I've Been Awarded The Best Blog Award

Thank you so much to Janz Crystalz for awarding my blog this amazing award. I'm really honoured!

The rules of the award state that you must post it on your blog together with the name of the person who granted you this award and a link to his/her blog.

Pass the award on to 15 other blogs you have recently discovered and think are great!

Remember to contact the bloggers you’ve awarded to let them know they have been chosen.

Here are my fifteen. Please take a moment to visit them.

1. This, That and The Other Thing
2. A Letter To Xander
3. Red Sox Mommy
4. Duck & Wheel With String
5. The Queen Speaks
6. Small Town Mommy
7. Lucky Girl Trading Company
8. Margie and Edna's Basement
9. Photography By KML
10. The Junk Drawer
11. Rising Phoenix Toys Blog
12. Here And Now ~*~ 4 Angel
13. Blogging Circle
14. The Superficial Gallery
15. Deronda Designs

Please Forgive The Mess

To All My Blog Readers,

Please bare with me while I reorganize and change the layout of my blog. I hope it won't take me too long to get everything back in some form of cohesive order.

Thank you for reading!

- Joanne

Stunningly Gorgeous!

Look for these beautiful items and more in Tabby Too's flower filled Etsy shop!

November 1st... One of My Favorite Days!!!

This is one of the days I most look forward to once fall hits. November 1st. You may be wondering why it's such an exciting day for me. I love Christmas music and finally, today, the day after Halloween, I allow myself to listen to it.

As a child my mother would beg me to turn it off by around June and I'd always complain and say that if Christmas music is about celebrating the birth of Christ then why can't I listen to it whenever I want. I wonder if she's thought of an answer to that yet? Now I start earlier than I did then but by the first of the new year I am ready to turn it off again.

Anyway, today, my son and I danced to a great selection of Christmas songs by various artists like Celine Dion, Collin Raye, Gloria Estefan and especially one of my all time favorites, Old Toy Trains by Nana Mouskouri.

Happy Listening!

Happy Belated Canada Day!!!

And a present for me!

Have you heard of the ecommerce site Bonanzle?

It's my new place to hang out online. I'm really liking a lot of the features of the site like the live chat in my booth (store), the forums where most people are so helpful, and especially the Handpicked Lists. For those of you on Etsy, these lists work very much like treasuries except there is no waiting to grab a spot, you can make as many as you want, whenever you want.

A word of warning though, Handpicked Lists are seriously addictive to make. And the best part is the powers that be on the site choose a selection of these lists to feature on the home page. (Clicking on the Bonanzle logo at the top of the page will rotate through them.)

So, a few days ago I created two lists to celebrate Canada Day, "O Canada! My Home And Native Land" and "Happy Canada Day!!!". Last night, as I was shutting down, I stopped in to check if my lists had had any visitors and/or comments. To my great surprise, I saw many comments on one of them saying things like, "Congratulations on the home page."

Of course, I rushed right over, clicked the Bonanzle logo a few times and ran smack into this:



That's my list, in case you hadn't guessed.

I am really, really, liking this site!

Cheers!

Bonanzle Booth: http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/CoconutPalmDesigns
Etsy Shop: http://CoconutPalmDesigns.etsy.com