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A Friend's Giveaway!

My friend Eryn is having a contest/giveaway to celebrate the opening of her Etsy shop. Go quickly to her blog for details cause it ends today/Wednesday. Are these not darling!

Update on Previous Post...

My friend Nicci on the previous post is having a CONTEST for a FREE SESSION. Check it out!

The Winner is....

I'm home! It's wonderful to see my family again. Alexis has grown in the two weeks I've been gone. She's right at 5'5"! Can you believe that?

I didn't sleep well on the plane from China, maybe a half hour or so. I was able to sleep on the connecting flight from LA to Portland which was about 2.5 hours. Went to bed around 9PM and up WIDE AWAKE at 2am. I finally got up for the day at about 2:15am. I got a ton accomplished before Gary got up at 6am. Went down to the studio (the nice thing about having your biz on your property!) went through all the mail. Read my Bible, journaled and read several blogs! If ONLY... I could keep that schedule without total burn out. I was forced, due to dilirium, to finally take a two hour nap mid day.

Anyways, about who won!!! Thank you again for all of those who encouraged me through email and comments. I would have liked to include those of you who emailed but that would have been a lot of work. My girls and I were able to snap a picture of the screens of listed comments and cut them apart to do the drawing.

The first winner, chosen by miss Vanna (Alexis) is Molly! commenting on Day 6! Congrats Molly!

The second winner, chosen by mini Vanna (Jess) is Deb at Mountain Musings, commenting on Day 1. Thank you Deb for making me laugh several times through out my trip!

And, to those of you who didn't win and who live in the Portland OR, Vancouver WA area I think I may do a little party with the help of my friend Shannon to give you the chance to preview the new designs and of course just to get together!

It's off to bed with me! I'm fading fast.....

the WINNERS are...

I went ahead and did the drawing a few hours early so that it could be sent out in the morning feedblitz (for those of you who subscribe).

The lucky/blessed winners are:

bubdi
busylizzie358
moonmaiden

Thanks again all of you who entered to win a NEW Allen Designs clock! It was fun and I'll do it again probably next month.

Check out this gal Tammy's blog, Ideagirl's...Ideas, she is hilarious. I love the posts she wrote about working from home in her small business section among many others.

Drawing on Thursday, March 1!

I just want to say "thank you" for all the kind comments, the great emails and for all the entries into the contest. I didn't expect such a great turn out. We will be doing the drawing on Thursday, March 1. I've actually decided to give away three Allen Designs clocks for the drawing to express my thank you's!

BE A WINNER!

The prize is this beautiful Spring Butterfly Clock or this lovely Topiary Bird Clock (both have a value of $48) + we will pay to ship it to you!

There are three ways that you can enter:

1. click here to my up and coming website Close2myArt.com and enter our newsletter sign up list
2. make a comment on any of my posts (preferably nice, but honesty is good!)
3. enter your email address into the box in the top right hand corner of this blog to receive our most recent blog posts directly to your email.

You can enter all of these if you choose to and your name will be entered into the drawing each time. And I promise we will NEVER sell or loan your email to anyone!