Happy Anniversary Girlfriends! MUSICA
Today is the day we’re going to begin our June celebration for two wonderful events ~ It was June 11, 2009 that we started connecting with our wonderful Friends on Facebook. Two years 
later, on June 9, 2011, the Blog went live (still quiver when I think about it) and our connection to our Girlfriends began! That’s pretty good! But it makes me wonder, why June? I didn’t plan it that way, in fact I was kind of surprised to see how close the dates were. Maybe we were inspired because it’s such a pretty month. I’ll tell you one thing, it smells like heaven here on the island. The Beauty Bush and the Mock Orange are in bloom (to name just two), I picked my first four strawberries today and look at the foxgloves!
Magic.♥ One more reason to celebrate.
Three years ago, when I first started blogging I had NO idea how it would go ~ “going live” was so scary! I wondered how people would find me, and if they would even come. I knew how I wished it would go and tried my best to make it something 
everyone would like, hoping everyone liked dishtowels, dishes, and old movies as much as me! Any of you with a blog knows exactly what I’m talking about. Saying to yourself as you are writing a post or putting something up on Facebook, “I hope they like this!” then letting the chips fall where they may! Scary! And first time you’re “liked!” Or, then, to be “shared!” How wonderful it is to get your first comment! How amazing to have your first give-away! And that excitement and amazement really hasn’t gone away. Traveling to England together put the frosting on the cake. I loved it so much, we’ll definitely do it again (yes we will!). I just wish there were more hours in the day for blogging. Such a creative way to connect with kindred spirits. So how do we celebrate? Easy: By saying “Thank You” to everyone who helps to make this dream come true. Which would be YOU, thank you very much.♥
As many of you know, it has been my dream for years, way before there was any such thing as a blog or even the Internet, that the people who’ve written me such wonderful personal 
letters (since 1987 when my first book came out and I started getting mail), could meet each other. The letters were so nice, so full of love, I always thought it would cheer people up to know that despite what we see and hear on the news, the world is filled with wonderful home-loving, creative, family-adoring people, in all countries, all parts of the world, and even in countries where we might think our “enemies” live.
Even there, the cities and towns are filled with regular tea-drinking, flower-growing, music-loving, tender-hearted, 
soup-making, peace-loving kinds of people just like you and me. You just don’t hear that much from them because the other kind are so obnoxious and loud. But there are many more of our kind of person in this world than of the obnoxious ones. Truly. No matter how different we may look from each other on the outside. And we need to band together in our appreciation for beauty and a gentle way of life. It must be scary to live in a land where the maniacs have the keys to the castle. You would probably feel trapped and worried about your children all the time. Let’s pray for them, and then give them this 
place, and each other, to meet and celebrate the little things that make life sweet ~ and especially, all the ways we are so very much alike. They like apples, we like apples. They like gorgeous blue tablecloths ~ we like gorgeous blue tablecloths. They like picnics and the sounds of nature and going barefoot, and we do too! They like starry nights and big moons and us too! It’s an amazingly wonderful beautiful world.
Imagine all the people, living life in peace ~ You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one . . .
So, to celebrate all of this and all of us, we are having not One, not even Two, but Three Give-aways in this blog post, and this contest is open to everyone everywhere on the planet! If someone in a faraway land is chosen in this drawing, we will mail their package to wherever they would like it to go. Because it is true, we are the world. What the Internet has brought has surpassed my wildest dreams . . . I thought it would be good, but I didn’t know it would be this good! So here we go, let’s start off with some inspiration! Mas Musica? Frank? Oui!♥
You should probably get a cup of tea or something cold to drink . . . this could be a long one! The inspiration for this giveaway came from a request in a Girlfriend’s comment a couple of months back ~ she asked, “Could we see more of your quilt collection.” Oh boy, yes, you can! Here we go!
From the very first quilt I got, which happens to be the one my Great Grandma made for my Grandma who then gave it to me, it’s always been the colors. I love the old-fashioned fabrics, the soft pastels and simple patterns and I love that they used lots of white. These are the colors that inspired my watercolors.
