tuesday's true confession and A GIVE-AWAY

I don't get it . . . I confess this week that I don't get why people read this blog.  Don't get me wrong . . . I'm super excited that people do read this blog.  If you are reading right now, please don't stop!  I just didn't really expect anyone to except my family . . . but it turns out they don't read twelve crafts till Christmas, and yet, total strangers do.  hmmm . .  curious!  

Then when I hit fifty followers, I thought, "Hey, it would be neat if I could have 120 followers by December 25."  How did I come up with the seemingly random number 120?  Well, it seemed logical and doable . . . that would be 10 followers added per month.  To my delight, I hit 120 sometime about two weeks ago - six full months before Christmas.  I realize, of course, that the number of followers a blog has doesn't completely reflect the number of people who read a blog - could be more . . . could be less.  I'm going to pretend it's not less.  :)  

Either way though, I'm gonna allow myself a little happy moment and celebrate by giving away a $30.00 gift card to CSN stores, a web-based site that compiles the products of more than 200 stores into one site for simplicity and ease.

I snooped around to find some of my favorite things at CSN that can be purchased for less than $30.00.  Here are six of my favorite finds out of hundreds and hundreds for under $30.00.

-DuneCraft Bonsai Village

-Educational Insights Magnetic Board

-Sprouts Eco-friendly Art Smock

-KidCo Baby Steps Hand Crank  

-Blomus Utilo Tea Accessories

-Feel and Find Shapes and Toys

Give-away Guidelines

So . . . here's how you can be the winner of my give-away and pick out your own favorite item under $30.00 or put $30.00 toward a must-have higher priced item.

For your first entry (everyone must do this first before other entries will be counted):

-become a new follower and tell me that you are in a comment OR
-be a follower already and tell me that you are in a comment

For two extra entries (please comment twice that you did this step in the comments section and include a link to your blog in one of the comments):

-throw my button up on your blog sidebar until this give-away ends June 25, 2010

For three extra entries (please comment three times that you did this step in the comments with a link to your post in one of the comments):

-write a post about this give-away linking people to my give-away post

This gives each person six possible chances to win.  Woo hoo!

Give-away ends June 25, 2010 - six months till Christmas!

Thanks again soooooo much for reading and . . .

craft on!