Tonight I’ll be participating in a live chat in the Horizon Healthy Families Community all about fun fall activities. I would love to see some members of the brilliant Wendolonia community join in the discussion! Not only will you get lots of good craft and activity ideas, but one lucky chat participant will win an iPad! Woo hoo!

You have to join the Horizon Community to participate in the chat, but that’s where things get even more fun. Horizon has offered up a prize pack to one random community joiner. I don’t know exactly what’s in the pack, but typically these packs include Horizon Branded Items like a lunch box, T-shirt, etc. Once you’ve joined the community, come back here and leave a comment saying you’ve signed up and I’ll enter you in the giveaway.

Here are more details about the chat tonight:

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I was goofing around with Pummelvision yesterday afternoon and on a whim I made a video showing all the bento boxes I’ve made so far:

Wendolonia Bentos! in Pummelvision from Wendy Copley on Vimeo.

Pummelvision connects to Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, etc., makes a video for you and uploads it to Vimeo or YouTube. I made one for each of my kids too, which I highly recommend. There’s nothing like seeing your little doofers grow from babies to big kids in two minutes.

The winners are:

• 99 – Gretchen Clark
• 74 – Carla
• 15 – Jill
• 26 – Doha

I’ve sent emails off to all the winners, so check your inbox if your name is on the list!

Thanks to everyone for sharing your food challenges! I will try to address as many of them as I can in the next few months. (Unfortunately, I won’t be able to come to your houses and cast spells on your kids to make them eat their veggies though…)

The winners of the Scotch Double-Sided tape giveaway are:

• Staci A
• SusanB
• Monzie
• Whitneymoss
• Alicia
• Nancy
• Krissi
• Stretching My Imagination
• shannon
• Sister Diane

Congratulations! I have attempted to contact everyone by email, but not everyone entered an email address. If you see your name on the list above and you haven’t received a message from me, please contact me by email or leave a comment on this post with your email. Thanks!

There were lots of great comments on the post for the giveaway copy of Hitchhiking to Heaven Prizewinning Recipes 2010! Lots of good stories of pickles and jellies and overflowing gardens. And I love that you responded to each other in the comments too!

But there can only be one winner. I removed the extra entries and ran the remaining entries through the Random Number Generator. The result is lucky #4: Crafty Farmer who writes:

I LOVE canning because I think I am mildly obsessive! Oh, and I LOVE good food! My favorite thing to can so far is simply applesauce because it is so quick and easy. But, I also love roasted green chiles so that I can have them all year long. This book sounds fantastic!

I’ve already contacted our lucky winner, so Crafty Farmer if you see this but you haven’t seen my email, please shoot me a message and we’ll get you your book ASAP. Thanks for playing everyone!

The winner of the Easy Lunchboxes set is:

#38 — Tasha who says, “I like that they are inexpensive & ecofriendly!”

Congratulations Tasha! And thank you to everyone who entered!

The winner of the California Raisins gift pack is:

Lucky #26: Danette!
Dannette writes:

Cool! I just did a post about our favorite snacks. Our favorites are bell peppers, apple slices, triscuits, and pretty much any kind of nuts. Oh, and whole wheat bagels with Nutella. Those are always a hit!

Congratulations Danette! An email is already headed your way to work out the logistics of getting you your gift pack. Enjoy!

Wow! First off, I want to thank you all so much for so many nice comments about my blog! I am compiling a list of all the topics you asked about and I’m going to try to address as many as possible over the next few weeks and months.

I have selected a winner from the comments (I removed a couple duplicates from the list before picking) and the winner is lucky #14, Sara Cowley:

Congratulations, Sara!

Wow! There were a lot of petition-signers out there! I just generated a random number and the person I’m going to send the bento goodies to is:

Lucky #46: Lyndsey! Lyndsey has a great cooking blog called, The Tiny Skillet. I totally want to make her Butternut Squash and Walnut Ravioli. Yum!

Congratulations, Lyndsey! And thanks to everyone who signed the petition in support of healthier food for our kids!

Susan Yuen of Hawaii’s Bento Box Cookbook and Pikko from Adventures in Bentomaking are hosting a lottery style fundraiser with proceeds going to the American Red Cross Haiti fund. For a $5 donation you can be entered to win one of 11 bento prizes including the grand prize — a fabulous assortment of bento accessories that includes a beautiful Totoro bento box!