Sorry I haven't been around but I've been battling a wicked sinus infection since last Friday and now the doctor says I'm on the verge of bronchitis. I'm not one to take alot of medication - I usually try natural means first. But I must say that since taking the first antibiotic yesterday I'm already feeling a bit better. The codeine in the cough medicine is making me groggy though!
I've been wanting to have a give-a-way for a while now. So now seems like a good time. Just to say thanks to everyone for welcoming me back with such kindness and enthusiasm and for all the encouraging comments you leave (I read everyone!). I've never been involved with such a lovely group of people in my whole adult life! I'm very thankful for each and everyone of you who takes the time to read my blog.
A little something for you. If you already have the books you can feel free to pass them on in a give away on your blog (if you have one). That's some blue toile ribbon on the spool, some blue transferware and the larger plate is Spode "British Flowers - Poppy".
If you'd like to enter just leave a comment on this post and Saturday 10 am EST I'll post the winner. Please be sure you leave me some way of contacting you if you don't have a blog. Everyone is welcome to enter blog or not.
I have to take a few days off to rest, so please forgive me for not coming by to visit you (especially all the Thrifty Decor Chick's Organizing party people - I hate being a party pooper!). I'll catch up with everyone next week when I'll hopefully be recovered.
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155 comments:
wow! beautiful! i'll be praying that you'll be feeling better real soon! take care of yourself!
i'm glad you're starting to feel a little better. it does suck having to take antibiotics and things, but they sure do work!
i love the things in your give-away! what a nice thing to do! please enter me in the drawing!
I hope the antibiotics work, make sure you take them all! I would be honored to be entered into your giveaway!
Glad you are feeling a bit better!!!! We are all sick at my house too, no fun.
I would LOVE THOSE BOOKS... sign me up for the giveaway! Thanks
Count me in! What a wonderful giveaway! And...feel better soon! :)
I am in the same boat! I have been home all week with a wicked cold. I would love to enter your giveaway! I have been wanting that book of Dave Ramsey! Visit me I am posting a giveaway on friday! Take care of yourself. Juice, juice, Juice!
Lorri
Manuela,
I know how you feel...I'm in the second week of battling a sinus infection, congestion, chills and fever....hope you caught yours in time...
Yes, Please do enter me....thank you....Betty
Yeah its no fun being sick!!!!Hope you get back to normal soon. the giveaway looks great, I would love to have those books and the plates would look great in my porch!
Feel better soon Manuela! What a wonderful giveawy... Please don't enter me though...I would only break the dishes :-)
Hugs,
Penny
Love your blog. I would love to find someone to make a slipcover for me like the one on your sofa. I despise the ones from the store. Hope you are better soon. The plates you are giving away are beautiful!
Maggie
Hi Manuela, so sorry to hear that you've been sick. Both my little guys have had it recently too. Miserable! Take care to get lots of rest!
What a fun giveaway! I have the spode plate in yellow...but it sure is pretty in blue!
I was wondering about you, Sick thats no fun! I hope you get to feeling better soon, you got painting to do. lol No get plenty of rest and maybe some chicken soup! Love your give away! I love anything blue, well Hubby says I just love anything! lol Can't wait to see the bulbs you planted! Soon, I hope Spring will come! Feel Better Soon!
Feel better soon! I would love to win your giveaway...I don't have a blog so I'll leave my email address in case! Thanks for all you do. I love reading your blog.
Beautiful collection! Feel better soon. I love all your projects!
Hope you get to feeling better - we will miss you, but rest & antibiotics are the best for you!! Love the things in the giveaway - please enter me in to win!! Sally
What a beautiful collection for a giveaway! I love your blog and your decor ideas - I'm a toile fanatic :) I, too, have been battling a sinus infection for a few weeks - it's NO fun! Hope you feel better soon.
