*Handsomely Homemade Handout*

(I grabbed this photo from flickr.com)

The first five people who respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! (Though I hope you will!)

2. What I create will be just for you.

3. It'll be done this year. {might be a little while}

4. You have no clue what it's going to be. I don't even have a clue what it's going to be.

5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same thing to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to leave a comment will win a homemade gift! It may not be great, but it will be fun!!***Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it***

Thanks for the fun idea, Iris! Yes, I was one of the first five commenters on Iris' post of this subject and she will be making me something I will treasure, I'm sure!

I REALLY don't like to submit posts without pretty pictures. Here are other peoples' pictures of their handmade things that I think are really neat even if some are rather useless.

UPDATE: Apparently, a lot of people have been tagged to do this kind of post recently! How fun! I commented on a similar post in Constance Pelkey Designs and am hoping to get something delightful.

Ten C's

I've been tagged by Hektiklyfe to play this game...Post 10 things you love/like/enjoy that start with the letter "C" and tag ten people. :) Simple....or is it? Hektiklyfe did ten things with the letter "B" so I decided to do the letter "C". Whoever I tag should probably do the letter "D". I'm only going to tag one person......Samantha!
1. crayons
2. coupons
3. Cheez-itz
4. character
5. coffee
6. comedy
7. California
8. Christmas
9. (The) Carpenters
10. chocolate cake

That wasn't easy. I think I have too many edibles on my list. Your turn, Samantha.

Guess the Candy! UPDATED!

I played a little guessing game on my friend's blog http://thesilentpodium.blogspot.com/2008/12/meme-phocus.html and I won! So now it's my turn to play it in my blog and since I like the idea of a candy theme, here is a piece of a picture of one of my favorite candies. It is a variation of a well-known candy that has been around since the 1960s. This variation has been around at least since I was a kid and I'm *gulp* 30 years old. Ooh, this is fun!

You can take a guess and try to be specific. I will reveal the complete picture after I have gotten enough people to try to figure it out. Ready.....GO!

*UPDATE* Wow, look at all the guesses tumbling in! Haha, ok, really. The winner is my sister, Prolifegirly! The candy is... Chewy Sweetarts, cuz I like 'em. The real question is: how often do I eat them?
I haven't eaten them in over a decade I'm sure. It's a dental thing. The thought of coating my teeth in sugar keeps me away from all candy for 99.9% of my waking life. Ok, Samantha, you're the winner so it's your turn!

Tagged by Hektiklyfe: 7 Facts

This is a game. I was tagged byHektiklyfe @ http://thesilentpodium.blogspot.com/ to list 7 random facts about myself. I don't know how interesting you'll find them but I'm quite candid so you should find yourself entertained or enlightened by at least one of these. Everything else about me is just gonna have to be a secret.

1. I have always been afraid of drains, the kind in built-in pools and spas. I cannot explain why.

2. As a child and teenager I took a few years of ballet, tap and jazz dance classes. In my adult years I have taken modern, hip hop and ballroom classes.

3. One time I needed to go poop and I noticed both toilets were clogged (this was at Grandma Emma's house). I couldn't find a plunger so I asked God for help, outloud. I looked down and there stood the plunger.

4. I once lived with a cleptomaniac and a cocaine-addicted pre-school teacher, together. The coke-head turned the clepto into a cokehead, too, eventually. I moved to a new place the day after I found this out.

5. My fantasy is to live in an old farm house with a porch that wraps around, grow food and raise a few small farm animals.

6. I also fantasize about being a 1950s housewife and weighing 120lbs, doing chores in pretty dresses and heels.

7. I was kind of a nerd my whole life until I was a junior in high school. But even then, when I was technically "popular", I still didn't believe it or buy into it. When I dated the most popular and good-looking boy at school my senior year, I remember being at his parents' house thinking, "I can't believe I'm here."

This is the end of the game where I'm supposed to tag 7 readers but I think I only have 2 or 3 readers, one of which already tagged me! So, I tag my sister Samantha @ http://johnsamanthahodge.blogspot.com/ and if you're reading this and you have your own blog, you should start your own game. It's kinda fun.

Tagged by Samantha

I was asked to post the fifth picture in the fifth folder of my pictures, so, this is it. Jose shot it in March of this year. It's a house in Glendora, CA he had on the market. It was right across the street from a high school on a street called Amelia. Raquel and I were sitting in the car waiting for him to finish taking pictures. We had just had breakfast and it was an overcast day. That's all I can tell ya.
I tag Hektiklyfe: 6th picture in 6th album/folder.