~REFLECTIONS~

Hello Guys....As I sit here drinking my morning cup of coffee I have been reflecting back on this past year in this wonderful world we call Blogland...And all the things I had learned....This picture below was my first header picture...and I was really like a puzzle trying to see where each piece of me fit in blogland...And as you can see I still have many pieces still missing...

I started blogging because so many of my friends I had made from "Rate my Space" HGTV Show had moved into bloggerville and I wanted to also be in the neighborhood...ha ha!!! So I hitched up my Antique wagon loaded up my Antique wares got me a piece of blogland and hung out my shingle... But what did I have to offer...I mean we all have to bring something to the table...Oh What can I bring ?? Oh I know I'll talk about Antiques and my passion for them and give everyone a little history lesson along the way ha ha!! Well I did start that way...but some how I became a variety blog....It's so funny I was not going to talk about my personal life, my family or friends....But here I sit with only 2 more days until my 1 year Anniversary and I have spilled my guts on everything ha ha!!

I have learned how to take my Little pictures and make them into BIG ones you can see without your glasses and your morning coffee...

I have learned I like changes...I keep changing my header picture all the time...My blog like my house I'm constantly changing it....I also learned how to do Mosaic's....I have learned that every time I take a picture and I think it looks great I put my camera card into the computer and see things I didn't know were there...Like a BIG old cob web, Len's tennis shoe, yesterday mail's still sitting on the counter... Oh you get the picture...I then have to go back and clean up all the stuff that I didn't notice, because it's every day life here and retake photos ha ha!! I have learned to turn off my flash when taking pictures of shining objects...I have learned it's hard to be a "Bathroom Diva" For Shelia at "Note Songs" as I don't look any better in a mirror ha ha!! I have learned to watch what items I buy and show...because my Daughter Dawna see's them and send me an email right away telling me how GREAT that would look in her home and I'm just the keeper of the stuff until she picks it up on her next visit ha ha!! I have learned I can't leave home without my camera.... I also have learned that every time I get my Daughters together and they are acting silly if I get out my camera they stop...Their so afraid they might end up on my blog ha ha!! (evil grin here)

I have learned the best way to meet my neighbors is to join in the blog party's....I have also learned this can be very time consuming to go and meet them all, as this is a BIG Block in Bloggerville. I have learned that when you do the Block parties...That Met Monday is really Sunday night and Pink Saturday is really Friday night...well you get it...If you come the day of your late to the party ha ha!!

I have learned that my idea of a well dressed table wasn't really proper here in this neighborhood...So I have learned to be more proper...ha ha!! Boy I miss my paper plates and solo cups ha ha!! Just kidding !!! But really the first Table scape I did here...Len thought we were having company for dinner and wanted me to go get out his clothes he should wear ha ha!! He was afraid he would have to actually sit at that table instead of in front of the TV in his chair...Men sometimes don't get it ha ha!! now he pays no attention when I play with the dishes...Oh YES since I moved into Bloggerville I also found out I'm a Dish-O-Holic and there NOT 12 step program for it ha ha!! I also learned that every time I buy more dishes my daughter Dawna shakes in her boots, and ask me "Mom whats going to happen with all these dishes when you die" ??? I have learned it's so great to give her an evil grin and tell her "it's not my problem"

I have learned that when you have a need in this neighborhood you can call on your neighbors and ask them to pray...This is a very BIG group of Prayers Warriors on this block...

I have learn you can love people you have never met....I have learned I love all the caring and sharing I have found in this neighborhood....I have learned I can't keep my house as clean as I use to because I'm always out playing in Bloggerville...I have learned that no one in this neighborhood cares so long as your having fun and being yourself...I have learned to always be kind when I go to my neighbors house...as maybe just one kind word is throwing them a life line they need that day...I have learned that almost after a year my Shingle is still dusty and all my pieces still don't fit...but then maybe if they did I wouldn't be here in the neighborhood...

I also have learned that if I did it wrong the first time...Chari at "Happy to Design" will let me have a Do over...Now Please stop back on Monday the 19th and see what I have for one of my followers for putting up with me in this Neighborhood...Oh No !! does this means I'm no longer the new kid on the block...I learned that I feel like "Mr. Rogers" here singing " it's a Beautiful day in the neigborhood".

May all of you have a GREAT weekend...I'm sending each of you a BIG ole HUG and a SMILE....Thanks for Welcoming me to the neighborhood...

Gl♥ria