Winning streak!

Remember I wrote about winning some pretty tulip notecards in a random blog draw in March? {Thanks, Carla P at 365 Letters: http://365lettersblog.blogspot.com/}

See http://elainemaryphillips.blogspot.com/2011/03/im-winner.html

and http://elainemaryphillips.blogspot.com/2011/04/tulips-from-texas.html 

Then I entered another little contest, since I was having such fun getting to know other letter writers, and Angelia from A Year of Letters: http://ayearofletters.wordpress.com/  chose me as her winner, too:

http://elainemaryphillips.blogspot.com/2011/04/if-i-were-mail-carrier.html

Last week I commented on a pen pal’s blog (read the full story below):

http://thepeartree.ca/2011/04/giveaway-french-butter-dish/

The Pear Tree’s lovely Lori-Anne Poirier writes:

http://thepeartree.ca/2011/04/giveaway-french-butter-dish/

An admirable blend of quirky and clever, the French butter dish is a tall bowl with a cylindrical lid. The butter is packed into the lid, while a few centimetres of water sits on the bottom of the bowl. It’s a natural way to keep your butter fresh without refrigerating, which keeps it soft and spreadable. ... 

... Recently, a secret source (okay, it was my mum) unearthed a stash of these dishes at a shop, and picked up three of them for me. I am a butter fan (and, ahem, a bit clumsy, it’s true), but that’s more than enough for the Pear Tree House. So I’m going to share one butter dish with an interested reader! ... Just leave a comment below, telling me what you like real butter on, and I’ll randomly pick a name on Friday at noon PST. 

And then, today, most unexpectedly, I found out that I had won the butter dish:

Giveaway Winner Announced!

The randomly-drawn winner of the French butter dish was Elaine M. Phillips! Congratulations! We will be in touch with you shortly to arrange getting your butter dish to you. For everyone else, watch for more fun giveaways down the road. {Thanks, Lori-Anne at http://thepeartree.ca/.}

RP says it’s time I bought a lottery ticket. J

"If I Were a Mail Carrier"

« If I Was a Mail Carrier (First Friday Fun Contest)

The Winner of “If I Was a Mail Carrier”…

April 7, 2011 by ayearofletters

Image by xrrr via Flickr

Congratulations to Elaine Mary Phillips!


If I were a mail carrier, I’d be irresistibly curious about the brown paper parcels containing books that I deliver each month: What treasure is nestled beneath the ordinary cover; who wrote it; will the recipient like it; would I like it?


Your cards are in the mail!  Thanks for playing everyone!
Putting Pen to Paper!

Tulips from Texas

Remember my March 23 win? (See below.) My pretty notecards arrived in the mail all the way from Carla P in sunny Texas this week, and I've already sent three of them to their new homes.

Well, today I'm a winner...again! See next post.

March 23 post:

Tulip Notecards Winner!

The winner of the Tulip Notecards Giveaway, posted yesterday, is "EMP," aka Elaine Mary Phillips.

When the random number picker chose her number, I decided to click on her links to see what EMP was all about. The first thing I saw was her profile statement on Blogger. I was immediately intrigued. Here's what she says in the profile:

"Since I was 7, I knew I’d be a letter-writer-poet when I grew up. Once I ventured out on my own (after hap’ly co-authoring and publishing a book of letters in 2007), I set up a baker’s dozen blogs as a discipline to record my thoughts and type up all the random bits ’n’ pieces composed in coffee shops and on silent retreat days."

EMP has a lovely website, and you can read more about her book, "The Hippo and the Unicorn: A Rainbow of Words" there. Browse around; she has some interesting stories!

Congratulations to EMP for winning the cards!