Old Farmhouse Gathering Spring 2010 Basket Giveaway

Here's a giveaway that you DON'T want to miss! Below you will find some of the wonderful items this talented group from the Old Farmhouse Gathering has donated.

The drawing will be held on March 1st. "Hop" on over to The Old Farmhouse Gathering and sign up today! You never know, you might just be the lucky winner of this fabulous basket filled with all these goodies!

May I please share...

...something that is becoming more prevalent? I have noticed more and more on product listings, magazine articles, advertisements, and other various written materials, typos and major grammatical errors. I am a trained secretary and I understand the difficulty of proofreading your own work, but some of these errors are easily caught.

Perhaps this is a personal pet peeve of mine (and I know the way things go for me - there's probably typos and grammatical errors as I vent), but I find that if I come across typos there's a feeling of unprofessionalism which tends to turn me off.

I am not perfect by any means and do welcome being critiqued. I just feel that it's important to proofread and make necessary corrections in order to be taken seriously.

Here's a tip to proofread your own material:

Proofread backwards. Begin at the end and work back through the paper paragraph by paragraph or even line by line. This will force you to look at the surface elements rather than the meaning of the paper.

Phew!!! Thanks for letting me get that off my shoulders!

Sweetheart Valentine Giveaway

Donna at Brynwood Needleworks is hosting a giveaway. If you have never been to her blog, you need to stop over and see some of the beautiful handwork that she does. While you're there, sign up to follow her blog publicly and then you can enter to win her Sweetheart Valentine Giveaway. You must sign up by February 13th!