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What a Gift!!!!!!
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Jun 1, 2006 8:38am
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WOW...
I have never won anything really
(except that ZZTop album back in high school) so when it was announced that I had won the NC Planting Day contest thingey...I REALLY was surprised. I gave the contest some brief thought in the beginning but then I just swept that thought away. Afterall, I planned about 3 or 4 boxes. I didn't much figure that would win any contests. Then I didn't think of it. Heck, I guess I didn't have time to think of it. :-) Between planting and making more trips back to locations to get my notes to write my clues and all the other real life stuff...WHEW! I'm beat.

I used to draw Cherokee themed stuff...plus I did my biggest History project on the Cherokee...the Cherokee Syllabry, Trail of Tears, etc was all part of the project. Heck, I grew up in Cherokee with all the tourism and the entertainment, busy streets, tiny amusement parks, the ceremonies, the pow wows and the commercialism...but at any time you could travel 5 minutes in almost either direction and be in some of the most tranquil and beautiful places imagineable.

Ok...back on track Dixie...
Oh yeah, anyway...once I started carving Cherokee themed images...it was like being bombarded by all these ideas in my head. I had more ideas than I had places to plant. So...I had to just stop carving...after 18 stamps had been carved before I even knew it. Can you believe that?? I planted the majority on the 24th. Whew...was that ever an ordeal. I couldn't hardly move the next morning.

oops...there I go again. Focus Dixie...
Yeah, Uh sorry bout that. i am just soooooo excited.
Anyway....I got this awesome package yesterday.
I didn't get to open it up until last night
(wow have I been running like crazy for little league etc)
This year...Christmas has come on May 31st.

The Wolf Family sent me (as part of the prize for winning)...
Fun Foam, cute little logbooks for boxes, one wonderful hardbound sketch book for a personal log book, silica packets, bonus clues, a pad of scrapbooking papers, a hunk of mastercarve and a sheet of PZcut...the list goes on. Can you believe I got Lock n Locks??? Oh, and those other cute little mini containers with the little logs that fit nicely inside...WOW, you have really got my mind wondering where I can put those. Then all this stuff was package in a wonderful, decorative box that is a treasure in itself.

*giggles*
I feel like a kid again.

THANK YOU


What an incredible gift box...
just when I needed it too.
with all that carving I was scrapping the bottom of my barrel of carving erasers etc.

DixieKin
Re: What a Gift!!!!!!
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #24919 by Dixie
Jun 1, 2006 10:04am
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Congratulations, Dixiekin!

All that description of Cherokee really makes me want to go there someday! And now a bunch of new letterboxes for motivation!

Quote Oh, and those other cute little mini containers with the little logs that fit nicely inside...WOW, you have really got my mind wondering where I can put those.


Those are for cooties! You are the first person to see my latest cootie container design... but not for long.... MUHAHAHAHA!
Re: What a Gift!!!!!!
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #24932 by The Wolf Family
Jun 1, 2006 10:40am
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Quote Those are for cooties! You are the first person to see my latest cootie container design... but not for long.... MUHAHAHAHA!

Oh my gosh...how cute is that.
Hummm...makes me think that if you had wanted to be really sneaky and mean...you coulda slipped a cootie in there. Whew...no cooties on me!! :-)

dixiekin
Re: What a Gift!!!!!!
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Reply to: #24947 by Dixie
Jun 1, 2006 11:41am
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Quote you coulda slipped a cootie in there. Whew...no cooties on me!! :-)


I considered it, believe me, but I prefer to do it the "old fashioned" way. In my profession, some times I have to wait years to nail someone... but then it just makes it all the sweeter....
Re: What a Gift!!!!!!
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #24919 by Dixie
Jun 1, 2006 2:18pm
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Congratulations Dixiekin!!!! I didn't even know there was a contest.

Shiloh