Take your seats! Take your seats!

It's Monday morning and we're all busy, so let's call this meeting to order and take care of the first item of business immediately.

I've invited a special guest to help us today:




It's America's Favorite Television
Game Show Host,

Guy Smiley!




Thanks for your entries in the
100th Post Blog Giveaway . . .



We wish we could give the prize to all 21 of you, but that wouldn't make it much of a game show, would it?




And now, let's bring out Vanna (or in this case, Hannah) with the Impartial Head of Justice!

(applause)


The Impartial Head of Justice is a somewhat bizarre vase/cookie jar that, years ago, was the result of my first artist trade ever -- finally I've found a use for it!


All the names are inside. The shake-up . . .



The reach . . .


The grab . . .





And the winner is:

Daryl!




Daryl, come on down and claim your prize!
(actually, send me an email with your address
and we'll get it to you lickety-split.)

Daryl is also celebrating birthday month in May, and has requested the pink prize. You can check out her blog here.

(applause)

Tune in at the end of the post, folks, for information
regarding this week's
Second Week of Birthday Month
Blog Giveaway! (wild applause)

And now to the next item on today's agenda:


Wait -- That is the item.

What's next on the agenda?

Now that all my shows are over for awhile, I have a few things cooking in the studio. First is the new line of work,

Small Works' Conversation Pieces


top secret work being conducted in the Small Works Laboratories


which I am absolutely not going to show you today
nor am I going to give you any hints. Sorry.

But when they're ready, you'll be the first to know!

Also, a commission is underway that should be a lot of fun -- it's going to contain some of my old friends and probably a few new ones.




The idea for the piece is "Pull Up A Chair." We're all going to find out what it will look like and what it will say together. Excited? I'll introduce the participants as they materialize.




Also, Stay-at-Home-Mom #3 is now underway,
because can you really ever have too many
Stay-at-Home-Moms?


And now to the last item for discussion in today's meeting:

The Spectacular
Second Week of Birthday Month Blog Giveaway!

For this giveaway I'm doing something a bit different.

I have a friend whose family has a quirky Christmas tradition that I believe they fell into by accident. On Christmas Eve, they all gather at Grandma's house and they play "The Laundry Basket Game!" This game was invented the year Grandma had been cleaning out drawers and closets and put a lot of discards in a laundry basket, which she happened to pass around at the Christmas Eve gathering and required everyone to take something home from the basket.

Everyone got a prize, and Grandma got de-cluttered!
It is now a highly anticipated annual event.

So since Small Works could use a bit of de-cluttering as well, I'm putting together a special Laundry Basket (okay, package) of Bewildering Craft Bounty!

It will include wool from my stash, trims from my stash, buttons from my stash, stuff from my stash, Aunt-Lillie-ephemera from my stash, and all kinds of stash-related goodies (but not running shoes from my stash, although I also own a significant stash of those.)




Which, unfortunately, will hardly reduce my stash of stuff one bit (20 years in the business -- it's a big stash.)


Don't worry, I absolutely promise not to include the ever-present stash (read: giant wad) of threads and wool bits that lives on my desk.

But there will surely be some fun surprises for the lucky recipient!

All you need to do to enter is post a comment or send an email telling me your favorite color (so I can concoct a package just for you!) I'll leave the contest open until Saturday, and announce the winner at next Monday's meeting.



Now, it's almost the noon hour . . . so meeting adjourned.

Anybody want to go to lunch?