Made with Love.

Lucky you! The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.

2- What I create will be just for you.

3- It'll be done sometime in 2009.

4- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a some kind of art, a homebaked treat, a mixtape?.... Who knows? Not even I!

5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog.

The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

So....who will be the first 5 people?????

::sounds::

Wanted to post what I've been listening to lately, and why.

My mentions of being broke have been akin to beating a dead horse in my posts over at my creativity blog, so after this I'll stop bringing it up and just trust everyone has gotten the picture. Anyway, as a result of said broke-ness, I haven't been able to purchase any new music (and yes I do purchase music, support the art and all that, I even buy actual CD's because I like having the art in my hands!) So I've been clinging tightly to Pandora these days, and listening to mostly these two stations:

Adele

also featuring: Duffy, Sara Bareilles [really enjoying her stuff], Amy Winehouse, A Fine Frenzy [An album I own and love], Jem, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ingrid Michaelson, Yael Naim, etc...

Rosie Thomas

also featuring: Holly Brook, Sara Bareilles again, Missy Higgins, Joshua Radin, and more

Other stuff in rotation: She + Him [never gets old!], Feist [old faithful], Iron & Wine, Belle & Sebastian, Katie Herzig, etc...

I think a lot of my current thing for female vocalists/songwriters with gritty soul, groove, or just killer vocals is coming from my desire to be writing and singing. The inate craving for that comes in waves and lately it's been gigantic swells. I think the reality is that urge is always there, it's just been easy to be distracted from it when I am busy working and doing other stuff, but now with time on my hands and being contsantly in the "what does God have next for my life" frame of mind, it's screaming sometimes so loudly I feel sick.

My aunt gave me her piano and the movers brought it yesterday. I'm excited beyond words to get started building and brushing up on my piano skills [or current lack thereof] and get writing, but I simultaneously feel so overwhelmed by it, I don't know where to start. I bet Jesus will know...