Countdown to 2010: My 10 Favorite Blog Posts of 2009

Happy New Year, friends! I'm so excited for the year ahead, and hope you are as well!

In the final day of our Countdown to 2010, I wanted to share some of my favorite posts from the past year. You wouldn't believe how excited I get every day to tap out these blog posts, but these are the ten posts that I most enjoyed writing. See if you remember them. If not, I've provided a link to refresh your memories.

In January, I had a friend who was having a difficult time, and in If I Could I Would, I put her troubles in a handbag and wished her worries away:

A little while later, I discovered that empty nests come with revolving doors when our youngest moved back in with us. We had just painted the bedroom to serve as a guest room and I was getting ready to choose a bedspread in A Spread of Bedspreads.

In February, we chased the winter blues away in a post entitled Some Late Winter Cheer with some images from Pottery Barn Kids.

Which leads me to the supposition that some of my favorite blog posts to write are those where we take an adventure together, one that we could only take in the Moxie Fab World. For example, in May we went to Prom Night together:

...and later that month I said, "Let's Celebrate Summer with a BBQ in the Moxie Fab World":

I had a lot of fun ranting about one of my favorite "pet" peeves--putting dogs in ridiculous costumes for Halloween--in a Moxie Fab Fashion Show for Fido:

...and I had a TON of fun putting together a blog post in which I showed you wallpaper from 2Modern.com and compared them to paper crafting products in one of my I'm Just Sayin' blog posts:

But I must admit, my all-time favorite posts to write are those in which I write my own poetry as I did in Autumn's at Our Doorstep:

...You Will Not Last 'til Dawn:

...and in From My House to Yours: Merry Christmas Again and Again:

So there you have it, friends, the blog posts I had the most fun writing in 2009. And while I loved putting these posts together for their visual appeal:

In the Pink
Three Cheers for the Red, White, & Blue
and Let's Cool Off with Some Hot Dogs

...and while I had a blast putting images to poems in these posts:

In the "Spirit of the Season"

The Poetry of Pumpkin
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
and Silver & Gold

...and while we had some fun learning about paper cutting and renowned artist Nicki McClure, I also thoroughly enjoyed our interviews with designers in our Ask Arounds, the trends to which we were introduced by other editors in our Editor's Choice feature, and I had a literal blast in our Valentine's Day Week, our Winter and Summer CHA Weeks, our World Tour of Card Making, and our Blogiversary Week.

Which makes me realize, as I've been counting down to the next year in the Moxie Fab World, how much this place really means to me. That you come to visit as often as you do, that you comment as supportively as you do, and that you participate as enthusiastically as you do makes it all the more rewarding to me personally. As 2010 begins, my hope is that we will have had this much fun and more when it ends, that we will know one another better, and that we will have made even more friends along the way. For really, you are what makes this place truly moxie fab, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that.

May 2010 bring hope, health, happiness, and moxie fabulousness to one and all,

~Cath

PS Be sure and vote for your favorite of these posts in the poll on the right, then leave me a comment saying what your favorite post of 2009 was and why by midnight MST on Sunday, January 3 and I'll draw a random winner for a moxie fab prize. And don't forget, there's a Tuesday Trigger going on! I hope that you will join us and play! :)