Giveaway winner!

wow!

i was quite surprised at the amount of people i know in real life who have been reading the blog!

Thanks everyone :)

it was great to read your comments and i felt the love.

and as promised, the winner of the giveaway using random.org to generate a random number between 1 and 11.

it chose #5.

It was the elusive Ninnygoat who said 

"Hi kates! It's nin. Love you. Xo"

well Ninny, you know I love you too!!

send me your new address to: 

katiegeranium(at)gmail(dot)com

and I will send this off to you pronto!!

Happy Blogiversary to Katie Geranium!

7 years old!

i am really starting to get into the swing of blogging. 

i am even starting to think in blog format throughout my day :)

i have some goals for the coming blog year.

goal #1:

stop being a blog creeper and start commenting!! 

i read a lot of blogs throughout my day, but i am definitely guilty of coming and going without making a single comment. this is not very supportive of my fellow bloggers, especially the ones i have been reading for a few years!

goals #2:

publish 2-3 posts a week.

i have started being better at that over the summer, but as i am gearing up to go back to work i want to stay in the swing of things! it may mean writing multiple posts at a time, but i want to be consistent! especially for those of you who are reading my blog regularly.  Hi!

goal #3:

figure out how to take better pictures for the blog!

whether that means taking a course, reading some books or saving for a new camera, i want to be able to upload pictures and not cringe at the quality.

any suggestions?

goals are well and good, but even better?

a giveaway!

to mark the 7 year blogiversary of Katie G, i am giving away a little vintage tea pot (it holds about 2 cups) and a handmade by me tea cozy!

i'll be throwing in a few surprise goodies as well.

to enter leave me a comment saying hello and where you are reading from :)

and if you've never commented before, now is your chance!

good luck!

oh, and the contest will be open until monday at midnight, standard eastern time.

blogiversary

the week at Young House Love, they are celebrating a 4 year blogiversary.  

suddenly I thought to myself, hey wait, how long have I had this ol' blog, and when is my exact blogiversary?

turns out it's this Friday!!

And it will have been seven years...

huh? wait? what?

that's right folks. SEVEN YEARS!

here is the first post ever.

a lot of people I knew were blogging, but it seemed that most people didn't make it past the first year.

in fact I recently had someone from that blogging bandwagon say to me: "wow, people still blog?"

um....

yes.

blogging for me started as a way to keep in touch with my saskatoon peeps.

now it is a fun therapeutic kind of thing.

where will blogging lead? we will have to wait and see.

so.

since this little ol' blog is turning seven, I thought that I would have a little giveaway.

so come back on Friday to enter a little contest for the big day!!