Deffinately stay down and take care of yourself so that you do beat your sickness!!I would be ecstatic to be the lucky one to win your give-a-way. How fun is blogging? I know what you mean about such a great group of people to become acquainted with and share wonderful ideas, which I thank you for!!
Blessings
Roxanne
Manuela, I hope you feel better real soon. Take care of yorself and drink a lot of chicken broth, that always helps. Your giveaway is a great one and yes you can count me in. My knees are killing me so I have to go rub some medication on them. Take care and get well soon.
Feel better soon Manuela! I had my first sinus infection last fall, and it landed me flat on my tail. LOL
I rarely comment, but I read your blog each and every day. It's great!
tina
tinam61@yahoo.com
What a beautiful and generous giveaway.
I hope that you feel better soon, get lots of rest, your body needs that to heal!
Oh, and PICK ME, PICK ME! :)
I hope you feel better soon!
I am so glad I re-found your blog, you have such great ideas!
And love the items in the giveaway!
Take care!
'Tis the season...for illness that is. I'm so sorry you are not feeling well. I do so look forward to your posts. Please enter me in your great giveaway.
tomhelrea(at)yahoo(dot)com
I'd love to be in the drawing of your give-away! I'm sorry you aren't feeling well. Take care!
Sheryl
Beautiful goodies! Hope you feel better soon!
I love the plates and Dave Ramsey is awesome. Hope you feel better. I bought amoxicillin when we were in Mexico and now feel like a rebel underground doctor.
I had missed you! Take care of yourself and feel better soon!
Feel better soon!
What a lovely giveaway! I love your blog ... you have a true gift. Please enter me in the giveaway - thank you!
- Sarah
hope you feel better soon. I just got over a nasty cold that lasted two weeks! Now, I am having back problems. sheesh! Hurry Spring. Please enter me in your giveaway....I would love to win
ginny
Oh, Manuela, I'm so sorry you have all this sickness. I had a cold, took lots of EmerGenC and it was very short lived! It's just mega doses of VitC......maybe you'd benefit from some!
Take care and rest up. And my lands, girl, What a giveaway!!! Those are some seriously GREAT gifts!!!
Suzanne
Hi Manuela...I hope you feel better soon...it seems that so many these days are under the weather.
Please do enter me into your giveaway for the beautiful items shown....thanks so much. Feel better and take good care.
Ruth
I hope you feel better soon. I would love to be included in your give-away, I love all things blue & white and don't even get me started on the toile ribbon! lol.
June
That Spode plate is YUMMY - Thanks for a great giveaway! Get Better Soon!
Oh honey I feel for you...I hate being sick especially in the winter time with a cold and all...hope you feel better soon!
Please enter me...I just love your blog and all the decor you share...and I really appreaciate you for taking the time to visit me also.
Love those plates...those are simply beautiful! So add me to the pot and maybe I will be the lucky one and if not I will be happy forever!
Hope you feel good as new very soon!
and of course I want to enter
very nice group of things too.
Hope you feel better soon.
Hi Manuela...so sorry your not feeling well...and with the weather forecasted to turn nasty in the the next couple of days I hope you stay inside and stay warm...What a nice giveaway and I laughed at Penny's reponse...Fell better....Sue.
Hope you are feeling better soon!
Please enter me in your drawing.
I hope that you are feeling better soon! I love transferware and toile! What a fun giveaway! Please enter me in the drawing!
tim.b3@comcast.net
Thanks,
Stephanie
I'm sorry that you've been under the weather. Thank goodness for a doc who will prescribe some antibiotic when you need it!
Your giveaway is beautiful...please toss my name into the cap. Thank you!
Sorry you've been so sick. That's no fun. What a beautiful and inspiring blog you have. I enjoy it so much. And what a wonderful giveaway! Ü
Rest is the key! I hope you began to feel better! I am SOOOOOOO inlove with the turquoise plate. So beautiful! I would be so blessed to be entered into your giveaway!
xoxo Emily
Love those plates!! Feel better soon....
