We have a winner of the custom vinyl banner!

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We have a winner of the Custom vinyl banner giveaway!  Congratulations, to Pat Griffith of  The Wreath Witch.

 Random.org picked #6 as the winning comment number. I will pass her info on to Online Poster Printing and she can create and upload her design for her personalized banner!

Thanks to everyone that entered! Special thanks to Online Poster Printing and Giveaway Blogs for providing the prize~!

Keep watch for more great giveaways!

Chance to Win a Vinyl Banner with your design just by leaving a comment!

I am offering another great Giveaway sponsored by Giveaway blogs and Online Poster Printing!  This month I have a vinyl  banner customized with YOUR text/image.

These discount banner prints are great and have so many uses.  Perfect for party decor, craft booths and  much more!  Personalize it for the birthday boy/girl or the retiree.  You get the idea! 

Giveaway Prize:
24x36 Vinyl Banner w/ Grommets
Limited to US residents; 18 years old and above

I have never offered this item before so be sure to enter! I even get one for hosting the giveaway!

Contest ends 11:59pm on Monday, July 26th! Get those comments in! You have multiple ways to win! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post that includes your name and email address. Your address will not be used for anything other than allowing Online Poster Printing to contact you if you win the prize.

You can also blog about this giveaway, linking back here to this post.   Leave another comment that you did so to get another entry and/or Tweet about the giveaway and leave a separate comment that you did so!

If you would like to receive my newsletter, please sign up to the right and leave a comment that you did so to get another entry. I offer certain sales and specials only to subscribers!

If you are the lucky winner I will pass your info on to Online Poster Printing and they will contact you directly.

Thanks again to Online Poster Printing and Giveaway Blogs for providing the prize~!

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GOOD LUCK!

I love this colorful jelly bean treasury!

I always get so excited when I am in a new treasury on ETSY.  Treasuries are items curated by Etsy members.  They can include similiar colors, common theme or just be someones favorites!  There are so many items on Etsy that I am always honored to be selected for a treasury.

This was created by lifePOINTimages.  Thanks you!

Heritage Days and Fireworks!

Every year our tiny Hamlet has a celebration called Heritage Days!  It is quite the to-do.   It begins with a grand fireworks display.  Gotta love the fireworks setting on my Canon camera!

Westernville was one home to General William Floyd - signer of the Declaration of Independence extraordinaire.  Who is he you might ask?  Well, William Floyd, was the first delegate from New York that signed the Declaration of Independence.  He was appointment as a delegate from New-York to the first Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia on the fifth of September, 1774.  You can read more on this historic figure here.

The General's home is a Historical Landmark and has been carefully restored.  It provides the center for Heritage Days.

Westernville was, until recently, also home to a 5th generation descendant of William Floyd.  This was a 2nd home that William Floyd never lived in.  Sadly, this home and contents were actioned off  just a week ago.  The home was in the family for  hundreds of years.  I had the pleasure of going through the house and it was like stepping back in time to colonial days.  There were items owned by William Floyd and newspaper clippings carefully framed that referenced the death of George Washington and so many more hidden treasures.

Getting back to Heritage Days,  It is a weekend celebration of our history and where we came from.  There is an encampment, reenactments, demonstrations and more!

We had visitors from Minnesota who commented on the old buildings in the area.  That drove it home to me how lucky I am to live in New York ( except for the taxes :) .  Here, we have so many reminders of the birth of our nation.  Battles were fought here.   Lives were built here that date back to our first freedoms.  So we, here in our little hamlet, will continue to celebrate Heritage Days!