And the Winner is.....

First of all, we'd like to thank all of you who responded on our blog. Our gratitude to all of you who have been following us, constantly commenting, and providing feedback and support as we develop. And a warm welcome and thank you to all our new followers. We truly value your visits and comments and not just because it feeds our ego, but because it provides affirmation, support, and yes, guidance as we continue to grow into our own. 

Again, if someone had told me a couple of years ago that I'd be blogging and accessing the social media as we are now, I would have said, "You're crazy!" These new venues that are accessible to us via the new and ever-changing technology field, can be very fun and also very casual, but I still think that it is on us as individuals to use them in the best responsible and respectful way. And it doesn't mean that because it is casual, we create blogs haphazardly. I enjoy reaching out to you via this blog and I want you to come back and enjoy perusing through it. 

Items above and below in our next Spring 2012 container

Several people have given us feedback about the inspiration aspect of it and we love hearing that. Some folks have mentioned how it's a little respite and how they felt they were vicariously traveling along with us when we wrote about our buying trip and that is great feedback. It spurs us into improving when we sense that people do enjoy reading about our work and yes, sometimes our idle rants. Smile! 

It is also via our blog that we come across other amazing bloggers and creative people. Several of you have blogged about us and given us more visibility and we are very grateful. Some of you have placed us on your blog rolls and that makes us very proud. I am looking forward to another year of writing for our blog 
and reading more of those you write.

We have selected two winners as we had announced. A regular follower will receive a copy of the Jeanne d'Arc Living book, French Atmospheres, and a new follower will receive a copy of the Holiday Issue of the Jeanne d'Arc Living magazine. We have selected Debra from Acquired Objects blog here who has been not just on our follower list, but constantly providing comments with feedback and observations and affirmations. Thank you Debra and congratulations. The new follower, winner of the magazine is Miss Flibbertigibbet. We were struck by what she is most grateful for and commend her in her act of love of adopting 4 children.... Blog here

Again thank you all for your input and support and stay tuned because this year, we want to do a few more give-aways and plan to continue improving on our work. This coming year we will be stepping a bit more from writing about just us and write about other bloggers, and other creative people and interesting businesses. Our next blog post will be about someone who is an amazing blogger and human being. Stay tuned!