Two weeks ago I announced the giveaway of $1,500 worth of makeup. Chanel, Nars, Nikol Beauty, Laura Mercier, Chanel and more Chanel with a little more Chanel thrown-in for good luck. I put all the names in a spreadsheet and printed it, and then cut each name out with scissors, folded them and put them in a glass bowl and drew one name out.
And the winner is…
This five-pound giveaway—weigh it and you’ll see that I’m right—is a treasure chest of quality, highly-pigments brands that for whatever reason, didn’t work for me, but I’m hoping they work for Marcia Holmes!
To claim your giveaway, Marcia Holmes, email me at brenda@1010parkplace.com and give me your full name and address and I will send it either via USPO or UPS, which ever one gives me the better rate for sending this treasure chest of beauty products.
Thank you all for reading and entering to win. I have more and different giveaways planned in the next month so stay tuned.
On another note… Pun intended.
My dear friend and #1 on Billboard’s music chart singer and songwriter, Kat Edmonson, has started a new tour this year, you can buy tickets here, and her new single, “Keep Movin’” is out today. (I was going to link to another blog I wrote about Kat, but like a number of blog posts, it’s not there. My web guru is updating the website and like last time, parts of the site are a little wonky right now, but she’s working on it.)
A few months ago Kat and I caught up with one another over a long afternoon phone call. I shared my memoir with her—some of my book she’s known about for years—and she told me about the news songs she’d been writing. Whether it’s writing a book or a song, the creative process is similar, and like me, Kat is a strong woman who advocates for herself.
Whether she’s performing on Austin City Limits, at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, a duet with Lyle Lovett, or a role in Woody Allen’s film, Café Society, Kat Edmonson has earned a cult-like status. Her new release is different from some of her other songs such as “Lucky,” “Long Way Home,” and “Way Down Low.” She wrote “Keep Movin’” as she grieved the death of her mother, who was also my friend and a fabulous jazz singer. As Kat said, “When you go through grief, it changes you no matter what kind of grief it is. You’re not the same person you were before it started.” This is a timely song for everyone who’s been affected by the tragic fires in Los Angeles.
I hope you’ll take a listen on Apple or Spotify and purchase it, and grab some tickets to her concert tour, January 30 thru March 9. On tour, Kat will be previewing some of the other songs she’s written, so I can’t wait to hear them and see her!
Where ever you are, I hope you stay warm and safe this coming week. It’s even going to be brutally cold here in South Texas.