A little worn, a little faded, and never signed. Just so lovely and artistic, and humble and oh, if they could talk. You know they were made by creative women, and often in groups. Could we please listen in on one of those conversations, oh dearest back-in-time genie?
All those tiny little hand-made stitches. I have so much appreciation for this art.
It’s easy to relate to the hearts that made them.
I made a few quilts when I was young, never as beautiful as this one, but then I learned to paint, so I painted quilts instead, and I learned to go to antique stores and there I found old quilts . . . which I’ve collected for years . . . now I drape them over sofas . . .
It’s not a huge collection, and I don’t have all the scientific information on them, I just like to drape them on bedroom chairs . . .
at the ends of the beds . . . so I can look at them and be charmed and feel happy.
I like them in the kitchen in the winter, folded over the back of a chair, even though it really doesn’t make any sense, I just like to look at them . . .
At one time I had a “Heart of the Home” store on the Central Coast of California where I sold a few vintage quilts whenever I could find them (or part with them). These were in a pile in a corner of the store, they weren’t for sale, only for inspiration, so my shopper Girlfriends could see how pretty a stack of quilts can be and begin the search to get a stack for themselves.
From the beginning, my watercolors were influenced by the beauty and the colors of these quilts. I painted what I loved. I don’t make stitches so much anymore, I paint them.
You can kind of see quilt-influence in the things I’ve made in the past . . . everything feels a little like a 1930’s quilt.
The other big influence on my watercolors was the dish variation of the quilt. To me quilts and dishes have everything in common: home, practicality, love, beauty, history, delicacy and most of all, that color again. They also reach out when I walk by at a flea market, take my hand and say right out loud, I’m going home with you. And I say, thank you, I could not agree more.
I love painting my own rendition of pattern ~
Almost as much as I love finding and collecting old dishes…
You see? Dishes ↑ and Quilt fabric ↓ ~ See the resemblance? Kissing cousins.
Especially when it’s me choosing the colors.
This is fabric from my long extinct “Tea Party” Collection of fabric.
And lots more than quilts was made from those designs. These were made at the wonderful embroidery studio at Crabapple Hill. They sell the great old-fashioned embroidery patterns you see here and in the photo before this one and lots more.♥
Even this Tea Tin is a “sub-unit” (made that up, like it) from the design of quilt fabric.
And because of the fact that all of this fabric is now gone from the market place, and there’s no more available anywhere . . . except right here in my hot little hands, the First Give-away turns out to be everything you see here . . . except of course Jack. He is not included. He is a sub-unit of me.
I hope everyone likes yellow, because the words “everything is included” means this bolt of several yards of “Honeybee Yellow” fabric.
In addition, I found a yard (or maybe a little more) of each of these three fabrics, from my “Sweet Baby” collection, the dot, the check and the lambs with the hearts. In they go!
And yes, “everything” includes a complete set of the “Tea Party” Collection in “Little Fat Quarters.”
Little Fat quarters and the bolt of bees (and the little lambs), and also a gift card from me to the winner of the drawing with love.
You can see better some of the fabrics in the pile of Fat Quarters. I hope someone out there can put them to good use! OK, so that is Giveaway # 1! This officially puts us on . . .
. . .’cause here comes the rest of the Give-aways!
Next? OK, this is Give-away number #2. Again, the cat is not included (but try taking a picture without him in it!). What these are are the unbound proofs for our brand new 2015 Wall and Mini Calendars ~ you can’t hang them, but they’re just too nice to throw away. The color is beautiful, they’re on heavy paper so I thought possibly, someone would like these, maybe to do some scrapbooking with?
Here is Jack with the Mini Calendar, you can see, the pages aren’t hooked together . . . every time I try to take a picture, he jumps into the middle of it, he makes me laugh. Kissing occurs.
But here’s more of the inside of the Mini Calendar — lots of bookmark-making or card-making possibilities here too! Knowing you, there are a 1000 possibilities!
