To A Beautiful Person

Author Unknown

If God had a refrigerator,
Your picture would be on it.

If He had a wallet,
Your photo would be in it.

He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Whenever you want to talk, He listens.

He can live anywhere in the universe,
But He chose... your heart.
Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!

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And the winners are ...

for Pandora's Twitter Summer

($5 Amazon.com voucher)

- Krystal Larson

for Pandora's Summer

(2x $5 Amazon.com vouchers)

- Sarah Lehan

I have sent you both emails, please respond within the next 48 hours

(before 13 September) to claim your Amazon.com vouchers.

To everyone else, thank you so much for taking the time to

drop by and for participating.

Don't forget that there is another ongoing giveaway,

"Cathy's Secret" at the right side bar

AND another one coming in October.

Love and light.

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Blog-A-Licious Blog Tour 9

Join Me!
Blog-A-Licious Blog Tour

Come join us on a fantastic blog hop that brings together bloggers of all genres, backgrounds and locations.
Tour Date - Saturday, 10 September

Theme - A Reader or Writer ... Which Would You Rather Be?

1. Karen - http://www.karenvwasylowski.blogspot.com
2. Roy - http://royd-spiltmilk.blogspot.com/
3. Janu - http://janukulkarni.blogspot.com
4. Karen - http://www.britsunited.blogspot.com
5. Dora - http://peacefrompieces.blogspot.com/
6. Nat -  http://readingromances.wordpress.com/
7. Deborah - http://deborahbatterman.com/
8. Sarah - http://sarahbutland.com/blog/
9. Sulekha - http://sulekkha.blogspot.com/ 

10. Dora - http://blogaliciousauthors.blogspot.com/ 

Want to join in the fun? Here's what you need to do ...

1. Leave your blog link at the bottom of this post.

2. Write an article or post a photo relevant to the theme on YOUR blog. If your post is not up by Saturday 12.00 noon (GMT), your link will be removed from this list.
2. Introduce the blog before you and the blog after you.
3. Visit as many of the listed blogs as you can, if not in one day you can do a few a day? Make a comment, follow, join.
4. If you are having a giveaway or a competition this would be the time to showcase your hot stuff. This is not compulsory, it is up to you.
5. This is open to all bloggers, writers, authors, publishers. All we ask is that you have a blog, be able to post as per the weekly theme, have a comment system that works and have F-U-N.
6. The tour is limited to 20 bloggers.  
7. BUT, we will be doing it every two weeks. Next blog tour is on 24 September, to sign up click HERE.

Fun tips to make it work

1. Tweet it (#BlogALicious), Stumble it and share it any way you can. Tweet me @PandoraPoikilos

2. Not all of us are on the same time zone so try to have your post up by Friday night your time. This way it'll be ready for when people come to visit you.

3. Giveaways and competitions are not compulsory, it is up to you.

4. Even if you can't visit all the blogs in one day, spread it over the weekend or even the week.

5. If there is anything you need, email me - pandorapoikilos@gmail.com

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A Reader Or A Writer ... Which Would You Rather Be?

Today's post is in conjunction with the Blog-A-Licious Blog Tour 9 a fantastic blog hop that brings together bloggers of all genres, backgrounds and locations. In tomorrow's hop, the blog featured before Peace from Pieces is Karen. The blog featured after Peace from Pieces is Reading Romances. Do stop by and say hello, plus some of us are having giveaways and contests. Enjoy!
 
Click HERE for a full list of participating blogs and do stop by tomorrow.


By Pandora Poikilos

I had two passions in my life when I was growing up, reading and writing. As a child, I looked forward to the little hardcover Labybird books that I would be given as presents. Food would finish and clothes I would outgrow but books ... now those were gifts that would last a lifetime.

I learnt about mystery from Nancy Drew, laughter from Adrian Mole, life's complexities from Pip and family life from the March sisters. I would explore more authors later on and in my teen years I would learn to explore my gift to myself, writing. In an era when computers were not a household necessity, I would scribble my thoughts on paper, send them via snail mail and look forward to when I could see my name appear in the local newspapers. Numerous articles later, I was convinced that writing was my talent and went on to get a degree in communications and an internship with an international news agency.

But I was tested and I failed, miserably. I was diagnosed with IIH (Intracranial Hypertension) about four days after I received news about the internship. I convinced myself that if I couldn't write the way I wanted then I wasn't a writer. I gave up on writing and I explored all other options I could think of. I was pushed and shoved into situations I was not comfortable with, let alone happy and kept going one disastrous attempt after another. I needed to find my calling.

Years later and so much more broken than when I started out, I put pen to paper again. This time, I surprised myself. Since then, I've been tested numerous times. Brain surgery, a lump on my back and eyes that cannot stand the glare from a computer screen but I'm not giving up. Not this time. Even in the past week when things got exceedingly difficult and I couldn't type the chapters I had handwritten, I felt downright miserable.

Cue the arrival of my knight in shining armour. No, Peas didn't show up on a white horse to take me to a majestic castle, he offered me far more than that. Everyday, he would come home from work, he listened and typed as I read out my work. We've had so much fun, the hours together have even led to the 'birth' of Bruno McGrath but more on that in time to come. For now, I believe that you cannot be a writer if you are not a reader. But having done both I would rather be a writer. To me, it is my breath. Love and light.

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Win An Amazon Voucher ... Or Two

Stand a chance to win

2 Amazon.com vouchers ($5 each)

from now till 8 September 2011

To stand a chance of winning ONE voucher

- Must follow @pandorapoikilos on Twitter

- Email pandorapoikilos@gmail.com with the subject "Pandora's Twitter Giveaway"

To stand a chance of winning TWO vouchers

- Must follow @pandorapoikilos on Twitter
- Must "Like" Facebook page (Peace from Pieces)

- Email pandorapoikilos@gmail.com with the subject "Pandora's Giveaway"

What you need to know ...

- Winners will be picked at random

- Winners will be announced on 10 September 2011 at Peace from Pieces, you will have 48 hours to acknowledge receipt.

- Vouchers are valid for Amazon.com only

- Terms and conditions of the voucher are as per Amazon.com

This Summer Giveaway Hop is organised by two very Blog-A-Licious blogs, I Am A Reader Not A Writer & Buried in Books and there are loads of giveaways happening so do come join us and check out the other 300++ participating blogs HERE

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