Post Of The Day

Today's winner is Shrinky with It Wasn't Me - Conclusion. The other top contenders were Maggie May with Reach For The Sky; Hilary with Cottage Colours; Protege with Bohemian Style; Seamus with Territory; Sandi McBride with Why I'm Sporting A Shiner; Thumbelina with The End and Completely Quackers with Emotional Roller Coaster. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's winner is Shrinky with Who Needs Collagen?. The other top contenders were Jennifer On The Verge with This Is My Life; Cecily with Sand; Sandi McBride with Welcoming Alla; Tiaras and Tantrums with Things I Miss About Beijing; The Daily Dog with Dare I Disturb The Universe?; Jo Beaufoix with Have You Seen My Silly?; Visual Norway with Bench Of The Week; Your EG Tour Guide with Cooks Bay; The View From Here with Day At The Park; Maggie May with The Tub Tree and Life ... Or A Reasonable Facsimile Thereof with Passing The Torch. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's winners are The Depp Effect with Tripod Sid and Shrinky with Dancing To A Fine Tune. The other top contenders were The Fifty Factor with Dating: Chapter Four; Maggie May with Grandchildren; Hilary with Queens, Kings And Wings; Add Humor And Faith with A Cutting Comment; Kathy’s Kampground Kapers with Harmony – Not Really and Daryl with Shark!?. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Kat with Peace and Shrinky1 with The Angels Who Touch Us. The other top contenders were In The Gutter with From The Mountains To The Prairies; Bateau de Banane with Never Give A Sucker An Evian Break; Waystation One with Play Ball; Jennifer Harvey with Promise; Expateek with Whilst I Traveled; Denise with Today's Flowers; Valkyrien with Wet, Wild And Beautiful and Eternally Distracted with Blogging Is Like Dating But Without The First Kisses. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Kim with All About Odds and Shrinky with Clean Palette. The other top contenders were Fireblossom with Glass Girl; Tink with Cruising The Sassagoula River; Digital Flower Pictures with Cineraria; Three Bedroom Bungalow with Case Study On Sick Mom; Count Sneaky with Dancing Towards Senility and Life In The Second Half with In That Moment. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's winners are Shrinky with My Cousin Helen and Jennifer Harvey with How To Land. The other top contenders were Sandy Carlson with It’s Alive; Lilac Gate with Dutchman’s Pipe; Pheromone Girl with Responsibility; Temporary Insanity with Good News, Bad News; Fat, Frumpy and Fifty with Quiet Time; A Tidewater Gardener with Good Intentions Bad Tree; Luminous World with Second-Stage Springtime; The Accidental Artist with Three-Painting Day. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's winner is Shrinky With The Caterpillar Thief, The Witch And The Rodent. The other top contenders were A Kazillion Indulgences With Mixed Blessings; Anna with A Bit Of Knowledge; My2K With Welcome, Big-Nosed Friends; Rotten Correspondent With The Ah-Hah Moment Strikes Again; Ms Toast Burner With Auto Maintenance in 252 Easy Steps; Pouty Baby's Nonsense With Flyday The 13th and French Fancy With Need To Know Basis. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's winners are Shrinky With Here We Go Again and Fat, Frumpy And Fifty With Moving House, Keeping Home. The other top contenders were Catherine with Penitence, Prostrations and Pilgrimages; Sandi McBride with Winter Re-Runs; San Merideth with Where The Woolgatherer Lives; Woman In A Window with Stripping; Jo with Life’s Embarrassing Moments; Denise with Snow Birds; Rosie Scribble with Remembering Those Three Words; Big Blue Barn West with We Settle In;Kat With What Is It About Three; Maggie May With A serious Conversation and Katherine With Playing Telephone And Assuming The Worst. