Greetings fellow carpet riders,

Today is the day we celebrate and thank all of the worlds bloggers and especially Lise Swifka for creating this One World One Heart event. I appreciate each and every blog post I received and have had so much fun visiting other States and other Countries. There are so many creative people on this big blue ball and I was honored to meet so many of them. And now for the draw. I had 156 comments. Wow!!! I am so shocked, and feel so honored. I never expected so many. It's been fun. I did my very best to visit each and every person that left me a comment. I also managed to visit some from Lisa's over 1,000 participants. Wow!! What a fablulous coming together this event has been. I am using the random number generator found on Lisa Swifka's site at Whimsical Bohemian Blog. (Now home of the One World One Heart event.)

Drum Roll Please....

And the first winner is:

True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max: 156 Result: 116

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Congratulations to: Ticket Holder #749 - June, an artist/designer from Santa Cruz, California. Be sure to stop by her blog The Art of June and congratulate her. If you are into rock music icons you must check out her Rock Series Paintings. They are fabulous....

And the second winner is:

True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max: 156 Result: 41

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Congratulations to: Ticket Holder #160 - Quiltmoose-Dagmar of Germany

Woo Hoo!! Stop by her blog at QuiltMoose to see some of her wonderful quilting skills. She makes such beautiful Fiber ATC's and enjoys swaps too.

I have already sent an e-mail to these two fine ladies, via magic carpet of course. :) Do remember to continue to visit blogs on Lisa's list and say Howdy, make some new friends, and possibly even give your heart away.

Be Happy, Be Healthy, Be Yourself,

Tess

Post Crossings

Greetings September,

It's cool and cloudy here in the land of Oz today. We may get rain. I won't mind, we need it and I am ready for cooler weather. I was up late browsing the internet one evening as I sometimes am. The season's changing cause me stiff joints and head allergy symptoms so sometimes I wake often during the night. Anyhow, I found this great new site, new to me anyway, called postcrossings. The concept is really neat. You sign up for free and request to send a postcard and you will recieve an address from just one of many different countries or your own. Once you request an address yours will be added to the system and someone else will recieve it and send you a postcard. There is a profile page where I was able to enter my interests and hobbies to help the sender with an idea of what type of postcard to send. I really liked the idea of recieving postcards from around the world so I signed up and have requested 4 addresses, the system allows up to 5 postcards to be traveling at a time. Today I will mail a postcard to a young lady in Finland, a young man in Croatia, a young man in Germany and a young lady attending college here in the good ole' USA; PA to be exact. I wanted to get started right away and since all had interests in nature I decided to create my own postcard to start. I must remember to pick up some postcards showcasing my town next time I am out shopping. Here is the website address if you'd like to try out postcrossings, I think it would be a great venture for homeschooled kids, college students and the home bound. As for me, I just like getting snail mail.

http://www.postcrossing.com

Enjoy your day,

Tess

Update: The postage for an International postcard was 94 cents. I bought a few 10 cent stamps so next time I can send off postcards with pretty stamps on them, atleast until or postage rate goes up again next year.