Thank you all for visiting my blog, thank you to those who left me a comment and to those who took the time to read a little bit.

I’m sorry I could not answer each and every one of you personally, I was overwhelmed by the number of comments and nice words you wrote me. And to be honest, I was too busy visiting the other blogs participating, sometimes finding myself reading in them and losing track of time.

I’m sure you did the same.

Since here in New Zealand, the 15th starts almost half a day earlier then the rest of most of the world, I waited up until 10:30pm to draw the winner number, allowing one last comment to squeeze through in the last moment, making it 352 comments altogether (thanks again all).

So here it is, comment number 340, Helena from UNE PAGE SANS TITRE. Go check her lovely blog, and if you can read French (I think), you might learn something new.

I hope to meet with you all next year on OWOH, and maybe even sooner in mine or yours blogs.

And don’t forget, you are all invited to write me a letter.

D.

Here we go!

I prepared a gift to give a way to one of the readers of this blog.

Kipping in the spirit of this blog, my gift is related to letters writing:

These are New Zealand post First Day Cover HEITIKI Stamps. Issued in limited edition on the 24 of June 2009.

With them I will also send a hand made postcard, made by me, especially for the winner.

To go in the draw to win these stamps all you need to do is leave me a comment on this post.

When you leave me a comment, make sure I have a way of contacting you in case you are the winners.

You can click on the picture at the bigging of this post to go to the event website. It will end on the 15th of February, when I will draw the winners name and annonce it here on my blog.

And if you would like to send me a letter, well, that will be great! My address is at the top of this page, next to the blogs name.

Thank you for stopping by and participating in this great event with me.

D.

The One World One Hart event is very much about connecting people as writing letters are, so please join me this year in participating in this great event.

In the words of Lisa the creator and host:

“The original idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables us to interact, discover new and wonderful people, and in the process possibly win a prize or many prizes along the way.

This is more than wanting to win something…….that is only the means…….in the end it’s about finding kindred spirits. Someone who may be fairly new to blogging, not sure how to navigate, find others and have others find them….Some are long time bloggers and in some cases well known in the blogging community. Whatever the case it brings all of them together. This is an INTERNATIONAL event that has and had participants from the US, Canada, France, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Malaysia, Brazil, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, England,Wales, Slovenia and more. It transcends geographical location, socio economics, political affiliation, religious beliefs……it’s a coming together like the giant community we are on this planet. If only it took a simple giveaway to create PEACE everywhere, in the mean time here we give from our hearts. We are not solving the worlds problems nor are we curing anything nor are we changing the world. We are merely generating a closer community between humans through blogging. What more could I ask for, my little idea has surpassed my wildest dreams of what it could become.”

So how dose it works?

This great event start on January the 25th, when every blogger participating in this event will offer a giveaway on his blog. To be in the draw to win the giveaway all you need to do is leave a comment on that post.

The end date for this event is the 15th of February, when all the bloggers will draw a winner for their giveaway from all the comments that was left on their post.

So be sure to check my blog again after January the 25th to see what is my giveaway. I can only hint that it will be related to letter writing.

See you.

D.