We have a winner

The results from the contest are in! Some of you tried to tempt me by mentioning your adorable children or by stroking my ego by telling me how lovely the towels are. Believe me, that sort of stuff usually works like a charm. But this was based purely on the luck of the draw, not on how awesome you make me feel.

Here we go:

• Third place winner of a lovely (but not quite the finished design) tea towel is Radford. You may not know what a tea towel is but once you get your hands on one... you'll probably leave it folded in a drawer forever. Best of luck with that.
• In second place we have Lindsay. Bonus points for using the work "bitchen" in your comment. Way to keep it classy.
• And the first place winner of a Clementine Tea Towel is Angie... but there were two Angies so I'll have to differentiate here and say Angie #1. The one who left this comment, "I came across your etsy shop. Your Heated Cup tea towel drew my interest. Angie". My apologies to Angie #2 for I certainly got your hopes up only to dash them... it was kind of fun for me but maybe sucked a little for you.

So, how do you collect? Send an email to info@theheated.com with your mailing address and the towels shall be sent forth. I will write back to confirm all is happening as it should. Thank you all for participating. It was quite a ride, wasn't it?

My luck is changing

A few weeks ago, it was a Tuesday morning, I walked outside my front door and as I was closing the gate behind me (yeah, I have those bars over my windows and a front gate... this here's a city with people who like to urinate in public) I noticed this bag of pennies tucked underneath the gate.

I love change... all change: I don't mind pennies. In fact, I have an antique glass water bottle, one of those giant sizes for water dispensers like you've got in the office and I fill it with change. One 16th of that puppy can yield a few hundred bucks. Don't throw those pennies away. That's my savings plan.

p.s. I will be sending this picture to Found Magazine.
p.p.s. There was a letter on Found that changed my life that I can't find again. Please send it to me.