Showing posts with label thankful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thankful. Show all posts

Thursday, November 22, 2012

thankful!

{ lovely handmade thanks }
1. i'm thankful for today vinyl sticker | artoxo
2. thanksgiving chalkboard print | oliveandbirch
3. vivid blooms thank you cards | southcitypress
4. be thankful art print |  retromodernart

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happy thanksgiving to our dear american friends today.

what are you feeling thankful for these days, nicies?

today i'm feeling so much gratitude for the great folks in my life, most especially when things are busy busy busy. thank you loves.  
 


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Monday, November 5, 2012

the november *i love my sponsors* giveaway!



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yay!
aren't you the loveliest readers around!
thank YOU, sweet nicies.

thanks for your encouraging words & dear dear comments. it's a pleasure to read thru your hellos, responses & ideas each day.  i always love seeing what you have to say! and thanks for playing all the little games and activities on the blog, for your warm and wonderful emails too!

AND... thanks so much to all of you lovelies out there who have really made my day by supporting my little adventures, as dear sponsors & advertisers of the rikrak studio blog. you nicies mean the world to me, and i really appreciate it! (this is my *free-to-my-lovely-sponsors* giveaway! interested in being a sponsor? contact me at rikrakmail at yahoo dot com for more info!) 

so with a thankful heart, and a happy focus on this wonderful  season of thankfulness and the things that november brings  ...  a little giveaway for all of you!

november's wonderful sponsors are: 

crafted blog


{ the prize }  
a fabulous $25.00 gift certificate 
from me to YOU to spend in
ANY ONE OF MY SPONSORS' shops or on their blogs!



that's right...
one lucky winner will get to spend the prize in any of my sponsors' e-shops or blogs!




exciting news, cuties! after the tremendous success the past few months of using rafflecopter, it'll be our fun new giveaway medium! just click away and follow the instructions! 
i'll still be using random.org to draw the winner!

if you'd prefer to enter the way you always have (leaving comments in the notes below instead ) that's superdooper, too! either way is great with me! i'll put all of them together at the end!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

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one way to enter is to grab one of my rikrak studio buttons,
like this one for YOUR BLOG! here they are!



the rikrak studio




the rikrak studio


and add it to your blog!
{ ... just copy & paste the text in the box above onto your blog sidebar! thanks! } 


thanks for playing!
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RULES:


a) it is possible to have numerous entries total per person.
b) please make sure to leave each entry as its own comment. thanks!
c) as always, this giveaway is open to all contestants, worldwide.
d) for this particular giveaway, YOU MUST BE A RIKRAK studio follower or subscriber,
old or new! thanks!
e) the winner of this giveaway will be chosen from random.org on
december 1st 2012 @ 12:01 am EST.
f) please be sure to leave me an email where i can reach you if your account
doesn't link to one. thanks.
g) thanks so much everyone! and thanks for visiting the blog!
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

the giving thanks challenge with a free spirit life




happy november sweeties. 

just love this wonderful, filled-with-gratitude project that the lovely shannon of *a free spirit life* is launching for the month. the giving thanks challenge encourages all of us to show & share & say our thankfulness with the folks in our lives that make a difference to our days in big and small ways. i'm going to be playing along on twitter & each day in my own life. hope you might too!

here's all the details- and be sure to head over to shannon's lovely blog for badges, and more fun info!

Shannon writes: 

"It’s simple.

Take a moment each day in November and thank someone in your life.

Send a text, make a call, leave a post-it,
write an old fashioned letter…
Make eye contact.
Smile.
And say, “thanks.”
It doesn’t matter how you thank them.  
Simply think of someone in your life - each day - and tell them why you are thankful for them.  
Give them your thanks.

Thank thirty people in thirty days.

Can’t think of thirty people?
Look more closely at the people you encounter in a day....

(see her blog for all kinds of wonderful, everday amazing people we can remember to be thankful for in our lives!)

If you choose to join us, please let me know by contacting Shannon HERE.
Post your stories on her Facebook Page, share your blog links there, too.  
Send out tweets and use #30daysofthanks to mark your posts. "
WHO ARE YOU FEELING THANKFUL FOR TODAY?
i'm so thankful for all of you nicies! hugs!
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Friday, May 11, 2012

happy mother's day!









 




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happy mothering day sunday, dearests.
i celebrate all of you wonderful women out there who touch the lives of our wee ones as mommies, aunties, grandmas, teachers, friends, neighbours and more.

just click on the images above to read some of my thoughts over the past few years on how my mom, mommying, grandmas, and all of you have touched our lives.

be well, sweeties.
hugs & hugs







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Monday, November 21, 2011

thank my lucky stars!


my lucky stars
clockwise from the top left


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we have this saying in these parts *thank my lucky stars!*
i'm feeling grateful like that these days... for oh-so-very many things.

so in honour - some beautiful handmade lucky stars.

and congrats to our latest lucky lucky winner: random.org's #57 ... alex kam of the beautiful jewelry shop skyejuice!  (& visit her gorgeous blog, too!) you've won the kanelstrand organic blog ad pack giveaway!

and fear not - still lots of other goodness to be won here on the blog! 

enter to win the november *i love my sponsors* $25 giveaway



what are you feeling thankful for this week, nicies? 
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

my favourite things: cafe visits with dear friends


morning coffee photographic print by mariterecr

whether i'm home or away, one of my very favourite things in the world is to stroll to a cafe & have a little tea party or coffee visit with a dear friend. what a perfect thing for me that is! first, there's the sheer joy of a cafe: the sounds, the smells, the friendly, visit-y nature, a space made for visits and connections and sharing ideas... so grand, isn't it? and when we're @ a cafe i'm reminded how everyone else is there for similar wonderful sharings! what a great community! and then, there's the the added delight of the too rare indulgence of sitting with loved ones to share tales in a realtime, face to face manner - no phones or emails or distractions... just friends together! wow... it just hardly gets more fun then that when it comes to visiting, in my book!

so you can well imagine my glorious joy on this trip, that has been filled with cafe visits! yesterday my dear friend (and glorious host!) & i spent the day strolling around beautiful boston. we travelled from one cafe to another, basking in this extra-special cafe visiting time, to talk and talk and talk. oh how lovely. what a luxurious indulgence.. the visits punctuated by glorious gallery stops, beautiful parks and the chance to just stroll.... stroll.. stroll...

and the great thing about cafe visits... one needs not be on vacation! i love it just as much @ home with near friends. it's just such a treat, isn't it? but the added special joy of a cafe + a dear faraway friend = sheer joy for me! my dear friend and i share many things we love and that formula is certainly one of them!

so here's to the luxurious chance to visit with dear dear friends, and sip coffee and live the cafe life, ever-how briefly! have you indulged in it lately?
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