Today, this blog is one year old.
When I look back and see all that has happened in the last year, it is pretty amazing to me. I am so grateful that you take the time to check in and see what’s happening over here. I truly appreciate it. I really do.
And because I value all of you, I am giving something away. I am not sure what and I can’t promise when you will get it. It will be made by me, out of fabric or yarn, or both. Kind of vague, huh? But, if that doesn’t phase you, comment and I will put your name in the hat. Or the random number generator thing-y. I will cut it off Thursday at midnight.
Wish I had a cake to share with you. Instead, here is my current work in progress pile. Happy Birthday House on Hill Road. Here’s to another crafty year!
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program….which I guess is the encyclopedia of me.
Are you all as sick of the alphabet as I am? I don’t know if I have it in me to finish – I am tired of talking about myself. Please share your thoughts.
Delurking….. Love your blog and congratulations on your first “blogiversary”!
Kim 🙂
Congratulations on your one year mark. I love to see the new things you’ve made and how you’ve made them. Happy blogiversary too!
Recently discovered your blog and love it to bits. Happy Blogaversary!
As for the alphabet, maybe split it into two halves? Finish the first half of the alphabet now, and pick up the second half in a month or so.
i’m also a lurker here but just wanted to congratulate you on your first year of blogging, i love it all… congrat!
Happy Birthday HOHR Blog!!!!!
Happy Blogaversary! I love your blog and I love the alphabet posts- keep them coming!
Wishing you a very happy blog birthday! I’ve enjoyed learning more about you the past few weeks, but I enjoy all your posts.
Happpppy anniversary! And I’m okay with the alphabets becoming a weekly, fornightly, monthly or well, whenever you wish. 🙂
Happy blogday to you! I’ve been enjoying reading your encyclop. 🙂 I know going all the way to Z sounds daunting but you’ve been doing great!
Congrats! I love the letter of the day…and really look forward to it every morning to tell you the truth. Please don’t stop! Your blog is incredibly inspiring to me. Keep up the great work!
congrats, erin! i think with the abc thing you’re good either way – keep it or ditch it. up to you, ma’am!
my thoughts are … please finish. i am enjoying it.
my other thoughts are … congrats on the anniversary. yippee!
I enjoy the alphabet posts, wish I would have done it myself – however KNEW I’d never have made it all the way through. 🙂
I don’t recall if I’ve been courteous enough to leave comments before – but I very much enjoy your blog. Am looking forward to it’s second year..
Always enjoy reading your blog and viewing all of your cleverness. Happy Blog Anniversary!!!!
Happy Bloggiversary.
I enjoy reading your alphabet posts. I am thinking of doing it myself.
Happy blog birthday. Keep on the good work!
Happy one year…………
Love the alphabet…..keep it up! 🙂
Happy blogiversary. I just wanted to tell you that I enjoy reading your blog and the alphabet thing is fun!
No need to put my name in the hat. Just wanted to wish you a happy day. May the next year of blogging be sweeter than the first.
Congratulations! Cake is good, but so are knitted, sewn or anything else handmade! Keep on inspiring us to push our creativity to the limit.
PS Not sick of the alphabet, yet!
Happy Blogiversary! Your blog has been one of the inspirations for me to get into sewing!
(And I didn’t do the alphabet thing, because I KNEW it would drive me nuts!)
i think the alphabet is a great way to get to know you better! (if i blogged, i would do it myself)
Happy day & congrats! I love visiting your blog & your alphabet is so fun to read, though I feel you. I am stuck on H! But I am going to stick with it, even if it means posting the remaining letters on August 31st 🙂
Congratulations, Erin! I am so happy to have discovered your blog and look forward to your posts. I have also been enjoying your alphabet posts, but I can see how hard it would be to come up with something new each day.
Happy Anniversary, and thanks for all of the inspiration.
I’m loving the alphabet. We have lots in common, but there’s enough different to keep it interesting. If you are sick of it though, you could always invite readers to add to it.
