Thursday, July 23, 2009

A Certain Look In The Eye


Mongo's boy, favorite cyclist, and occasional dick, Greg Lemond, is at it again.(He needs to be the first Commissioner of Pro Cycling)

Based on Contador's performances in both the climb to Verbier and the final TT, along with complicated formulas involving VO2 and Wattage, Lemond thinks that there is a strong possibility that El Pistolero is not clean.

Maybe...maybe not! The thing is that I don't care the way I used to. If he's dirty, he'll eventually be caught. If he's not, history will take care of him kindly...But Mongo can no longer champion anyone's guilt or innocence.

The sad truth is that no one can be put beyond reproach...We've been burned too may times.

(Photo:Bettini/CyclingNews)

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

OneWed Honors AinaKai Photography for Excellence in Wedding Photography

Top Wedding Planning Website Awards Outstanding Wedding Photographers

Chicago, IL (July 22, 2009) OneWed is thrilled to award the OneWed Loves It! seal of approval to some of our most outstanding wedding photographers. After receiving thousands of professional wedding photos for consideration to be featured on our OneWed homepage, we’ve selected the best of the best from these submissions.

Those photographers with the most outstanding wedding photos will have their exceptional work featured on our homepage, with a photo credit and link to their OneWed listing. To honor these talented artists, we’ve awarded them the OneWed Loves It! seal of approval. “At OneWed we believe in sharing the love,” says Jennifer Napier, VP of Marketing. “The OneWed Loves It! seal is our way of honoring excellence in wedding photography.

As home to both the largest searchable online database of local wedding vendors (many of which are professional wedding photographers), and the buzz-worthy Savvy Scoop wedding blog, we see hundreds of real wedding photos each and every day. So we are thrilled to introduce a new group of brides-to-be to AinaKai Photography!

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500th Post Giveaway — Grateful for You ALL!

I so wish that to celebrate my 500th post I would have been able to craft something darling and delightful, but time was working against me. And so I scoured the Candy Spelling Gift Closet and came up with some pretty items that I think make for store-bought darling and delightful. (Actually I did manage to include a picnic "blanket" that I made, but a true Dawn craft would have been way more original!)

Enter by posting a comment here, one per person please (with your email address so I can contact you if you win).

If you post to your own blog a picture of my giveaway and a link directly to this post, I will enter you twice! (Let me know in your comment if you've done this so that I know to count you as two entries.)

This giveaway is open to those both domestic and international.

The giveaway consists of:
• a spiral-bound "Books to Check Out" journal. In it you can list books you'd like to read, favorite books and passages, and books borrowed or lent.
• a Victorian-decorated cigar box for storing baubles and goodies.

• a ceramic wall pocket vase.
• a felted and bejeweled cupcake ornament (I like hanging these all year round from lamps and furniture/cupboard knobs).
• a picnic "blanket." I made this one using a fabric shower curtain as the backing (great in case of moisture on the ground). The top is a patchwork of random material I had on hand. Not the greatest sewing job, but it was made with love!
• I will surely pop some extra surprises in the package as well.

The winner will be drawn on Saturday, August 1. No entries will be accepted after Friday, July 31, at midnight.

And once again, thanks to everyone who visits me! Am appreciative of each and every one of you.

Love,
Dawn E. Girl