And here’s some of the art from the Wall Calendar. Both calendars have been approved and the finished products should be arriving at the Studio any day now. So this is Give-Away #2, both of these brand new calendars, and both signed.
(Oh, don’t worry, in case you were, the big Blotter Calendar is still on schedule for shipping in late August.)
And Now, Number Three Give-away to celebrate our FOSB Girls and our Blog Girlfriends, this 53″ x 74″ quilt made with my “Martha’s Vineyard” Collection of fabrics, also quite extinct and no longer available (except for today, here).
The pattern is called “Hearts and Flowers” ~ I designed it and it was made and presented to me by the fabric manufacturer.
And I signed it with the year it was made . . . this little quilt is behind door #3 of our Drawing. I hope one of these doors suits your fancy!
And FYI, we still do have a few bits and pieces of some of the fabric collections, still have a few patterns for aprons, pillowcases, and appliqued dishtowels, many of which are free (especially our really cute gored apron). Just go HERE.
Girl Kitty thinks it’s all just lovely. She likes quilts too.
One more rather exciting thing! My AUTUMN book went to the printer yesterday! I’m so very proud to announce that the Tenth 
Anniversary Edition of AUTUMN from the Heart of the Home will be in stores by October first! Autumn will be published in the USA by Spring Street Publishing, and just so you know, this new edition is exactly like the first edition in every way except this one comes complete with a ribbon bookmark and will have a different publisher. (We weren’t completely in charge of the ribbon the last time, this time we are, so voila, we get one!)
All my most favorite recipes and most inspiring ideas for Autumn fun, both indoors and out, are there. Pumpkin Cheesecake! Corn Pudding!
Including crafts and sewing, because Autumn is the most creative time of the year, all that good Back-to-School energy never goes away! First whiff of September and I want to make something! And Yes, we are having a Pre-sale for the book, beginning TODAY. 
We have ordered an early shipment of books to be sent to the studio just for our Girlfriends. We always seem to run out of everything (no matter how carefully we plan), it seems to be our M.O. but if you have ordered a book in our web store, you are guaranteed to get it the minute they come in, before we begin shipping to the bookstores and Amazon. Although the publication date is October first, we will start shipping your books by the middle of August and maybe even sooner if we get lucky! Perfect timing, because by then, we are going to be yearning for those fall breezes. (But not yet.)
And one more thing, if you are the kind of person who likes to do their Christmas Shopping early, here is a combination that will give you something to give away and something to keep, a win-win. To celebrate our Anniversaries, we’ve bundled the two books for a very special, limited-offer, thank-you-for-being-here price.♥
You all know how to enter the drawing ~ it’s easy, just leave a short comment below and in a few days we’ll draw names. (For those to whom the blog is mailed, you should click here www.162.240.10.175/~susanbs3/susanbranch/, scroll to the bottom of the post, look for the tiny letters that say, “comment” ~ click there and leave your comment. I don’t know why, but the senders of the email blogs do not include a way to leave a comment.)
I will warn Vanna to exercise a bit more this week, clear her head, get that arm pumped ~ she has a big job choosing three winners! The first name chosen will win prize number one (fabric bundles) the second name chosen will get the calendars, and the third will have the signed quilt. And I’ll email the winners and let them know the minute I know.
I’m going back to the garden. I’m reading Gladys Taber in preparation for next week! Very exciting! Makes for a very nice life, reading this book, and smelling the flowers. Hope the same for you. Love you, Girlfriends. Happy Anniversary! XOXO
Hi Susan, Happy Anniversary. I am a new comer to your fabulous “pretties” which is what I call them to my grandbabies.
I love your style and of course the Peter Rabbit is what drew me to you in the first place. I helped decorate my first grandbabies nursery with peter !
Hugs !
Susan
I have loved your books since the beginning! Would love any of your wonderful “gifts”. Such fun! Claudia
Happy Anniversary!! I absolutely LOVE your blog & FOSB & quilts!! What a wonderful giveaway!
