The Magpie's Fancy will be two years old on February 26th!
More than 280 posts into this adventure, I am still delighted, moved, and awed every single day by the people I encounter and the talent I see on blogs all over the world.
Thank you for inspiring and challenging me, for encouraging my crazy ideas, offering support when I've been low, and for kicking me in the pants when I've needed it, too. In the blog world we make amazing friends, often without ever meeting face-to-face. As Archie Bunker once said, "I got a lotta best friends--some of 'em I don't hardly even know!"
To celebrate two years, I am hosting a giveaway. Please leave a comment between now and noon EST, Friday, February 25th, to be in the running for the prize. And what is that prize? Well, in keeping with my magpie nature, it will be a collection of wonders and curiosities that I am gathering together. It will include something that glitters, something to read, something handmade, something vintage, and any other delicious treats that capture my heart.
I will announce the winner on Saturday the 26th. Please feel free to enter no matter where in the world you live, whether you're an old friend of The Magpie's Fancy or a brand new visitor. I'm just happy that you all are out there, making magic, and I thank you from the bottom of my magpie heart.
xo Gigi
I will announce the winner on Saturday the 26th. Please feel free to enter no matter where in the world you live, whether you're an old friend of The Magpie's Fancy or a brand new visitor. I'm just happy that you all are out there, making magic, and I thank you from the bottom of my magpie heart.
xo Gigi
I hope I am the first to congratulate you Gigi on 2 years of the most thoughtful of posts. You have added so much to our world and I know that sentiment is shared by many admirers. I too reached my 2nd year last week and it was in the hopes of meeting such talented people such as yourself. You have such a way with words and I enjoy reading every word. Much love XO
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your two years in Blogland, Gigi. Every time I come here, I leave replenished, creatively rejuvenated. Yours is truly an inspirational blog. Looking forward to many more years with you ;-)
ReplyDeleteTwo years, that is something to celebrate! I have really enjoyed visiting your blog, reading your words, always well spoken and honest. Thank you for being out there, am glad to have met you in this cyber place.
ReplyDeleteWe must have started blogging at pretty much the same time. Receiving such a mystery package would make me feel like a child with my first selection box, so please count me enthusiastically in, and a very happy 2nd to you.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 2 years. Isn't this place we call a blog amazing. I had no idea how much it would change my life...for the better...i have made some of the kindest friendships ...truly cherished friends...like YOU!!!!
ReplyDeleteyou have given us so much pleasure...at times i was left speechless by your talented writing...you have a gift, my friend...and i am so Happy that you share it with all of us...
looking forward to a continued friendship
love,
kary
xxx
Wow! 2 year! Congrats and thank you for filling us with such sweet writings and collections of the magpie :)
ReplyDeleteDear Gigi, Congratulation on two years with your inspiring blog!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read the small book "84 Charing Cross Road"... where people get to be friends across countries (even if they never meet in person)? It is one of my favorite books, and your blog reminds me of that book and that it is possible to connect with people on the other side of the world through writing.
I always look forward to read your new posts and are thankful for the nice comments you make on my blog. I hope to read many many more post from you in the future.
I love that you say making magic...you are sweet! I also love things that glitter, especially if I can eat it! :) You are a delight!
ReplyDeleteI came across your blog just a few days ago, so a brand new visitor here, from the other side of the world :o) Congratulations on two years!
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog the other day. I really loved the idea of the love letter that never got sent. I'm writing to you from Newfoundland.
ReplyDeleteHi Gigi - I love glitter too, and I love visiting your beautiful blog....
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 2nd year of blogging! I am so happy to have found you, as you and your writings have enriched my life so much, so thank you for that!! :) Happy weekend, lovely Gigi! xxoo :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Gigi...two years of wonderful blogging. Thank you for all the inspiration and happy reading along the way...I have loved every post...especially your writing series....xv
ReplyDeleteGigi,
ReplyDeleteI love to read your blog, thank you for the inspiration you give all your followers....especially with "freewrite fridays"
I have bought the journal...now have to motivate myself to actually put pen to paper...but quietly tucked away in my little pile of "to dos" is the excitement and anticipation of beginning to write with your help.
Thankyou for giving me and all of us the opportunity to "begin" somewhere!!!
Sue Mc. (as anonymous)
Congratulations on two years of wonderful posts! :) I wasn't aware of your blog in the beginning but I've been reading for a while and I always enjoy time spent here. You are an inspiration. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! Your blog is inspiring and moving and fun...and makes me feel like you're not so very far away! xoxo
ReplyDeleteHow fun! Congratulations to two years! Love the quote from Archie Bunker.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 2nd blog birthday. I'm a realitively new reader of your site but from the first post I read I knew I would return again and again because I admire the wonderful way you teach and inspire others. Thank you for continuing to keep my creative juices flowing.