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's winner is Shrinky with Send The Fairies Home And Sack The Publisher. The other top contenders were Mushy with Hiking With Young People; Helena with Valentine’s Day; Jo Beaufoix with I Predict A Pink Bird; Fat Hairy Bastard with Stuff That’s Going On; Chewy with Candy Mandala; Quilly's Pacific Paradise with Walking Jay Style; Kat with Golden; Hilary with Upside Of Down and Kym with Out Of Sorts. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Shrinky with Me And My Big Mouth; Woman In A Window with My River, My Bank and Ordinary Art with Love Is Not A Lie. The other top contenders were Classy Chaos with How To Properly Raise A Child; Millennium Housewife with High Resolution; Que Sarah Sarah with Things I've Learned The Hard Way; Written Inc with Treasure Hunter; Mary with Frosted; I’m Being Held Hostage with Are You Outstanding In Your Field?; Simon Cotter with Accepted; Chewy with Untitled; Rose Creek Cottage with Home Is Where One Starts From; Xanadu with My Apartment Is Going To Explode; Sandi McBride with How Do You Heal A Broken Heart; Medic61 with Strangers and Diane with some comic relief at When Sanity Slips Away. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Shrinky with Stepping Out and Dishing With Debbie with Thursday Thoughtable. The other top contenders were Fireblossom with Conversation Overheard In A Diner; Indigo Blue with Nothing Can Break Us Apart; Woman In A Window with The Unwritten Ones; Hilary with Fine Tuning; House of Lime with Signs Of An Unwell Mind; None Of Your Beeswax with Crossroads; Jinksy with Rubbish; Retired and Crazy with Questions Without Answer; Meandering Through My Gray Matter with Purely In The Name Of Ummm .... Science; Dishing With Debbie with Thursday Thoughtable and The Pitfalls Of Life with Once Upon A Time. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Shrinky with Christmas Carol; Robin with Three Weeks and Merisi with All That Glitters. The other top contenders were The Diary of Pienovski with Finally I see The Desert; Ladybird World Mother with School Play; Fishing Guy with A Cloud Of Blackbirds; Hot Chocolate Caramel Mocha with Not So Even Exchange; Artspark Theatre with Old Pirate At Carnivale; Rune with ABC Wednesday; Jeff B with Portrait Of Words; Maggie May with Beginner’s Luck; BJ Roan with Mr Muldoon Goes To Vegas; My Five Men with Saint Nicholas and Sandwiched Genes with Crossover Strategies. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's winner is Shrinky with Now It’s The Valve. The other top contenders were An Aerial Armadillo with Light; Art Spark Theatre with Candle Cave; Katherine with Last Night’s Walk; The Max Files with Man-Speak; Willow with ISSBFMFTC; Chewy with Wind Dancing; Anndi with The Things You See; Laura Jane Williams with Nothing Is Sacred; Mike with Don't Panic - The Answer Is 42 and A Tattered Journal with Dear God Of The Plan And The Way. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Moannie with GI Jive and Shrinky with A Nice Bird Almost Landed Up ….. The other top contenders were Cuckoo with A City Under Attack; Jennifer Harvey with This Thing Of Ours; Sandy Carlson with Gratitude To The Least Likely; The Egel Nest with Christmas Spirit?; MamaGeek with Season’s Eatings; iMac with New Skywatch; Nottingham Daily Photo with Long Way From Home; Pea Soup Of The Day with Me Again; Vincibene with Sky Watch Friday; John with Sky Watch - Drammen; Travelling But Not In Love with Welcome To Mali; Carver with Cockadoodledoo and DSLR Beginner with Sunsets And Windmills. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

