A Merry Xmas to me from Shirlee....

Imagine my great surprise and delight when these two Christmassy packages arrived in the mail from dear Shirlee:

Inside was this gorgeous little cushion....

 .... and a Furio needlekeeper....

 The needlekeeper went straight onto Songs of a Season

 .... and look it is exactly the same colour as darling, sleepy Furio....

.... and here is the cushion gracing my new fibre optic tree....

LOVELY!

I feel so blessed to have such a great online friend, Thank you so much, Shirlee.

Now, I have a bloggy question.  I want to reorganise my photo collage on my blog header but I cannot remember how to do it.  If any one could let me know what to do, I would really appreciate it.

Have a good day everyone - only two more days of work and then I am on hols for two weeeks - yay!!!!

hugs,

A couple of blogging questions, a Great Giveaway and a new (to me) designer find

Hello lovely bloggers,

I have a couple of blogging questions for you and I wanted to tell you about a great giveaway.

First, the giveaway - Kathy from A Stitcher's heirloom is having a Giveaway - her first.  Check out her wonderful blog here to check it out.

Second, if you haven't already discovered this French cross stitch designer - Jardin Prive  - I have only just discovered this designer and website through surfing some blogs  but I am already in love and thinking of buying some of the designs for my stash!  Well worth checking out!

Now, to my questions, I have two:

1. Does anyone know how I can get blogger to post with the correct date and time for my location?  I seem to be blogging on U.S. time and I don't know how to change it. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

      2.  How do you all keep up with your blog reading and commenting?  I now have over 100 blogs (and counting) which I wish to follow and I just can't keep up with them.  I am trying to keep a real balance between my blog reading and my stitching and my posting (and family and work and reading and..... the list goes on).  Any tips for keeping up with it all and keeping it all organised? Again, any help/comments/suggestions would be gratefully received.

Well, off to do some more blogging and stitching and reading and baking and.....

Hugs, Kaye xoxox