Anna
Congratulations on one year of blogging! I’ve been enjoying learning about you via the alphabet but I could see how that would get tedious for you after a while.
Happy One year
I am glad that you share your life and your projects with us I really enjoy your blog.
I think that the alphabet thing looks tiring to write—but it is fun to read!!
Looking forward to seeing *what* the give-a-way is!
Congratulations! I love your blog!!
So glad that you’ve been here a year. We’re always happy to hear about what you’re up to. Thanks for sharing.
M… [M]ore crafty years ahead. 🙂
There M is done.
Congrats, my friend!
Thank for sharing so consistently! I love what you do… Yum, cake! Maybe strawberry or caramel?
Congratulations. Thanks for a year filled with crafty goodness.
Congrats on your 1 year! I love cake. 🙂
And I don’t think I would have the motivation to talk about myself for 26 days of alphabet letters, personally. I won’t fault you for not finishing it.
Wow! Happy birthday House on Hill Road!
Congratulations on your one year blog anniversary. It was your blog that got me really excited about checking out others. Your site is truly inspiring!!
Thanks for doing what you do and congrats. Alphabet is good but you could start doing several letters in one post…
m – married
n – never bored
o – open to blogging (you get the idea)
I can’t believe you’ve only been blogging for one year! congrats on the one year anniversary.
Oooh! Happy Blogiversary!!! I, too, am loving the alphabet based posts, but, yeah, if I was writing them, they’d start making me crazy. I say, do what you feel like, it’s your blog! Congrats!
congrats Erin on one year 🙂 Here’s to another great year.
I know how you feel about the ABC’s. I’m getting a bit bored with writing about me me me… but I really enjoy reading + learning more about you, your family + craft… hey, you’re half done! Don’t stop 🙂 And I won’t either!
Happy One Year!!
I think I’d find it hard to come up with creative things to write about the alphabet 26 days in a row. I think you’re doing a pretty great job so far though!
Happy Blogiversary! I have really enjoyed all that you have done this past year and can’t wait to see what you come up with next. ~Oh and the encyclopedia is just too fun to stop now.
Congratulations Erin! I love seeing what you and your family are up to and what you are sewing. I have “borrowed” several of your ideas (is that bad?) to try myself–the latest being the Martha Stewart kitchen towel placemats. Love them!! Thanks for sharing with us all. I look forward to your blog each and every morning. Diane
Yeah for House on Hill Road. Looking forward to many more years.
Congrats and happy ‘birthday’ to the blog! I really enjoy reading your thoughts and seeing your creations!
The alphabet has been fun so far. I don’t know if I could pull it off, but those of you who are are doing a great job. AND who says you can’t just do one word a day or multiple letters in one day(like another commenter said). Good luck and have fun celebrating the birth/anniversary!
Erin, congratulations on one year! Your blog is always inspiring, thanks for sharing with us. No need to put my name in the hat since I am already enjoying your handmade goodies!
Congratulations on your blog being one year. I enjoy reading your blog and seeing your creations … thank you for being an inspiration.
Best wishes.
Your blog is fun to read and I stop by every time Bloglines alerts me to a new post. Regarding the Alphabet exercise, do not stop, but see this as an opportunity to not only share, but to also perhaps learn a bit more about yourself, sometimes even stuff you might not want to know. On a lighter note, now you know why the real “life of the party” is often the person who listens more and says less.
Erin, I have been reading your blog for awhile now. You inspire me. I would love one of your homemade goodies. Happy Birthday House on Hill Road.
Congratulations! Thanks for all the creative inspiration!
Happy Blogiversary to you! I lurk on your blog, but thought I’d stop in to say keep up the great work. If you think about the alphabet as a means to spark your creativity (as in, dig deep to get those ideas!!) then maybe you’ll realize you are actually performing a public service. 😉 Good luck and
M – Many more years!
Happy birthday, dear blog!
And, yes, I am getting a little fed up with the encyclopedia and I’m not even halfway through. I may just start combining a couple of letters each day…
Happy blog day! I’m having fun with the alphabet, but there are some letters that simply puzzle me!
