Unabashed Promotion, LOL

I follow @kiboomu on twitter, and they have designed a wonderful piano iPhone app of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for preschool children! They're going to give away 20 copies of this to 20 lucky winners!

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Aspiring toddler & preschool pianists now have a new way to take piano lessons!

Introducing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Piano iPhone App by KIBOOMU.

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"Spark your child's love of learning and musical creativity with this sing and play along piano." Eric Wiseman, PhD, Harvard University

"Both charming and colorful! Creates teachable moments whilst entertaining! Making animal sounds on a piano translates into big loud fun."
App Craver review: 8 stars out of 10

"Is an excellent children's learning app that I highly recommend!"
Crazy Mike's App review: 5 stars out of 5

"The fantastic touch keyboard just begs to be played with its light-up keys to guide your fingers to the correct notes."
App Discover review

"We love the app. A lot of fun and a great learning experience for kids!"
The Daily App Show review

"We love the colorful graphics and my daughter loves playing the piano!"
Heather Quinn-Shillin http://faithfamilyandfun.com

"The kids are having fun with it. It's our new favorite app!"
Chelle Cazella http://www.dappersnappers.com

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Created by a preschool teacher and pianist, this interactive app encourages children to take a more active role in learning!

It's also a really fun way to introduce children to playing piano!

With this play-a-song iPhone app, children can do the following:

follow the lighted keys or match the colorful music notes to the piano keys

watch the piano keys light up one by one with the song

press the start button and sing along

add animal sounds to the song

hear the song played on a banjo, xylophone, harp, flute, bells and more!

record your child singing and playing the piano!

sing and read karaoke style lyrics in English, French & Spanish

Playing the piano is not just fun, it's educational too!

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Research has shown that piano lessons:

1.Help Children in School

2.Raise Self Esteem.

3.Increase Coordination

4.Help Children to Concentrate

5.Help Children to be Well-Rounded!

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To enter, to win a copy of the iPhone app for your preschooler, leave a comment! PLEASE remember to leave some type of contact information (twitter ID or youremailaddress @ server.com in broken format).

20 winners will be chosen from the comments! Be sure to follow @kiboomu on twitter for app announcements and updates!
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Des Has Giveaway!

Today I got only ONE other new yarn up.... it is called Wearing the Green. It is a semi-bulky wool blend yarn in shades from deep lime to teal. It is available through my My7kids Etsy shop.

We did a bunch of stuff around the house today. I packaged up a bunch of orders to mail, and Richard and the kids used an old countertop to build a shelf in the shed so we can start moving boxes off the back porch into the shed for storage. In the late afternoon, we left to go to Des' house for the evening.

I called her to tell her I brought stuff to make burritos, and she said, isn't that funny, I have chicken and onions in the crock pot to make chicken enchiladas. LoL. Of course we are nothing alike. We ended up eating the chicken the same as the meat, because it was quite warm in the house and she didn't want to run the oven and make it hotter. But around 9 we did run the oven, because I made a double batch of brownies. We have about a dozen left, and left her around the same amount. Breakfast, eh.

Richie and Josiah went off to the local Big Lots to explore, since we don't have one of those in our town. Diantha and Des and I got our quilt blocks of the day done. Diantha's is the blue, green, and black. Notice her stripes all run the same way. Pays to have a mom who not only quilts, but is a good planner.

I cheated by leaving out one set of HSTs in the middle of my block.
I got to feeling terrible at Des' house, like I have a low-grade fever. So Richie drove us home and I wrote my blog on the laptop while we drove. Just had to paste it in the editor when we got home and TADA! Instant blog.

Des has a giveaway going on her blog. First go to her Hamncheezr Shop at Etsy. Then click the link over there on the left (called Bad Lula Awesome Potholder Giveaway) under More Interesting Stuff to go register to win! Be sure to tell her your favorite item from her shop, leave her your email addy and recommend a book to her as part of your registration! Good luck!

Two little notes on yesterday. No, I didn't get whistled at. Musta been the big poofy windbreaker. And, in the summer when the biker-chick is wearing shorts, and has legs like Tina Turner, an even dozen more guys will stop to offer help. LoL. Rock on.

DRAWING WINNER!

Congratulations are in order to Beatblack, who is the winner of my drawing! She chose my "Baby Jesus" yarn! Beautiful!

You can check out her own Etsy shop at

BeatBlack.etsy.com
and her blog, at

Beat Black

This is the way I did it: I put the entries all in the List Randomizer at Random.org, generating a randomly scrambled list of 41 entries. I asked my kids to pick a number between one and 20 (I was thinking of 13). The one who came closest (Diantha, with 14) got to pick a number between 1 and 41. She chose 38. So entry number 38 on the randomized list was the winner!

As a THANK you for all who entered, I am offering free shipping to you during December on any orders from either Etsy shop, my7kids or HeartFeltFun. Just convo me prior to order so that I can adjust the shipping on the listings, or I can rebate the shipping back to you via Paypal. If you choose to do it that way, please put the code ShipDec08 in the comment box.