Happy Anniversary! My two Sisterpals and I visited your adorable shop, Heart of the Home, while on a jaunt. We met you there (you were shopping with your beautiful niece for her birthday). You sweetly signed books for us and you became a sisterpal (did you know?) Thank you for sharing your time and talents with us. We are blessed!
I kinda did know. 🙂
Please enter my name in your giveaway. I love everything you do and I must admit that the Autumn book is one of my favorites. Thank you.
Oh, Susan! Hello! I love everything you do! I was so happy to see your quilt and materials. I love to quilt and paint. Your website is great inspiration. Happy Anniversary.
Thank you, Susan, for all the joy you bring to us. I fall into your world and know that mine is a little bit better.
Hi Susan,
It is always a joy to take a few minutes and read your blog. It really is like sitting and having a cup of tea with a dear friend. Thank you for sharing your life with all your girlfriends near and far! Debbie
Your blog always fill me with joy. I love everything you love. So many of us feel the same way. Keep loving life and sharing it with us. 🙂
oooohhhhh~~~fabric, books, quilts……and the colors!! Beautiful~~~I love all the pastels. The quilt is stunning…..I have never seen that pattern before.
Looking forward to hearing about your time with the Gladys Taber celebration. I enjoyed her books years ago. Wish they weren’t so hard to find these days!
What a wonderful June we are having. Happy Anniversary Susan! Love the yellow fabrics.
As an interior designer, I just love fabrics & yours are so sweet! I crave the quilt especially! If I win the fat quarters I’ll give them to my quilting sister Joan & send you a picture of what she makes. Thanks for all the great NY & other photos. I really liked ABC Home when I visited last summer too. Your “A Fine Romance” book reminded me so much of my British trip in 2012. Can’t wait to go again.
Love your cheerful blog!
Hello and thank you for the wonderful blog! It is like being invited to a tea party, reading your posts with the great photos. I love your artwork, and have several of your cookbooks, filled with anecdotes from your days, and ideas for embracing every season. Oh, the little lamb fabric in this recent post is so sweet!
I’m taking care of my mom these last 2 weeks, it brightens her day seeing your beautiful quilt collection. Thanks for sharing.
Since I’ve been commenting all over the place on all different posts I’m not sure if I did here, so forgive me if I’ve already entered. I just can’t seem to get enough of your website. I LOVE that there is so much here! I get a SB dose daily and it just fills me with great JOY! Thank you for being in my home and being a great “girlfriend”.
Dear Susan,
Your blog is so beautiful and so endearing to so many, what milestones and serendipity ! A truly good thing can last and spread all over, with such wonderful kindred spirits all with their hearts in the right places. I find I am truly the happiest when I surround myself with simple pleasures. My best little buddy dog Tucker is at my feet as I type this note to you, a cup of tea, sitting in my comfy chair, as a mother wren is feeding her babies right outside my picture window in a tiny birdhouse. All is right in this little corner of the world and when “Grace happens I dance”! So I am filled with joy knowing there are lots of people out there finding the same thing. They all have a special place in my heart as so many kindred spirits, Gladys Taber, Beatrix Potter, Susan Branch……………..I am so looking forward to this Saturday, seeing you and touring Gladys Taber’s homestead and meeting all new kindred spirits at the FOGT reunion. Safe travels……..XOXO Wendy Louise 🙂
See you there Wendy Louise… love to you and Tucker!
Thanks for being such an inspiration!
Love all things Susan Branch.
Oh Susan. All if your happy anniversary giveaways are wonderful. I hope I am fortunate to be one of the winners. Hugs Vernie and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Love, Love, Love your blog. I am excited about the giveaway!!
Yes please!!!!!!
I absolutely love reading your blogs and meandering through your “shop” on your website. Thank you for always putting me in a good mood and making me want to go home and nest!
