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I’ve been known to tell people that I never win anything. That’s not quite true, of course, as I’ve won a few things over the years, including a nice gift certificate to my local quilt shop<\/a> recently. However, about a week ago I began to get shipping notices from Williams-Sonoma<\/a> — notices for four different packages. Considering that I hadn’t ordered anything, I was confused and called for clarification. After some sleuthing around, the very nice service person informed me that I’d won a drawing from T-Mobile<\/a>, which is our cell provider. Wow!<\/p>\n

The first package arrived on Monday, containing a lovely set of four white wine glasses. Yay! I drink wine, so this was definitely a plus. The next three packages were to arrive the following day, and I was expecting similar gifts. Wrong<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"dinnerware<\/a>The other three boxes (why didn’t I take a photo??) were so large that our very nice UPS man hung around for a few minutes to be sure that we could even fit them through the door. In unpacking them, I almost went into shock! We were given service for eight — dinner plates, salad plates, coffee mugs, soup bowls, white wine glasses, red wine glasses, old fashioned glasses, champagne flutes. Also included were a dozen napkins and two place settings of gold flatware to coordinate with the narrow gold rim on the dishes. All of this was actually sent from West Elm<\/a>\u00a0(but provided by T-Mobile, as I said), which partners with Williams-Sonoma.<\/p>\n

So now I’ll never again say that I never win anything! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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