Beam N Read Contest Winners Announced

Congratulations to everyone who entered.  All the comments were enLIGHTening.

It was amazing to see all the BRIGHT IDEAS you came up with for using a Beam N Read hands-free light!

1. Reading in bed
2. Seeing more clearly
3. Helping tired eyes
4. Quilting
5. Reading
6. Sewing (binding)
7. Stitching
8. Embroidery
9. Knitting
10. Tatting
11. Crocheting
12. Correcting school papers
13. Avoiding pets (and pet presents) during nocturnal visits to the bathroom
14. Clipping toenails (human and otherwise)
15. Longarm quilting
16. Cross-stitching
17. Crossword puzzles
18. Sewing in airplanes
19. As aid for low vision/diminished vision
20. Help for macular degeneration
21. Paper piecing
22. When the power goes out
23. To keep from disturbing nursing home roommate
24. Instead of static-creating Ott light which interferes with TV headphones
25. Finding freshly laid bird eggs
26. Sewing with family in otherwise darkened room
27. Beading
28. Improve dim overhead light
29. Walking dog at night
30. After cataract surgery
31. Much better gift than a dead possum (easier to wrap too)
32. Checking for hotel bed bugs (eeew!)
33. Reading directions
34. Letting pets out at night
35. Applique
36. Seeing  things up close (comes with magnifying glass)
37. Threading needles
38. Making toy horses out of mops
39. Sewing in cars at night (with optional DC adapter)
40. For house guests in darkened homes
41. Handwork
42. Camping
43. Sewing in dimly lit hotel rooms (beats packing your own lightbulb)
44. Identifying medications
45. Hand piecing
46. Walking/hiking at night
47. Reading a Kindle
48. Reading the newspaper
49. Checking for fleas
50. Avoiding rattlesnakes

Based on the contest criteria of “creativity and practical applications” I have selected TWO winners. Yes, TWO! Yvette and Miss Daisy have purchased the second Beam N Read light to award.  What a wonderful thing to do! (They did this in the last contest, if you’ll remember!)

The two winning comments are:

1. My mom is writing this for me cause I don’t do computers…it’s not a horse thing. I am mom’s oldest (and finest, just ask me) show horse. She definitely needs a Beam n Read to stay safe here on the farm. Oh, she sees fine in the house with one of those special lamps where she sits on the couch to applique but when she goes out to make a check on the barn at night, it can be pretty spooky.

The night she had to help deliver my last foal, darling little Erin, she really had to HELP and needed both hands and a light. Not easy to hold a flashlight and birth a big baby horse! Course, it’s just not too safe to go wandering around at night here as we get the occasional rattlesnake and other varmits….light is a matter of safety. I miss hearing about Madison too. Horses and dogs just go together. Please choose a deserving person, er, horse for the special light…
Irish Creme, dressage horse

2.
Yo;
Frances Bartholomew Mercer III here, but youze kin jist call me “Frankie the Fist”, cuz dats what all my pals call me. I hoid youze was having a contest ta see who you was gonna give dat Beam-n-Read” flashlight thing, to, an I wanted ta tell you my Muddah kin sure use it.

See, Mom knits all these-here hats and scarves and stuff for the troops overseas, but she turned 75 last week, and fer a while now, her eyes ain’t been doin too good. She needs ta use a lotta light when she knits dem things, and also to make presents for me and my cell mate Blinky. (I woulda got sent overseas too – but when I tried to enlist in the Marines, they said I was too violent!)

Mom also’s been doing Quilting for almost twenny years now, and she positively loves that junk. Believe it or not, she does it the old fashioned way, all by hand – she don’t use no sewing machine. Mom says she kin spot machine made stuff a mile away, cuz she says the stitches are too perfect if it didn’t get done by hand. She uses these real tiny little needles, and also thread so small, I swear she could probably sew up a gnats belly button! Says it makes her happy to do stuff all by hand, even if it does take her a lot longer to finish it, now that she needs extra light to see good. If it wuz me, I’d just give it to my girlfriend “Bubbles” ta do, cuz I ain’t got no patience for that kinda thing!

Anyways, I would like you should give that light to Mom, cuz she sure could use it . And also, if she ever decided to quit Quilting (which is about as likely as me gettin an honest job!) she could send da light to me. See, Blinky an me almost got our tunnel done, and when we decide to split, we could sure use a good flashlight, cuz its pretty dark, and we keep bumping into each other when we do our practice runs. And a Beam-n-Read would be especially great cuz its got that red filter on it. See,when we come up outside the wall it’ll be dark, and the red filter would help preserve our night vision so’s we kin make an easier getaway.

I hope you decide to take my “suggestion”, because I sure wouldn’t want nuthin to happen to youze if you don’t. I got lots of friends on the outside who owe me favors – if you know what I mean! So sleep tight, and don’t worry about that guy standing on the corner outside your house tonight.

Sincerely
“Frankey the Fist”
Cell block 2, level 3, cell 28 – top bunk.
Up-State Penitentiary

Congratulations to everyone!

Thank you!
Ami :)

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