ReplyDeletetextilediva.blogspot.com
gigi...
ReplyDeletecongratulations sweet friend...
you are darling...xoxo
Congrats on two years, Gigi! You've inspired me in so many ways, I couldn't be happier to have met you.
ReplyDeleteHas it been two years already?! It has been a joy to read your words and view your fabulous photos...It has been truly special to get to know you Gigi!
ReplyDeletexo
Congratulations on your 2 years! Here's to many many more :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogiversary, Gigi! You have one of the most dreamy places in blogland, and it wouldn't be a week if I didn't visit here. I am so glad to know you. :o) Bless you for such a sweet giveaway... Here's to many more years! ((LOVE & HUGS))
ReplyDeleteGigi, happy, happy 2nd blogoversary! We'll see you soon!
ReplyDeleteHappy blogiversary, my friend! I am so very, very glad I know you.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your blogiversary! I love reading what you've written, seeing the beautiful photographs, and thinking about what you've said. And I would love to receive a package of goodies from you--I am sure the box will be filled with magical things!
ReplyDeleteSomething glittery sounds pretty good! :-)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your two year anniversary! I was excited to find your blog last year & read your inspiring words. Thanks Gigi,
ReplyDeletee
Gigi,
ReplyDeleteWishing you many more magical years that glitter. I have glitter on me from your exuberant sharing and inspiration. I am so thankful for having met you.
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Anais Nin
You were one of the first blogs that I found and immediately "followed". You introduced me to a new world of writing and expressing myself in ways that somehow help manage the difficult task of mothering teens. Your writing is inspiration and your "Free Write Friday's" are something I would have never had confidence to consider. Congratulations on a wonderful collection of writing.
ReplyDeletedear 'magpie heart', just back in from the uk - into the warmest of african sunshine, what bliss! lovely to be home, and back into writing headspace...has been lacking this last few weeks whilst i chased my tail all over the uk. lovely morning to myself now and catching up with friends. as always love your blog, the first i found just be happen-stance, and i remember writing to you to say how inspired i was by your words, and how lovely to find you. congratulations on your second birthday!! :)
ReplyDeleteoh exciting!!!! congratulations
ReplyDeleteyou are one of my favorite landing spots and i'm so happy i found you
What a beautiful blog! I look forward to visiting again and again.
ReplyDeleteLaura
http://lauranell.com
2years Gigi...how wonderful for you..
ReplyDeleteand a wish for many more.xx
Gigi, thank you so much for this inspiring space and happy two year anniversary!
ReplyDeleteHi Gigi,
ReplyDeleteI was in your poetry class 2 springs ago and have been sneakily reading your blog lately for inspiration. I wanted to tell you I love your blog - your beautiful writing and photos. Some nights I sit down to write and need a little extra something before I begin. I always end up finding something lovely here. Hope all is well with you.
~Lindsay C.
Congrats! Blogs are tough work and I appreciate how much work you put in it.
ReplyDeleteCan I just add that I am REALLY curious what the giveaway contains?
i was most touched by the comment left by anonymous, a student of yours. she says it well and more than likely speaks for all of us. always something lovely here.
ReplyDeletehello my friend,
ReplyDeletecongrats on two years. i can't begin to tell you, what joy you have brought, to my heart.
you mean the world to me~
and keep blogging those beautiful words.
xo
Hello sweet Gigi,
ReplyDeleteI too congratulate you on 2 years blogging. More importantly, I thank you. Your posts are always inspiring, thought provoking, delicate, moving and human. I so love coming here (even though I've been so absent over the last few months due to personal diversions :).
Keep on please please please for many years. You are missing from my life when I don't drop by.
I think of you fondly as I look at a fabulous cigar box, fondle softly a glass heart and catch the glitter of precious buttons in the sun on my windowsill.
Fabulous you truly are
Love
Dearest Gigi ~
ReplyDeleteTwo Years! I cannot believe it?!?! Let me just say, your posts, your friendship, Y-O-U have inspired me in so many ways, and I can only the incredible journey ahead. Thank you for being so wonderful and sharing, teaching, and offering such beauty, thought-provoking, and heartwarming gifts through your words and stories. You are a favorite in so many ways.
Bisous,
Melissa
Congratulations on your 280 posts!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank YOU, for inspiring us with your texts and photos, that are always beautiful!!!
Well, we have more snow comming too. Right now, outside my window the snowflakes are dancing around.... I´m so sick and tired of it now, haha.
Hope you´ll have a wonderful day, sweet Gigi.
