The Stitch

We are totally nannied-up! Colleen has accepted the position, and started this morning. She has two delightful children and Elizabeth had a blast playing with them. So much fun, that she is, in fact, ASLEEP at this very moment, instead of doing her usual hour-long pre-nap ritual of rattling the cage (crib) walls off the hinges and smashing her tantrumming feet at the wall through the bars.

Colleen is AMAZING. I have a hard enough time balancing one kid on my hip, but she managed THREE. N'ary a teardrop in the house - I heard fits of laughter all morning while sewing. I'm awestruck.

Sweet Heaven on a stick. Life is good, once again. (Not that it was ever bad, but I was getting a little worried that I was going to be assigned to permanent night shift at the Very Merry Sweatshop while Brian took the day shift out-of-home. )

OK - news around the website - some may have noticed the addition of ads on the blog pages. We're not sure how they will work out, since so far all of them lead directly to our COMPETITORS' SITES. (mutter grumble) But we've been promised a cure for that. Brian installed special code last night, and in the process, our comments page was deleted. Brian has promised to fix that within the next day or so. (YAY, Brian!)

CONTEST! So be it! You win! I got tons of feedback about this, and it would seem that you all want a chance to win free garb! I'm all for it - so your job is come come up with the wackiest, funniest, craziest contest I could possibly offer. Make it something that anyone could easily do - no Mount Everest climbs or anything like that. Simple, clean fun.

Here are my ideas, pathetic as they may be:

The Annual Spring Leg Shearing Contest: for all you lovely ladies who stop shaving your legs for addittional warmth during these cold, chilly months. You can send in pictures of your hairy legs and the furriest pair wins!

What-were-you-thinking Faire Garb Contest: Break out your Crayolas and draw me up the most historically inaccurate, hysterically funny, off-the-wall Faire costume you can think of.

My-Guy-In-Tights Contest: Con your hubby/Significant Other/Brother/Father to don a costume that includes a pair of tights, and take his picture. You must own the copyright to the picture (meaning, you had to take it). Funniest tights-clad guy wins free garb for YOU. What does he get? The opportunity to have his picture (wearing tights, of course) plastered all over our website. How's that for a sweet deal?

Send in your ideas, and I'll choose one contest that sounds like it will be the most fun for everyone who may want to enter, and we'll get it underway within the next few weeks!