Exciting Updates {w/ lots of words}

{First}

I am just so excited about the success my blog has had this year!! On 1/2/12 I had a measly 1796 blog views. If you turn your attention to the counter on the right side of the screen, you will see that I'm almost at 15,000 on 2/23/12. That's an 800% increase!! I'm pretty sure I had like... 8 followers when this year began. Overall, I'm just pretty darn stoked about the whole thing. I wish I could just craft and blog all day long. Maybe someday...

{P.S. I deleted BlogLovin from my site because the other day I was browsing Facebook and saw two mystery posts from my blog about the Vampire Diaries. WHAT?! I would have never done that. I immediately assumed my blog had a virus, but there was no sign of the post. Once I deleted BlogLovin, it went away. Let me know if this has happened to anyone else. 

{Second}

I found out today that I was the featured blog on the Mingle With Us Blog Hop hosted by Happy Go Lucky, I Heart Crafty Things, Joy in the Jumble and Keeping Up With Kristi!!

Click here to see the blog post. Not gonna lie, I'm feelin' pretty famous right now.

There are no rules to this blog hop. Just link up your blog's main page. Then have fun reading new blogs and making new blog friends. {link up below}

{Third}Vote for me! Ok, well actually... vote for John because his amazing craft desk project is what made me so popular. But still, click on the American Crafter picture below and scroll down to #47. Please please please click on my post {#47!} to give me more votes!
{Fourth}Best. Book. EVER! The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series used to be my favorite books {which I'm totally not ashamed of BTW}. Seriously though, this was a really good book and now I can't wait for the movie to come out! I downloaded the second book of the series last night called Catching Fire. 
P.S. If you have an iPad and find out you can't download this in iBooks, go download the Kindle App and buy it on Amazon. Genius!