Musical Monday & OWOH winner picked

Good Morning - feeling awake yet?

Me? Not so much....so here's my music today

This version is a bit quieter than the one on my Racket in the Attic CD which I play much to loud some mornings. It is not quite doing it for me today tho' - might have put on some espresso & switch over to my Monday Morning standby, Tank from The Seatbelts. I know I've mentioned this 1 before but if you haven't heard it yet, click through & turn up the volume.


Looking for more Monday music? Visit Diane over at Good Mourning Glory. Just click the button & get some linky. Then add your own if you want to share.

Topic Change:

Today 1 random winner of the One World One Heart Giveaway takes home my original drawing/painting Climbing.

climbing by Stacey Merrill

Many thanks to all who entered the One World One Heart Give away! In case you missed it, OWOH was started 4 years ago by the blogger A Whimsical Bohemian. The idea was to get a bunch of bloggers doing a giveaway on the same day, not so much for the free stuff - more like a kindred spirit kind of thing. This year 1,088 OWOH bloggers from 40 countries are giving something away today. Kinda cool. If you'd like to see a linkable list of participants, click here.

So, with the help of Random.org,


Today's winner is Top Floor Treasures!
Congrats !

And thanks again to all who participated in the OWOH giveaway as well as those who let comments. If you have a blog & want to play along next year, keep an eye out for A Whimsical Bohemain's announcement in early 2011

By the way, here is a link to the Thursday Giveaway ending 2/25, a fantastic bracelet from Kim Smith

Also, if you pop back later today I'll be announcing a new random drawing from those fantastic folks over at Uprinting.com. Right now I've gotta get some coffee ....

NOTE 7PM: Spent the last few hours dealing with a flooded office. Not my studio, the day job office. And everyone else is at the International Toy Fair this week. Sigh. well it needed a deep clean anyway. I feel like the snowmen in this post so I will wait until tomorrow to introduce the new Uprinting.com giveaway. Thank you for your patience

Monday's Muse ( & Music) - One World One Heart

Welcome to the 3rd annual
One World One Heart giveaway event!

Started by A Whimsical Bohemian "to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet ", 911 bloggers participated in OWOH last year. How cool is that? I heard about this event from Marybeth over at Blogmania & knew right away that I wanted to play along. Do you want to play to??

Before we begin, it is also Musical Monday & this tune by Yusuf seems to fit today's theme.

What are you listening to today? Click MM button to visit Diane of GoodMourningGlory, the home base of Musical Monday. Leave your linky & share some tunes. Then check out what others have posted

Now, back to One World One Heart - Here's how it works:

Between now & February 15, bloggers worldwide will be flashing their ticket to Magic Carpet Ride. Whenever you see the top image on somebody's sidebar, they are playing along. Everyone showing a "ticket" is hosting a OWOH giveaway. All winners will be randomly selected on Feb. 15th.

How do you enter?

It's easy. Just leave a comment on someone's OHOW blogpost and you will be entered in that blog's random drawing. Be sure to leave some contact info if it isn't in your profile. Contest is open worldwide with free shipping.

What Am I Giving Away?

"You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, and to run, and to climb, and to dance."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

1 lucky winner will receive this original watercolor piece, Climbing. It is a mix of drawing & painting and was originally created for IllustrationFriday.com. The corners of the paper have been cut out & lightly embossed for a Victorian filigree effect. Climbing measures 5" sq. and I'll toss in a custom cut acid free mat for the winner.

Only comments left on this post will qualify for my random drawing. Your comment must be left before 1 a.m. (EST) on 2/15.

So c'mon play along with us!

Looking for more OWOH 2010 blogs to comment on? Click here for a list of participants (found on the right margin of A Whimsical Bohemian's blog).

Want to post your own giveaway? Here are the directions to sign up.

That's it for today - hope you have a fantastic week!

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Added 2/28: I am also hosting separate giveaway for Etsy seller stton. That random drawing will occur on 2/11. Click Here For Details and photos of prize.