Watch this space for my latest win announcement!

I won something really, really good but I've been sworn not to say anything until it's made official. I am absolutely dying to tell someone!!!! Hopefully I'll get the all clear soon...

An amazing speed painter

My dad says:

Watch this amazing speed painter until the very last second...... what a twist at the end!

A Message From Your Kid's Teacher

My dad, my brother, and most everyone on my dad's side of the family are in teaching. So I can see why he found this amusing and sent it out in an email blast.

A double-header win day!

I won two things today!

I received a $10 Amazon gift card from Bonnie Blythe's blog in the recently-ended I Love Indie Books blog hop. I also got an email I won a free Foster Farms Oven Ready Entree coupon from the 3 Sons Have I blog. Do I need to say that I'm a happy camper, or is it completely obvious? :)

What a museum did to attract visitors

Wow, I haven't posted anything in almost 4 years! It doesn't mean my parents have stopped sharing their wisdom with me. In fact, it actually means I now have a 4-year backlog of wisdom that has gone unshared up until now! Here's what my dad sent me tonight:

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Flash Mob meets Pageant of the Masters -- WONDERFUL!!!

What a museum did to attract visitors

The Rijksmuseum (National Museum) in Holland had an idea: Let's bring the art to the people and then, hopefully, then will come to see more - at the museum. 

They took one painting of Rembrandt’s from 1642, “Guards of the Night” and brought to life the characters in it, placed them in a busy mall and the rest you can see for yourself!

Prize win from Deal Sharing Aunt

This is the prize I received in the mail today from Deal Sharing Aunt. It was part of a "green" blog hop and the prize box consists of:

-- A sewing kit
-- Gardening Gloves
-- Flower Pots
-- A pair of solar lights
-- A hose nozzle
-- Popsicle molds & a sack of 100 popsicle sticks (to be used as plant sticks)
-- A shovel
-- Pruning Shears
-- A green-themed tote bag
-- The book "How To Clean Practically Anything"

My husband had an accident with his hose a few weeks back and the nozzle had completely broken off of it. We spent about a half-hour at Lowe's yesterday, most of which was spent by him agonizing over which nozzle would be the best for him to get. And what do you know -- turns out one was coming to him for free the next day in the mail!

The best prize in the box is the book, since I know how to clean practically nothing.

Thank you, Aunt!