Runaway October

Thanks to every­one for par­tic­i­pat­ing! We had 80+ com­ments.

Random.org tells me that #70 is our win­ner! Yay! *

And who is #70? Why, that would be Shawna.

So Ms Shawna, I will be email­ing you soon. I hope you devour the book as quickly as I will!

Thank you to every­one for par­tic­i­pat­ing! Best of luck in the other give­aways. And a HUGE THANK YOU to Ms. Carey for being gra­cious enough to not only give away a signed edi­tion, but to let me host the give­away on my hum­ble lit­tle blog.

*The num­bers selected for Random.org started at com­ment #3 , because #1 and #2 were com­ments from my hus­band and I, so we don’t count.

I seem to do this every year around this time, don’t I?

How do you like it? Any­thing weird that you notice?

And speak­ing of shiny, or more appro­pri­ately, shin­ers, how do you like this baby? He, sadly, did it to him­self when one of the stools he was bal­anc­ing on slipped out from under him. Poor dude.

I WON! I am SO not kid­ding. I WON!

I’m usu­ally not one to answer my cell­phone from Unknown Callers, but for some rea­son I answered this call. Then I talked very calmly, to a lovely woman named Stacey (because I’m sure she didn’t want to hear me squeal), hung up the phone and THEN squealed like an idiot.

Check out the offi­cial announce­ment here. This is my goofy appli­ca­tion. I feel so dumb writ­ing these things. Thank­fully the judges must have a sim­i­lar sense of humor.

They asked just a few things from me; To keep my pas­sion and con­tinue doing exactly what I do and to cross­post on a blog that they will host for me. In return, they will spon­sor a few of my crafts. And I’m hop­ing for a serger. Maybe my Etsy shop is closer than we all think?

I haven’t got much infor­ma­tion from them, but do you know who’ll I’ll tell first when they give me more info? Besides imme­di­ate fam­ily and the neigh­bors and the guy at the con­ve­nience store and every­one on Face­book and all my sec­ond cousins twice removed? You Guys! Yay!

And, in con­clu­sion, thank you — to all of you who voted, all of you who encour­age me when I hold up a project, wrin­kle my nose and ask “Does this look stu­pid?”, and to who­ever gave me my cre­ativ­ity since both of my par­ents claim it wasn’t them and it was my Great Aunt Kather­ine, whom I never met and thank you to Prilosec!

I’m ram­bling.

Now, really in con­clu­sion, Yay! Thank you!

I’ve been tagged by Tamara of Quar­ter of an inch, so here’s my… uhm, entry?

“Open the 6^th pic­ture folder on your com­puter, open the 6^th photo and blog it. Write some­thing about it. Then tag 6 more peo­ple to do the same.”

This pic­ture is hor­ri­ble. It’s fuzzy and there’s a shadow run­ning through it. I like it though. It’s my lit­tle brother pos­ing while get­ting ready to play WoW. Notice the cute pink tower in the lower cor­ner, it’s my moms com­puter — doesn’t that rock? He’s sin­gle ladies. I’ll give you his email

As far as tag­ging peo­ple, well… if you’d like to play please help your­self. Just leave a lit­tle com­ment to let us know and we’ll come visit once you post. Capiche?

PAY IT FORWARD

The first THREE peo­ple to leave a com­ment on this post will receive, at some point dur­ing the year, a hand­made gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total sur­prise. The catch is that you must par­tic­i­pate as well. Before you leave your com­ment here, write up a pay it for­ward post on your Blog to keep the fun going ( or you can cut and paste from this one like I did ) then come back and let me know you’re going to play. Then sit back and wait to receive your fun gift : ) Remem­ber that only the first THREE com­ments will receive a gift from me, so hurry, hurry, hurry !

Thanks Lisa!