Let's set the first game for Monday night, June 23, at 10 PM EST.

Hi all! I have been driving myself crazy trying to figure out how to create blingo cards that get saved as an electronic file, one file each, so that i can email them out. No bingo card creator is designed to get emailed out one file at a time.

SOOOOOO then I thought HEY! wouldn't putting hair-empowering words on a grid (in place of bingo numbers) be a GREAT project for kids? Even kids too young to read or write can help mom put snips of paper of words on the grid with paste or whatnot. And you can teach them Hairiffic words to boot!

So this is how we will start BLINGO and see how it goes. Make sure you have Yahoo Instant Msngr 8.1 or 9 or the mac version.

Then we will do a conference chat.

Email me at play_blingo@yahoo.com then i'll send out the word list, then you make your cards and email me a photo back of the card (maybe with your wee one smiling at his handiwork) then before the date and time of the game, make sure to buy a game with the paypal button on the site (yet to be created) and I'll get the weekly list, and we'll play in the chat room!!! I'll verify the winner against the list. I don't see a reason you cannot reuse the blingo card.

I suppose there might be a chance of having dual winners. Either they will split the prize or I might do 2 prizes, depending.

for now I don't think the volume will be so large we have to worry about it.

This should be really fun!

PRIZE WILL BE SNAPAHOLICS DOLLARS! THE MORE THAT PLAY THE MORE I PAY!

Please email me at play_blingo@yahoo.com well before this weekend for the word list.

Steph

Ok it's not officially Friday anymore, but I'm going to do my hairku anyway! Hairkus were started by a mom on our Yahoo Haircare Group as a way to celebrate our kids hair and how much we love to do it. I am going to make this a feature of Snapaholics also when I get the site redesigned.

Here goes my first Hairku:

My hair sings: Chick Chack!
Chicka Chack! A symphony
Braids and snaps bouncing

So the big hair news is, those teeny weeny braids you see there (some as small as dental floss) are going to become LOCS! Yes I am locking G's hair. Her hair has grown SO much in the back, it's really amazing. It was a lot shorter than the top when she first got home. Her bangs are really long too. I expect the braids to fill in girth-wise as the locs form, so soon she'll have pretty long hair!!! I am excited to see how it shapes up. Right now those snaps she has in are very clickety clackety and very swingy, since the braids are so small. She likes it!

The snaps you see are the Cherie Style. They have a very nice ringtone.

And for those of you unfamiliar with locs, YES you do wash the hair like normal ok?!?!