It’s time!

It’s all the happies!

It’s AmAzIng!!!!

We’re kicking off the So Close to Amazing Blog Tour!

It’s a tour full of So Close to Amazing Stories and Book Reviews. And there are twelve other bloggers co-hosting!
{August 21 – September 16}

I’ve chatted a few times this summer about Karianne Wood’s soon-to-be-released book, So Close to Amazing. It’s one of my favorite reads so far this year! It gives opportunity to laugh at ourselves and to sympathize with our friends and know we aren’t alone when the dirty dishes crash all around us or we take a pot roast to garden club. {Or the equivalent of these things, but with our own personal details.} {Yep. You gotta read the book to find out more about crashing dishes and “The Roast That Went To Garden Club”.} 🙂

As life does and is and will be, there are days and projects and parties that turn out AMAZING. They really do. Things seamlessly fall in place. Details pull together at the last minute. Everything syncs at precisely the right time. Amazing moments make us happy and feel good.

And in the honesty and reality and imperfectness that is also life, sometimes, SOMETIMES, our moments and masterpieces and magnificent affairs end up not quite hitting the mark of amazing and instead land #soclosetoamazing.

One #soclosetoamazing moment of mine??? That I’ve repeated and repeated so many times. It goes like this. We’ll invite friends or family to join us for a meal and be our guests. I totally like to serve coffee or other hot drink choices with dessert to the coffee lovers. AND most avid coffee drinkers thoroughly enjoy a cup of coffee with their sweet dessert. WITH IT. Key words here. Again and again, I am #SOCLOSETOAMAZING. I want to serve the coffee with the cake. I really do. I mean to. BUT. Way too often, I FORGET. I forget until the dessert is half-gone or all-the-way-gone or completely-done-and-over gone. There are meals when I DO remember and it is amazing and coffee lovers can sip a lovely cup of dark coffee with their pie or cake or pudding. The rest of the times? SO CLOSE.

{You can read #soclosetoamazing moments in these two blogposts of mine ~ Ten Handy Helpful Housewife Hints and Ten More Handy Helpful Housewife Hints.}

 

So Close to Amazing releases September 5, 2017.

You can totally pre-order it AND there are bonuses if you do! Order it by September 4, 2017 and submit your info here to receive your bonuses.

{ORDER HERE.}

Each chapter of the book also includes a DIY at the end. Thistlewood Farms blog is full of beautiful photos and great DIY projects.

For the next couple of weeks you can come link up YOUR reviews and personal #soclosetoamazing stories, so we can all pull up our chairs and laugh together and nod our heads and say, “Me too!” In the words of dear Karianne, “Come sit by me!”

And if you’ve read her blog Thistlewood Farms much at all, you’ll know that, ALL THE BETTER, if you’re wearing your favorite lipstick or lipgloss and bringing your favorite mug and hot drink along with you!

 

Link up your Blog Posts about So Close to Amazing, OR link up your social media posts about the book from Pinterest, Facebook, or Instagram!! You don’t have to write a blog post or have a blog to link up. If you aren’t a blogger or you don’t have time for a blog post right now, you can do your posting on your social media and link it up. The criteria for your post is simple. To link it up, it needs to either be a review of Karianne’s book and/or a #soclosetoamazing story!

Add YOUR link below! Oh, and one more detail…………a VEeEeEeE-RY exciting one!!! {And definitely say “Very” the way Michelle Tanner would.}

Not only is this a linky party and blog tour! We have prizes! I, for one, am all about prizes! Prizes at birthday parties, prizes at Tupperware parties, prizes at blog parties!! Each time you link up at the party, at any of the participating blogs, you’re entered for the prizes! Each link you share is a chance at the prizes. Link up any time between August 21 – September 16th.

We will have two winners! The winners will be announced on September 17, 2017 on Thistlewood Farms and other co-host’s blogs.

And the prizes??? Oh, you want to know what the PRIZES are??? 😉

1st Prize!!!!

$100 Amazon Giftcard AND a SIGNED copy of So Close to Amazing ~

2nd Prize!!!

a SIGNED copy of So Close to Amazing ~

 

ALL THE {Wootwoot!!Hiphiphooray!!!Hurrah!!Ye-hah!!WhoopandHoller!!} CHEERS!!

 

I had a recent #soclosetoamazing moment. I hopped {well, we’ll use “hopped” rather loosely, since I was and am still favoring the ankle I sprained recently. Yeah. Another #soclosetoamazing moment. I have too many to keep track of.} I hopped into the pickup to ride along with my Mr. Matthew Man. He was headed off to make his rounds checking oil wells. At our second stop, I whipped out my phone and clicked a couple of photos. I have trouble seeing my phone screen in the sunlight sometimes and can’t tell how light the picture is. I usually have my sunglasses on and they tend to further darken the picture. Pulling my phone back in the pickup cab and desiring a better look at the picture, I whipped off the glasses I was wearing. “Huh,” I thought to myself, “I didn’t realize the picture I’d taken was that blurry.” Then it dawned on me. It wasn’t my sunglasses I was wearing and had removed. It was my REGULAR glasses. I wasn’t wearing my contacts today and thus, not my sunglasses either!!! No wonder the picture became decidedly blurrier. When one requires corrective lenses to see clearly at all, and one removes said corrective lenses, well things tend to become blurry and unclear. QUITE.

 

Visit all thirteen amazing blogs in the blog tour……….we’re all sharing in on the laughter, #soclosetoamazing stories and fun!

 

Botanic Bleu

Thistlewood Farms

My Creative Days  

Little House Simple Living 

A Delightful Glow  

Kim & Ink

NOT A TROPHY WIFE 

nourish and nestle

bluesky kitchen 

Noting Grace 

Not Just Paper and Paint 

Sondra Lyn at Home 

Evey’s Creations 

Your turn!

Share YOUR #soclosetoamazing moments with us! Your DIY “almosts”. Your stories. We can’t wait to hear!!

Link up here ~

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