Contest WINNER

This is the hat I chose to pull the name out of, of the winner of the cottage garden print. No , it is not my birthday...but it is bright and colorful. I wanted to thank all the bloggers who entered the contest :

Gary - A Day in The Life

Shirley-The Gardening Life

Desiree-Driftwood Ramblings

Darla-More Family and Flowers

Sandy aka Doris-the-Great-Aging Disgracefully

Joji-The Art of joji roper todd

Robur- Robur d'Amour

Ria- It's me

Jeri Landers- Hopalong Hollow Gazette

Donna-Sugar, Spice, & Southern Life

Catherine- A Gardener in Progress

Rebecca-Life & Godliness

laxmi prasad shahi- stamps_coin_banknote of Nepal

TZel

CeeKay-Getting There Now- My Two Cents

Peeokee- One Plant at a Time

 

Swishing time. shaking and swishing..

Those dots on my finger are red glitter from this crazy hat--got all over the place

And the winner is, after much swishing in the hat by a 9 year old swisher... darn, flash keeps hitting the paper. Let me get a better shot ( I know who the winner is because I can see and you can't yet ! )
Hold on, better shot coming up...

  Nope, still too much flash...let's go outside.

Now we're getting some where...coming into focus...suspense mounts...
 

TA-DA !!! As my son is showing above, I want to wish sweet Shirley of the Gardening Life congrats and please leave me a comment ( leave me two, one with your mailing address that I will not publish ) , so I can ship your print to you. My final words will be Shirley's and what she wanted to be when she grew up :

Shirley said...

Gina, like you I dreamt of being a writer. The love of books drew me in and I often wrote as a favorite pastime as a child. To this day, I still want to be a writer. If I could be anything, other than a wife and mother, it would be a writer. 

I say go for your dreams, and if you already have....be proud of yourself. Branch out-- Reach High-- Keep growing--  

 Thank you all for entering, I do wish I could give everyone something still. many warm blessings ,

Gina  

Vintage English COTTAGE Garden Print--1st Giveaway

Circa 1920-30's Anne Hathaway's Cottage print

I have never done a giveaway on my blog, I have never won a giveaway off anyone's blog...so I decided it would be more fun to give something than get...so here it is. Since I have no idea exactly what you do normally in giveaways, and I want to make it as simple as possible on the people entering, I am not going to require that you do anything too difficult , or time-consuming.

 First let me show you this print. I have many old prints of English cottages, Anne Hathaway's is a famous, popular cottage series from England. Here is a link from Wikipedia about her:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway_%28Shakespeare%29 

This original  vintage print is under glass, in good condition, measures almost 8 x 10 ins. , image only, the entire framed piece measures 10 x 12 1/2 ins.approx. It is a bit loose in the frame , but I wanted to give the winner the chance to have their framer put acid-free board behind it to help preserve it, or the other option is for me to ship it without the frame or the glass, just the print itself. That will be the winner's choice.

I have vintage cottage garden prints all around my kitchen.

Here are my rules for the contest :


1. Write in the comment section what you always wanted to be when you grew up.

That's it.

I'll go first...but I can't win, so it is Ok. I always wanted to be a writer.

Now your turn.

This contest will end on December 15th around 3 PM. I will then get my 9 year old associate to draw the name out of a hat, once I write them down and shake them up. 
ANYWHERE in the world qualifies for this contest. I will ship to you free.

Good luck to all bloggers , ( I wish I could give each of you something really ),
Gina