Because this was all about RR and his club I decided to let him have the honor of picking the winner (also, in case you hadn’t already guessed, it’s way easier for me to take a picture if it’s his hands doing the mixing and the tossing).  So, without further ado…

Mix Mix…

Toss Toss…

Mix Mix…

Pick Pick…

The Winner!!

Congrats, Diane!  Leave a comment on my ‘Contact Me’ post and I’ll reply to you so we can discuss colors, favorite fibers and a shipping address!

Thanks to everyone for playing, RR is *very* happy that so many people voted!  You love him!  You really, really love him!  (well…the jury is still out on Cookie *aherm* ;op ) As soon as we know who won the grant I will let you know – unfortunately, our friend who works at the bank went on vacation this week and we forgot to check with him about a time frame for notification before he left.  He will be back next week and I’ll have a better idea – or we might even know by then whether we won.  You guys are AWESOME!  Way to show those car guys that fiber people ROCK!  ;o)

I did not have time to post an ECF photo this week because there was a large structure fire in our area.  R, as you know, is on the Fire Department and I, as you may not know, am involved in the Auxiliary.  Because of that, we spent 14 hours on Friday watching this happen:

Here is a link to the TV news coverage and to the local newspaper story.

Unfortunately, it was a total loss but thankfully, no one was hurt.  We had amazing support from surrounding departments, including a neighboring town’s support team who kept the guys hydrated and fed at the scene all day and local businesses who donated food, coffee and in one case a gift card to purchase whatever we needed to make sandwiches.

R just had to go back down to the scene because of a rekindle (the 2nd one since last night).  Me? …I’m going back to bed.

What have I been up to?  Holiday bags:

and maybe a little knitting.  The knitting needs to get photographed though and I haven’t had a chance to do that – nothing is at FO stage but I *am* knitting which is a big improvement from even a week ago when I hadn’t touched needles in forEVER.

The big news in the shop this week is you can take 15% off of everything in my Artfire shop if you use the code HOLIDAY2009 during checkout – and the holiday prints that you see up there?  Only going to be available until the 24th.  One of those bags is a Peanuts bag, too!  Snoopy!  Charlie Brown!  Gotta love it!  ;o)

(thanks for your patience regarding the dearth of posts and knitting…)

Go here.  ;o)

…and leave a comment, k?  The author would like to show the Times Union editors that there really are fiber people out there that really read the Fiber Arts blog.  Thanks!  See you tomorrow!

Guess who was the ‘official’ photographer?  Though they didn’t tell me this until after I had a cosmo so some of the pictures are a bit…uhm…crooked.

Here is my favorite (it’s only officers, the FD is bigger than seven guys):

Want to know how I got (almost) all seven to laugh like that?

I told them to say, “boobies make me smile!” *grin*  There’s something to be said for having your photographer get a little tipsy prior to a photo shoot…though if I were 100% sober I probably would have had R facing the right way…*sigh* ohwell…at least they’re smiling.  ;o)