Must Love Books: Top Ten Tuesday-- real life relationships

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the girls over at The Broke and the Bookish.

This weeks top ten is:Top Ten Book Romances That You Think Would Make It In The Real World (outside the book)

I'm gonna be different and say "all of them." That's right, all the characters and their relationships would make it irl. Who am I to say that they couldn't make it? I would really hope that every single one of them could make their relationships last and be happy ones. So no list for me this week.

Source: http://mustlovelabradors.blogspot.com/2012/08/top-ten-tuesday-real-life-relationships.html

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LG Viper 4G LTE lets you share your world in new ways using QuickMemo

Available from Sprint, the LG Viper 4G LTE is a powerful, yet affordable, Android handset. Great for students, parents and people on the go, the LG Viper 4G LTE comes preloaded with an app called QuickMemo that makes sharing your world fun and easy. You can snap a photo, personalize it and share it in just a few taps.

Putting QuickMemo to use is easy. To activate, simply hold down the volume up and down keys, and QuickMemo will open - no matter where you are on the device. From there, you can then doodle, scribble and write on top of the screen shot using nothing but your finger. No stylus necessary! Once you've made your memo, you can easily share them with friends and family via email, MMS or through your favorite social networks.

There are endless ways to share your world and make your life easier than ever before using QuickMemo. Check out the video above to see it in action!

[ This post was sponsored by our friends at LG. To learn more about the LG Viper 4G LTE on Sprint, visit LG.com/Viper for more info ]

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/s7EiP7fDa9k/story01.htm

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Auto Repair Woodstock GA | Aero Automotive | 678-809-7478

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There are a number of key differences between manual and automatic transmissions, and each have their particular advantages. Aside from the driving experience of using the clutch itself, the type of transmission you choose will affect the type of maintenance and repairs required, the expense of those repairs, the fuel economy of the vehicle, and more. Here are some of the oft-overlooked differences between automatic and manual transmissions.

Repair and Maintenance Work

For the first-time driver of a manual transmission, there are nearly always a number of mistakes with the clutch pedal. Because human error and distraction can lead to grinding gears and other damage, manual transmission cars often end up in the auto repair shop sooner than automatics do. However, for those experienced with manual cars, these vehicles tend to be more reliable than their automatic counterparts. Automatic drivers are protected from accidentally damaging the transmission while driving, but transmission fluids need more regular attention to keep it running smoothly.

Cost of Repairs

Automatic transmission vehicles have become more sophisticated and resilient than in the past, but they are still more likely to need servicing. When they do, repair work on automatic transmissions is also usually more expensive than on manual cars. This is because serious problems with an automatic transmission often require full replacement, which involves much more mechanic labor, and the cost of the whole transmission rather than just parts. Minor problems can quickly become major ones if they are ignored.

Fuel Economy

The driver of a manual transmission car on the highway can usually obtain between one and five more miles to the gallon than the same driver in the automatic version of the same car. How much better depends on the vehicle itself, though, and newer automatic cars have begun to close that gap.

Regardless of which type of transmission you have or prefer, you should never neglect it when it needs attention and maintenance. Call Aero Automotive at (678) 809-7478, and have one of our skilled mechanics take a look. You can also visit us online to learn more about our Woodstock auto repair shop at our website.?

Source: http://www.carrepairswoodstock.com/509226/2012/08/12/automatic-vs-manual-transmissions-what-do-the-differences-mean-for-you.html

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Newer Post - Dialogues

Sports:In which aspect of sports do we excel? Is it football, basketball, track and field events, gymnastics, combat sports? Oh! I forgot Polo ? the sport of the princes and royalties of the north. While they play polo with aristocratic gusto, shouldn't we wonder how many names it has put on the world's sporting map and how many jobs it has created? How many of our potentials are playing the world's greatest game in England, Italy, Spain and others either in professional leagues or junior /feeder teams awaiting discovery and making money along the way? Need we ask how many lives the western union transfers of Mikel Obi touches or those of Osaze Odemwingie? Or the impact of?? Kanu's Heart foundation on kids who would have long died unsung? Recall names? like Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael OlowoKandi, Mary Onyali, Falilat Ogunkoya, Segun Toriola, Bash Ali, Uche Chukwumerije etc ? Do they sound northern?