Hugs/
Luiza
My dear friend Gigi,
ReplyDeleteWOW.....two years....it seems only yesterday that I found your beautiful blog, your wonderful photographs and your inspiring posts. I think that it might have been your first giveaway that I won which, when I received it, was such a delight. So many treasures, all of which are still part of my world.....the shells and sea glass still sit on my mantlepiece and are touched daily, your book is read, often, and I am still using the lovely and pretty post-it's, as there were so many, and the sketch book gets used when I'm inspired. That is what I LOVE about giveaway's. I, too, have been blogging for nearly two years and have won quite a few giveaways which are all around my house and, everytime I walk past them, I think of the person who sent them to me, including you and, of course, Scout, who picked my name out !!
Thanks so much for being there and being you Gigi. Sorry if I've been AWOL over the past few weeks.....I have been celebrating my birthday virtually everyday since February 1st....I have been out so much ,show's, dinner's , lunches......I'm fit to burst !!!! I think that I have got to stop now !!
I know that whatever goes into your giveaway prize will be beautiful and magical and, whoever wins it will get as much pleasure as I have got from mine.
Happy Blog Birthday Gigi, and lots of love. XXXX
But Gigi you have already given us the gift, YOU.
ReplyDeleteA pleasure knowing you, one day we WILL meet. I know that.
Happy Blog anniversary and I hope to read more with each passing year. Thank you for your support also, you've been an incredible friend.
xoxo
Gigi, I am commenting not so much to enter your giveaway as to offer up a gift of my own--a thanksgiving for the inspiration you have given to all your readers. Though I have yet to participate in the Free Write Fridays in reality, I have gone over and over them in my mind as I blindly muck through the humdrum of the everyday life of teaching and maintaining some pretense of housekeeping. And I have begun writing. I have always wanted to, but just have never jumped in feet first. Since stumbling upon your site I have commenced, putting my life into words. Faltering, yet progressing slowly but surely, the words are coming. And I thank you. I would not have done it on my own. Keep the inspiration flowing and I will keep slurping it up like water to a thirsty soul. And who knows, someday all this mental free writing I am doing may just find its way onto paper.
ReplyDeletecue the cute chipmunks ... chip and dale ...
ReplyDeleteno no no, i insist! allow me ~ i ought to be thanking you!
seriously, dearest gigi ... you already GIVE us all SO much ...
meeting you here ... getting to know you ... embracing your friendship ...
YOU are continuously a GIFT ... gorgeous, gleeful giving giggles, sharing gumption, graciousness and generosity ... g i g i ... ♥
a friend of mine is curious about blogging, so i was trying to tell her how it works and the bonds that do grow so beautifully ... she was so taken with the community spirit and thought that if she was to blog, she would be so wanting to meet her friends ...
i told her 'i know!' and the first person i would go see would be gigi ...
i would pick her up and we would jet about to tea and lunch and wine and laugh and cry with melissa and robin and kathleen and joyce and and man, we would need a big plane ... what a party!
seriously, you know how i value you, your friendship, your inspiration, your kindred spirit ...
so completely grateful for you ...
thank you.
i insist
much love ~
xoxoxo
prairiegirl
Will Scout be helping you to pick out the winner like I just saw done in last year's drawing? Scout is so sweet looking. To play on his/her name, I have family scouting around for a kitty for me since my lovely Bella died last month. I kitty-sat Thursday-Wednesday. Biscuit is his name; I miss him! Wish me luck on finding a kitty for me to love!
ReplyDeleteIf I can't coax Scout to help, then Mr. Magpie will draw the winner from his new hat. Scout can be a little tricky, since she has a mind of her own, and I only have so much catnip! Best of luck to you with finding a new cat to love! There are so many beauties waiting to be adopted that I'm sure you'll find a treasure. x
ReplyDeleteOh, dearest one, how wonderful!! Please pop my name in the hat, do. It will do my heart good, even if I don't win!
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I really need to find my way in Blogland again, don't I? I am missing it but still resisting it, smothered by Blog-Sloth-and-Torpor! What on earth will I do!!
You are a beacon in the trees for me, dear Gigi.
Miss you loads, and thank you for your comment on Carnival. :-)
C xxx
You know I love your blog so much. You always inspire me.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary, my dear. I hope that I get to celebrate another with you in the near future? Either way, thanks for sharing your lovely self, and pick me, please!
ReplyDeleteDearest Gigi,
ReplyDeleteThat is quite a milestone and in a very special and lovely manner. Refreshing at this time and age! Hope you find the inspiration to continue with your poetry.
Lots of love,
Mariette
I ended up here via The Dreaming Press. I like the flower images you use.
ReplyDeleteSending very best wishes to celebrate two years of your beautiful and inspiring blog!
ReplyDeleteNan
I think that I'm too late for the giveaway, but not too late to wish you a very happy anniversary of blogging! Lots of treats here, anyway, for the non-winners. xx
ReplyDeleteThis seems a bizarre and wonderful coincidence to me, but I started blogging on Feb. 26 as well! I can think of quite a few bloggers who began in February; is there something about this month that makes us more-than-usually inclined to want to reach out?
ReplyDelete