Where Women Cook Giveaway....And The Winner Is! Hastypearl

Where Women Cook Giveaway

...And The Winner Is!

Hastypearl

Thanks everyone for supporting me with my Second Hastypearl Giveaway!

In celebration of being featured in the Sept/Oct/Nov 2015 issue, 

I hosted a Giveaway, 

and I extended the fun to Hastypearl's Face Book, 

Instagram and 

You...my Hastypearl Blogger friends.

I left the time frame open, to like or comment on all venues, for 10ten10 days!

It was fun watching the names roll in and thinking...

oh, I'd Love it if SHE won :)

I literally thought that with Every name! 

But, because I promised to be Honest, and because its super fun to 

let the random process do the selecting, 

I wrote your names on paper.

Cut them out.  

Put them in one of my prettiest glasses...

actually, a gift from Tiffany's ;)

...so I took EXCELLENT care of you.....

I put my little fingers, with my fingernails still packing heavenly 

Bees Wax from an amazing over the weekend

 Michelle Belto Encaustics Workshop...

and.....

...........drummmmmmm roll please......

The Winner is....Jean Thompson!

Not her actual New name, as she is a newly wed...

but she will Always be Jean Thompson to me!

Congrats, Jean!

I'll message you for your address and soon you will 

receive a copy of 

Where Women Cook.

I know that you will love reading it.

So, thanks everyone that signed up, 

and those that just enjoyed me celebrating 

a really wonderful event in my life!

I'm still pinching myself and 

pretty sure that I will, for a Long Time!!!

I've said thanks a million times already 

to Anne Christian Lorys photographer Extraordinaire

 and Jo Packham, Amber Demian and Brandy Shay

 of Stampington & Company, Somerset Studios.

I'm almost embarrassed to do it again, 

but I wouldn't have been in the magazine Without them :)

Dreams Do come true!

Hope one of Yours comes true for YOU today !

...thanks again, guys...

and as always

...I'm so glad that you stopped by for a little visit....

Laura aka hastypearl  

Where Women Cook Hastypearl

Where Women Cook 

Hastypearl

Can you read that letter below?

Can you imagine getting that letter?

I had no Idea, that a magazine sent such...until it happened :)

It all started sooo long ago, but it is a testimony to encourage you to 

Never give up on your Dreams.

I wont tell you the whole long tale of it, 

but the Dream would have to have Special and Necessary people in it,

 to fulfill it.

It had to have a photographer.

Not Any photographer.

THE Photographer.

It didn't hurt, that I had followed Anne Christian Lorys on her Fiona and Twig blog 

and it Sure didn't hurt that she lived only 45 minutes from my house in Texas.

But, would she make her way into my Dream?

Yes, she Would!

We spent ONE CRAZY day together, laughing and cooking and tasting.

Much of the time, I didn't even know that she was taking pictures, 

she made it so easy.

The Dream, would take additional wonderful ladies like Jo Packham, 

Amber Demien and Brandy Shay, 

who spend their days encouraging individuals to Cook and Create...

and then making them look beautiful for the Stampington & Company, 

Somerset Studios publications, 

that we Cant get enough of. 

My Dream, had to have Years and Years of eating Fantastic Mexican food, 

to make me think of No Other Topic, to write about.

Eating Mexican food for 40 years...Oh, such a burden!

So, because of a Dream coming true, 

I thought it a very fitting time, to Celebrate and Give Away 

a copy of Where Women Cook, 

to someone in my Hastypearl blog family.

Its over 150 blog postings and I hope 150 MORE to come !

The Giveaway time frame will be 10 days (from September 16, 2015) 

and Larry will do a scientific drawing, 

for a Free Copy of the Sept/Oct/Nov issue of 

Where Women Cook.

If you've never read it, you're going to Love it.

Leave a comment here, or on my Hasty Pearl FB page, 

so that I can find my way back to you for your address 

on announcement day...September 26, 2015 !

If you would like to sign up to receive a notice when I next post on my blog, 

you can do so in the blank on the right column.

I say that column is the Mothership for all things...Hasty!  

As always, I hope that you have days full of Wonder, 

and Thanks so much for stopping by!

Gotta go now...tonight is Mexican Food Night!

:) Best, Laura