I hope you feel better real soon. I love the give-away, hope I win!
Well, I hope you are feeling back to normal soon. I've only had one sinus infection and it was terrible, so I feel your pain! Thanks for offering such a great giveaway:)
How lovely for you to think of this while you are feeling so poorly. I do hope you are feeling better soon. Stay in the warm and take care. Margaret
ps. I'd love to be part of your give away
Oh thank you for such a generous giveAWay! I am already looking for a place on my kitchen walls to hang the plates... :D
Oh man! I don't know what I like more! I have actually been planning on buying the Dave Ramsey book! and that Spode plate is the most beautiful plate I've ever seen! What an awesome giveaway! Pick me pick me! heheh! and hope you get back to 100% soon! Sinus infections are so draining!
Hoping you are all better very soon Manuela!
Your giveaway is beautiful and so very generous!
I hope you are feeling better, Manuela! Glad the antibiotics are kicking in. Am sending you healing thoughts and virtual chicken noodle soup!
miss_k_p@yahoo.com
Glad you are feeling better. :-) I enjoy your blog & ideas! Please enter me in the drawing. ;-)
I hope you are feeling better. That's the pits - not feeling well!
What a wonderful giveaway!
Jen
Hi, friend! Sign me up for the giveaway. I'm so far behind on visiting everyone & hope you feel better soon.
I hope you feel better soon. Sinus infections are no fun. I'd love to be entered in your give away. I love transferware and toile.
The Dave Ramsey book caught my eye... :)
Thanks for your wonderful blog!
I'm hope you feel better soon.I know how you feel. I've had that stuff early on this year and it's no fun.
Hope I win!!! You wouldn't even have to mail it to me, since we are so close.
Feel better girl!!!
Oh wow! What lovely items. Thank you for having the drawing and I hope you'll be feeling well real soon!
Manuela,
Do get to feeling better! Please enter me in your giveaway.
Dawn
I would love to enter your draw- but I'm in Canada. Is that too far?
I found your blog awhile ago, through another blog (can't even remember which one, I've been reading so many great blogs lately), and I have it bookmarked. You have incredible style. I love coming here to drool over your work. Anyway, if Canadians can enter, my email address is:
swirly_smurf@yahoo.ca
Hope you get to feeling better very soon. My daughter "battled" the same stuff a few months ago, and had to make a trip to the Dr.. Sounds like you were prescribed the same stuff! She did recover, but had to have lots of rest. Soooo
you rest, & rest & rest so you can have a speedy recovery!
Your giveaway is wonderful and would love to "thow my my name into the hat!"
Beautiful GET WELL Blessings!!
~Kelly Maria
I just went to the doctor today and got an antibiotic and cough medicine for a terrible bug. I hope you're on the mend soon! Lovely things. I'd enjoy winning them. Love your blog!
Sharon
mavinger@sc.rr.com
Wow, Hope you feel better soon, what a bummer. Love your give away.
Enter me
rreed1143@charter.net
Manuela, I'm so glad you're starting to feel better now. Continue to rest and drink plenty of fluids.
Please enter me in your give-a-way. Lovely items you're giving away!!
Blessings,
Sher
So Sorry you have been feeling bad Manuela,I am the Queen of Sinus Junk and it stinks. Hope you are on the mend very quickly. So Sweet of you to offer a Give Away. Jamie
What a great giveaway! The books, plates, ribbon...wonderful!
Thank you for your generosity!
Take care of yourself. I enjoyed your organizing photos in the last post.
cheers,
Blueberry
bristolbayfield@gmail.com
hope you feel great soon!have you tried echinachiaa?it can work well.love your blog love your outlook love your stuff!
mdinga2@aol.com
Your's is a permanent fixture in my google reader. I saved every article about gardening and am going to try to start my own this summer. The spode plate is absolutely beautiful.
Hope you'll be feeling better soon! I read your blog all the time! Love the plates... Enter me in your drawing!
