Finally! A Winner!!!

Thank you all for your lovely messages, for understanding that sometimes life is what happens when you're planning something else - and for not shooting me at dawn! Tee! Hee! Hee! All you OPAM Challenge gals will be happy to know that I've FINALLY waded my way through the list of blogs (OK, so sometimes I forgot I was on a mission to collect finishes and got side-tracked by pretty pictures!!!) and I have the May OPAM winner to announce ... Ready?!?!?! Congratulations to ....

Mary L at Quilting In Oz

YAY!! Uproarious and spontaneous applause from the gallery!! Oh .. well ... in a cyber kind of way, at least!! :0) Now due to the whole "Life Interfering" thing, I don't actually have a photo of Mary's prize that will soon be winging it's way to the USA to delight her (I hope!), but as soon as I finish getting my act together and it's all ready to post off, I promise to post a photo. Congratulations, Mary! Email me your snail mail address and you can then start stalking your postie!! :0) I'm sure postie's world-wide live in fear of blogging swaps and competitions - cos it must add tons to their mailbag when blogging parcels are soaring around the globe! Tee! Hee! Hee!

And can I just say a big CONGRATULATIONS to ALL of you OPAM gals for your wonderful efforts this month in finishing projects. In total, 453 projects were finished!! How cool is THAT!!! Well done all you stitching fanatics!! And if you didn't actually get to record a finish this month, but made some progress on your projects - well done to you, too! Having just finished my quilt top, which took a while, I know how you're feeling, so keep plugging away at your projects and we'll look forward to seeing photos once you DO finish them. Just a little reminder to everyone to make sure you update your sidebar list for May Britt and I. I noticed this month that more of you are making sure that's done - thank you! It just makes it a bit time consuming for us to have to skim through posts to see if you've finished anything if you DON'T have that handy little list on your sidebar. And let me tell you, that's DOUBLY tricky for me if your blog isn't in English!! :0)

Once again, thanks to you all for being understanding about me running a few days behind with this announcement - much appreciated!! Right now, I'm off to pick up my Beloved Geek Boy and think about what we're having for dinner, but I'll be back in the next few days with some exciting news - well, I was excited, anyways!! :0) Hope you're having a great week so far and til next time - Bear Hugs!

CHEERS!
KRIS