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Literature, Arts, and Music: Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe exist in a class of their own? In tota fine erga omnes et omnia. (for all purposes, in regards to all and everything). Whether loathed, genuinely or enviously admired, the duo have occupied their places on the throne of Nigeria's literary scene and the global honours list. With them as pioneers, there can be no other firsts. Other torch bearers include, without diminishing the status of those unmentioned here, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare (whose poem) is going to be read at the London Olympics. Of the latter generation, who else would have won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Orange Prize for fiction other than Chimamanda Adichie ? Who else would have won the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize (2008) and the Arts & Culture Award [CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards (2009)] other than Tolu Ogunlesi? Who else would have won the Young Global Leader (YGL) 2012 other than Simon Kolawole? Nigerian writer and blogger, Teju Cole, has recently won this year's Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a 'distinguished' first book of fiction in far away London and the list goes on and on. Who wins the NLNG prize for science and literature yearly? When these awards take place, where are the northerners?

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Which songs do the DJs and Radio presenters across the north play? Seal, Lighthouse family, Dr Alban, Sade Adu; P- square, Whiz Kid, Davido, Wande Coal, T Y Bello, Mo Cheddah, 9ice, Asa, Brymo? When the likes of Femi Anikulapo Kuti set the target of a Grammy for himself where are the northern artistes and performers?

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Do names like Bruce Onobrakpeya; Fred Okon Archibong; Muraina Oyelami; Yusuf GrilloYinka, Bridget Nwanze, Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy; Bisi Fakeye; Yinka Shonibare; (Arts ); Sunmi Smart Cole, George Osodi; Emeka Okereke, Jide Alakija, Yetunde Ayeni-Babaeko (Photography); Chinwetel Ejiofor, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje; Sophie Okonedo , Rick Famuyiwa (Hollywood) ring silent bells in the ears of the north?? Even the popular

Argungu festival, the endless Durbars, the countless investitures are photographed,exhibited and promoted by non- northerners!

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Advertising: Who handles the advert portfolios of? the blue chip companies? or better still the "Fortune 100" companies in Nigeria ?Whether through mainstream advertising channels or social media platforms? The advertising moguls are certainly not northerners yet MTN,

Airtel, Glo, Etisalat, Nokia, Samsung, Indomie, Coca-cola, have their products on gigantic bill boards across the length and breadth of Nigeria yet no northerner thinks it is a worthy niche. The billboards are even now going digital and perhaps in no time to touch screens and the north will most certainly not be there.

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Who else would have established the Orange Academy (touted as Nigeria's first and perhaps only school of practical brand advertising) other Kenny Badmus; and of course how many northerners are students of the academy?

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Health Care:I am yet to see that world class hospital in every sense of that word world class in northern Nigeria. With common cold or slight back aches, our elite can afford to dash to Egypt, Europe and America , yet no single moneybags has had the initiative or patriotic zeal to build ?any kind of world class hospital specialising in at least one area of medicine

whether Ophthalmology; Cardiology, Nephrology, Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. It could even be a hospital specially dedicated to women or children attracting the best doctors from all over the world; and over a period of time they would have trained our indigenous doctors on the job. By so doing, they would not have to fly their kids to France to treat common cold.

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Why has the Yar'Adua family not established a pericadiatis centre in Katsina, or of such heart related diseases? Why has IBB not established a cancer research centre in Minna or Asaba? Perchance alternative therapy could hold the key to unlocking the cure to the disease

where orthodox medicine has so far not. If our elite and nouveau riche are not

establishing such hospitals, why are they then not sponsoring students and

giving out research grants to crush the frontiers of knowledge 'beyond the

utmost bound of human thought'?