I LOVE House on Hill Road. It is quickly becoming my FIRST blog check of the day!!! Also, I love the alphabet and you’re inspiring me to try it myself. Erin Rocks!
I’ve been lurking here for a while now and wanted to congratulate you on your anniversary! Your creativity has inspired quite a few of my own craft projects! Thanks!
Delurking here…happy bloggy birthday!
I look forward to the letter of the day and I’m waiting to see what you come up with for the difficult letters towards the end. ;o)
-violet
Only one year?! Just look how popular you are! It must be all your great tutorials, gorgeous photos, and witty comments. Congratulations, Erin!
Congratulations! I started a blog a few months ago and have yet to post a second entry because I still, in my computer illiterateness, can’t figure out how to use it! I am inspired by others such as yourself, though. Hopefully, next year I will be celebrating my first blogaversary! 🙂
Congrats on your “blog-versary”!
I just wanted to say that you have awakened the slumbering craftmonster in me and I will be forever grateful! Not only did I whip up the pleated purse from the rule-beding-book that you recommended, but you inspired me to embroider and embellish a pair of jeans to resemble my favorite pair of maternity jeans. And there are many more things to tackle on my crafty to-do-list.
You’re made of awesome!
Just love reading the blog…I check it almost daily!
As for the alphabet post, if you really get to sick of it (although I am enjoying reading it) you can always finish off the rest of the letters in one post with one entry for each letter. I’ve seen a lot of people do it that way, seems less tiring to the author.
Congrats on one year!
Wow! A whole year? That’s quite the achievement! Congratulations!
Happy Bloggy Birthday!
Delurking to say Happy Blogiversary too. I really enjoy your blog.
Happy Blog Birthday! I enjoy reading your posts. 26 letters is a lot, I know I can’t stick to one project for too long, I would have only made it to “C”.
Happy Blog Birthday! I really have enjoyed reading about all of your adventures. Thanks for the inspiration.
Congratulations on your blogiversary!
Happy Blogiversary House on Hill Road! I’m sending you a virtual cake….vanilla bean 3-layer with GREEN frosting! Trust me, it’s good.
I say go for the alphabet challenge…maybe just do one tidbit per letter so it doesn’t get so tiring.
Love your blog, thanks for sharing.
Great blog! I enjoy all your handiwork. I wish you many more years of blogging. Keep stitchin’!!!!
Hi! I love your blog. It inspires me so much! And congratulations from your brazilian fan…
Happy happy day to House on Hill Road. It is in my top handful of faves to check daily and I truly appreciate all you do to keep me inspired and entertained. That IS why you do it, right ;)?
Happy 1st Blogiversary!
Happy day to you! Love seeing all your crafty goodness – thanks for sharing.
i love you and your blog! happy blogiversary. and i’ve been loving the alphabet thing…but i have to agree that it’s hard to come with all of that stuff.
xoxo!
Happy blogiversary! Your first year was fantastic. I can’t wait to see what you have in store for the next one. I guess I will have to though :).
Happy Blog Anniversary. I really enjoy reading it. Keep it up.
hurray for a year of blogging! I love your blog…you do such a great job sharing and inspiring. I would like to see more alphabet posts as well, but I am feeling the pain of coming up with something creative myself each day.
yippee for one year!!!
Congratulations on your first year…I would have guessed you’d been at it for much longer, you’re such a pro!
And I am still enjoying the alphabet (though I can totally relate to “alphabet fatigue…I’m getting tired of doing mine too, but have received a lot of encouraging feedback to keep me motivated)
Goodness….80 comments..Well, in honor of your one year anniversary there has been a hurricane named in your honor!!
Tropical Storm Erin was christened this morning in the Gulf of Mexico. It could make landfall Thursday near Corpus Christi, Texas, forecasters said.
Happy blogiversary.
If you’re tired of the alphabet quit! You are the master of your own blog. 🙂
happy blothday to you 🙂 And yay for raffles!
Happy 1 year… I just LOVE your blog! Thanks for sharing yourself with us!
