A warm welcome to new visitors...and one to my many regular readers as well! I started this blog November 1st, 2007 with this awkward post. I blog to share my love of cross stitch and my general joy of life. From that first post with no comments to five years later of having 1300 subscribers is unbelievable. I never once dreamed I'd have so many beloved friends from ever corner of the globe. Blogging is truly an incredibly important part of my life. We've shared our ups and downs, had arguments (not many,) given advice, cheered our victories and mourned each other's losses. I'm terribly grateful for every single visitor here.
Vicki over at 2 Bags Full had the wonderful idea to throw this Grow Your Blog party. While I am not hurting for readers I remember the excitement of that first comment:
1 comment:
- Rachael said...
- Hello Daffycat and welcome to the world of Blogging ;0)
- November 3, 2007 at 4:02:00 AM CDT
I remember the thrill of that first "Google Follower" Mine was Patti.
I remember the fun of hosting my first giveaway and then coming up with a silly way of choosing the winner.
Yes, I remember just starting off, thinking no one would ever care a whit what I had to say. I learned early on that the more blogs I visited and left comments on the faster my own blog grew. To make friends you gotta BE a friend! Go make friends! Visit some blogs. Leave comments so people can find their way back to your blog. This Grow Your Blog party is an awesome way to start.
to see Vicki's Grow Your Blog guest list.
Now for some more good stuff...
I promised a giveaway right? I'm offering this treasure box I made last year. If you would like to be included in the giveaway leave a comment on this post. This giveaway is open to anyone, anywhere...no hoops to jump ~ except for the comment!
I will put the names in my "hat" and draw a winner on February 1st as the Grow Your Blog party instructions indicated.
Hmmmmmm, the box looks empty...I just might have to fill it with something for the winner!
Thank you for visiting my blog today!
xox
It's always so nice to visit your blog. That's a very pretty box.
ReplyDeleteLove this blog! I'm a frequent visitor. Nice giveaway too!
ReplyDeleteCathy
I always love reading and seeing what you are doing, keep up the fun.
ReplyDeleteRobin in Washington State
assweetaspeaches hotmail
What a sweet little box. Oh do include my name. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou are a treasure to us here in blog land. I admire your crafting so much and that you have shared your life with us. Give your pup a hug for me. Please enter me.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to read your blogging history =D
ReplyDeleteI've been a follower (and hopefully friend) for the past 4 or so years :) Your blog is one of the first that I found and I enjoy being able to share the joy of stitching with you.
ReplyDeletePlease include me in your giveaway, I'm having one too :)
Always love seeing and reading of what you have been up to. Your little box is so sweet and I'd love to have it come to my home! Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteI love your reading and have done so for the last few months, you are a wealth of information and a joy to follow. Please include me.
ReplyDeleteLove Lesleyanne xxx
hey Daffycat! I began following your blog when you took over the TUSAL mantel from dear yoyo and although I struggle to keep up with TUSAL posts these days i look forward to every one of your posts :)
ReplyDeleteFiona x
ps I'd love to enter your giveaway :)
I just love boxes, can't get enough of them. please enclude me too. lol Lynda Ruth
ReplyDeleteCute little box and great blog!
ReplyDeleteI completely get what you say about followers and comments, I started blogging some years ago and the stopped and am going through all those emotions again
ReplyDeleteHi, Daffycat! You have a beautiful blog and I always love visiting it.
ReplyDeleteI like your comment in your first post about talking to thin air. It feels like that until you get your first comment and/or follower. But it was also therapeutic just putting my thoughts down.
The box is lovely and I would like to enter the draw.
Have a great day!!!!
I did not officially join the blog party but l plan to visit the listed blogs to meet new friends. I would love the chance to win the lovely box...
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading your blog history. Please include me in your treasure box giveaway. It is lovely!
ReplyDeleteYour blogging experience sounds amazing ... when I started my blog I thought I'd never find another like mine ... spending almost hours on the random generator and google. The box looks gorgeous. Please enter me. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteLove your blog, especially tutorials page) thanks for sharing! i parcipate in blog hop also and having giveaway too
ReplyDeletehugs from Turkey!
Your blog is always a treasure! Please include me in the drawing thank you very much! http://astitchersstory.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteYou all ways have an interestin post to read and your stitching is lovely too!
ReplyDeleteThe box is very cute and I would love to be entered into the drawing.
