NOTE: Be sure to check out Blog Topic #7 and Blog Topic #8!

The Artella Staff has voted on their favorite post for Blog Topic #6, on the topic of "A Love Letter To..."

The Artella Staff has selected two winners - a post by non-Artella staff, and an "in-house" favorite post by a staff colleague.  Both winning posts win the prize of ANY downloadable workshop in the "Kid's Menu" Series, a collection of 10 workshops for grown-up kids presented by Marney Makridakis and Jill Badonsky.

The favorite posts are:

- Opheliac, for this post in her blog "Ophelia Blooming".  Here are a few comments about her post from Artella staff Members:

"The writing is beautiful, powerful, and personal."

"She really bared it all and I admire her bravery and her beautiful gift with language." 

- The favorite staff blog post was by Aunt Bobby for this post in her blog "Aunt Bobby's Miscellany".  Here are a few comments from the staff about this post:

"The blessings are beautifully written and very touching."

"Everyone should have an Aunt Bobby!" 

Congratulations to you both!

Be sure to scroll down to see links to ALL the responses to this topic - they are ALL wonderful!

And, keep checking the Blog Topic of the Week for new topics and posts!

Jani'ce/copper cat

There's Always Hope

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/theres_always_hope/archive/2008/02/05/to-love-love-first-thyself.aspx 

Cassandra

Ophelia Blooming

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/ophelia_blooming/archive/2008/02/07/love-letters-to-my-nightmare.aspx

Just a note: the copy and paste function didn't seem to work too well with some parts of my post, so some things may look a little funny (as I could not get it to work!) Sorry!

Aunt Bobby

Aunt Bobby's Miscellany

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/aunt_bobbys_miscellany/archive/2008/02/08/a-love-letter-to-my-children.aspx

Unfortunately, we lost some activity yesterday, during the time when we were changing servers.  We are working on getting that content back.  In the meantime...if you posted something in your blog on Blog Topic #5 and your post is not appearing in this thread, please submit it again, so we can sure to have your entry in the contest.

 
If the actual post your wrote in your blog in your blog is missing, please post here in this forum as well to let us know, so we can contact you as we have updated information about getting back the missing material.

 
Please accept our apologies for this!  We're working on it as best we can - thank you for your lovely patience!

 

Julie

Conundrum

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/conundrum/archive/2008/02/09/a-love-letter-to.aspx

Holly Cazabon

Holly's morphings and musings 

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/hollys_morphing_and/archive/2008/02/10/a-love-letter-to.aspx

Hi everyone - we are extending the deadline for this blog topic one more week, due to the server problems we had in the Cafe a few days ago. 

That way, if you lost your post, you can still post again.  (And if you did not yet post on this topic, there's another week to do so!)  The deadline is now Sunday, Feb 17 at midnight. 

If you DID post on this topic, please be sure that a link to your post appears in this thread in order to count for the voting.

And if not...well, it's a cool topic!  Give it a whirl!

Happy Valentines Week everyone!

Thank you sooooo very much for helping me with recovering my Love Letter!  I so appreciate it!  Here is the link to my blog:

Donna

Mouse in a Pear Tree

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/a_mouse_in_a_pear_tree/archive/2008/02/11/9228.aspx

Isabella

 Snippets of Sanity

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/snippets_of_sanity/default.aspx

I hate to say it but I'm almost glad that this topic is going 'round for another week!  I've read all seven of the blogs (as of today) as well as the staff blogs, and I am simply loving each and every one for their candidness, honesty and down to earth writing.  To each and every one, good going and thanks so much! 

- chameleon

Tammy Hensley
Tammy's Tablet - J'Adore Chocolat
http://artellacafe.com/blogs/tammys_tablet/archive/2008/02/13/j-adore-chocolat.aspx