29 July 2012

Everyone's A Winner!

I know no one can wait to hear a progress report on my birthday book giveaway, so here it is: In Third Place is Jane of Lempo Bee! Jane purports to be a creative and very productive seamster in Australia with three totally adorable tousle-haired boy children. In fact, Jane's kids are so beautiful, and so reliably delighted with her craft and sewing output, that I am quite sure she has invented her whole life (created it out of whole cloth, as it were) and is really a hairy old man in Arkansas or somewhere. Nevertheless, I will play along and send Claire Schaeffer's Couture Sewing Techniques to the address "Jane" made up in South Australia. Congratulations, "Jane"!

Jane's entry was scientifically selected by me reaching into the bag and pulling out the first scrap of paper I found. BO-RING. So to select Winner Number 4 I decided to use whatever number the winner of the Olympic Women's Road Cycling event was wearing this morning in London. Now, this was kind of risky, because there were over 60 entrants in the road cycling event, while only 8 lovely women are competing for my books. Luck was with me, however, and with Marianne Vos of The Netherlands, who won the race wearing number 8. Commenter number 8 was and still is The Perfect Nose! The Perfect Nose is an enchanting, energetic and imaginative seamster whose work was already adorable enough before she splashed paint all over a dress and made total magic this week. Or last week. Or whatever month it is in the Antipodes, where TPN sews and blogs. The Perfect Nose, conveniently, wants me to send her Leather Fashion Design, and plans to make leather jackets for her entire biker gang. I might have that wrong, but I think that's what she said.

I am totally loving running this giveaway, although the logistics have turned out to be a little complicated. It turns out it is cheaper to buy Couture Sewing Techniques from Amazon and have Amazon ship it to "Jane" than to send her my copy, so that's what I am doing. So that leaves 6 books for 7 commenters, which means the point of all this scientific selection is to pick a LOSER, not a winner. Well, that sucks. So I'll figure out something to send to the loser last winner and yes, that means, except for you losers who didn't enter, EVERYONE'S A WINNER!

6 comments:

  1. Haha! *** scratches smelly hairy butt***
    Actually as I read this my youngest monster child drove a toy bus into the face of middle monster child prompting me to yank smallest by his arm to time out. Yep, all picture perfect here ;)
    Oh my, I did worry about the postage! That's crazy that it's cheaper to get it shipped new! However I won't look a gift horse blah-de-blah (if that's even the appropriate saying to use here) so... THANKS KC!

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    1. Amazon says you will get your book sometime in September! So don't hold your breath.

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  2. hahahaha, good stuff! Thank you so much for setting up this giveaway, you made my day/week/month with your email! I'm all recovered now from the oh so sexy Aussie men's swim team's slightly underwhelming Olympic performance XD

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    1. You'll have forgotten all about this giveaway by the time your book gets to you, I think. So you can get excited all over again and rescue another rotten week!

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