Oh Susan!! You have such a giving spirit!! I’m perfectly happy reading your blog but winning a prize would be sooooooo awesome! Happy Anniversary! Hope we get to enjoy you for many years to come……You’re a True Blessing to us all!
Dear Jack and Girl Kitty: Please tell your MaMa that she is “S-O-M-E” Gal! Yes she is indeed! And also tell her that she is “Terrific,” “Radiant,” and “Humble.” Love Charlotte
P.S. We all love her and are very grateful for her talents and generosity.
Mee-Ow! Love and kisses to Charlotte. xoxox
Dear Susan,
Greetings from a small town Iowa. My dear friend Carol is you big fan. She introduced me to visit your blog. After various sewing/ fabric conversations, I realized I have purchased one of your fabric print back in 2007. I wish you have more fabric because they are so lovely! I still have SB stickers in my sticker book back that purchased back in 1997 the first year I came to U.S. study. Happy Anniversary! I wish get pick for this lovely give-away, so Carol and I can share the bundle and make quilts together~ 🙂 Thank you and have a lovely day, girlfriend~ Chase
What a fun post! Seeing the tea-time fabric reminded me why I am hoarding mine; I love it so! A bit was used to make a tote for a French family that hosted one of my sons. A bit more was used to cover a stool cushion (with clear vinyl over it for protection!)
Thank you for the generous sharing of color, comfort, and inspiration!
Susan, I love, love, love the fabrics and the giveaways. Thanks for the Anniversary celebration.
Susan, what a great give-away! When your fabric line was out I didn’t even own a sewing machine. I would love to dig into those fabrics! Love your blog and seeing you on FB.
Greetings from Madrid -Spain
I don’t remember now what I did discover first if Gladys Taber quotes or you.
Either way I’m happy I found you both.
Happy Anniversary! And I wish you many years on.
Happy Anniversary! I love all that you do and have been a fan for years. My family knows that I only put up Susan Branch Calendars every year. I’m a few hours away from your California location–which is much cooler then here, 108 yesterday! Thanks for all you do.
What an amazing giveaway! Love love love the fabrics. Would make a precious quilt for my granddaughter! 🙂 <3
Happy Anniversary. I LOVE your blog. Your creations are beautiful in any form. THat yellow sheepie fabric is to die for!!!! SO CUTE!!!
I love everything Susan Branch! Winning the drawing would be a super treat.
Good Afternoon Susan!! Thank you for another beautiful post!! I always get inspired whenever I read them!! I am going to try and make your Lemon Roll this weekend for Father’s Day, I’m sure it will be delicious!! Have a beautiful rest of your day!! 🙂
Love the giveaways, love the blog, can’t wait to hear about how it goes at the Taber house! Thanks for the updates that cheer my days, and help me to decorate my home. You give me lots of inspiration!
Hello Susan,
I am regular reader of your happy blog, but have never before commented. How could I resist this time, when you talk about things I love. I am attempting my first quilt,
Everything you touch is just sooo beautiful!
Oh Susan, how I miss that darling store in Arroyo Grande, with those lovely quilts piled in the corner! I also miss those “extinct” fabrics of yours. The quilt I sewed for my first grand child was made of pinwheels using your Sweet Baby collection (including those darling little lammies!) Love, love, love!
Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!
I love everything you create!
Thank you, Susan, for the joy that you so freely share with all of us! Your books, your art, your decor, your home, your blog … ALL of it is such a sweet inspiration!
I can’t say it enough Susan “You are the Best” !!! Thank you for all you do. Janet
What a lovely give-a-way – Would love to win!!
Happy, Happy Anniversary Susan! Thank you for sharing so much of yourself
through your amazing art, beautiful books, clever calendars and cards, delightful drawings, fabulous fabrics, glorious gardens, joyful jouneys, remarkable recipes, and wonderful words! You are truly a treasure and such an inspiration. Whenever I read your blog or peruse your books, I am able to escape life’s hectic pace for a few moments and enjoy the things I love most. Sending much love and many thanks to you! XXXOOO
I can’t imagine a post more filled with stuff we love, quilts, pretty dishes, flowers, fabrics, pets, cookbooks, walks in the woods, tea, autumn, tea towels… sigh, just a beautiful post. Thank you for being here. Your blog gives a wonderful bit of time to savor what we all seem to love.
