TIME AWAY, & A GIVE-AWAY!

Just twenty-four hours left until I'll be heading over to Austin for a few days. It's finally time for Story Circle Network's Stories from the Heart V conference. This will be my second one to attend, and it's a bit difficult for me to wrap my head around the contrast between then and now, both in my life, and in me! I was so intimidated that first time, and a little scared, to tell you the truth - feeling unworthy to call myself a writer, unsure about sharing a room with a total stranger, in the dark about what goes on at a conference, in awe of rubbing elbows with the likes of Susan Wittig Albert. This time is way different. Oh, OK, I'm still a little in awe of rubbing elbows with Susan, and a bit weirded out about being a panelist, but mostly I'm just giddy with anticipation!

I guess you are wondering what all this has to do with tea cozies, huh? Well, you've probably forgotten all about it by now, but a while back, when I first started preparing for this, I offered you a bribe if you would share some information with me. I wanted to know who you were (gender, age, education, occupation, location, marital status, etc.) and I wanted to know what brought you to Seasonality in the first place, and what made you want to come back. I don't need to know your real name, but if you happen to be a blogger yourself, feel free to link to it in your comment.

For those of you who shared that information the first time I asked, your names are already in the hat, but I will add them again if you will leave a comment in which you share with us anything that you have made or done, that was inspired by something in this blog (food, craft, garden, outing, you name it! Got a picture of it? Send it to me and I'll post it!). If you haven't shared your stats with me yet, please do! Even if they won't come in time for my blogging panel at the conference, it's nice to know who one is talking to.

Two of the cozies pictured here are already spoken for: the teal blue one was Lexie's birthday present, and the orange and red one is mine. However, whoever wins the drawing will be able to choose either the sage green one with teal trim, a sage green one with rusty red trim (half finished now) or if they are in no hurry, they can have one made from that multi-colored ball of yarn in soft yellow and coral. After this, I think I'll retire from cozy-making for a while. After making eight, I'd say it's time to try something new. The winner will be chosen early Monday morning (1/8/10). Good luck!

P.S. Afraid the colors in the photos aren't quite true. We haven't had any sunshine here in days, which makes for poor photography.