Some have been confused in the past about my name, so I thought I’d try and clear that up.

My real name is Pieternella. However, my parents felt my name might be too difficult to say in English (I was born in Holland) so they called me Peggy. Well… no offense to those named Peggy but I’ve never much cared for it. I feel it just doesn’t suit me. I feel my name, my REAL name, suits me just fine. BUT, Pieternella is so looooonnng to write, so I thought maybe it would be easier for people to write/say Pietra. However, I’m finding Pietra is actually harder for people to say properly then Pieternella. You see, Pieternella is REALLY easy to say, it’s simply pronounced Peter-nella. Easy!

So after all this, I’m wondering if I shouldn’t just stick with Pieternella. Maybe in my emails I could add the pronunciation in brackets so people would know it’s not some weird pronounced name that they’d never be able to say.

Want to know my FULL name? ha! Now that is a REAL mouthful, but I love it. My full name is Pieternella Alida Geertruida. And no, that does NOT include my last name. lol Try and say that three times fast, IF you can figure out how to pronounce it!

I was named after THREE of my aunts. Isn’t that awesome? When my one aunt (my aunt Pieternella, or as we know her, Tante Nel) came for a visit from Holland last  year, she brought me a bracelet that my father had given to her when he was in the army as a young man. What a treasure! It makes me happy to have that little piece of history. 🙂 I love history.

And with that little bit of history, that’s enough rambling or I’ll carry on rambling all night and it’s almost midnight so I really should get to bed soon! I’ve just finished stocking the shop. There’s some nice things there this week, some packages, some custom slots including my favorite this week, a fishy PRR custom dundie slot for children. Aren’t these fabrics adorable?

So come check it out. Everything goes live Friday at 2pm est, that’s 11 am pst (my time).

We hope to see you then! http://hyenacart.com/HomesteadEmporium/

And if I haven’t mentioned it recently, I really DO appreciate your continued support of our family business. YOU are what makes it great. REALLY! You are!

Tomorrow we will be announcing the contest winners. I had hoped to do it today but we were out later then expected and I only had time to get the photos taken, edited and the listings done. I don’t want to rush giving everyone their numbers, so I’m going to go ahead and do it tomorrow when I have a bit more time! So come back tomorrow evening and take a look to see if maybe YOU are one of our winners. 🙂