngest granddaughter just got her first AG doll and is begging) American Girl doll clothes seem to be a possibility. I have a couple of very sweet toddler snow suits swimming in my head and my folk art painting seems to be calling me as well. I guess that means once there could be all kinds of interesting items mixed in between the horse things. That is, of course, all dependent on whether my readers are even interested in such things appearing on that new second page. Let me know what you're thinking and we'll see where I end up.

12 comments:

  1. Exciting stuff! I love crafts and am so jealous of those with artistic talent.Painting and sewing and ...

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  2. Happy Blogaversary. And that's okay that you didn't do the 1500 post. You still did A 1500 post. :) Anxious to see what you come up with craft wise. Good luck! Good to hear from you.

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  3. Congratulations! I look forward to seeing what you have available on your craft page.

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  4. Go for it. I certainly would order from someone I know; yeah, I know only from the internet but....

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  5. Sounds interesting! I never knew you were a crafter. I wish I could paint or draw. But I stick to sewing and wood and have much more luck.

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  6. Congratulations on your 1500th post! That's pretty incredible. YOU are pretty incredible. I say go for it with the store, I'm considering doing the same thing myself. Go for it!

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  7. Happy Blogaversary. I'd be interested in seeing what sort of crafts you have in your talented artistic arsenal. I used to do lots of crafts too but wound up not having much time for them. I've got to get some curtains sewn for the kitchen before winter but other than that I have no real plans for crafts so I would love to see yours. Take it easy.

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  8. How cool is that? You paid for your first horse with your crafts... I'm up for it! I do a lot of the same things. Just made fleece covers for a lot of the essential harness parts. Mostly just to keep everything clean.

    Can't wait for the unveiling. Happy 1500. Something I don't know if I will ever see either.

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  9. Happy blogaversary! And yes, please do share your store and your crafts!

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  10. Congratulations on over 1500 posts- that is a lot of effort, and we appreciate it. I hope you do well selling your crafts and other things; I'll be checking out your sale page.

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  11. I would love to see some of your craft things, and any horsey things you may want to sell! I have had a look at your other page and I think set prices would be a lot easier for you! Happy Blogaversary & congrats on your 1500 post! I remember when I was reading some of your old posts, when you had your fingers all wired up and you were talking about having to set up your stall to sell all your craft things, I was thinking I would love to see some of your craft work, and now I will get the opportunity, thank you!

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  12. Just had a peek at the page of Fun stuff for sale. You asked if we wanted set prices or auction type bidding? You can allow comments on that page as well.

    Whichever one works for you. Or you can just list it with no price and contact for more info. Reasonable people make reasonable offers.

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