I had kind of a crazy week this week because I found out Monday morning I had to have surgery to remove my appendix. My mom thinks I have a curse of the children’s book illnesses now since I’ve had scarlet fever (The Velveteen Rabbit”) and now had appendicitis (“Madeline”).

Well anyways I had submitted an entry into Spoonflower’s Windows & Doors contest last week. I didn’t really talk it up to my friends or on facebook, but apparently I SHOULD have because I found out yesterday when I checked my email for the first time this week, that was only 1 vote away from the winning design! Unbelievable! A very kind Spoonflower representative emailed me and told me that they would be awarding me $50 in “spoondollars” since it was such a close race.

Here’s the link to the blog posting in which they mention me (I feel so famous!).

And here’s my painfully-close-to-winning design. It’s a fairly simple design, just red, light blue, black and white with a bit of the retro 50s look going on, which I love so much. I know 2 people already have ordered swatches so it may be making it’s way to people’s homes and craft projects soon! How thrilling!