winter/new year/holiday giveaway WINNNERS

i hope everyone's having an excellent new year's eve ...
i picked the winners of the giveaway and they are ...

1st prize ... PaintedSkyWoman
2nd ... Collette
3rd ... Melanie Moreno

congratulations!

please e-mail me your shipping info and what your print choice is ...
just send it to ...
lisacole690@aol.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

xoxo

my winter/new year/holiday giveaway ...

brrr ... it's cold here!


even the wild turkeys think it's nippy!




i hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season ... it's been a mixed bag here ... lots of folks here are down with that cold that's going around ... including me ... still! ... alexandria and ledger too ... i swear i've never see so much snot in my whole life ...

did i just say "snot" in my holiday giveaway post? ... i guess i did ... but at least i didn't tell you about the stomach flu everyone had ... :)

so, it's that time of year ... giveaway time ... actually i'm a bit late in doing my holiday giveaway ... but anyway ... i'm going to have

three prizes ...

first ... the print of your choice from my etsy shop

second ... a small print of your choice

third ... mini print of your choice ...

all you have to do is leave a comment below that is something i can recognize you from ... of course, i'd love it if you followed my blog ... but it's not required for the giveaway ...

i'll be drawing the winners on new year's eve at midnight ...

good luck, much love, happy holidays, and a fabulous new year to you all!

xoxo

rawfu impromptu giveaway ...

ok rawfuers ... just leave a comment & name of some sort so i know who you are ... and i'll do a drawing ... the giveaway is the print of your choice from my etsy shop ... xoxo

addendum ... i drew a winner this evening just before midnight ... and the winner was leslie ... congrats leslie! ... xoxo

ancestors ...

national geographic has the coolest program ... you can send in a cheek swab and they will tell you where your ancestors came from (you're contributing to their genetic database by participating as well) ... in the case of women, it's a matrilinial geneology ...

national geographic will check the mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) when testing women ... mDNA is what is passed down exclusively through women ... for example, i have the same mDNA as my mother, my mother's mother ... my maternal grandmother's mother, and so on ... my daughter and my granddaughter alexandria, as well as my son and grandson, have this same mDNA ... alexandria's children will too ... but my son's and grandson's children will have the mDNA of the mother of their children ...

oops, sorry, did i put you to sleep? ... i'm totally sick with a cold and i think it's made me overly pondersome :)

here's another cool thing ... a female fetus has all the eggs she will ever make ... so ... at one time, we were all an egg ... inside the ovary of our mother ... who was a fetus ... inside our grandmother ... kind of like ...

russian nesting dolls ...

speaking of ancestors ...

i've been restoring some old photos (still working on them ... i need photoshop!) ... and i thought i'd post them here ...


this is my grandma ramey's mother on her wedding day in 1911 ...

my great grandparents together

my father in korea

my mother at about 12 (about the time my dad met her lol) ...

i think sometimes it's fun to look at where we came from ...

national geographic's genogrographic project

she talks with angels ...

she talks with angels ... not TO angels, but WITH angels ... see the difference, yes?

i found this angel in a piece of wood ... her heart was the center of a knot and her wings were growth rings :) ... i thought she was beautiful ...

she's in my etsy shop ...

xoxo