Happy Blog Anniversary!!
I, myself, am not real keen (did I actually just use that word? OMG) on the alpha thing. 🙂 Bring back the crafties.
JMHO. Love your blog tho’.
Dearie me, I’ve got a sore finger from scrolling through all those comments!! Happy blog birthday.
And I’m so glad someone else is feeling the pressure of this alphabet thingummy. Are there really 26 interesting things I can say about myself? I’m beginning to doubt it!
Happy Blog Birthday!
Congratulations!! That’s awesome! :o)
A year seems so far away for me but I know it will actually fly by.
I’ve never commented before but I wanted to wish you a happy one year blogoversary too. I do enjoy your projects so–especially the beautiful clothes you make for your girls and your gorgeous patchwork belts.
Love your blog. Love that you post so often. If the alphabet thing-y keeps you posting MORE than do it. If it’s stopping you from posting something else, don’t do it!!!
Oh my. I had to scroll a long time to add my comment.
Happy blogives(ok, I give up, I cannot spell that word.)LOL
I think the alphabet thing is a hard call. I don’t like to do those meme things if I am not enjoying doing it.
Happy Anniversary House on Hill Road!
Happy 1st anniversary in blogworld. I love reading and viewing all that you share and look forward to what’s to come, especially that embroidered number in the pic. 🙂
Oooh, the encyclopedia meme, you can do it you are almost half way there or you could always combine l-p like all kids do when saying it fast. 🙂
Don’t postpone joy! I love that motto… do what makes you happy. Happy first, girl! Thanks for all the kindly advice, the wonderful tutorials, and your inspiration!
Happy Birthday! Today is my Mom’s birthday too!
happy blogiversary 🙂
i’m doing the alphabet meme aso, and it’s drivng me nuts… i’ve noticed my entrie getting shorter and shorter…
happy anniversary! you’re one of my favorite places to drop by each day and i’m actually really enjoying the encyclopedia of me posts. it’s always nice to learn more about someone.
hats off to you and house on hill road!
it’s been good fun reading along, seeing the loveliness that you bring into the world. as for the alphabet, i’d hit the rest of the letters all at once.
be well, sarah
‘m’ is for momentous — your one-year anniversary. congratulations, and thank you, and here’s to many, many more!
I love learning, alphabet style, more about you, thank you for sharing. I also have two girls and love them to pieces, what would I do with boys?!
I’ve been reading (or I guess lurking) your blog for quite awhile and I just love the things you do. Happy Blog-iversary!
first off, look at how many comments!? Secondly, Congratulations! I can’t remember how i found your blog, but have loved it from the beginning. Looking forward to what this next year will bring for you.
As for the alphabet, I think it’s neat to learn more about you, but I’m glad I decided not to participate. I just don’t think I could do it.
A very happy one year blog-aversary! So glad I found you.
Happy one year! Wow — look at all those comments!
Keep up the alphabet, I say — I’m enjoying it. 🙂
Love your blog! You inspire me! 🙂
Happy anniversary from another lurker!
happy blogiversary! i love reading your blog and all your crafty goodness! 🙂
happy blogiversary! i’ve been reading your blog for a while now. i really enjoy reading about all your crafty endeavours!
Happy one year!!!
Your blog is one of my very favorite, so glad you started it!
Congratulations! You are in my bookmarks and I check your blog every day. Thank you so much for sharing!
happy blogiversary gal! i’m thinking about doing the alphabet of me all in one post…i love hearing about you, but maybe you could finish it all in one post. i know it can be tiring and you have other things going on!
Happy anniversary! I enjoy your blog very much and visit every day.
As for the Encyclopedia of me and of you, they seem to help me relax and keep my mind busy these days. I’m expecting my second child, a son, on August 28, and gee, am I looking forward to hold him in my arms! Please, pretty please, keep going…
I can’t believe it’s only been a year! You have soooo MANY FRIENDS! Congratulations sweet Erin 😀
Happy Blogday – I hope I’m still going in a year too. Mine is only 2 days old! Please keep the a-z going, perhaps just spread it out a bit more. Your blog has been a truly huge inspiration.
