This post is about two very generous people who are both so kind that I just have to share them.
Firstly, I received another package from Nanou this week. Thank you Nanou! She sent this package above as a thank you for my thank you package. It contained a fun little notebook for Tristan and more of her beautiful loom flowers for Gracie and me. She also made the most spectacular card - all so special and pretty, even her writing style.
Happily Nanou has been persuaded to share images of all her lovely paper art and collections here on Flickr. Please go and visit her there and see her sweetly unique creations. Leave Nanou a comment and welcome her to the great, big community of online crafters.
Secondly, Pam from Gingerbread Snowflakes began a Christmas themed blog and luckily for us has continued her posts (now not Christmas themed.) She is also a professional photographer so in addition to fantastic traditional craft projects Pam has beautiful images from her spectacular surroundings in the Pacific Northwest.
Pam also gives us a taste of folk art from various cultures including Sweden and Mexico. She currently has a great project using aluminum tooling foil, just one of many tutorials. Her craft interests are vast and varied - have a look!
This week I mentioned my little camera problem to Pam and although she didn't have any answers, she asked her local "camera guys" about this problem and found out a whole lot. She took the time to write out a huge page of suggestions gleaned from the "camera guys" and made it all sound very sensible and easy to follow. Of course none of the information is found in the manual for the camera.
Thank you Pam for taking the time to help sort this out for me!
Go and have a look through all she has to offer, you won't be disappointed. Leave her a comment and let her know you've dropped by, she's so very friendly :)
P.S. Craft addiction definitely runs in Pam's family, her daughter is the blogland famous, Sister Diane of the CraftyPod; she has loads of great craft podcasts available for download and a lovely site.
Oh, Joanie! What sweet gifts are those! Lucky, lucky gal. Ok, I'm off to check those links now..thanks!
Posted by: Christy | March 28, 2009 at 02:02 PM
that's what bloggy friends are for! I'm off to see Gingerbread Snowflakes and flikr.
Posted by: adrienne | March 28, 2009 at 02:21 PM
Joanie! You have touched my heart. I don't know what to say. Thank you so much for all the kind and loving things you have said about me and my little blog adventure.
And I hope your camera is behaving better! I enjoy your images so much, I wouldn't want to miss anything. You have a good eye for a lovely photograph.
Posted by: Pam | March 28, 2009 at 05:53 PM
Isn't Pam the best? This, to me, is what the craft blog community does best: connecting generous folks who are genuinely interested in helping each other out. Beautiful. I love it!
And I get to meet Pam this week when I visit her daughter, Diane, in Portland. I can. not. wait!
:)
Posted by: Rachel | March 29, 2009 at 04:53 PM
Thank you very much, Joanie, for all your kindness, once again. I am very lucky to know you !
And congratulations to Pam and her daughter for their nice blogs, full with ideas.
Posted by: nanou | March 29, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I don't know Pam but I do know that Nanou is one of the sweetest people on earth. I love her special little gifts.
Posted by: margie oomen | March 31, 2009 at 12:03 AM