Happy Saturday, everyone! The lovely Nat @ Book Line and Sinker is featuring my cookbook Kick the Can! as part of her ongoing Weekend Cooking series.
If you’d like to enter to win a FREE copy of Kick the Can! and get a preview (she’s shared my recipe for Cheesy Potato Chowder), CLICK HERE!
The lucky winner will be chosen this Wednesday, January 25th – enter now so you don’t miss out!
GOOD LUCK!
RUBY! Chosen by the highly scientific picking-it-out-of-a-hat method. Many thanks to the lovely John for his assistance, and to everyone else for entering and/or commenting and making me feel SUPER DEE DUPER. I know I’ve said it before – but really, can it ever be said too much?? My friends are the BEST.
Happy weekend to you all!!
SO. There I was, minding my own business, walking home w/ my family. We’re strolling down Baltimore Ave, as we are wont to do, when I spy a box on the edge of the sidewalk. FREE STUFF. As I never miss a bargain let alone a freebie, I mosey over and take a peek. The box was small w/ just a few t-shirts sticking out the side, but right there on top was a pair of jeans. Hmm. They looked good. New even. Ignoring my husband who told me I was going to get fleas – or WORSE – I snatched them right up. While John stood watching and yelling at Maddie to PUT DOWN THAT T-SHIRT, I unfurled the jeans. WOW. Abercrombie & Fitch low rise flares. Sweeeeet. And not only were they new, but they were NEW! AND also just happened to be my size. My EXACT Size. SHA-ZAM!!! At 5-10 I have a tough time finding pants long enough when I’m actually shopping and paying real money for them – but to find a perfect pair of $80 jeans just sitting there for the taking….??! I TOLD YOU I WAS LUCKY.
As soon as we got home I shot to the bathroom to try them on. I couldn’t BELIEVE IT. Even after I zippered them up and took a gander in the mirror. I marveled at my good fortune. Finding the perfect jeans. Literally. What are the chances?? And yet, If I’d followed my husband’s warning about CONTRACTING A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE these plums would’ve passed me by. If I gave a crap what other people thought of me as I trash picked, I would have missed a GRAND OPPORTUNITY. Not to wax too philosophical on the point, BUT
THE PHONE LINES ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN. To make up for the fact that I’ve been AWOL I am offering you all the chance to WIN a FREE BRACELET.
This lovely item was handmade by yours truly out of imported glass beads. It features an array of bedazzling shapes & colors w/ silver spring clasp closure.
Funky. Fun. Unique.
If you want to WIN this bracelet, just leave a comment below stating that I am great & you missed me tons. If you have trouble w/ this, pretend. But remember, SINCERITY COUNTS. If no one enters, I will keep the bracelet and wear it myself and stop blogging altogether.
GOOD LUCK.
PS: I will be taking entries until this FRIDAY (Sept. 12th) and will select the lucky winner at midnight (or before I go to bed, whichever comes first). Selection will be random. Unless I decide otherwise. GOOD LUCK.
The story:
I have inherited a whole boatload of pristine paperbacks from my sister.
She was moving, I was trying to be nice. She favors fiction, I like cookbooks.
The end.
Except now I have four boxes full of books I know I am never ever going to read. They are perched on one of our already-overstuffed bookcases and I am tired of dusting them. These books are lonely and long to be held. I have decided to do like my friend Curly, and turn this situation into a super fun CONTEST! From now until they’re gone, I will offer these books to a lucky winner – three at a time.
UP FOR GRABS in this inaugural contest:
1) The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
2) A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spenser
3) Little Children by Tom Perrotta
I cannot vouch for any of these books – I have not read them personally, but all 3 are in super shape, read only once by my smarty pants sister, and are now looking for a new good home. If you would like them, then please comment below. Entries will be taken through the holiday weekend to give people a chance to enter, and I will select the lucky winner via random number generator first thing Tuesday, May 27th. Good luck & many thanks!