Welcome to the Monday Morning Hot Guy Campfire. What better way to start your week than a hot guy?

Every Monday, I'm going to dedicate a CF to the Hot Guy of the Week. The catch? The CF can ONLY be about the current nominated guy.

We all have different tastes in men, so please don't yuck anyone's yum. If you have a man you'd like to see crowned for the week, PM or hit me up on twitter (@ffcherry) with his name.

So come on in and see who won the crown this week!

Don’t let writer’s block get to you! Sign up for PTB’s Writing Challenge 2013 and write all year long!

The only way to improve your writing is to … write. However, for many authors, writer’s block often takes ahold of us, and we end up not writing for many months. Just because our stories are suffering, don’t let our writing skills suffer too! Get back into the groove with the Writing Challenge 2013!

How to Play

A new writing challenge will be posted every Saturday in 2013 on the PTB Blog. That’s 52 challenges total! Complete all 52 challenges before December 31, 2013, and you will be entered into the raffle for the Grand Prize.

You can join the Writing Challenge at any point in the year. As long as you get all 52 challenges written and posted, you will be entered into the Grand Prize raffle.

Prizes

All challengers who complete all 52 challenges will receive a small prize and be entered into the Grand Prize Raffle.

One challenger will win a Grand Prize which is yet to be determined but will be awesome. Something along the lines of a Kindle Fire or something equally as great!

Prizes will be announced ASAP.

Rules and Guidelines

Read through the Rules and Guidelines and sign up on the PTB site at: http://projectteambeta.com/writing-challenge-2013/

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Happy Holidays (whichever ones you celebrate) to all the Campers and Blessings for the New Year!!

As my treat to all of you, I would like to share some Christmas Music (hymns) my son recorded. You can download them for free on Noisetrade. (If the link below doesn't work for some reason, just go to noisetrade.com and search for Puccio.)

Here's the link:

http://noisetrade.com/pucciomusic

It is an EP (extended play) with original arrangements of three hymns (O Come Emmanuel, O Holy Night, Silent Night) and an original song he wrote called "Awake Your Sleeping Heart." 

I wanted to share something uplifting and in the wake of the tragedy in Connecticut, I am so grateful that I have my son. I cannot imagine the grief and pain those parents are suffering.

I hope you are all safe and at peace and wish you love and grace. Enjoy!!

Interactive part: what music do you listen to when you need comfort or you need to be transported out of your body and away from cares and woes?

Okay, okay, I actually mean Dramione. I'm here to ask for Dramione recs! (HEA ONLY, I can deal with character death as long as it isn't the two lead characters. I know I'm late to the game, but I've only just started reading HP fic, no idea why. It just never occurred to me to click on any. So, what should I be reading? Whatcha got?

Sorry I can't make this cf pretty. I'm on my phone :( xo

ETA: I owe Killer Outside a Dramamine love story. 

I watched Pride and Prejudice for the millionth time yesterday, and it got me wishing for some P&P fanfic. So, to those of you that have ever read any, here is my request:

I'm looking for a fic that starts when the movie ends. Yes, I'm lame because I've never read the book. It's on my bucket list. Anyways, well written Darcy/Elizabeth fic with lemons. I like lemons. 

I'll give anything a shot, so rec me!!

Thanks! xoxo

SWOON

UST!!! Gah!

I need romance people. In the form of book/movie or tv. Seriously, I'm feeling deprived. Anything sappy/romantic/has a arrogant male lead/angst filled/back stabbing.... you get the idea.... 

So gimme your movie/tv/book recs!!! 

A book which made me cry and HAS to be one of my faves in the entire world is Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Philips... I didn't expect it to be so good but I'm a romantic sap and I loved it. 

FYT...

So obvious that I'm trying to find sth else to obsess over now that Twilight's gone. I just noticed "You will be the death of me" and maybe "Suck the life out of me" (remember it from the tent scene in the movie, not sure if it was in the book). Any other lyrics SM used?

Also, is anyone planning on seeing them live in Europe this summer (or even May)?

Unrelated, but zomg: I see With Teeth's been read again on adf. It makes me happy. Stopped rereading it now that I reached the smut scenes though. Feel to embarrassed now that I've given copies of it to people I thought were my friends :S

Why on why can't I find sth to suck me in as much as the Twilight books and the movie and its ff did :(((

I'm on the roll now...

I went to my second Christmas concert today.

Hi Ladies (and Gents - if there are any around)

Taking advantage of FFA to ask for your help...

I am currently pregnant with my third child, who is due to be born in April...

Just found out we are having a girl & would like some suggestions for baby names - we are stuck!

We like unique, pretty / girlie, type names (our other daughter is named Violet).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

I really shouldn't be asking for this because my TBR list is soooo long already, but I was hoping some of you guys might have some recommendations for me.

I really want to read a story with a good Alec or Demetri.  They don't have to be the main characters.  For example I love the Alecs in EP and in CaraNo's This Life.  I haven't read many stories with a Demetri in them, but the Demetri in Guardian by ChampagneAnyone really captured my interest and I remember thinking that I wanted to see him more in the story.  Again they don't have to be the main characters, but I would like to see them throughout the story.

