100th Post Party

We're having a little party here Amongst The Oaks today. It's my 100th post and as a "Thank you" to all my loyal readers I'm throwing a party. I want you all to come visit and sit down and get acquainted and have tea and biscuits and play a little party game. You know the type; like where you can't say "baby" at someone's baby shower and if you do one of the other ladies takes your diaper pin and then the lady with the most diaper pins at the end wins. Or everyone guesses how many squares of toilet paper it will take to go around the expectant mother's belly. So here's the plan: I want you all to guess how many squares of toilet paper it will take to go around my belly.

No, that's not really the game. Here it is: I want you all to guess how many tassels I have in my house. This means actual fabric tassels hanging on the window shades, curtains, door knobs, pillows, lamps, chairs, table runners, keys, etc. Like this....

And this.....


And this......

But we won't count these little trim type tassels on pillows and curtain edges like this.....

And I will give you a clue. It's between twenty and one hundred. And to help you out, I'm going to tell you a little about my house. It's got three bedrooms, two baths, living room, dining room, library, kitchen, and laundry room. We have six doors to the outside, twelve windows, eight interior doors, over fifty cabinet doors, and one pull-down stair to the attic (loft). We have sixteen lamps, way too many dishes and a pet rat, but she never wears tassels. And not all of the lamps have tassles on them. And not all of the doors either. But lots of the chairs have tassels. In fact one of the chairs has 15 tassels (I showed it to you last October) and one of the lamps has 16! (This is like a trick math problem, isn't it?)

If, after all that useless information, you actually make an accurate guess, you may win one of these prizes.......

This made-by-me glitter letter thing....

Or this Paris glitter letter thing.....

I'll give you three days to make your guesses and tell which prize you would prefer. (That will also give me three days to count, count, and recount the tassels.) So on Saturday February 16, the party will be over, I'll announce the two closest guesses, clean up the tea things, sweep up the biscuit crumbs and get back to work creating those scintillating blogs that brought you all here in the first place. *snort* *guffaw*

And might I say, "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for being such good friends and coming all the way to California to get together and have some fun here Amongst The Oaks."