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Motherless Babies Homes/ Hospices/ Special needs schools:I know not a world class motherless babies home, a hospice or special needs school in the north.? How are such children brought up and catered for? Does anybody ask these questions among our elite?

Do they care? Do they, while feasting on their assorted cuisines during Christmas, and Eid (sallah) banquets give a damn about the welfare of these categories of people in the north?

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Almajiri as a way of life :The likes of Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Dr Galadanchi and a number of northern intellectuals have done varying degrees of work on the almajiri phenomenon. The blue prints and commentaries are all out there but I cannot help but be amazed at the sustenance and perpetuation of the system in its medieval state. The failure of successive governments of the north to see the existence of the tsangaya system as needful of integrative reforms with mainstream western education as is obtainable in countries like Saudi Arabia,

Kuwait, Qatar etc. is completely incomprehensible. How could they not see the impending disaster?

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How could such a system exist till this day that disconnects a child from his parents at such a critical stage of his formative years and expect him to come out whole? Like I pointed out to Dr Galadanchi during one of his visiting lectures in ABU, a child who has not been shown

parental love and nested in the warmth of a home cannot give it. I am a very strong believer in the psycho-emotional and psycho-social workings of human beings as it affects their personality traits and social interactions.

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Of Beggars, the Physically challenged and bequeathing a legacy of poverty: Is the north the only region that has physically challenged people? Obviously not! But how is that it is northerners that are begging their lives away from Sokoto to Lagos; from Maiduguri to Ikom; from Zamfara to Aba etc? Is it any wonder that the almajiri system offers?? an elementary apprenticeship in begging for alms? With no formal education or life skills, employability is very limited for this category of people.? Coming out of such a system, a pyramidal structure of the northerners outside the region presents the first-tier level base of the north's blighted exports who end up in places like Lagos, Port- Harcourt, Aba, Onitsha etc as cobblers (shoe shiners) manicurists and pedicurists, water vendors [(mai ruwa), porters (mai kaya / dan dauko)], in the markets and motor parks, garbage collectors (mai shara); or as hawkers of sugarcane, carrots, tiger nuts (aya) and other such things.

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The second tier levels who earn a more decent income than the first are the categories that end up as gatemen (maigadi),unperturbed by the sweeping wave of the private security industry.? Since his occupation is more of a sedentary one, he is more often than not permitted? implicitly or explicitly- to run a makeshift kiosk to sell trifles ranging from tom-tom, cigarettes , sugar , to kolanuts and bitter kolas. Others in this category include suya and kilishi merchants, okada riders, tanker drivers, cattle and sheep barons, tailors and embroiders (I have deliberately avoided the use of the expression "fashion designer" to qualify them which I shall explain later on.)

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The third tier levels are the few men and women working in essentially government establishments like Nigerian ports Authority (NPA), Nigerian Maritime and Safety Administration (NIMASA), Military formations, Police and other security establishments, Customs, Immigrations, NDLEA, NTA, EFCC, VON, FAAN, CBN, SEC, NSPMC, NNPC, DPR, ECOWAS, and the like. Then those that work in the blue chip companies like Exxon Mobil, Shell, MTN, Ericsson, Chevron, Saipem, Sahara, Halliburton, Dangote, BUA, MRS and the likes. The informal cadre in this tier captures the bureau the change Alhajis, and the few auto dealers.

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I met a physically challenged fellow who came to study law in ABU a couple of years ago. Although wheel chair-bound, he had the heart and spirit of a long distance runner. I taught another in one of the primary schools in Bida and was impressed and encouraged by his determination and dream. But the question is how many northerners who are physically

challenged have not resigned to a life of begging?? As I write this, there is in UNILAG a visually impaired man pursuing a Master's degree in law (LLM). With two degrees in his kitty (a B.A in English and an LLB) he is a sound lawyer that knows his onions and quite an engaging speaker. Another interesting thing about this lawyer is that he has another friend who is his computer programmer who is equally visually impaired; who installs softwares on his computer and updates programmes.

