Monday, June 11, 2007

Chicken Poop Bingo and Free Jewelry

Before we get to the blog contest de jour, let’s talk chickens and bingo. Yesterday afternoon I made my first pilgrimage to Chicken Poop Bingo out at Ginny’s Little Longhorn Saloon here in Austin. This is a wee little bar that is a bit of a local legend. Twice a week silver fox Dale Watson plays his Rockabilly Country and people sip the $1.50 Lone Star Beers. Sunday is the big night of the week, it’s Chicken Poop Bingo. What happens is they bring out a big wooden board with numbers all over it like a Bingo card and place it atop the small bar’s one lone pool table. From there they add a cage that fits snuggly below the Budweiser light above the pool table and add a chicken. There is a chicken coop behind the bar where the stars roost all week long preparing for the main attraction on Sunday afternoons. People buy Bingo tickets and bet on a number of the wood and then you wait. People feed the chicken who seems un-phased by the drunk people trying to coax him to poop on their number. After about 15 minutes he finally pooped on a number and an excited young gal next to me won $100. Quite the adventure this bar. However everyone else in town thought so and since there were 200 people crammed into a bar that is smaller than my house we took off after one round. If you are in Austin on a Sunday afternoon I really do have to recommend Ginny’s, Dale Watson and the Bingo.

TODAY'S CONTEST revolves around some recent press I recieved. Over the weekend I found out that I had two bracelets and a necklace featured in the June/July issue of Justine Magazine. In the picture below my bracelets are #'s 6&9. I also found out that one of my Scrabble Bracelets is in the current issue of Fashion Dallas!

So what do you win and what do you have to do to get the fantastical prize your asking? I want to know how you first heard about Naughty Secretary Club. I get a lot of new customers and friends through editorial coverage and I am curious if that is how you found me and my little blog. Leave a comment in this post and give me the scoop.

What you are going to win for taking the time to comment is two fold. First up you get a copy of the June/July issue of Justine Magazine that features the bracelets and pop rock necklaces. Second you get a copy of the new issue of Ready Made. I’m not featured in this issue, but since I have an ad in there I get sent an extra copy that I am giving to you! BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE… You are also going to win the 3 pieces of jewelry featured in the issue of Justine Magazine. Well pretty close anyway. You will get one yellow Pop Rocks Necklace, One Black Polka Dotted Bracelet and One Hot Pink Polka Dotted Bracelet (except this one won’t have the flowers attached to it). Remember you can still enter Sunday’s Blog Contest all week long to win the crafty prize pack. Same with this contest you have until Sunday June 17th to enter!

19 comments:

Polka Dot Creations said...

Hi! I found you through a link on CRAFT: Magazine's blog. I don't think I clicked it right away, but then your name kept popping up there and in other crafty blogs. I'm pretty sure I also saw you mentioned in print - either CRAFT: or Adorn. Anyway, I'm glad I clicked finally because you've been entertaining me. Chicken Poop Bingo? I can't imagine seeing something like that in NJ where I'm from...

craftyone said...

i found you thanks to craft lab. which i found thanks to the diy network, which i love love love. and then i started to stalk you a little, but i've been talked out of the stalker mode, and now just worship you from afar! (although, if ever you should see a tiny little crazed person outside your house, don't be alarmed. i've simply made a trip to mecca ... i mean austin .... to worship at your door).

hee hee.

carrie said...

I discovered the Naughty Secretary Club via your etsy store. Thanks for keeping such a great blog!

orangefishy said...

I think I found this blog in a round-about sort of way... kind of having a "dérive" through the crafting blog-dom that ended up in me adding you to my RSS feed after coming across your curios, which I LOVE. :)

Violet said...

hey jennifer! let's see...i'm pretty sure i found naughty secretary club through a link back when vickie had ruby goes retro!

jungle dream pagoda said...

500 posts!!! You are ultra-prolific! congratulations!Thats wonderful about Justine and Fashion Dallas,years ago(and i do mean years) I was profiled in FD for my personal style,it was so interesting ,little ol' thrift store lovin' me,next to the vice president of marketing for Niemans! ... and just a couple of summers ago ,my oldest baby was stopped in uptown and asked to be photographed for her personal style(she was in a major"Fruits" harajuku phase),also feature in FD. I love those bracelets ,sooo cute! I found you somehow through your flickr,and then you stumbled in on me. So glad I found your blog. Chicken poop? Fun times.

Kamika said...

Hi, I found your blog while reading Vicki Howell's archives. Cute bracelets!

Claire said...

chicken poop bing sounds fab! I'm gonna have to make it out to Austin one of these days!

Your bracelets were the cutest, by far. But you knew that already ;)

christy said...

i found you in 2003 via the incredible list of links on Sublime Stitching! that list of links is what led me to the whole indie craft scene in general...that's how i found "my people" :)

Tefi Two Fists said...

A couple years ago as I was leafing through ReadyMade (!) I saw Sublime Stitching's and ACM's ad. I lived in Austin for years and so was intrigued. More investingating led me to your site! Been a fan ever since.

rebecca said...

Hey Jennifer!

ROFLMAO about the chicken poop. When I was younger we lived in Tacoma, and there was store where you could actually play Tic-Tac-Toe with a live chicken. Found your blog via Margot Potter's blog. Congrats on your 500th post!

Rebecca

Dana said...

I found you through Craft Lab also :)
I'm a regular visitor now :)

Love the jewlerey!


Dana
d07@goldingers.com

sarah moyar said...

i found naughty secretary club through stitch austin. when i heard about stitch austin i was so excited to have some of that renegade craft spirit here in TEXAS! from the craft fair it led me to your website, to the austin craft mafia, then to craft lab & stylicious. and now of course you are EVERYWHERE!

i'm also in love with claudine hellmuth, and an avid reader of her blog. she blogged about being on craft lab. i remember the day my two solar systems collided. it was RAD! like i said you are everywhere. how wonderful to have such a strong texas creative lady in the public eye as a powerful role model. lovin' it.

fromthepines said...

Jennifer,
Yours was one of the first blogs I ever heard about! I saw your website about handmade jewelry in a book I was reading, and googled you and found your blog. Then I was hooked! I read the whole thing(!!) and then I found more and more.....lol! Now its an obsession. I have a blog now and a blog roll I visit every day and this only happened last November!
Cheryl

molly said...

i got linked to you from bust magazine links like 3 years ago! i even have a resin bracelet from when you still made them...before they were toxic to your lungs!

love your jewelrey, love your site! i represent the "naughty secretary life" up here in chicago!

molly c.
missmolly512@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

Hello!
I found your site via a link on Vicki Howell's blog. I love your blog! I so want to go home and create instead of dealing with spreadsheets and forms during the workday...

Kim
kimberlydb@hotmail.com

Saints and Sinners said...

oh my gosh-Dale is an old friend of mine!!!

and how can you NOT love chickenshit bingo??? LOL

Sarah said...

My history with Naughty Secretary Club goes way back to around 2001. I was doing some web surfing for vintage clothes and found an ad for you on a website called "Catch a Butterfly Vintage" (at least I think that's what it was called). I was absolutely amazed with your resin jewelry, but my first piece of jewelry I bought was a pink elephants bracelet, which I wore to the first Austin City Limits Festival! Now I live in New Jersey, and 6 years later and several necklaces, rings, and bracelets later I'm still loving Naughty Secretary Club! So glad you're still around and going strong!!

--Sarah Robinson
therobinson4@aol.com

Chanya said...

I heard about you via the Crafty Chica website. She has a link to your blog at her site.

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