What's In My Teapot?

I am pleased to announce that the winner of the reading challenge give-away is:   CHRISTA!!! Who commented: I found "The Long Walk to Water" fascinating and edifying. Salva could have stayed in America and pursued the "American dream." Instead he returned good for evil. That is forgiveness. And think how it spoke to Nya, to have a man from the enemy tribe come give them water. That is love. He will certainly have his reward.  My 2nd book of choice was called " The Seamstress ." It was the true story of Sara, a Jew, who survived the hellish conditions of Ravensbruck during the Holocaust. Sara herself helped write the book. Although Sara never gave God the glory for enabling her to survive the camp, neither did she become a bitter person. I will not give too many details just in case one of you want to read her book. It is very worth your time.  Thanks, Joanna, for bringing "The Long Walk to Water" to my attention. I am happy fo...

This last day of June is special, for we have finally come to the point of discovering who all has joined this month's reading challenge ... And you get to see what I planned for our giveaway!!! Ready? Here it is: Two pillows, all  ready and waiting  to go to a good home!!! I sewed them just yesterday  (with a little help from this tutorial ) and  while I am introducing them, let me tell you about a few features: Number one, they are four-way-pillows!!! In other words, I have designed them so that they can be displayed four different ways: 1. With the yellow chevron and the birds... 2. with the black print and the birds,,, 3. with the yellow chevron and the black print... 4. with both pillows showing the birds... And secondly, the pillow covers can be be removed from the pillow forms via a handy-dandy invisible zipper! This makes them very easy to take off for laundering, and also makes it so there really is no front or b...

Summertime seems to be the perfect time for reading challenges, so I thought I would have one on my blog, too, to spice things up for the month of June! Here's what we'll do: I will choose a book of the month, as usual, and if you read that plus one other book of your choosing , you will be eligible to enter a surprise give-away which will be hosted on the fifth Tuesday of this month!!! Sound like fun? I thought so, too! Now, for June's book of the month, I have chosen A Long Walk To Water , by Linda Sue Park. Based on a true story, this New York Times bestseller begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and...