Sassy Priscilla

And the Winner is...

Hey - It has only been 5 weeks since I offered the free book contest for the Prairie Girl's Guide to Life.  This is how I roll sometimes and I'm so sorry. I have such great intentions and wanted to make presents for everyone that entered and then time kept slipping away...

I'd like everyone that entered to email me your address (I'm talking Ren, Diane, June, and Nadine) so I can send them a little something that may or may not be handmade. Just e-mail at sarah @ sassypriscilla.com (please remove the spaces) or just respond on this entry and I will email you back to get your address.

Stacy, you are the big winner. Aidan picked the name so you can thank or blame him. In case you don't know Stacy, she has a blog called Stacy Sews. She is an accomplished seamstress whose energy rivals June in how much she can accomplish in a single day. She makes beautiful pears and had her pattern published in Sew News and has also designed a fabulous Wonder Woman apron. She just moved into her new home, has a cute daughter named Taylor, and is expecting a baby boy.

I hope you and Taylor enjoy the book!

Not a Very Good Contest Holder...

Hey - remember when I was going to give away a book and had people put their comments in about what they were like as girls? I haven't forgotten about that - I just got busy and I have some extra plans for it.  Hang in there.

My tardiness is anyone else who wishes to comment's luckiness.  There is still time to tell me about your girlhood interests and be entered in the contest.

That is Laura Ingalls Wilder to the left. That picture was better than one I had found when she was younger. It looked like one of those creepy Victorian death pictures. Sorry, prairie girl, you were lovely but that photograph gave me the heebs.

I'm sorry for not finishing this contest yet.  I don't know how some of you do it! I only have one child and work from home. Some of you have more than one child, are pregnant, work outside of the home, blog daily, sew daily, many of the above... I am just plain not an organized person.

Who Wants a Book? The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life

I bought The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life on Amazon along with The Daring Book for Girls and the Dangerous Book for Boys. I bought these books for nieces, a nephew, and Aidan. 

I also received a George Winston piano book and an Old School Sesame Street DVD (which I hear Aidan laughing at right now- score!). I'm happy Aidan likes the DVD, which I couldn't hang on to for Christmas for reasons that attack me every time I buy gifts early.  He wasn't nuts about the Electric Company DVD I bought earlier but I was thrilled with it.

Back to the books. I love those Daring and Dangerous books--A LOT. However, The Prairie Girl's... book, while really cool, is geared to much older girls. Like maybe 30-somethings and up.  This book is up for grabs.  All you have to do is type in the comments about what your interests were as a little girl. I will draw a name somehow on Friday.

I'll start:  As a little girl, I adored my mom. Still do! I faked being sick so I could be home with my mommy.  I loved playing with baby dolls, playing school, playing barbies, playing tag, dreaming under the pear tree, doing gymnastics on the lawn, bike riding, making May day baskets for the neighbors, hiding out in the tree house my dad made, baking and crafting with my mom, dressing my cats in baby doll clothes, making clothes for my stuffed squirrel, and roller skating. Mom - is there anything else you can think of?

Harry Potter : Let's get on with it

Does Harry Potter die? Is Snape good or evil? What becomes of Harry and his friends?

I am very excited to know these answers. However, last book release, I accidentally stumbled on a major plot twist on the Internet. I was on a site that had nothing to do with Harry Potter and some jerk posted information in the comments. It was quite depressing.

This year I have vowed to avoid the Internet until I have finished the new book which I am to pick up at midnight tomorrow. Yay!

Robert Crais - Flirt?

My Dad (pictured on the right at left. Huh?) and I went to see Robert Crais today. He is the author of the Elvis Cole mystery books. His latest, The Watchman, features Elvis' partner Joe Pike.  His books are fast-paced, well-developed, and great fun to read.  I highly recommend his series.  When he started in the business he wrote for such TV shows as Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacey, and Miami Vice. I bet he wore loafers without socks.

He is pretty funny and very nice in to his readers.  I bought a book and an advertising poster board. He signed the board "For Joe Pike's Main Squeeze." Jeff is going to start wondering about me and my fictional men. His signature in my book is something similar.  Plus, I won't mention the obvious about Robert Crais other than it rhymes with ransome and soxy even if he is wearing that silly shamrock around his neck.

We went to see Robert Crais at Mystery One bookstore on the East Side.  This is a tiny gem in Milwaukee.  It is stacked with great hardcover and paperback mysteries along with many first-editions. Richard Katz, the owner (pictured on the left at right. What?), always has great authors in his store. He must have a great relationship with Robert Crais as apparently Joe Pike (I haven't read the book yet and don't want to spoil it) takes on the alias of Richard Katz. I had Richard autograph my book, too.

It was a real treat to get to spend time with my dad out and to go to the signing! Even though noone got my Erin-Go-Braugh-less joke.