.....for......
Our winner! :).....Sherry, from Everyday Possibilities!!! Email me your snail mail addy Sherry! ;)
Congrats to you! Whooot!!! (Number 63, baby)
Three things for which I'm thankful today:
My future husband {love you so}
Andrea Bocelli {wow, what a show last night, thank you!!} &
Dreams {I'll keep those to myself for now...}
xo
Thanks for supporting this little blog. December will continue with gratitude and lovely views. xox
© Gillian daSilva
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A year ago TODAY I met my good friend Tara, from Paris Parfait in New York City. We had the BEST time...witnessed a wedding (Happy Anniversary, Barbara & Barry!), cheered Obama on (before!) his victory, saw an incredible art exhibit and walked a million miles through Christmas bliss. I miss my friend dearly (as good friends do) and can't wait to see her this March in Jordan. (Oh yes, pennies were saved for this one....!)
Also, if you haven't yet left me three things you are thankful for...tell me what three things you love to give for Christmas gifts.
(Sometimes, the best gift you can give is your time.) xo
p.s. I've delibrately left out the PRIZE. 200 posts and all I got was this lousy....lol!
You know you are getting something, but what????
Well, the prize, be it ever so humble, is this:
Hoping. (ahhh the music and photography...the humanity)
Wishing. (his moves, his sultry way, his appreciation...)
Praying. (the world is much bigger than you can imagine...)
Those are today's three. Join me in wishing an endearing woman success with her IVF treatments, she is a dear friend of mine. Go Charlie & Lola!!! xxoo
xo Friday is draw day! xo
{oh you have put up with me for 200 postings (on only this blog)..you should be rewarded!}
What three things are YOU thankful for today.....?
Leave a comment to celebrate "sweet indigo's" 200th post on this blog coming up on...Friday. You could *WIN* a wee care package. xo
~starving artist {primarily}~ photo by Gillian da Silva
Tuesday starts the glorious most melancholic month of madness, December. I'm going to post a favourite photo each day. Most will be mine {favourites I selected from the year}. Some will belong to another {faves I've faved, over the year}, which I shall give credit for upon posting. Join me if you care to, I'd be honoured. List three things you are thankful for with each photo. That is it. Simple and sweet. (It is like a break without the break...no thinking....just thankfulness from the heart.)
In FIVE posts, I'll be doing my 200th post on this blog. I'm having a give-a-way. I wish to celebrate all of YOU. Leave me a comment here, between NOW and the 200th post...and your name will go in a hat-of-wonders...good luck and details on the prize soon.
I loves yous!!!! So much so!
File under favourite Christmas quotes:
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
A song to go with this quote, I do believe. His voice makes me CRY. {canto della terra, means "Song of the Earth"}
A song to send you over the Yuletide edge (seeing him Thursday...! yay!)
p.s. Is that David Foster on piano? ;)
oops, I'm going to start early....three things....SINGING, COOKIES, FRIENDS xo
The last of the reds fall from the trees.
Santa's hat.
My favourite colour.
Life is whirlwinding by in full colour.
Must start my Christmas shopping...latte in hand.
This Sunday. I shall.
A letter from a friend in Jordan really makes me eager for travel.
A package overseas to loved ones.
Dylan Thomas, and rage, rage against the dying of the light...
Ruche. {and I want that dress you see right there...yes, right there.}
Oh happy day.
xo
Letters from a friend. Dating back 15 years or so. On my mantle. In my new home. Cherished. Much like the old Christmas card that popped out of a cookbook the other day quite pleasantly with it's HELLO!~ All Our Love, Grandma, Grandpa & Emma xo (Don't you just love when that happens...signs, signs are everywhichwhere...)
{Emma was their dog. I suppose they are all three walking on some ethereal beach somewhere, waiting patiently (with all the knowledge we could ever hope for) for us to unite once more.}
True friendship is love. It is support and a listening ear. I wish upon each of you the gift of one true friend. If you are fortunate to have more, all the better. I wish for you all... people in your corner who:
If you need to let go of a friendship, do it with an open heart, and do it gently. After all, you could be on much different wavelengths, and have simply outgrown one another. That in itself is no crime.
On this misty grey Monday filled with *magic* I leave you to ponder your own friendships. Like a garden, one must tend to them regularly. Happy gardening!! xo
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