I know what you mean! Blogs are all about talking about yourself and that’s great, but these ABC’s… talking about yourself in a structured way is hard!
Well I absolutely adore your blog. Your pictures are great, your girls are lovely and you are a nice person to boot. Congrats!
Happy Blog-iversary! 🙂
Happy Blogiversary! I just stumbled upon your blog a couple of weeks ago and it’s been bookmarked for reading with the morning coffee. I love it. 🙂
I am getting a total kick out of your alphabetia…happy one year!
Happy 1st Year! Mine is 4+ months away and I too, have an interesting give-away. Wow a lot of posters! Am I the 119th? Congrats. And yes, I’m somewhat tired of the alphabet of me however, it does help with time for other things.
Happy blogiversary! I’ve just started to learn to sew and I come here for inspiration. You make such beautiful things!
Nothing like a free prize to bring out the lurkers. I am not after a prize, (hey my chances of winning are 1 in 121), just here to boost the number.
Congratulations, on 121 comments, on your birthday and on your blog. I really enjoy all that you share.
congrats! i’m glad i found your blog, it’s a great read. i think the alphabet thing is cute, but i can imagine if i were doing it i might get bored. it’s nice though, and i think if you finish it you’d end up happy.
i am so inspired by you. i love seeing all the beautiful things you make. happy blog iversary!!
yay! happy blogiversary! it’s so funny – i started my blog just around the same time and i’ve always thought yours had been around a much longer time. weird!
i’m enjoying your encyclopedia – keep it up!
Your year is close to my year of being gone from L’ville. I do miss you so. So glad that I have had the blog and our numerous phone calls to keep up. Happy 1st, and here’s to many more!!
Happy Blogiversary to one creative lady. Love the alphabet posts and am so impressed that you have been able to find things to post with pictures for each letter. I would be intimidated by that assignment.
A year of fun, a year to inspire and a year to live creatively. Here is wishing you many, many more!
happy 1-year anniversary!
thanks for the continuous inspiration!
happy blog-iversary!! i check in almost everyday, and i really enjoy it. i have made a smock-top for my daughter w/your great tutorial (orange polka-dots :))and a few dolly-sized ones too! thank you for taking the time to create this very inspiring site!
Happy blog birthday to you! Love your blog:)
I just discovered your blog a few days ago. Happy Anniversary.
happy anniversary erin!
oh, please continue with the encyclopedia! i love these little tidbits–it’s so much fun to be able to say “me too” as i’m reading them!
Happy Blogiversary!!
hey Erin, I have been reading your blog almost everyday for a couple of months now. It has been so fun for me. I just discovered this whole crafty blog scene in the spring and it has been just addictive. I found the “posy gets cozy” blog and clicked on almost every blog on her side bar thing! I have been so inspired! So now I hit your blog first and go from there! I have had a sewing machine for years and have done projects here and there, but my abilities are no where near yours!! Of course now I am hooked for sure and it is a treat to check out your blog. So thank you for it!
Happy Blogiversary!! I’m a lurker and really enjoy your blog. I’m particularly inspired by your appliques!
happy blogging birthday! you are so adorable and inspirational. love your work. thanks for the great reads. 🙂
Happy Bloggybirthday! I love your work and your ABCs are great, keep it up!
I’m another person you inspire daily. You are my ‘go to’ blog. I come here first, and then click on your links. In fact, after buying a machine about a month ago, and finding your blog a few days later, I have now decided to start my own. I am *very* new to the whole thing, and mine looks nowhere near as nice as yours yet, but I’ll get there… Thank you. http://www.marianellen.typepad.com/edemame
p.s. called my blog edamame partly because, as you pointed out, there aren’t many (any?) craft blogs beginning with E!
Thanks for sharing all your craftiness with us. You are one talented girl! Congrats on the one year anniversry!