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In 2010, Ayoola Efunkoya, a virtually impaired student graduated as the best student in the Department of Mass Communication, Unilag. Ever heard of Dr Ife Akintunde, J.D Matthew Olaiya? How about Cobhams Asuquo (award-winning musician, producer, and songwriter), Cosmas Okoli, a wheel chair bound motivational speaker? In LASU is a wheel chair bound surgeon. Sheikh Abdullah ibn Abdulazeez ibn baz was blind yet rose to become the first

Vice Chancellor of the Islamic University of Medinah and later Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. So how is it that the entire army of persons with disability (and sadly even able bodied men and women) should, as a career, take begging to such obnoxious and incomprehensible levels even when Islam, the religion of the majority of most of them frowns at it?? Where in God's name are the world class schools in the north to cater for kids with disabilities? Where are the special programmes directed at them?

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? Aliyu is a Masters student of Public and International Affairs,

Source: http://dialogueseriesnew.blogspot.com/2012/08/usa-africa-dialogue-series-north-is-not.html

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Phone cos. lose broadband subscribers for 1st time

NEW YORK (AP) ? Phone companies are losing the high-speed Internet game. In the second quarter, the landline phone industry lost broadband subscribers for the first time, as cable companies continued to pile on new household and small business customers, thanks to the higher speeds they offer in most areas.

The flow of subscribers from phone companies to cable providers could lead to a de facto monopoly on broadband in many areas of the U.S., say industry watchers. That could mean a lack of choice and higher prices.

Phone lines, designed to carry conversations, and often decades old, are poorly suited to carry Internet signals compared to the heavily shielded cables that carry TV signals. That means cable companies find it much easier and cheaper to provide fast Internet service compared to the digital subscriber lines, or DSL, that phone companies provide in most areas.

Cable providers now offer download speeds of 100 megabits per second in many areas, about 20 times faster than DSL.

The country's largest Internet service provider is cable company Comcast Corp., with 18.7 million, followed by AT&T, with 16.4 million

Verizon Communications Inc., the country's second-largest phone company, has replaced its phone lines with optical fiber in some areas, letting it compete on speed with cable. But expanding service is expensive, so Verizon has stopped adding new areas to its FiOS build-out.

AT&T Inc., the largest phone company in the U.S., has taken a more conservative approach to optical fiber, building it out to neighborhoods but not all the way to homes. The Internet signal is still carried the last stretch, into the home, on a phone line. This build-out is less costly than Verizon's, but doesn't let AT&T compete with the fastest cable connections.

The AP's tally of reports from the eight largest phone companies in the U.S. shows they collectively lost 70,000 broadband subscribers in the April to June period. Meanwhile, the top four public cable companies reported a gain of 290,000 subscribers.

AT&T accounted for the bulk of the loss ? 96,000 subscribers ? while other companies on average added a few thousand subscribers.

The second quarter is a traditionally weak one for all broadband providers, since college students cancel their subscriptions before heading home for the summer. The picture for phone companies is less dire when considering the last 12 months, a period during which they added nearly 600,000 subscribers. However, cable companies added more than three times as many.

Phone companies were early in hooking up people to the Internet, and grabbed a lead in the broadband build-out of the early 2000s. The tide turned in 2008, and cable companies have been adding subscribers at the expense of phone companies since then.

Now, phone companies account for 43 percent of U.S. homes connected to broadband, according to Leichtman Research Group, with cable connecting the rest.

Analyst Craig Moffett at Sanford Bernstein called the decline in broadband a "body blow" to phone companies, which have been using broadband to offset a long-running loss of subscribers to regular phone service. Now, both are declining, he noted.

Susan Crawford, a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York and a former assistant to President Obama on telecommunications, has argued that a looming cable monopoly in three-quarters of the country is "the central crisis of our communications era." She suggests that the U.S. follow the example of countries that have forced cable providers to allow other companies provide Internet service over their cables. The service-providers would compete with each other and provide some choice to the consumer, she says.