Happy Stitching
Denise
Thank you so much for your help when my blog moved and was very lonely. Your mention revved things up for me and I appreciate it. Always a joy to read your blog.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea what a blog was five years ago!
ReplyDeleteWhat a long way we have come, baby!
Please enter me in your giveaway.
I've been a follower for some time now and always enjoy your posts. Good advice about how to grow your blog - that's how I got started too!
ReplyDeleteI'd love a chance to win your box! Thank you!
Been reading your blog for years. Love your take on life and your stitching. It would be an honor to win one of yourstitched pieces. CJ in OK
ReplyDeleteI have been reading your blog for years and love your take on life and stitching. I would be honored to win a stitched piece of yours. CJ in OK ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm a frequent visitor, but you're the first I've come across on the GYB event.
ReplyDeleteI found your blog not long after I started blogging myself and love seeing every post. Please include my name in your box.
ReplyDeleteThank you,
Daffy, it's always a pleasure to visit your blog whether it's to update my TUSAL or to read up on what is going on in your world.
ReplyDeleteHi Daffycat, I'm a very recent follower, after decieding to do tht TUSAL this year, lovely to start to get to know you and what beautiful stitching too. Beautiful prize.
ReplyDeleteohhh I missed the party :( will have to go and find some links and say hello to folks I have yet to be friends with ...
ReplyDeletegorgeous wee box with my favourite colours too .. would love the chance to popped into the hat :)
off to go and wave a paw to some peeps :) love mouse xxxx
Hi! I have been reading your blog for quite a while -- I found you while looking for cross stitch blogs. I have been blogging for a while now and have the same 17 loyal followers that I have always had. In fact, my blog this a.m. was about my own blog and how I felt about it! I would really like to be entered in your giveaway -- you do lovely work! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYour blog has been a must-read on my list since I first found it! Thank you for sharing with us my friend!
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to meet you and reading how it all started for you! I guess reading it encourages me to keep going:)
ReplyDeleteManonX
I always love reading your blog posts - please keep them coming. Please enter my name in your generous give-a-way!
ReplyDeleteRose
ChristmasCityStitcher.blogspot.com
You are an inspiration to all of us here in blogland! Thanks for blogging so faithfully.
ReplyDeleteI would love to be entered in your giveaway! I learned how to make these boxes from your blog (but not the top part)...that's just beautiful!
Awesome blog! Enjoyed the visit as always ;)
ReplyDeleteYou don't need to twist my arm- include me in your beautiful Giveaway! Have fun at the party...
I enjoy your blog already and love your little trinketty box........lovely design, calming and peaceful!
ReplyDeleteGood luck and onto your next 1300 followers!
Wonderful treasure box. I have just the pins to add to the top! Always enjoy visiting you Daffycat.
ReplyDeleteCame across the GYB event on your blog. I've been following since you started hosting TUSAL as well and love following your stitchy adventures.
ReplyDeleteohhh, love the box!! so pretty!! I've been a follower, I'm just a horrible commenter!!
ReplyDeleteLove your first post! It's more than I've done - yet, haha. Thanks for sharing. Oh, and that treasure box would look wonderful in my stitching area!
ReplyDeleteHi Daffycat. I've been reading your blog for over a year and just realized, I've not signed in to be a follower. I don't have an active blog--this would have been a good time to start. I am still figuring out how it all works! Would love a chance at the cute little box.
ReplyDeleteThanks Judy heartland stitcher
Hi Daffycat
ReplyDeletewould love to win and i love my collection of your reindeer freebies and look forward to the next one!
dq
Love your blog! It was one of the first i stumbled upon when i came back to blogging last year and i always enjoy reading would love to be in in the contest as well
ReplyDelete~kimberly
I have enjoyed your blog for some time now. I would love a chance at the adorable little treasure box.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading your blog and would love to be entered in your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteLinda
What a nice look back at your blogging history. You certainly deserve all the followers that you have because your blog is always an enjoyable read!
ReplyDeleteThat's a lovely treasure box. Is that a pre-made box that you mounted your lovely work upon?
Yours is my favorite stitching blog. Thanks for the give-away!
ReplyDeleteFirst posts are always interesting. I think we were all very unsure of what we were getting ourselves into and how much we should share. I haven't been a follower for all that long, but I enjoy your blog very much. And I love your treasure box.
ReplyDeleteI just couldn't resist purring on your blog! :D I love your stitch work on that little box, quite pretty and I love the colors. I love cross-stitch but my older eyes seem to argue with that form of creativity these days. Currently I crochet and am getting ready to learn how to spin, wool that is, not the bicycle exercise thing! LOL.
