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I'd love to meet you in person. I'll be blowing bubbles, sharing some of my homemade chocolate chip cookies and reading from my book, Muffins and Mayhem at Bookstore 1 Sarasota. Can you make it? I hope it's a date...See you at
6 p.m., on May 24th.
Dear Reader,
It's giveaway week at the book clubs. Congratulations to Trish Loucks, the winner of Monday's Bowl of Balls Giveaway. There's an interesting story behind the Bowl of Balls that have been sitting on my dining room table. If you missed Monday's column, you'll find it at: http://tinyurl.com/3trc8nx
Congratulations to Tuesday's winner, bubble machine tester, Carolyn Weatherly, branch manager at the Clute Library in Texas, and a personal friend of the man who invented the bubble machine for "The Lawrence Welk Show."
"Dear Suzanne, My experience with bubbles goes back to when I lived in Gardena, California in the late fifties. Our next door neighbor, Mr. Angelotti, was an incredible inventor. His Christmas yard displays were huge, like a huge rocket with a life-size Santa and all the toys. The displays were always animated, and so incredible to a little girl whose nose was usually firmly in a book, reading about amazing things.
Mr. Angelotti's other claim to fame was that he had invented the bubble machine for 'The Lawrence Welk Show'--my mother's favorite show on our black and white console TV.
As a librarian in a small Texas library, I am fortunate to do a little of everything. I love to do our children's programs and my Bubble Storytime is a favorite. I have a secret bubble recipe that I share with all of the families. (Secret ingredient = Glycerin--but, I'm not good at keeping secrets.) I also have an experimental team--my grandsons Sebastian, almost 6, and Enzo age 4.
I would love to try out the bubble machine both at the library, and at home. I would enjoy taking the pictures and would give you a full report of our bubble blowout, bubble bash, and beautiful bubbles as we go bubble berserk. I believe we can breeze through a batch of boundless, bouncing bubbles with the bubble machine."--Carolyn
Did you enter this month's Chocolate Chip Cookie giveaway yet? Wednesday's Dear Reader Column tells you all about it. I'm ready to bake, are you ready to dunk and munch on chocolate chip cookies? If you're a winner, all you need to do is promise to send a photo. It's as simple as that. You can still enter this month's Chocolate Chip Cookie giveaway and see past winner photos, go to: http://www.emailbookclub.com/photo/cookies051711.html
And finally today's fun giveaway. A big, yellow, smiley face spatula. Originally I purchased it for the kids cooking classes I'll be teaching this summer. But I think the spatula has an even more important job to do in this life, and my husband and I experienced it first-hand.
It was a gloomy day in Sarasota, Florida. My husband and I were both working hard, but everything was a struggle. It's rare for us to "bark" at each other, but for some unknown reason, tension and grumpy energy filled the room, until I picked up the yellow, smiley spatula. I held it up in front of my face, walked into my husband's office, stood in front of his desk and said, "Hello, I'm happy Suzanne." We both started laughing and instantly our moods changed. A big, yellow smiley faced spatula--one of life's simple little pleasures and today I'm passing it on to a lucky reader. To enter today's drawing and to see a photo, go to: http://www.emailbookclub.com/photo/contest-051911.html
* I'd love to meet you in person. I'll be blowing bubbles, sharing some of my homemade chocolate chip cookies and reading from my book, Muffins and Mayhem at Bookstore 1 Sarasota (941-365-7900). Can you make it? I hope it's a date...See you at 6 p.m., on May 24th.
Have a delightful weekend. Talk to you on Monday.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.muffinsandmayhem.com/
* This month's Penguin Classics book is IOLA LEROY by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Start reading now and enter to win a Penguin totebag. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/May11Classics
AUTHORBUZZ: Discover new books, "meet" the authors and enter to win: Goto: http://authorbuzz.com/dearreader
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