I Am Very Honored!

Dearest Friends,
I am so very honored to have received my very first blog award! The very divine Duchess of Tea from The Rose Tea Cottage has named me one of the "Honorary Nobles of the Most Excellent Order of the Blog Empire". And to add another sugar cube to the cup, my dear, dear friend LuLu of Coastal Sisters has also been honored the same way! What a very nice surprise!! Please go visit my friend The Duchess in her beautiful world filled with tea, pastries, flowers and all things royal and beautiful!

Thank you so very much to The Duchess of Tea for her continued interest in and appreciation of The Gossamer Tearoom!

Wishing you all a lovely evening!

Betty

Ooooooh....Spookily!

Dearest Friends,
The Month of Spookiness is upon us and in honor of it all, The Gossamer Tearoom will be decorated in all of its spidery-web finery! First, don't forget about the bound-to-be fun blog event at A Fanciful Twist this coming Saturday! Vanessa throws just the best blog parties!


And next, I am so very happy to announce that my very dear friend LuLu of Coastal Sisters and I will be having a joint blog event on Halloween Day! We will both be posting some especially fun and spooky goings-on at each of our respective blogs! Keep checking back for even more details!



(By the way, if you haven't seen it, the first image above is from one of my favorite movies ever, Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast". Please find your way to watch this sometime in the Halloween season. It is gorgeous and creepy at the same time and one of my favorites!)

A Happy Announcement and a Thank You

Dear Friends,
I am so happy today to announce something very special! I have been accepted to the Inspiration Avenue Etsy Team! Everyone there has been so nice and supportive and I am very happy to be part of the team! Sharon, of Mana Moon Studios, has written the nicest "Meet and Greet" for me, which she has posted on the "Inspiration Avenue" blog today! I am very honored to have been accepted!

(And please don't forget to participate in the Inspiration Avenue Blog Event on August 1st! The information and instructions can be found here. I am having so much fun planning my post for that day!)

I would also like to thank the person who suggested that I apply for membership and that is my dear friend LuLu from Coastal Sisters! LuLu and I met when she bought something from my Etsy site and we just started communicating and actually got to talk on the phone for the first time a few days ago! It was so much fun and she summed it all up by saying that she felt like we had just known each other all our lives! She is a very talented artist who does many things including making beautiful jewelry, very cool blog banners and very glittery faux cupcakes and teacakes! As you can imagine these of special interest at The Gossamer Tearoom! She has even made a very beautiful lavender-colored, glittery teacake for me! Please check out her website, blog and Etsy site so you can see all the gorgeous things she makes!



Thank you to my new Inspiration Avenue friends and thank you to my dear friend LuLu!

Another Fun Blog Party!

YAY! If there is one thing I really love, it's a blog party!! And what makes this one extra fun is that I received the information about it from my very dear friend LuLu from Coastal Sisters! It is being hosted by a very cool Etsy group she belongs to called "Inspiration Avenue"! I am very excited about this! Here are the details:

♥Theme: "5 Degrees of Inspiration"

♥Date: August 1st, 2009

♥What to Do:
*Sign up for the blog party by leaving a comment on this posting - your blog and link will be added to our growing list on the sidebar of our blog. (be sure to include a link and the name of your blog in your comment)
*Grab our party images and details, then write about it on your own blog. Be sure to post the smaller badge on your sidebar linking back to this posting. (sidebar badge and link are posted below...)
*Join us on the date of the party by writing your own blog posting about the 5 things that inspire you the most. Feel free to post photos too - we love eye candy!
*Visit the other participating blogs from the list on our sidebar and enjoy! It'll be such fun discovering what inspires each of us!

. . .And there will be wonderful prizes too! For more information, please visit the Inspiration Avenue website!

Very Nice Ladies!

Dear Friends,
Even though The Gossamer Tearoom Blog has only existed since New Year's Day of this year, I have met so many very nice ladies in the blogsphere already! There is the very imaginative Lisa from Faerie Enchantment, whom I met when I bought one of her fabulous CDs of images on Etsy. Also, I have participated in two of her blog events and had so much fun! Then, there is my dear blog friend LuLu, who has her very sweet Coastal Sisters blog. We met when she bought some of my Tea Party Buttons from my Etsy site. She is so sweet and funny and a few days ago, surprised me with one of her beautiful Eiffel Tower charms from her online gallery (Thank you so very much again, Miss LuLu!)! Then, there is the very nice Janet from French Blue. I'll tell you a little secret...There are some blogs that are just so cute and cool that I feel a bit bashful about commenting on them (that's a bit silly, isn't it? Please tell me I'm not the only one who has felt that way!). That was what I thought about French Blue. So, I was completely amazed when Janet started commenting on my blog (!!) and became a follower (!!!). Imagine how excited I was to see that yesterday, she had used one of my Femme de la Lune cards to illustrate her post about another of my blog heroines, Claudia of Paris Apartments!!

And in that same post, here was just one more bit of sugar in your tea from these two ladies:

Claudia just commented....She wants to Reward all you little darlings...So she is offering a giveaway drawing to one of YOU with an online shop!! FREE advertising on her site for 3 months!! If you'd like to share this opportunity with your blogger friends mention this post and let them know about this contest so they can enter the drawing too!! Please leave me a second comment to enter twice, if you posted this Giveaway on your blog. I will draw a name from all comments left on this post on Monday June 1st. Y E A!! Thank You Claudia!!! xoxo's

So, if you have an online shop, go to this post on French Blue and leave a comment to enter to win free advertising for 3 months!

I'd just like to take a moment to thank all of these very nice ladies for their very warm welcome to me to the world of blogging!

Wishing you all a very happy weekend (you might not see much of me because it's my husband's and my second anniversary!)

Betty