This Eclectic Life’s “This Blog Blows My Dress Up” Contest Winners

I believe I might’ve told y’all that a contest was going on.
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This Eclectic Life’s This Blog Blows My Dress Up Contest has officially been judged. I am so grateful that someone else had to make the decisions! Every post that came in gave me a laugh that I sorely needed. There were many wonderful submissions FROM 28 DIFFERENT BLOGS, and I would never have been able to choose. During the process of this contest, I’ve discovered blogs that were “new” to me that I enjoy immensely. I hope some of you have found new sites to visit as well.

When I printed off the entries and handed them to the judge, her eyes got as big around as breakfast sausages. I don’t think she quite understood what I had asked her to do until that moment. She asked, “Can I pick more than three?” Unfortunately, the answer was, “no.” She had a devil of a time choosing, and I appreciate her hard work.

I want to thank again all those who entered; all of you are winners, in my book (well, I don’t have a book, but if I ever do—you know what I mean). I hope everyone will take the time to visit the sites of all the contestants and read what they have to say.

The winner of the contest gets a choice of a $20 gift certificate to Starbucks OR to Amazon.com. Second Place gets a $10 gift certificate. Third place gets a $5.00 certificate(which might buy a cup of coffee or half a book). If they choose to do so, the winners may post buttons on their website linking back to this page showing all entries.

THE WINNERS:

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1ST PLACE: Hamelife WITH:

  • Impromptu Sex Education – Is It Always When You Least Expect It?
  • A: A Nanosecond Q: The Length Of Time Between A Parent’s Ingenuity And Stupidity
  • Bloody Mayhem At Spaghetti Conjunction
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    2ND PLACE: Pass The Chocolate:

  • Dear Coffee Drinker
  • The Ass, The Bitch & The Refrigerator
  • I’ve Got Balls?!
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    THIRD PLACEsubarctic mama:

  • The Kindness of Strangers with Coats Full of Wiener Dogs
  • Gingerbread Crack Houses
  • Mortification in a Public Bathroom: In Which our Heroine Innocently Tries to Change a Diaper and Makes the Acquaintance of the Security Guard.
  • OTHER ENTRIES, IN ORDER OF SUBMISSION, INCLUDED::

    1) Mrs. TeaMouse at Tea Time Ramblings
    has entered the following for the contest:

  • Knitting in bed and more signs you know you are addicted
  • My Bad Day
  • Afternoon Cravings and more
  • 2) Rosemarie at Voice on Miscellaneous Matters had these entries:

  • Upgrade This
  • I said…
  • sTePpIn’ Up My GaMe…RiSiN’ uP lIkE eLeVaToRs!
  • 3) From her second blog, Growing With Julia, Rosemarie entered:

  • Teething On A Cellular.
  • Thou Shalt Not Steal
  • Where’s the poop?

    4) Nancy, whose blog is titled Erik Quinn: The Heart of a Family, listed these three titles:

  • Young At Art
  • Presbyopic Ex-Party Girl
  • Ode to Eric’s Binky
  • 5)Gattina at Writer’s Cramps
    sent her submissions:

  • Manic Monday-Branch
  • Italian Mammas-Tuesday Laugh
  • Thank you for the Music
  • 6) The Freelance Cynic submitted the following:

  • Green
  • Deep Thinner
  • Shear Paradise
  • 7) Scribbit’s entries include:

  • Nouns That Should Be Celebrity Baby Names
  • Oh Yea? So What Is YOUR Child Wearing?
  • Where Are All the Cats Coming From?
  • 8) The Rock Chick at Life is RANTastic has entered as well with these:

  • Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
  • Who are you? (who, who?) Thursday Thirteen #8
  • Run Run Run Run Run Away (Thursday Thirteen #5)
  • 9) The Home School Blogger has a site called Always a work in progress! She submitted these three posts:

  • Mar. 9, 2006 – SiLLiNeSS!
  • Mar. 17, 2006 – SiLLiNeSS!
  • Mar. 24, 2006 – SiLLiNeSS!
  • 10)These are the entries from Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum:

  • Quieting the monsters…or how to feed your children
  • Putting the case for showers
  • ‘Things I don’t understand’ Friday
  • 11) Mama Milton offered these:

  • Oompa-Loompa alert
  • Never alone
  • Spongebob may be useful afterall
  • 12) SusieJ entered, too, with these:

  • The Hotel Pool
  • No, it was just a baseball bat
  • What ever happened with the boob tape?
  • 13) Ally Bean at Crazy Dust in My Coffee shared these:

  • We’re On The Gravy Train With Biscuit Wheels Now
  • So I Get Lost And Blame It On The Army
  • Keeping Our Love Alive
  • 14) Stephanie at Bad Mom has entered her three:

  • i think i’m going to…oh look, a chicken
  • feast and famine
  • it’s an illuuuusion
  • 15) From My Mommy’s Place come these submissions:

  • The Hair Is Mightier Than The Sword
  • The Bizarro Husband
  • Operation BuzzKill
  • 16) Patois at Whee! All The Way Home submitted:

  • Not the One-Armed Killer
  • Teaching is a Gift. Gifting the Teacher.
  • Blaine and the Gravel on the Manhole Cover
  • 17) The three entries from Bleeding Espresso include:

  • most popular dog in town
  • fancying up the donkey
  • drowning our sorrows
  • 18) Lucy at LuLu’s Petals entered, also:

  • Bettys secret
  • fantasy
  • Fruit tale
  • 19) At Absolutely Bananas, Jenny sent these entries:

  • There’s a fly in my soup
  • My first yoga class. OR, my shirt is over my head and my belly is hanging down.
  • The perils of early morning walking

  • 20) Bob at Bobbarama sent these entries:

  • Soaring into uncharted waters
  • A blogger’s lament
  • I may not be safe for consumption
    21) Phara from Your Mirror or Mine submitted:

  • The reason I will soon be admitted somewhere
  • Dr. McSteamy needed in the laundry room..STAT
  • Shaken or stirred?
  • 22) Tales from a Former Michigander has entered:

  • i stole that loaf of bread!
  • photo of the day
  • today I went into a men’s restroom
  • 23) The Daily Rant submitted:

  • Fight The Moth
  • The Man Filter
  • If You Need A Reason To Cook More Often, I Think I Have One
  • 24) Tell Me About It has entered:

  • Boof The Song
  • Flies In My Eyes
  • The Eyes Have It
  • 25) Moodswingmommy at Am I Going Mad…or am I just a Mommy? sent these:

  • How Strong Are Your Nerves?
  • Public Service Announcement
  • I Know I’m Not Alone

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