This is my first time at your blog and it's very nice! Sinus infections are way more painful then you would think! You'll be feeling so much better in a few days! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway! I have one that's almost over if you want to stop by for it!
-Kim
Hi, I am Nicole, and I just discovered your blog over the weekend. You have such a beautiful home, and I love all of your ideas.
I am sorry that you are not feeling that well. I hope you get better soon.
I would be delighted if I could be entered in the giveaway. Everything looks so pretty. Whoever wins will be really lucky to have all of that great stuff.
Take care.
Manuela,
I sure hope you feel better soon! Those things are never fun. Please get some good rest for yourself.
What a lovely giveaway, I would love to be added, thank you!
I had a sinus infection when I was pregnant with my third child and it was one of the most painful things I've experienced. I hope you get well soon. I did not get better until I took antibiotics either. They made a world of difference.
Hope you get to feeling better. The plates just make my heart sing....
Manuela....feel better very soon....What a wonderful give a way...
Hi Manuela,
I would LOVE to win your giveaway! And hope you get better soon. Take it easy!
Manuela,
I'm glad you feel a little better with the Antibiotic and I hope you'll get 100% better soon. What a wonderful giveaway, please count me in.
Tam
Manuela
i know exatualy what you have been going through. I have had the same thing since last week. That cough syrup might taste yuck, but boy does it do the job. take it when you go to bed and sleep like a baby.
Your give away things look yummy. please put my name in your hat.
Sibyl
Get well soon, and sniff warm salt water for the sinus infection. It's hard but it works...
Love the plates!
Sorry you are feeling icky. I enjoy following your blog!
I hope you keep feeling better and better! A sinus infection is just the pits.
I love your give-away items! Please enter me in your drawing.
Get lots of rest!
Fran
Feel better soon, Manuela. Just take care of yourself. Mimi
Feel better! What a generous giveaway! Someone sure will be delighted with your gifts!
-Ruth Ann
I hope you feel better soon. Your give a way plates are so pretty.
Peggy
Sorry you have been ill, take care and get well soon.
So nice of you to do a give away when you are down.
Add me to the drawing please!
Linda
It's my first time posting. I do love your blog. Hope you feel better -- and that you got your flu shot!!
I'd love to be entered in your giveaway. I was so pleased to find you back in the bloggy world a few months ago! Hope you feel better soon - take care and rest.
Hoping you'll feel completely better soon. I am so pleased you have returned to blogging. I missed you! Take good care and get some rest.
I would love to win your giveaway. Hope you feel better soon.
K
(searchforgod@yahoo.com)
I hope you will be better soon. I spent lots of winters with bronchitis, last year I consulted a specialist and she discoverd that I have allergic asthma, so I'm taking care of that and I feel much better.
I have to say I just love the big rose plate......
What lovely things you are giving away! I am happy you are blogging again - it is fun to come to your blog and see what kind of creativity is going on at your home! We live on a budget also,and it is so great to see the things that can be done very inexpensively!
Thanks for sharing - hope you get well soon!
Good lookin' prizes there!
You know I'm glad you are back :)
I love reading your blog! You have some easy and awesome ideas. I would be thrilled to win your giveaway, especially since I love blue and white!!!
I'm sorry that you have been sick, Manuela, but glad that the medicine seems to be working. I, also, don't take medicine much. Most things, I think, will run their course with or without meds. Sinus infections, though, are the one thing that I have to take something for.
Your giveaway is wonderful! I would love to be entered.
Manuela, what a generous giveaway! I hope you are feeling better soon. The day I found out you were back to blogging was a very good day. I really enjoy what you share here. So, thank you!
Hope you're feeling better soon!
What a great giveaway! I hope you are feeling much better soon! Take care.
Please enter me in your drawing...what lovely things in your give a way! Soooo glad you are feeling a little better!
~Kym
What a beautiful giveaway! It's awful to be sick, hope you feel better soon.