You caught my attention with the lovely fabrics. My mind started spinning with the projects I could create. Then the calendars, I could frame them. The quilt , oh my, I love the colors. It is all wonderful, this is why I love your style.
Happy Anniversary! I am a new fan after hearing you speak at Vromans. I read “A Fine Romance” in January and LOVED it. It is a favorite for the year. Loved going on an amazing journey with you through the written word and beautiful photos and drawings. Thanks so much for the movie and book ideas in the book. Already have bought a couple other copies for gifts. All three giveaway gifts are wonderful. I bought my husband a sewing machine for Christmas. (It really is for him and not me;) He is very talented hand sewing and had been interested in a machine).The gorgeous fabric would come in handy.
I think I love your husband! So glad you liked my book . . .we’ll go back soon, hope you come along.
Dear Susan,
Please enter me in your give away drawing!
I love your artistry.
Thank you!
Dianne
Such a beautiful blog filled with exquisitely creative artwork! <3
I have loved everything you do since I found your first cookbook in a little bookstore while I was on a herb fieldtrip at least 20 years ago. Thank you for the inspiration and all the positives you give everyone. You seem to radiate happy and it’s so refreshing. This is my first post to you but now that I have the hang of it there could be more!!!! Karen from Tennessee
Oh my goodness, what an amazing giveaway! I had some of this fabric at one time, but alas, used it for a gift! To be able to make a quilt out of it NOW, when I know more about what to do and how to quilt, it just makes me giddy to think it!
I have always been an admirer of your beautiful art. Happy Anniversary!
Wow! Inspiration everywhere! I love re-reading my Gladys books!
I didn’t realize you got your inspiration from vintage quilts! It’s so hard to pass them by on the rare occasion that I see one anymore.
Happy Blessed Blog Anniversary! Love the fabrics! Here’s to many more Blessed years!
Dear Susan–I hope I am on the list of fans celebrating with you. Pam
Your quilt collection is beautiful! I can totally see how your artwork is inspired by them. I love old quilts but only have the one my grandma and I made when I was 13, 40 yrs ago, yikes, lol. I make quilts now but the old ones just have the worn in, loved on, cozy look that the new ones dont. Here in CA I cant afford the ones I find in the antique shops, hmmm, maybe I need to take a road trip.
Congratulations on the anniversary of the blog, I for one love reading it and am so very glad you started it! Thank you so much for sharing with us.
Hi Susan. .Happy Anniversary! I so enjoy reading your blog. I love your quilts! My sister and I always wanted to take a quilting class one day. We never got the chance. .she passed away 2 years ago from cancer. We would love to read your books together and order your calenders every year! .I love seeing pics of your lovely home and the beautiful island of Marthas Vineyard! Makes me feel warm inside..keep up the great work you enjoy doing. Wishing you nothing but blue skies and sunshine!♡
Terrible loss Roseanne, I’m so sorry. I know you have wonderful memories. xoxo
Reading your blog today was like sitting with an old friend and enjoying a nice long chat. Looking forward to needlework again as my life is slowing down.
I’ve enjoyed your talent so long it seems that I cannot remember the first time I “met” you. Now that I know that, I want to narrow it down. You and your art are inspiring to me in so many ways. Thank you, thank you for sharing your charmed life and helping me know that mine is equally charmed as well.
Oh Susan! What a wonderful array of beautiful giveaways!!
How exciting! I’ve followed your blog forever and
Get inspired everytime I read it!!
I have felt disconnected from you lately. That would be from my end, not yours. I will read this post over again but am having a mild cardio infarction (is that something?) over the fabrics in your bundles. It makes my heart sing, too. They are SCRUMPTIOUS and, as a quilter, I could only dream of a quilt made of them. Also, old quilts have the same effect. The chances of winning do sort of look slim but someone out there will be made very happy. Great day in the morning! Fabulous.