ReplyDeleteGreat to meet you and thanks for sharing with us!
Hugs,
Beth P
a brand new follower
Hi DaffyCat,
ReplyDeletePlease include me in your give-away. It's a beautiful treasure box.
You have a lovely blog, thank you for sharing. I know you but I am a new follower and 'Grow Your Blog' participant. Have fun at the party!
ReplyDeleteEvalina, This and that...
Just love your blog...so nice to meet you. I came here through Grow Your Blog party.
ReplyDeleteHi...isn't this fun?I always enjoy visiting your blog...and I'd love to be included in your giveaway. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou were one of the first blogs I started to follow and the TUSAL is the reason I started my own blog!
ReplyDeleteI love your stitching and my son loves the dancing cow!
Hi Sharon, I remember your blog being one of the first I found, and then you became my flossmom. WOW those were the days hey!! hehe
ReplyDeleteI would love to be entered in your draw please.
Hugs
What a lovely giveaway.
ReplyDeletePlease put my name in the hat!
Hugs to you and Molly!
You know I've been reading from the start I just don't comment often!
ReplyDeleteI love blogging so much too. I love meeting so many people and making friends as well:-) your blog was in a small group of the first blogs I began reading two years ago. I love it:-) please include me in your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds awesome, I haven't crosstiched in awhile but do love it. Visiting from Cottage-wishes, Di
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely little box!
ReplyDeleteI am quite happy to have found the blog party through your site! The box is very sweet!
ReplyDeleteI am new to your blog-come from the blog party-this has been so much fun for me today-meeting new people
ReplyDeletewhat a beautiful giveaway, I love it, thanks for the chance.
I am retired and live in rural Missouri-so my blog is about my doings, all my numerous craft projects, canning, recipes and more Kathy
i love how you call it a "treasure box" that is too fun. what a great giveaway. please enter me. have a great weekend. do stop by my blog. take care. ( :
ReplyDeleteI'm very glad for your blong because not only do you have such interesting things to blog about, but your TUSAL has insured that I post every month on my blog. *laughs* Strange, but without at least your TUSAL, my blog would have fallen away a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteHave loved reading your blog for years. I would like the chance to win the sweet box.
ReplyDeleteAlways love your blog, and TUSAL is my favorite SAL there is! Please count me in for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteso good to read your post. Whenever i read daffycat, your reindeer patterns come to my mind. your treasure boox looks beautiful..
ReplyDeleteHow's puppy doing?? I hope your blog grows and grows, it's a good one!! :)
ReplyDeleteIt was because of your post a week or so back that I found out about the blog party and joined in, and I've found some wonderful new (to me) blogs already, so thank you.
ReplyDeleteIt's always fun to visit here :)
What a lovely giveaway. Please enter me too. Carol B
ReplyDeleteYour post made me smile. I would like to be entered for your precious giveaway - beautiful box you created. love Annette
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading how your blog got started. Thanks for offering this giveaway! The box is lovely. Anne D
ReplyDeleteWell, you know I have to have my name thrown into the hat.
ReplyDeleteVery cute box. loving all the new blogs i'm finding.
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to red your first blog post. I think we were all scared no one would want to easy our wafflings.
ReplyDeleteYou are kicking arse and taking no prisoners! *grins* Nice to meet you!
ReplyDeletePopped in from Grow Your Blog hop.
Give me a visit some time ~
thriftshopcommando.blogspot.com
The blogging event sounds fantastic! I love your giveaway treasure box; it is adorable. Fingers crossed I am the lucky recepient of this treasure.
ReplyDeleteAlways love visiting your blog. I hadn't read all the posts so I'm cracking up over the BoD. I've used my hat before but I couldn't have used the ferrets when they were around, they'd have ignored it or stolen the name!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the party! I'm a long-time follower of your blog. I'd love to have a chance in your drawing!
ReplyDeleteSounds great to me!
ReplyDeleteI joined your blog just a week ago but already love it ! Love your treasure box!
ReplyDeleteI always love seeing a new post from you, Sharon, and your little box is so sweet. No need to enter me as I was already lucky enough to win one of your beautiful creations :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty little box! I'd love a chance at your giveaway. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Daffy!! Please include me in your giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blog and I love your lovely giveaway...