The industry has resisted this type of arrangement in the past, insisting that freedom from regulation provides them with an incentive to invest in their systems and upgrade speeds.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/phone-cos-lose-broadband-subscribers-1st-time-205430306--finance.html

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Royal silver for Team GB in eventing

Britain grabbed silver in the equestrian three-day eventing team competition on Tuesday, making Zara Phillips the first member of the British royal family to win an Olympic medal.

Her mother Princess Anne, who was in the crowds watching, competed in the 1976 Games in equestrian eventing but came away without a medal. Zara's father, Captain Mark Phillips, is a previous Olympic equestrian medallist.

Germany defended their Olympic eventing team title by a whisker from Britain with New Zealand taking bronze in the concluding jumping session at Greenwich Park.

The home favourites nabbed silver when New Zealand's final rider Mark Todd knocked a fence down while British anchor Tina Cook went clear, to the delight of the capacity 20,000 crowd including Prince William and wife Kate, Prince Harry and former British Prime Minister John Major.

"Gold would have been brilliant, silver's fantastic," Cook told the BBC.

Germany, favourites to prevail after holding the lead after the opening dressage and Monday's cross country, ended up with a total of 133.70 points, with Britain on 138.20 and New Zealand on 144.40.

Gold: Germany (Peter Thomsen, Dirk Schrade, Ingrid Klimke, Sandra Auffarth, Michael Jung)

Silver: Great Britain (Nicola Wilson, Mary King, Zara Phillips, Kristina Cook, William Fox-Pitt)

Bronze: New Zealand (Jonelle Richards, Jock Paget, Caroline Powell, Andrew Nicholson, Mark Todd)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/royal-silver-team-gb-eventing-001353303--oly.html

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Lily Pad Quilting: The 2012 Pets on Quilts Show is here!

Ribbit! Ribbit!? Padsworth here, and I'm your emcee for the show!


PLEASE READ all of the post today -- you want to be sure that you know the rules and know how to play!


Today is the day! I'm so excited that I already fell right off my lilypad! This is it! The Best Show on Earth -- the 2012 Pets on Quilts Show!




Today is the start of a whole lot of fun and fellowship -- quilters from all over the world are going to post in our great, big linky party, and all of you can hop and bop to see all of the wonderful pets, quilts, and new bloggy friends!


Our sponsors are ready --- Snoodles and I are ready --- I sure hope you are ready!!
I have my pencil and my notebook, and I'm comfy here on one of Snoodles' quilts:?

I want to keep track of the ones that I like the best -- even tho I can't vote . . . that wouldn't be right. But you can! Next week we'll ask you to vote for the viewers' choice awards, so you better write down the ones you love the best!

Snoodles' studio kitty, Moses, couldn't be bothered . . . he wanted to keep enjoying his nap:

Now, I'd like you to give a nice round of applause for our sponsors -- they make this clambake even more fun!


?The Fat Quarter Shop is providing a $100 gift certificate!


?The Quilted Kitty is providing three prizes: a fabric prize, a kitty tea set prize, and a $50 gift certificate!


The Raspberry Rabbits are providing a kit, wool, thread, and hangers for a prize!




Java House Quilts is providing a BOM pattern called "Cat-Acatemy" for a prize!


Martingale Publishing is providing a $25 gift certificate for a prize!




The Cotton Patch Quilt Shop is providing a $50 gift certificate for a prize!




IHAN is providing a gorgeous handbag from Bagamore Collections for a prize!


Abbi Mays Fabric Store is providing a $50 gift certificate for a prize!




Margaret Bucklew of Patterns to Quilt is providing a download of Quilty Clip Art for a prize!




Marcia's Crafty Sewing and Quilting is providing $30 gift certificates for three prizes!


Ronika Lee's Etsy shop is providing a plush kitty bed for a prize!


Inchworm Fabrics is providing Pieced Applique Weekend Projects for a prize!
Pop Doggie Etsy Shop is providing a magnet of the winner's choice, for a prize!




