MY CONVOLUTED PATH TO A GIVE-AWAY

Here's the way my brain works:

I finally finished one of these last two cozies I had to knit, and am more than halfway finished with the other.  It's hard to make yourself knit with fuzzy, wooly stuff when it's 100 gazillion degrees out, but I did it.  These are part of a facebook meme from more than a few months back, and the promise was to send all who signed up something handmade, before the end of 2011.  Looks like I just might make it!

This got me to thinkin' about give-aways in general, which led me to thinkin' about blog give-aways, and the fact that I hadn't done one in a really long time, maybe even since my last blog anniversary, or possibly even the one before that!  Which then made me realize I had another one coming up in just a couple of weeks.  Can you believe it?  Seasonality is going to turn four years old on September 14th!  I decided we really needed to do something to celebrate, but what kind of prize could I give away?

Which of course, got me to thinkin' about a prize I won just recently, over on My French Corner.  She sent me this wonderful container of fleur de sel, which she brought back from her summer stay in France.

Then I got to thinkin' about those beautiful French market baskets I posted about a week or two ago, and the French jacquard dish cloths I brought back from Provence, and it occurred to me that I might pull together a French Market gift set out of a few things like that -- sort of a thank you for putting up with my French obsession ever since we got back from our trip.  But to do that I'd have to order a basket, then wait for it to arrive, and...then my brain landed on a basket I saw down in the square recently -- a bright, colorful, hand-woven basket, and I remembered thinking when I saw it "that's really a better market basket for me than the plain beige French ones.  It's much more of a bohemian-hippie-gypsy-cowgirl kind of basket." 

Which caused my brain to leap straight back to where this blog post started -- to the girl I'm about to mail that finished tea cozy to.  We met through the blogosphere a couple of years back, and I had a feeling we were kindred spirits.  When I heard her refer to herself as a "hippie-cowgirl", I knew it for certain!  Which has me thinkin' I should mosey on back to the square today, to see if they still have any of those baskets.  Then I might wander around a bit, to see what else I might find to go in my Texas Hill Country-bohemian-hippie-gypsy-cowgirl-market-basket-anniversary-giveaway!  I'll keep you posted, (Tee-hee, keep you "posted!"  Get it?)