Finally, a very happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Shrinky with Some Things Never Change; Seven Clown Circus with Letter To Self and Daryl with In Memory. The other top contenders were San Merideth with Let Me Eat Cake; The View From This End with A Spectacular Friezing Welcome; Scrappy Sue with Two Down, Two To Go; Around The Island with Remembering Grandma; In My Birthddu Suit with My Childhood; Poetic License with Do We Get The Dog We Deserve? and Babooshka with Fall Into Autumn. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Shrink Wrapped Scream with Sick Bunny and Lee with An Alice In Wonderland Night. The other top contenders were Carol with The Black Abyss; Millennium Housewife with Big Chief Little Chief; Kathryn with Indecision; Louise with A Letter From The Art Teacher; CraverVII with Sky Watch Friday; RJ Flamingo with Project Runway: Stream Of Consciousness; The View From This End with She Must Have Read Jane Eyre and From Dawn To Rusk with Am I The Only One With Fond Memories Of 9/11?. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

Thank you for your support. On Friday, someone in Connecticut became my 110,000th visitor and today I reached 170,000 page views. A huge vote of gratitude to all of you.

Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Corey with Water and Shrinky with Mad Dogs And Englishmen. The other top contenders were Maggie May with A Different Kind Of Journey; Sandy Carlson with One Single Impression; Leslie with Chalk Dust And Pencil Shavings; San Merideth with Belongings And Belonging; Lehners in France with Selling Your House In France, Part Six; Bob T Bear Esq with Wat A Serprize; Colleen with Sunset; Chewy with Thistle Mandala; Suldog with Labor Day and Jules with Knot Much Today. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

Thank you to everyone who reads this blog. August brought me more than 10,000 page views, for the seventh successive month. My humble thanks to you all.

The Sunday Roast

Painter, Poet And Writer - Chewy Does It All

This week's interview is with Chewy,
who writes the blog The Back Of My Headboard.

The first of the standard questions. Why do you blog?

One day I went fishing... and darn it... I got myself caught in the net. Now I surf the wave, riding high, tumbling low, all the while discovering new beaches. Eventually other surfers slip into my wake and follow back to my towel. They rest, take in the scenery and converse. We share sunny ideas and warm comments. It’s a delightful place to be.

What’s the story behind your blog name?

I started a blog on the spur of the moment. - Screen name? um... c-h-e-w-y. "Chewy" as in that bubblegum song "Chewy Chewy". A joke between a friend and I. The lyrics "Always has a mouthful of such sweet things to say," expanded my full screen name to Chewy Sweetwater. The back of my headboard is where, as a kid, I stuck my chewed gum. The Back Of My Headboard is where I hang my art.

What is the best thing about being a blogger?

Hanging my abstract paintings on the virtual gallery wall. Welcoming in old friends, lurking relatives and new visitors, listening to their observations and learning from their comments. And the best part of all is - it’s free!

What key advice would you give a newbie blogger?

First the obvious, visit David McMahon’s Authorblog. Pop in, flip through his journal, look through his viewfinder, leave a comment and check out the Post of the Day. Secondly, I’d advise signing up at Blog Cataolog. The site is a social blog directory, a great place to promote your blog and/or find blogs on various topics of interest.

What is the most significant blog post you’ve ever read?

I don’t recall any one particular post I’ve read. If my attention is not grabbed in the first few sentences of text... I’m on to the next blog. (sorry) So many blogs, so little time. One long time favorite blog to read is Shrink Wrapped Scream. Shrinky paints pictures with her words and tends to pull my emotions all around. Quite often she leaves the reader hanging, begging for more. A wonderful unexpected result is that her writings have inspired some of my paintings. Cool, huh?

Being an artist, I’m more attracted to art based blogs, painters in particular. The past few months have been especially exciting in that I have found a supportive circle of artists to share ideas, materials and techniques with. If you’re interested in art topics, click on over to Kim’s blog Creating Space; One Contemporary Artist's Ramblings, Discussions and Ideas. Kim always presents an engaging question at the end of her posts. Her comment section is like plopping down on a couch in an artist’s studio and joining in on the conversation.

What is the most significant blog post you’ve ever written?

I express myself visually through my artwork. I’m not a verbose writer, so I’ve not really written anything very significant. I’ve been trying my hand at writing haikus. My approach is usually as picture puzzles; describing an image using few words. I post them on Tuesdays.

Today's Sunday Roast with Chewy is the 30th in a weekly series of interviews with bloggers from around the world.

Post Of The Day

Today’s joint winners are Jules Stones with He Is My Dad; Shrinky with Veronica and Fletch with Neighbours. The other top contenders were Virtua Gallery with Monarch; Jules with New Ireland At Sunset; Blossom Cottage with The Grey Horse; Woman In A Window with The Turning; Lime with Scaling Mount Laundry; Millennium Housewife with Things I Have Said To My Husband Today; Murat11 with I Said I’m Falling; Bee Repartee with Stumptown In Pictures; Mommy Doesn’t Live Here Any More with What’s In A Name; Willow Manor with My Dryer Likes Mexican and Brenda with Wednesday Whining. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Shrinky with Teenage Kicks and Quilldancer with Do I Procrastinate?. The other contenders were Suldog with Come ON, People, Get Those Equivalents Right; Kathryn with Inches From Lunacy; Les Becker with Where's The Beech; Gone Back South with Even Better Than The Beach; Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good with Anniversaries; Sandy Carlson with Behind You; The Keiser Family with Foto Story Friday; TNChick with Pointed; Colin Campbell with Photo Hunt: Pointed; Pappy's Balderash with Where Does Rain Go; Bubble Bubble with Black And White - Why Can't We Just Get Along?; Lavinia Ladyslipper with Night Sounds and Imac with Party In The Park. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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