Straight from the heart of Scotland, home of my ancestors, came a wonderful package of all things Scottish. I saw on HelenMcClory’s blog, Schietree, (Helen was portrait number 81 of my 100 Portraits project), that she was giving a collection of photos (including an awesome photo book of her own and an amazing little book about the islands surrounding Scotland, one of which I discovered was a stronghold of my own family from the 16th century), a couple of very cool postcards from early 1900′s and some wonderful woolly photos of those Scottish sheep, which I also discovered do not form a solid wool carpet across the entire country. I just had to enter my name, an lo and behold the lords of the clan held up for me; I received this in the mail soon after.
Thank you so much Helen! Glad we ran into each other!
artboy68
Yay!
That’s what I said!
Thanks for the link to that post – it is interesting. The wooly sheep are quite wonderful, too!
cheers!
So fun and good to see two of my favorite bloggers in one spot!
Thanks Anna!
Girl in the hat said it well:)
Thanks Elena!
Much coolness
[...] and chose one at random) the winner, through a bizarre coincidence, was Artboy68. Right now over on his blog he’s talking about the parcel he received, which contained the photo booklet and a number of [...]
What a great package of everything Scottish. Love the plaid backdrop too.
ps – the portrait is very cool. Think I’ll have to poke around some more.
*Helen’s portrait!