Laura and I have recently launched a new site called the FunPlace Database! This is a brand new resource designed by parents FOR parents to make it easy to find fun places to take your kids. We all need to get out of the house most days, but sometimes it’s just difficult to find places to take them!

To celebrate the launch of the site, we’re having a great giveaway! There are two ways to enter and you may enter as many times as you like!

1. You’ll receive one entry for every FunPlace you add to the database, and it only takes a minute to add a playground, library, museum, restaurant, etc so it’s easy to enter! You must enter a valid email address in the form so we can contact you if you win.

2. You’ll receive one entry for every other place you post info about this contest- your blog, Twitter, a forum, etc. Just send us a link to where you’ve posted it via the contact form.

Click here to visit the contest page, read about the $100 Amazon.com gift card and other prizes and enter a FunPlace to win!

I saw an opportunity to jump in early on a trend, and there were still some good domain names available, and I’ve always wanted to learn to draw well anyway and bada-bing, bada-boom I end up with ANOTHER web site.

I’ve never made a card in my life, though I’ve done lots of scrapbooking, so if you know of people who are into card-making you might let them know about the site. I will give away a free image to people if they’ll send me a picture of what they’ve made with it so I can post it on the site!

Thinking back at how naive we were to think we could have it finished by Christmas is rather amusing. We had no idea what this project would entail, obviously. I don’t want you to get the impression that Mark worked on building it continuously through these last couple of months, because that is certainly not the case. There were long gaps during which the dollhouse sat gathering dust in the basement. But, it was a lot of work. In case you would ever consider building one, you should be aware that it’s like building a real house. The results make it almost worth it though. Mom added the icing on the cake by making curtains and adding flowers to the window boxes. We hope Hannah will enjoy it

I’ve been visiting these work at home forums lately, and read things about people paying their house payments with their ad revenue from “pay per click” sources like Google Adsense, and I’m thinking, “I have got to get in on this game.” We feel strongly that I should stay home with Jack and not go back to work, but it can be hard to live on one income, so I’m always looking for new sources of revenue. I didn’t really want to put ads on this blog right now, although if I could get beyond the average hit rate of about 20 “uniques” a day, I guess I might. I racked my brain to come up with a blog idea that I could find lots to post on, have some original content and that would be fun to design, and FreeStuff4Kids.net is what I came up with. It’s a shameless attempt to make money, while also attempting to provide some good content that people might return to visit from time to time.

So, take a look and let me know what you think. If you know of some things that might be good to put on the site, let me know (randa @ randaclay [dot] com)!

I hope all who stop by here now and then have a Merry Christmas- God bless you!

I just finished a web site project I’ve been working on since this summer. It took a while for them to gather all the information that they wanted on the site, and it hopefully will be a good resource to the churches in the association. Stop over and check it out when you get a chance!

This makes a great gift by the way. I had a custom embosser created for Mark to emboss the first page of all his books. I also had a custom rubber stamp made with my monogram and it works great!