Congratulations Erin. I can’t say I’ve been with you for the whole year but I can definately say I’ll be with you for the next year. Throughly enjoy you blog.
happy blog birthday! i came here looking at your skirt tutorials, and i just love your blog!
Oh I want to play! Happy Blog bday! I love checking out your blog!
Congratulations Erin. I read your blog as often as I can. I love to see the stuff your making:)
Marie-Louise
Congratulations! I know what you mean about the alphabet, I’m definitely suffering alphabet fatigue! But judging from the amount of comments on this post, I would say people still want more!
Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary! I absolutely adore your blog and I am in awe of your creativity. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and ideas. I stumbled onto your blog when searching for craft room ideas and I am so glad I did! Keep up the great work, Erin!
jesus!!! 149 comments and you have only been blogging for a year!
Well done 🙂 nice to have crossed paths with you
Well….. being that I’m now one of the more than 150 commentors……. I’d say the alphabet thing is working!!
Happy Bloggerversary! I’ve enjoyed peeking into your everyday. Maybe it’s the nosy in me, well….. it IS nosy in me that likes to see what’s on the agenda and what’s being created. It’s fun.
Have a great day and a great next year!
151 comments should just about cover everything I had on my mind! Congrats on 1 year! I LOVE the meme, please don’t stop!!!
happy birthday…. looking forawrd to another fabulous blog yr….
luv Abby
happy blog birthday erin!!!!
xoxo
Happy One year blogversery!
Maggi M.
woohoo.
cheers to one year erin!
Happy Blog Birthday!! it also happens to be my brother’s birthday!! Have really enjoyed reading!!!
Happy Bloggie Birthday!
Happy Blogiversary to you. Happy Blogiversary to you. Happy Blogiversary, dear sweet wonderful Erin. Happy Blogiverary to you! And from someone who loves a glimpse into your world and heart (alphebetized or not), I can heartily say, “Here’s to many more!”
Congrats on your first year. I “discovered” you a few months ago and I am hooked!
Your blog is wonderful. Here’s to many more years!
Hooray!! So happy for you! You’re designs are so inspiring! 🙂 Good luck!
Congrats on making it to 1 year! (Oh my goodness you are popular, that is a lot of comments!:)
I am definitely not sick of reading your list of the encyclopedia of me. Although I am a bit sick of my own on my blog. I just cannot seem to come up with words for some of the letters!
Happy bloggiversary! Love your blog and keep up the good work, if not the alphabet. 😛
Wow, you have so many comments your blog is smoking! It’s been fun reading.
Happy Blogiversary!!! I have been lurking here all summer and I am positively inspired by your craftiness. Here’s to another wonderful year in the House on Hill Road!
Congratulations on your 1st Anniversary! I just found you a couple of days ago, but have enjoyed your blog ever so much. Especially the alphabet posts. I’ve been thinking of trying it myself on one of my own blogs, but maybe just one letter a week instead of every day. 🙂 Enjoy your special day and let us know what you do to celebrate.
Congrats!! I am having fun
reading your past posts.
i can’t believe it’s been a year! and yes – you must keep going with the alphabet … because i can’t wait to see what you do with Q, X, Y & Z!
happy blogiversary oh crafty friend.
Loving your blog, Erin. Keep up the good work, I’m a HOHR addict! :)Congrats on your anniversary!
Please put my name in the hat! I love reading your blog!
hooray for a year! i’m glad i stumbled onto your blog. 🙂
Happy first year. Your blog’s a peach!
Your blog is one of my favorites! Very inspiring!
Holy Schmoly Woman! That is a lot of comments! But well deserved. Happy Blogaversary sweet lady. You are awesome!
Congratulations! I’m so slow to catch up. No need to put my name in the hat as you’ve already done something wonderful for me … being a fantastic long-distanced friend.
Happy Blogiversary!
sheree
I’m so glad I found your blog. Fun to read, and see all the things you make. I love the patchwork belts, and plan to make some in the near future (once my kids go back to school in two more weeks). Congrats on your 1 year!!!
Belated congrats! Making my way back into blogland. Looking forward to the coming year’s worth of reading and making!