Grow Your Blog Giveaway Winner

Today was a wonderful day and the whole week was absolutely beautiful as due to the good weather we spent a lot of time out and about. I will blog about this week's adventures from tomorrow onwards.

For the time being I will just reveal the giveaway winner from the Grow Your Blog party.
The party was great. I didn't have much time to visit all 400 blogs that took part in it but as the blog post will be left open all year long I am sure I will manage to visit more of them soon.
I don't know how many people really visited my blog from the party. What I know is that 12 became followers (which was not compulsory) and about 23 commenters came from the Grow Your Blog Party. The rest of the commenters were followers or friends already.
I got 38 comments (not counting those people who left double or triple comments).
I asked hubby to say a number from 1 to 38 and for some reason he said 37.
So 37 is the pre-ultimate commenter.

 Hexe im Hollerbusch said...

Helle Ariadne! You have a wonderful blog here. I especially like the felted stones - they are so cute! I'm looking forward to see lots of pictures from your journeys.

Viele Grüsse aus Wien!!

My favorite color is dark red.

6 February 2015 at 22:26

 

It is Hexe im Hollerbusch a lady from Austria.She has been contacted. She will receive one of my felted stones when I make it in due time!
Thank you every one for participating.
And thank you Vicki of 2bagsfull for this opportunity to meet new blogs and make new friends.

Grow Your Blog

I am taking part in the Grow Your Blog event organized by Vicki of 2BagsFull this weekend.

It is an event where people present their blogs and get to know each other better and visit other blogs to get to know people.Sounds very interesting. I have to do this blogpost today so here it is.
According to the instructions I have to present myself first.

So I am Ariadne, in my late forties, a teacher of English in a Primary State School.

I live with my boyfriend (called hubby in most blogposts), my dear son Miltos (a University student) and our dear sweet Barca (female dog).(All seen in the above picture!)
In my free time I take part in the Teachers' Association Drama Club presenting plays for children and adults, help hubby with his hobby which is shadow puppetry and do lots of other things too.
(photo from rehearsals and trips with the Drama Club)

 I love travelling so in my blog you will find lots of blog posts regarding my trips in Greece and abroad.(My friend Marabeth,me and hubby in Newport, RI,U.S.A. last summer)

(Nafplion, the Peloponnese,Greece, last January)

I love handicrafts and I mainly do cross stitch, (pieces I stitched for friends)

and felted stones.(I made this one for a life long friend)

I love attending workshops doing handicrafts, learning new techniques and ...

(photo from Etsy Greek Street meeting)

helping charities with my crafts.

(photo of the felt ornaments I made last Christmas for a bazaar at my school)

I love collecting sea glass and add it on my felted stones as well as make jewelry with it.

I love watching movies and reading books.

I love taking lots and lots of photos.(Elizabeth Park, Hartford, CT,U.S.A.)

I love going out for walks and especially at the sea front of my city Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece!
(photo taken after a storm at our sea front in 2012 and was published in a book)

(The White Tower, the landmark of my city)

I don't love cooking very much but I love making muffins.And from time to time I present a recipe.
I'd love to giveaway one of my felted stones or jewelry made of sea glass.
So if you would like to win it add a comment to this blog post only and tell me your favourite colour as well as your country and be sure to leave me a way to communicate with you if you win.
I will choose a winner randomly on February 15th.
If you want to follow me there are two ways a bloglovin button and a google friends connect button on my side bar.
It has been great talking to you!
Now, after leaving a comment, go visit lots more blogs!It's fun!