Happy Anniversary! Just the beginning of many more years filled with blogs, status updates and most of all…….joy! Thank you for all you give to us!
I have been a fan of yours for years, and I truly am always happy when you put something new out. I couldn’t wait until your book “A Fine Romance” came out and I have read it many times, I want to travel the same road that you and your wonderful husband traveled. Even traveling over on the Queen Mary. If you ever come through Northern California please post that you are going to be somewhere in this area, it would be delightful to meet you in person.
Thank you;
Rene’
I LOVE your website. It’s such a comforting place to come and “hang out.” Thanks for sharing so many wonderful things with us!
Susan, you sure know how to touch the passions of our hearts! Thank you for the lovely giveaway. I’m ordering the double book offer!
Got a new grandson born today. He was a little early and is in NICU. Your prayers will be appreciated. Need to get busy and make him a quilt all his own. He is a blessing and so are you. Your blog lifts my spirits. Many thanks. T
Congratulations Terry, praying for his little self. xoxo
Terry, I will pray for your new grandson, too. I have boy/girl twins and they were born premature and had to spend 3 weeks in NICU. Once they came home from the hospital, they quickly started to gain weight. The nurses told me that the babies do so much better once their home. Both were very healthy, happy babies! They will be 23 years old this Thursday!
That was lovely Carolyn!
Dear Susan:
Thank you for your lovely artistry. My cousin, sister & I have been buying and collecting your things since the beginning. We LOVE them!
Please enter me into the drawing.
I’m so happy that I don’t have to choose which “door” to pick. I so wouldn’t be able to pick one. 🙂
Thanks for sharing with us and I hope it continues.
I am new on Face Book following you for ALL your lovely ART and Inspiration. So uplifted by you designs, and playful spirit. I’ve shared this give a way with a friend who quilts for charity. I think it would be so splendid for her to win such beautiful fabrics. Thank you for this generous offer.
<3 Jane
I really enjoy reading your blog, you give me lots of inspirations. Thank you so much! Happy Anniversary!
I have been a fan for years; your art reminds me of my childhood
and all the warm, loving memories that touch my heart. I
especially live your cookbooks and recipes, but being a quilter,
I would LOVE to design a few quilts with your beautiful fabrics
and I LOVE the color yellow!!!
Thank you Susan and ‘furry’ friends!!!
Hi Susan –
Glad to see you got home safely! I really enjoy your blog – it is a great source of comfort to me. The fabric is so beautiful, and my grammy used to show me quilts that she and her mother made. Your collection is gorgeous and fabulous!
Such beautiful fabrics and quilts. Oh to be the lucky winner–what a dream.
I really enjoy your blog. It always makes me remember the things that I enjoy….that I too have favorite places, and sounds, and smells, and books and creative things in my life, and friends, and family, and food and celebrations. Thanks for pointing out all these things. This world can be quite a pleasant place.
I recently retired and am learning to quilt! I cannot wait to get some of your fabrics. I miss your Arroyo store
Your blog continues to be a bright sunshiny part of my weeks! I’m excited about your giveaways! Please let me win! 🙂
LOVE, LOVE , LOVE everything you do! Just recently made a quilt with some of your fabric~ to use as a tablecloth! Excited about the giveaway!
I hope I win! 🙂 Your blog is a bright sunshiny spot in my day! Thanks so much!
I just read and thoroughly enjoyed A Fine Romance. Thank you for hostessing this lovely giveaway! If you are ever in MN at this time of year, I think you would enjoy our arboretum.
Love your blog! Thank you so much for the give a way. I am looking forward to the Autumn Book!