PupsEtc. Etsy Shop is providing a collection of doggy toys for a prize!




The Wooden Giraffe Etsy shop is providing an animal puzzle of choice, for a prize!




Diggity Dawg Etsy shop is providing pet placemats for two prizes!




Pat's Design Etsy shop is providing a key chain and a dog tag, for two prizes!




Heat Press Batting Together is providing rolls of fabric fuser for batting, for several prizes!


Ribbit! Ribbit! I need to rest! That's a lot of sponsors, and a lot of prizes! Thank you very much to all of our sponsors!


Now, here is how our Pet Show will work: You'll be posting your photos of pets on quilts, or pet-themed quilts on your blog, or on your Flickr page. Then you come to our linky party and link up directly to the post with the photo (or the Flickr photo) not just to your blog. We want to jump right over and see your entry --- don't want to have to search for it! (Grin)

UPDATE: Remember, from our previous post, that I said you only make one blog linky in the party --- you could have several photos on your blog for the show, but only one linky entry from each blogger.? Sometimes it's hard to translate frog-speak into people-speak! (Grin)

I can see where it may make problems for peeps who have different categories of quilts, tho. So, lets make this amendment to the rules:

You can have one linky entry to a blog, and two linky entries to Flickr photos. I'm hoping that will work for everyone, and we'll all have a good time!

You also need to make certain that you use good blog hop manners and include a link in your post, so that visitors can click and come right back to the Lilypad to see even more fun and cuteness! So be sure to place that "backlink" somewhere in your Pet Show post, or on your Flickr page, OK? We thank you!
If you don't have a Flickr page, email us at quiltnsrep at yahoo dot com and we will help out. Please bear with us and we'll get to it as soon as we can!

Our linky party will remain open for entries until August 9 --- that's a whole week for peeps to enter their quilts and their furbabies! At that point, the linkies will be closed, and voting will begin. We will leave the voting open through the weekend (through Sunday, the 12th) so that all of our friends can participate. Then, a couple of days later (probably the 14th or 15th) we will have our announcements of winners. Whooo hoooo!

Here are the categories for entries:

• dog on quilt or dog themed quilt
• cat on quilt or cat themed quilt
• other pet on quilt or other pet themed quilt
• Best EQ pet theme quilt design
• Best Art quilt

I think it will be pretty easy to tell when you enter a quilt in most of the categories.....for the EQ and the Art quilt categories, please mention in your linky title or in your blog post, that you wish to be considered in one of these categories.? (For instance, you could include in your title (EQ) or (Art), or you could make sure that you write about it in your post.)
Our rules post is here if you have any other questions, or you can email Snoodles if your question is not answered there!?

Now, voting has not begun, but you CAN start leaving comments:

? ? ? 1. Leave a comment here and tell me that you have?

? ? ? ? ? joined our linky party.

? ? ? 2. If you are a follower, new or old, leave a comment

? ? ? ? ? to let me know.? Separate comment, OK?

These are your first two entries in the prize giveaways, so be sure to do this!
And if you are not sure that your email addy will show up, include it in your comment --- I sure wouldn't want you to miss out on a prize!!
Of course, we are hoping for lots of entries and lots of comments, so please bear with me . . . I might not get to answer all of them. (Kinda hard to get these froggy toes to work the keyboard, ya know!)?


When the linky party is closed, you'll be able to earn one more entry by visiting ALL of the contestants, and leaving them comment love. At that point you can leave a comment telling me that you did that.? (I'm a smart frog -- don't leave a comment saying you've visited all of them, before the linky party is even closed, OK? Heehee!)

Make sure that you leave comment "love" for the contestant, alright? No meanie comments in this linky party! (Grin)

Also, when the voting begins, you can leave your comment for that -- but we'll post details on that next week, OK?


Now, I think we have covered everything, but if you have a question, just holler! Ribbit!


Let's party!! (Linky party, that is!)

Source: http://lilypadquilting.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-2012-pets-on-quilts-show-is-here.html

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