We Have a Winner

Hey y'all! Thanks to everyone who entered the Fanciful Fox giveaway. Our winner is comment #13, Rachel! I used a random number generator to select a winner, but unfortunately Blogger is being dumb and won't let me upload any pictures. Including the screenshot. So you'll just have to trust me.

Rachel will be receiving a bar of the Dead Sea soap, and her choice of Orange Coconut soap. Congratulations Rachel! Please e-mail me your mailing address at sweetswallowsbaking at gmail dot com, and we'll get your soap right to you!

Also, I haven't mentioned it yet, but I was not one of the lucky contestants to move forward in Project Food Blog. Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by the site and voted for me, both readers and other featured publishers. I was pretty bummed I didn't advance, but I'm so glad I took part in the competition. I've found so many new blogs that I love, and feel like I've gained some new readers and made new friends in the food blogger community. I'll still be following along with the contest and voting myself, and I'm sure eventually you'll hear about who I'm supporting in the competition.

With two dinner parties this past weekend and Ken on vacation this week, I've been taking a little break from blogging. But I'll be back soon with some reviews, recipes, and other nonsense.

And speaking of nonsense and nonsequiters, Happy Choochtober/Doctober/Red October, Phillies fans! Here's to a long month...

Day at the Zoo Brownies

If you follow along at home, you'll know that there were Brownie giveaways galore this week. I donated some brownies for ZWR's Great Brownie Scholarship, and then decided I'd give away ANIMAL SHAPED brownies to 2 of you lucky readers. (As you'll see from the pictures below, animal shaped brownies are a great idea, but difficult to execute on brownies with a crunchy/flaky top. Hopefully what they lack in looks they make up for in DELICIOUSNESS.)

ZWR announced his winner yesterday, and today I sent out some appropriately themed brownies for the lucky winner, and a seperate 'thank you' package for some donkey that runs the show over there. Hope you guys enjoy your Blanton BUTTERED brownies. (The weird blobby thing is supposed to be a Penguin wearing a hat. I noes, right? A for effort.)

I bet you're wondering if you won the FREE ANIMAL BROWNIE contest over here. 

The lucky winners are: Brianne from Iron Chef Mommy and The nosh guy from Food Rulez. I used random.org to pick the winners, but I'm not computer savvy enough to know how to do a screen capture on my Mac. (It makes me feel really old when I can't figure out how to do things on my computer... :::sigh:::). So you'll just have to believe me. 

Since the nosh guy lives in Philly, I dropped off his doggy brownie tonight. He just might post about it on his site later, so check it out!

Brie, yours is in the mail. I made a seahorse shaped one for your little lady. Hopefully it still looks like a seahorse when you get it!

I'll be talking more about brownies in the near future. Pinky Swear. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! Keep checking back, as I hope to have more soon!