A Blogging Milestone

I reached a milestone last week in blogging -- I hit 100,000 total page views.  Yep, that little clicker on my dashboard that counts the page views like a car odometer counts your miles, turned over 100,000.  I know this is really small potatoes to the super-bloggers who probably get 100,000 page views in one week.  I don't have that kind of following here on my blog, so I was excited to reach this number.

I really appreciate those loyal folks who read my blog posts faithfully and regularly leave me comments.  You make my day and my week!!  I've enjoyed getting to know you and learning something about your lives.  How fun to meet people from Canada, England, Ecuador, Texas, New York, Maine, Colorado, California, Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina.  It's great to discover the things we have in common (a lot, it seems) and I've learned so much from all of you.  Great decorating tips, recipes, book recommendations, craft ideas, shopping tips, and beautiful photography, just to name a few.

In just a few months, I will have been blogging for three years.  Oh how time flies!  I thought I'd share my top-viewed posts over these past three years.  The number one most viewed post is "MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE."

I was pleasantly surprised that this picture ended up looking sort of like a Christmas card.  I am amazed that it's been my most viewed post of all time, and it has consistently stayed in first place for almost three years.

The second most viewed post is the post I wrote about a Scottish Terrier named MacDuff...  :)

"A Book Review and a New Friend" 

  My third most viewed post is "Finding Mitford," from July 2011.  This was also one of my favorite posts to write because I truly love the Jan Karon Mitford series.

The fourth most viewed post is "Our Kitchen Before and After," which I just wrote earlier this month.  Apparently it's true that everyone loves a good before and after reveal.  And my hubby thought I was a stalker for wanting to look at other people's houses.  :)

My fifth most viewed post is "Our Christmas Mantel" from December 2011.  I can definitely understand why Christmas posts are always popular.
 

The sixth most popular post was called "Tablescape -- Celebrating Spring."  Do you know, the main reason I first started blogging was so that I could share tablescapes and participate in Tablescape Thursday, hosted by Susan at Between Naps on the Porch.  This spring tablescape was only my third tablescape, and it was fun to create.  I miss tablescaping and I really need to get back to it.

In seventh place is "The New Decorating/Design Book," from February of this year.

The eighth most viewed post was "Adding Summer Touches to the Family Room." 

In ninth place is "First Tablescape Re-Posted and Second Blogging Anniversary." 

And the tenth most popular post is "For The Birds."  I've done two or three posts about the birds that visit our feeders; my husband and I love to watch them.  :)

I thought that some of you who are new to House at Forest Manor might enjoy seeing some of these older posts, and it was fun for me to look back at them.  Thank you for following along with me on this blogging journey; it makes all the difference to me.  :)

Have a great day!

Denise