Glad to see you're feeling better! We have a wicked stomach virus going through our house right now! yuck!
Count me in on the give a way. looks wonderful!
I am sorry you are feeling bad. I am the same way I don't like taking a bunch a meds.
Oh yah ..... those dishes and ribbon have my name on them..... L I N D A..... heheh
Get some rest and enjoy the fruits of you labor.
HUgs
Linda
PS I just sent you a lengthy email but don't feel like you have to answer.... I didn't know you were ill...
ACK! I'm dying for the Dave Ramsey books but have been to frugal lately to take the plunge and buy them! I don't have a blog, so here's my email if perchance I should win!
candcpixley@verizon.net
Thank you!
I hope that you feel better soon! Rest!
BTW- those plates are to die for! I love them! Hope I win!
WOW this is a great give away...there are already 102 comments!! Just a quick note, Manuela, to let you know you're in my prayers for a perfect healing. Feel better. Good thoughts are sent your way as I write this.
xox
Warmly,
Tracey
I stop by your blog often and find inspiration. I sure hope you feel better soon. We just recovered from the stomach bug at our house! Glad to be over that!
I would love to be entered in your contest. I love all things blue and the books look very interesting.
Becky
pbcronin@comcast.net
Hi Manuela, I am so sorry that you have been sick! I hope that you recover quickly. We miss you when you are away! I love your give-away. The large plate is absolutely stunning! The books look great, too. Add my name to your drawing!
Take care of yourself and hopefully you will be feeling back to normal soon!
Jen
We've been battling sickness at our house too - must be the time of year. I hope you feel better soon!
Thanks for such a great giveaway, and the chance to win!!
Thanks for a chance at a great prize!
wow what a sweet heart! You are a ray of sunshine even when you are sick! Thanks for such a wonderful giveaway! I would be giddy with excitement to win! I will be praying that you feel better soon! We sure do miss ya!
milkmaid1@gmail.com
First, hope you are able to avoid the bronchitis and are on the mend soon!
Second, what a fabulous give-away! I would love to be entered.
Please enter my name in your wonderful drawing.
Gretchen
www.birdnestcottage.typepad.com
What a great giveaway! I do hope you get to feeling better very soon. I love all your posts.
Marilyn in NM
Count me in! What a wonderful giveaway! ...feel better soon!
I LOVE your blog. Praying you feel better soon. Thanks for sharing your gift of decor with us.Please enter me in the drawing!
Kelli
Tmcplumb@bellsouth.net
Manuela,
I do hope that you will be feeling better soon. Have you considered trying a Neti Pot? I was reluctant at first and a friend gave me one. It has helped me so much with my sinuses.
Thanks for entering me in your giveaway. I am thoroughly enjoying your blog.
zokiemichael(at)sisna(dot)com
Glad to hear you are feeling better. Wow! Neat giveaway. Please enter my name. laurie
Sorry you haven't been feeling well. I hope you are on the mend and up and at your beautiful projects again very soon!
I would love to be entered! I just recently bought my first Stoddard book - Living Graviously in a.... oops, cannot remember the title but I know someone knows it. Now that the holidays are over, I will have time to read it (and remember the title!) haha
Margie
thats such a great giveaway!
hope you are feeling better soon!!
-stacy
stacyleaw@yahoo.com
What a lovely giveaway! I hope you're feeling better soon :)
Hope you are feeling better soon! So nice to have a give away. Please enter my name.
Debbie
i would so love to win this giveaway! you have collected some great items here :)
glad you are a bit better :)
This seems to be prime time for upper respiratory illness, when all else fails, remember, Nyquil is your friend:>) Hope you feel better soon. Lots of hot liquids and rest, rest, rest!
It's awful to feel bad when the weather is so cold. Take care.
I just love your blog! Please enter me in the contest. Thanks for all the inspiration, and I hope you are feeling better!
Great giveaways! I hope you feel better soon!
