﻿{"id":320,"date":"2011-07-23T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/?guid=e9465a1630288a41998d7b95874c342e"},"modified":"2011-07-23T00:42:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T00:42:56","slug":"in-my-mailbox-jackpot-or-craftpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/2011\/07\/23\/in-my-mailbox-jackpot-or-craftpot\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Mailbox: Jackpot or CraftPot!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RoCFpOUTeE4\/TioW_v56VpI\/AAAAAAAALfg\/JqgVWLBCzJk\/s1600\/mailbox1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"185\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RoCFpOUTeE4\/TioW_v56VpI\/AAAAAAAALfg\/JqgVWLBCzJk\/s200\/mailbox1.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">In My Mailbox is a book blog meme that was started a couple years ago by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestorysiren.com\/p\/in-my-mailbox.html\">The Story Siren&#8217;s blog<\/a>. &nbsp;In her words:<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>&#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">What it all came down to was this: I get books to read and then ultimately share my thoughts about with my readers. As much as I want to, I can\u2019t possibly read every book I receive. Yet, I still wanted a way to feature those books on the blog, even though it might not be in the form of a review. Problem solved!<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">Every week I&#8217;d share the books I received that week&#8230; ones I&#8217;d bought, or gotten at the library, and ones that I&#8217;d receive to review on the blog. That way I could mention titles that might not otherwise get some face-time on The Story Siren.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">In the past I have posted IMM on my <a href=\"http:\/\/booksreadingitall.blogspot.com\/\">Book Review Blog<\/a> (if YA, fantasy, mystery or crafts are your thing feel free to join me over there) &nbsp;and I thought I would apply it to this blog on maybe a monthly basis!<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">As the title suggests, &nbsp;I received a bumper crop of books (and DVD&#8217;s) for review!<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-2sEV8DmJyR0\/TioTW1dp5mI\/AAAAAAAALfY\/7ab9q2sB6FY\/s1600\/100_1929.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-2sEV8DmJyR0\/TioTW1dp5mI\/AAAAAAAALfY\/7ab9q2sB6FY\/s320\/100_1929.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I have to tell you, I&#8217;m in a&nbsp;quandary&nbsp;as to where to start&#8230;the bulk of the books came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkcrafts.com\/\">Lark\/Sterling<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FRrko13tzdk\/TioUFGpHfxI\/AAAAAAAALfc\/ynXTCgKxU_w\/s1600\/100_1930.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FRrko13tzdk\/TioUFGpHfxI\/AAAAAAAALfc\/ynXTCgKxU_w\/s320\/100_1930.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">&#8230;the DVDs are from<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bluecapproductions.com\/\"> Bluecap Productions<\/a> and I WON the &#8220;Better Know Your Hammer&#8221; book from Wendy Edsall-Kerwin&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/hammermarks.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/14\/and-the-winner-is-2\/\">Hammermarks<\/a>&nbsp;(where I have watched Wendy go from beginner Metals skills to the consummate professional she is today).<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b><i>So &#8211; be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for great reviews and a couple of exciting giveaway announcements!<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3379247251712500914-2074774320359369789?l=flyviewsandreviews.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In My Mailbox is a book blog meme that was started a couple years ago by The Story Siren&#8217;s blog. &nbsp;In her words:&#8221;&nbsp;What it all came down to was this: I get books to read and then ultimately share my thoughts about with my readers. As much as I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[427,429,426,428,430,165,305,302,424,303,425],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}