One Week Down and the Winner is........

I can't believe it has been a whole week. I also can't believe how many people have responded and joined the party. So many new friends!! There is another person that joined today, Yvonne, from Country Bliss and Vivlyn from Vivlyn Designs, so be sure and stop by and say Hello to them when you get a chance!

I love the Barbie Fairytopia movies and the other night I got to thinking about something that the Fairy Guardian Azura says. In the movie Elina (Barbie) goes to see Azura and Azura offers Elina some tea. The table is set for several people and when Elina asked if they are going to wait for the other guests, Azura replies with, “Those are for the friends that I never met”. I have always liked that saying. We should always be ready for the friends that we are going to meet because we never know where or how we are going to meet them. I have met so many wonderful friends through blogging. Friends that I would of never met otherwise!


Now for the winner.....................

Well, my stupid printer isn't working right so I am going to hand write all the names out and wait for Mallory to get home to draw a name. She gets home at 3:30 so I will put the winners name down her after she gets home. Sorry about that!!

Okay, the first giveaway winner is

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Dianne from Dianne's Ramblings On

and Ezie wanted to draw a name too, so we went on and drew for a second giveaway, and

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Susan from Suzie Buttons won that.

Congratulations both of you!!

I will get the giveaways out sometime this week. I have both of your address already from the Wizard of Oz Swap, that is unless they've changed.

The Story of "Peony"

Have you seen the movie Barbie Fairytopia? If you haven't you should. It is a sweet magical little movie and the flower fairies are so beautiful! Elina, who is played by Barbie, is a flower fairy and she lives in a beautiful magical flower named Peony. Peony plays a soothing lullaby when Elina and her pet, Bibble, are ready for bed, and offers them a wake-up song in the morning.

Elina the flower fairy and Bibble

When Elina approaches Peony opens a petal up for Elina and Bibble to enter.

When we moved 3 years ago, my daughter Mallory and I planted a Peony because we loved Fairytopia and how Elina lived in a Peony. We had collected all the Barbie movies and the Fairytopia ones are our favorites (well, mine at least)! After 3 years our Peony is finally going to bloom. This is a picture of how she looks today. When Mallory and Ezie came home from school they came running in the house so excited and yelling, "Mom, Peony bloomed, Mom she bloomed!" I couldn't believe how excited they both were to see Peony bloom. It's like she has become a member of the family or something. Everyone calls her by the name Peony. Not the Peony plant, or anything, just Peony. I'll have to admit, although she didn't completely bloom, it is the beginning of a beautiful, well worth waiting for, bloom!

So here she is ....

Peony

This is my Rosemary Plant. I LOVE the smell and the taste of Rosemary!!

This is my oregano plant

and this is my sage plant

None of the rest of my plants have bloomed yet. My gardening space is not very big but I still love the results. Someday, I'll have a big yard where I can plant tons of flowers..........someday....