One World One Heart Day 1 !!!! {LAST CALL FOR THIS STATION IS 10PM}

Happy 11th of Feb. !!! When I guess it's not really if you are still riding the Gypsy Caravan :( But like all good things the ride is pulling into the station. We are reaching the end of another grand journey :) I'm not sure how to ever thank Lisa for the creation of her magic tour!! I have had a chance to meet some wonderful bloggers and artist from all over the world. Bloglandians I might never have met any other way!! :)

Just thought you might like to know that the caravan pulls into my little station for the last time at 10pm Mountain Standard Time. Thank you so much for all of your visit, I'm truly amazed at the awesome amount of Bloglandians who have stopped by for a Howdy Do ! :)

I'll see ya here at 10:05 pm when LW draws the name of the winner :)


Addendum: The long awaited Jasmine oil has finally arrived. I finished the sachet last night and there is a picture of it posted down (down down down) at the end of this post along with pictures of the rest of the give away :)

Today is the first day of Lisa Swifka's brain child, One World One Heart. This is the third year for her world wide Bloglandian block party. I mean can you imagine Bloglandians from all over the world headed on a HUGE mobile block party! :) For me stumbling into Bloglandia has been a grand adventure!! It has been great fun discovering different blogs, making friends with people from everywhere. And the best part is discovering those very rare humans that become kindred spirits. Many of these friends I will only know through the internet, but none the less they have become a very important part of my life. :)

I have also discovered that one of the positive side benefits to playing here in Bloglandia is I have become if only minimally more proficient with this "dad burn contraption" !! Really I have! It still takes forever but I can do more then manipulate my mouse around my email and eBay ;) Now if I could just gain even a tiny bit of control of photoshop!!

So back to OWOH first you don't have to have a blog and you don't have to have a give away in order to go a visiting or to register for many of the give aways. As for my little give away it's open to all who would like to sign up. There is only one rule but for me it's a Jiyhugest one. Leave me a comment on this posting and when you do leave me a most definite way of contacting you if you are the winning visitor. Soooooo if you don't have a blog to link back to PLEASE leave me an email address, and don't sign with that guy anomamos's name :) Okay so that takes care of my give away what about the hundreds I do mean hundreds of other meet the Bloglandian and their give aways ?? Well for that all you need to do is head over to Lisa's special One World One Heart blog and she has the links to all the other participants. You can get there by pressing on her OWOH button right here :)

There isn't a big rush to have to cover all the blogs right away the block party lasts until February 12th when we will all draw the winner's name for our give aways. You can leave a comment on this posting any time between now and then to have your name thrown in the hat :) BUT (yeah I know there is always a but) you have to leave it on this post :) Ah but no worries there I promise to make it easy for you to navigate back here :) Now if you are a blogger and this is sounding like way to much fun to miss out on, head on over to Lisa's blog and register, there still is plenty of time!!

Let's see did I cover everything??? Yep I'm thinking I did...... Oh well I guess there is the matter of just what my little give away is <<< ;) >>>. Well in the spirit of the heart theme I have collected a couple of hearts and a few things that are truly Mexican.

There is a clay wall hanging of the sacred heart. The heart in Mexico is a very spiritual image used in all types of art. The hearts are sighed by the artist. In fact everything I have put together is hand made by a Mexican artisan.

I found this little hand made blank book, made out of handmade paper and hand stitched. It's stamped with one of Freida's images. She and Diego are considered two of Mexico's finest artists.

This is a small treasure/coin/whatnot purse. It's just the right size to stash those happy little finds you stumble on while out walking the dogs, cats, or rabbits, It is made with the inner shell of the coconut and stained with dye made from the pods used to make Jamaica juice.

There is a tiny little hand painted palm bark box and inside of it are atty bitty hand made worry dolls. They are made out of match sticks pieces of paper and scraps of cloth. The legend says that Mexican children are given these little boxes of worry dolls so that each night they place one doll under their pillow it then becomes the dolls job to worry about what ever is troubling the child.

There isn't a picture of it yet {there is now ;) }but there will also be a lovely heart shaped sachet made my ME :) I'm waiting on{finally came} the freshly distilled jasmine oil that will be at the market at the end of the week. When I get it put together I will post a picture of it also. {Look down} I made it out of a piece of vintage jacquard velvet The ribbon is vintage tatting, along with a piece of muslin printed with a line of music and the title of the piece "My Heart Sings" Then I attached an old gold & rhinestone musical clef. It can be hung by the tattered bit of ribbon at the top.

Soooooo there you have it. Have fun and be sure you visit as many new blogs as you can. It's a great way to meet wonderful people and you never know which ones will turn out to be a kindred spirit!!

I'm off to go "A calling", have a most audacious day or evening bloglandia depending on where in the world you are ;)