Greetings everyone! Thank you so much for all the terrific recipes and great suggestions for summer reading! 🙂

I‘ve made a page with all your summer recipes and you can check it out by clicking here. (Later this month, I’ll try to move the recipes to our main “recipe box”, where I’ll file them by their individual categories, like desserts, salads, etc.)

To make it easy for you to peruse the summer reading recommendations, I’ve compiled them into a complete list! To view it, click here.

Now, on to this week’s giveaway, which is a gorgeous pair of earrings!

These “Violet Petals” earrings feature very special artisan-crafted lampwork glass beads. The beads are decorated with tiny violets, in purple and white on an amethyst background. Notice the trailing green vines!

The lampwork beads are accented with Swarovski amethyst crystals and all of the metal embellishments and findings are sterling silver.

For pierced ears, the earrings measure 1-5/8 inches in length including the sterling silver earwires.

Contest Rules and How To Enter

This week, you will have up to four (4) chances to enter the weekly giveaway.

You can choose any or all of the following 4 ways to enter:

1st Chance:

Leave a comment answering the first weekly question:

Describe something funny that has happened to you!

2nd Chance:

Leave a comment answering the second weekly question:

If you were a crayon, what color would you be?

3rd and 4th Chances:

Come back another day this week and leave a comment any other post on this blog. It can be left on a very recent post or an old post. There are over 180 posts – take a peek at the “Categories” on the right side of the page for choices.

Please note: You do NOT have to tell me that you left a “comment” on another post. The blog program shows me all of the “comments” as they come in – so I do not miss any of them! 🙂

The Boring Stuff . . .
You must be 18 yrs. old. After the completion of the contest, the name of the winner will be listed here. The winner will also be notified by email. If no valid email address is given at time of entry, or if winner fails to respond to email within 3 days from the time notification email has been sent, the win will be null and void and a new winner will be chosen. The prize will be mailed by USPS First Class Mail.

All entries must be received by 9:00 p.m. EST on 07/19/09, and the winner will be selected on or about 07/20/09.