How Fame Seeks Us Out.

Perhaps fortune will follow??

Maybe that's asking too much, but what with the big interview over at Art of Humungous Proportion, it won't be long before we'll need to don dark glasses to go out in the streets! Goodness, all the attention is making me blush!

You can read the interview here. I hope Bessie isn't getting her knickers too twisted, she's such a shy thing, really.

Thank you dear, dear Dawn, for taking the time to make us feel so very special. And thank you to all who stop by to see what we've been up to.

Tah- tah for now!

Love,
Bea

A letter from one of our winners ...

Dear Bessie & Bea,
My pendant and treasured bits of lace, music, tea and sparkles were waiting for me today when I got home from spending extra time in my classroom. Thank you, thank you so very much! Please check my blog on Sunday when I'll post photos and of course, link back to you and your wonderful blog!
Greatest appreciation,
Michaele Sommerville

Dearest Michaele ~
Thank you ever so much for letting us know that you have received your little prize from our recent giveaway draw. We look forward to going to your blog to read a post about your winnings. Thank you for visiting us and we look forward to seeing you drop by many more times in the future.
Bessie & Bea
x0x

P.S. check out Michaele's blog here.

Wonderful OWOH winners announcement

Well dearies it's official:
Michaele won the Granny's Pendant!
Latharia won the Beach Babes Pendant!
And Suzy won the Sharing Pendant!

We have heard from the first two lovely ladies and their prizes are going into the Post this very afternoon (with a couple extra little goodies!). We hope Sweet Suzy will soon contact us so we can mail her prize to her soon.

This has been a lovely, lovely event and we do thank all you wonderful folks out there in Blogland for stopping by the Creative Sandwich. We do hope you will make it a habit to stop by and see what delightful adventures Bessie & Bea go on in the days ahead.

Yours as ever ~
Bessie
x0x

P.S. Bea sends her love. Now if she would only post something!

It's a giveaway!

Glory Be!! Bessie and Bea have joined the Gypsy Caravan! The One World One Heart 2009 blogging event is well underway, and the old girls don't want to be left out! We're giving stuff away, folks.

To win the prize, all you have to do is leave a comment ON THIS POST ONLY, with your name and email address and you'll be signed up, lickedly-split ~ your name will be put into one of our pillbox hats for a chance to win.

And just what are we giving away? We're proud as punch that you asked. See the snapshots? We will send out not one, but three prizes to three lucky readers!
If you know Bessie and Bea at all, you know that they're are a couple of tree huggers, so they made two pendants (Beach Babes and Granny's Pendant) and one brooch (Sharing) out of re-purposed materials. Something a little funky for the prize winners to wear to a morning at the BINGO Hall; for an afternoon out at the Antique Mall, or a romantic evening with the Mister.

Now, please be sure there is a way for Bessie & Bea
to contact you. (Leave your info in your comment). We will be making the draw on February 12th
and will contact the winner(s) at that time.
We look forward to hearing from our lovely readers all over the world, and we sincerely hope that you will all take the time to look around our blog!

Giddily yours,
Bessie & Bea
x0x

Goodness gracious,
it's suddenly 2009!
A brand new year is
ahead of Bessie & Bea
and Creative Sandwich.
What wonderful adventures
await us this year,
we wonder?

Bessie is patiently awaiting
Bea's return to posting on
the Creative Sandwich.
Life is just so much more
interesting when Bea is around.

In the meantime,
take a look at some
modern masters' Snowmen.

Grab a hot chocolate, curl up in your favourite chair and think about all the exercise you'll need to do to get rid of all those excess pounds you gained eating Mildred's rum drenched Figgy Pudding or Aunt Gertrude's Boxing Day Turkey ala King!
Happy New Year to all our dear loyal readers. Bea should be back any moment ... really.
Love,
Bessie

Last minute gift!

Bessie here.





















Just wanted to show you
a last minute gift
I put together yesterday.
It's a small heart-shaped wreath
in red and silver
~ it's for my mother-in-law.

Hope she'll like it.

I wonder what Bea is doing these days ...? Love, Bessie x0x

Christmas is for Sharing

Memories, gifts, our time and our favorite recipes are all things we like to share at this time of year. It doesn't matter if we can't afford the biggest or the best. When we share what we have, and add our talent and a lot of love, Christmas can live in our hearts all year long.




I hope you're enjoying the season and sharing your hearts with those you meet and those near and dear. If you aren't in the Christmas Spirit, go see a child's Christmas production, even if you don't know a child playing a part.



It's good for the soul to see little ones singing their hearts out about the baby Jesus. Better yet, volunteer to get involved and help with the production. It's not too late to print programs or hand them out at the door or shake a strangers hand and wish them a Merry Christmas.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato

Only 10 more days till Christmas!

Love, Bea

We love Christmas!

Bessie and Bea are still here folks! I know, I know. We do deserve a swift kick in the behind for being so fainéant in blogging as of late. Sure we have a thousand excuses for not keeping up here, but we know you don't want to hear all the silly little self-justifications.

Now we turn our attention to the Christmas season. It is one of our favourite times of the year. We have some snow in our neck of the woods ~ just enough to make it feel a little more like Christmas, and we are busying ourselves with baking, making homemade gifts and decorating our homes while listening to Bing and Nat on the radio. Bessie is trying to get her Christmas gift together for her dear Bea. Now if only Bea would show up at Bessie's to collect it, everything would be fine.

Here's hoping Bea will post something on here too so that we can get into the grove of talking to our dear faithful readers once again. She has a nice camera, so maybe she will upload some snapshots of the sights around her home. Ta-ta for now and we look forward to your comments over the Christmas holidays!
Love,
Bessie
oXo

Keeping in touch

Sincerest apologies from Bea and moi. We've been so very busy preparing for the Wild Blue Yonder Gift Show and hosting and attending Canadian Thanksgiving celebrations, we have had very little time for blogging. Although we have had plenty of time to increase our waistlines. Oh dear. But that's another post altogether.

Dear, dear neglected readers; we hope that you'll enjoy this blast from the past. Here is an advertisement from an old The National Geographic Magazine.

When Bea and I were young, we remember picking up the telephone, and occasionally hearing someone else having a conversation because we had party lines back then. I always felt sorry for the folks who were on our party line ~ especially when my mother and her friend Edna got on the phone! Our family's telephone is like the black one shown here. I also recall many people didn't have the luxury of even owning a telephone. That may explain why the Bell Telephone System ran this advertisement in the November 1958 edition of National Geographic.

Can you just imagine Bessie and Bea without telephones? Perish the thought! We're modern gals and we need to talk with each other to plan and scheme about wonderfully creative things and writing letters to one another just wouldn't do! Thank you Alexander Graham Bell!

Remember when ...

Mercy me, Bea! Look at the lovely vintage children's books I acquired last week.
I can't find a copyright date on them.
The only thing that's on the books, aside from the stories and rhymes is: PURNELL Printed in England No. (C.5., C.6., C.7. and C.8.).
If anyone knows the circa date of these books, I'd love to know. Look at the page shown here on the right. It has a poem on it, called October. The poem reads:

October days are full of fun,
For leaves keep dropping fast,
So sweep and burn them every one,
You'll tidy up at last.

Ahh ... the good old days when you sent out your children to gather all the leaves in the yard and burn them!

Bessie
xOx