Well, they are ordered! Now I have to write the newsletter, wait for the cards to arrive, get the address labels ready, write personal notes, add stamps (already purchased) and get them in the mail…..
Have been insanely busy for the past two weeks or so with this and that, but I’ll start with the best first: Eli’s wrestling season has begun! A week ago the team attended a 6-team pre-season meet and WON despite some early-season wobbles by some team members. Eli is, for the first time, losing a bit of weight which is commonplace in wrestling. Fortunately, this is carefully monitored by the governing body and the school: you weight in a couple weeks before the season, you are limited to losing only a small percentage of your body weight, and you cannot lose it too fast (or you can’t wrestle), and total body fat percentage cannot go to low. So fear not, folks! Anyway, Eli is wrestling at 145 pound weight class.
Eli, back to camera, begins getting ready mentally by pacing the sidelines. I get ready mentally by taking a “good juju” photo of him pacing.
The team begins warm-ups.
Eli practicing at warm-ups with Connor (Eli is facing the camera)
Eli’s (in red) first match. Notice the ref smacking the mat to indicate he has pinned his opponent and won.
Second match, against Massabesic. Pinned!
Eli: third match: pin! Are you noticing a trend here?
Then this weekend, while I was doing a fundraiser at the concessions stand at the high school (so the Cross Country and Track and Field teams can buy two EZ-Up tents), was the first official meet of the season. Eli wrestled both at his own weight class and up one, at 152-lbs. He had five matches. He won one by forfeit (no opponent in the weight class on the other team). Eli won three on points and one by a pin. The above are all pins. When you pin someone’s shoulders for a full second (which lasts a lot longer than you’d think, and especially if someone is wiggling their shoulders on and off the mat a lot), the match ends and you win. Otherwise there are three periods of two minutes each. You get various points for take downs, escapes, back points, and so on. If you win on points, you have wrestled all three full periods (with delays for nosebleeds, stalemates, throwing up –when someone puts a REALLY tight waist on, and so on).
Eli’s fifth and final match was against the kid from local rival Belfast, a town about 30 minutes north of Camden Hills. Said kid placed third at States last year. At the end of regulation (the third period) it was tied at 5-5. In DOUBLE OVERTIME ELI WON 9-5!!!!!! WOW! So he is still undefeated. We are looking forward to the season, tho I’ll admit Eli is already looking forward to eating as much as he wants once the season is over in March! Yes, I am an unabashedly Proud Mama! (And he’s Honor Roll, too!)
The winner of the video download from Lisa Walton’s portion of the bloghop is Jodie A, comment number 9 (thank you to random.org for providing the online random number generator between 1 and 17). THANK YOU!
To order a DVD, visit my Store page here, or to order either the DVD or a digital download, visit Quilting Arts’ Interweave Store, here.
Make sure to enter the final Grand Finale Bloghop and Giveaway, here. The drawing will be December 10th. That’s SOON!
We’re celebrating the release of my video workshop with one final GRAND finale including this DVD and the loot below!
WOW! What a wonderful tour of art and the world we’ve been on with both the September/October and November/December bloghops and giveaways! Thank you so much to Quilting Arts and Interweave for sponsoring this with DVDs and downloads, Mistyfuse for their wonderful products that I use to make my art, and Havel‘s for great scissors. And ENORMOUS thank yous to my intrepid reviewers who helped make this bloghop possible: Jamie, Deborah, Vicki, Leslie, Terry, Gloria, Diane, Marie, Brenda, Jaye, Susan, Daphne and Lisa: THANK YOU!
The December Grand Prize Giveaway includes Two packages of Mistyfuse, a package of Transdoodle (all thanks to Mistyfuse), a Bag of scissors, snips and seam ripper from Havel’s PLUS non-stick scissors, the October issue of Quilting Arts with my article on What a Difference a Background Makes, and the 2010-11 Quilting Arts Gifts issue with my project and many other still wonderful gift ideas!
Yep–if you would like a chance to win
all in time for a nice long winter (or summer depending on your location in the world), here’s what you need to know and do:
So let the fun begin! Comment away, and return to visit one of these fine artists (or ALL OF THEM!) and enjoy their art and thank them for participating.
And remember, you can always order the DVD from me (here) or a download or DVD directly from Quilting Arts/Interweave, here.
Jamie, Deborah, Vicki, Leslie, Terry, Gloria, Diane, Marie, Brenda, Jaye, Susan, Daphne and Lisa: THANK YOU!
Jamie Fingal http://jamiefingaldesigns.blogspot.com/
Deborah Boschert http://deborahsjournal.blogspot.com/
Vicki Welsh http://vickiwelsh.typepad.com/
Leslie Jenison http://leslietuckerjenison.blogspot.com/
Terry Grant http://andsewitgoes.blogspot.com/
Gloria Hansen http://www.gloriahansen.com/weblog/
Diane Perin Hock http://goingtopieces.blogspot.com/
Marie Johansen http://www.musingcrowdesigns.com/
Brenda Gael Smith http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/
Jaye Lapachet http://artquiltmaker.com/blog/
Susan Brubaker Knapp http://wwwbluemoonriver.blogspot.com/
Daphne Greig http://daphnegreig.blogspot.com/
Lisa Walton http://www.fibreinspirations.blogspot.com/
A quick addition to my bloghop-giveaway post featuring my friend Lisa Walton of Sydney, Australia. Remember I mentioned she made fabulous stenciled /painted quilts…she sent me a jpeg of my favorite: Orvieto Memories, inspired by a teaching tour she led to Italy.
Lisa Walton’s Orvieto Memories
Also, you can find Lisa on Facebook, here. This is her Dyed and Gone to Heaven Page, and she’s really close to TWO THOUSAND LIKES! Let’s help her get there, so go visit and LIKE her page! Enjoy surfing.
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