Super lucky Suzanne gets a "laying on of hands" from CAP!

First! Ha! Now I just have to get a picture captioned on the ICHC page, and I'll be happy forever.

Where is everybody. Working or something??

hello?

Faith? Monkeygrrl? Psychomom? Dale? Jill of the 7 cats? crap. I am legend.

Pea soup indeed! (maybe you could crockpot some of that up! yummmm!)

Well right hometown, but it would have been funner if it was me. Yay Suzanne, and don't worry Laurie, folks from Hillsboro, OR are laid back and fun. And also really glad to get out of the freezing fog!

Oh good, I'm not alone. I thought I'd gotten stuck in a innernets vortex. Have fun this weekend Laurie.

OK. Just as well that I didn't win because I have to be in Sacramento this weekend. But what about Stitches West? Still planning to be there?

Hi Marilyn! Hi Laurie! Hi World!

I'm here lurking but I was called out so I'm making a quick appearance then back to work because I'm not the winner and don't get to go to sunny, I mean cloudy California.

And we are freezing here in the desert. Global Warming? Not here.

Hi guys!

Dagny -- I am not coming to Stitches West. I have a conflicting thing I'm doing (that is not book related in any way, just conflicting.) I am a little sad to miss loading up on the huge amounts of yarn I always hear Ellen Bloom talking about...!

Congrats to all! You'll have a GREAT time, despite the weather that shows up!
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Aw, Suzanne is sooo lucky! I was listed as a daily winner, but I never did receive an email confirming it...so I hope they didn't have to notify the Cheetos/Book winners. Now I'm scared...I have been bragging to everyone!

Have a great visit with the big winner!

yum...fog soup.My favorite.

I didn't win? I'm so sad. Scre...I mean congratulations, Suzanne!

I'm not bitter. Nope. Not one bit.

Oh, Laurie-
I saw my name on the list of winners before Christmas, and have been faithfully watching for a notification of some sort. Have I missed something? I so do NOT want to miss out. I even took your book off my Christmas list because I had won!
-Becky (Fort Collins)

Congrats Suzanne...you are one lucky dog! Y'all have fun, now...ya hear?

For the rest of us, I still think that we need to plan a CAP gathering of some sort. The Crazy Aunt Purl Conference? The CAP Fan Club Jamboree?

I'm going to have to google the Little Rascals dude to get the visual on that one.

Bah, don't worry about the weather. If she's a true Oregonian she won't mind :) --Zarah (from Portland, OR)

Congratulations to the grand winner. I seem to have won a Cheetos pack but never received an email from them. (Ruth in Houston)
Also - I'm up for the CAP Conference.
Where & when?

I'll let the contest folks know about the alerting issues LOL. I am so glad I am not running the sweepstakes! I suck at that sort of management of data. Doing the cat sweaters about keeled me, seriously.

With enough hairspray, bangs are as solid as the Rocky Mountains. ;-)

Fortunately for you the following things are true:

#1. The 547 mph winds will not be blowing through your office, hence bangs will be OK at work.
#2. TSA does not screen your express bus for 3 oz liquids so you can pack as big a can of hairspray as necessary to adjust bangs upon arrival at work. In the bathroom. That you take pictures in. All the time.

Next sweepstakes winner should win a crockpot!

Congrats to Suzanne! Have fun for all of us.

There's something romantic about fog, as long as one is on dry land, of course. I'll try to think blue-sky thoughts for Suzanne and her plane, however.

Hi Marilyn! Hi Laurie! Congrats Suzanne! Ya'll have fun this weekend! Don't freak out Laurie or she'll never speak to strangers again. And she's come so far.

Hey ride the bus carefully in that soup. Though, you haven't really seen fog until you've seen the tule fogs in the San Joaquin Valley. Can't see a foot in front of you! Scary. Congrats to the winners, too!

You, Laurie, rock... as always. BTW that turkey stew looks fabulous.

Hey ride the bus carefully in that soup! Though, you haven't really seen fog until you've seen the tule fogs in the San Joaquin Valley. Can't see a foot in front of you! Scary. Congrats to the winners, too!

You, Laurie, rock... as always. BTW that turkey stew looks fabulous.

I'm a day late in getting an EASY crockpot recipe to you. And since crockpot cooking is already easy, you can imagine the easiness factor of an EASY crockpot recipe.