My other request is for some E/B fics in which Edward isn't drawn to Bella immediately.  One of my favorite fics is Trust in Advertising (by the way I have the pdf if anyone would like a copy).  What I loved about this story is that Bella had a crush on Edward all through high school and yet, Edward had no idea who she was when she started working for him 8 years later!  He absolutely could not remember her.  Another example I could use is Elemental by TallulahBelle.  From what I remember, Edward didn't really care for Bella all that much until they were mated which was quite interesting (both the mating and them not liking each other).  If I remember correctly, it wasn't the easiest thing making Bella fall in love with him after they were mated because he was such a jerk to her beforehand.

Hopefully, my explanations of what I would like to read make sense.  I've never been the best at expressing myself through writing, but I really hope some of you have some good recs for me.  =D

Hello ladie I'm trying to find this fic:

Bella and Edward are married and have a bayy boy

Bella leave both of them( the reason for this is not clear yet)

She moves around a lot,in one of this moves she finds Vanessa and Jacob,Jacob tells Bella that Edward are still looking for her

She moves again and in her new job as a teacher become friends with Rosalie who is her son teacher,she eventually is found by Edward and that was the last I read,because it's a WIP those informations are not really spoilers besides what seems.Any help would be wonderful.

My Rec is :

Ilussion of Innocence

He thought she was innocent, she thought he hung the moon, together they are a force to be reckoned with. Can he be everything she wants and needs or will he break her heart along the way? Possessive/Tattward/Olderward Banner made by Soapy Mayhem. Written for jonesn353402.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8517405/1/Illusion-of-Innocence

Time For Some Happy!

I got this today and it makes me very happy.

Not the part about raising the cash, but that it's starting up soon!

Hello Campers!

Unfortunately for me, I missed the latest Freecycle because I was in the midst of moving (and going crazy about it).  

One would think, having moved twice in a little over a year, that I'd have purged my home of all unwanted or unneeded items.  But, as I was sorting my yarn stash, I realized I have a lot of yarn I know I won't use.  It's all clean, some of it's brand new and unused, and my home is smoke-free (although I do have cats).

It's mostly baby yarn, but there are some other types as well.  If anyone is interested, I'll ship the whole lot to you free of charge if you're the first one to claim it! (Sorry, I'm in the states and I can't afford to ship this large of a lot overseas right now and I don't want to split the lot into smaller bundles).  

To make this interactive for everyone else, I know we have some crafters here ... are any of you giving homemade gifts this year?  If so, share your talent and show us some pics!

And in the event a rec is needed ... and even if it's not ... if you aren't reading DEPARTURES by TheFicChick, you should be!!

I admit, I am not the most organised person, and I tend to forget things and mix things up and procrastinate, too. Like this Christmas exchange: I started very energetically: got lots and lots of goodies from the store, made lots and lots of piles of them and put them in biiig brown envelopes and added notes and wrote the addresses on top - only to find out that the shipping of those envelopes would cost twice as much as if I divided the contents into two separate mailings of particular size. Even if the weight would be the same. Weird.

So I got boxes of that certain size that would make shipping cheaper. And opened the envelopes and re-packaged the sweets, and added notes and bought some more sweets as some packages seemed half-empty and then I got some left over and I ate them. And then I had to buy some more because I had forgotten something and then I wrote the addresses again and got some customs stickers and put a lot of tape around the packages that they would hold the rough handling.

So anyway, I finally got the boxes - and some cards - mailed today. They won't make it to you for Christmas but they will taste just as sweet after Christmas, I promise.

Anyway, after all this I have got one extra package, I mean, an actual box full of chocolate candy, just waiting for an address. Be the first to claim it, will send it anywhere.

The interactive part: there are a lot of Christmas food traditions all over the world, what are your favourites - and what do you dislike the most?

For me, Christmas won't be Christmas without some gravlax with boiled potatoes, and wild mushroom salad and Christmas ham on a sandwich is soooo nice. And rice porridge is also a must. But I could do well without the wide variety of oven baked mashed vegetable dishes that are traditional here.

Who's seen it?

I have!!

Come and share what you thought of it.

FYI there may be spoilers.

Hopefully making a beauty post won't seem insensitive on such a day as this. Please know that I mean no offense. I just figured a break might do us good?

So anyway. WTVOC alerted me to a nifty Sephora product today. This, if you're wondering:

http://www.sephora.com/femme-fatale-collection-lip-elixirs-P311139?skuId=1430784

According to her it tastes like clove cigarettes which means I must own it. Which means I must order it and I don't want to pay shipping for just one item. 

So the interactive part is, what are your favorite Sephora products? Come educate me and your fellow campers. I suck at beauty. I need all the help I can get. Seriously. My mother gave me bowl cuts when I was a kid and I wasn't allowed to wear skirts or makeup. Explains a lot probably, lol.

*I tagged this with Effie because I think she'd love Sephora.

My husband and I found out that we have bed bugs today. He just left to the main office to let the property manager know. 

Have any of you been through this? How did you handle it? How long did it take to eradicate the little jerks?