Wonderful post ~ so cozy and comfortable. I’d love to be in the giveaway; thank you for the opportunity 🙂
I just about fell over in my chair when I saw this drawing!!! Besides the fact that I love all things Susan Branch… I’m about to make a quilt with the only SB fabric I could find… One little bit with about 25 SB quotes! It’s all I could find but I can hardly wait to make a Susan Branch themed quilt to snuggle up with while I read my book! Thanks for the inspiration (and for the awesome drawing)!
I just discovered your blog and I love it, just as I love all things Susan Branch! My daughter, Meredith–soon to be married in 2 weeks!–and I have been collecting your books and calendars for a number of years. in fact, I gave her your original “Autumn” quite a few years ago. I am looking forward to purchasing the new edition for myself, as well as your new book! Many thanks for your delightful blog–i look forward to following it!
Happy Marriage!
each and every thing is so beautiful! I would be happy with anything!
I am new to the Friends of Susan Branch fb page, and I followed it to this blog……Oh MY!!! I was so surprised to see that there was SUSAN BRANCH quilting fabric!!! I didn’t start quilting until 2007 and had no idea that there was such a thing. I love your designs and used your scrapbook paper and stickers for years, if I had only known about the fabric. Maybe I will be lucky and win some 😀 Thanks for the giveaways 🙂
We all just love you Susan!!!!. You fill our lives with fun and happiness and lots of adventures. Happy Anniversary!!!!
Love,
Gail xxooxxoo
I have always loved “Susan Branch” I discovered your art and cookbooks many years ago. I was delighted to find your blog and facebook page. I am really enjoying “A Fine Romance”. It just puts me in that happy place where you can dream and create. I really love the older fabrics and their look-a- likes. Your colors are so me. And so are your patterns. I love the fabrics because they are so happy and make my heart sing! Keep up the good work and I’ll keep buying your products. Have a great week.
Your art and writing are so inspirational. Love your blog!
Happy Anniversary. I am so happy you started up your blog. Altho,I followed you as best as can be done without Internet by buying your books and I used to buy those stickers to make cards with. Sure did miss them when they sold out. This is another lovely colorful happy post that help make and inspire our days when they pop into our inboxes. 🙂
So congrats on your anniversaries.
Not only would I like to win but I know others I an share with!!!
Thank you!
Wendy
Have loved everything “Susan Branch” since the beginning! So sad to see the fabric go away–brought many hours of happiness 🙂
Love,
Pat
Happy blog-o-versary!! I always come to your blog when I need some peace and inspiration!
Happy Anniversary! Love your blog and love your books! They are such treasures to pass from one generation to another. I love it all!
Loved seeing your collection of quilts. My dear sister was a quilter who passed away this past April. I cherish the quilt she made me with fifties fabrics, as I grew up in the fifties. Happy anniversary!
love all the pictures looks like such a great celebration! love the fabrics!
Susan congrads on the anniversary. Like the history of the fabric.
So glad to wish you a Happy Anniversary on your blog! What a wonderful way to celebrate. Look forward to many more books and blog posts. You’re quilts are beautiful!
Happy Anniversary! I fell in love with your art work when I saw it for the first time in a magazine (Country Living, I believe) and have been a fan ever since. Love your quilts, each are a beautiful work of art! And I love the idea of the quilt on your kitchen chair…I will have to do that…being that it does get chilly here where I live most of the time. I love your give-a-way and would be please to have a chance to win any of it. Thank you.
I just enjoyed a lovely 10 minute break from my work reading your blog. I can close off the rest of the world here and enjoy your world. I would love to me picked for any of the three drawings. I have a six year old granddaughter that I would really enjoy sharing these special prizes with.
Happy Anniversary! Those fabrics are amazing! I love your style and visiting here with you makes me feel so at home. I bought two copies of “A Fine Romance” one for myself and one for my mother. We both loved every page.
Susan – Your Autumn book was the first book of yours that I purchased. When I saw it at the bookstsore there was no question in my mind it was coming home with me. Autumn is my favorite time of year! I have your books stacked upon a small wooden stool in my living room. Still looking for the Vineyard Seasons and the larger Christmas book. Thanks for feeding my spirit all these years!