What a great prize! Wow! Hope you're feeling better soon. Bronchitis stinks.
carlawells@windstream.net
Aren't antibiotics a miracle! Each member of my family has had to be on them at some time since New Years. Hope you are feeling "all the way better" soon!
Thanks for the beautiful giveaway. Your blog is one of my favorites!
Kim
mytupkim2003 at yahoo dot com
Your blog is lovely, and I would guess that it represents a truly beautiful spirit. It has been a pleasures to get to know you a little bit through your blog. I appreciate your generosity in sharing your life with your readers! And your giveaway items are really pretty; what a nice thing to do here in the dark, cold days of winter. I pray that you're feeling completely well very soon.
Oh, Manuela! Thank you! The gifts are beautiful - just like you and your home! I hope I win! My e-mail is luvjesus2762 (at) yahoo (dot) com.
I hope you feel better soon! I would love to have those books...I think they'd be great to help my husband and I get started on a budget!
I love the toile...thank you for entering me in your sweet giveaway,
Tasha
I just discovered your blog and I love your style!!
I'll certainly be back and not just because you do these cool give aways!! LOL...
Jen
Hope you get to feeling better...and thank you for entering me in your giveaway!
Sinus infections can be so bad, can't they? Hope you are feeling better now! What a lovely giveaway...I would love to be the winner! Thank you for the chance!
Just found your blog, loving all your creative posts. Lots of good ideas.
I pray you're on the mend very soon. I think everyone has a touch of some sickness this winter. I for one had a stomach virus and the flu back/to/back...YUCK!
Blessings
Lisa
Hope you feel well soon. love your give away please enter me.
Colleen
heythere61@hotmail.com
I hope you are feeling better soon--I hate sinus infections. I love these plates, especially the largest one and I love Alexandra and Dave (I guess I am on a first name basis with them Ü).
Just found your blog - have read it all - this is wonderful give-away - I collect blue plates. Hope you feel better soon - linda_m_prince@yahoo.com
Hope you are feeling better. Great giveaway! Please enter me in your drawing.
juliewidker[at]yahoo[dot]com
Thanks!
May I enter, please?
Thank you!
His,
Mrs. U
I hope you are feeling better!
I love each of the items in your giveaway. Please enter me. I don't have a blog, but my e-mail address is pgardner84@gmail.com. Thanks!
love the pretty plates!
sorry that you have not been feeling well. This is a wonderful giveaway. I love blue.
steffp777@yahoo.com
Manuela~ sorry you've been feeling ill, and hope the meds are working for you. Take care and get some rest.
I love all of your ideas for organizing in the post below, and your photo for the inspiration for your craft room would be mine too!
Oh, and yes....I'd love to be added to the drawing.
Beautiful and I just know that my other plate family would make them feel right at home.
Zoe
Hi, Hope your feeling bette. When your better and if you wish, I have an award for you.
Get well soon.
I can't believe your beautiful giveaway items...are you sure you want to part with them?
Whoever wins will be a happy lassie.
Please enter me as well.
Happy days...
Hi, i love your blog and i really
hope i win your neat prize. i don't usually win very many things.
have a great day
Freida
I would love to be entered in your give away. I hope you are feeling better. Take Care :)
What is it about toile that is so darn alluring? The ribbon alone makes this an awesome giveaway!
Hope you are feeling better!
What a generous giveaway. I would love to be entered. Thank you.
I just found your blog through Belle Ame A Beautiful Soul. I am being inspired by blogs I have visited this morning.
I pray that you will soon be feeling much better.
I would love to enter your drawing also.
Thank you for putting such a nice give-away together. Whoever is the winner will enjoy it immensely.
FlowerLady
What a great giveaway! The Poppy plate is beautiful. Thanks for the opportunity to win such a great package. //(*_*)\\
Dear Manuela -
Please take care of yourself! I will be praying for a quick return to good health. Your give-away things are wonderful. Please add me to the list.
~Adrienne~
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