1. Throw some bone-in, skin on chicken in the crockpot.
2. Pour your favorite pasta sauce on it.
3. Let it cook all day on low.

That's IT! I heard this one on Martha Stewart radio, and although it came from a call-in contributor, I figure just the fact that it was on Martha Stewart radio infers some sort of greatness to it. And if not, who cares. My husband (aka Mr. Picky) loves it.

You can make the meal a little bigger by boiling some pasta to go with it. You can make the meal a little better by having a nice cabernet with it.

Actually Christi, I'm thinking that would be good with any kind of meat...(as long as it cooks to the right internal temperature). My grandmother used to make meat sauce with pork that ended up so tender it just fell off of the bones (meaning we might find some bones in the sauce...)

Congrats on winning, Suzanne!

Coming to see you in Mission Viejo sounds like fun! I would have entered the contest if the 19th wasn't the same day as the Portland Yarn Crawl! A bunch of us Seattle knittin' type gals are taking the train down to Portland to meet up with some Portland knittin' gals to prowl yarn shops, bookstores and places to eat! Can't wait, I've never been on a train! Does that sound 10-year-old enough?

we like to make "melted chicken" in the crockpot.

put salt and pepper in/on a whole chicken (cleaned, silly -- and take the liver out of the little packet of gizzard, etc. and either cook it separately (yum) or discard it or feed it to your cats, who will adore you) and put it into your crockpot breast up, with about a cup of water. put the lid on and set the crockpot on high for an hour or two and then on low for at least 6 hours, during which you DO NOT remove the lid.

when you take the chicken out, the meat should fall off the bones, ready for use in whatever, and once the fat has been skimmed off, you have the start of soup.

I am still pinching myself to make sure this is real -- thank you so much for picking me as winner of your great sweepstakes! I'm so excited about the trip and am really looking forward to meeting you, Laurie!!

Feh! Ya call that fog?! I should send you some British fog, the proper stuff - visibility down to 10 ft or less! Not likely ATM though - very mild and extremely wet n' flooded here, and absolutely no chance of snow. Bah!

:)

I'd've taken part in the sweepstakes but I'm on the wrong continent, dammit! Oh well, never mind eh?! When're ya doing a UK tour then? Eh? Eh?! :)

Being a big grown-up girl I'd like to extend my congratulations to Suzanne.
Being me--I'm cryyyyyyyyyyyyyying, boy i really wanted to win! I've never wanted to meet an author like wanting to meet Laurie--okay, that sounds like it could be warped, but not meaning it that way. Laurie, reading your book is inspiring for me, you have no idea! I'll just keep hoping you make it out here to NJ and then I'll get to meet you, even if I've got to stand on line waiting and waiting...in the meantime, I'm going to stay up on this blog. Hey, are there "Stitch n B**ch" groups all over?
Have fun Suzanne, really, I mean it truly, you lucky dawg. I mean lucky cat...

Add me to the list of people whose names appeared on the winner's list and haven't heard anything. Congrats Suzanne - have a glass of wine for the rest of us!!

Add me to the list of people whose names appeared on the winner's list and haven't heard anything. Congrats Suzanne - have a glass of wine for the rest of us!!

Lucky for you your hair isn't frizzy like Bossy's hair because bangs + fog = fangs

Am I the only one who noticed that there's a huge freakin' UFO in that first picture? :) With all due respect, I think that story rates even higher than your book signing! Thank you for making history in all sorts of ways, including proving that there are "others" out there!

Hi! I usually just lurk but I too love my crock pot so I wanted to share 2 easy yummy recipes with you.
The first is take 4 chicken breasts thrown in a jar of salsa and cook. Drain extra liquid and throw it on flour taco shells with your fav topping (cheese, sour cream, lettuce, tomato) and it makes a inexpencive and good meal.
The 2nd is get a turkey tenderloin (pork works too) chop up potatos, 1/2 onion add some whole mushrooms, and baby carrots, a cup or so of broth and this makes a great main dish....I usually serve it with rice. (They have microwave minute rice now.)
Both of these are good to throw in the crock pot and have done by the time I get home from work. I hope you enjoy them.:-)

Yes, now I am embarassed that my crock pot comment posted here instead of under the crock pot post.....*sigh*