Things I'm Thankful For | 51-60

51. Hand-crafters
52. Midwest values
53. Smiles
54. Estate Sales
55. Music at Jacob’s Well
56. Happy Hours with friends
57. Co-workers
58. Friends
59. Family
60. My mom, who has become one of my best friends over the year

Things I'm Thankful For | 41-50

41. Math skillz
42. Cordless Drills
43. Staple gun
44. Handy men
45. Starlight Theater
46. Real books and magazines, not just the on-line variety
47. But I also appreciate on-line magazines
48. Online Giveaways
49. Discovering friend’s blogs
50. Garmin & reducing my driving/parking anxiety everyday

Things I'm Thankful For | 31-40

31. Pandora
32. Disposable income
33. Days without need for air conditioning or heating
34. Vacuums
35. An unexpected class cancellation
36. Word-of-mouth referrals
37. Bike rides
38. People who will go on bike rides with you
39. Elliptical machine
40. Crunchy Leaves

Things I'm Thankful For | 21-30

21. Olive
22. Chartreuse
23. Craft Paper
24. Grey
25. Olive is Not Drab. Neenah Promotional Book
26. Keyboard shortcuts
27. Multiple artboards in Adobe Illustrator CS4
28. Archer, the font
29. Neutra, the font
30. iTunes Genius

Things I'm Thankful For | 11-20

11. Cold pizza
12. Crockpots
13. Herringbone
14. Twill
15. Houndstooth
16. Chevron patterns
17. Wool Felt
18. Linen
19. Burlap webbing
20. Dark Teal

Things I'm Thankful For | 1-10

Well, last year I counted down 100 things I'm thankful for prior to Thanksgiving... this year I'm following it up with 60 things (100 is a lot!) I'm thankful for, starting with food (again):

1. Goat Cheese
2. Greek Yogurt
3. Grape tomatoes straight off the vine & warm
4. Roasted Garlic
5. Roasted Red Pepper
6. Roasted tomatoes
7. Roasted eggplant
8. Jalapeño Jelly
9. Iowa Sweet Corn
10. Trying new foods

100 Things to be grateful for: 91-100

91. Everything in it's place.
92. Cleaning as you go.
93. Volunteering
94. Bold patterns and stripes
95. Family in the same city
96. Cats
97. Google Reader, Calendar, and Maps
98. Friends who visit you on your birthday.
99. Visiting friends.
100. Vector art.

And there you have it, 100 things I'm thankful for this year. Happy Thanksgiving!

100 Things to be grateful for: 81-90

81. Saturdays
82. Hallmark's design resources
83. Big brothers, the related kind
84. Cowl necks
85. Handmade items
86. Telling the truth
87. Early morning sun. It's what gets me going every morning.
88. Red Box. Best invention ever. (ok maybe not the absolute best, but it's pretty awesome)
89. Hugs. Nobody beats bear hugs from my daddy.
90. Closets, cabinets, and drawers to hide a mess.

100 Things to be grateful for: 71-80

71. Getting packages at work
72. Books organized by color
73. Fancy cigar boxes
74. Bi-weekly 40% off coupons for JoAnn's Fabrics
75. My new hairstylist, Keja
76. Thickening + lengthening mascara
77. New eye glasses
78. A new car that doesn't rival me in the number of weird noises made per day.
79. Parent visits
80. Good massages

100 Things to be grateful for: 61-70

61. Modern Furniture
62. Ingrid Michaelson, my current fav musician
63. Seeing my friends happy
64. Curiosity
65. "Spontaneous" road trips to Chicago with a great friend
66. Lindsay and Megan for encouragement at the gym
67. My new muscles for going to the gym
68. Being able to say I did 150 push-ups in one work-out. Boy-style.
69. Random sweet notes & text messages
70. Wool felt

100 Things to be grateful for: 51-60

51. Roomates
52. Being "grown up"
53. Apartment Referral Rewards
54. Neenah paper samples and swatch books
55. Tabloid extra sized paper
56. Etsy
57. Regretsy
58. Cash back on my credit card
59. Exact change.
60. Good typography

100 Things to be grateful for: 41-50

41. Co-workers who bring me soup
42. Co-workers who take corrugate tubes home to cut for me
43. Co-workers who entertain
44. Co-workers who don't judge my snack obsession
45. Co-workers who listen
46. Co-workers who fill the birthday sock
47. Co-workers who give you your very own golden chalice to use on your golden birthday
48. Co-workers who give you compost items on a daily basis. You know, banana peels, coffee grounds, burlap, etc.
49. Co-workers who craft
50. Co-workers who assist you on crazy pie quests. Mmm. Strawberry rhubarb.

100 Things to be grateful for: 31-40

31. Day light savings time
32. Spring mornings
33. Navy, the color
34. The Big Bang Theory (the TV show), it makes me giggle every time! Bazinga!
35. Nerds
36. Trips back to Iowa with the changing seasons
37. Barns
38. Changing colors of Fall
39. the smell of fresh cut grass
40. White Winter Wonderlands

100 Things to be grateful for: 21-30

21. Good food
22. Sewing machines
23. Laser cutters
24. Nicknames
25. Green flowers (not the fake kind, Sheryl)
26. The wholesale florist on my way to work
27. Patio gardens
28. Differences of opinions
29. Cozy blankets and pillows (I have to sleep with at least 3 pillows!)
30. Friends finding their true loves

100 Things to be grateful for: 11-20

Post numero dos with ten things I'm grateful for:
11. Friends that accept, support, and encourage my nerdiness (like expanding my work Halloween costume name).
12. Pantone, my webkinz cat from a co-worker
13. Computers
14. InDesign and Illustrator
15. Optical Kerning
16. Command Z
17. Antique stores
18. Recycling Centers
19. The internet
20. Blogs

100 Things to be grateful for: 1-10

Taking a page from Oh For Heaven Cakes, I'm going to blog 100 things I'm grateful for, 10 per day counting down to the big Turkey Day! Here's 1-10, all foods, in no particular order:
1. Deal's Orchard Apple Cider
2. Blue Koi, probably my fav restaurant in KC
3. Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
4. Peanut Butter Blossoms. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. Scotcheroos. Anything with peanut butter + chocolate
5. Crasins
6. Moscato. Sangria. Riesling.
7. Laughing Cow Cheese, which is even more delicious when paired with a delicious Granny Smith apple or crisp celery.
8. Vegetables. Yum.
9. Homegrown tomatoes
10. Cucumber rye sandwiches