Picture if you will

A woman is waiting in line at the grocery store. The checker scans all her items, and as she pulls out her credit card to pay, music starts playing, balloons fall from above, and the store manager runs up to her saying, “Congratulations! You’re our one millionth customer! You get free groceries for life!”

Did that ever really happen or is that just something I think I saw on TV once? Not sure.

This is sort of like that. Kind of. Maybe.

On our relatively new wordpress platform for blog publication, it keeps track of the total number of comments. We’ve been approaching 600 (for a while… why have we had so few comments the past little bit while I’ve been paying attention? It’s a watched pot situation I feel), so I thought we’d do something fun to mark it. Now, this is assuming that all the old comments came over correctly when we ported the blog. I don’t have time to find out and add them all up, so we’re going to trust wordpress and just assume it really is 600.

So I waited and waited and the 600th comment came from…

Lesley!

Hooray! Lesley is a frequent commenter; however, it also seemed fair to figure out who leaves the most comments. So I went back to comment 500 (we can do this all from the admin area, I didn’t actually sort through the last months worth of posts) and tallied up every commenter’s comments. Some people only had one, some were more impressive. On this we have a clear winner…

Kara!

Hooray for Kara, too! So Lesley and Kara will be receiving in the mail these nifty coasters I made. It was a project bug floating in my head, and I made enough to share (does anyone else get project bugs? This one came the day after I had put my sewing machine away, thinking I’d make a little room on my desk. It’s apparently pointless to do that).

You’ll each get four of these. I need to figure out the sets still, but this was the best picture I had. The backs are pieced, too, but with all regular fabric, not the linen, and in between is a layer of thin interfacing so they’re not too floppy. My favorite is the contrast zig zag topstitching. That thread was the only element that I didn’t already have in my stash.

[Lesley, I need your London address... I'll email you or something.]

I think Adrian thought I was a little crazy for doing a comment contest, even one that no one knew about. I may or may not do one in the future. It really probably depends if I have a project bug that fits a blog-related winner. So we’ll see. In the meantime, I hope you guys enjoy a little handmade-ness from me.