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to more inspiration posts from you :D
Love your blog! Please include me in the giveaway of the sweet box. I moved to wordpress so I could post pictures again. It is http://stitchorizeit.wordpress.com
ReplyDeleteMaureen
Love your blog. Wish I could remember how I found it! Please include me in your draw. I keep thinking we should meet at the Silver Needle some Saturday!
ReplyDeleteI like your purring reference, very friendly.
ReplyDeleteLaureen (a recent visitor)
Glad to see you at the party! I think I heard about it from your blog originally. I'm so glad that I was referred to your blog a few years ago. I love hearing and seeing what you've been up to. I've learned some great stitching tips from you too!
ReplyDeleteBTW, there's a giveaway over at my blog too.
Hi. I just discovered your blog recently while looking for ways to dye Aida fabric. I've now tea-dyed and dyed with black cherry juice and with raspberries. Thank you. :)
ReplyDeletekj_hahn(at)telus(dot)net
I remember taking the plunge into the blogging world too. I also remember the first comment from someone other than my local peeps. It was exciting and it still is. What a cute box!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on so many happy years of blogging. Wishing you many, many more.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy reading your blog posts. That's a lovely little box.
ReplyDeleteThanks you for all your inspiration. I'll have to start blogging after I retire tjhis summer.
ReplyDeleteSandy/Albany NY
What a charming treasure box, DaffyCat!! I would love a chance to win it. Stop by my blog to post a comment as well. I am making a handwoven scarf for some lucky commentor.
ReplyDeleteElaine
RetiredKnitter@gmail.com
http://mynext20yearsofliving.blogspot.com
What a darling box!
ReplyDeleteI love your little story! It was the same for me and being excited about everything! :D
I'd love to be entered in your giveaway! I'll post about it too.
~McKenna
What a pretty little box.
ReplyDeleteThanks for a chance to win it.
Peggy
peggy_verdongibbs@att.net
Please enter my name too, pretty box.
ReplyDeleteI also remember my excitment with my first follower and my first comment :D
I'm running a giveaway on my blog too, come visit me and join it.
have a nice day! xoxo
Daffy I'd love to be included in your giveaway!
ReplyDeletePlease, enter me!
ReplyDeleteThanks.
hmmm...102 comments ahead of mine; my odds of winning the precious little treasure box are not looking so good...
ReplyDeleteSo nice to stop by here for a visit your wonderful blog!
maggie
www.themagrag.com
It's always a fun for me looking at your blogg.
ReplyDeleteI do like all these things you do. Please put my name also in your hat.
I hope that you'll have a good weekend
Love
Judith
Its nice to visit your blog again.
ReplyDeleteLove Molly's 4 week old picture!
It is nice to meet you through Vicki's GYB. If you have a chance stop by and visit me at nonniescedarchest.com
Such a cute little box. I have been happily enjoying your blog for a while. Always fun.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful blog; I can see why you have so many followers. Please stop by if you haven't already and sign up for my giveaway. (I'm tardy because my motherboard died and went to the grave!) But, I have a replacement now! Hugs from Alaska. Karen
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I have been following you for a while now snd I love your blog! What beautiful stitching on the treasure box top!
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower. I just love your cross stitch box. You are going to make someone very happy.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute box :-)) I would love to be entered in your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
I think I actually first learned about the Grow Your Blog "movement" from your blog! LOL
ReplyDelete..thanks for letting me tour your blog.. it was a joy.. and what a great blog candy you are doing...
ReplyDeletemitz_zee@yahoodotcom
oh I LOVE your wee box!! Very lovely!
ReplyDeleteI found you through the blog party - if you need a giggle - come and visit me at
http://leftoverchocolatestitches.blogspot.ca/
:)
I love that pretty box! I'm a new blogger and loving the outlet so far! :)
ReplyDeleteHi I just found your blog and love it I don't have a blog but I love everything to do with cross stitch you have a wonderful blog and I wil be e-mailing you sson for reindeer charts they are so great Sincerely Kathy B in Ohio
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful way to inspire other bloggers. I have enjoyed you site and posting, I was thinking of you and your new puppy the other day and hope all is well with training, I have been giving serious thought to getting a dog. Have a great day.
ReplyDeleteHey-hey, are you ok? Haven't heard from you for a while.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh was that me!! Six years!!! Well done daffy
ReplyDeletelol as its now March I missed the blog giveaway - such a pretty box, what a shame I dint get here on time. I am now back blogging after a long rest (well not a rest but a long time away). Hope to keep up a bit better now and maybe I will catch the next one Daffy.
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